Skunkbelly's Ultimate Tournament Challenge 2011

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Woot! Finally I get a zon. Character received and sitting in my inbox because Ackbar has just finished off the countess (she actually charged me - never, ever seen that happen before). I won't have a chance to play today at all, so it'll be a mad rush tomorrow. Luckily I'm 15+ hours ahead of most of you.
 
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Amidala sent on to Brak.

In 10 runs from the countess she obtained:

6 Amn
3 Ort
2 Ral
1 El, Ith, Eth, Shael, Nef, Tal

That was all on P1 so an average of 1.7 runes/run.

Amidala is pretty strong with her 3 power skills of Valkyrie, Lightning Strike, and Charged Strike. Add in the nice core skills of decoy and the occasional slow missiles and she is quite fun to play.
 
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Amidala received

Leaving town for a while on Thursday, hopefully she will have a quick but safe romp through Act 2
 
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Dorme has been sent to Cenyth. Give a quick reply when you get her and find that she works!
 
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I sent Palpatine to jiansonz and I am looking forward to seeing Yaddle again (this will be my third act with Yaddle!)

One thing I meant to ask was about Iron Golems- do the items used for that need to be OK by the rules? Palpatine didn't use IG but I was wondering.

After a lot of shopping in normal act 2, there are two White wands- one with +3 Bone Spear and one with +3 Corpse Explosion and +1 Bone Wall. A lot of shopping- hours, like I did a few years ago for another Skunkbelly character! Since the power skills are Bone Spear, Bone Spirit and Bone Prison, that way CE and Bone Wall are allowed. They aren't needed now but they could be good later, really just CE was what I was looking for while shopping for good +3 Bone Spear wands. The imbue turned out to be a great necro head with +1 necro and +3 Bone Spear, +2 Attract, +1 Bone Prison, wow! Rune drops from the countess were great, lots of Ios:

R1 (/players 8) Io only- just what I needed for White!
R2 /p1 Amn, Eth
R3 1 Sol Tir
R3 1 Thul
R4 1 Tal Shael Eth Tal
R5 1 Ort
R6 1 Io Eth
R7 1 Io Shael
R8 1 Eth Thul
R9 1 Io Tir Sol Amn
R10 1 Sol Ort

Switching to a Holy Freeze merc will be good! Probably that is true for many many characters in the tourney!
 
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You can make an Iron Golem out of anything your heart desires. No restrictions whatsoever.
 
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dooku out. chewie recieved.

chewie really hits home how good solo's luck was with items!

a few initial upgrades out the way and he is doing fine ... hopefully the remaining barbs clear act 2!
 
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Palpatine the Bonemancer received, and he´s now made it to the Far Oasis.

He has some great White wands and necro heads, and I´ve managed to craft him a really nice Sharkskin Belt with high dual resists. I have also improved his jewelry by gambling away an obscene amount of gold.

Good clarification there, skunkbelly, about Iron Golem. It´s my preferred golem for Palpatine whenever there is lots of lightning and poison damage around (common in Act II). Iron Golem gives a use for all those claws that are worth too little gold to be worth selling.

I found a Lum rune, but I think Palapatine won´t see it anymore...:whistling:
 
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Have taken Amidala to the Canyon of the Magi. I have to say even playing rather carelessly, she is quite safe. Upon getting her I noticed two obvious gear improvements that could be made, but have had no luck in upgrading either slots. I hope the next person to play won't be too upset about that.
 
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I'm going to have some trouble passing Skywalker in time... I hope it's not a problem.

Just kidding... Skywalker finished Act 1 fine and I'm about to take him down into the sewers to begin his Lut Gholein adventure. I had 1 near death in the Crypt - I was fighting a boss zombie pack, and I knew he was cursed/cold enchanted, so I was getting cursed upon his death at the latest. Then Bonebreaker (that superunique skeleton, whatever his name is) came onto me right as the cold nova went off and cursed me. I gobbled a couple of potions and backed off, but those extra strong skeletons nearly sold me a farm.

