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I'm looking to possibly run a few Diablo II Iron Man tournaments. What these are is basically everyone creates a new character. You play through to level nine or for x hours, then you PvP. There's no outside trading or anything like that allowed, so you basically have to make do with what you find.
I just wanted to toss up a quick poll to see if anyone would be interested in this. It would be streamed + casted with a prize pool. The only requirements to participate would be to have Lord of Destruction.
More than likely this would be hosted on my own server so that I can adjust some of the overpowered level 9 skills and items, and also to prevent people from cheating by using outside items.
Poll: Diablo II PvP Tournaments?Interested (102) 78% Not Interested (28) 22% Not sure (Please list why) (0) 0% 130 total votes Your vote: Diablo II PvP Tournaments? (Vote): Interested
(Vote): Not Interested
(Vote): Not sure (Please list why)
Poll: Tournament FormatSingle Tournaments (TSL style) (61) 86% Seasons (GSL style) (10) 14% 71 total votes Your vote: Tournament Format (Vote): Single Tournaments (TSL style)
(Vote): Seasons (GSL style)
Please provide any additional thoughts or feedback on this. Thanks!
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WOOOOOHHHH DIABLLOO 2!!!!!!!!
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seems like an interesting idea 
and no outside help to get items right?
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I won't be playing, but the Battle.net D3 forumers made their own ironman a while ago. Perhaps you guys could "borrow" some of the rules?
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=22418749050&postId=224165733650&sid=3000#6
Rules of Ironman
1. HardCore Mode
2. No parties.
3. Once you hit level 9 you enter town briefly ONLY to hostile everyone you can, if you are the first to 9 you DON'T go to town, you just play.
3. ABSOLUTELY no going to town unless you are going hostile. No talking to anybody in town.
4.You live off what you find, you can not buy anything from anyone.
5. Everyone has permission to loot on each other
6. Feel free to attack anyone at any point, or use any sort of method you can think of in which to kill the other player (NO hacking / exploits / massing monsters at Waypoints or stair enterances though)
7. Quests are fine to do, you just can't talk to anyone in town.
8. Should Andy be killed, everyone alive goes to the Blood Moore, in an epic battle to the death. No significant delays of combat, though be realistic. If you are delaying combat for an unreasoable time, you are done. That said, before Andy is killed, feel free to do whatever you want.
Now remember, this is for posterity's sake, so honor system. You cheat, you are the biggist *@!*# in the world. I don't want to have the discussion again, so please, I don't want to see a TP. Just drop em and don't pick them up.
Last man standing wins the first annual Friskydingo memorial ironman. We will have another annual Friskydingo ironman every week thereafter.
Alright then, who's in?
This will be better then ever.
Map hack is a cheat. You give it up or give it to everyone else. I say give it up.
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Ironmans back when I played meant level 1 hardcore, no gear. Pure skill.
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You should collect people's TL ID's for a mailing list, so that you can let people know how things are progressing! I am definitely down, time to find that CD key >>
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would love some Diablo 2 action...just need to figure out where my cd went
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I'm very interested! If you need help organizing, message me. I have extensive history with D2/ironman/hc.
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On April 19 2011 01:52 rbkl wrote:
Ironmans back when I played meant level 1 hardcore, no gear. Pure skill.
Can't fight at level 1...
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This sounds fun. I'd be in for sure
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I've done these before and they were pretty fun so I'd definitely be down.
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On April 19 2011 02:11 TimmyMac wrote:Show nested quote +On April 19 2011 01:52 rbkl wrote:
Ironmans back when I played meant level 1 hardcore, no gear. Pure skill. Can't fight at level 1...
He means to beat the game without ever going to town/using town shops.
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This sounds awesome, would definitely like to participate in something like this!
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i feel some skills with different chars might be more powerful than others at the same level (9).
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I would love to play some D2 but on this computer the graphics are all screwed up for some reason.
Anyone with Windows 7 had this issue?
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On April 19 2011 03:28 Vysen wrote:
I would love to play some D2 but on this computer the graphics are all screwed up for some reason.
Anyone with Windows 7 had this issue?
You need to run it in XP SP3 compatability mode, using -w for launch.
