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

Another little update from me.

[highlight]Team Blackadder (simeonb)[/highlight] - 14 points
Queenie - (Amazon - Bow/Passive) - lvl 25 - Act II Nml
Nursie - (Assassin - Shadow/Trap) - lvl 11 - Act I Nml
Edmund - (Druid - Shape/Summon) - lvl 11 - Act I Nml

Queenie beat off the challenge of Andariel, went on to collect the Cube, and then went back to the Countess and ran her until she had the runes for Stealth. Then it was on with the rest of Act II and she has now reached the Tombs. Not sure if I will go on to defeat Duriel before moving the other two forward.

A couple of finds for the prize fund: Axe of Fechmar and Cathan's Sigil (amazingly, the first time I've ever found this is in 1.10)
 
I'll post my char status when I move them to NM. First to do this is my Elem/Sum Druid. He reached lvl 53 and maxed his 2 main offensive skills - Volcano and Fissure.
Here he is:

Stats:
80 str
20 dex (base)
225 vit
20 eng (base)

685 life (1096 with Oak)
177 mana

80/71/80/80 res in NM (found Darkglow armour and my 1st reward slot with the druid is armor)

skills (I have +2 all skills from helm and amulet 1 each)

20 Volcano
20 Fissure
5 Oak siege
3 Dire wolfs
1 Grizzly
1 in each vine

Dmg:
406-415 Volcano
876-911 Fissure

Baal dropped me Frosburns which is quite nice for my necro. The bad part is that they'll be usefull when he reaches conqueror status (if he manage to do this)

whith such a high life, so many tanks and nice resists I don't expect to have many troubles in act 1 to 3 with my druid

Have a nice game
 
Hi guys,

amazing progress everyone! Congrats with all the conquerors, and all the other finds.
Glad to see that I am not alone with the slow starters, so I'll just keep on going my own speed. Played a bit yesterday, started with my necromancer, on players 1 to defeat Duriel. He did some gambling, and improved his MF% to about 120. This payed off, as soon after I reached duriel, who went down after killing one out of my seven skellies. Who needs decrep anyway, amp does the trick so far.
Duriel dropped an amazing one green and one gold item, with some other assorted stuff. I think it was a shadowfang sword and sanders gloves.
I would actually have liked to use these items, if i could.

After that no more progression for him, onwards with the others towards act II. First up was Morpheus, who had got a few goodies to help him along. Unfortunately he didn't have enough strength to use everything, so had to level him as well as getting Decard free. Did both and now hit 75 strength for my tower shield and heavy mail, giving him the iron barb look that i was going for. Unfortunately he runs out of stamina in 5 paces, but hey, walking is also good.

Team the Matrix II (Gouda) - 17 points
Morpheus - (Barb – Warcries/Com.Skills) – lvl 14 Act I Nml - 3 points
Merovingian - (Necro - Summon/Curse) – lvl 28 – Act II Nml - 12 points
Persephone - (Sorc Fire/Cold) – lvl 12 – Act I Nml - 2 points

Have fun, don't die

Gouda
 
[HIGHLIGHT]Team HALL OF FAME[/HIGHLIGHT] – 87 points


Destroyer Andariel - Necromancer - Summon / curses – lvl 45 - 30 points - actV
Destroyer Baal ......- Assasin - Trap / Passive .......... – lvl 49 - 30 points - actV
Destroyer Diablo ...- Amazon - Passive / bow .......... – lvl 35 - 27 points – actV
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 : 23 items
Unique : 26 items

Just one quest and cow before leaving normal
 
[highlight]Team Discworld (Dornak)[/highlight] – 185 points
Destroyer Eskarina - (Sorc – Cold/Fire) – lvl 64 – Act V NM
Conqueror Mort - (Necro – Summon/Curse) – lvl 71 – Act V NM
Conqueror Conina - (Assassin – Shadow/Trap) – lvl 76 – Act I HELL

Well Conina eventually finished her shopping (hmmm, maybe I see a way of getting my g/f into Diablo - she loves shopping :)) and decided to dip a toe or two into Hell to test the water. It was boiling of course, but with good fire resistance not too much of a problem. Players1 was no problem so I upped it (I think to players8) and cleared the Den. I then ventured into the Stony Field and a group of LI spearwomen slaughtered my shadow and merc so I ran away and cried for a bit. I'll need so tweak the players setting to find a comfortable level.

