Meet the Olympians, Summer 2012 Edition

[mr teach]

Well just like Nulio I am rather lazy:

theGuardian - another hiker on Mount Olymp

I had only one char (fishymancer) in Hell so I so i got him from the Pits to Pindle just in time before the MFO started.
First 100 runs or so were done with a 4Topas Gothicplate - than i found a 3os Archonplate and made myself a Wealth.
3Topaz Deathmask as Headgear furthermore: Goldwrap, Chanceguards, 32MF magic boots, Rhyme, Arm of King Leoric, 25MF crafted Ammy with resist all and FCR, SoJ, 27% Nagelring, 30MF from SC

I think at run 1000 or so i found my frist Gheeds - 20MF -.- ... I also found an eth Alibaba and put my only IST into it because the AoKL wasn't needed.

In the first days i only got like 200 runs done each day because I picked up all rares to sell them - silly me

I stopped that and boom my runtime halfed or so.

I discoverd that it was fastest to only resurrect 3 skellies and not 10 in pindles garden because then the merc got to kill the first Pindle minion faster and i saved time at the start.
I more or less perfected my routine on Thursday and could have gotten to like 6 or 7k total runs but friday i was unable to play because of a terrible hangover. And on sunday friends showed up spontaneous...

..so i only got done 3810 runs .. it was still fun

But i think Pindle hates me.
I got not one necro-specific unique - but all the claws at least twice -.- Also the Shako still eludes me

But all in all I got massive amounts of items i never had seen before ^^ and a lot of knowledge on how to properly run a target

Best find besides the qualifiers was a Vex - HotO her i come

 

[Cyrax]

Ran Baal this MFO with my LF zon for XP. Goal was to get to 98 during MFO and she just made that (1 day before ending).

Her stats are suboptimal now as before she didn´t have enigma so she needed more str than she does now.

Base stats:
str - 126
dex - 166
vit - 273
ene - 15

Skills:
5 in pierce
16 valk
6 decoy (both for stronger valk and longer lasting decoy; maybe now with better gear respeccing and putting points into synergy may be better)
LF, CS and 1 synergy max
11 in the other synergy (final point going here)

Equipment:
mara's (30)
griffon's + facet (+17/-22)
titan's (upped)
enigma bp
ss (pdiamond)
+3 java gloves (/w 19 dex)
t-gods
ravenfrost
soj
wt's (46)

8x skiller & sc's for resists.

Merc:
vamp gaze (ias jewel)
duriel's shell (eth, ias jewel)
infinity

During this MFO she had 1 good day. This netted both my no. 1 and 2 of the final five. Other than that drops were pretty bad. After finding 2 horizon's the 3rd scourge was finally the right one.
Best non-qualifiers were jah, ohm and 2x facet (5/-4 and 3/-4).

As stated before xp was the main goal. So despite not being able to run as much as i wanted or win this, i still achieved my main goal: reaching 98.

 

[Owlie]

This is a great thread, if I may say so! Sheds some light on "how the pros do it" for us aspiring MFers. Thank you!

frozzzen, oh my! Your jewelry is beyond words. :whistling:

As I'm doing some AT runs myself, I would love to see how you do it. Did you happen to record some runs or are there any videos of your AT running on the site already?


Nulio, you've inspired me to start a 13k Pindle runs longer-term project. :thumbsup: I did not know you could get so many HRs from Pindle running. Is your result within standards or were you just very lucky? Also, were those Pindle drops or from his pals? (I'm currently running on /p7 for the XP, but might switch to /p1 when the progress slows down - if those were drops from Pindle)

Thanks!

 

[Jason Maher]

I present to you Liza, level 91 (89 when MFO started) Blizzard sorc, who positively sucks next to the other characters presented here. In keeping with my love of respeccing and re-equipping charatcers, I redid Liza after the start of MFO, basically ditching the annoying Occy for full Tals and building from that basis. Final MF is 375 (167 Unique breakpoint), down from 700-odd. Liza is now more robust and fun to play, and she doesn't have to bolt to town every time she gets poisoned anymore. Her map is not ideal, but I'm used to it, and she has a very nice LK map I didn't want to get rid of. I didn't time my runs, but they fall somewhere in the ball park of "crap". Doesn't help that I can't stop myself picking up gems, jewels, charms etc. and that I do p8 full clears for the exp.

Level: 91
Life: 1317
Mana: 999
Resists: 75/75/75/75
Defence: who cares?

