The Exposure Tournament
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Re: The Exposure Tournament
Yeah, like I said in the other thread: I am not familiar with playing HC
Made little progress and I am soon entering the Outer Cloister. WP at Black Marsh is already activated and only two quests remaining in A1.
Video of me rescuing Deckard Cain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rZcV8olxz8
edit. What is that Retired section inside the code? People that haven't died but voluntarily stopped playing?
Yeah, like I said in the other thread: I am not familiar with playing HC
Made little progress and I am soon entering the Outer Cloister. WP at Black Marsh is already activated and only two quests remaining in A1.Video of me rescuing Deckard Cain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rZcV8olxz8
Code:
Name Character Class Location Level Points
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sequana BlackDeath Necromancer Guardian 87 401
Tarantella Uta-Refson Necromancer H Lut Gholein 79 302
Old Soldier Jimbo Necromancer H Cold Plains 73 ???
ChrisTheMean Scaven Barbarian H Cold Plains 72 277
Hanshotfirst Hester Sorceress H Rogue Camp 74 276
Old Soldier Ginger Sorceress NM Kurast Bazaar 60 ???
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
Shaandore Irreducible Paladin Black Marsh 17 30
yugular Bragah Barbarian Black Marsh 16 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
Techzod QuickClaw Druid Rogue Camp 1 2
Eoanthropus Kriemhild 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
DaveW Blades Assassin Halls of Dead 23 N/Aedit. What is that Retired section inside the code? People that haven't died but voluntarily stopped playing?
Re: The Exposure Tournament
Bragah is dead. Extra Strong creatures gave me always a big headache since I concentrated on Strenght solely and therefore I was low on life. The dead came from Extra Strong Demon in the Barracks.
http://i339.photobucket.com/albums/n474/yugular/diablo/Bragah.png
Level: 17 = 17 points
Quests completed: 4 = 4 points (21)
WP's activated: 6 = 12 points (33)
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total: 33 points and lots of fun
Bragah is dead. Extra Strong creatures gave me always a big headache since I concentrated on Strenght solely and therefore I was low on life. The dead came from Extra Strong Demon in the Barracks.
http://i339.photobucket.com/albums/n474/yugular/diablo/Bragah.png
Level: 17 = 17 points
Quests completed: 4 = 4 points (21)
WP's activated: 6 = 12 points (33)
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total: 33 points and lots of fun
Code:
Name Character Class Location Level Points
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sequana BlackDeath Necromancer Guardian 87 401
Tarantella Uta-Refson Necromancer H Lut Gholein 79 302
Old Soldier Jimbo Necromancer H Cold Plains 73 ???
ChrisTheMean Scaven Barbarian H Cold Plains 72 277
Hanshotfirst Hester Sorceress H Rogue Camp 74 276
Old Soldier Ginger Sorceress NM Kurast Bazaar 60 ???
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
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
Techzod QuickClaw Druid Rogue Camp 1 2
Eoanthropus Kriemhild Barbarian Rogue Camp 1 2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
yugular Bragah Barbarian Black Marsh 17 33
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
DaveW Blades Assassin Halls of Dead 23 N/Alittlesamurai
New member
Re: The Exposure Tournament
Well Merciless_Pain finished the first Act without major trouble... once she got Blade Fury everything went even smoother then before. Have yet to spend a second point on Tiger Strike. Andariel wasn't really hard, though my sloppyness could have gotten me killed, at the end she dropped a topaz, which I sadly couldn't up given I didn't find a single gem shrine in act I despite the full clears...
Other then that she dropped this:
Cruel Fang
Falchion
One-Hand Damage: 11 to 23
Durability: 30 of 32
Required Strength: 33
Required Level: 6
Sword Class - Slow Attack Speed
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 14
Fingerprint: 0xfc0a0b4
+31% Enhanced Damage
+1 to Maximum Damage
Adds 1-4 fire damage
Prevent Monster Heal
54% Damage to Undead
+64 to Attack Rating against
Well Merciless_Pain finished the first Act without major trouble... once she got Blade Fury everything went even smoother then before. Have yet to spend a second point on Tiger Strike. Andariel wasn't really hard, though my sloppyness could have gotten me killed, at the end she dropped a topaz, which I sadly couldn't up given I didn't find a single gem shrine in act I despite the full clears...
