Tournament: Envious of the Green and Gold

@Merlin: nice write-up. How ironic if she will actually use a bow...
I played a Concentrate Barbarian in the first S/U worshipper tourney. Really slow at times but pretty good in the late game when I could upgrade my Shael-ed Fleshrender to elite. He also had decent resists and over 2300 life.

@RIP: good luck with your FoH character. That is a build I'd like to try some day.



Martina and Telash made it through the temples without worry. There was a big snake- and beetle pack in the last temple that made me glad I had Decoy and a good bottleneck to face them in.

Green of the day: Sigon's Wrap. That's my third green belt but it can't beat the Arctic combo at this stage. I hope to collect a nice Sigon's 3-combo. Most 3-combos are good. You may have gloves for big IAS, boots for MF and faster run, helm for big AR boost, shield for good blocking, etc.


[Highlight]Martina the Amazon and Telash the Cold Mage, level 31, 10 S/U items equipped, Travincal next[/Highlight]
 
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Thanks jian, it was very easy so far, Thor is now lvl 12, using white scepter with + 3 Holy fire almost exclusively, and i don't think this will be changed in A1...Also found my first set item - Arctic furs which dissapointed me a bit, i hoped that topazed armors will last much longer...I will do real update after finishing A1...

Btw.: I've created similiar tourney not long time ago, but it was on different forum (Czech players only) and it had much more restricted rules - only Unique items could be used, at the beginning and till uniques are found, only items from A1 Normal were allowed (and white and grey ones only), and also type of character and skill points were choosed by random genretaror - Normal difficulty was sometimes as tough as some Hell areas :-)
 
Code: 
Name          Character    Class         Area               Level    S/U's Equipped
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jiansonz      Martina      Amazon        Flayer Jungle       29          9
felixbavaria  Bruno        Druid         Kurast Docks        27          8
Glenstorm     Irene        Assassin      Lut Gholein         20          1
Kitteh        Briony       Assassin      Rocky Waste         20          2
Morathi       TBA          TBA           Act 1  Normal       1           0
djmbbandie    Cassie       Amazon        Rogue Camp          1           0
Grisu         Meronym      Assassin      Rogue Camp          1           0
Tox FTW       Tipsey       Assassin      Rogue Camp          1           0
RIP           Thor         Paladin       Rogue camp          1           0


Still only 2 set/uniques! They're a good combination though; 35 life/life leech/15@res/hit blinds target.
 
Pyrotechnician said:
Getting cdm to make a workable table is almost impossible. Thats why I end up doing it for our mp groups.

I really like the idea of this tourney, so I'll probably join, but not at this exact moment.
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Nonsense, I make perfectly good tables. I just don't like screwing other people's tables up, nor fixing mistakes. I just don't really get why everyone's still using code tables since they added perfectly good table tools to the forum.

Edit:

Code: 
Name          Character    Class         Area               Level    S/U's Equipped
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jiansonz      Martina      Amazon        Flayer Jungle       29          9
felixbavaria  Bruno        Druid         Kurast Docks        27          8
Glenstorm     Irene        Assassin      Lut Gholein         20          1
Kitteh        Briony       Assassin      Rocky Waste         20          2
CDM           BK           Druid         Cold Plains         7           0
Morathi       TBA          TBA           Act 1  Normal       1           0
djmbbandie    Cassie       Amazon        Rogue Camp          1           0
Grisu         Meronym      Assassin      Rogue Camp          1           0
Tox FTW       Tipsey       Assassin      Rogue Camp          1           0
RIP           Thor         Paladin       Rogue camp          1           0

There, took the time to add my character, though I didn't use his name since it's too long to fit.
 
Code: 
Name          Character    Class         Area               Level    S/U's Equipped
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jiansonz      Martina      Amazon        Flayer Jungle       29          9
felixbavaria  Bruno        Druid         Kurast Docks        27          8
Tox FTW       Tipsey       Assassin      Kurast Docks        25          1
Glenstorm     Irene        Assassin      Lut Gholein         20          1
Kitteh        Briony       Assassin      Rocky Waste         20          2
CDM           BK           Druid         Cold Plains         7           0
Morathi       TBA          TBA           Act 1  Normal       1           0
djmbbandie    Cassie       Amazon        Rogue Camp          1           0
Grisu         Meronym      Assassin      Rogue Camp          1           0
RIP           Thor         Paladin       Rogue camp          1           0

Tipsey danced right through act 1 and 2 with only 5 or 6 NDEs. Pitspawn Fouldog was definitely the closest NDE. A melee character has no business jumping into the middle of a cursed boss pack with all white items, no leech, low life, and no resists. I had forgotten this fact.

