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

Hi everyone,

Managed to finish act II with my sorc yesterday, clearing the arcane sanctuary and just the true tomb. So only one level gained, and little loot.
But i am looking forward to act II and blasting away little annoying twerps with Frozen Orb. NOT.
Oh well, hopefully a nice meph running map for Persephone and some new goodies for Morpheus.

Team the Matrix II (Gouda) – 130 points
Destroyer Morpheus - (Barb – Warcries/Com.Skills) – lvl 52 Act II NM - Searching for horadric bits.
Destroyer Merovingian - (Necro - Summon/Curse) – lvl 63 – Act III NM - Searching for a good map.
Destroyer Persephone - (Sorc Fire/Cold) – lvl 57 – Act III NM - Just arrived at the kurast docks.
Have fun, don't die

Gouda :cool:
 
A quick update, to match the quick effort with Sara. I had about 40 minutes to spare, so I thought I'd get Sara closer to the end of Normal. I was expecting to be able to reach the Ancient's Way waypoint from the Frozen Tundra waypoint.

What actually happened was that I found the exit to the Arreat Summit first, with plenty of time left, so I decided to give the Ancients a go, and then try to find the WSK2 waypoint. It went perfectly. The Ancients were a breeze at players 1, and didn't require any potions, despite Sara fighting one at a time in melee (she started with Korlic to stop him from leaping, and was tanking Talic at the time). The WSK was easily traversed, and she got to the waypoint in time (and it's close to the WSK3 stairs.

So a couple of levels, one more point, and she should be taking on Baal soon (and then we'll have the 100 points up).

Current Status:

[highlight]Team Mage1 (Mage11) [/highlight] – 98 points
Sara – (Amazon – Passive/Bow) – lvl 44 – Act V Nml - 26 points
Destroyer Klaudia – (Assassin - MA/Shadow) – lvl 52 – Act I NM - 37 points
Destroyer Starm – (Sorc - Cold/Light.) – lvl 51 – Act I NM - 36 points - R.I.P. my stupidity
 
[highlight]Exhibition Team Bavarian Forest II[/highlight] - 69 points
Franz - Barb (Warcries/Combat Skills) – lvl 32 – Act V Nml - 21 points
Mich - Necro (Bone/Curse) – lvl 36 – Act V Nml - 24 points
Theres - Sorc (Fire/Ice) – lvl 40 – Act V Nml - 24 points

Franz - WP: Harrogath - Last Quest: Killed Diablo
Mich - WP: Crystalline Passage - Last Quest: Rescued Anya
Theres - WP: Frozen Tundra - Last Quest: Rescued Anya

First some progress for Mich: I took him up the Bloody Foothills. Killed Shenk and rescued the Barbarians to get the runes. Then I hired a new Barbarian Merc. I hope this doesn't turn out to be a mistake.
I then took my new merc through Arreat Plateau and into the Crystalline Passage. From there we went without much in the way to slow us down into the Frozen River to rescue Anya. After rescuing here I stopped for the moment.

Next up I started out with Theres for more monster mass destruction. The outdoor areas didn't hold me up for long. The underground passages had the first monsters that had enough cold resistance to slow down my killing speed. But some Meteor and Fireball action took care of those too. Anya was rescued without much trouble. On the way I found a circlet with 26% MF which got socket with 2 prefect topazes. She now runs around with slightly over 100% MF. I begin to see more rare items but only find crappy uniques.
 
[highlight]Exhibition Team Bavarian Forest II[/highlight] - 78 points
Franz - Barb (Warcries/Combat Skills) – lvl 32 – Act V Nml - 21 points
Mich - Necro (Bone/Curse) – lvl 36 – Act V Nml - 24 points
Theres - Sorc (Fire/Ice) – lvl 44 – Act I NM - 33 points

Franz - WP: Harrogath - Last Quest: Killed Diablo
Mich - WP: Crystalline Passage - Last Quest: Rescued Anya
Theres - WP: Cold Plains - Last Quest: Killed Bloodraven

Theres started of the session with a quick visit to the Ancients. Quick, because they died very quick (even on players 4, as I forgot to turn it down to 1). Then she went on into the WSK. No problems or surprises here. I found the WP and the stairs to the throne.
The Throne had flying witches and Blood Lords. The Lords could not be frozen by my orbs, but they died to them. Then came the throne room. The first wave was quickly dispatched, the second died to some meteors. The third wave of Council Members managed to kill the merc, but otherwise died after a quick trip to town to get him back. The forth wave was dispatched faster than I had expected after my encounter with the Infector.
Then came the fifth wave and I was surprised to see them falling without any problems at all (I never had such a save fight against them, expect maybe with my Skellimancer in the last run of this tourney).
Baal took some time to kill, he killed my merc twice after he cloned himself. But everytime I went to town to get the merc back, the clone disapeared. He dropped only yellow items that weren't much use.
After that surprising simple fight against Baal I went after Nihlathak. Oh come on, not even the halls were a challenge for Theres. And Nihlathak died after a few Meteors onto his platform.
The only thing that's left in Normal to do was to kill the Cow King. Theres made huge amounts of frozen beef in a very short time. So no more challenges left in Normal. It was now time to start into Nightmare and begin the Countess running routine.
 
