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

[Lacerta]

Team Ploppy 106p

***************************************
Destroyer Daddy_Ploppy lvl 59 Lower Kurast WP 45p
Destroyer Baby_Ploppy lvl 44 Encampment 31p
Destroyer Mother_Ploppy lvl 44 Encampment 31p
***************************************

Played with my necromancer today and he managed to get to the lower kurast WP. I'm hoping of getting a 4s Divine Scepter so I can make a Holy Thunder to my palladin.

Good Luck everybody

DX

Sorry to point this out again, but you aren't playing by the rules. jiansonz's post about it was eaten by the squid, so I'll be the bad guy this time. Your characters are supposed to stay within one act of each other. That means if Baby and Mother are in Act 1 (which they would be if they have 31 points), you technically aren't even supposed to enter act 3, let alone play through it.

Sorry if I'm stepping on your toes Psycho, just wanted to point it out before DX continued any further.

 

[DX-Crawler]

Opps messed that up real good :bonk:
Thanks for pointing it out Lacerta.

I will await the ruling on this one.

DX

 

[eViL-GoDz]

Update

Its been a while since i updated havent had much time in last week or two with school but now i have 2 whole weeks to finish my characters hopefully

CONQUEROR eViL-GoDzHCMFER cold/light lvl 75 Act5 nm last quest:cow king
CONQUEROR eViL-GoDzUNDEAD summon/curse lvl 75 Act5 nm last quest:cow king
CONQUEROR eViL-GoDzHoBo combat/offensive lvl 75 Act5 nm last quest:cow king

Currently just done cows with all 3 been pretty easy except for HoBo at the Chaos Sanctury with IM had to go slowly, found couple items here and there and some off meph.
Now im going to stp into hell. Good luck everyone!

 

[jiansonz]

[Highlight]Team jiansonz[/Highlight] - 90 points
Destroyer Herne (Druid, Shapeshifting/Summoning) - level 53 - Act 1 NM completed - 37 points
Odysseus (Paladin, Offensive/Defensive) - level 35 - Harrogath - 21 points
Destroyer Elayna (Assassin, Martial Arts/Shadow Disciplines) - level 49 - Cold Plains, NM - 32 points

Elayna is now a Destroyer. She took on the Ancients on /players 8, just to show off. She had strapped on her newly upgraded rare Battle Boots. I checked how long it took her to kill the Ancients, from the moment she activated the altar: 1 minute and 24 seconds. Over one minute of this time consisted of Elayna and the Shadow Master chasing Talic when he had made his whirls. During this, Sigemund the barb bravely tanked Korlic and suffered Madawc´s axes. He needed two healing potions before Talic was dead. Then Elayna rapidly killed the other two (Sigemund had dome quite a lot of damage to them).

No exciting finds in the last part of act 5, Cow level, NM Blood Moor and Den of Evil.

 

[erimatbrad]

Its been a while since i updated havent had much time in last week or two with school but now i have 2 whole weeks to finish my characters hopefully

CONQUEROR eViL-GoDzHCMFER cold/light lvl 75 Act5 nm last quest:cow king
CONQUEROR eViL-GoDzUNDEAD summon/curse lvl 75 Act5 nm last quest:cow king
CONQUEROR eViL-GoDzHoBo combat/offensive lvl 75 Act5 nm last quest:cow king

Currently just done cows with all 3 been pretty easy except for HoBo at the Chaos Sanctury with IM had to go slowly, found couple items here and there and some off meph.
Now im going to stp into hell. Good luck everyone!

Wow! That really is a lot of progress since we last saw you! Congratulations on making it into Hell -- hope things continue to go this smoothly for you!

 

[tenaka]

Team “OfTheYear†(tenaka) – 117 points
Destroyer February – (Sorc - Cold/Light.) – lvl 54 – Act III NM
Destroyer March – (Paladin – Combat/Offensive) – lvl 50 – Act II NM
Destroyer April – (Assassin – Shadow/Trap) – lvl 50 – Act II NM

I rushed everyone through Act I NM at players 3 just to get to the point where I can have someone (February) run Meph. There really isnt much xp in Act I anyway, one Arcane Sanctuary run will even it out. Along the way I did pick up a Dol and Io rune to give me at least one of everything from el thru Amn plus those two not counting what I've used. If I can find the right weapon I'll make a "Black" one. While my stash has about 70 items in there nothing stands out. No exceptionals yet.

