SPUMF (Single Pass Untwinked Magic Find) Tourney II

Character Name: Destroyer Scorchie, Level 67 Blaze/Lightning Sorceress
Hard-working Mercenary: Fiona of the Sightless Eye, aka Ice Queen
Last WP: Harrogath, Nightmare
Magic Find value: +560% for Fiona´s kills, +392% otherwise

Grail Points: 69
Ethereal Grail Points: 6
Scored Items: 31.6 (Biggin´s Bonnet, Saracen´s Chance, Arcanna´s Sign, Tancred´s Weird, Nagelring)
Total: 106.6

Most Common Item: Arctic Binding (5)
Biggest Pile: 103


NM Diablo is dead, killed on /players 3.
I used my newly made 'Black' Flail against him, as well as a very good resist amulet and ring. Maxed resists, 73% blocking and about 550 life. It felt quite safe, much safer than against Mephisto.

Some nice finds in the act: two exceptional uniques, two hard-to-find amulets, two good resist small charms (resist fire is now up to 1, yay!) a good number of big topazes (made it possible to complete the MF armor setup), plus a Lem from the Hellforge (Sweet! I smell Treachery...)


I think it´s time for a
Gear and skills update:

Scorchie´s Primary Gear
* Artisan´s Great Helm of the Mind (+5 ENE) with 3x PTopaz
* Tancred´s Weird
* Tancred´s Crowbill
* Gemmed Gothic Plate (4x PTopaz)
* 'Rhyme' Bone Shield
* Arctic Mitts
* Nagelring (22)
* Arctic Binding
* Ring of Fortune (22)
* Amber Boots of Luck (38/31)

Weapon switch:
* Armageddon Hew (rare Balanced Axe with PMH and ctc AMP, max stack size 178)
* Russet (14) Barbed Shield of Terror

Fiona of the Sightless Eye
* Artisan´s Great Helm of Light with 3x PTopaz
* Kuko Shakaku unique Cedar Bow
* Gemmed Ancient Armor (4x PTopaz)


Skills
Ice Bolt 1
Ice Blast 1
Glacial Spike 1

Inferno 1
Blaze 20
Fire Mastery 18

Charged Bolt 1
Static Field 5
Telekinesis 1
Lightning 20
Chain Lightning 2
Teleport 1
Lightning Mastery 2

Terror 2 (25 charges)
Town Portal
Attack
Throw


Act 5 is hopefully going to be a great treasure hunt, but it may also be very dangerous. My worst nightmare would be a Fanaticism Extra Fast pack of Hell/Death Lords, early in an area without water or lava. :yikes: Those buggers can´t be frozen...

I will also have to keep an eye out for fiery catapult shots. The "afterbombs" in particular can be nasty because the character doesn´t scream when they take damage from such flames. With fire resist 1 and just a little more than 500 life, I need to to be aware of Scorchie´s life bulb at all times in areas with catapults.
 
Forum Name: JadePhoenix
Character Name: Matise
Last WP: Dry Hills
MF: 36

Grail Points: 3
Ethereal Grail Points: 0
Scored Items: Arctic Furs (4.5), Gull (7.7)
Total: 15.2

Most Common Item: Arctic Binding x 2
Biggest Pile: 4

Had a Gull drop off of a Boss in the Catacombs, was rather pleased with that. Rather severely cuts down killing speed right now so currently just using it for Boss kills but that might change as gear improves.
 
Forum Name: Cormallon
Character Name: Iruma
Last WP: Pandemonium Fortress(H)
MF: ~340

Grail Points: 107
Ethereal Grail Points: 6
Scored Items: 57.8 (Bane Ash - 23, Torch of Iro - 23.1, Nightwing's Veil - 5.7, Djinn Slayer 3.2, Demon Limb - 2.8)
Total: 170.8