[highlight]Team P§ÃÇHÕ[/highlight] – 215 points
Conqueror Cristahlia - (Amazon - Passive/Bow) - lvl 77 - Act I Hell
Conqueror Dysarinad - (Necro - Summon/Curse) - lvl 79 - Act II Hell
Conqueror Martabian - (Druid - Summon/Elem.) - lvl 79 - Act II Hell

Killed the Smith with Cristahlia, the Amazon. Now moving forward into the Jail after finally dragging myself away from the Pit.
 
Ok, I see others have just begun, so I will join them. I am completely out of ideas, and this is one of the most interesting tournaments I've ever seen.

Team Fatneck

Fatneck_Bone
Necro (summon,curse)Destroyer weapon, conqueror hat

Fatneck_Zappa
Zon (Jav/spear,passive)Destroyer weapon, conqueror merc weapon

Fatneck_Freezer
Sorc (cold,lightning)Destroyer weapon, conqueror armor

It starts tonight. I might change the reward slots, but it will be before I actually start playing tonight. I need to plan a little more.

Edit: switched my reward slots.
 
Ron, I'm afraid that the tournament close date was several months ago. If you wish, you may enter this team as an exhibition team, however the actual proper tournament is already under way...

Apologies. When this tournament is complete however, there should be another one.
 
P§ÃÇHÕ said:
Ron, I'm afraid that the tournament close date was several months ago. If you wish, you may enter this team as an exhibition team, however the actual proper tournament is already under way...

Apologies. When this tournament is complete however, there should be another one.

Heh, yeah I saw that the actual tournament signup cutoff was 13 Sept.

I didn't mean that I was actually competing. I should have made that more clear to avoid looking like a knucklehead:P

I am very much looking forward to the start of the next one, I figured this one would be a good way to iron out some strategies and get back into the swing of HC play. I also understand that the rules my change for the TWDIII.

Fatneck_Bone beat andy last night at level 16. I found a few decent rares to use, and one of my most hated uniques Leadcrow the lame crossbow. I am already dreading the fact that I won't have CE later in the game.

Faneck_Zappa took the Stony WP before I went to bed last night.

Fatneck_Freezer is still hanging in the rogue camp hoping one of the others finds a few fcr rings to help her along. I did snag a nice orb with +3 CB +1 FA.
 
Just checking in to save this thread from page 4.

Nice to see everyone is progressing well. Hope to see more Guardians in this tourney.

XR
 
Hi everyone,

Just a quick update, with news from persephone, my sorc. She cleared a lot of forests and swamp, and after that a bunch of kurast boroughs. In contrast to the last few runs she found a Pul rune, first step towards a lovely gloom or stone armor for my barb. Been finding a lot of low level runes as well, so i now have 5 amn's cubed up, which i don't want to cube further because they can be usefull.
After the kurast area's she easily killed the council, and found the waypoint in the durance. She did progress towards meph, but the map is as usual very bad. Unfortunately i got disturbed by a phone call while engaging Meph, so the game is now paused with meph at about half life. Hopefully my GF won't close it, but we'll see. It shouldn't be too difficult to find him again.

Plan for this week: work a lot of hours, to make up for missing friday (it was snowing very badly in the Netherlands so i didn't feel like leaving the house)
Finish of Meph with Persephone, an drunning Meph a few more times afterwards. Hiopefully I'll find a good map, but otherwise i'll quit after about 10 runs. I am also considering a few lower kurast runs, for runes mostly.


Team the Matrix II (Gouda) – 133 points
Destroyer Morpheus - (Barb – Warcries/Com.Skills) – lvl 52 Act II NM - Searching for horadric bits.
Destroyer Merovingian - (Necro - Summon/Curse) – lvl 63 – Act III NM - Searching for a good map.
Destroyer Persephone - (Sorc Fire/Cold) – lvl 61 – Act III NM - Having a go at meph.
Have fun, don't die

Gouda :cool:
 
[highlight]Team “OfTheYear†(tenaka) [/highlight] – 225 points
Destroyer February – (Sorc - Cold/Light.) – lvl 84 – Act III Hell
Conqueror March – (Paladin – Combat/Offensive) – lvl 75 – Act II Hell
R.I.P.Conqueror April – (Assassin – Shadow/Trap) – lvl 66 – Act I Hell


Not much to update. February's Meph runs have been slow and haven't yeilded anything useful to me yet. March has only completed one more quest. Both chars are currently in a if-I-go-farther-without-better-eq-I'll-die kind of holding pattern...
 
Considering the slow pace of the tournament at the moment, would anybody have any objections to scoreboard updates being present every 5 pages instead of every 10? Just to keep things moving a little.