Blizzard damage: 5331-5611
Ice Blast damage: 2663-2756
Cold Mastery: level 28 + a 4/4 facet = -159 to enemy cold resistance
FCR: 105 breakpoint
FHR: 86 breakpoint

Equipment:

- Tal's helm + Um
- Tal's orb + 4/4 facet
- Tal's armour + Ral
- Tal's ammy
- Tal's belt
- Magefist
- 35 FCR 'Spirit' Monarch
- 40 MF War Travs
- 2x SoJ
- 'Harmony' Long Bow on switch

- Gheed's 132/37/15
- bunch of 6/7 MF SCs
- some charms with life, mana, PRes, FHR, FRW

Prayer moron:
- 'Insight' 1.07 eth Thresher (level 17 Meditation)
- Upped Shaftstop + Um
- Vampire Gaze 20% DR, 7% LL + Um

 

[nulio]

I'm not sure what runes can be from Pindle or from his minions. Most times Pindle didn't die alone since Blizzard is an AoE spell. Screenshots don't fully dissipate my doubts. Maybe some drop/screenshot specialist could be more sure

Looking at ingame.de drop calculator for P7 Hell Pindle it was luck. Still nothing compared to four Zod Runes from Pindle *cof* frozzzen *cof*

Sur Rune	0.001413%	1:70772
Lo Rune	0.0012737%	1:78509
Jah Rune	0.001052%	1:95059
Ber Rune	0.000942%	1:106158
Cham Rune	0.0007013%	1:142589
Zod Rune	0.0002687%	1:372128

The lenymo, SoJ, Astreon's and Dweb are also very rare (well obviously...) (or rarer if you don't pack MF). The thing with MFO is that to win you need luck. We just need to look at Nagisa's case, such an amazing amount of playing time in each MFO and crazy D2 skills but that didn't translate in number of wins.

I've been defending a different kind of score. Either just a bigger top or some kind of mean with all qualifiers.

 

[BaronScarpia]

All qualifiers would be troublesome, but I def would like to see my infernal cranium netting me some points... It's harder to find than Asteron's, iirc... :whistling: A bigger top could work imo (people would mention the top 3 for tie breaking).

Imo, the claim system should change. I believe that something closer to what nulio did on the results thread (asking for readouts of Treks, wolhowls, dungo's, etc.) can end up in better torphies than darkforce spawn, bad CoA and ltd. co.

 

[Owlie]

I'm not sure what runes can be from Pindle or from his minions. Most times Pindle didn't die alone since Blizzard is an AoE spell. Screenshots don't fully dissipate my doubts. Maybe some drop/screenshot specialist could be more sure

Ah, too bad. Still in a dilemma. I think /p7 runs take about a couple of more seconds to complete (with 50MF less, Ist'd DF vs. Ist'd Ocy for /p1), which translates to around 1300 more runs (supposing 20s runs) over 13k.

Thanks for the info :thumbsup:

Looking at ingame.de drop calculator for P7 Hell Pindle it was luck. Still nothing compared to four Zod Runes from Pindle *cof* frozzzen *cof*

:whistling:

 

[WoRG]

First, sorry for taking so long to post here, been buried with work all week, plus had to deal with a hurricane...

Second, I'd like to acknowledge that I was very, very lucky to have actually won Baal category
My guy is more than slightly out-of-place here...he's really not an MF'er at all, he's my 99-runner, and in his normal gear, he sports an awesome 30-40MF! I was running Baal for XP anyway, and figured the MFO would be good motivation...it turned out to be AWESOME motivation! :thumbup:

Now, my guy is a pretty unusual choice for a 99-runner: he's an Avenger pally... Further, his gear, save for his helm and switch gear, is all crafted items! I've spent over a year and crafted literally thousands of items assembling his panoply...and am quite happy with the result! However, except for one of his rings as a teaser, I'm NOT gonna show off all his stuff today...I think it deserves its own thread, which I'll do when he hits 99...which hopefully won't be too much longer, after the MFO, he 'only' needs another 95 million XP!!! (and he still has Ancients...I love 1.07... )

So, I present Spatha_Lux (psuedo-Latin for "Sword of Light"):

Stats

Spatha_Lux (clvl 98)
Strength 145 (257)
Dexterity 114 (171)
Vitality 311 (325)
Energy 15 (24)
Life 1167 (1636) [3102]
Mana 160 (378) [713]
AR 4332
IAS 60 (8 fpa)
FHR 86 (4 frame)
FCR 0/34
Block 59%/75%(HS)
Leech 40%life/11%mana
MF 245/255
Run Time (p3/7/3) 4-6min


Skills

Sacrifice 1
Zeal 1
Vengance 20 (28)
Might 1
Holy Fire 1
Thorns 1
Holy Freeze 1
Sanctuary 1
Conviction 20 (25)
Resist Fire 20
Resist Cold 20
R Lightning 20
Salvation 2

