The 12 Labors Tournament

Re: The 12 Labors Tournament

Wolron said:
Does anyone have any input on what I should do if Diablo dies by some other means before I get him with the Leg??????
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I'm sorry you had such an easy time with Duriel. If your Diablo encounter is too easy as well and your skellies kill Diablo quickly, please use this as a guideline:

- You must certainly strike Diablo with Wirt's leg
- You should be attacking Diablo with the leg when Diablo dies

If you do that and Diablo's death is uncertain as to whom has killed him, then you have made a sincere effort and it counts.

And yes, your Wirt's Leg may be socketed with whatever you want. And by the way, you may re-run Tristam to attempt to find a 3os Wirt's Leg -most of us did that.

If Diablo is killed before you can get to him, I recommend you repeat the encounter, and unsummon some of your skellies before you engage Diablo -so that you can be part of the attack team.
 
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Terribly sorry to barge in with what is quite probably a stupid question, but regarding the first labor of survival, does 'striking' Corpsefire necessitate *killing* him, or would it count to merely do damage to him and run away like a scared little girl--err, I mean, perform a tactical retreat that has absolutely nothing in common with running away like a scared little girl?

The idea of this tourney intrigues me, and I'm nervously thinking about trying it, though as a player new to hardcore, I fully expect a lot of deeds if I do. Again, sorry for the stupid question!
 
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Yea, just land a blow, that's good enough. Welcome to the fray if you join, keep us updated on your progress too!
 
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Whew, that's a relief. I rerolled my Blood Moors map four times before I got one that had a special chest, then proceeded to talk to Flavie, get my waypoint, and ran looking for Corpsefire. I hit him a couple times, and then when what seemed half the rest of the Den came trailing in behind me, I retreated in a calm and orderly manner that really did not involve any shrieking. Don't believe anything those fallen and zombies might tell you. Those were warcries. Really.

Only then did it occur to me that 'strike' might have meant that I had to actually kill Corpsefire, so I wanted to double check my town portal out decision before I really got started. Anyway, I've no idea how to do those tables (my apologies again--I've been a long time lurker here, though quite obviously a very recent poster), but I've started a HC amazon by the name of Tasraya, and I'm 1/12 for labors completed. Onwards, to...very likely an early deeds. ;)
 
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Welcome, Celissa. I'm so pleased that you've left the Lurker's Lounge and are joining the party.

Kestegs provided the correct answer to your question on the first labor.

As a rule of thumb, Tournament rules need to be written with great precision of language because so many of the players study them like lawyers looking for a loophole. This Tournament is no different. It never hurts to ask, of course, but you really can count on the rules to mean what they say.

I enjoyed your description of the first Labor. It reminded me of the fact that I had the extreme humiliation of having my first character, Lizzie, killed by Corpsefire in two blows. She is probably the only character who has ever been killed without obtaining any experience points! And I did that in my own tournament, no less!
 
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Hey All,

I'd like to enter the tournament, and I just need a few questions answered.

First, should I describe each labor in detail after I complete it?
Second, how do I get my name added to the list of people competing?

Thanks, and I'll see you in hellmode, hopefully. :)

-Zakarum
 
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Welcome Zakarum! Best of luck to you!

There is no requirement to describe your Labor in order for the accomplishment to count. Most of us just do it because sharing our experiences is part of the fun. I hope you'll tell us about what you are doing, but you're not required to.

Regarding the table: "quote" the post that has the latest version of the table, and then delete all of the quoted message except the tables. The tables are text between the "code" and "/code" markings. Then enter a new line in the table and fill out your information.
 
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a big hurray for THE single most enteraining thread of the century! (apart from superdave's mighty tale (sry QD)) this is THE best read i had in a very very long time!

Thank you guys for that!
 
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Thanks for the welcome :) Without further ado, I introduce to you Hermes, the Hardcore Paladin. Though still slightly unsure as to which build I'll follow, I'm sure for the moment I can get by and make my decision later.

A question about the first labor: does it absolutely have to be a gold chest? and does one have to keep re-rolling the map until said gold chest appears?

Adding Hermes to the list will happen after I have something else to report. :P hopefully it'll be the still living list.

~Zakarum
 
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Glad your enjoying the read BKC! And welcome to the new joiners as well.