Dragon Talon has proven to be a decent skill early on, even without any bonuses from items. Once I got a Shadow Warrior everything moved along much more smoothly. The only S/U was a Greyform in the Jail lvl 2. Andy and Duriel dropped 4 rares each. :( I hate to guess how many rares I've left laying on the ground through the first 2 acts. Even yellow and green jewels aren't dropping (zero so far).

[Highlight]Tipsey the Assassin, level 25, 1 S/U item equipped, Kurast Docks[/Highlight]
 
Mephisto has been defeated. I switched to players 3* for that fight and whipped out Crushflange. I so love that I have a Crushing Blow weapon for the act boss fights. They would have been much tougher otherwise. I was a bit worried about my low lightning resist, but once you are into melee with Mephisto, he does not use much lightning attacks. Plus I could get him to attack the Decoy more than me. Telash was barely hit at all. (OTOH, Conviction Bremm managed to kill him)

(* The spawning point for Mephisto is around when you get in line with the entrances to the side rooms (those with Wyand and Maffer). I know this because I always had a short lag here when I had a slower computer.)

The drop had three golds and greens: Steelclash, Cleglaw's Tooth and Sigon's Gage. Steelclash was a major upgrade. 58% blocking compared to 45% on the old shield, plus resists and other stuff.
I now have three green pairs of gloves, each with the option of 1-2 more items in the set.
Cleglaw's sword does pretty good damage combined with the gloves, but that means I give up 20+50 life and IAS from the Arctic gloves and 3-set bonuses. Not sure yet what I want to use in Act 4.

Starting to fill up my slots now. Second ring slot is still empty. Both helms, one shield and my boots are still grey/white. Current MF is 91% for Telash's kills and 66% otherwise. That will drop if I find an S/U helm (unless it's Tarnhelm or Sander's Paragon).

The maximum number of S/Us you can wear is 16 but since my planned skills require two-handed weapons (with the possible exception of the tiny chance of a unique javelin), I am probably looking at 14 in the endgame (13 if I switch to another type of merc).


[Highlight]Martina the Amazon and Telash the Cold Mage, level 32, 11 S/U items equipped, Outer Steppes next[/Highlight]
 
Code: 
Name          Character    Class         Area               Level    S/U's Equipped
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jiansonz      Martina      Amazon        Flayer Jungle       29          9
felixbavaria  Bruno        Druid         Kurast Docks        27          8
Tox FTW       Tipsey       Assassin      Kurast Docks        25          1
Glenstorm     Irene        Assassin      Lut Gholein         20          1
Kitteh        Briony       Assassin      Arcane Sanctuary    25          7
CDM           BK           Druid         Cold Plains         7           0
Morathi       TBA          TBA           Act 1  Normal       1           0
djmbbandie    Cassie       Amazon        Rogue Camp          1           0
Grisu         Meronym      Assassin      Rogue Camp          1           0
RIP           Thor         Paladin       Rogue camp          1           0


[Highlight]Briony the Assassin, level 25, 7 S/U item equipped, Arcane Sanctuary[/Highlight]


Uniques/Sets Equipped;
  • Cleglaw's Pincers
  • Blood Crescent
  • Umbral Disk
  • Sander's Riprap
  • Death's Guard
  • Horadric Amulet
  • Gnasher (switch, for bosses)

Other highlight; 11@res GC.

I've gambled so many bleedin' daggers!

Edit: I just realised that you can't use quest items, luckily I stopped playing after I got the amulet!
 
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Ive never done anything like this! ;) So Im in for a try! Chicken style though!

Wish me luck!

Archone Chicken Necromancer Rogue Camp 1 0


EDIT: Oh, and please tell me how you do that table! :)
 
Code: 
Name          Character    Class         Area               Level    S/U's Equipped
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felixbavaria  Bruno        Druid         City of the Damned  33          9
jiansonz      Martina      Amazon        Pandemonium F.      32         11
Tox FTW       Tipsey       Assassin      Kurast Docks        25          1
Glenstorm     Irene        Assassin      Lut Gholein         20          1
Kitteh        Briony       Assassin      Arcane Sanctuary    25          7
CDM           BK           Druid         Cold Plains         7           0
Morathi       TBA          TBA           Act 1  Normal       1           0
djmbbandie    Cassie       Amazon        Rogue Camp          1           0
Grisu         Meronym      Assassin      Rogue Camp          1           0
RIP           Thor         Paladin       Rogue camp          1           0
Archone       Chicken      Necromancer   Rogue Camp          1           0

Fixed the table, added Archone, and updated Bruno's progress. Not much to report except that Mephisto has been defeated without any incidents (he tried his ice trick a lot but it did not even kill the Grizzly), and that Hephat the Cold Mage is now accompanying the bear duo. I would really like a female archer companion for them but I don't have a better bow than Arctic Horn (which Bruno might use himself for the AR bonus, once).

