Single Skill Tree Tourney

Randall said:
I still have to find a solution for the possible PI's in Hell, but that will either be a weapon with chance to cast Amp or a high elemental (ranged) weapon for myself.

Why not a high elemental damage weapon for your merc?

Randall said:
When I find a PI in Normal/NM, ignoring parking has to do the trick.

No parking needed. Make a 'Steel' weapon for you or your merc, to bring out against the PIs in Normal and NM. The Open Wounds will kill them.
 
(Scene: Standard press conference room, standard gaggle of press, standard Belladonna. Mixed in amongst the press are several deamon reporters who were obviously expecting to question Diablo on his victory, but don't get paid unless they attend.)

BD: Thank you for coming once again. Questions?

Press: Kurt Schnider, Westmarch Times. We ask this every time, but were you satisfied with this bout's prize pool?

BD: Apparently, these geezers think rares are good. Honestly, unless the quality of these drops improve, I might have to start running the lesser tournaments to get some scratch.

Press: Alim Geer, Lut Gomeim Times. I noticed you opened a town portal during that fight, why the need to go to town?

BD: Well, Diablo wasn't a pushover, and I needed more health potions. I had a back order with Jamella, so I had prepared for the possibility.

Press: Lord De Seis, Hell corrispondant for Magic Monthly. Diablo's Pink Lightning Hose of Death (tm) usually finishes most people off, but he hit you full on with one and you barely noticed it. How did you do it?

BD: Well, 75 lightning resist helps. And most times I ran. I also was feeling the regenerating effects of a potion at the time.

Press: Vanessa Lupin, News of Sanctuary. What do you say to rumours of an ongoing relationship between you and Neeraj.

BD: Ma'am, I have killed people for less than that. The relationship between Neeraj and I is strictly business. Nothing more, nothing less.

(At this point, a heavy set barbarian "sneeks" in to the rear of the meeting and whispers something to Ugg Uggson, of the Arreat Reporter. Ugg stands to leave, and seeing BD's stare, says)

UU: Ugg apologises for leaving early, but Ugg's home, Harrogath, under seige. Baal taken Wolrldstone Championship, and needs to be beaten.

BD: Then, Ugg, you know where I am going next. If Baal wants a fight, then I'll give him a fight.

(Conference ends amid much muttering.)

Update:
Forum Name: Spludge
Character Name: Belladonna
Characer Class: Shadow 'sin
Character Level: 35
Farthest Quest: Diablo
Fathest waypoint: Harrogath
1.11, no RWM, Hardcore

I will be accepting questions for future press conferences through PM's. Hopefully, I'll have enough suggestions to get me through to NM with me using one or two questions for each conference. Your question may be attributed to you, it may just be given to one of my random members of the press. 9I'm growing quite fond of Ugg Uggson, I know what my next barbarians gonna be called)
 
Randall said:
@SVH:
Welcome here, have fun with the tournament. (and good luck) I see you are new here (at least low post count) It's a custom new people make a little introduction thread in the SPF (tell a little about yourself)

Done! :)
 
Ok.. I like better to be safe than sorry.. So here is a (stupid??) question..

I have been looking at runewords and I would love to have myself a "Melody" bow or crossbow.. BUT it has +3 to bow and crossbow skills.. Since I have no points in that skill tree I wont benefit from it.. So I can use it right?? Or is that against the rules??
 
Spludge: :worship:

Einbaum Update:

Offensive Auras Pally
Last Quest: Larzuk's socketing quest
Last WP: Frigid Highlands
Level: 33

Notable items: two, count 'em, TWO Digglers (one ethereal).
 