AWorkingStiff moved on to act 2, Nothing to notable in the beginning part of the act. Met my first Magic immunes in the lost city, they were mostly just skipped. I did manage to find a tower in the Valley and proceeded to smash it.

Got into a bit of a hairy situation at the start of the canyon area, there were at least 3-4 boss packs just outside the top edge of the starting area, Bone spears, prisons, and fire golems all have a bad habit of waking up more monsters than you really want to mess with.

Duriel was rather easy, and I didn't even bother to bone prison him. He never even killed a single one of my summons actually. Bad drop was nothing to be surprised about.

Continued on to the flayer jungle WP and made it to level 82.

I think all of act 2 was done on players 3, but I can't remember a lot of it anymore, since its been a while.



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Forum Name       Character Name  Class      Clvl Current Location  SP? Labors
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Kestegs          AWorkingStiff   Necromancer  82 Flayer Jungle H    No   9/12
Krupa            DannyCrane      Paladin      86 Kurast Docks H     Yes  9/12
jdkerrr          Asparagus       Paladin      74 Valley of Snakes H No   8/12
purplelocust     Megara          Sorc         70 Harrogath NM       No   7/12
Sint             WorkedUp        Druid        67 River of Flame NM  No   6/12
Quickdeath       Lizzie2         Amazon       59 Kurast DocksNM     No   6/12
jdkerrr          SlogTheFrog     Barbarian    43 Lut Gholein NM     No   5/12
Jocular          BornToFolk      Druid        33 River of Flame     Yes  3/12
ancalagon        JabberWalk      Amazon       30 River of Flame     No   3/12
Wolron           Dumber          Necromancer  28 Kurast Docks       Yes  3/12
Jason Maher      Jason           Necromancer  17 Outer Cloister     Yes  1/12
Ojimijam         Evelyn          Assassin     13 Black Marsh        No   1/12
Eureka           Workaholic      Barbarian    4  Cold Plains        No   1/12
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JimmyOfJudecca   Heracles        Barbarian    75   Harrogath NM          7/12
Krupa            ThisIsMalaga    Paladin      64   Plains of Despair     6/12
Nightfish        Hammertime      Paladin      60   NM Durance II         7/12
jdkerr           BrusselSprouts  Sorceress    51   NM Durance II         5/12
LordMay          Stone           Barbarian    27   Diablo                2/12
jdkerr           MrSchizo        Druid        24   Duriel                1/12
jdkerr           Adria           Sorceress    21   Canyon of the Magi    1/12
Quickdeath       Lizzie          Amazon        1   Corpsefire            0/12
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Forum Name       Character Name  Class      Clvl Current Location  SP? Labors
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GoldenredDragon  Vein            Paladin      28 City of the Damned No   2/12
Jason Maher      Jacinta         Amazon       30 Kurast Docks       No   3/12
Thaurus          TrevorTheTimid  Druid        48 Secret Cow Level   No   4/12
 
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Dumber has defeated Diablo and moved on to Harrogath. The battle was typical of Diablo. It included a lot of running from fire sprays and teleporting out of bone cages. Dumbers three bone mages were gone after the first fire spray. By the time Diablo was weak enough to kill, there were still three skeletons left along with Dumber who was wielding a Wirt's leg with a perfect Topaz in it. Finally it was time to avenge the boys death. Dumber charged Diablo and began swinging like an idiot. I actually think that last blow with the leg killed Diablo. However, the skeletons were still doing their best too. In any case, the challenge is complete and it is off to find Baal on the mountain.