[size=+2][highlight]Three Way Dance II Scoreboard[/highlight][/size]​

[highlight]Team History Class (madmaxxam) [/highlight] – 252 points
Conqueror Cleopatra - (Sorc - Cold/Light.) – lvl 81 – Act IV Hell
Conqueror Rasputin - (Necro - Summon/Curse) – lvl 82 – Act IV Hell
Conqueror Ieyasu_Tokogawa - (Druid - Summon/Elem.) – lvl 83 – Act IV Hell

[highlight]Team Archoteuthis (bigsquid)[/highlight] – 249 points
Conqueror calamari - (Necro - Summon/Curse) - lvl 80 - Act I Hell
Conqueror ikazushi - (Sorc - Cold/Light.) - lvl 77 - Act I Hell
Conqueror squidonastick - (Druid - Summon/Elem.) - lvl 77 - Act I Hell

[highlight]Team Steel (steelsixtyIV)[/highlight] - 248 points
Conqueror Steel_Sword - (Barb – Warcries/Com.Skills) - lvl 78 - Act IV Hell
Conqueror Steel_Poison - (Necro - P&B/Curse) - lvl 78 - Act III Hell
Conqueror Steel_Magic - (Sorc - Fire/Light.) - lvl 79 - Act IV Hell

[highlight]Team Discworld (Dornak)[/highlight] – 235 points
Conqueror Eskarina - (Sorc – Cold/Fire) – lvl 77 – Act III Hell
Conqueror Mort - (Necro – Summon/Curse) – lvl 76 – Act II Hell
Conqueror Conina - (Assassin – Shadow/Trap) – lvl 80 – Act III Hell

[highlight]Team Angiras (angiras)[/highlight] – 228 points
Conqueror Angirasa – (Amazon – Passive/Jav.) - lvl 81 - Act IV Hell
Conqueror Atharvan - (Necro – Summon/Curse)- lvl 80 – Act IV Hell
Destroyer Yoga - (Paladin – Offensive/Com. Skills) - lvl 61 – Act V NM – R.I.P Lister’s Minions

[highlight]Team Tolkien (CraZySorc) [/highlight] – 228 points
Conqueror Arwen - (Assassin - Shadow/MA) – lvl 86 – Act II Hell
Conqueror Boromir - (Barb - Warcries/Com.Skills) – lvl 82 – Act II Hell
Conqueror Galadriel - (Sorc - Light./Fire) – lvl 82 – Act IV Hell

[highlight]Team “OfTheYear†(tenaka) [/highlight] – 225 points
Conqueror February – (Sorc - Cold/Light.) – lvl 84 – Act III Hell
Conqueror March – (Paladin – Combat/Offensive) – lvl 75 – Act II Hell
Conqueror April – (Assassin – Shadow/Trap) – lvl 66 – Act I Hell R.I.P – Random Death

[highlight]Team P§ÃÇHÕ[/highlight] – 215 points
Conqueror Cristahlia - (Amazon - Passive/Bow) - lvl 77 - Act I Hell
Conqueror Dysarinad - (Necro - Summon/Curse) - lvl 79 - Act II Hell
Conqueror Martabian - (Druid - Summon/Elem.) - lvl 79 - Act II Hell

[highlight]Team Savage (SuperSavage)[/highlight] – 211 points
Conqueror Ormus - (Druid – Shape/Summon) – lvl 70 – Act I Hell
Conqueror Atma - (Sorc – Cold/Light.) – lvl 69 – Act I Hell – R.I.P Archer Boss Pack
Conqueror Cain - (Necro – Summon/Curse) – lvl 75 – Act II Hell

[highlight]Team Renewal (Crazy Runner Guy)[/highlight] – 209 points
Conqueror Hera – (Amazon – Passive/Jav.) - lvl 76 - Act I Hell
Conqueror Hades - (Necro – Poison/Curse)- lvl 70 - Act I Hell
Conqueror Fogged_Mirrors - (Sorc – Cold/Light.) - lvl 73 - Act I Hell

[highlight]Team eViL-GoDz[/highlight] – 198 points
Conqueror eViL-GoDzUNDEAD – (Necro – Summon/Curse) - lvl 75 - Act I Hell
Conqueror eViL-GoDzHobo - (Paladin – Com.Skills/Offensive) - lvl 75 - Act I Hell
Conqueror eViL-GoDzHCMFER - (Sorc – Cold/Light.) - lvl 75 - Act I Hell

[highlight]Team 'The Three Old Men' (a_shikoff) [/highlight] – 188 points
Conqueror AngerOfNature - (Druid - Summon/Elem.) – lvl 71 – Act I Hell
Conqueror CallOfTheGraves - (Necro - P&B/Summon) – lvl 72 – Act I Hell
Destroyer CatchThis - (Barb - Masteries/Com.Skills) – lvl 68 – Act V NM – R.I.P Ancients

[highlight]Team Estrogen (Lacerta) [/highlight] – 175 points
Destroyer Kadiya - (Amazon - Passive/Bow) - lvl 58 - Act V NM
Conqueror Haramis - (Sorc - Cold/Light.) - lvl 70 - Act V NM
Conqueror Anigel - (Assassin - Shadow/Trap) - lvl 65 - Act I Hell

