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, ...
I've stopped her just as she got into Leoric's Manor at 4:48 played, L15.

Correction she was at the start of the Halls of Agony at that point.

Kampjonat is sitting in Act II just a bit into L16 at 4 hours 24 minutes played (I'll likely move him along a bit with his 30 minutes of time to go). He was still L14 when he entered the halls, partly because he didn't have as many side dungeons, partly because unlike Giaidau he didn't find a ton of gear with +exp. His drop luck also wasn't quite as good. I've run him dual wield, 2H and 1H + Shield (what he is at now). It all depends on the balance of offense vs defense with him.

I had a much easier time with him. It might be because I know monks better, but I also think it has to do with the basic class designs. All the monk generators are good and I was given deadly reach which meant my single target DPS was pretty much the same as my AoE target DPS. Giaidau was not like that. Her AoE was very limited. Sure she only got locking into electrocute very recently but shock pulse wasn't easy to control and arcane orb which she is locked into is expensive. So she was using magic missile a lot and it just took longer.

I am a bit worried about Kampjonat's level. The monster to player level curve has a bigger impact on melee.

As for a story with him. There was only one place where things got interesting. In the Southern Highlands I was L12 or so and I got that 'event' where you have all the Goatmen in the that little area and there are two specials (one shaman and one normal). Well the normal guy, Fausto the Entombed, was a waller.

I got trapped a bit with a bunch of goats and a few of Fausto's minions, and needed my potion and breath of heaven. At the time I was Deadly Reach with piercing Trident; Wave of Light no runes unlocked on it yet; Breath of Heaven no unlocked runes yet; Dashing Strike with no unlocked runes. Those are all skills I'm locked into with the build. Wave did manage to push them back enough that I was able to wait out the wall, but I did end up needing another potion (the spear chucking goats hurt him still) and a few more uses of breath before I managed by stringing along and using the range on reach and the effectiveness of Wave of Light when they are in a line like that to kill them all off. The shaman Skehlinrath had stayed in their little area and was easy to mop up after.

I also had a bit of luck in that I got to buy yellow shoulders from the merchant guy quest just after the halls and just before you get to go in and free Tyreal thanks to the rule that lets you buy the rares from quest merchants. At least I think that is where it was at least, the guy who is pissed about selling to the cultist and having his name and reputation smeared by the other dude. I had not gotten a shoulder drop at that point (I was L15). They were solid shoulders with 11 dex, regen 1 life, +3 exp, +29 globe life and were 35 armor. Going from no shoulders to those was still quite a nice boost even if several of that stats are fairly pointless.

So he is doing alright at the moment. Oddly I might stick with Kormac on him for a bit. I don't think I'll be L20 when the enchantress becomes available and the heal, healing aura, and charge on the Templar have proven helpful. He has also tanked a few things while I was able to stand behind him and use deadly reach's range to my advantage. The better spirit generation he can offer might be worth more than the 15% armor at least for a time. I usually find it a no brainer to use the enchantress with a melee toon simply because of 15% more armor, which from experience, I know stacks with hard target on the mantra of evasion which I'll be using for a while I know since evasion is my mantra and my rune is divine protection which doesn't unlock until 33.

He has been as much fun as I expected. I keep hoping for a life on hit ring or ammy to drop for him though. He hasn't had the same ring drop luck either. Only seen two. The sorc had at least 7 of them by this time as I know she put two on, two on the Templar, and two on the scoundrel and sold a couple of pointless ones.

So just another update on where I'm at.



EDIT: Kampjonat is up to 4 hours 57 minutes. Just found the Khasim Outpost and dinged L18 a little bit ago. So he is parked till next weekend.