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On April 19 2011 02:32 stink123 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 19 2011 02:11 TimmyMac wrote:On April 19 2011 01:52 rbkl wrote:
Ironmans back when I played meant level 1 hardcore, no gear. Pure skill. Can't fight at level 1... He means to beat the game without ever going to town/using town shops.
Like this?
On April 19 2011 03:28 Vysen wrote:
I would love to play some D2 but on this computer the graphics are all screwed up for some reason.
Anyone with Windows 7 had this issue?
Does adding -w to the shortcut target, fix it? It sets it to windowed mode.
Personally, I use a glide wrapper so I don't have that problem.
EDIT:
Serejai is right. Compatibility mode is needed as well.
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On April 19 2011 03:28 Vysen wrote:
I would love to play some D2 but on this computer the graphics are all screwed up for some reason.
Anyone with Windows 7 had this issue?
Not me. Windows 7 64-bit runs Diablo 2 just fine.
This tourney could be interesting, I wasn't much into the whole PvP aspect of diablo 2 but will definitely tune in if its streamed.
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On April 19 2011 01:01 Serejai wrote:I'm looking to possibly run a few Diablo II Iron Man tournaments. What these are is basically everyone creates a new character. You play through to level nine or for x hours, then you PvP. There's no outside trading or anything like that allowed, so you basically have to make do with what you find. I just wanted to toss up a quick poll to see if anyone would be interested in this. It would be streamed + casted with a prize pool. The only requirements to participate would be to have Lord of Destruction. More than likely this would be hosted on my own server so that I can adjust some of the overpowered level 9 skills and items, and also to prevent people from cheating by using outside items. Poll: Diablo II PvP Tournaments?Interested (102) 78% Not Interested (28) 22% Not sure (Please list why) (0) 0% 130 total votes Your vote: Diablo II PvP Tournaments? (Vote): Interested
(Vote): Not Interested
(Vote): Not sure (Please list why)
Poll: Tournament FormatSingle Tournaments (TSL style) (61) 86% Seasons (GSL style) (10) 14% 71 total votes Your vote: Tournament Format (Vote): Single Tournaments (TSL style)
(Vote): Seasons (GSL style)
Please provide any additional thoughts or feedback on this. Thanks!
Damn I was hoping this was like Traditional Iron Man in D1, You buy what you can in town, and can't ever go back to town again until you 1.) Beat the game, or 2.) die.
Last one standing wins.
That was fun the furthest I have ever seen someone get on this is down to hell first level. (Last person alive has to keep going till they die.)
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Bumping before I make a decision. I think we have enough interest to do this but I want to make sure.
1,648 views and only 30 votes for "Interested" tells me either a LOT of people are interested in this and didn't vote, or a lot of people thought they might be interested and decided after reading the thread they weren't.
So, can't hurt to get a few more votes just in case.
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Oh man Iron Man's are definitely my favorite part of diablo 2 ever, i'm so down to compete, im assuming we are ruling out the major broken/OP builds?
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Need to put up a list of banned specs/class combos
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http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=3883991&f=143 are the rules that are generally followed
( somewhat)
Banned skills (imba ~ gay, lame etc..):
Prayer aura
Multiple recasting of bone armour (you can have it, but only once)
Poisen javelin (they just run around everywhere and its stupid)
Assasins Psychic hammer (amazing damage at level 9 and knockback)
also i've seen holy fire and power strike banned on many occasions
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i would but somehow i cant get my LoD key activated and i dont have my CD anymore :/
atleast I'd watch the stream .
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Looking forward to beating everybody.
I don't know much about running tournaments or anything but if you need a helping hand feel free to PM me because I would really like to see this happen.
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Assassins will overrrun the competition.
Thy got the best skills before level 20 (probably the max level you can get is about 16-18. When heavily invested into tiger strike and burst of speed it seems difficult to lose to any other melee char.
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I would do this and lose to everyone if only I had a cd key.
oh wait but on priv server huh
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Go summoner Druid. Spam Ravens, run around in circles. It's basically the same as Poison Javelin Amazon.
This is for level 9 Ironman btw.
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I would be interested in this.