[highlight]Team Petro (PetroPanko)[/highlight] – 157 points
Destroyer Haron – (Necro – Summon/Curse) - lvl 72 - Act V NM – R.I.P Ancients
Destroyer Athena - (Amazon – Passive/Bow) – lvl 64 - Act IV NM
Destroyer Hera – (Sorc – Cold/Light.) – lvl 67 - Act V NM

[highlight]Team Mages of Rainbow (Igor Potapov) [/highlight] – 154 points
Conqueror Iarde – (Amazon – Passive/Bow) – lvl 82 – Act I Hell
Conqueror Rose – (Assassin – Shadow/Trap) – lvl 74 – Act I Hell
Delon – (Paladin – Combat/Offensive) – lvl 31 – Act IV Nml – R.I.P Infector of Souls

[highlight]Team Subheroes (Vildecor) [/highlight] – 138 points
Conqueror Stick_Tosser - (Amazon – Jav./Passive) – lvl 67 – Act I Hell
Destroyer Mr_Bone - (Necro - P&B/Curse) – lvl 60 – Act V NM
The_Weathergirl - (Sorc - Light./Cold) – lvl 28 – Act IV Nml – R.I.P Diablo

[highlight]Team jiansonz [/highlight] – 135 points
Destroyer Herne - (Druid - Shape/Summon) – lvl 60 – Act III NM
Destroyer Odysseus - (Paladin - Offensive/Defensive) – lvl 60 – Act III NM
Destroyer Elayna - (Assassin - Shadow/MA) – lvl 64 – Act IV NM

[highlight]Team the Matrix II (Gouda) [/highlight] – 133 points
Destroyer Morpheus - (Barb – Warcries/Com.Skills) – lvl 52 – Act II NM
Destroyer Merovingian - (Necro - Summon/Curse) – lvl 63 – Act III NM
Destroyer Persephone - (Sorc Fire/Cold) – lvl 61 – Act III NM

[highlight]Team Undead (whomhead)[/highlight] – 125 points
Destroyer Dead – (Sorc – Fire/Cold) - lvl 60 – Act II NM
Destroyer Deceased - (Paladin – Offensive/Defensive) - lvl 50 - Act I NM – R.I.P Disfigured
Destroyer Departed - (Druid - Summon/Elem.) - lvl 57 - Act II NM

[highlight]Team Ploppy (Dx-Crawler) [/highlight] – 106 points
Destroyer Daddy_Ploppy – (Necromancer - Summon/Curse) – lvl 59 – Act III NM
Destroyer Mother_Ploppy – (Amazon - Passive/Bow) – lvl 44 – Act I NM
Destroyer Baby_Ploppy – (Paladin - Combat/Offensive) – lvl 44 – Act I NM

[highlight]Team Mage1 (Mage11) [/highlight] – 98 points
Sara – (Amazon – Passive/Bow) – lvl 44 – Act V Nml
Destroyer Klaudia – (Assassin - MA/Shadow) – lvl 52 – Act I NM
Destroyer Strom – (Sorc - Cold/Light.) – lvl 51 – Act I NM R.I.P – Fallen Boss Pack

[highlight]Team goon_squad[/highlight] – 95 points
Destroyer DrCow - (Necro – P&B/Curse) – lvl 45 – Act I NM – R.I.P Griswold
Destroyer ManOfCloth - (Paladin – Combat/Offensive) – lvl 35 – Act I NM
Destroyer Stinkyfleabag - (Druid – Shape/Summon) – lvl 42 – Act I NM

[highlight]Team Marvel (kramph)[/highlight] – 92 points
Destroyer Red Skull – (Necro – Summon/Curse) - lvl 50 - Act I NM
Destroyer Emma Frost - (Sorc – Cold/Light.) - lvl 50 – Act I NM
Destroyer Jubilee - (Amazon – Passive/Bow) - lvl 44 - Act I NM

[highlight]Team Gods of Egypt (Jaffa Tamarin)[/highlight] – 83 points
Destroyer Anubis – (P&B/Curse) - lvl 49 - Act I NM
Horus - (Druid – Shape/Summon) - lvl 36 - Act V Nml
Destroyer Sekhmet - (Sorc – Cold/Fire) - lvl 48 - Act I NM
 
[highlight]Team Children of War (tyrant.) [/highlight] – 83 points
Arctic-Siren - (Amazon - Passive/Bow) – lvl 27 – Act IV Nml
Destroyer Whisper-Wind - (Druid – Summon/Elem.) – lvl 48 – Act I NM
Destroyer Spirit-Storm - (Necro - Summon/Curse) – lvl 45 – Act I NM

[highlight]Team Venom (Porius) [/highlight] – 76 points
Destroyer Adder – (Amazon – Passive/Jav.) – lvl 48 – R.I.P Disfigured
Destroyer Asp – (Assassin – Shadow/Trap) – lvl 44 – Act I NM
Viper – (Necro – P&B/Curse) – lvl 25 – Act III Nml – R.I.P Szark the Burning

