The Exposure Tournament

Re: The Exposure Tournament

Hey everyone. It's been a long time since I posted, but I have been living without consistent internet access for some time. I began playing this tournament several weeks ago, but haven't had any internet time to post updated until this point.

This will be kind of long, so I will post my stats and tourny information in a second post.

Introducing Destroyer Rufeo, level 48 Charge Paladin

I did not take many notes of specific game play, so I will breeze through that part and spend some time talking about my thoughts/decision making choices so far.

Act 1

Act 1 was a breeze. Being a charger, I simply placed a number of points into might and grabbed a chippy socketed two handed sword. I mostly used normal attack with a dose of level 1 zeal when necessary. I was able to get my merc killed off in the Mauseleum to an extra strong skeleton pack. I began to pump charge as soon as I was level 12, but only used it sparingly as I could only charge about 3 times before I ran out of mana (though, 1 charge was about all it took to kill something at this point). I found several sets/uniques in act 1, but easily the most significant was a pair of Gorefoot boots in the Catacombs. These boots gave me a source of mana leach, and with the charge damage I could put out I could leach back enough mana to charge most of the time. I gambled a magic maul with 5%ll at level 19, which made Andy a joke. I pumped some antidotes and just charged, ran back a bit, and charged again. She went down quickly, and dropped a rare ring with 4%ll.

Act 2

The only notes I have for act 2 are that I gambled a magic maul with 5% ml. Using this weapon, I could charge leachables indefinitely. I replaced a 10%mf ring with the 4%ll ring to keep some ll. I couldn't dispose of corpses against Radament (I accidently sold the cold damage charm I had saved for this specific purpose) so I just ran in big circles around his room as the skellies chased me and would charge Radament once every circle. I would use this drive by tactic several times in this act to take out revivers. I dropped to p5 for Duriel, and dispatched him after several town trips for potions.

Act 3

I had several NDE's in this act, all of them in the temples. If I make it to NM or Hell I will need to have a good plan in place for these places. There is little manuvering room, which is especially bad for a charger. I had to by a wand with charges of confuse to get through them. I got stair trapped by mana burn wailing beasts in one temple, and got lucky that I was able to run through them drinking pots into an empty side room. I tp'ed out and came back through the stairs and was able to get them one by one. Sarina nearly got me as well. I had to use every single potion that I brought with me. I got this cool drop from a chest in the sewers. The ring was a 29%mf nagel. I decided that I could go without life leach, so I replaced my rare ring with it. The council was amazingly easy. I pulled them out one by one and just charge chained them across the map. I killed Meph with %150MF. I upgraded my gloves, boots, and helmet through gambling in this act.

Act 4

I gambled 300k at the start of the act on great mauls, plated belts, and chain gloves. I was looking for a weapon upgrade, a belt with fire res, and clegaw's gloves (I really want a source of knockback for when I try to charge but am too close and use normal attack. It will push the enemy back enough to get a charge off.) I was able to upgrade to rare gloves with res and 20%Mf. I started the act at level 32 with 170mf. I had no problems, and just charged and ran away against Diablo.

Act 5

I loved the open areas, and hated the tunnels. In open area my kill speed is really good but it slows down significantly in enclosed spaces. I upgraded to a great maul, and maxed charge in this act, so my damage was pretty good. I really started to notice the increased rune drops in this act. 2 sols, 2 amns, and 2 shaels dropped. No NDEs. Baal kept making clones but charge retreat charge while drinking mana pots took him down quickly at p3.

I was worried about the cows, as they come in huge groups and are tightly packed to prevent charge chains. I didn't need to be as I could 1 or 2 hit kill them all. I just charged, ran back, and charged again. Cow King dropped junk.

The next post will have my char info and tourny score.
 
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Here is the GoMule readout.

