Skunkbelly's Ultimate Tournament Challenge

RIP Wolron. Sad to see you go.

Gabriel....the weaponry is everything sometimes, eh? Earlier in act 5 with him, I, too, was noticing he took more damage than any other character I had played here, so far. It went a lot better, once I was better equipped.
 
RIP Wolron

I haven't seen anything about my next character. I was getting them from waflob, but Sidney was the last one I got. Any one know who I should have and where he/she is?

EJB
 
EJB said:
RIP Wolron

I haven't seen anything about my next character. I was getting them from waflob, but Sidney was the last one I got. Any one know who I should have and where he/she is?

EJB
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I was passing to Waflob. I'll send you the copy of Olga I sent him. He died on Pound and Rosetti is already out so that makes sense. She's probably one of the most challenging passes I've given in the whole tourney. Good luck :wink2:

Edit: Olga sent



 
Sidney Looked Like this when I buried him:

STR 105
DEX 110
VIT 200
ERG 30

Level 72

Skeleton Mastery and Raise Skeleton 20
Clay Golem 1
Golem Mastery 4
Skeleton Mage 4
Blood Golem 1
Iron Golem 1
Fire Golem 1
Summon Resist 1
Revive 6


Teeth, bone armor, Poison Dagger, Poison Explosion, Bone Spear, all 1
Corpse Explosion 5
Poison Nova 3

Amplify Damage 2
Dim Vision, Weaken, Terror, Confuse, Attract, Decrepify all 1
 
Oops again.

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LIVING PLAYERS:
Forum Name		Starting Char/Class      Email address
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1) Skunkbelly           Ai - Assassin            [email protected]
2) Ohomemgrande         Eliot - Necromancer      ohgrande at gmail.com
3) Brak                 Frost - Barbarian        [email protected]
4) EJB                  Jarrell - Druid          ejbxraytedATgmail.com
5) PurpleLocust        Lowell - Necromancer      purple_locust (*at*) yahoo (*dot*) com
6) Hp_Sauce            Notley - Amazon          mighty_hp_sauce @ hotmail.com
7) Hrus                Olga - Assassin          [email protected]
8) Hoop76              Pound - Paladin          [email protected]
9) JoeBruce            Quasimodo - Druid        [email protected] 
10) Billybgame          Sidney - Necromancer     [email protected]
11) Gabriel             Updike - Amazon          [email protected]

DEAD/RETIRED PLAYERS:
Forum Name		Character Killed  
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Smilts                  Charles-Wright
Tensaiga                Rosetti (abandoned)
Scarred_life            Quasimodo (abandoned)
sirpoopsalot            Ai (NM FE Countess explosion)
Crazy_Bear              Frost - Barbarian (NM Council bosses)
Butzull                 Updike - (Act 3 NM... LE/aura boss pack)          
Freekje            Jarrell
waflob             Pound
Milb                 Milosz
Wolron              Sidney
 
@ everyone:

Now that players are dying with a little more frequency, please make sure you are sending files to the right person :cool:

Everyone, by my count, is done with act 5 NM. If you are one of the 11 remaining players, welcome to hell!

Just to keep everyone on the same page:

When you finish your act 1 character, please feel free to send them forward.

When you receive your act 2 character, you may begin.

When you finish your act 2 character, please DON'T send them forward until further notice.

Also, as threatened, I will be posting a thread for the sequel to this tournament, most likely later on today. It is more diabolical, but also more fun for people who like to find items.
 
Olga arrived saftly..though I don't know how long she will still be alive...never had a character this low of a level in hell before...

EJB
 
Dear Skunkbelly, I want to thank you for the 2 bonus elites you have sent me. One of them is crap really :wink3: , but the other covers the most important slot for which I didn't have any good items before. Again, thank you...
I hope it will be enough to really compete from now, because from my own experience about HC untwinked character, Hell difficulty is where the game and thrill starts.
 
Don't worry, Hrus... I think everyone got at least one crappy EU in their reward stash :badteeth: But hopefully everyone got at least one that was useful, too.
 
Hoop - I still haven't gotten my character from you yet, and I'm starting to think it has something to do with one of our email clients (didn't we have this problem towards the beginning of the tournament?) Well if you have sent it, then it obviously hasn't worked. I have an old junk email account I keep open for such occassions, so if the problem is on my end, just try this one - [email protected] - let me know what's up.
 
skunkbelly said:
Don't worry, Hrus... I think everyone got at least one crappy EU in their reward stash :badteeth: But hopefully everyone got at least one that was useful, too.
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I was originally disappointed in my reward stash but one of the items turned out to be the main weapon I used in Hell Act 1, so I was too quick to judge!



 
Didn't want to risk Countess with Notley especially since I don't need too many runewords for the Classes that are remaining alive.

Notley has been sent on the EJB. I wish you continued luck with Olga and hope you get to enjoy Notley more than I did (had mana issues).

Here's my imbue. Quite possibly my worst imbue ever.

Grim Visor
Coronet
Defense: 66
Durability: 15 of 30
Required Level: 39
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 77
Fingerprint: 0xd3e7b429
+61% Enhanced Defense
+37 to Attack Rating
Cold Resist +29%


But, I rerolled it and got this beauty:

Spirit Crest
Coronet
Defense: 37
Durability: 25 of 30
Required Level: 39
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 59
Fingerprint: 0x8f83f7e6
+63 to Attack Rating
Magic Damage Reduced by 2
Cold Resist +24%
6% Life stolen per hit
Attacker Takes Damage of 2
6% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

Doesn't look like much, but all I was after was the life leech for my merc. Now I can switch him off of the up'd Bloodthief once he's a high enough level to use any weapon that does more than 26-67 dmg.
 