Other then that she dropped this:
Cruel Fang
Falchion
One-Hand Damage: 11 to 23
Durability: 30 of 32
Required Strength: 33
Required Level: 6
Sword Class - Slow Attack Speed
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 14
Fingerprint: 0xfc0a0b4
+31% Enhanced Damage
+1 to Maximum Damage
Adds 1-4 fire damage
Prevent Monster Heal
54% Damage to Undead
+64 to Attack Rating against
littlesamurai
New member
Re: The Exposure Tournament
Merciless Pain met her demise at the Arcane Sanctuary, sadly I have no one but myself to blame, it was going really fast, had already slain the Summoner, was clearing the rest of the sanctuary since I was doing full clears. Got cocky, was sorrounded by aparitions and those mino guys, found myself out of mana and that was it, after dying I knew what I should have done different other then be cautious, bring juvies... one full juvie, cast cloak of shadows the use dragon tail to kick monsters back and run...
Reentering this with Sheara a Spear/Javalin hybrid Amazon, have been wanting to try it out, it will be hard but let's see how well I do. My idea would be 1 point jab, max fend, some points into critical, no points into passive since I heard it brings problems in places like act 3 jungle, 1 point decoy, max lightning fury and max one of the poison javalins + points in its synergy. Feedback would be appreciated.
Merciless Pain met her demise at the Arcane Sanctuary, sadly I have no one but myself to blame, it was going really fast, had already slain the Summoner, was clearing the rest of the sanctuary since I was doing full clears. Got cocky, was sorrounded by aparitions and those mino guys, found myself out of mana and that was it, after dying I knew what I should have done different other then be cautious, bring juvies... one full juvie, cast cloak of shadows the use dragon tail to kick monsters back and run...
Reentering this with Sheara a Spear/Javalin hybrid Amazon, have been wanting to try it out, it will be hard but let's see how well I do. My idea would be 1 point jab, max fend, some points into critical, no points into passive since I heard it brings problems in places like act 3 jungle, 1 point decoy, max lightning fury and max one of the poison javalins + points in its synergy. Feedback would be appreciated.
Re: The Exposure Tournament
I'm going to try my hand at this tournament despite the fact that interest is apparently waning (although the thread hasn't been dead for 3 weeks yet).
The tournament sounds like a fun challenge:crazyeyes:, but I don't expect to make a great showing as this will be my first HC character. I only have 5 Pat/Mats since coming back from an 8-year D2 hiatus, and none of them have made it through without dying.
But without further ado, I am entering DaysRNumbered the T-Strike/D-Tail assassin into the tourney.
I'm going to try my hand at this tournament despite the fact that interest is apparently waning (although the thread hasn't been dead for 3 weeks yet).
The tournament sounds like a fun challenge:crazyeyes:, but I don't expect to make a great showing as this will be my first HC character. I only have 5 Pat/Mats since coming back from an 8-year D2 hiatus, and none of them have made it through without dying.
But without further ado, I am entering DaysRNumbered the T-Strike/D-Tail assassin into the tourney.
Re: The Exposure Tournament
Sorry about the double post, but DaysRNumbered has just finished Act I at lvl 20.
No major trouble so far, but she kills pretty slowly at /players8, and doing full clears has taken a while. She has been relying on Cobra Strike to stay alive, which will be a problem in the skeleton-heavy beginning of Act II.
No lucky finds either, her only unique was a Gnasher Hand Axe, and Andariel wasn't much help either.
+20 points for level
+10 points for all Act I WPs + Lut Gholein
+12 points for completeing all Act I quests
= 42 points so far.