Name: Rufeo
Class: Paladin
Experience: 41414984
Level: 48

Naked/Gear
Strength: 145/147
Dexterity: 31/44
Vitality: 134/134
Energy: 15/15
HP: 496/573
Mana: 85/85
Stamina: 245/245
Defense: 7/144
AR: 140/456

Fire: 59/19/-41
Cold: 56/16/-44
Lightning: 79/39/-21
Poison: 90/50/-10

MF: 186 Block: 9
GF: 73
FR/W: 0
FHR: 0
IAS: 0
FCR: 0

Sacrifice: 1/1
Smite: 1/1
Holy Bolt: 0/0
Zeal: 1/1
Charge: 20/20
Vengeance: 1/1
Blessed Hammer: 0/0
Conversion: 0/0
Holy Shield: 0/0
Fist of the Heavens: 0/0

Might: 7/7
Holy Fire: 1/1
Thorns: 1/1
Blessed Aim: 0/0
Concentration: 0/0
Holy Freeze: 1/1
Holy Shock: 0/0
Sanctuary: 1/1
Fanaticism: 0/0
Conviction: 1/1

Prayer: 1/1
Resist Fire: 0/0
Defiance: 1/1
Resist Cold: 0/0
Cleansing: 1/1
Resist Lightning: 0/0
Vigor: 10/10
Meditation: 1/1
Redemption: 1/1
Salvation: 0/0

Code: 
Gemmed Superior Breast Plate
Superior Breast Plate
Defense: 72
Durability: 53 of 55
Required Level: 12
Required Strength: 30
Fingerprint: 0x1d3ab6c3
Item Level: 20
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+5% Enhanced Defense
42% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Increase Maximum Durability 10%
3 Sockets (3 used)
Socketed: Flawed Topaz
Socketed: Flawed Topaz
Socketed: Topaz

Beast Trample
Heavy Boots
Defense: 8
Durability: 14 of 14
Required Level: 18
Required Strength: 18
Fingerprint: 0x756cd4db
Item Level: 28
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+23% Enhanced Defense
+3 to Dexterity
Lightning Resist +31%
Poison Resist +37%
20% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Repairs 1 Durability in 20 Seconds

Nagelring
Ring
Required Level: 7
Fingerprint: 0x7568c5e9
Item Level: 23
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+65 to Attack Rating
Magic Damage Reduced by 3
Attacker Takes Damage of 3
29% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

Fine Grand Charm of Dexterity
Grand Charm
Required Level: 16
Fingerprint: 0x294af9cc
Item Level: 25
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+6 to Maximum Damage
+44 to Attack Rating
+6 to Dexterity

Beast Hand
Chain Gloves
Defense: 11
Durability: 16 of 16
Required Level: 12
Required Strength: 25
Fingerprint: 0x85ad3984
Item Level: 29
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+16% Enhanced Defense
Lightning Resist +14%
Poison Resist +5%
Poison Length Reduced by 25%
20% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Repairs 1 Durability in 33 Seconds

Rune Circle
Ring
Required Level: 9
Fingerprint: 0x5fdf1b6c
Item Level: 12
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+1 to Maximum Damage
Cold Resist +18%
Poison Resist +11%
39% Extra Gold from Monsters
11% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

Viridian Amulet of the Bat
Amulet
Required Level: 11
Fingerprint: 0x39eca559
Item Level: 30
Version: Expansion 1.10+
4% Mana stolen per hit
Poison Resist +14%

Artisan's Great Helm of Remedy
Great Helm
Defense: 33
Durability: 38 of 40
Required Level: 25
Required Strength: 63
Fingerprint: 0xc8d2879
Item Level: 45
Version: Expansion 1.10+
Poison Length Reduced by 25%
64% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
3 Sockets (3 used)
Socketed: Perfect Topaz
Socketed: Flawless Topaz
Socketed: Flawless Topaz

Russet Plated Belt of the Mammoth
Plated Belt
Defense: 9
Durability: 24 of 24
Required Level: 18
Required Strength: 60
Fingerprint: 0x2f5ba9be
Item Level: 40
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+38 to Life
Fire Resist +12%

Milabrega's Rod  (on switch for redemption)
War Scepter
One Hand Damage: 15 - 25
Durability: 70 of 70
Required Level: 17
Required Strength: 55
Fingerprint: 0x49166427
Item Level: 40
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+1 to Paladin Skill Levels
50% Enhanced Damage
+150% Damage to Undead
+2 to Light Radius

