[S34] Challenge Event

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Hi everyone and welcome to the S34 contest! This edition increases the difficulty of the challenges for both HC and SC players and incorporates multiplayer elements. Questions, suggestions and general feedback are welcome, keep them in this thread instead of PM. I wish you all luck for the new season!

Event rules

Start: 07 July 2023
End: 07 October 2023

Prize Pool: 17,500 :tg:

Categories
  • There’s 4 categories of challenges: First Blood, Collector, Raid, Survivor
  • A player may win any challenge in any category with the exception of Raid
  • "First to..." challenges are rewarded immediately upon completion.
  • "Fastest to..." challenges are rewarded at the end of the contest.

Submissions
  • copy the number of the challenge you’re competing for & link your notarmory
  • link a video from Youtube of completing the challenge in this thread (screenshots accepted only if specifically written)
  • complete the challenge on S34 ladder, in a single and newly created game and solo unless otherwise specified
  • write /time in the video (or on the screenshot if screenshots are accepted)
  • don't use banned items

Banned Items:
Tyrael's Might
Tyrael's Might
Ancient Armor (Sacred)

Defense: 11859 to 14685
Required Level: 130
Item Level: 130
Ethereal
50% Movement Speed
+100% Damage to Demons
+100% Damage to Undead
+200% Enhanced Defense
Maximum Elemental Resists +15%
Physical Resist 50%
Cannot Be Frozen
Requirements -100%
Celeri Caelesti Iustitia
Socketed (6)
,
Azurewrath
Azurewrath
Crystal Sword (Sacred)

Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity:
1020
Item Level: 130
Innate Cold Damage:
(45.0% of Dexterity)
100% of Vitality Added as Cold Damage to Weapon
Max Life gained per point of Vitality reduced by 0.9
You Cannot Deal Fire, Lightning or Poison Damage
40% Chance to cast level 30 Azure Orb on Melee Attack
Adds 160-250 Cold Damage
-100% to Enemy Cold Resistance
+2 to Remorseless Winter
Slow Target 25%
Maximum Cold Resist +10%
Physical Resist 10%
100% Bonus to Defense
Cannot Be Frozen
Requirements +100%
Socketed (6)
,
Blood of Creation
Blood of Creation
Relic
(Amazon Only)
Required Level: 50
Keep in Inventory to Gain Bonus
+1 to Crystalline Arsenal
While holding a Javelin:
Launches a massive frozen spike that splits into smaller bursts, which split again into small spikes
Main spike deals 200% weapon damage, each split halves damage
While holding a Spear:
Strike the ground in front of you, releasing an pulsing nova of cold
Deals up to 2800% Weapon damage at the center
While holding a Bow:
Fire an ice mine that slows to a halt a short distance in front of you
before exploding into a rapid barrage of homing ice arrows
Enemies can trigger the mine prematurely upon contact
Deals 50% Weapon Damage
Blessing of Karcheus

Banned Skills: Pagan Rites, Antimass (mana sorc excluded)



1. First Blood Challenge – be the first to defeat as many bosses as possible. This part of the contest will use the discord bot in #game-feed. You will score points based on the number and difficulty of the bosses you are able to defeat first. The winners will be decided when all bosses are defeated.
  • Lvl 120 – 10 bosses with 2 points each (total 20)
  • Lvl 125 – 10 bosses with 4 points each (total 40)
  • Lvl 130 – 4 bosses with 10 points each (total 40)
  • Achieve: Lvl 145 (10 points), Lvl 150 (20 points)
  • Sescheron’s Destroyer – 15 points
  • T10 Phoboss – 15 points
  • T10 Atanna Khan + screenshot - 15 points
  • Samael, Herald of The End - 15 points
  • Champion of Sanctuary + screenshot – 15 points
  • Nithogur – 25 points
  • HC:Deimoss (0 totems) + video - 20 points
  • SC: Deimoss (6 totems) + video – 50 points - completed by SilentCarl https://youtu.be/u3mdYUhHxoA
Total: 290/260 points
1.1 [SC/HC] Score the most points [1000 :tg: + Forum Badge]
1.2 [SC/HC] Score the 2nd most points [500 :tg:]

SC Ranking
:top1: Lynderika (70 points)
:top2: SilentCarl (65 points)
:top3: pkmost (52 points)

HC Ranking
:top1: impsy (69 points)
:top2: khonglagica (40 points)
:top3: Elementling (32 points)


