(Nov 14) One-week Turbo Hardcore Race

RACE UPDATE:

RIP to InvalescoTURBO, Level 64 at time of death. Was leader by a huge margin but got careless and was made to pay for it.

died on a routine pyramid farming expedition.

What happened was that a huge pack of skellies came along, I walked out on my screen but on server side I must have gotten stuck in the pack and not gone out and then got ganked to death. ES went down sharply all of a sudden, wasn't quick enough to react.

Overall, it was quite a fun race! was a fun experience. Gl to all racers still in it! Hopefully I end the race as top death ;)

Total gameplay time at death: 32 Hours

For those of you who wanted to see my build and skill tree, I was basically a Spork Shadow, albeit altered to a somewhat more different build in that I went for GR as well.

All the best Grindis and Carbo! and don't make the same mistake I did :p

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SkillTree when death occurred: InvalescoTURBO

RIP :(

Sad to see you go
I was surprised by the amount of spark projectiles, but now that I see your gear I understand
Died once lvl 38 10 sec into pyramids, but running without paying attention is a bad thing
I had enfeeble & temporal chains on me ;(

QQ

Turbo Brutus is ridiculous! His attack speed is just nuts. He attacks with hook so fast it's very difficult to attack him from range without getting interrupted or pulled in by another hook. It's not too hard to dodge a hook, but once you've moved out of the way and try to attack the next hook seems to connect before your own attack finishes. His slam attack is so fast I don't dare try to stand and melee with him as he can slam twice in a row before you even realize it.

4 deaths to norm Brutus so far:

1. Templar L9 (1h shield): first time facing him in turbo. flat out owned by slam.

2. Templar L10: tried using shield charge. Was going not too bad until it started to dysnc like crazy. Brutus stopped moving so I had no idea where he was. Death soon followed from phantom attacks I never saw.

3. Templar L10-11 (1h shield): tried fireball from range. Cast speed is just too slow. Kept getting pulled in. Eventually got caught by his slam.

My 4th char was a 1h + shield dualist. He managed to defeat Brutus with the excellent movement ability granted by whirling blades. His main attack skills however were cleave and leap slam (not used vs brutus). He later died at L26 in the pyramid due to a hoard of magic lightning/cold skellie mages with multiple projectiles.

4. Witch L11: tried a 2H melee witch for kicks. She had 3 zombies and they helped distract him, but they got hooked and died in the first 10 seconds. Both Groundslam and fireball were just too slow. I also had leap slam, but that seemed like suicide so didn't try it. Kept getting caught by the hook after moving out of the way and trying to attack.

Someone in chat suggested hiding and bouncing sparks off the wall. Might try that next time.

Brutus' turbo attack speed is just frustrating.

/QQ

Once you get past Brutus though it's not too bad. It's slower going than normal, but doesn't otherwise feel much different. My dualist slaughtered Merviel with max cold resist. Weaver and bandits fell without issue (helped oak). A few scary moments with packs of blue flicker spiders, but he was saved by high evasion and leap slam.

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Vondum wrote:

ImbaWitch (Witch) died at 57 while running 4th :(

Yeah, died to Merciless Vaal Oversoul, he had 1/5 of his life left :(

Turbo mode is not fun to play IMO, just tedious. Even with overpowered cookie-cutter or full-defence builds bosses are just unfair and some of the monsters like necromancers, goats and rhoas are too annoying. Maybe I'm not hardcore enough =P

Good luck everyone.

@FriarJon
I like to use totems to block the chain pull that Brutus.

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Invalesco wrote:

RACE UPDATE:

RIP to InvalescoTURBO, Level 64 at time of death. Was leader by a huge margin but got careless and was made to pay for it.

died on a routine pyramid farming expedition.

What happened was that a huge pack of skellies came along, I walked out on my screen but on server side I must have gotten stuck in the pack and not gone out and then got ganked to death. ES went down sharply all of a sudden, wasn't quick enough to react.

Overall, it was quite a fun race! was a fun experience. Gl to all racers still in it! Hopefully I end the race as top death ;)

Total gameplay time at death: 32 Hours

For those of you who wanted to see my build and skill tree, I was basically a Spork Shadow, albeit altered to a somewhat more different build in that I went for GR as well.

All the best Grindis and Carbo! and don't make the same mistake I did :p

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SkillTree when death occurred: InvalescoTURBO

RiP =(
At least you enjoyed more then most of us hehe

Race update:

Another day has gone by and its been an extremely brutal one. Well over half of the top10 met their demise in merciless as turbo continues to be relentless. ForeverMouZe, who was 6th as of the last update is now in the top spot at level 66. ProjectFalse has moved up into the 2nd spot. iCarb and Gearloose are the only members of yesterday's top 5 to still be in the top 5 at 3rd and 5th respectively. neizvrace has made one of the bigger gains of the day, moving up from 11th to 4th from yesterday.


Noteable Deaths:
InvalescoTURBO (Shadow) died at level 64 while leading the race.
UnNamedBeast (Ranger) succumbed at level 61 while holding the #2 spot.
SparkTemplarFart (Templar) died in 6th position at level 59.
Kazraki (Templar) died in 9th at level 54
Anriku (Marauder) was running 10th at level 54 when they died.
Hazzzzzzo (Marauder) died at 12th only a minute before Anriku. They were 52.
Tarkleighsbrother (Marauder) was moved to default at level 51. They were 7th at the time.
jeanjacques_ (Templar) has just moved into 14th at level 50 when they died.
TurboRyder (Shadow) has made it into the top 10 before dieing 9th at level 50.
DeadLifts (Witch) died at level 49. They were in 17th.
TurboBattery, Nibhu, and KATIEYAYDERP were also top 25 when they died yesterday.

10 deaths in the top 20 yesterday. Many of these are out of order as it sorts by level and I didn't want to try to manually sort by time (feature request please http://poestatistics.com!

Random Race Facts:
There are 501 characters still in the race, up from 465 yesterday. Duelist is the least played class with only 9.58% of players. 317 total characters died yesterday, bringing the death count to 1153. Witch seems to struggle early. It still leads the death count at 262 deaths, but only 19 of these characters were over level 20.

QuavisTurboRacer update:
I spent all last night in cruel. I did level from 32 to 37, but most of the evening was spent gear hunting unsuccessfully. This is going to be my first CI char, but finding enough good ES gear to make the jump to CI is a real struggle. I've also specced to far into my build that I have too little HP to complete cruel without going CI, which leaves me stuck. I see another night of little progress and lots of farming this evening. If you have any level 30s good ES gear to sell hit me up!

GL to all those still racing! With the weekend coming up and play times increasing it will be interesting to see if people start flying up the levels, or whether it just ends up having more people killed faster. I hope to see someone of you that died rejoining the ranks at the top as well :)

RIP invalesco, RIP Turbobattery

Also ripped my ranger while doing a map. I forgot i had a spybot scan on background, and it probably caused my screen to freeze and lock up, was in middle of killing a necro/skeleton pack in map, so not the most convenient time for crashing ^^

Started a witch first, died a very stupid death to one of merveils daughters after I finally got my Fork gem. (Got carried away with the awesomeness of spork again -.-' )
Before I got my hands on Fork I struggled a lot more compared to the Mara I'm running now. Witch really has a much harder start imo.
Been pretty much breezing through normal with the mara, witch starts getting better at the end of act 1 when you get your first support gem. Before that, it's a pain (for me).