Stone Gnash
Great Maul
Two Hand Damage: 68 - 102
Durability: 51 of 60
Required Level: 20
Required Strength: 99
Fingerprint: 0x9c247a5c
Item Level: 51
Version: Expansion 1.10+
76% Enhanced Damage
+2 to Minimum Damage
+142 to Attack Rating
+150% Damage to Undead
5% Life stolen per hit
+4 to Mana after each Kill

I gambled the great maul after killing Baal. As soon as I have enough strength I will upgrade it to a Martel de Fer. I am now on the look out for a 5 socket martel de fer to make Honor in, but I don't think I can find the base until act 3 at some point.

Rufeo will be using Conviction as his main aura. I felt that the biggest problem I would have would be AR, as I need to make each hit count. Conviction is the best aura for that, and it is also useful with vengeance as a PI solution. I can thus focus my gear now on MF, and later on defensive mods like resistances and PDR. Charge gives a pretty good AR bonus so I have only had to use conviction on a few enemies, notably wave 5 and Baal. I only have 1 point in conviction at this time, and will be adding to it as I notice my AR decreasing. I run might most of the time now.

I am treating Rufeo as a ranged character. I find that when I take the time to set up a battle field, I can mow down enemies while taking little damage. When I get lazy, or space is constricted, I struggle and suffer NDEs. I am already thinking of solutions to extra fast enemies and PIs. I am thinking that a couple of points into conversion, coupled with fana will be necessary to handle things like the temples and tunnels. I will also probably place a few points into vengeance. With conversion and vengeance, I just might be able to handle some tight situations.

I had been thinking that I would try to make an insight staff at some point, but so far I have almost been killed several times because of slow hit recovery. I will need to get a bunch of it before I will equip a staff. I am pretty sure that hit recovery will be what kills me at some point. I also will probably be killed from a misclick. I will try to charge something but will misclick them and end up just running right into them.

I am using Milabregas rod on switch with redemption active. I am hoping that this, along with some cold damage for shattering, will be enough to get me through revivers.

Destroyer Rufeo, Conviction Charger, level 48, NM Rogue Encampment, 119 points.

All quests completed (I haven't used my imbue, socket, or personalize yet) and waypoints found.

Edit: I will update the table in a bit.

Edit: Thanks Tavaritz. That changes my weapon plans a bit. I still want Honor at some point in NM but won't hold out for that base.
 
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Norcim105 said:
I am now on the look out for a 5 socket martel de fer to make Honor in, but I don't think I can find the base until act 3 at some point.
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You won't find any 5os Martel de Fers in NM as NM can only drop up to 4os. But if you find any white Martel de Fer then you might get 5os by the cube recipe (Ral + Amn + PAmaethyst + normal weapon) with one in six chance. Don't Larzuk as he'll give you 6os.


 
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Norcim, why not use a combination of a few points in Blessed Aim (passive always-active 5% AR bonus per level) and maybe an Eth in your weapon? I know some swear by Conversion but to me it was too unreliable to be useful without many points invested.
 
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My Assassin is now only a little more than an act behind my Necromancer.

Fists of Fire (now level 8) still rules the day, but Sszark scared me a lot. That spider is very very dangerous for a mercless summonless character, even in Normal and even when you have almost 400 life. After some struggling, I managed to get a minion to do some tanking duty. Once Sszark was hurt and scared, I followed the sticky webbed trail. I found Sszark cowering in a corner, and my newly found rare Short Spears finished the bugger.

In Durance 3, I found a rare monster type. These snots can only be here in Normal, and only as a boss pack.

Faith has been terribly unlucky with Luck items. I mean, it´s not uncommon that I score two circlets, a pair of boots and sometimes even an amulet before Act II is over. Now it took all the way until just before Mephisto when the first Luck item showed up. Worth the wait, methinks.

