(Dec 17) HC Weekend Clear-a-thon League
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This weekend, we're going to run a temporary three hour league with awesome prizes.
It will run from 10am to 1pm New Zealand time on Sunday (Dec 18 2011). This is 9pm-midnight UTC on Saturday December 17. Here is a link for more time zone conversions. For example, this is 1pm on Saturday in California. The league will be hardcore. Characters who die will be moved out of this league and into the Default league. NEW CHARACTERS MUST BE CREATED IN THIS LEAGUE TO BE ELIGIBLE. After the end of the league, they'll be moved back into the normal Hardcore or Default league depending on whether they died. The league will be open for character creation at least 30 minutes before the start of the competition. Prizes: During the tournament, we will track the first player to kill all the monsters in each non-town world area. As soon as this is achieved for an area, it will be announced globally for all the participants to see. At the end of the tournament, we will award the prizes in the Hardcore league on a character that we add to your account. If you want to transfer these prizes to the Default league, then just kill that character. As prizes are claimed, we will update this post to show what remains. Top Prizes: The top player of each class by experience: Demigod's Presence (Unique Amulet).
Full-clears: The first player to kill all of the monsters in any of the following areas will receive the listed currency items for that area. Note that your minions count as monsters currently, so we strongly recommend avoiding minion builds. If you are in a party, then the player who gets the killing blow on the final monster gets the prize. We've set up the prizes for the full-clears randomly as follows:
The above prizes can be won in both Normal and Cruel difficulties. Spot Prizes: We'll also distribute some spot prizes randomly after the event to people who reached certain level thresholds. You can be eligible for multiple tiers of spot prizes. Winners of other categories can still win spot prizes. Level 28+: Exalted Orb Level 23+: Regal Orb (3 people receive this)
Level 18+: Orb of Alchemy (5 people receive this)
Miscellaneous: The game version will be whatever the current 0.9.4 version is. Please note that because this is a hardcore league, a single death can disqualify you. STASHED ITEMS IN THIS LEAGUE WILL BE LOST Our decision on the winners is final. Bugs and mistakes will get in the way for many players and this is why we are running an event like this. If you lose your ability to participate due to a bug, please tell us about it and we'll do our best to fix it. We can't change the outcome of the event due to this. Lead Developer. Follow us on: [url url="http://www.twitter.com/pathofexile"]Twitter[/url] | [url url="http://www.youtube.com/grindinggear"]YouTube[/url] | [url url="http://www.facebook.com/pathofexile"]Facebook[/url] | Contact [url url="http://www.pathofexile.com/support"]Support[/url] if you need help! Last edited by Jonathan#0000 on Dec 21, 2011, 4:14:14 PM
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The nature of this competition (with the prizes being awarded for full-clearing areas) will stop one player from sweeping all the prizes.
We've investigated other timezones but have decided to continue with this one because it gives the majority of players access to the event while also falling outside our office work hours. In the future (once we have a larger player-base) we'll definitely be doing events at a variety of times. Lead Developer. Follow us on: [url url="http://www.twitter.com/pathofexile"]Twitter[/url] | [url url="http://www.youtube.com/grindinggear"]YouTube[/url] | [url url="http://www.facebook.com/pathofexile"]Facebook[/url] | Contact [url url="http://www.pathofexile.com/support"]Support[/url] if you need help!
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Lol. A league designed to explicitly counter-act the two most successful strategies of the previous leagues.
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I have a challenge for you, Chris.
Make this league Cut-Throat, but don't announce it at all. Let people find out for themselves as they're running the event. The original owner of the instance gets the prize if the last monster dies, unless an invader kills them. At which point they'd go to the normal league anyway. Trololol. IRON MAN
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Very interesting league. I have no idea how best to optimize for prizes.
For people going for the Upper Prison prize: don't forget to clear out the skeletons! And as it is such so also as such is it unto you
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Oooo Nice! I wasn't expecting another contest this week, what a pleasant surprise :)
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Cut-throat contest would be much more interesting. Real competition and great fun!
ingame: FeelLuckyPunk standard
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 Running isn't freedom. You should know that.
ighnaz - Thanks for the beta key!!!! I HAVE NO MORE BETA KEYS!! |
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4x Alchemy for Merveil's Lair? That's a big reward for just one lady. Sure her 2nd form spawns like 20 squids but they all come straight at you. Not really a challenge to kill them all. Are there extra mobs running around, similar to Upper Prison, that I don't know about?
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" We used random rewards so there are some areas that are more tempting than others. I believe this area awards the rewards after you kill her first form because that's when it detects there are no monsters left. Lead Developer. Follow us on: [url url="http://www.twitter.com/pathofexile"]Twitter[/url] | [url url="http://www.youtube.com/grindinggear"]YouTube[/url] | [url url="http://www.facebook.com/pathofexile"]Facebook[/url] | Contact [url url="http://www.pathofexile.com/support"]Support[/url] if you need help!
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