Forumname: SharnMes
Character Name: IllBeDeadSoon
Character class: Druid
Character Level: 55
Farthest Quest: NM Schenk
Farthest WP: Frigid Highland
1.11 HC

Forumname: Shadefallen
Character Name: LiveAndLetDie
Character class: Zon
Character Level: 56
Farthest Quest: NM Schenk
Farthest WP: Frigid Highland
1.11 HC

Full of awe we entered the chaos santuary.. awaiting the worst.. After clearing the area and having one last seal to click we spent ages prepairing for the big battle with Diablo.. filled with full rejuvies we went down to face our judgement.. And Diablo just went down so fast.. surrounded by a holy freeze merc a might merc.. a lvl 20 valkyrie and a lvl 16 grizzly.. ONE rejuvenation potion was spent on a merc that's all and we went back to town with a strange feeling..

Anyway.. off to act 5 we are.. :)
 
It is with profound disbelief that Savix is no more. :eek:

Was mindlessly killing stuff in a false tomb and bam. I smacked something and went down instantly. Kinda dissapointing really.

Here is Savix's last update:

Forum Name: Semarin
Character Name: Savix
Characer Class: Shadow 'sin
Character Level: 56
Farthest Quest: Tainted Sun
Fathest waypoint: Canyon of the Magi
1.11, no RWM, Hardcore


Of course now I have the raging desire to start another Sin and try again. Gonna review what limits are on the other classes first though. I do have a great deal of free time this week. :o
 
Semarin said:
It is with profound disbelief that Savix is no more. :eek:

Was mindlessly killing stuff in a false tomb and bam. I smacked something and went down instantly. Kinda dissapointing really.

Here is Savix's last update:

Forum Name: Semarin
Character Name: Savix
Characer Class: Shadow 'sin
Character Level: 56
Farthest Quest: Tainted Sun
Fathest waypoint: Canyon of the Magi
1.11, no RWM, Hardcore


Of course now I have the raging desire to start another Sin and try again. Gonna review what limits are on the other classes first though. I do have a great deal of free time this week. :o

Condolonces to you, Semarin. However, I must say it's good to not be alone, in these Halls of the Dead, at last. I was wondering when someone would be joining me.

I've gotten busy, the last few days. My character did progress to level 27, and has achieved the Flayer Jungle WP, but early shifts took over this week, so my character stands there, since Sunday night, looking ahead to the Flayer Dungeon, mindful of some danger there. Hopefully, more progress tonight, towards Mephisto.
 
Gabrielle has defeated Duriel (/p8). He never put her in any real danger, but she did make it harder than it needed to be when she insisted on punching him for a while. (I didn't realize I had accidentally weapon switched... oops. :) ) She has close to 400 hit points, so she can take quite a beating while Blaise does most of the damage. It took a while to get the hang of using Decoy with a melee build, but now I've learned how to place it so that Gabrielle doesn't get surrounded and pounded on from all directions.

I've been gambling more circlets, still without much luck. She did get a 29% MF circlet, so the 21% one went to Blaise. She has found several set and uniques, most of which don't do her much good. She did find some Bloodfists in the Lost City which have been nice. She also made her first attempt a craft, and came up with useless crap:

Havoc Branch
Battle Staff
Two-Hand Damage: 9 to 20
Durability: 27 of 40
[highlight]Required Level: 40[/highlight]
Staff Class - Normal Attack Speed
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 25
Fingerprint: 0x5b8ff3c5
+55% Enhanced Damage
Poison Resist +6%
Attacker Takes Damage of 3
347% Damage to Undead
+232 to Attack Rating against Undead
+4 to Mana After Each Kill
5% Chance to cast Level 4 Frost Nova when struck
Level 1 Lightning (7/33 Charges)

The damage to undead would be nice, but the level requirement is pretty rediculous. The banned Lighting charges are most likely to blame for that. Oh well, I get to try again once I can scrape together another PSapphire.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Forum Name: Cattleya
Character Name: Gabrielle
Character Class: Passive Amazon
Character Level: 28
Farthest Quest: Duriel
Farthest WP: Kurast Docks
Game Version: 1.11 HC, no mods
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
Shadefallen said:
Ok.. I like better to be safe than sorry.. So here is a (stupid??) question..