Sorry about the double post, but DaysRNumbered has just finished Act I at lvl 20.
No major trouble so far, but she kills pretty slowly at /players8, and doing full clears has taken a while. She has been relying on Cobra Strike to stay alive, which will be a problem in the skeleton-heavy beginning of Act II.
No lucky finds either, her only unique was a Gnasher Hand Axe, and Andariel wasn't much help either.
+20 points for level
+10 points for all Act I WPs + Lut Gholein
+12 points for completeing all Act I quests
= 42 points so far.
jiansonz
New member
Re: The Exposure Tournament
Yeah, you have to avoid taking so much damage when the going gets tougher.
For me, Cobra Strike is a nice convenience skill (my young Phoenix Strikers tend to use it a lot in Normal Acts IV-V, mostly for mana refilling) but when you get to the later parts of Nightmare and then Hell, you will usually not have enough time to use it.
Yeah, you have to avoid taking so much damage when the going gets tougher.
For me, Cobra Strike is a nice convenience skill (my young Phoenix Strikers tend to use it a lot in Normal Acts IV-V, mostly for mana refilling) but when you get to the later parts of Nightmare and then Hell, you will usually not have enough time to use it.
Re: The Exposure Tournament
Holy Necro Batman!
OK, so even though I shouldn't have time to play Diablo, all the character planning for D3 release has given me the itch to jump back into the game again. So I picked up TheStreak and got back in this tourney. He's only made it to Normal Lower Kurast at this point, but he is such a blast to play I had to post.
The key item was this beautiful catch from the Savage Polearm recipe:
With this beauty, I now have endless Charge!
I can't believe it took me 12 years to build a Charger. It just never looked like a fun skill watching other players use it. But it is a complete blast. You're like a human fireball hurtling yourself as a deadly projectile from one soon to be dead foe to the next. The strategy is so much different from any other skill. I'm really glad I opened this guy up just in time to have a final great experience with D2.
Besides the polearm he's had two other great finds:
Death's Guard for the all important cannot be frozen. Something I was extremely worried about for this Tourney. And
Sander's Riprap. Fast movement is huge for a Charger and these are as good as it gets.
I'm not sure if I will have time to complete him before D3's release. But the build plan is a hybrid Charger, Hammah Spammah maxing first Concentration and Charge followed by Blessed Hammer and then finally Vigor for the shared synergy. The magic damage from BH will allow me to take out all physical immunes. I'm hoping to finish with Insight in an Elite Staff for style points, but am not sure how long it will take to hunt one down, and it needs to be skill free or suffer from huge repair costs.
Anyway, felt I had to revive this thread just to mention how much damn fun I was having as the pinball wizard, even for just a few minutes, this evening.
Holy Necro Batman!
OK, so even though I shouldn't have time to play Diablo, all the character planning for D3 release has given me the itch to jump back into the game again. So I picked up TheStreak and got back in this tourney. He's only made it to Normal Lower Kurast at this point, but he is such a blast to play I had to post.
The key item was this beautiful catch from the Savage Polearm recipe:
Code:
Savage Partizan of the Wraith
Two-Hand Damage: 60 to 132
Durability: 65 of 65
Required Dexterity: 67
Required Strength: 113
Required Level: 23
Polearm Class - Slow Attack Speed
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 50
Fingerprint: 0x9a9196ef
+77% Enhanced Damage
7% Mana stolen per hitWith this beauty, I now have endless Charge!
I can't believe it took me 12 years to build a Charger. It just never looked like a fun skill watching other players use it. But it is a complete blast. You're like a human fireball hurtling yourself as a deadly projectile from one soon to be dead foe to the next. The strategy is so much different from any other skill. I'm really glad I opened this guy up just in time to have a final great experience with D2.
Besides the polearm he's had two other great finds:
Death's Guard for the all important cannot be frozen. Something I was extremely worried about for this Tourney. And
Sander's Riprap. Fast movement is huge for a Charger and these are as good as it gets.
