LL D3 Tourney

[Kevin]

I present to you...

Giaidau - Female Wizard (Vietnamese, it's missing lots of the accents of course)
Kampjonat - Male Monk (Maltese)
Turnuva - Female Witch Doctor (Turkish)

I do hope to journal some of the adventures and share them with you all.

I started with Giaidau, not because I felt I had the best chance with her (I think my monk does) but because, as mentioned, I had very little wizard experience and felt like getting some.

I've stopped her just as she got into Leoric's Manor at 4:48 played, L15. I had a lot of big side dungeons and I'm really good at finding the way down with my first selection of direction and then having to double back to get the stuff I missed and her damage is still weak compared to the other classes I've played non twinked (or it might just be the skills I've been locked into). I'm not used to normal mobs sometimes taking 4 hits of a primary skill to kill even untwinked and that was pretty common.

I think her luck has been pretty good on drops, the 2nd blue drop I got was a pair of 5% run speed boots. I recently replaced those with 7%, 9int boots. I've got a 20 damage wand, several +exp and +life per hit items, a few int and a few vit pieces.

The spider cave was the only place I came close to dying. There were about 70 little spiders and 7 mommas that hit me in a choke point. Energy twister had recently unlocked so I was messing with it. If I still had force push up I would have been fine. As it was I got surrounded and couldn't walk out. I had to drink and put up diamond skin and focus fire with orb (filling in with shock pulse that I was also playing with) and managed to clear a path with about 50 HP and 1s left on diamond skin cooldown. I started to run jamming diamond skin which activated with me at around 10 HP. I was the same speed as the little spiders, 3 of which were on my tail. I dodged some web spit and kept running being grateful for the little ticks of 2 HP Kormacs aura was giving me. I couldn't remember if there were any globes still sitting around I had had to double back to map everything a couple times and just couldn't remember, then I saw two of them sitting around an egg pile and finished my dash too them, turned and blasted the 3 chasers then worked my way back mopping up the rest.

I have a bunch of screen shots, tried to get every champ/unique and I'm logging all my maps too. I wanted to video, but FRAPS throws me out after 1 to 3 minutes, it's not a space issue either I've got 600 GB free on the drive I'm streaming too, and yes I've paid for it, so it's a full version. I may have to try disabling the 2nd monitor and trying again. I hadn't used FRAPS in about 6 years but they are true to their word and my registration was still good for the newest version. I've only spent a few minutes messing with it so I'll try again at some point.

But that is where I'm at now. I may or may not get the 5 hours in on the other two this week, since I'm itching to play my "big" monk. I don't have any toons in NM right now after a few deaths and I'd like to back there again, heck I'd like to be back in hell, maybe I'll have to check with some of the softcore only folks and group up with them on my little barb so I have a toon that doesn't lose progress. I miss the higher difficulties (yes I've been in Hell before too).