Re: The Certain Death Tournament.
After the slight difficulties I had against mass skeletons in the viper temple, I switched to /p8 again for the next section. However in the palace cellars and the arcane sanctuary I found my way pretty quick (first arm I tried in the arcane sanctuary). Summoner was an easy sniper kill. In the canyon I headed right for the true tomb and switched back to /p1 (really dont like those mummies + skeletons). As a result Duriel was soon found and killed without difficulties. Drop was horrible.
Act III was more of the same. Monsters are hard hitting and not that easy to kill (/p8), but thanks to Knockback and (maybe) some routine on my part Kaiko won through. (Near) Nde's were plenty though, it's rather amazing I'm still going.
Some flayers tried to lift my spirits and dropped first an Ali Babas and then a Lidless Wall. Both of limited use though, since I'm usually to busy for much weapon switching.
Sarina was quite scary in the limited space, but I outsmarted her with same quick escape by tp and return by wp.
For the High Council I again chickened out and switched to /p1 (yes, I know there are numbers in between 1 and 8

). No problems accordingly. In the durance the sm proved a huge help, since I could easily reposition her between me and exploding puppets.
Mephisto was of course tackled at /p8. Some moat may have played a decisive role in the rather long fight :whistling: (gotta get me some cb...). For the cheap trick I was punished by a dismal drop.
To summarize my playing style:

Fair play? Never heard of it.
Act IV (and its vendors) welcomed me with this baby which I stumbled upon by accident wanting to recheck a claw I had just sold:

Nothing exciting happened afterwards. Thanks to a nice monster roll (no gloams, no mages) nde's weren't quite so frequent. The river of flame wp was reached without trouble (/p8 all the way).
In between I played some "find the exit":

and fell in love at second sight:

100% +ar for 6 minutes? I approve :thumbup:
The CS proved to be no more difficult than anything before. The sigils were opened and their guardians disposed of routinely. For Diablo I dropped again to /p1 (too chicken for old chicken-legs :scratchchin

. This made for an easy fight (recastable minion was a big help as usual).
Drop was actually not too bad, including tankred's armor and these designer boots:

This again prompted a major reshuffling of Kaiko's equipment. Did I mention that I hate the res restriction?
I came out with a loss of 25 light res (21 now) and of all my fhr. On the plus side I gained a huge 120 hp which puts the total at ~420 :thumbup:
Fire res is at 47 with fade (without everything falls to pieces) which means that I will have to put the res scroll from malah in the stash till hell (should I ever reach it) :scratchhead:.
[HIGHLIGHT] scrcrw, Kaiko, BF Assassin, Harrogath NM, level 65 [/HIGHLIGHT]