"The Moo Moo King Must Die" Tournament

[Quickdeath]

Greetings all!

I recently stumbled across this forum, and have been lurking for a few days. This tournament idea seemed rather fun, though, so I created a character. I hope it's ok that I've been playing a bit with him before getting up the courage to register on the forums.

Certainly, its okay. This tournament has laid fallow for awhile - but I not only found it fun to organize but fun to play in as well. You've made me think about revisiting my Bowler "Lebowski" -who was getting so underpowered in A3 NM that I despaired of ever completing the tournament.

I think the Drummer build - a Barb restricted to using wands as weapons - was probably the hardest of the three options. Good luck with this.

 

[Scatha]

I think the Drummer build - a Barb restricted to using wands as weapons - was probably the hardest of the three options. Good luck with this.

The cheap thing to do would seem to be to make a singer -- sure you won't get all the +skills you want from wands, but it wouldn't be too much of a handicap.

I want to avoid this and go with drumming as the main means of dealing damage, but I think I'm going to invest in warcry for the stun -- or the bass, as I like to think of it.

I'm now level 22 and up to the Far Oasis waypoint. The only high-damage wand I've managed to get is a bone wand of corrosion (shopped; they seem to have a few but wielding two seems kind of pointless) - that's 80 poison damage over 4 seconds. I used the two runes I got from the Countess verifying that Steel doesn't work in wands ...

 

[The Cow King]

You wanna piece of me?

Moo! *runs away*

:spammer:

- sorry I just couldn't resist

 

[mwille]

I finally got around to playing this character again. I couldn’t believe that I got the Amn rune I needed from the countess on my first run. And even better than that, I found Goblin Toe on the way down to her. But boy was I disappointed with Peace. I had read about the valk disappearing for different reasons, but she must also have some kind of timer. She would “poof†just standing around & sometimes disappear immediately. However, Slows Missiles when struck worked great. Although I would Taunt the ranged monsters to me, slowing them down was wonderful. The best thing was that with Goblin Toe & my crafted Blood gloves (7% Crushing Blow) I then had 32% CB. That meant I could put my Strength wand on switch & use both of my elemental wands (1-356 lightning & 119-150 fire), which took a lot of shopping to get. The only other notable equipment was a 10% Open Wounds crafted Blood belt & a rare circlet (socketed) with 47-98 fire damage. And I found Riphook & Duriel’s Shell for my rogue while fighting my up the mountain to Baal.

I played at /p3 for the most part (except the ancients at /p1 which was bad enough) & didn’t have much trouble with the waves of minions. Lister’s pack was annoying but not too bad. I forgot & left it on /p3 for Baal, but was able to tank both him & his clone without a problem. So then it was on to the King. I played at /p8 on the way to get Wirt’s Leg so I could get a taste of the higher setting, but didn’t notice much difference (since the monsters were lower levels). But I could definitely tell the difference with the cows! It took a lot of Howling, Leaping, & swinging to finally get one to die. Then with my Grim Ward up, it went a lot smoother (although still slow). Luckily, my portal was by the King’s castle so I didn’t have to fight through too many cows to get to him.

This was quite fun & I’m going to have to see how Hell goes. It would be great if I could make it to Guardian with a drummer. I think I might have a chance if I could find a Lem rune to make Treachery instead of Peace.

Forum name     Char          Type             LVL   Area       Way point

atigdng        Awlsome       Pally Awler      75    A5         Done
Donutz         RoyMunson     Bowler Druid     71    A5 NM      Done...
IronCrown      TentPen       Bowler Druid     74    A5 NM      Done
PetePizza      Leatherman    Pally Awler      69    A5 NM      Cows
mwille         Bongo         Drummer Barb     69    A5 NM      Done       
Smilts         Shank         Pally Awler      59    A4 NM      Pandemonium Fortress
BabyLink       Johnny        Bowler Druid     58    A3 NM      Have left
Quickdeath     Lebowski      Bowler Druid     60    A3 NM      Upper Kurast
NacRuno        Hephaestus    Bowler Druid     51    A2 NM      Lut Gholein
atigdng        DirtyBomb     Bowler Druid     50    A1         Black Marsh
chumley669     OnlyStrikes   Bowler Druid     46    A1 NM      Stony Field
EJB            ShockandAwl   Pally Awler      45    A1 NM      Rogue Camp
Sar            Kinemil       Pally Awler      47    A5         Worldstone Keep
Thyiad         Hooti         Bouncy Druid     26    A4         Pandy Fortress
pwangsta       Yarntianecro  Drummer Barb     16    A2         Lut Gholein
Scatha         Fram          Drummer Barb     18    A1         Catacombs L2
Nebux          FocoS         Pally Awler      17    A1         Outer Cloister
Cattleya       Neil          Drummer Barb     12    A1         Stony Field
Bad Horsie     Strike        Bowler Druid      7    A1         Stony Field

I almost forgot, here are a couple of screenshots.
Cow King's Corpse
My Stats Screen