Mort charged through Act V normal on players1 and made Conqueror! Did a few Baal runs on players8 afterwards. I'll try to get him to around lvl 75 before going into Hell. It shouldn't make much difference though as I still have 11 unallocated skill points. It might help my skellies hit a little more often though so we'll see how bored I get doing Baal runs.

*edit* Forgot to mention that Mort also killed the Cow King. *edit*

Recent finds: Natalya's Soul boots - Man, would I like to have worn these. I currently wear 40 frw, 25 LR boots but the extra CR would have been nice for Hell.

Total prize pool: 97
 
Latecomer to the tourney!

Team Melee
Mace - Paladin - Combat/Offensive
Weapon for destroyer, Shield for conqueror
Axe - Druid - Shapeshifting/Summon
Helm for destroyer, weapon for conqueror
Claw - Assassin - Martial/Shadow
Weapon for destroyer, boots for conqueror

Let's see how I do since I've played HC twice and never made it past NM Meph.
 
[highlight]Team Bavarian Forest (AndiDi) [/highlight] – 46 points
Resl – (Amazon – Passive/Bow) – lvl 23 – Act II Nml - 11 points - R.I.P. Duriel
Hias – (Necro – Summon/Curses) – lvl 27 – Act III Nml - 14 points
Sepp – (Paladin – Combat/Offensive) – lvl 33 – Act IV Nml - 21 points

Hias: WP: Lower Kurast - Playing with eye and brain.
Sepp: WP: Pandemonium Fortress - Chating with Tyrael while waiting for Hias

Recent Set/Unique Items:
- Sigon's Wrap (Gambled)
- Skystrike
- Howltusk
- Stormeye
- Hsarus' Iron Stay

Sepp defeated Diablo and is now waiting for Hias to enter Act IV so he can move on to Act V. Iron Maiden wasn't as problem, as I have found a Short Spear with 80 Poison damage, that made short work with these guys. But the Megademons with their Inferno do really hurt, that was especially true for the Infector of Souls and his Minions.
 
My team has now a destroyer.

[highlight]Team Magick_XR[/highlight] 76 pts

WindFury_XR Wind/Summon lvl 34 Act V Nml 21 pts
Finds: none
Reports: none
Destroyer Suzy_XR Cold/Lightning lvl 48 Act V Nml 31 pts
Finds: Stormstrike, Crushflange, Skull Splitter, Rockfleece, Cleglaw's Tooth, Isenhart's Parry
Reports: I breezed through ActV with FO. I killed everything on p8, even the Ancients and Baal. They
were no match for FO's power. I've also made my druid very happy by making him this great piece of gear:


Radiance
Spirit Mask
'NefSolIth'
Defense: 38
Durability: 20 of 20
(Druid Only)
Required Strength: 30
Required Level: 27
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 32
Fingerprint: 0x2d1d318b
+10 to Energy
+10 to Vitality
+33 to Mana
+75% Enhanced Defense
+30 Defense vs. Missile
Damage Reduced by 7
Magic Damage Reduced by 3
+5 to Light Radius
+2 to Cyclone Armor (Druid Only)
+2 to Heart of Wolverine (Druid Only)
+3 to Summon Dire Wolf (Druid Only)
15% Damage Taken Goes to Mana

This was a normal Spirit Mask, which I socketed with the socketing recipe. I originally wanted 2 sockets
for Lore but I ended up with three, which is even better. Radiance is better because it helps solving my mana problems
and I don't really need +skills for now.

DarkMage_XR Bone/Curses lvl 41 Act V Nml 24 pts
Finds: rare circlet with +2 cold skills and other nice mods
Reports: Hes sucking down mana real fast. I only have around 200 mana, which isn't enough. I have to use
up loads of mana pots. But he also deals some damage. Bone Spear is doing 500+ damage now and is nearly maxed.