I'm not sure if I will have time to complete him before D3's release. But the build plan is a hybrid Charger, Hammah Spammah maxing first Concentration and Charge followed by Blessed Hammer and then finally Vigor for the shared synergy. The magic damage from BH will allow me to take out all physical immunes. I'm hoping to finish with Insight in an Elite Staff for style points, but am not sure how long it will take to hunt one down, and it needs to be skill free or suffer from huge repair costs.
Anyway, felt I had to revive this thread just to mention how much damn fun I was having as the pinball wizard, even for just a few minutes, this evening.
jiansonz
New member
Re: The Exposure Tournament
Faith has made great progress in Hell. Level 34 Phoenix Strike (heavily synergized (14 fire, 20 lightning)) is one of the more powerful attacks I've played with. Progress is not slow, but it can be dangerous and I've had some minor annoyances. More on those later. Also, the rules of this tourney runs the risk of having the characters being relly lonely. I find myself talking to the townspeople much more than I usually do.
Sometimes, luck in this game is very subtle. Look here. I chose to go up/right from the entrance. Who knows if I had been able to handle Treehead and his buddies had I stumbled into them right away. When I fought them, I used a lot of space and separated them. Who knows if I could have taken them with much less space at hand. They are CI, so I can't keep the minions frozen (but they can be blinded). Running into unknown territory could easily have gotten ugly. There were strong spearwomen packs in several directions here. Had enough trouble with them even without the Brute pack.
Sometimes it's not worth the bother to go in and PS something. This happens mostly with LE bosses that are also FI. Doom Bang indeed.
Annoyance #1: I am pretty much dependant on Fade from my 'Treachery' armor, and that does not always trigger when I want it to. Monsters doing just moderate elemental damage hurt like Hell when your resistance numbers are in the teens. Many times, the solution has been to find a solo wimpy monster and let them have at me. I need to get hit 20 times on average, but there have been occasions where I used 2.5 columns of super healers to get it to trigger. In my stash, I have one Amber and one Ruby Grand Charm if I must fight something doing damage from these elements and Fade hasn't triggered. That gets the resist(s) at least into the forties. Cold resist can be fixed with thawing potions.
Super powerful archer boss. Delivering a Meteor on its head was very scary. It's much harder to run away safely from archer bosses than melee bosses. And that goes doubly so for Multishot archer bosses...
Pit level 2 was the last area one session, and just when I was about to enter it, Fade ended. Jeebers. Thankfully, nothing other than the obligatory Devil Kin early on, so I could play the 'Hit me, you bugger' game again.
Mind Blast is excellent against bosses I do not like to tank. Both for pushing them back when I Blade Fury them and I do not hit often enough for my Knockback on 'Black' to push them away from me and for melee situations like this one. I really like the action in this screenie (even though the fire is usuless - that happens quite often).
Radament eating fire. Stacked flames vs. big monsters with low fire resist = pwnage. Holy crap how fast he died!
Tricky situation in Halls of the Dead. Mummy Sacophagus in the layout I have the most respect for. Some scary bat boss pack next to it, along with a pack of mummies (regular mummies, not the type the casket can spawn). Lucky for me, I found the perfect distance where I could BF the sacophagus but it could not "see" me. "But you have crappy AR with BF, and Venom cuts poison duration to 0.4 seconds. There's no way you can overcome the regeneration even with a big amount of Crushing Blow." Yes there is. Mummy Sarcophagi have 0 Defense, so I hardly ever miss. :badteeth:
Silly me did the classical mistake again. Cranking it up to /players 8 at the start of a session instead of the intended /players 3. I had expected snakes in the CVT to drop like flies in my flames and lightning. When they took annoyingly long to kill (not to mention the Guardians - jeez!) I understood what had happened and lowered the players setting. But two Guardian bosses had already spawned with a gazillion of life and superfast regeneration. Both were also LE, and this particular type of greater mummy is FI. I had no choice but to fetch my Vileness claw, then use BF on them. Around this time, Fade was running out again...