Not much in the way of gear improvement, but I have word from his act 2 player that it's no big deal... Honestly, I'm having trouble getting the perfect gems for crafting. I've been playing /players8 about 95% of the time, so I thought I would have more PGems by now. I just started seeing flawless gems dropping with regularity, so hopefully I'll have some good crafting opportunities in Act 2.
I used his imbue on a Partizan (kicking myself for not holding onto the ethereal pike...); he got some +ED%, but the wrong kind of leech. Still better than a plain white.

I also crafted a blood belt - he doesn't make too much use of the life leech or open wounds (his weapon has 50% OW), but the small life boost and +15 light resistance are nice.
 
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Dooku arrived safely and Radamant has been put down. Progress is slow and steady and there's plenty of room for improvement, so definitely looking forward to the rest of the act!
 
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Organa is sitting in the Kurast Docks. She had no trouble with act 2, predictably enough.

No luck upgrading her gear... I tried a couple of crafts for her, but none worked out better than what she was already wearing. Gambling led to no improvements either. I *did* change out the merc's "Stealth" armor for a Blood Armor, though, which seems better to me.
 
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Ackbar finally sent on to Mr. O. Ended up with no time at all over the weekend. Should still be Sunday in New Mexico (it's 1 PM Monday here). ;)

Ackbar's biggets need is a weapon upgrade. I used the imbue on a Jagged Star, which gave me +12 max damage, but no ED. I finished off Andy using a Strength War Scepter. Crushing Blow is handy, but he seriously needed more base damage. Which is why I spent so long running for a base weapon for King's Grace (no luck, best 3os sword or scepter I found was a Long Sword, which was inferior to the Strength). Which is in turn why it took me so long to finish the act.

On the positive side, Andy dropped Dark Clan Crusher (195% ED, +2 Druid skills, 200% damage to demons, 21% bonus to AR, 200 AR vs Demons, 15 life per demon kill) which will be very handy in Hell if the runes to upgrade it can be found.
 
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Vader sent back to Kestegs and Binks recieved from Hoop76

I improved his gear quite a bit...
thanks largely in part to the generosity of the Countess: a bunch of shiney new runewords and a couple crafts opened up some new options for everyone's favorite SithLord.

Got great drops from the Countess: the quest(first) run was done at /p8, subsequent runs at /p1:
R1 Ith Lum
R2 Tal Tal Amn
R3 Tal Shael
R4 Ort Nef
R5 Tal Thul Thul
R6 Ral Amn
R7 Ral Io
R8 Tir Shael Hel
R9 Ith Amn Io
R10 Eth Tal Hel
I guess Tal is the new El...she also dropped Arcanna's Head (set skullcap) twice, Isenhart's Case twice, and three rare jewels over the 10 runs! Incidentally, I could actually use some El's...in the course of searching for good bases for runewords, I used the cube formula for normalizing low quality items on a bunch of necro heads (and 1 cracked mage plate), and I'm now out...who'da thought you'd ever be looking for El's, huh?
WoRG
 
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WoRG said:
I could actually use some El's...in the course of searching for good bases for runewords, I used the cube formula for normalizing low quality items on a bunch of necro heads (and 1 cracked mage plate), and I'm now out...who'da thought you'd ever be looking for El's, huh?
WoRG
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Yes, this can be a problem in the late game, since El/Eld are about as rare as Lum in those areas.




Oh, and I also want to tell you that well synergized level 31 Bone Spear and the Maggot Lair is a yummy combination. :)



 
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Vader received and working good.

Feeling a little disappointed in myself right now, I feel like I really crippled Vader in act 5. I had been so focused on what the tourney DIDN'T allow that I never realized that it DID allow you to use skills granted by items. If I had realized this then I would have never picked CE over synergizing the poison skills. I also wish that I could have found some better gear to personalize and imbue. However, what's done is done, and Vader is still very viable for the long haul. I have no doubt that he could make it through hell with his gear/skill set up.
 
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Amidala has bested Duriel. I will hold on to her for a bit to do some Arcane runs if time permits
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@Skunk, As I'm leaving town on Thursday for about 2 weeks, would it be OK for me to pass her to you before my trip?
 
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