@jiansonz: I said it was nice because of the 100% ED and cold damage, and becaus it can be upgraded. Oh well it's not something extraordinary of course but I've rarely seen that much ED in normal.
 
[highlight]Team Mages of Rainbow (Igor Potapov) [/highlight] – 82 points
Destroyer Iarde – (Amazon – Passive/Bow) – lvl 54 – Act I NM
Destroyer Rose – (Assassin – Shadow/Trap) – lvl 54 – Act I NM
Delon – (Paladin – Combat/Offensive) – lvl 31 – Act IV Nml – R.I.P Infector of Souls

Iarde completed all possible quests in normal difficulty and killed Cow King. Quest rewards for malus, Shenk and Nihlathak are still waiting though. She is quite powerful hero now because of maxed Freezing Arrow (1264-1298 damage), maxed Cold Arrow and seven base points in Valkyrie. She managed to cube Sol rune so she now wears Lore Helm. Another notable equipment is +1 to bow skills gloves, +1 to bow skills rare bow and +2 to zon passive skills gloves for Valkyrie pre-casting.

Rose completed all quests in normal too. She was very lucky to find Sol rune somewhere in act5 so she has her own Lore Helm. I play them with pure untwinked rule, so I don’t exchange items between them so I need too Lore helms. Her power is her maxed Lightning Sentry (1-1616 damage), maxed Death Sentry (full screen CE is my favorite spell in the game) and level 11 Shadow master. Actually SM is level 5 base, but I always pre-buff my pets with Skill Shrine and items. Her best equipment is Lore Helm, +1 to all skills claw (thanks to Anya), another +1 to all skills claw (thanks to Larzuk) and +1 to all skills amulet (BIG thanks to Anya).

Normal unique/set items muled: 77.
Exceptional unique/set items muled: 2 (Cudgel and War Spear).
 
Team Ploppy 60p

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Daddy_Ploppy lvl 32 ready to enter act5 21p
Baby_Ploppy lvl 32 ready to enter act5 21p
Mother_Ploppy lvl 30 Start of act4 18p
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No big problems yet, met my earliest PI today, a meteor throwing guy in Durance lvl2. But with OW on my Steel Crystal Sword did it after a while. My palla had some slow walking in CS aswell, haven't managed to find a nice bow yet so 1 point in vengeance and 1 in Conviction and change settings to players1 did the trick.

Have fun and be careful

DX
 
Guys, sorry to inform you all that I am dropping out of this tourney. RL has finally caught up with me. :grrr:

Good luck! And don't die please.
 
[highlight]Team Eddings (erimatbrad)[/highlight] - 119 points
Destroyer Polgara - (Sorc - Light./Cold) - lvl 52 - Act III Nm
Destroyer Liselle - (Amazon - Jav./Passive) - lvl 46 - Act II Nm
Destroyer Zedar - (Necro – P&B/Curse) - lvl 38 - Act II Nm

Not a lot of time to play lately, but Zedar managed to get through Act I with little problems. Bone Prison makes boss type monsters easy enough to kill, so long as I keep his mana up. No-one dropped anything exciting for him this go through.

Polgara then took the hunt for Mephisto, and made it to the Kurast Bazaar. She needs to still clear the sewers and collect the book, and then can move on to Travincal.

My first class-specific unique dropped from a fanatacism boss pack of flayers. Sadly, it was Bartuc's, and it went straight into the stash.

No real exciting runes, unforutnately. The best thing I've got is two Shaels, which will go towards Rhyme shields for Zedar and Polgara, once I find an appropriate shield.

I've picked Weapons as my first reward for all three characters, and I have to find two class specific uniques to fill those spots... so there might be a lot of Mephisto runs in my future...

Sorry to hear you're dropping out, frosty!
 