[highlight]Team S-team (salvo) [/highlight] – 62 points
STRONG - (Barb – Warcries/Com.Skills) – lvl 1 – Act IV Nml
STRIKE - (Druid – Summon/Elem.) – lvl 1 – Act V Nml
STROKE - (Assassin – MA/Trap) – lvl 1 – Act V Nml

[highlight]Team Blackadder (simeonb) [/highlight] – 51 points
Queenie - (Amazon - (Passive/Bow) – lvl 33 – Act IV Nml
Nursie - (Assassin - Shadow/Trap) – lvl 31 – Act IV Nml
Edmund - (Druid - Shape/Summon) – lvl 29 – Act III Nml

[highlight]Team Fruits (Online) [/highlight] – 43 points
Apple - (Amazon - Passive/Bow) - lvl 21 - Act II Nml – R.I.P Suicide
Grape - (Sorc - Fire/Cold) - lvl 28 - Act IV Nml
Lemon - (Barb - Warcries/Com.Skills) - lvl 28 - Act IV Nml

[highlight]Team Harry Potter Villains (nellhows)[/highlight] – 36 points
Voldemort – (Necro – Summon/Curse) - lvl 25 - Act III Nml
Bellatrix - (Assassin – MA/Shadow) - lvl 26 - Act III Nml
Lucius - (Druid - Summon/Elem.) - lvl 27 - Act III Nml

[highlight]Team Red Dwarf (Sir Lister of Smeg)[/highlight] – 32 points
The_Cat - (Druid – Summon/Elem.) – lvl 27 – Act III Nml
Kochanski – (Amazon – Passive/Jav.) – lvl 22 – Act II Nml
Rimmer - (Necro – Summon/Curse) – lvl 26 – Act II Nml – R.I.P Beetle Boss Pack

[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

[highlight]Team Sparky-Girls (Slartibartfast) [/highlight] – 18 points
Sparky-Sticks – (Amazon – Passive/Jav.) – lvl 17 – Act II Nml
Sparky-Bolts – (Sorc – Cold/Light.) – lvl 17 – Act II Nml
Sparky-Traps – (Assassin – Shadow/Trap) – lvl 17 – Act II Nml

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

[highlight]Team ZoD (canis_lupos) [/highlight] - 17 points
Sagitarius_ZoD - (Paladin - Combat/Offensive) - lvl 17 - Act I Nml
Scorpio_ZoD - (Druid - Shapeshift/Summon) - lvl 19 - Act II Nml
Libra_ZoD - (Assassin – Shadow/Trap) - lvl 22 - Act II Nml

[highlight]Team Metal (OpethAZ) [/highlight] – 17 points
Opeth - (Necro - Summon/Curse) – lvl 26 – Act II Nml
Nevermore - (Druid - Summon/Elem.) – lvl 9 – Act I Nml
Testament - (Paladin - Combat/Offensive) – lvl 16 – Act I Nml

[highlight]Team SaveTheWhalesAgain (sam_manzanza) [/highlight] – 16 points
KrAzEe_MoFo - (Paladin - Defensive/Offensive) – lvl 18 – Act I Nml
KrAzEe_SlApPeR - (Assassin – Shadow/Trap) – lvl 17 – Act I Nml
KrAzEe_FoOl - (Sorc - Fire/Light.) – lvl 20 – Act II Nml

[highlight]Team Starcraft (Summoned) [/highlight] – 11 points
Ghost - (Assassin - Shadow/Trap) – lvl 14 – Act I Nml
Zealot - (Paladin Combat/Offensive) – lvl 14 – Act I Nml
Overlord - (Necro Summon/Curse) – lvl 19 – Act I Nml

[highlight]Team Krack Sisters (Saucy)[/highlight] – 9 points
FoulKrack – (Assassin – Trap/Shadow) - lvl 18 - Act II Nml
SaucyKrak - (Amazon – Passive/Bow) - lvl 6 - Act I Nml
SparkyKrak - (Sorc – Fire/Light.) - lvl 6 - Act I Nml

[highlight]Team "The Blade Alliance" (bladejj)[/highlight] – 7 points
Bow_Girl - (Amazon - Passive/Bow) - lvl 6 - Act I Nml
Ben - (Paladin - Offensive/Com.Skills) - lvl 18 - Act I Nml
Fire_Bird - (Sorc - Fire/Light.) - lvl 6 - Act I Nml

[highlight]Team Olivier (Butzull) [/highlight] – 6 points
Desire - (Assassin - Shadow/Trap) – lvl 6 – Act I Nml
Eugene - (Necro - Summon/Curse) – lvl 9 – Act I Nml
Marguerite - (Amazon - Passive/Jav.) – lvl 14 – Act I Nml