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Forum Name       Character Name  Class      Clvl Current Location  SP? Labors
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Kestegs          AWorkingStiff   Necromancer  82 Flayer Jungle H    No   9/12
Krupa            DannyCrane      Paladin      86 Kurast Docks H     Yes  9/12
jdkerrr          Asparagus       Paladin      74 Valley of Snakes H No   8/12
purplelocust     Megara          Sorc         70 Harrogath NM       No   7/12
Sint             WorkedUp        Druid        67 River of Flame NM  No   6/12
Quickdeath       Lizzie2         Amazon       59 Kurast DocksNM     No   6/12
jdkerrr          SlogTheFrog     Barbarian    43 Lut Gholein NM     No   5/12
Wolron           Dumber          Necromancer  35 Harrogath          Yes  4/12
Jocular          BornToFolk      Druid        33 River of Flame     Yes  3/12
ancalagon        JabberWalk      Amazon       30 River of Flame     No   3/12
Jason Maher      Jason           Necromancer  17 Outer Cloister     Yes  1/12
Ojimijam         Evelyn          Assassin     13 Black Marsh        No   1/12
Eureka           Workaholic      Barbarian    4  Cold Plains        No   1/12
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Forum Name       Character Name  Class      Clvl   Current Location    Labors
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JimmyOfJudecca   Heracles        Barbarian    75   Harrogath NM          7/12
Krupa            ThisIsMalaga    Paladin      64   Plains of Despair     6/12
Nightfish        Hammertime      Paladin      60   NM Durance II         7/12
jdkerr           BrusselSprouts  Sorceress    51   NM Durance II         5/12
LordMay          Stone           Barbarian    27   Diablo                2/12
jdkerr           MrSchizo        Druid        24   Duriel                1/12
jdkerr           Adria           Sorceress    21   Canyon of the Magi    1/12
Quickdeath       Lizzie          Amazon        1   Corpsefire            0/12
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Forum Name       Character Name  Class      Clvl Current Location  SP? Labors
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GoldenredDragon  Vein            Paladin      28 City of the Damned No   2/12
Jason Maher      Jacinta         Amazon       30 Kurast Docks       No   3/12
Thaurus          TrevorTheTimid  Druid        48 Secret Cow Level   No   4/12
 
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More updates, yay!

AWorkingStiff has mowed through another couple areas :)

First thing I found was a little gem that only belongs in a QD tournament! Nothing much to report in between that and travincal, I did do maybe 30 or so LK runs on a 2 fire map, but nothing much besides some resist charms came up. Council dropped the highest rune I've seen from them in about 6 months :p

Made it down to meph without too much issue, no dolls on level 1 of course. but on level 2 there were. Took out the first coucil's on level 3 and went left, I was happily smashing maffer's face in when out of nowhere comes big brother! I hadn't even moved past the entrance of maffer's room yet! No big deal really, but it was a bit startling! All of act 3 was done on players/3, probably would have done the temple on /p1 if I had remembered about the MI beasts, there was a boss pack down there, but I was able to avoid them.

I decided to move on through act 4, in hopes that my forge rune would prove useful in making something nice. No souls on the plains, which is always a plus. Hephasto put up a good fight, with some not so nice mods. The teleport is probably the scariest, I always imagine him porting on top of me as I kill him with a bone spear >< The drop was not worth all of my trouble. I was really hoping for a second Um so that I could make "Bone" armor, oh well.

Chaos was pretty much a joke, nothing even remotely challenging in there. I did the whole act on /p1 because I was being impatient. But I did decide to do Diablo on p8 to make up for it :P And what did he reward me with?

I also found this Armor, which I cube socketed for a huge defense number! I do have the runes to make a "stone" for the merc. It's not the greatest armor, but the 3k defense and resists would make him pretty tough I bet. Either that or I could use the runes to up his weapon...Hmmmmmm

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Forum Name       Character Name  Class      Clvl Current Location  SP? Labors
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Kestegs          AWorkingStiff   Necromancer  83 Harrogath     H    No   9/12
Krupa            DannyCrane      Paladin      86 Kurast Docks H     Yes  9/12
jdkerrr          Asparagus       Paladin      74 Valley of Snakes H No   8/12
purplelocust     Megara          Sorc         70 Harrogath NM       No   7/12
Sint             WorkedUp        Druid        67 River of Flame NM  No   6/12
Quickdeath       Lizzie2         Amazon       59 Kurast DocksNM     No   6/12
jdkerrr          SlogTheFrog     Barbarian    43 Lut Gholein NM     No   5/12
Wolron           Dumber          Necromancer  35 Harrogath          Yes  4/12
Jocular          BornToFolk      Druid        33 River of Flame     Yes  3/12
ancalagon        JabberWalk      Amazon       30 River of Flame     No   3/12
Jason Maher      Jason           Necromancer  17 Outer Cloister     Yes  1/12
Ojimijam         Evelyn          Assassin     13 Black Marsh        No   1/12
Eureka           Workaholic      Barbarian    4  Cold Plains        No   1/12
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Forum Name       Character Name  Class      Clvl   Current Location    Labors
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JimmyOfJudecca   Heracles        Barbarian    75   Harrogath NM          7/12
Krupa            ThisIsMalaga    Paladin      64   Plains of Despair     6/12
Nightfish        Hammertime      Paladin      60   NM Durance II         7/12
jdkerr           BrusselSprouts  Sorceress    51   NM Durance II         5/12
LordMay          Stone           Barbarian    27   Diablo                2/12
jdkerr           MrSchizo        Druid        24   Duriel                1/12
jdkerr           Adria           Sorceress    21   Canyon of the Magi    1/12
Quickdeath       Lizzie          Amazon        1   Corpsefire            0/12
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Forum Name       Character Name  Class      Clvl Current Location  SP? Labors
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GoldenredDragon  Vein            Paladin      28 City of the Damned No   2/12
Jason Maher      Jacinta         Amazon       30 Kurast Docks       No   3/12
Thaurus          TrevorTheTimid  Druid        48 Secret Cow Level   No   4/12
 
