'Three Way Dance II' - H.C 1.10 Tournament

[highlight]Team Children of War (tyrant.) [/highlight] – 83 points
Arctic-Siren - (Amazon - Passive/Bow) – lvl 25 – Act IV Nml
Whisper-Wind - (Druid – Summon/Elem.) – lvl 48 – Act V Nml
Spirit-Storm - (Necro - Summon/Curse) – lvl 45 – Act V Nml

Some notable finds, that unique amulet that does +10 to all different things, forgot its name, a dark clan crusher, perfect for my druid.

All characters are using stealth armour.
Got a +2 summoning wand for my necro and have a nice rare garg head with +3 to skellies on it.

Skellies are doing around 200 damage as well as the dire wolves.
Zon still lagging behind, holding up the group as usual.
Was putting points into the second cold arrow, not realising its synergy (when maxed) adds 2 seconds freeze to freezing arrow. :(
 
[highlight]Team 'Three Old Men'[/highlight] - 73 points
Destroyer CatchThis - Barbarian (Combat/Masteries) - lvl 44, Act V Nml (31 points)
CallOfTheGraves - Necromancer (P&B/Summoning) - lvl 33, Act V Nml (21 points)
AngerOfNature - Druid (Elemental/Summoning) - lvl 33, Act V Nml (21 points)

Here goes my first destroyer. Surprisingly to me it's my barb who is the most strange char of the 3. When killing the cow king he dropped 2 unique and 1 set items. My barb is now able to equip venom grip gloves (founded by my necro from Diablo). Now I'll try to move my other 2 chars to destroyer then they'll stay in normal until all of them hit lvl 50.

Good luck and stay alive
 
[highlight]Team New2HC (Almighty Cow)[/highlight] - 17
DontHurtMe – (Druid - Summon/Elem.) - lvl 1 - Act I Nml
TooYoungToDie - (Amazon - Passive/Bow).) - lvl 26 - Act 2 Nml
AAAHHHH - (Necro – P&B/Curse) - lvl 16 - Act I Nml

Sorry for the late update. Been busy with moving back to school and such.

TooYoungToDie more or less cruised through the first two acts of the game. I stopped back to run the Countess a bunch of times - she now has a triple-Orted Composite Bow ready to tackle A3 as soon as everyone else catches up. Remarklably safe character.

AAAHHHH has had a few more issues. I've had countless NDEs from being careless and playing while tired. Bad bad bad idea. He's currently running around stabbing stuff with PDagger and a double-jewel-of-envy'd-armor. Killing's started slowing down, but should pick up again once I get PExplosion. Waiting for Pnova's gonna be haaaard...
 
[Highlight]Team Petro (PetroPanko)[/Highlight] – 98 points
Destroyer Haron – (Necro – Summon/Curse) - lvl 50 - Act I NM
Destroyer Athena - (Amazon – Passive/Bow) – lvl 50 - Act I NM
Destroyer Hera – (Sorc – Cold/Light.) – lvl 50 - Act I NM
Items in stash - 74

So, all my characters are Destroyers now. In normal they done their work on /players8 all the time with exception (for girls only :)) of Chaos Sanctuary and Ball when players seting was lowered to 3. That means lvl 47-48 when they becoms Destroyers. After about 3 Ball runs on /players8 they reached lvl 50 and after killing cows were redy to NightMare.
Ive taked all rings for rescuing Cain and Gibidin quest. I feel I was wrong. Ilvl of those rings didnt look like dependent from chlvl. Its all crap :lol:
My zon has hard time fighting with Balls minions on /players8. No real NDE, but a third wawe hydras and lightning enchanted bos kills my merc and walk very fast, and I cant cast another walk being hited with hydras fire all the time. But decent fire rezist and over 500 life does their job. Walk was finnally casted, merc was revived and all monster including Ball were slain after an epic batle!
All my chars can use their prize items now. Sorc - hedgear, Necro - jewelery and Zon - weapon. But I dont have anything decent to use in those slots. Mayby NM Andariel will drop something like Peasant Crown, Riphook or Kuko and Nagel with decent % of MF. And mayby a SoJ..... :lol:
Take care, dont die - Piotr
 
[highlight]Team Subheroes (Vildecor) – 80 points[/highlight]
Destroyer Stick_Tosser - (Amazon – Jav./Passive) – lvl 36 – Act I NM; 30 pts
Destroyer Mr_Bone - (Necro - P&B/Curse) – lvl 37 – Act I NM; 30 pts
The_Weathergirl - (Sorc - Light./Cold) – lvl 28 – Act IV Nml – R.I.P Diablo; 20 pts

Just an update to say Mr_Bone is also a Destroyer. His fight with Baal was actually the easiest. Decrepify and a slvl 19 Bone Spear worked extremely well. It was nice also being able to tank the Ancients with Bone Armor...didn't even need to recast it.