[highlight]Team Aykroyd’s Army (elwoodb647)[/highlight] – 6 points
AustinMilbarge – (Necro – Summon/Curse) - lvl 12 - Act I Nml
RaymondStantz - (Druid – Summon/Elem.) - lvl 12 - Act I Nml
RomanCraig - (Sorc – Fire/Cold) - lvl 12 - Act I Nml

[highlight]Team "FailSafe" (patalim) [/highlight] – 4 points
FarSight - (Amazon - Passive/Bow) – lvl 1 – Act I Nml
MeBackHere - (Necro - Summon/Curse) – lvl 13 – Act I Nml
BiggerBear - (Druid - Summon/Elem.) – lvl 1 – Act I Nml

[highlight]Team Fodst (Sint Nikolaas) [/highlight] - 3 points
Sun - (Amazon - Passive/Bow) - lvl 8 - Act I Nml
Moon - (Necro - Summon/Curse) - lvl 7- Act I Nml
Earth - (Paladin - Combat/Offensive) - lvl 7 - Act I Nml

[highlight]Team Stats (SlainByPain)[/highlight] – 2 points
Dexterity – (Amazon – Passive/Bow) - lvl 6 - Act I Nml
Vitality - (Assassin – MA/Shadow )- lvl 1 - Act I Nml
Energy - (Sorc – Cold/Light.) - lvl 1 - Act I Nml

[size=+2][highlight]The Guardian’s Circle[/highlight][/size]​

[highlight]Team Eddings (erimatbrad) [/highlight] - 330 points
Guardian Polgara - (Sorc - Light./Cold) - lvl 82 - Finished
Guardian Liselle - (Amazon - Jav./Passive) - lvl 84 - Finished
Guardian Zedar - (Necro – P&B/Curse) - lvl 80 - Finished

[highlight]Team HALL OF FAME (nemar) [/highlight] – 330 points
Guardian Andariel - (Necro – Summon/Curse) – lvl 86 – Finished
Guardian Baal - (Assassin – Shadow/Trap) – lvl 84 – Finished
Guardian Diablo - (Amazon – Passive/Bo) – lvl 86 – Finished

[highlight]Team Bavarian Forest (AndiDi)[/highlight] – 231 points
Resl – (Amazon – Passive/Bow) – lvl 24 – Act II Nml – R.I.P Duriel
Guardian Hias – (Necro – Summon/Curses) – lvl 84 – Finished
Guardian Sepp – (Paladin – Combat/Offensive) – lvl 83 – Finished

[size=+2][highlight]The Fallen Heroes[/highlight][/size]​

[highlight]Team Magick_XR (XorceR)[/highlight] – 184 points
Destroyer WindFury_XR – (Druid – Summon/Elem.) - lvl 64 - Act IV NM – R.I.P Venom Lord Boss Pack
Conqueror Suzy_XR - (Sorc - Cold/Light.) – lvl 82 - Act I Hell – R.I.P Rogue Boss Pack
Destroyer DarkMage_XR– (Necro – P&B/Curse) – lvl 70 - Act V NM – R.I.P Carver Boss Pack

[highlight]Team Melee (Hiedran)[/highlight] – 180 points
Conqueror Axe - (Druid – Shape/Summon) - lvl 81 - Act V Hell – R.I.P The Ancients
Destroyer Claw - (Assassin – MA/Shadow) - lvl 57 - Act III NM – R.I.P Cloud Stalker
Destroyer Mace – (Paladin – Combat/Offensive) - lvl 61 - Act III NM – R.I.P Undead Doll Boss Pack

[highlight]Team Toasted_Nuts (crazy_bear) [/highlight] – 174 points
Conqueror Hazelnut - (Amazon - Passive/Bow) – lvl 79 – Act IV Hell – R.I.P Undead Doll Boss Pack
Walnut - (Druid - Summon/Elem.) – lvl 33 – Act IV Nml – R.I.P Diablo
Conqueror Peanut - (Sorc - Cold/Light.) – lvl 78 – Act I Hell – R.I.P – Archer Boss Pack

[highlight]Team The Deadly Trio (xxarcherxx)[/highlight] – 34 points
TDT_ArrowSwarm – (Amazon – Passive/Bow) - lvl 24 - Act II Nml – R.I.P - Embalmed
TDT_FlamesofIce - (Sorc – Cold/Fire) - lvl 20 - Act I Nml – R.I.P Slain by fire
TDT_RagingBeast - (Druid – Shape/Summon) - lvl 42 - Act V Nml – R.I.P Diablo
 
I don't know how, but you always seem to do this just before I update, Psycho. Great to see anyway. Personally, I'd be happy to see more frequent updates.

The 100 points has been reached (and surpassed). Sara has defeated Baal, and continued through the start of NM. She has now reached the stony field waypoint, having cleared the Den of Evil and slain Blood Raven.