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Glad you're enjoying the thread, BKC. Thanks to Wolron and Kestegs for their updates; here's mine.

I took a several day hiatus to recover from "the search for Kaa" which had required over five hours of gameplay, much of it stressful. A3 NM proved to be fairly easy by comparison. The modifier +2 to Jav&Spear skills has become available, and Lizzie now has a maiden javelin and maiden spear with that modifier as well as gloves with +2 to J&S skills, and an "The Eye of Etlich" ammy with +1 to all skills. I have been rotating my skill point investments between LF, Charged Strike, Plague Javelin & Valk. They all have different roles to play - I've finally maxed out CHStrike, with +8 bolts and about 1,000 LDam per bolt.

My key armor continues to a Rockstopper helm and a Rhyme Shield. When wielding the javelin I have max-ed resistance in Light, Fire and Cold and about 50% in pres, plus about 1000 hps. But I am playing fairly slowly and cautiously - I usually do not make it this far in hardcore.

Lizzie worked her way through to Travincal, the battle with the Council was marked primarily by the speed with which my HF merc died, and the speed with which the council members chased Lizzie as she ran away. However, the council members were eventually all skewered on Lizzie's spear, like a kebab. The Durance was endless and every inch of Durance 2 was cleared before the stairs to Durance 3 were found.

Durance 3 is not well suited for a lightning/poison javelin. and the council members were a problem. My Merc continued to go down faster than ..... well, um, ....let's just leave Paris Hilton out of this and say my Merc continued to go down quickly. Mephisto died and it was on to Hell (A4).

No major problems in NM Hell. The OK's have some lightning resistance, and were sturdy resistance, but the blood lords are wide and the charged bolts from CS must all be intercepted by them, because they popped like deep purple balloons stuck with a pin.

I switched out the Merc's Hwanin Justice for a Lance with "SEIS" spelled in runes. DeSeis went down quietly and the Mercs were avenged. Sort of anticlimatic, actually. I dropped from /p7 to /p5 for Diablo - but he put up quite a fight. My 'Zon was never close to dieing, but she had to return to town 3 times for potions and Merc Revivals. Deja vu: Diablo died and dropped horse doo-doo. So, now, its onto A5 NM!

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Forum Name       Character Name  Class      Clvl Current Location  SP? Labors
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Kestegs          AWorkingStiff   Necromancer  83 Harrogath     H    No   9/12
Krupa            DannyCrane      Paladin      86 Kurast Docks H     Yes  9/12
jdkerrr          Asparagus       Paladin      74 Valley of Snakes H No   8/12
purplelocust     Megara          Sorc         70 Harrogath NM       No   7/12
Quickdeath       Lizzie2         Amazon       66 Harrogath NM       No   7/12
Sint             WorkedUp        Druid        67 River of Flame NM  No   6/12
jdkerrr          SlogTheFrog     Barbarian    43 Lut Gholein NM     No   5/12
Wolron           Dumber          Necromancer  35 Harrogath          Yes  4/12
Jocular          BornToFolk      Druid        33 River of Flame     Yes  3/12
ancalagon        JabberWalk      Amazon       30 River of Flame     No   3/12
Jason Maher      Jason           Necromancer  17 Outer Cloister     Yes  1/12
Ojimijam         Evelyn          Assassin     13 Black Marsh        No   1/12
Eureka           Workaholic      Barbarian    4  Cold Plains        No   1/12
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Forum Name       Character Name  Class      Clvl   Current Location    Labors
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JimmyOfJudecca   Heracles        Barbarian    75   Harrogath NM          7/12
Krupa            ThisIsMalaga    Paladin      64   Plains of Despair     6/12
Nightfish        Hammertime      Paladin      60   NM Durance II         7/12
jdkerr           BrusselSprouts  Sorceress    51   NM Durance II         5/12
LordMay          Stone           Barbarian    27   Diablo                2/12
jdkerr           MrSchizo        Druid        24   Duriel                1/12
jdkerr           Adria           Sorceress    21   Canyon of the Magi    1/12
Quickdeath       Lizzie          Amazon        1   Corpsefire            0/12
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GoldenredDragon  Vein            Paladin      28 City of the Damned No   2/12
Jason Maher      Jacinta         Amazon       30 Kurast Docks       No   3/12
Thaurus          TrevorTheTimid  Druid        48 Secret Cow Level   No   4/12
 