Night Ripper and his twin took freakin' forever to kill like this.
On the upside, the fight with Fangskin was incredibly short and sweet. A BIG FAT (like 3x) fire patch unleashed on a mummy pack, a perfectly timed MB Conversion and down they went. Fangskin is already dead here.
Then there was a peculiar boss in the palace. It made Faith do something for the first time. A skeleton mage with mana burn, immune or highly resistant to my main damage types. Blade Fury with Black would of course have worked eventually, but the mana burn made that approach very annoying. Then I figured "I have Fade. This bugger can't hurt me much, especially if I avoid the sparks. What do you do with something that annoys you? Hit it with a big hammer!" Yep, I used Attack with my maul. That gets me the crushing blows, the decent physical damage and the Venom damage. And the beauty of it - it does not require any mana. The fact that Faith can barely hit the broad side of a barn without her Fool's claw was less of an annoyance than fighting in other ways. Sometimes it's simply liberating to hit things with a big hammer. My upcoming Berserker in this tourney will use hammers!
The second annoying thing is that my claws often switch places. That is, which of them that counts as my primary claw. Of course I want my rare Fool's/Swiftness claw to be the one that counts and not my plain Kenshi's claw. The switch happens because Attack alternates between the claws. "Then why not use Dragon Claw as finisher?", you might ask. Well, I can't stand the screaming (which is weird, because I have no problems with cries when I kick - and I have played a Dragon Talon Assassin) and the difference in attack speed. To me, that would be even more annoying than whiffing a lot more because my AR suddenly drops from 7.6k to 2.8k and my claw is slower that usual. Weapon switching twice always fixes this problem, so I do that a lot between fights.
[Highlight]Conqueror Faith, dual claws Phoenix Striker, level 82, Hell Arcane Sanctuary next[/Highlight]
Faith has made great progress in Hell. Level 34 Phoenix Strike (heavily synergized (14 fire, 20 lightning)) is one of the more powerful attacks I've played with. Progress is not slow, but it can be dangerous and I've had some minor annoyances. More on those later. Also, the rules of this tourney runs the risk of having the characters being relly lonely. I find myself talking to the townspeople much more than I usually do.
Sometimes, luck in this game is very subtle. Look here. I chose to go up/right from the entrance. Who knows if I had been able to handle Treehead and his buddies had I stumbled into them right away. When I fought them, I used a lot of space and separated them. Who knows if I could have taken them with much less space at hand. They are CI, so I can't keep the minions frozen (but they can be blinded). Running into unknown territory could easily have gotten ugly. There were strong spearwomen packs in several directions here. Had enough trouble with them even without the Brute pack.
Sometimes it's not worth the bother to go in and PS something. This happens mostly with LE bosses that are also FI. Doom Bang indeed.
Annoyance #1: I am pretty much dependant on Fade from my 'Treachery' armor, and that does not always trigger when I want it to. Monsters doing just moderate elemental damage hurt like Hell when your resistance numbers are in the teens. Many times, the solution has been to find a solo wimpy monster and let them have at me. I need to get hit 20 times on average, but there have been occasions where I used 2.5 columns of super healers to get it to trigger. In my stash, I have one Amber and one Ruby Grand Charm if I must fight something doing damage from these elements and Fade hasn't triggered. That gets the resist(s) at least into the forties. Cold resist can be fixed with thawing potions.
Super powerful archer boss. Delivering a Meteor on its head was very scary. It's much harder to run away safely from archer bosses than melee bosses. And that goes doubly so for Multishot archer bosses...
Pit level 2 was the last area one session, and just when I was about to enter it, Fade ended. Jeebers. Thankfully, nothing other than the obligatory Devil Kin early on, so I could play the 'Hit me, you bugger' game again.