And then, when I had sold all stashed 15-20k items I had to Jamella (brought me to around 280k gold), I had a long gambling session going for Boots. Not 'of Luck', but these are even better (and can last through Nightmare):

Viper Spur
Boots
Defense: 2
Durability: 12 of 12
Kick Damage: 3 to 8
Required Level: 18
+6 to Maximum Stamina
Fire Resist +19%
Lightning Resist +40%
24% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
10% Faster Hit Recovery
Repairs 1 durability in 33 seconds


[Highlight]Faith, dual claw elemental Martial Artist, level 32, Outer Steppes next[/highlight]
 
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Very nice boots there Jiansonz, and a awesome circlet too!

I can't tell what that monster in Durance 3 is by the picture.

I can agree with the Sszark troubles, he seems to give me an NDE almost every time I see him.

I have been playing a twinked Phoenix Striker a lot lately, and really enjoy it. I just love the freeze duration on the third charge, especially in Normal and NM. The only problem I have is with my AR, as the charge up skills all have a pretty low +AR on them, how are you going to deal with that?

I can feel the tournament calling my name, I need to play my restart again...maybe tomorrow I will.
 
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kestegs said:
I can't tell what that monster in Durance 3 is by the picture.
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Undead Stygian Doll.


kestegs said:
I have been playing a twinked Phoenix Striker a lot lately, and really enjoy it. I just love the freeze duration on the third charge, especially in Normal and NM. The only problem I have is with my AR, as the charge up skills all have a pretty low +AR on them, how are you going to deal with that?
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I don´t think it´s that low. Most of my Phoenix Strikers end up with about 3500 AR for Phoenix Strike itself. I know some players think that´s too low but I´m pretty used to the whiffing. :whistling:

I will be sure to keep a lookout for some of those set combos that give a large AR bonus per level, and there´s always a chance to find some nice claws with ITD.

Also, I actually think that this character will hit better than most of the assassins I´ve played. She won´t have a Rogue casting Inner Sight for her, but as I wrote before, I am counting on getting up towards +8 Assassin skills. That will mean ~100% passive AR bonus from Claw Mastery, and it will also mean that CoS will drop enemy defense by about 40%.



 
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jiansonz said:
Whoa! What happened there?
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In fact there were quite big crowd of monsters near entrance of the thomb, but that wasn't the main problem. I tried to find the best position for spamming bone spears and at the same time it attracted pack of CE, EF specters (or apparitions, I mean those ghosts). The situation didn't look promising and mainly there wasn't enough space to separate them. So I decided to pass over this one.

And I don't have Decrepify skill, I decided to max damage skills instead. For crowd controlling I use bone prison/wall, so the biggest problem are monsters which cannot be imprisoned or which are speeded-up by that.



 
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Going to enter with another character, an assassin. Right now I'm thinking TS/DT, with some kind of physical attack for immunes.
 
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Started my assassin, Sylvia, who is doing quite nicely. She just smashed the serpent alter and is about to go into the palace. DTail has amazing killing speed, I hope it stays like that if I make it to hell. I had a very close NDE in level two of the pit. I was running around trying to pick off all the shamans real quick, and I got surrounded by every single monster down there. I started casting TPs like crazy trying to get one close enough to go through, eventually I cast one as most of the fallen surrounding me were fleeing because one of their buddies died and I escaped with maybe two potions left. Walked back from the WP and was a little more careful and cleared it without further incident.

My mf is pretty good, but the only potentially useful S/U I've found so far is Cleg gloves. Not much else exciting to report.

[highlight]Sylvia, level 25 TS/DTailer, Palace[/highlight]
 
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Awesome progress guys!

Sorry for the lack of updates, just haven't had the temptation to play at the moment, although my finger is getting very itchy :).

Heath my hopefull Zerker Barb, is still alive and well, sitting at the Canyon of the Magi, about to progress towards the big slug. I hope to continue progress with him soon as i am very interested to see how he will fair.

@Jiansonz. Very nice to see you start another PS sin, how many have you made now? must be quite alot hahaha! :). Will be interesting to see how she fairs especially without a shadow or merc, which i know you used to great effect with your recent PS sins.
 
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Another update means another act finished :).