Most Common Item: Isenhart's Case - 5
Biggest Pile: 152

Mephisto is no more, and dropped a Demon Limb... fitting for a demon ;) A3 had its ups and downs. No set/unique in the marsh and flayer jungle, just a single item in all Kurast areas, nothing in the Durance. Other areas provided me with a total of 14 items. I had to skip one of the temples... going down and being surrounded by might enchanted snakes isn't something I could survive. I went up the stairs and called it a day for that round. Perhaps later I'll try again, perhaps not... probably it isn't worth the trouble.... but it is an alvl 85, maybe Tyrael's is waiting inside, who knows ;)

A4 is going to be the most difficult part of all areas. Lots of FI monsters there, perhaps gloams, the dreaded oblivion knights and Diablo himself, usually killing minions faster than I could possibly recast them. I have a lower resist wand, maybe that will speed up things a little bit ... IF I have time to use it before he gets me. Besides that, I usually have bad luck in A4, nothing good drops there.
 
Forum Name: JadePhoenix
Character Name: Matise
Level: 26
Last WP: Canyon of the Magi (N)
MF: +142%

Grail Points: 5
Ethereal Grail Points: 0
Scored Items: Arctic Furs (4.5), Gull (7.7), Nokozoan Relic (1.4 x 2)
Total: 20

Most Common Item: Arctic Binding x 2, Nokozoan Relic x 2
Biggest Pile: 6
 
Final Results!

I finally completed the tournament! It's my first SP Pat (I guess I'll have to make a Pat thread in a bit). I had some luck, but not as much as I would have liked. Hell Baal dropped me junk. :sad2:

=========================

Forum Name: Shannon
Character Name: ShaeOfTheDead
Last WP: WSK 2 (hell)
MF: 343


Grail Points: 103
Ethereal Grail Points: 2 (Ethereal Edge)
Scored Items: Blinkbats Form (12) Pelta Lunata (11.9), Oculus (4.6),
Natalya's Mark (4.3), Aldur's Deception (3.3) (36.1 total)

Total: 141.1

Most Common Item: Hsarus' Iron Heel (x6)

Biggest Pile: 163

=========================

This was a lot of fun. Thanks for arranging this tournament!

--Shannon
 
The RNG has a sense of humor

After completing the tournament, I decided to do a couple of runs....you know...because I *can* re-run an area now. So I did a couple of Pindle runs and decided to try an Andy run.

Wouldn't you know it...I kill her and I see on the ground:

Skin of the Vipermagi
The Rising Sun
Visceratuant Defender
and Hsarus' Iron Heel (that would have made 7 for me on the SPUMF).


That's the best drop this character has ever seen. That's just too funny to me for some reason. Maybe I should go kill Meph and see what wonderful thing he drops me. :)

--Shannon
 
Finally back to this tourney! Unfinished chars....

I started up Ursula from where she left off, and progressed her to the Inner Cloister. She upgraded her MF by getting a 3 socket ring mail, but still no green or gold....

Forum Name: Crazy_Bear
Character Name: Ursula
Character Class/Build: Strafe/FA (current lvl 19)
Last WP: Inner Cloister
MF: 55 // 0

Grail Points: 0
Ethereal Grail Points: 0
Scored Items: 0
Total: 0

Most Common Item: None
Biggest Pile: 0
 
Character Name: Destroyer Scorchie, Level 70 Blaze/Lightning Sorceress
Hard-working Mercenary: Fiona of the Sightless Eye, aka Ice Queen
Last WP: Crystalline Passage, Nightmare
Magic Find value: +549% for Fiona´s kills, +381% otherwise

Grail Points: 74
Ethereal Grail Points: 6
Scored Items: 33.9 (Biggin´s Bonnet - 11.9, Saracen´s Chance - 11.1, Arcanna´s Sign - 6.8, Tal Rasha´s Lidless Eye - 2.2, Raven Frost - 1.9)
Total: 113.9

Most Common Item: Arctic Binding & Cathan´s Seal (5)
Biggest Pile: 124


Act 5 is huge, but it´s going well so far. I still manage to keep up >99.9% merc kills, which I am quite proud of.