Mind Blast is excellent against bosses I do not like to tank. Both for pushing them back when I Blade Fury them and I do not hit often enough for my Knockback on 'Black' to push them away from me and for melee situations like this one. I really like the action in this screenie (even though the fire is usuless - that happens quite often).
Radament eating fire. Stacked flames vs. big monsters with low fire resist = pwnage. Holy crap how fast he died!
Tricky situation in Halls of the Dead. Mummy Sacophagus in the layout I have the most respect for. Some scary bat boss pack next to it, along with a pack of mummies (regular mummies, not the type the casket can spawn). Lucky for me, I found the perfect distance where I could BF the sacophagus but it could not "see" me. "But you have crappy AR with BF, and Venom cuts poison duration to 0.4 seconds. There's no way you can overcome the regeneration even with a big amount of Crushing Blow." Yes there is. Mummy Sarcophagi have 0 Defense, so I hardly ever miss. :badteeth:
Silly me did the classical mistake again. Cranking it up to /players 8 at the start of a session instead of the intended /players 3. I had expected snakes in the CVT to drop like flies in my flames and lightning. When they took annoyingly long to kill (not to mention the Guardians - jeez!) I understood what had happened and lowered the players setting. But two Guardian bosses had already spawned with a gazillion of life and superfast regeneration. Both were also LE, and this particular type of greater mummy is FI. I had no choice but to fetch my Vileness claw, then use BF on them. Around this time, Fade was running out again...
Night Ripper and his twin took freakin' forever to kill like this.
On the upside, the fight with Fangskin was incredibly short and sweet. A BIG FAT (like 3x) fire patch unleashed on a mummy pack, a perfectly timed MB Conversion and down they went. Fangskin is already dead here.
Then there was a peculiar boss in the palace. It made Faith do something for the first time. A skeleton mage with mana burn, immune or highly resistant to my main damage types. Blade Fury with Black would of course have worked eventually, but the mana burn made that approach very annoying. Then I figured "I have Fade. This bugger can't hurt me much, especially if I avoid the sparks. What do you do with something that annoys you? Hit it with a big hammer!" Yep, I used Attack with my maul. That gets me the crushing blows, the decent physical damage and the Venom damage. And the beauty of it - it does not require any mana. The fact that Faith can barely hit the broad side of a barn without her Fool's claw was less of an annoyance than fighting in other ways. Sometimes it's simply liberating to hit things with a big hammer. My upcoming Berserker in this tourney will use hammers!
The second annoying thing is that my claws often switch places. That is, which of them that counts as my primary claw. Of course I want my rare Fool's/Swiftness claw to be the one that counts and not my plain Kenshi's claw. The switch happens because Attack alternates between the claws. "Then why not use Dragon Claw as finisher?", you might ask. Well, I can't stand the screaming (which is weird, because I have no problems with cries when I kick - and I have played a Dragon Talon Assassin) and the difference in attack speed. To me, that would be even more annoying than whiffing a lot more because my AR suddenly drops from 7.6k to 2.8k and my claw is slower that usual. Weapon switching twice always fixes this problem, so I do that a lot between fights.
[Highlight]Conqueror Faith, dual claws Phoenix Striker, level 82, Hell Arcane Sanctuary next[/Highlight]
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Re: The Exposure Tournament
That's weird about the partial squid attack, lol.
Awesome progress! I haven't read any of the rest of what you've done, but I think I'll wait until you finish this and read your conclusion and guardian thread. Funny how you resorted to a regular attack
That's weird about the partial squid attack, lol.
Awesome progress! I haven't read any of the rest of what you've done, but I think I'll wait until you finish this and read your conclusion and guardian thread. Funny how you resorted to a regular attack
felixbavaria1
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Re: The Exposure Tournament
Great progress and write-up!
But if you have a lvl 34 Phoenix Strike, can't you get a castable lvl 10+ Fade with a single hard point and +shadow claws?
Great progress and write-up!