2. Collector’s Challenge - find or collect various items throughout the game. Post a screenshot with the item and /time.
2.1 First to obtain 400 signets [200 :tg:] - completed by midknight
2.2 First to obtain Soul of Kabraxis +3 max elemental resistance [200 :tg:] - completed by Nomad
2.3 First to obtain Umbaru Chest with 200+ all attributes [200 :tg:] - completed by chadmedian
2.4 First to obtain Glorious Book of Median 45/15 [300 :tg:] - completed by pkmost
2.5 First to obtain +1 max elemental resistance corruption [300 :tg:] - completed by kud124
2.6 First to obtain a SSSU (ilvl 130+ excluding Endless Pride) [400 :tg:] - completed by Ape
2.7 First to obtain Vial of Elder Blood 10/25 [400 :tg:] - completed by pkmost
2.8 First to obtain 1 of each Occult Effigies and UMO (not applied) [400 :tg:] - completed by Encino https://i.imgur.com/3QUahUu.jpg
2.9 First to obtain 1 of each enhanced runes (unsocketed) [400 :tg:] - completed by SilentCarl https://i.imgur.com/GqldxH7.jpg
2.10 First to obtain 100% charm completion + Trophy Hunter [1000 :tg: + Forum Badge] - completed by SilentCarl https://i.imgur.com/MuaFWc0.jpg
2.11 First to obtain all 198 relics [2000 :tg: + Forum Badge] - completed by SilentCarl https://i.imgur.com/D4rrKpm.png



3. Raid Challenge – challenge the hardest bosses of MXL and defeat them on highest possible difficulty. You may play solo or as a team (split prize). The ranking is based on several criteria, in the following order: higher difficulty (max p8) -> less deaths -> faster kill. This means any kill with higher difficulty takes preference over lower difficulties, then any kill with less deaths on a certain difficulty takes preference over any kill with more deaths, etc. Teams may be formed of up to 3 people with different classes. Teams can compete for any challenge within this group, but can win at most 3 challenges in SC/2 challenges in HC (rewarded from bottom to top). The lowest prize is awarded for p3 and all other are multiples of it.
3.1 [SC/HC] Spirit of Giyua [133 - 800 :tg:]
:top1: Team ori- (p8, 0 death, 00:54) https://youtu.be/h-SHrCg0cbg
3.2 [SC/HC] Atanna Khan [133 - 800 :tg:]
:top1: Team ori- (p8, 0 death, 00:47) https://youtu.be/7GEcxNT5OUo
3.3 [SC/HC] Archbishop Lazarus (without slow effects and without leaving Lazarus' sight) [133 - 800 :tg:] - not completed
3.4 [SC/HC] Uldyssian, The Tainted King (full run) [150 - 900 :tg:]
:top1: Team ori- (p8, 0 death, 4:17) https://youtu.be/juExoyBwnYs
3.5 Sescheron’s Destroyer [150 - 900 :tg:] - not completed
3.6 Samael, Herald of The End [250 - 1500 :tg: + Forum Badge] - not completed



4. Survivor Challenge
4.1 First to defeat Valthek without: stats, skills (including innate), buffs, charms, relics, potions, “+ Life Regenerated Per Second”, and death, and without exceeding the lockout timer. [400 :tg:] - completed by SilentCarl https://youtu.be/9UfuaiF_TSo
4.2 First to defeat Nithogur without dying [600 :tg:] - completed by SilentCarl https://youtu.be/qr1vUdm3Y6I
4.3 First to defeat Lazarus in T6+ [999 :tg:] - not completed
4.4 Fastest T10 run + Phoboss without: stats and skills (item oskills and relics are allowed). Write /time before entering T10 and again in front of the exit. Mirage weapon is banned. [999 :tg:] - not completed
4.5 Fastest run of the following bosses: Valthek, Atanna Khan, Spirit of Giyua, Ascendant Riftwalker, Inarius, Uldyssian, Lazarus and Sescheron’s Destroyer in a single game, without leaving the game, without respec and without death (key items can be obtained beforehand). Write /time at the spawn point where you enter a game and again when the last boss is defeated. [999 :tg: + Forum Badge] - completed by watanuki https://youtu.be/SiehtwI19pY
4.6 Fastest run of Samael without getting hit by a spear and magic bomb. Maximum allowed avoid is 10% (essentially 0%) and this must be shown on char sheet at the end of a successful run. Game sound on the video is mandatory. [999 :tg: + Forum Badge] - completed by SilentCarl https://youtu.be/O9PthTb8KZQ

Note: for raid and survivor challenges, you may not leave the boss arena until a boss is defeated (to prevent cheese). Additionally, if a challenge is to be done e.g. without stats/skills/charms/avoid, this must be shown on the video after the successful run (to avoid repeating on every attempt).