I have been looking at runewords and I would love to have myself a "Melody" bow or crossbow.. BUT it has +3 to bow and crossbow skills.. Since I have no points in that skill tree I wont benefit from it.. So I can use it right?? Or is that against the rules??


the +bow skills has no effect therefore its fine. :thumbsup:
 
The circlets I've seen mentioned reminded me of the very first one I gambled, in NM, the other day. Now, I've never been a big gambler, but for these tourney's, I'm seeing the advantages. I was pretty amazed at my first effort of the tourney. Too bad my character isn't a Sorc.........sigh :(

Grim Casque
Circlet
Defense: 28
Durability: 35 of 35
Required Level: 21
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 27
Fingerprint: 0x99369b15
+10 to Life
+19 to Maximum Stamina
Magic Damage Reduced by 3
All Resistances +6
20% Faster Cast Rate
+1 to Cold Skills (Sorceress Only)
 
I'd love to play another melee char, but me thinks they're painfully limited. So I will try something different and fire up a Bowazon. :eek:

Forum Name: Semarin
Char Name: Seraph
Character Class: Bowazon
Level 1
Farthest Quest: NA
Farthest WP: Rogue Encampment
Game Version: 1.11 HC

P.S. Corax, do I send the runes from Savix along with the rest of my paltry stash? Or are those mine for the keeping?
 
Cruised through Act 5 with my Druid last night, Socketed a Cedar bow and put 2 Orts, a Ral, and a +13max damage jewel in it so I could feel like my charcter was doing a little more of the killing himself :o . Ploughed all the way through on players 8 with no trouble until I reached Lister and his buddies who took a long time to go down, they seemed to have my merc in a permanent stunlock even after I had seperated the pack. He went down eventually and I moved onto Baal after (I thought) setting /players to 1. Judging by how tough the Baal fight was, I must have made a typo since this was easily the closest I have come to death.

He kept on pushing me away with that damn cold wedge , which did a lot of damage as well. That attack must be the most annoying boss attack in the game, it is worse than Diablo's lightning for me :mad: Everytime I got pushed back my Merc and Grizzly seemed to lose interest in fighting and my spirit needed to be recast. Finally I had everyone positioned and we were grinding him down when he teleported right next to me and got in a powerful hit. I couldn't see any life in my orb and ran for my life - luckily I got to town and came back to finish him off with no further trouble. Baal dropped a nice rare Barb helm with +2 Skills, some resists and bonuses to various other skills, and a couple of other rares but nothing to suit my Druid :rolleyes:

Did get a Boneflesh from Nihlathak though.

Forum Name: Shadow Druid
Character Name: Primal
Character Class: Druid
Character Level: 46
Last Quest: Destruction's End
Last Waypoint: Worldstone Keep Level 2
 
Finally got some time in tonight, and made it to the Kurast Bazaar wp. Had a set item drop(Isenhart's sword), and had Andy drop the Hands of Broc for me on a repeat run, to finish off my night. Also, cubed these two neat circlets. First was:

Mentalist's Circlet of Guarding
Defense: 24
Durability: 35 of 35
Required Level: 19
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 24
Fingerprint: 0x174f708c
Magic Damage Reduced by 3
+1 to Shadow Discipline Skills (Assassin Only)

Hmm. Not bad luck for a Shadow Assassin. Too bad not a rare, though. He had two circlets on that trade screen, though, so I bought them both, before looking at either. Next:

Storm Circlet
Circlet
Defense: 26
Durability: 35 of 35
Required Level: 26
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 32
Fingerprint: 0x33fdb501
+10 to Energy
+57 to Life
+14 to Mana
All Resistances +8
Attacker Takes Damage of 9

I was wearing the Infernal Cranium, I had found much earlier. Not anymore. This circlet looked most helpful in HC. Much more helpful than +1 to my skills.