 

[AndiDi]

[highlight]Team Bavarian Forest (AndiDi) [/highlight] – 91 points
Resl – (Amazon – Passive/Bow) – lvl 24 – Act II Nml - 11 points - R.I.P. Duriel
Destroyer Hias – (Necro – Summon/Curses) – lvl 50 – Act II NM - 37 points
Destroyer Sepp – (Paladin – Combat/Offensive) – lvl 56 – Act III NM - 43 points

Hias: WP: Lut Gholein - Flirting with Atma
Sepp: WP: Kurast Docks - Chatting with Ormos

Sepp defeated Duriel and is now sitting in the Kurast Docks waiting for Hias to arrive. With the Honor Sword, Sepp didn't have any problems or NDEs during Act II. The only notable thing was, that I found a Tal, Ral, Amn and Sol inside the true Tal Rasha's Tomb.

Recent Set/Unique Items:
- Riphook

 

[PSYCHO]

Opps messed that up real good :bonk:
Thanks for pointing it out Lacerta.

I will await the ruling on this one.

DX

Just don't let it happen again and everything will be fine

In the heat of battle, such things can be forgotten. Especially when good progress is being made by a character.

 

[DX-Crawler]

Thanks P§YCHÕ, I won't forget it again.

DX

 

[erimatbrad]

Team Eddings (erimatbrad) - 217 points
Conqueror Polgara - (Sorc - Light./Cold) - lvl 80 - Act II Hell
Conqueror Liselle - (Amazon - Jav./Passive) - lvl 71 - Act II Hell
Conqueror Zedar - (Necro – P&B/Curse) - lvl 64 - Act II Hell

Everyone is in Act II! Yay! Polgara is looking for staff parts, while everyone else is chilling in town.

It's interesting -- Zedar really has the easiest time of things, probably because his basic plan of attack is 'Bone Prison!' "Spear!" "Repeat!". This doesn't mean he leveled any faster, though.

No exciting finds for him until Andariel -- Countess dropped an El, and lots of blues...

Andy dropped lots of rares, including a rare jewel with 30% Ed, +20 poison/2secs, FHR, and something else. Very pretty. That might go into a multi-socketed armor for a hireling, unless I decide to go the runeword route.

Act II is treating Poglara relatively well, I've been collecting the outdoor WPs and did one p8 run of the Ancient Tunnels (which was a lot of trouble!), but didn't find anything except a hole in her money pouch due to resurrection fees.

 

[erimatbrad]

Team Eddings (erimatbrad) - 223 points
Conqueror Polgara - (Sorc - Light./Cold) - lvl 81 - Act III Hell
Conqueror Liselle - (Amazon - Jav./Passive) - lvl 71 - Act II Hell
Conqueror Zedar - (Necro – P&B/Curse) - lvl 65 - Act II Hell

Teleport makes things way easy.

Polgara blazed through Act III, teleporting through a good 50 percent of the level.

Notable find was: Swordguard (Executioner Sword), and.....

A map with the WP for Durance 2 being one room away from the entrance to Durance 3. I've found my Meph runner, so long as I don't go back for socket quests and imbues....

Next up, a lot of Meph running.... and then, once my other characters kill Mephisto (and Duriel...), I'll have the way cleared for Guardianship!

 

[Mage11]

OK, some quite good progress over the weekend. Klaudia continued her way, easily and rapidly completing the rest of Act 2, and is now into Act 3 at the Spider Forest waypoint, having picked up Khalim's Eye. She's being really quick at killing everything, and only had to tp back to town to ressurect her merc once against Duriel (and to restock on healing potions). Soon enough she'll be at level 30 and able to access her Shadow Master.