Also, Mr_Bone got two really good gambles. A Summoner's Circlet of Revivification (+1 Necro skills, +14 life regen) and a rare amulet with +1 to necro skills and some resists. I lost the +18 to energy I had with those two slots, but that'll be made up for. I had Larzuk socket the circlet and got two sockets, which will be filled with 2 perfect sapphires. I've got one, will have to wait to cube the second. I also decided to personalize the circlet. Why not?
 
Damn so many popups last night when i was typing my update i just noticed them well this is my chars stats atm

DESTROYER eViL-GoDzHCMFER: (cold/light) lvl 55 act 5 last quest done:baal, cows
eViL-GoDzUNDEAD: (summon/curse) lvl 36 act 5 nml last quest done:rescue barbarians
eViL-GoDzHoBo: (combat/offensive) lvl 33 act 5 nml last quest done: shenk

thats better my chars update was a bit wrong was typing it up around 11 last night
 
Team jiansonz - 31 points

Herne (Druid, Shapeshifting/Summoning) - level 24 - Lost City - 7 points
Odysseus (Paladin, Offensive/Defensive) - level 28 - Kurast Docks - 12 points
Elayna (Assassin, Martial Arts/Shadow Disciplines) - level 28 - Tal Rasha´s Tombs - 12 points

First of all, I used my second solution to reclaim the money that I miss out on when stashing prize items. I choose an area where I will get minimal XP (in Elayna´s case, Rocky Waste) and play there until I have the cash amount I have lost. I dropped the surplus gold from the last selling trip (about 3400) at Geglash´s feet. That should get him a few beers, eh? :lol:

@Psycho:
After all this time, I have still not come to terms with the weird saving system in D2. I would have preferred the D1 way: all monsters you have killed are still dead, all items just where you left them. Resources are limited. When I play D2, I simulate this situation as best as I can. I clear every area once. For me, that is what exists of the game, nothing more. I do no "runs" of any kind. But in this tournament, I will make these small "money runs" to make up for what I miss out by stashing prize items. I really felt unwelcome when I set my foot in Rocky Waste for the second time.
In my mind, there is a fixed amount of items/gold available in the game. Any deviation from that bothers me a lot.

It feels much better now. I think of it this way: my characters sell the S/U items to the prize stash instead of to the vendors.



OK, on to the playing! Elayna almost doesn´t kill anything herself, the merc does. She helps out a lot with Cloak of Shadows, especially around resurrectors.

Duriel was surprisingly tough and dangerous. As soon as he focused his attacks on the Shadow Warrior, she´d be dead in a few hits. The merc was sturdier but still vulnerable. At one time, Elayna was alone with the bug and suffered some serious injuries. My quick "drinking reflex" saved her. After I had taken a breather in town, I managed to keep the merc alive with more aggresive potions feeding (Thawing Potions really helped to lower the cold damage from Duriel´s attacks) and victory was secured.

Elayna is not done in act 2 yet, she still has four false tombs left to clear.
 
jiansonz, if you want a lot of money without monster kills just do endless Inner Closet runs at players8 for easy items.
As for Diablo I – you may play it in multiplayer mode to have access to NM/Hell difficulty with the same system. In multiplayer mode of D1 monsters re-spawn and levels re-set as in Diablo II – just your character is saved.

Good luck you with your restrictions anyway!
 
My comiserations on those who have lost characters so far. You will be avenged!

Ok, a big update after the long weekend. My g/f worked on Sunday and Monday so a lot of playing was done :)

Team Discworld (Dornak) – 149 points
Destroyer Eskarina - (Sorc – Cold/Fire) – lvl 64 – Act IV NM
Destroyer Mort - (Necro – Summon/Curse) – lvl 64 – Act IV NM
Destroyer Conina - (Assassin – Shadow/Trap) – lvl 59 – Act III NM

On Friday afternoon Conina became a Destroyer and killed the Cow King with no problems experienced. Then came the Baal runs with each character to prepare for NM. Conina and Esk both made level 50, and that was the plan for Mort as well. However I just found it too tedious to kill Lister and co with no corpse explosion. Mort is definately my safest character but also the most boring.

Anyhow, we ventured into NM and with the levels we had racked up, found it to be no challenge on players 8. All characters went in with max fire and lightning resist (lots of charms used). My only NDE came in the catacoms with Conina. I was foolishly running around with BoS on instead of Fade, and got hit by a pack of the guys who spit lightning balls. I escaped with a sliver of health left and considered it a lesson well learnt.