Agree?

Forum Name: Billybgame
Char Name: TheShadowKnows
Character Class: Assassin
Level 28
Farthest Quest: The Blade of the Old Religion
Farthest WP: Kurast Bazaar
Game Version: 1.11 RWM HC
 
Code:
Name:              Char Name:      Class:      Lvl: Farthest Quest:  Farthest WP:   Version:
Shadefallen        LiveAndLetDie   Amazon      55   Seige of H.(N)   F. Highlands   1.11 HC
SharnMes           IllBeDeadSoon   Druid       55   Seige of H.(N)   F. Highlands   1.11 HC
asdfgah            asdf_Lisa       Assassin    48   Countess(N)      Black Marsh    1.11 RWM HC
Warrior of Light   Soledad         Assassin    52   Blood Raven(N)   Cold PLains    1.11 HC 
Moar               Grans           Druid       45   Baal             Rogue Encamp.  1.11 HC
Shadow Druid       Primal          Druid       46   Baal             W. Keep 2      1.11 SC
Spludge            Belladonna      Assassin    42   Prison of Ice    Cryst. Passage 1.11 HC
skunkbelly         EinBaum         Paladin     33   Seige of H.      F. Highlands   1.11 RWM
Quickdeath         Lotus           Assassin    31   Mephisto         Pand. Fortress 1.11 SC 
Randall            Nathan          Druid       28   Black Book       Kurast Bazaar  1.11 RWM HC
Billybgame         Theshadowknows  Assassin    28   Gibden           Kurast Bazaar  1.11 RWM HC
Delcor             Fax             Assassin    27   Duriel           Kurast Docks   1.11 HC
Moar               Sheanna         Amazon      25   Duriel           Kurast Docks   1.11 HC
Cormallon          Mithuad         Paladin     25   Duriel           Kurast Docks   1.11 HC
Cattleya           Gabrielle       Amazon      28   Duriel           Kurast Docks   1.11 HC
jiansonz           Mark            Necromancer 26   Summoner         Canyon O' Magi 1.10 HC
Corax              Impedimenta     Amazon      25   Viper Temple     Palace Cellar  1.11 RWM HC
SkaMan             Beetlejuice     Druid       21   Radament         Far Oasis      1.11 RWM HC
Online             Sleepy          Necromancer 21   Radament         Halls 2        1.10 HC
Shadow Druid       Tanky           Amazon      22   Radament         Halls 2        1.11 SC
Immortal_Slayer    Furion          Druid       20   Andariel         Lut Gholein    1.11 RWM HC 
dandelano          beastmaster     Druid       18   Forgotten Tower  Black Marsh    1.11 SC
Humphrey           Shade           Assassin    16   Forgotten Tower  Black Marsh    1.11 RWM RRM HC
DX-Crawler         Dark_Ploppy     Assassin    16   Forgotten Tower  Black Marsh    1.11 RWM HC
Delcor             Gwar            Barbarian   13   Bloodraven       Stony Field    1.11 HC
Mage11             DarkWind        Assassin    15   Countess         Black Marsh    1.10 HC     
Randy              Graven          Druid        6   Den of Evil      Cold Plains    ? HC
Duesnox            BurnInvested    Sorceress    1   -                Rogue Encamp.  1.11 SC
Sint               Ogro            Barbarian    1   -                Rogue Encamp.  1.11
Immortal_Slayer    Valkyrie        Amazon       1   -                Rogue Encamp.  1.11 RWM HC
OpethAZ            Manowar         Barbarian    1   -                Rogue Encamp.  ? 
Bradley_Turner     Hunted          Druid        1   -                Rogue Encamp.  1.11 RWM RRM 
Jake_b74           vinny           Druid        1   -                Rogue Encamp.  ?
ScarsOfTomorrow    Daysend         Druid        1   -                Rogue Encamp.  ?
asdfgah            asdf_Miri       Amazon       1   -                Rogue Encamp.  1.11 RWM HC
asdfgah            asdf_iakThrakal Druid        1   -                Rogue Encamp.  1.11 RWM HC
asdfgah            asdf_Sulmurz    Barbarian    1   -                Rogue Encamp.  1.11 RWM HC
Billybgame         Summoner Druid  Druid        1   -                Rogue Encamp.  1.11 RWM HC
Sir Lister Of Smeg Lord_Hong       Necromancer  1   -                Rogue Encamp.  1.11 HC
Sir Lister Of Smeg Hrun            Barbarian    1   -                Rogue Encamp.  1.11 HC
Sir Lister Of Smeg Eskarina        Sorceress    1   -                Rogue Encamp.  1.11 HC
Sir Lister Of Smeg Belafon         Druid        1   -                Rogue Encamp.  1.11 HC
Sir Lister Of Smeg Carrot          Paladin      1   -                Rogue Encamp.  1.11 HC
Sir Lister Of Smeg Angua           Amazon       1   -                Rogue Encamp.  1.11 HC
Sir Lister Of Smeg Conina          Assasin      1   -                Rogue Encamp.  1.11 HC
SVH		   CombatTwit	   Barbarian    1   -                Rogue Encamp.  1.11 HC
Seramin            Seraph          Amazon       1   -                Rogue Encamp.  1.11 HC

