2014 RFO Sign-Up and Running Thread

maareek

Diabloii.Net Member
Finished. Ran with Blizzard Sorceress and WW Barb. Times were pretty bad (27.541 for sorc; 41.516 for barb) but I'm sure I can do better in the future, so it was at least good practice. 830pgems, 6 res/life SCs, 34% RJoF, 2 grailers, BKWB, SoJ, J(ade)MoD(;p) among others made it a pretty profitable endeavor altogether. Thanks for hosting grip, and I hope everybody has plenty of new toys for the time they put in.

A few random pics: The mother lode. Farming grailers in Travincal. Peekaboo.
 

Espr

Diabloii.Net Member
Those are pretty bad? >.>

I'm quite pleased with my haul as well. I'm going to go over things more closely soon, but it was worth it for me with not only my first, but also my second SoJ! Got my first BKWB during practice/map-rerolling before hand as well. Everything else was just gravy.
 

Thyiad

Moderator Single Player, D2 Assassin, Barbarian
Dear Sir/Madam

I am writing to complain about the alleged rune-drops of your Council.

Whilst I am appreciative of deepening financial constraints, it would appear that the quantity of runes provided by your Council are negligible. Indeed, I have been wondering if members of your Council have been removing said runes surreptitiously before they have a chance to drop. I understand that this is a serious charge, but I feel given the number of runes provided at the Council meetings I have attended over the last week, it has to be suggested.

Furthermore, when runes have been provided at said Council meetings, they have been of exceptionally poor quality ("Eth"!), that it strengthens my concerns that quality runes have been appropriated by Council members and moved to a safer location before the meetings. This goes against the spirit of the meetings and I would hope anyone caught doing this will be reprimanded.

I trust that you will investigate this matter thoroughly before any further meetings take place. It is quite unfair to tout the abundance of runes of quality at Council meetings, if they have been moved prior to the meetings! When one takes time to join the meetings, it is only to be expected that the meetings should have some hope of productivity.

My own investigate shall be taking me to LK and the RoF and should I find any evidence of impropriety of the Council members, I shall forward it to you. I hope your own searches - perhaps of Pindle - are successful.

Yours

Thyiad
 

Gripphon

Diabloii.Net Member
Dear Council Members

How are ya all, buddies? Just wanted to say thank you for keeping your end of a bargain, all those shiny runes you gave me are very helpful to me and I'll make sure to put them to great use. Hopefully no one will find out about our secret agreement, there might be pretty mad players who will complain about you being avaricious and not dropping any rune. Maybe they will become suspicious that someone told you not to drop runes. I've put quite a show complaining about having bad luck to keep those suspicions away from me. Now I just must think of some excuse to show up with epic RFO score which I do have, otherwise others might find out that it is me who is responsible for dryness of rune drops.

To keep things even more blur to the others, since I already have quite an advantage in score over the others, I'm allowing you to drop nice runes for other players in their last hour of playing. Don't give them Cham or Ber ofc, but give them something so that they end up RFO happier and forget about their bad luck. Just don't overdo it. Drop them Mal, Um, Gul, up to Ohm, something in those lines. Rest send to me ofc. Oh, may I order another perfect facet too? It must be die, other stuff don't matter much. Non-perfect ones send to other players, they might think they are lucky to get them. Oh, and don't lose this letter. We don't want someone to find out about our agreement, I'm not in mood of killing people. Yet.

Sincerely, Gripmeister.
 

maareek

Diabloii.Net Member
Those are pretty bad? >.>
Sure. I've played a ton of D2, and the vast majority of that time has been playing either sorceresses or barbs, so I see no reason to not hold myself to the highest standard I have available and therefore having that standard be ~33% and ~25% faster than I was running, respectively, counts as pretty bad for me.
 

pharphis

Diabloii.Net Site Pal
I'm losing track of the number of SoEs I've found during this RFO. 3-4 so far.. which is more qualifiers than I have -_-
Stupid 1.07
 

Espr

Diabloii.Net Member
Sure. I've played a ton of D2, and the vast majority of that time has been playing either sorceresses or barbs, so I see no reason to not hold myself to the highest standard I have available and therefore having that standard be ~33% and ~25% faster than I was running, respectively, counts as pretty bad for me.
Ah, by that metric it makes sense. I'd feel the same with pindle on my barb. Though I'd argue you could/should cut yourself some some slack because looting in Trav is possibly the most obnoxious in all the game, but I shant as I know I don't cut myself any slack because of that either.
 

Thyiad

Moderator Single Player, D2 Assassin, Barbarian
I finished earlier. Well gave up in disgust.

Non qualifiers included Darksight Helm, two Dwarf Stars, cold facet (bad) and a perfect Skin of the Vipermagi and a 5% FHR/all res 5 charm. Quite chuffed about the last two.

It was a nice change, but I got so fed up near the end, I went and smacked Pindle a few times for variety. Now *that* is bad. Least I got a few rejuvies out of him.

Thanks for running this. Now back to the HC tourney. :D
 

BobCox2

Diabloii.Net Member
So you can use TK to open a TP from a distance, 12 years playing D2 and I'm still learning!!
I learned this in 2008
http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/threads/telekinesis-teleport.644479/

Effect: Allows you to pick up items, trigger objects, and attack others at a distance.

* Knockback and Stun disabled when used against Super Unique Monsters and Bosses.
* Telekinesis can be used to activate the Seals in The Chaos Sanctuary.
* Telekinesis can be used to open chests and to quickly grab the contents which will be placed in your inventory if there is room.
* Telekinesis will only pick up scrolls, potions, keys, gold, arrows and bolts.
* Use Telekinesis to stun enemies and shove them away. At low levels you will find Telekinesis is useful for killing enemies but as you take on more powerful enemies you will find that you will have to cast it many times to finish off an enemy by yourself.
* You can use Telekinesis to activate Shrines. This saves the time of walking to a Shrine to touch it and also can be used to beat other players to the most desired Shrines.
* Telekinesis can be used to enter Portals created with Town Portal scroll or Portal Shrine. Red portals like The Secret Cow Level or Pit of Acheron can be also used. Note that you can only enter the portal with Telekinesis inside the town or level.
* You can activate and use Waypoints with Telekinesis. Your private stash is also usable with this skill. These can significantly hasten up your town visits.
 

pharphis

Diabloii.Net Site Pal
I'm pretty sure TK can still stun or knockback super uniques just at a reduced chance of doing so (10%?)
Same with warcry
 

Fervid

Diabloii.Net Member
I don't know about the knockback on SUs, but in older versions it can pick up anything. Quite useful in 1.07 :D
 

Gripphon

Diabloii.Net Member
Only half of the players sent results by now. The sooner the rest of you send results, the sooner I'll be able to publish them.
 

Pyrotechnician

Diabloii.Net Site Pal
I netted one qualifier in the approxmiate 7 hours input into this, as such I'm not going to bother sending in results so go ahead and post without me.
 
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