Skunkbelly's Ultimate Tournament Challenge 2011

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soulmanz said:
Ps. crescent moon in a lance? That isn't possible right? Right? If it is I coulda made one a while ago! Would be awesome if it was true, although the 3 sock eth lance is long gone
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You're absolutely right...it was an eth Bec-de-Corbin, sorry. Was discussing the weapon it replaced (Malice in a Lance) with a friend while typing that part of the post...

I will say that if not for the real-world mishap, I think Solo had an EXCELLENT shot at guardian...I had planned to get him to at least lvl77 (he was ~lvl75.5 when he died) and go ahead and up the Steeldriver again (had the runes...and double-upped Steeldriver requires lvl77 to wield). I was also considering clearing the socket in the Steeldriver for a high Realgar jewel of Fervor that dropped in the Pits. The Duress I made him really got his resists up...not quite gold, but 60ish for all on the Steeldriver switch (and stacked on the scourge/shield switch)

WoRG


 
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Wow, it´s a small world. How tragic for the guy.


As for Solo, don´t you have an ATMA backup file or something so you can restore him? IMO, that should be OK since it wasn´t your fault that he got killed. You were in control of the situation. It´s not fair that you should be out of the tourney, I think.

(I apologize if this is seen as a big no-no.)
 
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RIP solo, a sad way to go out...

That thought had crossed through my mind as well, but I think that it is a no-no. If you start allowing the real world to dictate weather a Characters death is legit it just opens up a whole can of worms. I would say it is a decision to be made by THY either way,a s someone may end up keeping items off of a character for normal play at some point.
 
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Agreed with jiansonz: if you have a back-up you could use, this seems appropriate to me, given that the death was not caused by the game. Perhaps to avoid any worries of legitimacy, etc., you and any future players would simply need to not mule off anything he finds. Anyway, it's up to you, WoRG.
 
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Hey guys - sad news here.

Ashoka is fine but I have a real-life deeds which requires me to be away from my computer until Wednesday night. I will not be able to pass on until probably next Thursday/Friday.
 
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Sorry to hear that, it's no problem at all - since we're swapping I'll just hang on to Vader a bit longer (and hopefully keep him alive in the meantime).

Intruiging find in the pit while hunting for imbuables...
i'm a couple runes short of doing anything worthwhile with it though...
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EDIT: forgot to chime in re: Solo - I'd be happy to have him and WoRG continue (mods approved of course), but everybody would have to be VERY careful that all his finds get isolated into their own stashes and destroyed at the end of his run.
 
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That is definitely an unfortunate story - that kinda thing happens too often.

Regarding the Diablo side of it, I also feel that Solo should not be considered dead. I vote to keep him in, and won't be permantly keeping anything I find with him (if I play him again... he was my first character in the tournament).
 
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Upon further reflection, I think keeping Solo among the living just opens up too many proverbial cans of worms. So as unfortunate as the circumstances were that led to his demise, I think it's best that he stay that way.

Of course, if it makes anyone feel better, they could just think of him as being frozen in carbonite.
 
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I had honestly arrived at the same conclusion as Skunkbelly...much as I hate HOW Solo died, it just feels wrong not to accept what happened and move on, that's how hardcore is...

Thats not to say I'm not quite disappointed, I really wanted to make it to the end, and I was having loads of fun in the tourney...but thats how it goes. I will be keeping up with things, and feel like I definitely still have a 'presence' in the tourney in the surviving characters I helped along the way...

Thanks to everyone for the kind thoughts :grouphug:

Of course, if it makes anyone feel better, they could just think of him as being frozen in carbonite.
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:rolf: Thanks...that does help, somehow...

WoRG
 
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Good call Skunk, I think you made the right choice, even though I hate to see WoRG go.

I'd say at least half of my HC deaths have come from stupid RL circumstances, although none of them quite as tragic as yours. RL is more a part of the game than you realize sometimes. RIP Solo, we will visit your carbonite trophy often.
 
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Chewbacca received from purplelocust, Kenobi sent to Jason Maher.

To summarize Act 1: I crafted some boots with frw and used them a lot.
 
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kestegs said:
I'd say at least half of my HC deaths have come from stupid RL circumstances
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That´s interesting, since I have none. All my HC deaths are completely my fault.

Does that mean I have no life? :scratchchin:
(at least when I´m home playing D2...)


OK, so should I continue in Act II Hell with Offee, then?



 
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Well, to be fair I did play most of my HC time back on Bnet, and computer problems/RL things can be much more detrimental since the game does not pause when minimized and LAG also caused some of those. I can't tell you how many times my firewall poppedup and minimized my game! Thats a horrible feeling!
 
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@ jiansonz: yes, that is your fate.
 
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I'm going to be late with the transfer I think. Binks is still at the Outer Cloister.
 
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yaddle sent

i am gonna be real stupid and admit ... i didnt use the imbue. I ran areas for ages and nothing worthy dropped ... at all! No elite polearms. No elite spears. Darn you Diablo gods!

pretty fun character by the way, got me a few grailers this act (my grail is pretty empty though!)
 
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I sent Dooku on Thursday and he's in great shape.

Some gear improvements- the merc now has an Honor ethereal cryptic axe! The merc as well has some leech from his Blood armor. The imbue was a head, hoping for Revive to open that up, but what he got wasn't as good as the prebuff one from before. Now he has a main White wand with +3 Corpse Explosion so that is an improvement as well. I've done a lot of shopping this tourney! A Mal dropped but he didn't have a good use for it, maybe one of the next characters will find a good use for it!

I left skill points unallocated- I was thinking about boosting Dim Vision since the current duration is pretty useless, but maybe the next players will have better ideas!

I haven't yet gotten a character from Jason Maher- hopefully Ackbar will be bear-able in act 2!
 
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Dooku received from WestXylophone and Antilles sent to JoeBruce.
 
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Organa was sent back to soulmanz last night, and Antilles was received looking good. Back to melee characters... (although he is quite a high level, and due mainly to his gear has plenty of AR).

@soulmanz - I like to use my imbue quest on a class-specific item, an idea I got from reading this post. That might not have been practical for your character, but I found the idea itself interesting and worth sharing. My imbue for Organa got one skill+2 and two skill+3 on her orb, so it holds to sirpoops' theory.
 
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Well, it is Deeds for Mothma. While i was trying to do some extra andy runs, i got killed. Not sure what did it, but there was a mob in andys room. Probably something with Lightning resist. I really do not like LF without pierce. I would of much rather of had that as her 3rd skill instead of valk. Anyway i will try to get more details tomorrow. I also emailed kestegs back, and said they should play the char they sent me instead. That should be right i think.
 
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