But if you have a lvl 34 Phoenix Strike, can't you get a castable lvl 10+ Fade with a single hard point and +shadow claws?
jiansonz
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Re: The Exposure Tournament
I have +2 Assassin skills and +12 Martial Arts and no hard point. Don't want to invest one either, but I suppose I could look for a staffmodded +Fade claw and a Shadow claw. If I can find one with +2 Fade (reasonable goal; +3 is more rare), that would give me level 7 Fade. That´s resist all 47%. Fade is very easy to get on chippie-rerolled claws since level 18 skills make up half of the staffmods there. Yeah, great idea! Thanks. Off to go shopping in NM, then. Great time to do it now, since I'm at the AS waypoint, which means that switching maps isn't a problem.
Two claws will take up the same amount of space in my stash as the charms do. Nice!
I have +2 Assassin skills and +12 Martial Arts and no hard point. Don't want to invest one either, but I suppose I could look for a staffmodded +Fade claw and a Shadow claw. If I can find one with +2 Fade (reasonable goal; +3 is more rare), that would give me level 7 Fade. That´s resist all 47%. Fade is very easy to get on chippie-rerolled claws since level 18 skills make up half of the staffmods there. Yeah, great idea! Thanks. Off to go shopping in NM, then. Great time to do it now, since I'm at the AS waypoint, which means that switching maps isn't a problem.
Two claws will take up the same amount of space in my stash as the charms do. Nice!
jiansonz
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Re: The Exposure Tournament
Faith cleared the rest of Act II. Surprisingly easy and unremarkable gameplay, something that is certainly not normal for the last legs of Act II! Sometimes it felt almost unfair for the poor /p3 enemies...
The only annoying enemies were the hordes of Burning Dead. It's that blocking of theirs, plus the fire imunity. My usual Phoenix way to fight them was cold-lightning-lightning, cold-lightning-lightning, etc. Corpse shattering aplenty, so I did not need many Death Sentries to clean up. Unravelers were way easier to deal with than the Guardians in the CVT were. Unravelers can be burned.
I got lucky with the potentially dangerous Gorebellies. I did not meet many, and just one nasty boss (Might aura - scary! Needed a whole column of purples and I often dared to hit only after a Mind Blast). Boss density in general was unusually low in the tombs. I was not even close to reaching lvl 84 there, something I've done with my last two character before this one.
Big thanks to felixbavaria for his Fade tips. Thanks! I now have a Shadow claw (shopped from NM Anya) and a +3 Fade claw (magical Greater Talons shopped from NM Anya, then chippie-rerolled about 7 times - lucky!) in my stash so I can cast level 8 Fade when I start a new session and when I really need it for a dangerous situation. Most of the time, I still use my 'get hit so Fade activates' tactics. I liked using traps in the tombs for this, espcially the ones doing some small amount of physical damage (spear traps, spiky ball traps).
I took on Duriel way before the true tomb was cleared out. I had kept watch over my Fade status, and when it expired, I found myself the trap closest to the orifice and got Fade going again. With fresh Fade on and buffed with Thawing potions, Duriel was not scary at all. Sure, a column of juvies got used, but no real danger. PS Meteors damaged him quickly. Among the usual crap, he dropped a 'Twisted Essence of Suffering'. Huh? Is that something new with v1.13? What is it good for?
Found a grailer in one of the tombs - Flamebellow Balrog Blade. It looked potentially useful for Faith, but the very high STR requirement put me off.
[Highlight]Conqueror Faith, dual claws Phoenix Striker, level 83, Hell Spider Forest next[/Highlight]
Faith cleared the rest of Act II. Surprisingly easy and unremarkable gameplay, something that is certainly not normal for the last legs of Act II! Sometimes it felt almost unfair for the poor /p3 enemies...