[HIGHLIGHT]Team Estrogen (Lacerta) [/HIGHLIGHT]– 83 points
Kadiya - (Amazon - Passive/Bow) - lvl 34 - Act V Nml [21]
Destroyer Haramis - (Sorc - Cold/Light.) - lvl 52 - Act V Nml [31]
Destroyer Anigel - (Assassin - Shadow/Trap) - lvl 44 - Act V Nml [31]

Anigel is now a Destroyer too. She had no trouble whipping through at /players 8 until the ancients. From them until Baals minions she went at /players1 just to save time. From the minions to Baal, she went at /players 3, which was as high as I felt safe doing. Since then she has done a bunch of Baal runs, and can now do /players3 quickly and could probably do /players8, but I haven't tried it yet. She also took care of Nihlathak and cleared the cow level.

Notable finds include 2 grail items, Knell Striker and Cow Kings Hooves (from the king himself). Its the first time I've ever found any of the Cow King set, in any patch, so I was somewhat excited about it. The boots are pretty nice, too bad nobody chose footwear as a reward.

I've decided to mark them off on my self found grail even though I might not get to keep them. (How do the prizes work? Do we send a Fara printout of our stash and the winners can pick prizes, or do we have to send everything in, never to see it again, whether it is chosen or not?)
 
[highlight]Team “OfTheYear†(tenaka) [/highlight] – 57 points
February – (Sorc - Cold/Light.) – lvl 31 – Act V Nml
March – (Paladin – Combat/Offensive) – lvl 29 – Act IV Nml
April – (Assassin – Shadow/Trap) – lvl 28 – Act IV Nml

Getting ready to Destroy(?) February and have her run Baal for a week. Then I should have enough nice rares for March and April to take their cracks at Diablo.
 
Somehow I was hoping for a different type of irony...

The triumvirate has been disbanded...I'm out before signups ended, sadly. In a strange way, it's funny. I guess I was hoping the prediction inherent in the name wouldn't be true so soon.

Team Ghostly (JicamaEater)
=======================
Pinky-11 pts (Bow/Magic) RIP Duriel
Blinky-5 pts (Fire/Lit.) RIP Pitspawn Fouldog
Inky-0 pts, never left town and doesn't want to dance alone...
=======================

I will practice more...and next time I will have more deeds of greater valor! Cool idea, good luck to all remaining participants!
 
I managed to get all my chars to Destroyer and I levelled them a bit by doing p8 Baalruns.
The sorc is ready to start Nightmare tomorrow, and I have to level the other two a bit more. The only problem is that killing Lister & co on p8 with my bonemancer is a bit tedious.

So here are the details.

[highlight]Team Magick_XR[/highlight] 93 pts

Destroyer WindFury_XR Wind/Summon lvl 49 Act V Nml 31 pts
Finds: Arctic Mitts, Sigon's Shelter, Twitchthroe (my 2nd, and it's better than the 1st one :) ), Dimoak's Hew, Arctic Horn, Gleamscythe, Angelic Mantle
Reports: He has LOTS of mana now with the "Radiance" helm and a very nice wand I shopped for him.
It's a Great Wyrm's Bone Wand of Wizardry that gives a whopping +88 mana AND 20 to Energy. So he has now
350+ mana pool. Sweet. :drool:
Some interesting finds:

[highlight]Turquoise Jewel of Fervor[/highlight]
Required Level: 31
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 39
Fingerprint: 0x7b14e9f9
+20 to Mana
15% Increased Attack Speed

And Baal dropped this nice necro head:

Corpse Rock
Zombie Head
Defense: 6
Chance to Block: 35%
Durability: 20 of 20
(Necromancer Only)
Required Strength: 14
Required Level: 30
Item Version: 1.10 Expansion
Item Level: 60
Fingerprint: 0xeb76e930
+5 to Mana
+10% Increased Chance of Blocking
Lightning Resist +25%
Adds 4-14 poison damage over 3 seconds
15% Faster Block Rate
+1 to Confuse (Necromancer Only)
+1 to Raise Skeletal Mage (Necromancer Only)
+2 to Poison and Bone Skills (Necromancer Only)
Repairs 1 durability in 33 seconds