Skills from War Scepter:
Holy Shield 3 (12)
Redemption 3 (9)
Vigor 2 (8)


Equipment

Weapon: 1.07 Crafted Phaseblade
Shield: 1.07 Crafted Aegis
Switch: 1.10s Beta CTA
Armor: 1.07 Crafted Great Hauberk
Amulet: 1.07 Crafted Blood Ammy
Helm: CoA [Cham+rare jewel]
Gloves: crafted
Belt: crafted
Boots: crafted
Ring 1: crafted
Ring 2: 1.07 'bugged' blood ring

Spoiler

Blood Band
Ring
Required Level: 67
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 64
Fingerprint: 0xea7c651c
+29 to Strength
+117 to Mana
+9 to Minimum Damage
34% Life stolen per hit

Merc
Act 1 Normal Ice Rogue, lvl 98
Faith Greatbow (+1/15fana)
1.07 Vampire Gaze
1.07 crafted Great Hauberk


Charms

Spoiler

Gheed's (Perfect!)
11min/44life GC
11min/40life GC
11min/39life GC
7min/35life LC
7min/34life LC
7min/30life LC
7min/24life LC
7min/8FHR LC
3min/4MF SC
32AR/7MF SC
30AR/7MF SC
28Def/7MF SC
14Stam/7MF SC
4CR/7MF SC

Misc

I played for about ** hours (thankfully, last week was very slow at work!!), not sure how many runs, but I'd guess a bit more than 1000 from XP gained. I think I was very lucky with drops, all the moreso because I had no long, long periods where nothing dropped like several people did...every day saw improvement to my top 5, which helped keep up the motivation.

Spatha is not a fast runner...he has no teleport, and sometimes gets hung up in WSK2&3, which is why I also entered him in alvl85 category (Hey, if you have to kill mobs anyway, might as well, right?) On the other hand, NOTHING slows him down for long...a good way to describe him might be inexorable... He is a real brick, able to tank enormous amounts of damage, while dishing out the same...

One thing that helps enormously in that regard is his CTA...I found the base several months ago, and finally got around to forwarding some 1.07 HF rushees to 1.10s to collect their hell hellforges, and rolled this beauty:

Spoiler

Call to Arms
War Scepter
'AmnRalMalIstOhm'
One-Hand Damage: 35 to 59
Durability: 70 of 70
Required Strength: 55
Required Level: 57
Mace Class - Fastest Attack Speed
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 90
Fingerprint: 0xdac2bf07
GUID: 0x72e01f4d 0x32dafd05 0x0
+252% Enhanced Damage
Adds 5-30 fire damage
7% Life stolen per hit
Replenish Life +12
30% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
40% Increased Attack Speed
[highlight]+13 to Battle Cry
+14 to Battle Orders
+18 to Battle Command[/highlight]
+2 to Vigor (Paladin Only)
+3 to Redemption (Paladin Only)
+3 to Holy Shield (Paladin Only)
Prevent Monster Heal
150% Damage to Undead
+2 to All Skill Levels
Socketed (5: 5 used)
Amn Rune
Inserted into a War Scepter
7% Life stolen per hit
Required Level: 25
Item Version: Expansion
GUID: 0x1a7f91e7 0xd9a99b1 0x0
Ral Rune
Inserted into a War Scepter
Adds 5-30 fire damage
Required Level: 19
Item Version: Expansion
GUID: 0xaf278c55 0x1096b34b 0x0
Mal Rune
Inserted into a War Scepter
Prevent Monster Heal
Required Level: 49
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
GUID: 0x66420759 0x153d3dab 0x0
Ist Rune
Inserted into a War Scepter
30% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Required Level: 51
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
GUID: 0xebebbd71 0x242b51cc 0x0
Ohm Rune
Inserted into a War Scepter
+50% Enhanced Damage
Required Level: 57
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
GUID: 0xfb64d945 0x65a9f0d 0x0

After getting that, I felt more than safe enough to swap out a little gear to get some MF...I swapped his crafted armor for a 1.07 Skullder's Ire and replaced his mindamage SCs with MF SCs, boosting MF to 245, 255 on switch.

WoRG

 

[SkaMan]

Wow WoRG, way to dangle the carrot on that toon... I really want to see more about your toon now! Looking forward to when you do a write up

 

[Gripphon]

@Fabian
Are you still using an Insight merc?

You must have some sort of weird magical wizard equipment if you got a 105FCR telebarb to work to your liking in the Pit without Insight I guess. Nice!

Good old times.

EDIT

Great, posted it in wrong thread. Wanted to post it in Lounge thread. Sorry guys.