Re: The Exposure Tournament
@Krazy_Solo: The balance between OP, origional, and fun is often a tough line. Especially in the early game, but it mostly just takes patience, I know you said you are lacking in that, but there is not much to be done with lack of patience. Lack of patience leads to lowering /p setting, which lowers experience/gear finding, which in the end hurts you in NM/Hell. Best of luck if you do re-enter.
Thanks for all the help with my problem there, lots of good suggestions.
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Running_Scared is progressing nicely, First real troubles came with Rogues in the cold plains. Rogues were Cold immune and very fast, and they seemed to have an amazing ability to get the mod
Extra fast on top of things.
Gargantuan Beasts also were trouble if they got extra fast. I quickly Decided that p/1 was a real joke, and only went to it if it was a possible stair trap area. I kept it at p/3 minimum but often bumped it up to p/5 or 8.
First real problem came with the countess, as I previously mentioned was FE/Cursed/Magic resistant. And as I said before she was at p/3. Initially I tried a few things like gambling a poison or lightning damage bow and using some lightning skill staves, none of witch had much success, and casued me to burn about 1mil gold and 10 Full Juves. So I parked her for the time being.
Moved on to find a Rainbow facet in the pits! Got me pretty excited since it had a 50% chance of being a useful one, but alas it was poison. I actually considered throwing it in a weapon for my level up to gain the level 23 venom to use on countess, but decided against it in the end. Found
this orb, I think it belongs in the LOL item section. After I reached the outer cloister WP I decided to gamble some charged items as you guys had suggested. I had been picking up almost every single Item to sell, and had accumulated about 700k in the last 2 areas. God some poison nova, bone spear/spirit, and lighning charges, also saved a few poion/oil potions. Tried all of these and none of them would even move her life! I then decided that a PMH rune word would be the only way, but I didn’t have any of the right runes.
So I kept going, moving on towards Andy. The jail is one of the best areas for a Sorc and I did most of it at P/8, First to levels of Cata were good rolls and also done at that level. Third greeted me with an immediate extra fast/cursed Vampire boss pack, that one was a really tough one to kill, even at p/3. Somewhere in level 3 an el dropped, I don’t think I have ever been so happy to see an el! Andy was taken at p/3 although it was far too easy, She actually never even hit me with a single attack. Drop was crap, what I have come to expect, as I have not seen a unique for the last 4 bosses.
Putting my newfound el into a military axe I made a Malice, I had really hoped to find a tal so that I could have made Edge bow, but I knew this would still work.
Time to see if I could actually do this! My plan was as follows;
1.Static
2.Malic
3.Poison potions
The plan pretty much worked as I wanted, I had saved up every
poison potion and juve that I had come across. The flaw in the plan was my 22% chance to hit, of course malice helped with that a bit, but I still could swing 10 times without her starting to bleed. I expected OW to be more effective, but it only lasted about 10 seconds at most. But the PMH was the real savior, as earlier her she was regening half her life in 10-15 seconds. It was a very scary battle for sure, she often got me down below 250 life, which is in danger of being killed as she often did around 300 damage. But in the end I was
victorious! I don’t think I have ever been so satisfied to see a monster die! The drop was not very good, and for the second time in a row my Chest didn’t open. But she did drop a really amazing pair of
Javazon gloves. It took around 200 Poison potions and 20 full juves and 15 super healers, and I was only left with 5 juves in the end.
Some other notable finds in act 1 were: Guardian Angel, Infernostride, Shadowkiller, Shaftstop, stormchaser, a 7% mf charm, and the poison facet
Onward to act 2, hopefully it will be vampire light, but I don’t expect that.
[highlight]Running_Scared, Act 2 hell, level 79, 302 points[/highlight]
onder: Any tournament other than ones that specifically ban atma use will always favor atma users. At any rate, there are some people that don't use atma and do just fine.
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). Three hits (or so) to defeat most monsters seemed pretty reasonable in terms of balancing progress versus item finding and had some unexpected advantages (mostly versus Dolls . . . if it takes three hits to destroy the Doll, then it’s pretty hard to destroy one by mistake). Still, Dolls seemed pretty scary (as always) . . . so, leave it to the game to spawn them nearly everywhere possible (Flayer Dungeon Level 1 and 2, Swampy Pit Level 1 and 2, Sewers Level 1 . . . with Unravellers :doh: , and the Durance of Hate Level 1 and 2). Curse you game! Interestingly though the most annoying monsters turned out to be Ghouls (they have good cold resistance, are often fast, tend to flee - fast, and have good regeneration and get to leech using Fireball!? . . I want to be able to do that 
. High hit point monsters such as Izual and Hephasto were time (and space) consuming but easy to defeat. Diablo was also easy.
