Friday, October 3, 2008

Diablo II: The Afterlife Tournament

The Afterlife Tournament is another from Wolron, all which are quite interesting. This tournament has restrictions on both skills used and stat points assigned per character type. I choose a Sorceress and as a result was restricted to the Lightning skills, with only a single point allowed to vitality/strength per character level. The only equipment allowed to be used was either ethereal or had the word "angel", "radiance", or "rainbow" in it.

Angela started her quest off by punching all of her monster enemies, since she doesn't start with any ethereal weapons. This was quite a new experience and lasted her quite a while into Act I before decent skills became available (Lightning). Once she did have her skills then progress went swimmingly, as pure lightning sorceresses are traditionally overpowered.

She kept having to dodge monster packs and teleport to safety. Apparently I had great difficulty keeping Angela out of harms way, as more often than not she's on the front lines with the mercenary behind her rather than in front. Still she progressed all the way to Act III of Nightmare before meeting her end. She was walking through the sewers underneath the Kurast Bazaar when she ran into a pack of monsters she couldn't see. They were hidden by one of the walls. Still Angela let loose with a Chain Lightning strike just as she heard their attack and realized they were dolls. The entire group exploded as one and took Angela along with them. As it turned out I ended up with the second highest Angel(sorceress) of the tournament at level 61, beaten out by Grisu who Guardianed his Angel.

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