Thank the gods for Glacial Spike! It´s absolutely superb against tight packs of Burning Dead Archers and the like. It also shuts up all non-boss Gloams pretty well. :wink3:

Found a Crude Blade Bow. It will be imbued once (if...) Scorchie gets to level 74.

Sharptooth Slayer dropped two rares: Light Plated Boots and Throwing Spear. I was disappointed at first (I always have high hopes for set/unique items from superuniques) but it turned out to be two awesome rares that Scorchie wanted to use right away!

Here is the javelin (once it had been upgraded):
Skull Needle
Harpoon
Throw Damage: 44 to 133
One-Hand Damage: 32 to 86
Quantity: 64
Required Dexterity: 118
Required Strength: 25
Required Level: 30
Javelin Class - Fast Attack Speed
+148% Enhanced Damage
+77 to Attack Rating
+100 poison damage over 6 seconds
10% Increased Attack Speed
Prevent Monster Heal
106% Damage to Undead
+98 to Attack Rating against Undead

No ctc Amp, but the better speed, reach and decent damage made it preferrable over the Balanced Axe.

And here are the boots:
Loath Trample
Light Plated Boots
Defense: 11
Durability: 4 of 18
Required Strength: 50
Required Level: 38
+6 to Dexterity
+14 to Maximum Stamina
Fire Resist +6%
Lightning Resist +37%
24% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
30% Faster Run/Walk
:thumbsup:!

OK, Scorchie won´t gamble any more boots (other than possibly for scored items)...
 
Forum Name: Cormallon
Character Name: Iruma
Last WP: Harrogath(H)
MF: ~340

Grail Points: 109
Ethereal Grail Points: 6
Scored Items: 57.8 (Bane Ash - 23, Torch of Iro - 23.1, Nightwing's Veil - 5.7, Djinn Slayer 3.2, Demon Limb - 2.8)
Total: 172.8

Most Common Item: Isenhart's Case - 5
Biggest Pile: 155

Diablo is dead, and A4 was as dry as usual. Only three S/U, one of them a duplicate. Diablo dropped the duplicate (Death's Touch), the other items were rares, none of them any good. Surprisingly, I didn't die in A4, and the FIs in there were just boring, not reallly dangerous. My merc still does surprisingly well, I may consider this combo for my HC hunter druid, currently in A3 hell...

Now the last act awaits me, and with a little bit of luck it won't have too many FIs. It will take tome time to do full clears in there, but I hope I can finish it before years end ;)
 
Ursula made her way through the rest of Act I, and finally the sets/uniques started to fall for her. First was a Hsaru's Belt in Catacombs 1, then a Hsaru's shield and Rixot's Keen in Catacombs 3, and a Nagelring from Andy (17% MF though :cry: ) Moving on to Act 2, she found a dimoak's Hew in the sewers. Nice to finally see some green and gold. Here's hoping it's a sign of things to come.
Doing full clears also seems to keep her at a very good level. It's the same as I would reach normally with some running but skipping areas.
Now it's on to the desert.

Forum Name: Crazy_Bear
Character Name: Ursula
Character Class/Build: Strafe/FA (current lvl 21)
Last WP: Inner Cloister
MF: 80 // 0

Grail Points: 4
Ethereal Grail Points: 0
Scored Items: 12.9 (Nagelring 0.7, Hsaru's Iron Fist 4.5, Rixot's Keen 7.7)
Total: 16.9

Most Common Item: None
Biggest Pile: 4
 
Character Name: Destroyer Scorchie, Level 71 Blaze/Lightning Sorceress, [Highlight]R.I.P.[/Highlight]
Hard-working Mercenary: Fiona of the Sightless Eye, aka Ice Queen
Last WP: Frozen Tundra, Nightmare
Magic Find value: +554% for Fiona´s kills, +386% otherwise

Grail Points: 75
Ethereal Grail Points: 6
Scored Items: 33.9 (Biggin´s Bonnet - 11.9, Saracen´s Chance - 11.1, Arcanna´s Sign - 6.8, Tal Rasha´s Lidless Eye - 2.2, Raven Frost - 1.9)
Final Score: 114.9

Most Common Item: Cathan´s Seal (6)
Biggest Pile: 126


Gaaah! She died! :hanky:

I knew that Nihlathak´s zombie garden was going to be dangerous, because I had an Unholy Corpse take off 3/4 of Scorchie´s life down in the Drifter Cavern last session.