Esk and Mort are now sitting in Harrogath after killing Diablo. They mostly played on players8 but got frustrated in Hell so switched to players 4, until the Chaos Sanctuary, where it went down to players1 in the interest of safety. Interestingly enough, Esk was my first character ever (except a skelemancer) to make it past Diablo with an intact merc.

Conina has just made it through the jungle and emerged into Kurast. She'll be going through the sewers and then gunning for the council.

My most useful find so far has been an ethereal superior lance, with 2 sockets! Whack in an Amn and a Tir and you have:

Strength
Superior Lance
'AmnTir'
Two-Hand Damage: 56 to 242
Durability: 13 of 13
Required Dexterity: 78
Required Strength: 100
Required Level: 25
Spear Class - Slow Attack Speed
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 50
Fingerprint: 0x27c142f8
+20 to Strength
+10 to Vitality
+35% Enhanced Damage
+7% Enhanced Damage
+1 to Attack Rating
7% Life stolen per hit
25% Chance of Crushing Blow
+2 to Mana After Each Kill
Ethereal (Cannot be Repaired), Socketed (2: 2 used)

As all my mercs are from Act 2 (Defiance for Esk and Conina, Might for Mort), this baby really rocks.

My total contributions to the prize pool so far: 75 items

*edit* Items of note: Homunculus and Titan's Revenge. Now I'd better find a nice skelliemnacer wand (go go Leoric!) or I'll really regret choosing weapon instead of shield :( *edit*

I've also found a few nice runes. Lum, Fal and a couple of Io's dropped for me with one NM Hellforge still to come. I'm trying to decide what to do with them. If I wait for a Hel, I can put a Lionheart on my mercs, or I can make Smoke or Memory. I think I'll wait until I start Hell, then I can see how much additional resistance I need.

Well its been a hell of a lot of fun so far. To be honest, I didn't think I'd make it this far as I've never played HC before. I think I've been converted from SC for good :)
 
[HIGHLIGHT]Team HALL OF FAME[/HIGHLIGHT] – 46 points


Andariel - Necromancer - Summon / curses – lvl 33 - 21 points - actV
Destroyer Baal - Assasin - Trap / Passive .. – lvl 49 - 27 points - actV
Diablo - Amazon - Passive / bow ............. – lvl 28 - 18 points – actIV

Be Afraid, we are back ! !

Character Rewards :
Andariel : Jewellery & armor
Baal : Jewellery & armor
Diablo : Gloves & Jewellery

Stash reward (only distinct items (max 2 for rings)
Green : 21 items
Unique : 23 items

some baal run for baal, don't find lot a good things, but buy a +2summon weapon for Andariel and some runes, buy a boots +33 MF, +24RL and buy a claw with +1-164 damage =good for blade fury with venom about 170/370 dam :)
and some levels for my shadow master and after I up Venom
 
All these people rushing through NM already. I feel so slow :)

[highlight]Team Gods of Egypt (Jaffa Tamarin)[/highlight] – 13 points
Anubis – (Necro - P&B/Curse) - lvl 12 - Act I Nml - 3 points
Horus - (Druid – Shape/Summon) - lvl 21 - Act II Nml - 6 points
Sekhmet - (Sorc – Cold/Fire) - lvl 17 - Act I Nml - 4 points
 
[highlight]Team Bavarian Forest (AndiDi) [/highlight] – 39 points
Resl – (Amazon – Passive/Bow) – lvl 23 – Act II Nml - 11 points - R.I.P. Duriel
Hias – (Necro – Summon/Curses) – lvl 27 – Act II Nml - 14 points
Sepp – (Paladin – Combat/Offensive) – lvl 28 – Act III Nml - 14 points

Hias: WP: Lower Kurast - Playing with eye and brain.
Sepp: WP: Lower Kurast - Searching for body parts.

Recent Set/Unique Items:
- Berserker's Headgear
- Bladebone
- Steelgoad
- The Diggler

I knew it. Duriel killed Resl. He was nearly dead when one last hit made me blue and I couldn't run away fast enough. Had no more purple pots and Duriels next hit killed Resl. As I wasn't very sure that Resl could kill Duriel I went back to players 1 for this fight. So be it. :rant:
At least she didn't take any important items with here.
 
DX-Crawler said:
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Baby_Ploppy lvl 25 Arcane Sanctuary
Mother_Ploppy lvl 25 Arcane Sanctuary
Daddy_Ploppy lvl 20 Lut Ghulein
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It would be really helpful if you tallied up the points your team has, DX-Crawler. I don't really know what quests your characters have completed until you do.
 
I would like to join as well. And so begins...