The only annoying enemies were the hordes of Burning Dead. It's that blocking of theirs, plus the fire imunity. My usual Phoenix way to fight them was cold-lightning-lightning, cold-lightning-lightning, etc. Corpse shattering aplenty, so I did not need many Death Sentries to clean up. Unravelers were way easier to deal with than the Guardians in the CVT were. Unravelers can be burned.
I got lucky with the potentially dangerous Gorebellies. I did not meet many, and just one nasty boss (Might aura - scary! Needed a whole column of purples and I often dared to hit only after a Mind Blast). Boss density in general was unusually low in the tombs. I was not even close to reaching lvl 84 there, something I've done with my last two character before this one.
Big thanks to felixbavaria for his Fade tips. Thanks! I now have a Shadow claw (shopped from NM Anya) and a +3 Fade claw (magical Greater Talons shopped from NM Anya, then chippie-rerolled about 7 times - lucky!) in my stash so I can cast level 8 Fade when I start a new session and when I really need it for a dangerous situation. Most of the time, I still use my 'get hit so Fade activates' tactics. I liked using traps in the tombs for this, espcially the ones doing some small amount of physical damage (spear traps, spiky ball traps).
I took on Duriel way before the true tomb was cleared out. I had kept watch over my Fade status, and when it expired, I found myself the trap closest to the orifice and got Fade going again. With fresh Fade on and buffed with Thawing potions, Duriel was not scary at all. Sure, a column of juvies got used, but no real danger. PS Meteors damaged him quickly. Among the usual crap, he dropped a 'Twisted Essence of Suffering'. Huh? Is that something new with v1.13? What is it good for?
Found a grailer in one of the tombs - Flamebellow Balrog Blade. It looked potentially useful for Faith, but the very high STR requirement put me off.
[Highlight]Conqueror Faith, dual claws Phoenix Striker, level 83, Hell Spider Forest next[/Highlight]
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felixbavaria1
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Re: The Exposure Tournament
It's new in 1.13. All Hell Act Bosses have a limited chance to drop an essence (one type per boss). When you have collected all five essences, you can cube a "Token of Absolution" that gives you a re-spec.
It's new in 1.13. All Hell Act Bosses have a limited chance to drop an essence (one type per boss). When you have collected all five essences, you can cube a "Token of Absolution" that gives you a re-spec.
jiansonz
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Re: The Exposure Tournament
OK - much ado about very little, then. I only use respecs in tourneys where they are a main feature (e.g. Random Tourney 2012).
The odds for them dropping can't be very good. I must have killed up towards 20 Hell act bosses (two Guardians, one character that died in Act V, Faith has killed two, etc.) in v1.13 and this is my first essence. The feature is clearly not aimed at people with my playstyle.
OK - much ado about very little, then. I only use respecs in tourneys where they are a main feature (e.g. Random Tourney 2012).
The odds for them dropping can't be very good. I must have killed up towards 20 Hell act bosses (two Guardians, one character that died in Act V, Faith has killed two, etc.) in v1.13 and this is my first essence. The feature is clearly not aimed at people with my playstyle.
Re: The Exposure Tournament
They have 1/11 chance of dropping one. But you could go a long time without finding one. I ran Baal for a really long time not finding one and then in one run he dropped three festering essences of destruction. Someone ( can't remember ) posted a pic of Duriel dropping 4 essences at once.
They have 1/11 chance of dropping one. But you could go a long time without finding one. I ran Baal for a really long time not finding one and then in one run he dropped three festering essences of destruction. Someone ( can't remember ) posted a pic of Duriel dropping 4 essences at once.
Re: The Exposure Tournament
^That was me! I got my first one from Duriel, too. Not the time I got 4 at once, though lol. Admittedly they are good for players who doo more than single pass, but for now they'll just be a disappointing drop for you
"That could have been a Shako. . ." is what you might think every time.
^That was me! I got my first one from Duriel, too. Not the time I got 4 at once, though lol. Admittedly they are good for players who doo more than single pass, but for now they'll just be a disappointing drop for you
"That could have been a Shako. . ." is what you might think every time.