Current Status:

[highlight]Team Mage1 (Mage11) [/highlight] – 27 points
Sara – (Amazon – Passive/Bow) – lvl 23 – Act II Nml - 7 points
Klaudia – (Assassin - MA/Shadow) – lvl 27 – Act III Nml - 13 points
Starm – (Sorc - Cold/Light.) – lvl 22 – Act II Nml - 7 points

 

[crazy_bear]

[highlight]Team Toasted_Nuts (crazy_bear)[/highlight] – 143 points
Destroyer Hazelnut - (Amazon - Passive/Bow) – lvl 64 – Act V NM
Last Quest completed: Defeated Shenk (53 pts)
Walnut - (Druid - Summon/Elem.) – lvl 33 – Act IV Nml – R.I.P Diablo (20 pts)
Conqueror Peanut - (Sorc - Cold/Light.) – lvl 72 – Act V NM
Last Quest completed: Countess (70 pts)

Peanut ran Baal a few times to reach lvl 76, and then I decided it was time to move on to NM. I took her as far as the countess, and intend to run the countess and perhaps the pits for a while to try and find some items and runes (in particular I'm hoping for a Lum and a good armour or 2 to socket). Unfortunately, Hell is well, hell, as expected. But the Cold/Light combination seems to be holding up pretty well. I'd say it's as effective, or at least close, as a meteorb, despite only 2 trees. It did take a lot of pts in lightning/CL/LM to really get it doing decent dmg though. I'd say it's much more dependent on +skills and synergies than meteorb.
Sad thing right now is lack of MF. Peanut really isn't doing so well on the items. On about 10 baal runs she found about 6 set/uniques, best of which was a Szabi's Mental Sheath.

Well, onward. Good luck to all.

 

[SuperSavage]

Team Savage - (148 Total Points)
Destroyer Ormus - (Druid – Summon/ShapeShift 44 pts) – lvl 53 – Act III NM
Destroyer Atma - (Sorc – Cold/Light. 52 pts) – lvl 62 – Act V NM
Destroyer Cain - (Necro – Summon/Curse 52 pts) – lvl 64 – Act V NM

Ormus: Completed First Quest in Act III
Atma: Beat Diablo, Waiting in Act V
Cain: Beat Diablo, Waiting in Act V

Total Set/Unique Items: 166

Well I have some pretty good progress since my last update a while ago. Havent been playing much because of school and football but ill try as much as possible.

Cain managed to get through all of Act IV on /players 4 until Diablo. Everything died pretty fast and no NDE. Got to the Hellforge and it dropped me a Io rune which is my highest rune so far. I got to Diablo and put it on /players 1 and had atleast 1 cold mage with decrepify to take him out. he can barely move at this time.... with everyone attacking him. Nothing died, only my Fire Golem from his physical attack like twice. He dropped all rares nothing worth mentioning.

Atma has also completed Act IV teleporting through most of the act and killing Diablo very easy. Her hellforge drop was a Lum rune and also found a Shael rune in the Chaos Santcuary. My resists are 75/55/75/75 so he didn't really hurt me and his drops were rare/magic.... nothing worth mentioning.

 

[Gouda]

Hi everyone,

Two weeks holidays, and the tourney is already in Hell for a lot of people.
I hope we'll see a lot more in the run of the tourney. Impressive progress, and unfortunately a few deaths as well.

I think this edition could be a bit easier than last edition, with the use of two unique/set items and rune words allowed. We'll see at the end, and I think it will still be very very hard.

Anyway, back from holidays and played half an hour last night after arriving back home, unpacking etc..
I choose my sorc, mostly to level her merc. So sewer runs it was, and i managed to finish the quest for another point. Merc is now at lvl 14, still two lvl's to go for the pike i already found for him.