Act 3 can be very tricky, but gladly this time it went quite well. The obvious reason was lower players setting, I planned that hard work in previous acts would be rewarded. So, BlackDeath cut act 3 on /p1 or /p3.

He learned on NM how to handle one big kind of enemy - trashers by using some moat/house tricks. But in fact he could tank crowd of monsters including trasher pack even by using bone prisons, it wasn't as scary as I thought.

Tamples can be also evel places, gladly this time it was without entrance trap. Although, in the right tample BlackDeath had to be on his guard and immediately after entering stuck the place with bone prisons as there was busy time. I saw all the packs and monsters which wanted to run towards him. Few bone spears and CE cleaned the place.

So yes, admittedly, bone prison is crucial skill to manage almost every tough situation. The only downside is imprisoning with the monsters you want to cut off. One special and beloved monsters are good in managing this. Dolls. And BlackDeath met many many doll packs. There were few hot whiles, although none of them threatened him directly (at most he lost his bone armor), but simply dolls cannot be underestimated. Here are some of them:
In sewers lvl - looks peaceful, but in a while it turned into quite messy situation and 2 packs of suckers didn't help much. BlackDeath met here iirc around 8 packs in total in sewers lvl 1, I often had feeling there is only small number of monsters, but this time it was overcrowded.
Flayer Dungeon 2 - and more of them behind the corner...I somehow guessed they will be there
Naturally in DoH
And one more -same time, same place, even same name of boss but it was different pack (and you can see another boss with HS aura hiding behind pillar). And of course there were more of them, it started to be boring to take pics of dolls only :rolleyes:

Isn't it enough of dolls for this char for the rest of the game?

[highlight]BlackDeath, bone necro, H Pandemonium Fortress, lvl 86, 351 points [/highlight]

Code: 
Name           Character       Class       Location         Level  Points
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sequana        BlackDeath      Necromancer H Pandem. Fort.    86     351
Tarantella     Uta-Refson      Necromancer H Lut Gholein      79     302
ChrisTheMean   Scaven          Barbarian   H Cold Plains      72     277
Hanshotfirst   Hester          Sorceress   H Rogue Camp       74     276
ancalagon      Umbriel         Assassin    NM Kurast Docks    59     200
Old Soldier    Thalestris      Amazon      NM Kurast Docks    59     195
bladejj        Elsa            Assassin    NM lost City       54     ?? 
skoolbus       Gorm            Barbarian   NM Dark Wood       49     ???
norcim105      Rufeo           Paladin     NM Rogue Camp      48     119  
SoulManZ       Nevermore       Druid       NM Rogue Camp      39     ???
jiansonz       Smaragd         Necromancer Harrogath          35     ???
jiansonz       Faith           Assassin    Pandemonium        32     ???
Krazy_Solo     Furious         Druid       Canyon of Magi     27      65
skoolbus       Sylvia          Assassin    Palace             25      ???        
wikkid         Rabidwolfkin    Druid       Lut Gholein        24      ??
jdkerr         Kobe            Assassin    Halls of the Dead  23      50
GCanada        PoohBear        Druid       Lut Gholein        20      42
liquid_mage    Wulfgar         Barbarian   Lut Gholein        20      42
scrcrw         Nagisa          Barbarian   Lut Gholein        20      42?
Hanshotfirst   Hector          Paladin     Lut Gholein        20      42
Vang           Deadite         Barbarian   Lut Gholein        20      42?
Morathi        Heath           Barbarian   Lut Gholein        20      42
ILikeRocks     Gragamel        Paladin     Lut Gholein        21      41
Brak           TheStreak       Paladin     Inner Cloister     19      37
CM             Lisbeth         Assassin    Inner Cloister     18      36
DaveW          Blades          Assassin    Lut Gholein        18      36
Shaandore      Irreducible     Paladin     Black Marsh        17      30
daed           Strafy          Amazon      Stony Field        12      19
wielanja       Beowulf         Barbarian   Stony Field        12      19
Sorcererbob    Cabaret         Sorceress   Stony Field        12      19
Ashmer         Fuzzy           Druid       Stony Field        12      19?
wakiki         Polemos         Barbarian   Cold Plains         7      11
Quickdeath     Limber          Amazon      Cold Plains         6       9
NightCraweler  Ragran          Barbarian   Rogue Camp          1       2
vague          Benkei          Barbarian   Rogue Camp          1       2 
Aznagroth      Lucille         Amazon      Rogue Camp          1       2
weezaard       Sonny           Barbarian   Rogue Camp          1       2
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RIP: 
kestegs        Running_Scared  Sorceress   H False Thomb      84     302
ChrisTheMean   TheLoner        Paladin     NM Underground P   48     148
HanShotFirst   Frost-Fang      Druid       River of Flame     33     100
Morathi        Dorian          Paladin     Flayer Dungeon     30      80
Krazy_Solo     Burn_Notice     Druid       Duriel             27      67
Morathi        Diago           Druid       False Tomb         27      ??
Krazy_Solo     Auriel          Amazon      Halls of the Dead  22      48
Krazy_Solo     Snave           Druid       Act II             21      46
weezaard       Addams          Druid       Sewers 3           20      42
Krazy_Solo     Nispart         Assassin    Andariel           20      39
GCanada        MsGarrison      Assassin    Jail               18      35
tavaritz       Boner           Necromancer Barracks           18      35
Wikkid         BloodQuencher   Barbarian   Kurast Docks       28      28
Bluechip       SeymourKrelborn Necromancer Tal Rasha's Tomb   23      23
Dark Matter    BoneyM          Necromancer Stony Field        12      20
weezaard       konnichiwa      Assassin    The Cave           11      17
Quickdeath     Blink           Assassin    Barracks           15      15
Vang           Leeloo          Amazon      Catacombs 3         1       2
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Retired:
Jason Maher    Vanessa         Amazon      Moo Moo Farm       48     136
Dark Matter    Arthur          Barbarian   Lut Gholein        20      42
Jason Maher    Fanven          Paladin     Dark Wood          15      25
mattinm        Kamikaze        Necromancer Rogue Camp          1       2

