LL D3 Tourney

[MongoJerry]

Mongojerry, regarding no buying from vendors. I was hesitant to include this rule but it ensures your shared gold stash won't aid you in this tournament, since all your buying is potions and repairing. I agree that rings are the number one benefit from vendors and are a huge help, but in the end I feel it'll create even more of a challenge which is what I want this tournament to be. I hope you'll play in it!

I'm definitely in. However, this vendors worry is really a non-issue, since the gold that the characters make will easily out-strip the gold amount that they spend on the vendors. These characters will be money makers, not money losers. Remember, they won't be upgrading their jewelcrafters and blacksmiths, crafting items, buying things on the auction house, or buying much if any stash space.

I cannot recall ever buying a ring/amulet from a vendor. You get them a little later, but the drops have always (in my experience) been better. In fact, I have found the vendors utterly useless; I certainly would not consider it a handicap.

Wow, you really need to check the fence in town more often, I think. The vendor rings and amulets have always been a staple of mine, and I have yet to find ring or amulet drops -- even rare ones -- that beat the vendor rings and amulets. Vendor ones with +damage plus int and vitality are my favorite, although ones with +attack speed and vitality are nice as well. On occation, when I get to a new difficulty, I'll end up replacing some of my weaker armor pieces with vendor items until I find or craft something better along the way. But the rings and amulets from the fences are especially good.

Sure, I'm in, but a time restriction or something seems appropriate, otherwise the people w/o jobs are just going to pubstomp us working/familial types

This might not be as big of an issue as you may think because of the restriction of not being able to rerun zones. Normally, those with extra time on their hands could benefit from farming zones to get better gear, but this restriction pretty much removes that possibility.

Of course, the $1 million prize for winning the tournament may cause people to cheat on this restriction.

Oh, wait.