Team the Matrix II (Gouda) - 28 points
Morpheus - (Barb – Warcries/Com.Skills) – lvl 21 Act II Nml - 7 points
Merovingian - (Necro - Summon/Curse) – lvl 29 – Act III Nml - 14 points
Persephone - (Sorc Fire/Cold) – lvl 20 – Act II Nml - 7 points

Have fun, don't die

Gouda

 

[Hiedran]

[highlight]Team Melee (Hiedran)[/highlight] - 112 points
Destroyer Axe - (Druid - Shape/Summon) - Lvl 48 - Act II NM - 37 points
Destroyer Claw - (Assassin - MA/Shadow) - Lvl 51 - Act II NM - 37 points
Destroyer Mace - (Paladin - Combat/Offensive) - Lvl 55 - Act II NM - 38 points

Nothing much to report. Up to 57 items in the stash. The hardest thing about this tournament right now is putting greens and golds in the stash. Since I just recently wiped out all my unique and set stashes (collected with a hacked character, or characters that benefitted from the hacked character) it's getting really hard to put some uniques in the stash, such as the Frosties I just found that would go oh so well on my L6 CL/FO sorc or L7 bonemage.

The good news is if I ever find another set (which is likely) I can then mule it off to my non-TWD chars. (Not that I'd ever have chars other than TWD... )

 

[erimatbrad]

[highlight]Team Eddings (erimatbrad)[/highlight] - 228 points
Conqueror Polgara - (Sorc - Light./Cold) - lvl 81 - Act III Hell
Conqueror Liselle - (Amazon - Jav./Passive) - lvl 71 - Act II Hell
Conqueror Zedar - (Necro – P&B/Curse) - lvl 65 - Act II Hell

I just realized that I can't count, because that's actually how many points I should have.

I spent the morning (before work) cubing Matriarchial Javs with the Safety recipe, burning both of my Sol runes. The first were utterly horrid and got junked, the second were only somewhat bad, but workable due to +2 jav skills and replenishing. Liselle should get a kick out of these until she finds some unique elite javs (or titan's/thunderstroke), I think...

As an OT thought -- I'm also at the point where these characters have caught up with Conquerer Seven (see: Set & Unique Item Worshippers Tourney), and I find myself pleasantly pleased that Team Eddings is having much more luck than he. Perhaps it's the fact that I can pick what I want to wear (within reason) and can choose all of my skills myself...

While he's incredibly fun to play, he's also exceptionally tiring -- and the trio is also fun to play (although, perhaps a bit less), but are much less likely to make me quit after playing for twenty minutes. Which, to bring this long story to the point, makes me wonder how a S/U worshipping randomly challenged TWD would work, and if anyone would manage to make it through to Tri-Guardianship.

...we now return you to your regularly scheduled tournament, already in progress...

 

[jiansonz]

I think this edition could be a bit easier than last edition, with the use of two unique/set items and rune words allowed. We'll see at the end, and I think it will still be very very hard.

Runewords definately help, but the limited use of crafted items makes it hard. When it comes to the reward slots for my characters, four out of the six I chose were done with crafted gear in mind.

 

[Resipsa]

[highlight]Team Fx (Resipsa) [/highlight] – 20 points
Fa - (Amazon - Passive/Bow) – lvl 20 – Act II Nml
Fl - (Sorceress - Cold/Light.) – lvl 27 – Act II Nml
Fd - (Druid - Summon/Elem.) – lvl 15 – Act I Nml

Not much of an update considering where most of the other contestants are. However, I will still give it a go until there is a winner. The sorceress and amazon were easy to level when I found the time. The druid is another matter. Since this is the first time I am playing a druid I am finding it a bit slow. I am sure it will pick up once I get more skills.

Only one unique found and eight set items. This will also pick up once I level more.

Congrats to those who are doing so well and condolences to those who have lost a member of their team.

 

[jiansonz]

Which, to bring this long story to the point, makes me wonder how a S/U worshipping randomly challenged TWD would work, and if anyone would manage to make it through to Tri-Guardianship.

Interesting thought. The three characters would likely choose somewhat different items. For my team, I would now have four complete sets to choose from. Full Cleglaws Brace (gives a fast attack with 35% CB, among other things), along with Tancred´s amulet + boots (or helm) could be a pretty useful setup in Nightmare.

In hindsight, I think that randomizing out 2/3 of the skill points was probably a bit harsh. Half of them would have been better, I think. I just wanted to keep Skellimancers, Meteorb Sorcs and Hammerdins, etc. from completely dominating the tournament, being only slightly less powerful than usual.