I'm sorry if I forgot to include someone's updates, maybe there is a chance now for everyone active to add their scores/changes in the table?
 
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BABarakas, my Throwbarb, is hanging out in the Outer Cloister, throwing it up (gross). Playing sparingly but using howl liberally. As long as I keep thawing potions on me I should be okay.



Code: 
Name           Character       Class       Location         Level  Points
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sequana        BlackDeath      Necromancer H Pandem. Fort.    86     351
Tarantella     Uta-Refson      Necromancer H Lut Gholein      79     302
ChrisTheMean   Scaven          Barbarian   H Cold Plains      72     277
Hanshotfirst   Hester          Sorceress   H Rogue Camp       74     276
ancalagon      Umbriel         Assassin    NM Kurast Docks    59     200
Old Soldier    Thalestris      Amazon      NM Kurast Docks    59     195
bladejj        Elsa            Assassin    NM lost City       54     ?? 
skoolbus       Gorm            Barbarian   NM Dark Wood       49     ???
norcim105      Rufeo           Paladin     NM Rogue Camp      48     119  
SoulManZ       Nevermore       Druid       NM Rogue Camp      39     ???
jiansonz       Smaragd         Necromancer Harrogath          35     ???
jiansonz       Faith           Assassin    Pandemonium        32     ???
Krazy_Solo     Furious         Druid       Canyon of Magi     27      65
skoolbus       Sylvia          Assassin    Palace             25      ???        
wikkid         Rabidwolfkin    Druid       Lut Gholein        24      ??
jdkerr         Kobe            Assassin    Halls of the Dead  23      50
GCanada        PoohBear        Druid       Lut Gholein        20      42
liquid_mage    Wulfgar         Barbarian   Lut Gholein        20      42
scrcrw         Nagisa          Barbarian   Lut Gholein        20      42?
Hanshotfirst   Hector          Paladin     Lut Gholein        20      42
Vang           Deadite         Barbarian   Lut Gholein        20      42?
Morathi        Heath           Barbarian   Lut Gholein        20      42
ILikeRocks     Gragamel        Paladin     Lut Gholein        21      41
Brak           TheStreak       Paladin     Inner Cloister     19      37
CM             Lisbeth         Assassin    Inner Cloister     18      36
DaveW          Blades          Assassin    Lut Gholein        18      36
Shaandore      Irreducible     Paladin     Black Marsh        17      30
Bluechip       BABarakas       Barbarian   Outer Cloister     16      ?
daed           Strafy          Amazon      Stony Field        12      19
wielanja       Beowulf         Barbarian   Stony Field        12      19
Sorcererbob    Cabaret         Sorceress   Stony Field        12      19
Ashmer         Fuzzy           Druid       Stony Field        12      19?
wakiki         Polemos         Barbarian   Cold Plains         7      11
Quickdeath     Limber          Amazon      Cold Plains         6       9
NightCraweler  Ragran          Barbarian   Rogue Camp          1       2
vague          Benkei          Barbarian   Rogue Camp          1       2 
Aznagroth      Lucille         Amazon      Rogue Camp          1       2
weezaard       Sonny           Barbarian   Rogue Camp          1       2
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RIP: 
kestegs        Running_Scared  Sorceress   H False Thomb      84     302