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Good work on getting to NM act 5 QD!

This will be my last update...

When we last heard from a working stiff he had just arrived in Harrogath for his third and final time. He knew there were still 3 daunting tasks that lay ahead of him.

I headed out, easily cleaning out the first two quests. Went down to rescue anya, the monster roll was a bit scary, but could have been worse: Abomiables, Charging undead, and sirens. Being cursed + charges is always a bit unnerving to me, but my tanks did a good job if protecting me, and anya was saved. Went all the way up to the ancients way, as I wanted to get the WP, even though I wan't planning on going any further yet. Moon lords...Lovely. Ran into a moon lord boss pack, before I knew it there were 3 moon lord boss packs trying to kill me! Complete with might aura, cursed, and extra strong between them. Many a golem and a few mercs died that day. Got the WP, and decided that I really wanted that second UM rune to make my armor, so I went back to countess.

Had run countess about 20 times with not much luck, when this popped up from a fallen. Not really what I wanted, and utterly useless without another, but I picked it up :) A few runs after that, I found this, turned out lightsaber, but still a cool tournament find. Finally after another 10 or so runs she finally dropped me exactly what I needed. So I made my Bone armor, did some crafting, and rearranged my gear and charms for the ancients fight.

Before the fight I dropped a large amount of potions on the ground, I also have about 12 spots in my inventory full of potions. I was most worried about running out of mana mid fight, but I also hoped to keep the merc alive.
The fight begins I see I have a cursed ancient right away, no big surprise there. I also see Korlic as teleportation, stone skin; a pretty good roll.
Focused on korlic for the start, as the merc was already engaging him. that went on for a couple minuets, but the merc eventually died, along with my revives.
Took a little breather to regroup myself and reload.
Reengaged them, I wasn't real happy about being backed up there but you gotta do what ya gotta do. I now see I have a cold enchanted, stone skin madawc; another nice roll.
I have no idea where Korlic is, I think he teleported when I had him namelocked, but that was his final moments; bone spear has awesome distance!
Next went down madawc, he is easy to get when separated., as he can't escape the prisons.
Then it was just Talic, extra strong, cursed...Yay!
He has a bad habit of whirling right out of bone prisons. He chased me around quite a while, but at last I was victorious :)
Picked up my remaining potion stock, and this is all I had left. Headed down to wsk 1, and of course I forgot to drop the players setting, which made the entrance very tough. I again got chargers, witches, and this time blood lords. Level 2 had an easy roll, can't remember it. I picked up the WP and quit to regear myself and pick up my MF gear from gomule for the lister fight. It was only a single corner to get from Wp to level 3, but the game knew that it was the only corner I would take. Got souls and snakes...ughh. I'm not sure how much there was in there, but I'm pretty sure I counted 2 soul bosses, 1 snake boss, and 1 champion soul pack, there were some close calls in there, but we made it through. Level 3 was much easier, and before long this dropped. Not useful, and eth on top of it, but its still a good drop. another boss pack came over, and what should happen? This drops!, now that I can get excited about! a grailer, on top of being useful, it immediately went to the merc.