I held one end of last ladder, but we all made new lvl1 chars (honor system), and we all partied up and lvl'ed together, drops are whoever grabs it, and grab all the gold that drops
This way we are lvl 9 by the time we rescue cain, or at most get the malus from charsi. we do den, cain, charsi, and stay in a group so we all hit 9 at once
from what i recall, exp for being single in a 8 player game is same as 1 solo person, but the monsters are much harder (8x hp or so)
also i banned spamming bone armor and cyclone armor, once and thats it
beyond that, no potions of any kind (including throwing), or running back to town when the duel begins
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On April 21 2011 00:35 amd098 wrote:
I would be interested in this.
I held one end of last ladder, but we all made new lvl1 chars (honor system), and we all partied up and lvl'ed together, drops are whoever grabs it, and grab all the gold that drops
This way we are lvl 9 by the time we rescue cain, or at most get the malus from charsi. we do den, cain, charsi, and stay in a group so we all hit 9 at once
from what i recall, exp for being single in a 8 player game is same as 1 solo person, but the monsters are much harder (8x hp or so)
also i banned spamming bone armor and cyclone armor, once and thats it
beyond that, no potions of any kind (including throwing), or running back to town when the duel begins
if u do that then whoever has higher latency has no chance at items
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wish i could find my cd key, would definitely participate.
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Holy hell I would definitely play.
Childhood game <3
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Alright, I have enough feedback.
Will announce tournament details in a few weeks once I get everything set up.
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Definatly Interested. Thread is bookmarked, ill check back when we get more information. Thanks for throwing this together
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Sounds pretty neat I'd be interested depending on the time it will take place. How long do you think the whole event will be?
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Can we please start organizing this?! Seeing 50 people voting "yes" is enough for me..
Also; to the people saying assassins > all.
It's a huge battle, assassins are glass and their spells cost so much mana it is unbelievable. In Iron Man matches assassins die out early so one ever plays them.
nice try!
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Ummm yeah when is this going to kick off. Im ready son
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im defiantly down for some good quick diablo fun!!!
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On April 24 2011 15:03 xLethargicax wrote:
Can we please start organizing this?! Seeing 50 people voting "yes" is enough for me..
Also; to the people saying assassins > all.
It's a huge battle, assassins are glass and their spells cost so much mana it is unbelievable. In Iron Man matches assassins die out early so one ever plays them.
nice try!
LOL @ assassins are glass. You forgot to mention how their vit has the best scaling in the game.
Her skills scaled so good early too. BoS, Psychic Hammer, and Tiger Strike are retarded.
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psychic hammer is banned, and because they are melee (no teleport or decent traps) they don't do well in lvl 9 pvp. The problem is that there is NO SCALING in lvl 9 pvp, or very little. Scaling is for endgame, you hardly have enough points for vit to scale high, and skill scaling doesnt really exist when you have 9 skill points. Zons do really well, sorcs CAN but its a lot harder (lightning is really dumb good if you do it right) summoning druids can do decent if they are dumb, but most melee just loses (except smite, no fhr unless your lucky, which is also often banned)
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On April 20 2011 17:10 Sufficiency wrote:
Assassins will overrrun the competition.
Thy got the best skills before level 20 (probably the max level you can get is about 16-18. When heavily invested into tiger strike and burst of speed it seems difficult to lose to any other melee char.
Prayer paladin  Hard counters any and every other build.. though its a bit lame to be running around and regenning health constantly
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Just confused about some thing, you lvl to lvl 9 then you go and fight in blood moore? what happens if you get to lvl 9 10 mins before the rest? do you keep leveling?
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Oh man I love Iron Man Tournaments. Sign me up! I've only done it once years ago but it was so fun!
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Level 9 pvp in diablo is like restricting starcraft to tier 1 units, can be fun but it misses lots of the variety and fun that higher level pvp brings.
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diablo is not starcraft and there is no balance so making tier lvl pvp is the most fun i think. Making many differend characters for pvp and where can i sign?
gogo iron man!
and i see just 1 mistake in this life potions are not forbidden? so chars will be like stacking life potions full inv and barbs will own everyone
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On April 26 2011 21:41 repomaniak wrote:
and i see just 1 mistake in this life potions are not forbidden? so chars will be like stacking life potions full inv and barbs will own everyone
I don't recall stating any rules yet, so not sure where you're getting your info from.