ChrisTheMean   TheLoner        Paladin     NM Underground P   48     148
HanShotFirst   Frost-Fang      Druid       River of Flame     33     100
Morathi        Dorian          Paladin     Flayer Dungeon     30      80
Krazy_Solo     Burn_Notice     Druid       Duriel             27      67
Morathi        Diago           Druid       False Tomb         27      ??
Krazy_Solo     Auriel          Amazon      Halls of the Dead  22      48
Krazy_Solo     Snave           Druid       Act II             21      46
weezaard       Addams          Druid       Sewers 3           20      42
Krazy_Solo     Nispart         Assassin    Andariel           20      39
GCanada        MsGarrison      Assassin    Jail               18      35
tavaritz       Boner           Necromancer Barracks           18      35
Wikkid         BloodQuencher   Barbarian   Kurast Docks       28      28
Bluechip       SeymourKrelborn Necromancer Tal Rasha's Tomb   23      23
Dark Matter    BoneyM          Necromancer Stony Field        12      20
weezaard       konnichiwa      Assassin    The Cave           11      17
Quickdeath     Blink           Assassin    Barracks           15      15
Vang           Leeloo          Amazon      Catacombs 3         1       2
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Retired:
Jason Maher    Vanessa         Amazon      Moo Moo Farm       48     136
Dark Matter    Arthur          Barbarian   Lut Gholein        20      42
Jason Maher    Fanven          Paladin     Dark Wood          15      25
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Re: The Exposure Tournament

I got the itch for a tourney again, and this didn't seems too restrictive and was pretty open gear wise (I don't care much for too many equipment restrictions), and after some debating over if I should go for an Assasin, a barbarian or a abbot-style paladin, Hypatha the Assasin was born.
She just rescued cain at level 15 and is most likely going to be a PStriker when she grows older.
I'll get in on the table when I've advanced a bit further.
Q's completed: 3
Wp's: 4
Level: 15
Points: 25

Notable so far:
Found death's gloves, which will be very nice when I reach andariel, and as a bonus I can't stop thinking about how awesome it would be if the sash dropped as well, setting me up with late game worthy belt/gloves right away!
On the other hand, I have gambled all my gold the last few levels and no mf boots/gloves so far, and to make it worse only 2 out of my 29 chipped has been topazes :P
Though I found a 9mf ring already.

Cheers.
 
Re: The Exposure Tournament

Killed Dury and Meph. I'm wondering if the universe is about to collapse upon itself because Dury's drop (Nagel) was better than Mephs (third Cathan armor of the act and an even more useless Sigon Shield). The best item I've found so far is this amulet

Order Collar
Amulet
Required Level: 13
Fingerprint: 0xea2258f
Item Level: 21
Version: Expansion 1.10+
Replenish Life +9
Lightning Resist +28%
Fire Resist +8%
Poison Resist +24%
13% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

I'm praying the hellforge gives me a Thul and PAmethyst so I can gamble some rare light plated boots and upgrade them and watch my damage skyrocket. I'm going to try and hold off on upgrading greaves since the 125 strength would mean the next 7 levels all my points go into strength, and I already feel my life is too low.