Team Marvel
Red Skull – (Necromancer – Summoning/Curses) – lvl 1 – Act I Nml
Emma Frost – (Sorceress – Cold/Lightning) – lvl 1 – Act I Nml
Jubilee – (Amazon – Bow/Passive) – lvl 1 – Act I Nml

Chosen slots are:
Red Skull – 7 Weapon and 6 Shield
Emma Frost – 7 Weapon and 2 Body Armor
Jubilee – 7 Weapon and 10 Merc Weapon
 
[highlight]Team Toasted_Nuts (crazy_bear) [/highlight]– 82 points
Destroyer Hazelnut - (Amazon - Passive/Bow - 30 pts) – lvl 43 – Act V Nml
Last Quest Completed: Defeated Baal
Walnut - (Druid - Summon/Elem. - 20 pts) – lvl 33 – RIP Diablo
Last Quest Completed: Hellforge
Destroyer Peanut - (Sorc - Cold/Light. - 32 pts) – lvl 55 – Act V Nml
Last Quest Completed: Den of Evil

Finished of normal with Hazelnut, now to level a bit, kill the cow king, and go on to NM. Baal dropped a Tearhaunch and a Titan's Revenge! If only she was a javazon... The titans revenge will have to be stored till she gets to conqueror..... belt at Destroyer, weapon at Conqueror.... what was I thinking with the belt choice? Even though she is a bowazon, unless I can find something else with a +2 skills it will be useful for casting a higher level Valk. Also found a Dol rune in the Ancient's Way.

Peanut got an Angelic Ring from the Cow King, and has moved on to NM. Since she chose jewellry for destroyer, she'll probably run Andy for a while to try and get some rings/ammy to use.
 
Ok sorry I will try to not forget my points.

Team Ploppy Points 33

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Baby_Ploppy lvl 26 Act3, points 11
Daddy_Ploppy lvl 26 Act3, Points 11
Mother_Ploppy lvl 26 Act3 Points 11
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All my characters have killed Duriel and haven't had any problems yet.
Have found some nice items for the prizes. Like Gull, Umbral Disk and Bloodfist. Very nice starter gear which I'm not allowed to use in this tournament :rant:

DX
 
Team [highlight]Undead (Whomhead)[/highlight] - 83 points

Destroyer Dead - Sorceress (Fire/Cold) - lvl 46, Act 5 Nml. Last Quest: Cow King
Destroyer Deceased - Palladin (Offensive/Defensive Auras) - lvl 50, Act 5 Nml. last quest: Cow King
Departed - Druid (Summons/Elemental) - lvl 32, Act 5 Nml. Last Quest: Diablo

woohoo! Dead defeated Baal last night at about 1:30AM. i know it was dumb to keep playing that late into the night, but i wanted to get another destroyer yesterday. :D nothing really interesting happened... she did manage to find a 3 socket Partizan. i really wish it had been 2 so i could make strength in it. oh well. she also found a Shael Rune, so as soon as i get my grubby paws on a 2-socket Bone Shield, she'll be sporting a nifty new Rhyme shield. not much else to report... she'll level up to 50 on baal runs, then Departed will begin his final leg to become a Destroyer (hopefully). Good luck to all!
 
My condoleances to those who have fallen.

Team Magick_XR

WindFury_XR Wind/Summon lvl 26 Act III Nml 12 pts
Finds: nothing new
Reports: none
Suzy_XR Cold/Lightning lvl 26 Act III Nml 12 pts
Finds: Civerb's Icon, Nokozan Relic
Reports: Duriel is pretty tough on p8 for a sorc. My merc could survive only several seconds so I had to TP to town alot. He only died twice, I was able to save him from death by TP-ing on time. Duriel fell eventually by using Static Field on him, then constantly bombarding him with Blizzard and Lightning.
DarkMage_XR Bone/Curses lvl 29 Act III Nml 14 pts
Finds: runes for almost 3xStealth yay (3xTal, 2xEth)
Reports: I reached the Flayer Jungle WP with him. He's now the proud wearer of a "Stealth" Superior Chain Mail

Total: 38 pts

Now I've got all my chars past Duriel, which is good. I can't wait to get all of them past clvl 30.
It's just pretty boring to play low level :).

@Psycho: Ok, now things are crystal :thumbsup: .
 
Dornak, you bastard.
*CraZySorc surrenders the lead*

AND you pick up 2 class-specific uniques, and a whole heap of runes to boot! Ah, damnit, I hate uni/RL/anything not D2.

Oh, well, as I've said before, this aint no race. Keep it cool, people, and don't die before your time.
 
I suppose I'd better get a couple of points on the board to limit my current embarrassment. So within the next day or two I'll start all my three, thereby locking in their rewards at the same time.

Great work so far guys, and sad to see a few fatalities.

Butz. :teeth:
 
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