When I got in, I cast Blaze and laid down flames like crazy in the central part before the undead woke up. In hindsight, I realize that this is a bad bad BAD idea if you don´t have a tanking merc or minions, or can survive the Charge damage of at least two undead. I seem to always get hit, too. Is Charge not subject to blocking?

Anyway, I had planned a blue portal in the top-right corner (as I usually do). That didn´t happen because it got too dangerous and I panicked. I teleported down to the red portal and froze the few zombies there. Eventually, they gathered and were too many to control (some fell to the flames in the certal part of the area, but some of these got up again, of course...). New TP craziness to the top right corer. More flames, hold them off a bit more, then TP out. Back to the red portal part, which was now more calm. Freeze 2-3 of them, Fiona kills them.

They gathered up again soon enough. During my next escape, just when I had seen the spot I was going to teleport to, Scorchie got 1-hit killed! I think she was at full health (at least it was at >90%) and I think it was only one Charge that did her in, but I am not sure.

Is there anyone beside me that think these dudes do FAR too much damage with their Charges in Nightmare? Especially considering how weak they are in melee...

I have never died in this area before, but I knew it was bound to happen sooner or later. How Pindle runners can go here time and again and survive it is beyond me...it´s bloody life threatening here!!


Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. :rolleyes:
It´s amazing what progress one can do with 1 point Glacial Spike, 1 point Teleport and 5 points Static Field. I wasn´t even using my big arsenal most of the time...

I think my score is pretty good considering I had more than the entire Hell difficulty left. OK, I would have taken down the MF by several hundreds (I had both a Treachery armor and an Artisan´s Gothic Plate of the Squid ready for later) in Hell, but many (including some sweet) finds were surely waiting there.

Good luck to the rest of you!
 
Oh no! Sorry to hear about Blazie! I know what you mean about those charges though. And if I remember right, they cannot be blocked. I believe there must be a chance for critical hit on that attack (all melee attacks?) as I have also seen huge damage off these guys. As for pindle running, you never fight the garden zombies, just pindle's pack.

Ursula has progressed now through the Lut Gholein sewers and out through the desert. Doing full clears has brought her level up to 25 with just the viper temple to go for the desert areas. Finding the cube was a nice boost, giving her a chance to make a better polearm for her merc and cube up some topazes (not yet installed in anything though) Her only new S/U was a cleglaw's pincers, which was at least a helpful one for a bowazon.

Forum Name: Crazy_Bear
Character Name: Ursula
Character Class/Build: Strafe/FA (current lvl 25)
Last WP: Lost City
MF: 80 // 0

Grail Points: 5
Ethereal Grail Points: 0
Scored Items: 12.9 (Nagelring 0.7, Hsaru's Iron Fist 4.5, Rixot's Keen 7.7)
Total: 17.9

Most Common Item: None
Biggest Pile: 5
 
Ursula progressed through the cellars into the arcane sanctuary. On the last wing of the arcane sanct. a normal ghoul lord dropped an arctic binding for her, adding to the grail total! Hooray. She was so close to lvl 27 that I decided to play a bit more tonight and I took her into the first false tomb in the Canyon (running past everything in the canyon itself) It turned out to be the tomb containing Ancient Kaa who dropped some claws and a tir rune. Oh well. A random ghost boss did drop a stoutnail though, so that was good luck.

With time running down I will definitely be pushing her onward!

