Tournament: Envious of the Green and Gold

I defeated NM Andy yesterday and made it into Act II. She was killing my merc and shadow master in about 2 seconds so i pulled her out of her room into the one below it and ran in circles around the sacrificial pit in the middle while traps slowly killed her. It took a awhile on P8, but i don't think my HP ever slipped below 80% so it was quite safe. Rezzed merc to get the killing blow for an extra 24 MF, but that amounted to nothing.

I haven't gotten a S/U from a boss kill since normal Duriel.
 
I'm still working on Nito the bonemancer! Very slow progress; I'm spending a lot of time with the girlfriend and rock climbing a lot. However, I recently hurt my shoulder pretty bad, so I can't climb for a bit, and decided to work on this character a bit.

That said, I shopped this beauty of a wand :)

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You can make an iron golem from anything that's considered metal. So anythign but bows, wands.. and a few other similar things.. I can't remember if crossbows work..


Insight is a great choice for almost any build, otherwise something with lots of elemental and and/or CB is good
 
pharphis said:
You can make an iron golem from anything that's considered metal. So anythign but bows, wands.. and a few other similar things.. I can't remember if crossbows work..


Insight is a great choice for almost any build, otherwise something with lots of elemental and and/or CB is good
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I know that haha - I'm asking in regards to this tournament :P
 
A strict reading of the rules would imply that, indeed, you could make an Iron Golem out of anything (such as Insight) as you are not equipping the item. Also, the fact that you are in a sense "destroying" the non set/unique item might give further justification to do it as well. I would say go for it!
 
Even though the tourney is long gone, I have decided to start a character that will follow the rules here. Thought I might as well post the progress here.

Why this tourney?
I wanted another S/U worshipping character, and OldSoldier's latest posts in the '5 stages of Grief' made me realize it's been far too long since I played an Amazon with a strong Valkyrie. So despite what I wrote here a few posts (and a few years!) back, my next character here will not be a FoH Pally or a Berserker, it will be an Amazon.

So my planned main defense will be Valkyrie and Decoy, both maxed or nearly so. Since I am very likely to at least find some sort of S/U bow, crossbow or spear, I can build up damage based on my finds. It's easiest to do with elemental damage, so that's probably where I am headed. All of those weapon types are 2-handed, which rules out my original S/U tourney concept, which forced you to always wear as many S/U items as possible. I also want to avoid the stats/skills/resists handicap in the 'Lack of Information' tournament. Socketebles are also different. In Lack of Info, you can socket gems, runes (no RWs, though) and unique jewels. In this tourney, you can socket emeralds, topazes and jewels with the green or yellow graphic. Runes in this tournament are only good for some cube recipes (and before all weapon/armor slots have S/U items, El/Eld can be useful to normalize low quailty items). So runes from Tir to Ith are only good for cubing up to Tal, or for selling. Runes above Pul are useless except for selling. :)

Merc choice will depend a lot on what I find, plus I need to look up what merc types are left for the SPF tourney merc dodecavirate I've wanted to complete for so many years.


I am already scared of the thought of facing Diablo with (likely) bad damage output and resists!
 
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