Doesn't look like much, but all I was after was the life leech for my merc. Now I can switch him off of the up'd Bloodthief once he's a high enough level to use any weapon that does more than 26-67 dmg
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Lol! It's nice to know I'm not the only one who had to nurse his merc through Act 1 Hell with a weapon worthy of nothing higher then Norm.

-hps
 
Crap.

Ignatow is dead. cursed, ce, ms, ss tainted. Really bad -cold res. Fighting one tainted, got frozen from boss around the corner, who then almost immediately came around said corner with other cohorts, multi-shot + my incredibly slow attack animation from slow attack and frozen = me dead. Tried to hit Full Rejuv, obviously didn't hit in time.

Final stats

Level 71
St: 139
Dx: 106
Vit: 160
En: 40

Equip:

Undead Crown
Rare ammy with 4 resists and ML
Spire of Honor
Skin of Viper Magi +22
Aldur's Boots
Razortail
Rare crappy gloves with Lit resist
Manald Heal
Fire resis, Lit resis rare ring.

Highly annoying, as this has been the funnest tourny ever. Really thought I could make it further, though I did make it pretty good, especially since I have never played a HC char further than Act I NM.

This char was underleveled, no doubt, with some wasted stat points that could have helped AR or life a lot. But the biggest weakness were some wildly mispent skill points (okay wildly is a wild exaggeration, just enough to be frustrating). Way too many in Vengence before Conviction was maxed. One in conversion!?? And a few other tossed around. On the whole a pretty straight forward avenger, just with enough weakness to make it really hard in hell.

Now I am hoping others die quickly so we can start the next tourny. Just Kidding, good luck everyone. I have my bets on which char should win, but then I didn't quite get to play all of them that are still in it.

So much fun. This exact same tournament would be fun to do again as well SB, in case you have trouble thinking up new ones.

And just to be sure, we send you back what exactly, the tourny stash correct? Anything else?
 
Sorry to hear about Ignatow's death! It sounds like Pitspawn Fouldog has claimed another life- he's caused more than his fair share of deaths. Were your cold resists boosted by thawing potions? I always stock up when visiting the Jail 2 because of him. And to feed to the merc.

I had Ignatow a while ago, in A4 norm. I didn't have him long but at that point he was cruising easily. I played most of the act at /players 8 but I did go down to /players 3 I think for the Chaos Sanctuary, as I was worried about expensive merc deaths and IM for myself of course. I only put 3 levels on him, but it's a short act and level 34 is fine for Diablo, particularly when the experience-fest of Act 5 is coming up. He had the Conversion point on him when I got him and I meant to try it out (I wasn't sure if it could work with a bow), but I forgot to try. I got an El from the forge drop.

I put 4 points in Conviction and 1 in Resist Lightning. The RL point boosted max lightning resists to 77, since it's the even hard points in the resist auras that boost max resists.

I used Coldsteel Eye + Ward, Skins of the Vipermagi and Peasant Crown and cruised through the act. For the CS, I bumped down the player count and switched to Raven Claw when there were cursers in range. It took a while, but I wanted to be careful. After clearing the CS and popping Lord de Seis, I bumped the players back up and the rest was no problem. I can't remember if Diablo killed the merc or not.

I agree that with Avengers it's good to put points in Conviction before Vengeance (Conviction doesn't increase the mana cost and is better bang for the buck) and also it's good to put points in RF and RL before Vengance, for the passive boost. It looks like you were going two-handed, which unfortunately means the Holy Shield didn't do you any good. I take it you didn't have any suitable one-handed weapons, as HC two-handed is trouble, in my opinion!

Ignatow upon arrival in A4 norm:
L31
S66 D61 V73 E40
4 Zeal, 4 Veng, 1 Conv, 1 HS
Holy Freeze 2, Holy Shock 1, Conviction 1
Resist Fire 3, Resist Cold 3, Resist Lightning 3

Ignatow upon departure:
L34
S 66 D 61 V 88 E 40
4 Zeal 4 Veng 1 Conv + HS
HF 2 HS 1 Conv 5
RF 3 RC 3 RL 4

gear that I remember: Coldsteel Eye, Ward or Whitsan's, can't remember, Raven Claw on switch
definitely: Peasant Crown, Skins of Vipermagi, Mahim-Oak Curio (almost all of my characters have worn those!)
 
Yeah, most of the Act I had been using Aldurs mace, it was among the best one handers, which means I didn't have any real good ones. Switched to Spire of honor for higher physical damage (it quadrupled the overall damage I did) and the +3 combat skills didn't hurt, but as you say, I did lose HS.

I had thawing potions (they took me up to 24 cold res), but may not have had one on at the time, don't know if it had worn off.

edit: When you say unused, do you mean what was not in current use, or only what I never equipped on any char?
 
I sent Tennyson on to hp_sauce for him to play in Act 2, and I am waiting for my A2 Hell character. I think that should be Olga from EJB, or maybe from Wolron if EJB sent Olga to him before realizing that Wolron's character Sidney died.
 
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