Forum Name: Crazy_Bear
Character Name: Ursula
Character Class/Build: Strafe/FA (current lvl 27)
Last WP: Canyon of the Magi
MF: 80 // 0

Grail Points: 7
Ethereal Grail Points: 0
Scored Items: 12.9 (Nagelring 0.7, Hsaru's Iron Fist 4.5, Rixot's Keen 7.7)
Total: 19.9

Most Common Item: None
Biggest Pile: 7
 
Another update for me...
Not much to tell, Ursula finished Act2 and found one more unique there (bloodrise) and nothing from Duriel. Her list has continued to grow in Act 3, which seems to be somewhat kinder in green/gold drops so far compared to earlier acts. She did up her MF by a few percent, and on achieving level 30 got a nice boost from getting the Valk and Freezing arrow.

Forum Name: Crazy_Bear
Character Name: Ursula
Character Class/Build: Strafe/FA (current lvl 31)
Last WP: Lower Kurast
MF: 120 // 0

Grail Points: 13
Ethereal Grail Points: 0
Scored Items: 13.0 (Cathan's Seal 0.1, Nagelring 0.7, Hsaru's Iron Fist 4.5, Rixot's Keen 7.7)
Total: 26

Most Common Item: Cleglaw's Pincers (2)
Biggest Pile: 14
 
Forum Name: Cormallon
Character Name: Iruma
Last WP: WSK2(H)
MF: 348

Grail Points: 114
Ethereal Grail Points: 6
Scored Items: 57.8 (Bane Ash - 23, Torch of Iro - 23.1, Nightwing's Veil - 5.7, Djinn Slayer 3.2, Demon Limb - 2.8)
Total: 177.8

Most Common Item: Isenhart's Case - 7
Biggest Pile: 167

I'm done. One pass through everything, including cows. A complete list of my finds (set & unique) can be found here, and you can learn more about my char in the pat thread. The bad thing about A5 was my extremely bad luck. I usually find more green/gold with no MF at all... only five points for the score, no better elites (windhammer... 2.5 points, doesn't make it into the list). I'm still satisfied with the three (!) grailies this char found on his single pass. I'll protect the Torch of Iro and the Bane Ash from being taken.

Thanks Cattleya for organizing this sequel to SPUMF 1, it was fun, even more with a char that is not a known MF build :wink3:
 
wakiki said:
I'd like to participate in the next one of these.:smiley:
Click to expand...

It will probably be a while.This tourney tends to need a break between incarnations. :wink3:

I'm also thinking that while the 4 months that the first one went was too short, 8 months was probably too long. My initial instinct of 6 months might have been closer. (Then again, the timing was pretty much perfect for Cormallon. Congrats on the pat. :cool: )

Anyhow, people should be finishing up their times in the next 24 hours or so, and results need to be in by Wednesday. I'll post the final results shortly after that.



 
I'm sorry about the delay in getting this up. I sort of ...er... forgot about it until I got a PM with a question about the tourney. So, here are the final results. I've removed anyone with 0 score from the table to simplify things.

[highlight]Final Results[/highlight]
1st Place:
Cormallon (Pick 5 items, with no more than 1 from a player)

2nd Place:
Shannon (Pick 3 items, with no more than 1 from a player - and none from Cormallon)

3rd Place:
wilypueo (Pick 1 item, but not from Cormallon or Shannon)

Most Common Set/Unique (tie):
Cormallon and wilypueo (Each pick one item, but not from each other or Shannon)

Biggest Pile:
Cormallon (Pick one item, but not from Shannon or wilypueo)

It turns out everyone who won this time around was participating in the prizes. (Which is pretty much opposite last time.) So, if you participated in this tourney, and were participating in the prizes, post your finds for the prize picking. Please state which 2 items you want to protect.