[highlight]Sylvia, level 32 TS/DTail Assassin, Pand Fort[/highlight]
 
Re: The Exposure Tournament

Thalestris died to a boss pack stair trap in the Pit level 1 (hell). She was going along just fine at that point. She'd made a nice pair of hit power gloves to keep enemies at bay (worked nice), Strafe and Penetrate were maxed, and she'd found a sweet 4os Matriarchal Bow with +1 to skills. She made a great little Harmony out of it and was doing almost 1K damage, which is pretty good for a strafer. She'd used her socket quests to punch holes in her circlet and Vipermagi to max out her resists (except poison), had a grand total of 63% FRW to escape situations when space was available, and a to-hit ratio of over 80%, with maybe a dozen skill points left over for Inner Sight, though it wasn't necessary yet. I think she was level 76 and had already touched the Outer Cloister WP. I've got pictures of all the runes that dropped (4 Kos, a Lem, 2 Lums, a Fal, 3 Hels and many many others) and the S/U that were decent (Pompeii's Wrath is a neat one). She'd been through the entire game killing everything but once I hit that stair trap and got surrounded the arrows tended to fly in multiple directions and were not as effective. None of the monsters were terribly tough but I just missed the rejuv keys and that's that. I hate how this one turned out because the Pit is a non-necessary area and I didn't even have to go there. Got greedy I suppose and things were just going too well.

[highlight]Thalestris, level 76 Strafezon, Outer Cloister WP, RIP[/highlight]
 
Re: The Exposure Tournament

RIP Thalestris, impressive to make it to hell with an untwinked strafer.

Sylvia cleared act 4 with no problems. Hellforge of course didn't give me a PAmethyst or a Thul rune, but a few Thuls dropped and I found a gem shrine to get the gem and upgrade these boots.

Beast Trample
Battle Boots
Defense: 43
Durability: 18 of 18
Required Level: 30
Required Strength: 95
Fingerprint: 0x3d0fe52e
Item Level: 38
Version: Expansion 1.10+
Lightning Resist +38%
Poison Length Reduced by 25%
15% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Repairs 1 Durability in 33 Seconds
Required Level +5

Amazingly after gambling 1mil in gold, that's the best I got, but I might be trying again soon. I found Sigon's belt in act 4, which served me nicely the rest of normal. Diablo went down on p8, didn't drop anything noteworthy.

Act 5 and the cow level were a different story. I had runes and uniques dropping left and right in Act 5. I think that's the first time I've ever gotten a unique explosion out of a chest. I'm saving the Jade Tan Do, seems like it could be useful down the road with it's fast attack speed and CBF. Other notable uniques were Bonesnap and Bloodletter, kind of ironic that my last char in this tournament was a WW barb... Just wondering when the Arreats for him will drop. Anya's claw is very good, with nice damage, LL, and mana per kill, my life and mana stay full without needing any potions.

I put a few points into Weapon Block in act 4 because I was taking too much damage, but I think that may have been a mistake, I spend more time in blocklock than out of it, and it's very annoying. Do increased block speed items work with weapon block? If not, the next step is to just use one claw.

Currently I'm trying to upgrade my armor, still using my flawed topaz one from Act 2, I'm thinking I might do a 4 soc Gothic Plate with as much MF as I can muster, but I only have two perf Topazes right now. The rest of my armor has decent MF and resists, hopefully these uniques keep dropping.

Here's a screen of the current damage, I'm still quite happy with the kill speed.

[highlight]Sylvia, level 48 TS/DTail Assassin, NM Rogue Camp[/highlight]

Ugh, deeds. As I went to a new area, there's that little lag, but that was all it took to finish me off. Why do I lag in SP!?!? So frustrating.
 
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