0.9.11 Two-week Hardcore Race League

Congrats to all of those that successfully survived and completed this evening!

Thank you to GGG for hosting it as I had a blast! I hoping we see some more events like this in the furture.

Metro, make arioc stream when you do the Vaults map please :) Would love to see what spoils that map brings!

That was a good race. The next race should be a bit shorter though, cause only the diehard gamers can continously compete in this. Maybe make it a week or a weekend or make it really long like 3-6 months so that it feels like a real ladder that resets every now and then.

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TPxErebus wrote:

One interesting thing thing to think about...it seems like there is no Templar in the top 20 I wonder if the reasons for this are just style issues, low survivability in melee or a significant lack of damage output in the later stages of the game?

Templar was underplayed before, and then they nerfed the only thing the class had going for it (Elemental Damage). If they'd bump the Catalyze cluster up (add a 4th 10% node, or buff the 3 nodes 5%) it would probably get played more again. That said, I think I could have gotten to the top 20 with my Templar, if I had really tried. I was more concerned about staying alive and stopped at level 50.

Just wanted to poke my head in and express what a fantastic event this was. I was having a blast, even after my lvl 52 Duelist got Blasted into bits, mainly due to my foolishness :P

Either way, Great league, Great idea, Great fun. (No pun intended)

Looking forward to the next event.

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TPxErebus wrote:

Nice race and congratz to the winners!
One interesting thing thing to think about...it seems like there is no Templar in the top 20 I wonder if the reasons for this are just style issues, low survivability in melee or a significant lack of damage output in the later stages of the game?

I felt like my templar had decent survival but I often felt behind the curve on my dps output...but it happened in fits and spurts. Sometimes things would click, I'd craft a new weapon and things would hum along smoothly. Five-ten levels later it felt like a struggle.

I lost my guy at 47 largely due to user error...after so long, playing so cautiously I played while very distracted and it cost me my main. Oh well...live and learn.

I'd be super interested to see everyones orb totals for the expensive orbs. How many exhalted did everyone get?

Ended up with 2 divine, 3 exalted, and 4 regal to name the important orbs.

It wasa fun event, and I was really motivated to play, however during the event there was quite a bit of server instability that caused a lot of lag issues. Things would die far away from where I saw myself kill them. Mobs would teleport. I never got this on any other ladders.

All in all a very fun even though.

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duolc wrote:

I'd be super interested to see everyones orb totals for the expensive orbs. How many exhalted did everyone get?

14 exalted
10 divine
18 regal
11 gcp
11 blessed
14 chaos
12 regret
8 alch
and the rest assorted (150 total items)

1 exalted out of 75 orbs
that's a win
it gave me item quantity btw
but I hope there'll be something for the people who died in the next race, it could be interesting