In other news, feel free to keep discussion or suggestions in this thread but the tourneys will not start for at least a week or two. There's a lot of setup involved (which is coming along nicely) and I will post updates as they are available.
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The Ironman that Serejai is proposing is DIFFERENT from the example ruleset the other guy is proposing.
Serejai's Ironman:
9 Hours of Playtime to level up and get gear (By yourself)
no other rules specified
Example Ironman:
1 Game
Hardcore
Timelimit: Till Andy dies
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Haven't played Diablo2 in ages, but I'd definitely be interested to participate.
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if diablo2 pvp wasnt so epicly imba, I'd participate... oh wait its HC!
so epic :D im thinkin about it :D
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I'm ready guys lets do this!!
everyone stays allied
nobody is allowed to return to town until they hit level 9
no going above level 9
no leaving the game or act 1 (no killing andariel, not that anyone ever does)
no unpartying until level 9
drops are ffa
no healing pots allowed in duels (antidote / thawing / healing / rejuvenation)
mana pots are allowed in duels
stamina pots are allowed in duels
alll characters must be fresh with a signed name given in the channel to prevent muling/cheating
duels are 1v1 at the end of the game once everyone is level 9, bracket tournament
psychic hammer, prayer & poison javelin are always banned.
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Please provide stream details, I would love to watch.
Thanks!
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awesome stuff Serejai I'll definitely be participating in this one. Will keep an eye out on this topic.
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SO are we getting a time and date?
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inb4 everyone is a zealot
edit: just found my d2 cd and im keen to join, LoD woop woooooooooop
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I'll install D2 just for this again.
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Hmm I can't find my diablo 2 cd key, but I can find my LoD key... Can I still play online that way? Or am I stuck at install then?
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Serejai, dont you bail on us!!!
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Sounds good. If I had spare time I'd be willing to participate.
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sounds amusing thoguh would likely do horrible
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Don't worry, if he doesnt set a date in like a week or so, ill set a date and host one =], we need to get this started.
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Balance testing on Thursday all day. Will update the op with server info and testing information then.
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Can't wait for this, which server will it be played on? One of the US ones I suppose, but east or west?
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I'm not gonna play but I'm definitely gonna check out the stream
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On May 09 2011 21:37 Chise wrote:
Any news on this?
Looking to do this the weekend after TSL3 ends. Will be held on a private server where I have more control over the gameplay. For example, experience is currently locked at level 9, act 2 is disabled, mercs are disabled, potions cannot be used while hostile, etc.
Working on balancing some of the broken skills and items right now (or disabling them if balance isn't attainable). Will open the server for testing soon but already have a few people helping with it. Also working on finding some prize money for this (not much, but something).
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i plan on running one on saturday, tl honor style, rules will be made available beforehand, just a pretty lowkey 1 game iron man. if we get enough people we could even do two then have a larger bracket
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On May 09 2011 22:00 Serejai wrote:Looking to do this the weekend after TSL3 ends. Will be held on a private server where I have more control over the gameplay. For example, experience is currently locked at level 9, act 2 is disabled, mercs are disabled, potions cannot be used while hostile, etc. Working on balancing some of the broken skills and items right now (or disabling them if balance isn't attainable). Will open the server for testing soon but already have a few people helping with it. Also working on finding some prize money for this (not much, but something).
I dont know if you want to work together, or have "beta" testers, but i use to do this alot back in the day.
Normally, id shut off andarial, remove alot of equips from monsters (prevent hardcore farming) And alot of the iron man matches i use to do were over hardcore.
2v2 and 3v3 iron man hardcore was really really fun.
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just bought the game! i'm interested in participating.
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We acutally talked about this the other week in op hc-2. <- dOdger. Perhaps you were there too :D But yes, lets do it!
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OP got a long Temp it seems, whats gonna happen with this?
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Me and a friend were just talking about this when we came across this post. We'd love to participate if it's still going on
u guys playing on open b.net, b.net or PS ? :O
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