Destroyer Suzy_XR Cold/Lightning lvl 55 Act V Nml 31 pts
Finds: Griswold's Edge, Berserker's Hatchet, The Meat Scraper, Iceblink, Milabrega's Orb, Arcanna's Flesh, Tancred's Crowbill, Tancred's Skull, Isenhart's Case, Cleglaw's Tooth, Raven Claw, Kuko Shakaku, Sander's Taboo, Isenhart's Lightbrand
Reports: She's carving through everything with slvl 22 FO and slvl 10 CM. Found a sweet [highlight]Shimmering Grand Charm of Blight[/highlight] with 15% all res.
Destroyer DarkMage_XR Bone/Curses lvl 50 Act V Nml 31 pts
Finds: Bladebuckle, Isenhart's Parry, Chance Guards, Arctic Binding, Cleglaw's Claw, Dol, Tarnhelm
Reports: I've already maxed Bone Spear and I'm working on Bone Prison.

Good luck to all and be carefull!
 
[HIGHLIGHT]Team Estrogen (Lacerta)[/HIGHLIGHT] – 93 points
Destroyer Kadiya - (Amazon - Passive/Bow) - lvl 46 - Act V Nml [31]
Destroyer Haramis - (Sorc - Cold/Light.) - lvl 52 - Act V Nml [31]
Destroyer Anigel - (Assassin - Shadow/Trap) - lvl 44 - Act V Nml [31]

All three of my girls have bested Baal now. Kadiya was by far the most difficult battle. I took the ancients at /players 4 with no difficulty, and all of Baal's minions until the second to last batch at /players8. I lowered it to /players 3 for Lister and /players 1 for Baal. Even at players1, I don't even want to talk about how long it took for him to die. He cloned a couple of times and just wouldn't hold still. I took probably 30 trips back to town for more mana potions and/or arrows.

Fortunately for her sanity, she had chosen weapon as her destroyer reward, and while I haven't found any good bows, I had found a crushflange mace which has 33% crushing blow. So now I can kill Baal at /players 3 in a reasonable amount of time. After finishing off Nihliathak and the cows, I did a few more Baal runs, but didn't find anything worthwhile. The rest of my weekend will go to leveling Kadiya and Anigel to at least 50. I have a nice helm for Kadiya at 51, so I'll probably take her that far.

I need to do some Baal runs anyway, since that Crushflange is the only usable set/unique I have right now. My sorc is allowed jewelry, but I haven't found any that will do her any good, either. Come on SOJ!
 
Team Steel (steelsixtyIV) - 75 points
Steel_Sword - (Barb – Warcries/Com.Skills) - lvl 35 - Act V Nml
Steel_Poison - (Necro - P&B/Curse) - lvl 35 - Act V Nml
Destroyer Steel_Magic - (Sorc - Fire/Light.) - lvl 43 - Act V Nml

Magic nuked everybody in Act V to a smoldering crisp and is now a Destroyer earning the right to wear those Chance Guards she was saving. 200% GF :drool: I'll be rich, rich, rich after BBQing a few cows.

Sword saved that foxy ice princess and found a Bonesnap Maul which will be nice to start NM with.

Poison also saved Anya and is moving along the slowest of the three. I mostly rely on Dim Vision and my Merc to do the killing and my new barb buddy Ulaf drinks healing potions like they are going out of style :lol:
 
[Highlight]Team jiansonz - 33 points[/Highlight]

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 30 - Lower Kurast - 14 points

Almost a week away from the game proved to be good for my interest in this tournament. Nothing like coming back from a break and play in my favourite act!

Elayna is moving along very nicely, still letting the merc do all the killing (for treasure hunting reasons), except against river hydras. Against them, I tested what level 1 Venom could do, both with bow and in melee. Very impressive. There are SO many skills for Elayna that I want to max: Dragon Talon, Cloak of Shadows, Shadow Master, Venom...Clever compromises will have to be done.

I have decided to aim for the following stat goals for her:
STR: 95, so she can use Battle Boots (and the two lightest elite boot types)
DEX: 79 as a first goal. Her end-game weapon will probably not be a claw but until then I hope to find some cool Greater Talons. It is the fastest type of claw and it can have individual +skills.
 
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