Current Status:

[highlight]Team Mage1 (Mage11) [/highlight] – 105 points
Sara – (Amazon – Passive/Bow) – lvl 46 – Act I NM - 33 points
Destroyer Klaudia – (Assassin - MA/Shadow) – lvl 52 – Act I NM - 37 points
Destroyer Starm – (Sorc - Cold/Light.) – lvl 51 – Act I NM - 36 points - R.I.P. my stupidity
 
Seeing how Mage is slowly creeping closer, i played a bit yesterday to defend my 24th position (if i counted right).
So Persephone finished act III, killing Meph a couple of times. again no good maps, but a few decent runes dropped from random monsters and chests along the way. A Sheal and a Lum were the highest ones. Other than that another bonesnap dropped by meph and a few random green items. My sorc doesn't have much MF, so not much was expected.
After that a few tries for a good map by the Merovingian, but that got me nothing, except for another level.

Team the Matrix II (Gouda) – 134 points
Destroyer Morpheus - (Barb – Warcries/Com.Skills) – lvl 52 – Act II NM
Destroyer Merovingian - (Necro - Summon/Curse) – lvl 64 – Act III NM
Destroyer Persephone - (Sorc Fire/Cold) – lvl 64 – Act III NM

Have fun, don't die,

Gouda :cool:

edit: yes, more frequent updates would be good!
 
Hey hey! Forgive me brothers for I have sinned, it has been something like 4 months since my last update, but I'm still in the race. Good to see you crazy fools have been scooting ahead through hell on underlevelled characters. I'm still leveling, on Meph, Pit, Countess and Mausoleum runs, and it looks like I've still got the highest character average.

Team Tolkien (CraZySorc) – 234 points
Conqueror Arwen - (Assassin - Shadow/MA) – lvl 86 – Act II Hell
Conqueror Boromir - (Barb - Warcries/Com.Skills) – lvl 82 – Act II Hell
Conqueror Galadriel - (Sorc - Light./Fire) – lvl 84 – Act IV Hell

Give or take a point...I don't have long here, so I just threw on the extra 6 from the Barbarian completing Act II. Arwen's done Radament, and Galadriel's Meph running but is waiting for Arwen before she tackles Izual. Feel free to correct my Math, it's been a bit off lately (as Psycho will testify from our recent Blackjack games...).

Mostly item updates...and its sad to say, but I haven't found all that much considering my gametime. Just an hour here and there, sometimes no more than an hour a week, but I've done the math and it adds up. On a bright note, Boromir is using Doombringer, with Windhammer as a swap for bosses. Arwen has both Natalya's Mark and a Shadow Killer, and Galadriel finally has her Skin of Vipermagi and Magefist.

Items of note donated to the prize mule are:
Horizon's Tornado (which Doombringer replaced)
Jade Talon
Darksight Helm
Death Cleaver
Eschuta's Temper
Nord's Tenderizer
Verdungo's Hearty Cord

I have found several very nice rare circlets, with +2 to skills, resists, lifeleech and such, but nothing for the classes I play. Most of them get palmed off to a seperate mule, which Psycho may claim as prizes if he wants, and which will otherwise go the the local ATMA dump and perhaps one day used in a non-tourney HC character. Many low to mid level sets, and several interesting rare gloves and rings.

I also found a 3-socket Ethereal Giant Thresher for Cresent Moon. Diabloii.net advertised this runeword as 220-260% ED, so I felt ripped off when I only got 183%! Should have checked against the Arreat Summit, or maybe my downloaded pages are just old. Anyway, it still does over 100-400 damage, so I'm not complaining. With a life-leach circlet to swap around, my mercs are now surviving even the toughest fights.

I also grabbed 3-socket Shadow Plate, into which went Lionheart, upgrading from my old Lionhearted Tigulated Mail. The difference in defence is really noticable on Boromir, despite the lack of ED% mods on Lionheart.
I am searching for one more Um rune (or one more Pul...I have 2, so with one more I can craft up and still have a leftover Pul) to create either Gloom or Stone. I haven't decided which yet. Gloom gives a +45 to resistances compared to Stone's +15, but Stone has a much larger defence bonus, a big bonus to hit recovery, better stat bonuses, yadda yadda.
I have a 4-socket Superior Ornate Plate with 495 defense, and here's what I really don't get...that's more defense than I found on Sacred Armour! Even the Shadow Plate only had 528 base defense. What's the point of waiting so long for an elite armour for a measly 30 to base defense, when Ornate Plate is so easily obtainable? The explaination, of course, is the random setting of base defense, but damn it looks weird when I find Ornate Plate with more defense than Sacred Armour...oh well. Now Arwen won't need her strength charms.

One other thing I'm missing is a good rare low-damage claw with big elemental damage stats. I used two such claws in the Chaos Sanctuary and WSK in nightmare, and didn't have to worry about Iron Maiden so much, which was a huge relief and perhaps a life-saving decision on several occasions. But I don't see the damage I currently have on them working in Hell, even with maxed Venom - 1-160 lightning damage on one, 85-165 fire on the other. I really need cold damage for the CS, though the current setup will at least allow me to kill off the Oblivion Mages themselves. How much damage can you get off a charm? Something to think on.