Level 4 was just lovely...Souls, snakes, and venom lords! Man I hate souls and snakes! Kinda made me wish I had put points in Dim vision. Some more close calls down there, but I managed to clear it out and do the first 4 waves. Went back, loaded up on mana pots and put my 2 pieces of gear on, a 4os ptopaz armor and a 3os ptopaz hat. I was already running with about 70 mf normally, so this gave me around 230 mf. I vastly underestimated lister, that's for sure! I think lister was maybe the second one to go down, but I kept the mf gear on the whole fight. The whole fight probably took about 30 minuets, 4 trips to town (@20 potions a trip), and a few merc revives. There life regen was the real killer, you can actually see a constant yo-yo of their life, and each minion took around 12 mana potions to kill, but at last I was victorious, you can see the awesome drop that my 230 mf gave me. Baal was...Baal, a bit of a pain in the neck as he cloned himself right away, but I eventually got him in a clay golem and decrep cycle that he couldn't get out of. My guardian screenshot failed, I think I have to use print screen instead of my second key I shortcutted.

Only one test left...Go time! My biggest fear was popping up inside the cow kings coral, but the game was kind to me.
Run...
Run...
Run...
Run...
Run...
"Ok, I think that about covers it"

I went back and killed the king, but he didn't drop anything interesting. I think I spent about 2 minuets running around, because I wanted to fully "circumnavigate" the level. I don't think I got hit once, it was a bit anticlimactic tbh, but it wouldn't have been that way if the portal was in a worse spot to start!

Thanks for hosting this QD! I had a blast in this tournament! This build is also very well suited for most of the tasks. Having never played the build before, I wasn't real sure what to expect, I would definitely play a bone necro again :thumbup:

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Forum Name       Character Name  Class      Clvl Current Location  SP? Labors
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Kestegs          AWorkingStiff   Necromancer  85 Guardian           No  12/12
Krupa            DannyCrane      Paladin      86 Kurast Docks H     Yes  9/12
jdkerrr          Asparagus       Paladin      74 Valley of Snakes H No   8/12
purplelocust     Megara          Sorc         70 Harrogath NM       No   7/12
Quickdeath       Lizzie2         Amazon       66 Harrogath NM       No   7/12
Sint             WorkedUp        Druid        67 River of Flame NM  No   6/12
jdkerrr          SlogTheFrog     Barbarian    43 Lut Gholein NM     No   5/12
Wolron           Dumber          Necromancer  35 Harrogath          Yes  4/12
Jocular          BornToFolk      Druid        33 River of Flame     Yes  3/12
ancalagon        JabberWalk      Amazon       30 River of Flame     No   3/12
Jason Maher      Jason           Necromancer  17 Outer Cloister     Yes  1/12
Ojimijam         Evelyn          Assassin     13 Black Marsh        No   1/12
Eureka           Workaholic      Barbarian    4  Cold Plains        No   1/12
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Forum Name       Character Name  Class      Clvl   Current Location    Labors
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JimmyOfJudecca   Heracles        Barbarian    75   Harrogath NM          7/12
Krupa            ThisIsMalaga    Paladin      64   Plains of Despair     6/12
Nightfish        Hammertime      Paladin      60   NM Durance II         7/12
jdkerr           BrusselSprouts  Sorceress    51   NM Durance II         5/12
LordMay          Stone           Barbarian    27   Diablo                2/12
jdkerr           MrSchizo        Druid        24   Duriel                1/12
jdkerr           Adria           Sorceress    21   Canyon of the Magi    1/12
Quickdeath       Lizzie          Amazon        1   Corpsefire            0/12
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Forum Name       Character Name  Class      Clvl Current Location  SP? Labors
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GoldenredDragon  Vein            Paladin      28 City of the Damned No   2/12
Jason Maher      Jacinta         Amazon       30 Kurast Docks       No   3/12
Thaurus          TrevorTheTimid  Druid        48 Secret Cow Level   No   4/12
 
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Bravo kestegs! Very well done. Impressive to say the least, and quite a nice armor for the merc to boot! And nice runes. What about the hellforge rune, do you recall what dropped?

EDIT: My bad, saw it was a Lum. Must have overlooked that post.
 
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Great updates, kestegs! Congratulations on the guardian!

Also, welcome to all the new entrants.

To update everyone on Trevor's status: Where I left off, Trevor had just finished with the secret cow level in normal difficulty. He then proceeded into nightmare Act I, but the thrill just wasn't there. Trevor is the first softcore character I'd played in a couple years, and I found that starting in nightmare difficulty wasn't nearly as much fun.

So when Trevor died in the Underground Passage Labor (not allowing myself S & E) I decided to take that as a sign, and started a new hardcore character. I may come back to Trevor at some point but for now say hello to Boadicea, hardcore Amazon.