Dead:
Semarin            Savix           Assassin    56   Tainted Sun (N)  Canyon O' Magi 1.11 RWM HC
Billybgame         OffensivePal    Paladin     24   The Golden Bird  Spider Forest  1.11 RWM HC 
Billybgame         Fired Up        Sorceress   13   DEAD             DEAD           1.11 RWM HC

Withdrawn:
Rizzo              Miss_Nobular    Amazon      24   Summoner         Canyon o. Magi 1.10 HC

Table updated to my most recent progress. Should also be slightly easier to discern progress, what with adding the difficulty indicator to the quests.

Oh yeah, and I found an Isenharts Case. And a Deaths touch. Real rare items, hey? :p
 
Semarin said:
I'd love to play another melee char, but me thinks they're painfully limited. So I will try something different and fire up a Bowazon. :eek:

OK, so that will be a Bowazon with no bow skills. ;) Yeah, could work pretty well, with Valk, Decoy, Critical Strike and Pierce...
She will still be a better archer than most classes.
 
Well Fax is dead. Killed by the fire of a regular flayer shaman. I have no excuse other than just being a poor player, my belt was full of potions and I had plenty of room to move around.

Gwar however is doing well so far. Level 17 with the Forgotten Tower completed and Black Marsh waypoint collected.

I would also like to start a Paladin (eh heh) since there aren't many in this tournament.

Forum Name: Delcor
Character Name: OIC
Character Class: Offensive Auras Paladin
Level: 1
Furthest Waypoint: -
1.11 HC

edit: I had just gambled these on my Assassin before her death which shows how little trouble I should have had.

Circlet of Pestilence
Defense: 27
Durability: 35 of 35
Required Level: 18
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 27
Fingerprint: 0x7008a161
+50 poison damage over 5 seconds

Coral Circlet of Quality
Defense: 29
Durability: 35 of 35
Required Level: 22
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 27
Fingerprint: 0x7e518bd
+8 to Maximum Damage
Lightning Resist +21%

I had maxed Cold and Lightning resistances but under 20 Fire.
 
Update:

Forumname: Cormallon
Character Name: Mithuad
Character class: Paladin (offensive)
Character Level: 27
Farthest Quest: The Golden Bird
Farthest WP: Flayer jungle
1.11 HC, no mods

I won't play until friday, I'm not at home :(

Everything is quite easy right now. I'm rethinking my plans concerning Fanat vs. Conviction ... I'm again not sure which way to go. The fire/cold/lightning auras won't provide enough killing power in hell, without synergies.
 
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