Galadriel is ready to tackle just about anything, with over 6k damage on meteor and 600-800 odd on Nova, with decent cast-rate and well-rounded resists. Boromir has maxed shout, BO, beserk and concentrate, and now places points into Bash - he'll likely max that before he's done. Arwen's skill placement is something of a nightmare in itself, but it works - thanks to the one-point wonders, Cloak of Shadows and Mind Blast, she's still the safest of my characters to play. Lister will be the biggest test for all three characters.
But for now, I'm content with my hour a day, plugging through the Mausoleum and Black Tower and seeking that elusive Pul rune, Arreat's Face and Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band that will round out my two combat characters.

Congrats to those who have made Guardian already, and commiserations to those who missed out...the standard has really been high this tourney, and we're seeing people who would have won another tourney with their performance just barely miss out on this one. We'll have to come up with some crazy challenge for the next Three-Way to thin out the ranks some more, without killing people off too early. Perhaps one skill tree only, or a grading system that gives more points to crazy builds? We'll see.

Until next time, slow down, stay alive. Don't Drink and D2.
CZS
 
Again, correct my math if I'm wrong, but I see only 5 melee characters left alive in hell.

Sepp, by AndiDi, a Paly who has finished
Steel_Sword, Act IV Hell Barb, steelsixtyIV
March, a Paly by tenaka
eViL-GoDzHobo, Paly by eViL-GoDz
Ormus by SuperSavage, a Druid - shape/summon.

Make it 7, with Arwen and Boromir. But compare even that number to the huge number of participants in Hell right now. Or just compare those who have finished - one melee character from AndiDi, compared to 7 others completed.

Just another interesting stat.
On a related note, Psycho, perhaps we could get an update on exactly what we're now playing for? Everyone would have to post what elite uniques are in their stashes, and one of us could add them all up. It would be interesting to see the ratio of melee items donated to other items.
 
Haha, good to see you posting again :)

Well...the stash has been filling up quite a lot with Elite goodies. It only takes a few pages of searching to find everybody's list of lovely stuff that has been added to the pile. I haven't actually combined all the stashes into one giant stash yet (which takes a long bloody time, I can assure you)...but some items off the top of my head include:

Doombringer
The Cranium Basher
The Widowmaker
Eschuta's Temper
Flamebellow
Leviathan
Stoneraven
Alma Negra
Reaper's Toll

And I also remember an Aldur's Armour in there somewhere, although I can't find it right now in whomever's prize stash it was. But I'm pretty certain there was one.

That's what everybody's playing for :)
 
CraZySorc said:
Make it 7, with Arwen and Boromir. But compare even that number to the huge number of participants in Hell right now. Or just compare those who have finished - one melee character from AndiDi, compared to 7 others completed.

Just another interesting stat.
On a related note, Psycho, perhaps we could get an update on exactly what we're now playing for? Everyone would have to post what elite uniques are in their stashes, and one of us could add them all up. It would be interesting to see the ratio of melee items donated to other items.

I played for the honor and the fun, but I would certainly take some prices if I get an offer to take some :D .

I think the reason that there are not that many melee chars in hell is, that it is a hell of a place for a melee char. Slow going and you have to like living on the edge (of death).

And an update:

[highlight]Exhibition Team Bavarian Forest II[/highlight] - 84 points
Franz - Barb (Warcries/Combat Skills) – lvl 37 – Act V Nml - 25 points
Mich - Necro (Bone/Curse) – lvl 36 – Act V Nml - 24 points
Theres - Sorc (Fire/Ice) – lvl 50 – Act I NM - 35 points

Franz - WP: Crystalline Passage - Last Quest: Killed Nili
Mich - WP: Crystalline Passage - Last Quest: Rescued Anya
Theres - WP: Black Marsh - Last Quest: Killed the Countess

Theres did some Countess runs and Franz has rescued Anya and killed the old corpse exploder.
 
Just trying to keep the thread near the frontpage, so another update:

Having more or less finished act III with my firts two chars it was time for Morpheus to strat his (probably long) way to Meph. He had already donne the sewers quest, so out into the deserts he went. With the maggot lair being a perfect environment for a iron barb, always fighting 1 to 1 he had no problems at all. The viper temple was alos easy, engaging enemies two at a time, and plenty of doorways to turn the odds to my side even better.
So with both the staff and amulet in hand, he is now ready to explore the palace, and maybe find the arcane sanctuary in his next session. Again plenty of (low level) runes, but hardly any green or gold item.
And that with a whopping 5 % MF, from my probably best small charm ever :)
+13 to Attack Rating
+3 to Maximum Damage
5% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items

anyway, two levels and one point further:

Team the Matrix II (Gouda) – 135 points
Destroyer Morpheus - (Barb – Warcries/Com.Skills) – lvl 54 – Act II NM
Destroyer Merovingian - (Necro - Summon/Curse) – lvl 64 – Act III NM
Destroyer Persephone - (Sorc Fire/Cold) – lvl 64 – Act III NM

Have fun, don't die,

Gouda :cool:
 
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