Boadicea is similar to how Quickdeath described his Amazon - Fend and Valkyrie eventually, but with poison skills instead of lightning. She Jabbed her way through Act I with a spear / trident, on occasion using Poison / Plague Javelin.

The most dangerous part of the act turned out to be the completion of the first Labor. It took several more tries after that screenshot was taken before finally hitting Corpsefire. In the meantime more and more zombies and fallen wandered in so that by the time Boadicea was ready to portal out she had quite a mob surrounding her.

It was lucky that Boadicea found a sash and several potions in the chests around Blood Moor, as almost all of them were needed. But eventually she made her escape. The rest of the first act was smooth sailing.

I hadn't really thought about it before this, but of course your character's chances of hitting Corpsefire are far lower if the character is at level 1, as opposed to level 6 or 7. In fact, I get a 38% chance for Boadicea to hit Corpsefire at level 1, as opposed to 95% at level 6. So it only takes a little bit of bad luck to miss several times in a row.

In Act II Boadicea has been content so far to coast along behind Mizan, the Prayer mercenary. Mizan has been using an ethereal bardiche that Boadicea picked up for him in the Catacombs, and it has been killing the monsters quite handily.

[highlight]Hardcore[/highlight]
Code: 
Forum Name       Character Name  Class      Clvl Current Location  SP? Labors
=============================================================================
Kestegs          AWorkingStiff   Necromancer  85 Guardian           No  12/12
Krupa            DannyCrane      Paladin      86 Kurast Docks H     Yes  9/12
jdkerrr          Asparagus       Paladin      74 Valley of Snakes H No   8/12
purplelocust     Megara          Sorc         70 Harrogath NM       No   7/12
Quickdeath       Lizzie2         Amazon       66 Harrogath NM       No   7/12
Sint             WorkedUp        Druid        67 River of Flame NM  No   6/12
jdkerrr          SlogTheFrog     Barbarian    43 Lut Gholein NM     No   5/12
Wolron           Dumber          Necromancer  35 Harrogath          Yes  4/12
Jocular          BornToFolk      Druid        33 River of Flame     Yes  3/12
ancalagon        JabberWalk      Amazon       30 River of Flame     No   3/12
Thaurus          Boadicea        Amazon       22 Dry Hills          Yes  1/12
Jason Maher      Jason           Necromancer  17 Outer Cloister     Yes  1/12
Ojimijam         Evelyn          Assassin     13 Black Marsh        No   1/12
Eureka           Workaholic      Barbarian    4  Cold Plains        No   1/12

[highlight]Fallen Heroes[/highlight]
Code: 
Forum Name       Character Name  Class      Clvl   Current Location    Labors
=============================================================================
JimmyOfJudecca   Heracles        Barbarian    75   Harrogath NM          7/12
Krupa            ThisIsMalaga    Paladin      64   Plains of Despair     6/12
Nightfish        Hammertime      Paladin      60   NM Durance II         7/12
jdkerr           BrusselSprouts  Sorceress    51   NM Durance II         5/12
LordMay          Stone           Barbarian    27   Diablo                2/12
jdkerr           MrSchizo        Druid        24   Duriel                1/12
jdkerr           Adria           Sorceress    21   Canyon of the Magi    1/12
Quickdeath       Lizzie          Amazon        1   Corpsefire            0/12

[highlight]Softcore[/highlight]
Code: 
Forum Name       Character Name  Class      Clvl Current Location  SP? Labors
=============================================================================
GoldenredDragon  Vein            Paladin      28 City of the Damned No   2/12
Jason Maher      Jacinta         Amazon       30 Kurast Docks       No   3/12
Thaurus          TrevorTheTimid  Druid        50 Undergrd. Passage  No   4/12
 
Re: The 12 Labors Tournament

[HIGHLIGHT]Congratulations Kestegs on making Guardian and completing the tournament. Well done. [/HIGHLIGHT] I particularly enjoyed the account of your battle with the Ancients. .

And, good luck Thaurus with your new HC character. And yes, good point, in this tournament normal Corpsefire has a much better chance of striking you then of being struck. It's really a "warm-up Labor" but its not without risk. :whistling:
 
Re: The 12 Labors Tournament

are you down with a new entrant QD?

if not i will attempt them anyway. as this is a great tournie idea
 
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