@Archone: Reply with Quote, copy/paste table in Notepad, make changes, copy/paste into reply text box.
 
Two quick questions I thought of while playing my guy:
1) Can we use throwing potions? They are? yellow and green...
2) Horadric items; ammy and staff are gold, I've always considered them unique. Can we use the ammy and must we use the staff while we have them? Horadric Malus and Hell forge hammer too.

Ps. I think this is the first time ever that I've notice it's not spelled Horodric.
 
Code: 
Name          Character    Class         Area               Level    S/U's Equipped
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felixbavaria  Bruno        Druid         City of the Damned  33          9
jiansonz      Martina      Amazon        Pandemonium F.      32         11
Tox FTW       Tipsey       Assassin      Kurast Docks        25          1
Kitteh        Briony       Assassin      Arcane Sanctuary    25          7
Glenstorm     Irene        Assassin      Lut Gholein         20          1
Jason         Qirana       Amazon        Stony Field         13          1
CDM           BK           Druid         Cold Plains          7          0
Morathi       TBA          TBA           Act 1  Normal        1          0
djmbbandie    Cassie       Amazon        Rogue Camp           1          0
Grisu         Meronym      Assassin      Rogue Camp           1          0
RIP           Thor         Paladin       Rogue camp           1          0
Archone       Chicken      Necromancer   Rogue Camp           1          0

Tables are simple. Just highlight the table bit, and change the font to Courier New (or any other equal space font). Et voila, it all lines up. Also, never copy/paste in code sections. Breaks the code box up into smaller code boxes.

My lass has cleared the Stony Field. Poor choice of stopping location, but I was just about falling asleep. Next session is going to be a run from the WP to the cave entrance without killing anything or getting killed (they are on opposite sides of my map). And then I'm going to have to somehow draw the little blue bastards away from the stones. Will be fun.

One Set item thus far: Infernal Cranium. 10@res for the win!

[highlight]Qirana (pronounced "wares-mai-leef") the Amazon, Level 13, Stony Field, 1 S/U equipped[/highlight]
 
Code: 
Name          Character    Class         Area               Level    S/U's Equipped
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felixbavaria  Bruno        Druid         City of the Damned  33          9
jiansonz      Martina      Amazon        Pandemonium F.      32         11
Tox FTW       Tipsey       Assassin      Kurast Docks        25          1
Kitteh        Briony       Assassin      Arcane Sanctuary    25          7
Glenstorm     Irene        Assassin      Lut Gholein         20          1
CDM           BK           Druid         Black Marsh         16          1
Jason         Qirana       Amazon        Stony Field         13          1
Morathi       TBA          TBA           Act 1  Normal        1          0
djmbbandie    Cassie       Amazon        Rogue Camp           1          0
Grisu         Meronym      Assassin      Rogue Camp           1          0
RIP           Thor         Paladin       Rogue camp           1          0
Archone       Chicken      Necromancer   Rogue Camp           1          0

Found my first S/U pretty soon after finding my first yellow jewel (6% ed!). My unique was Blood Crescent Scimitar, which is a decent weapon, but it still does far less damage than my chipped emerald chipped topaz scepter. Oh well, I have res. I accidentally hit s/e instead of options so will have to run across the Black Marsh next time I play. Luckily I had finished clearing the Marsh, the Hole, and the Tower. I've been doing full clears, but that wont last forever.

So far my druid is a summoner. I figured some form of casting or summoning was called for since melee weapons are tricky to come across especially since you cant runeword up something decent. 7 poison creeper (going to max, he's great for early normal), 3 raven (putting a few more in here for better blinding), 1 into oak (I'm treating it like decoy so if it dies, meh), and 5 into spirit wolf. It all seems random, but I've done similar before with good results. Poison creeper is a heavy weight in the early game. End game I'm planning on still having summons, and backing them up with either fire branch or shifting into bear for shock wave and fire claws. The latter seems do-able and I might wind up doing a little of both.
 
crawlingdeadman said:
Two quick questions I thought of while playing my guy:
1) Can we use throwing potions? They are? yellow and green...
2) Horadric items; ammy and staff are gold, I've always considered them unique. Can we use the ammy and must we use the staff while we have them? Horadric Malus and Hell forge hammer too.

Ps. I think this is the first time ever that I've notice it's not spelled Horodric.
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1)Sure, they are fine (they are part of the white/grey weapon category). Just make sure once you have 3 found S/U weapons, you must use them and ditch the throwing. However, i am sure at that point you won't need to throw :).
2)Please refer to the OP
Quest items (e.g. Khalim’s Will) may be equipped temporarily only when necessary to complete quests. Quest rewards (Charsi, Anya) may not be equipped.
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So to answer that question, no you cannot wear them while questing.