[highlight]SPUMP Score[/highlight]
Code: 
              | Character Name |  Version  |      |     |      |       |     
Forum Name    | Class/Build    |  Mods     |  GP  | EGP |  SI  | Total | Prize
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cormallon      Iruma             1.11b SC     114    6    57.8   177.8     Y
               Fire Druid        No mods

Shannon        ShaeOfTheDead     1.11b SC     103    2    36.1   141.1     Y
               Summon Necro      RRM/RWM

wilypueo       Grin_Reaper       1.11 SC      86     4    44.0   134.0     Y
               Fishy             No Mods

jiansonz       Scorchie          1.11 HC      75     6    33.9   114.9     N
               Blaze/Lighting    No mods

Docturnal      Leniyuhl          1.11b HC     46     4     2.0    52.0     N
               Dentist (Necro)   No mods

telloran       Icemelt           1.11 SC      43     0     5.9    48.9     Y
               Meteorb           RRM/RWM

MadMachine     DenofBarjack      1.11b SC     29     0    22.7    51.7     Y
               Frenzy Barb       RRM/RWM

Hamburger      Eve               1.11b SC     26     0    21.4    47.7     Y
               LF/Other Zon      No mods
   
SkaMan         Breedles          1.11b HC     27     0    16.3    43.3     N
               Trapsin           RWM

Alzakarr       Sokket            1.11b SC      6     0    31.9    37.9     N
               Barb              No mods

kramph         Hoode             1.11b HC     13     2    13.3    28.3     Y
               Fishy             No mods

crazy_bear     Ursula            1.11b HC     13     0    13.0    26.0     N
               Strafe/FA         No mods

LacertaCK      Aeronwy           1.11b SC     11     2    11.7    24.7     N
                                 No mods

JadePhoenix    Matise            1.11 SC       5     0    15.0    20.0     N
               Assassn           No mods 

zatlaren       Vella             1.11b SC      4     0    11.9    15.9     N
               Light. Trapsin    No mods  
 
Ohomemgrande   Spumf             1.11 SC       2     0    12.2    14.2     N
               Javazon           No Mods

AceOfSevens    Mental Ellie      1.11b SC      1     0     4.5     5.5     Y
               Blizz Sorc        No mods

aitrus         Venenum           1.11b SC      3     0     0.1     3.1     N
               Poison Necro      No mods

Cattleya       Rialla            1.11b HC      1     0      0      1       N   
               FO/FB Sorc        No mods



[highlight]Side Contests Scoreboard[/highlight]
Code: 
              |                |                      | Biggest |
Forum Name    | Character Name |   Most Common Item   | Pile    | Prize
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Cormallon      Iruma             Isenhart's Case - 7    167         Y
Shannon        ShaeOfTheDead     Hsaru' Iron Heal - 6   163         Y 
jiansonz       Scorchie          Cathan's Seal - 6      126         N
wilypueo       Grin_Reaper       Cathan's Seal - 7      122         Y
telloran       Icemelt           Cathan's Seal - 5      58          Y
Docturnal      Leniyuhl          Cathan's Mesh,         58          N
                                 Cleglaw's Tooth,
                                 Isenhart's Case - 3
SkaMan         Breedles          Berz. Hatchet - 4      35          N
MadMachine     DenofBarjack      berserker's Hatch - 2  30          Y
Hamburger      Eve               Isenhar't Horns - 3    30          Y
LacertaCK      Aeronwy           Cathan's Seal - 4      15          N 
crazy_bear     Ursula            Cleglaw's Pincers - 2  14          N 
kramph         Hoode             N/A                    14          Y
JadePhoenix    Matise            Acrtic Binding,         6          N
                                 Nokozoan Relic - 2
Alzakarr       Sokket            N/A                     6          N
zatlaren       Vella             Axe of Fechmar - 2      5          N
aitrus         Venenum           N/A                     3          N
Ohomemgrande   Spumf             N/A                     2          N 
Cattleya       Rialla            N/A                     1          N
AceOfSevens    Mental Ellie      N/A                     1          Y

[highlight]Retired/Dead Characters[/highlight]
Code: 
              | Character Name |  Version  |  
Forum Name    | Class/Build    |  Mods     | Total | Most Common | Pile | Prize
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AeroGear       Rex               1.11 HC       0                            N
               FanaZealot        No mods  

AeroGear       Rex (reincarnated)1.11 HC     32.1                    8      N
               FanaZealot        No mods 

AeroGear       Secret            1.11 HC       2                     2      N
               HybridSin         No mods
 
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