Progress with my toon is going well! Work full time has slowed my game play....hopefully i'll be able to complete Act 1 by the weekend and post an official update.
 
Code: 
Name          Character    Class         Area               Level    S/U's Equipped
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felixbavaria  Bruno        Druid         City of the Damned  33          9
jiansonz      Martina      Amazon        Pandemonium F.      32          11
Tox FTW       Tipsey       Assassin      Kurast Docks        25          1
Kitteh        Briony       Assassin      Arcane Sanctuary    25          7
Glenstorm     Irene        Assassin      Lut Gholein         20          1
Archone       Chicken      Necromancer   Outer Cloister      18          2
CDM           BK           Druid         Black Marsh         16          1
Jason         Qirana       Amazon        Stony Field         13          1
Morathi       TBA          TBA           Act 1  Normal        1          0
djmbbandie    Cassie       Amazon        Rogue Camp           1          0
Grisu         Meronym      Assassin      Rogue Camp           1          0
RIP           Thor         Paladin       Rogue camp           1          0


I actually succeeded with the table this time! :thumbup:

Heres my story of progression! (short version)

My thought was that a Summoner Necro could progress pretty ok, even naked. So far its been a breeze, ofc.
My first decent drops was a +3CE/+2SumSkel white wand, and a +2SkelMastery zombie head! ;)

Then Countess dropped Arctic Armor, forcing me to drop my 2x C.Topazed Leather Armor. But got 10@res instead!
Andys poison hurts alot, and so dropped Death Gloves for me! Lucky meh!



Peace
 
Morathi said:
However, i am sure at that point you won't need to throw .
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Maybe. Throwing or plinking away with a bow is a very necessary part of some characters (for me anyway, especially when they're untwinked), it keeps them alive. Hope to come across a S/U bow or throwing weapon of some kind.
Morathi said:
2)Please refer to the OP


So to answer that question, no you cannot wear them while questing.
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D'oh, re read the OP before asking and missed that part. Guess I was looking forward to using the Ammy for a little while.
 
Just had to say Ive found a lvl8 9max jwl, a green one! ;)
 
Diablo is down. I had maxed cold/fire resists against him (Crushflange has great fire resist) but only 35% lightning (15 Steelclash, 10 Arctic Furs and 2x5 charms) so I ran around him to avoid the bulk of the lightning breath a bunch of times.

Diablo dropped Tancred's Skull. Even though it's an item that helps me more than Telash I have still given it to him, since Martina prefers to wear a 2x PTopaz Crown. My current MF is 88% regardless of who kills the monsters.

Even more green gloves (my 4th pair) on the Foothills: Sander's Taboo.

Still no sign of a bow, crossbow or spear. I wonder how long Attack will be my only offensive skill...
Unless I find a better weapon before I have my first Sol rune, the rarely seen Bladebone Twin Axe will be manufactured.


[Highlight]Martina the Amazon and Telash the Cold Mage, level 36, 12 S/U items equipped, Frigid Highlands next[/Highlight]
 
Code: 
Name          Character    Class         Area               Level    S/U's Equipped
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jiansonz      Martina      Amazon        Frigid Highlands    36          12
felixbavaria  Bruno        Druid         City of the Damned  33          9
Archone       Chicken      Necromancer   Kurast Docks        29          5
Tox FTW       Tipsey       Assassin      Kurast Docks        25          1
Kitteh        Briony       Assassin      Arcane Sanctuary    25          7
Glenstorm     Irene        Assassin      Lut Gholein         20          1
CDM           BK           Druid         Black Marsh         16          1
Jason         Qirana       Amazon        Stony Field         13          1
Morathi       TBA          TBA           Act 1  Normal        1          0
djmbbandie    Cassie       Amazon        Rogue Camp           1          0
Grisu         Meronym      Assassin      Rogue Camp           1          0
RIP           Thor         Paladin       Rogue camp           1          0

Ive done full clears on /players8 so far! And I just killed Duriel without loosing 1 skeleton. Overleveled I guess..

Found a unique Dirk (The Diggler) which will give me a nice 25%Fire res when facing Diablo. (on switch atm)

Also found Razortine Trident in the Lost City, which is AWESOME for its 25% slow! ;)
Together with clay golem and Decrepify, my slow is at 86%!

Duriel also dropped The Centaur Hard Leather Armor.. Not sure Ive ever seen it before. Still, life and mana is nice! Artic armor went to merc instead.



Peace
 
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