Thanks to Marrt for sponsoring and organizing this event!
Edited by Realm Event 6 months.
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Ty, and good luck all in new season
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This is frecking awesome Marrrt. Thanks for this!
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Why don't we make this challenge round a little more official with a fancy green name. Thanks to Marrt for stepping up once again and Crash for remembering this old account existed :-D
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Bump. As discussed with an admin, certain challenges will be additionally awarded with a forum badge. Will be updated soon.
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Nice challenges and ty for putting them out!
I have question about 2.6 [first SSSU]
I guess the SSSU is defined by ilvl >= 130.
If that is the case I wonder if certain items are excluded from the valid list despite being ilvl 130.
The main example that comes to my mind is
Endless Pride
Endless Pride
Cap (Sacred)

Defense: 1187 to 1201
Required Level: 120
Required Strength: 500
Item Level: 130
Restitution
(Based on Restore Percentage)
+2 to All Skills
+50% Bonus to Defense
Maximum Elemental Resists +3%
Cube with Trophy Fragment: Restore +20%
+4 to Life (Based on Character Level)
+2 to Mana (Based on Character Level)
Elemental Resists +10%
(1 to 50)% Magic Find
Socketed (4)
. As soon as it is possible to drop, it shares the same rarity with the SSU of the same base.

Then about the Raid challenges:
Maybe I read it wrong but one thing is not clear to me.
How are people supposed to create the difficulty of p4 or greater without violating the multilog rule if only 3 team members are allowed? Do you need to actively look for afk people that are based in different locations to avoid warnings and possible bans?

last thing:
I guess the End date of July 10th is only meant for a small amount of this challenges? I can't imagine people doing most of this stuff in 3.5 days.
ABout boss kill notifications.
afaik it can't track succesful upgrades (Bremm dragon, Jday, maybe the plain charm is enough for this challenge) and it can't track an actual Astrogha kill.
As soon as you kill the first single Astrogha the notifier will go off even if you fail to complete the quest and end up with no charm.
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amazing event, thank you for sponsoring and organizing it @Marrt
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mortimer_85 wrote:Nice challenges and ty for putting them out!
I have question about 2.6 [first SSSU]
I guess the SSSU is defined by ilvl >= 130.
If that is the case I wonder if certain items are excluded from the valid list despite being ilvl 130.
The main example that comes to my mind is
Endless Pride
Endless Pride
Cap (Sacred)

Defense: 1187 to 1201
Required Level: 120
Required Strength: 500
Item Level: 130
Restitution
(Based on Restore Percentage)
+2 to All Skills
+50% Bonus to Defense
Maximum Elemental Resists +3%
Cube with Trophy Fragment: Restore +20%
+4 to Life (Based on Character Level)
+2 to Mana (Based on Character Level)
Elemental Resists +10%
(1 to 50)% Magic Find
Socketed (4)
. As soon as it is possible to drop, it shares the same rarity with the SSU of the same base.

Yes, I originally defined it with ilvl 130+. It is possible to remove items based on rarity, it is also possible to add items which are SSU but have drop rates of SSSU (Spirit Walker/Natalya's Deception), but I don't have a list of such.

mortimer_85 wrote:Then about the Raid challenges:
Maybe I read it wrong but one thing is not clear to me.
How are people supposed to create the difficulty of p4 or greater without violating the multilog rule if only 3 team members are allowed? Do you need to actively look for afk people that are based in different locations to avoid warnings and possible bans?

Yes, I agree about the difficulty of searching for people. Having the /p8 command would have been a good implementation of this, but this of course comes with other downsides. I guess that finding other people will be a large part of the challenge, but I think it's worth an attempt. The remaining people do not necessary need to stay in the game, and correct me if I am wrong about this, but 3 people can create a 5-player game where one person opens the boss level, while the other players stay in town and leave directly afterwards.


mortimer_85 wrote:I guess the End date of July 10th is only meant for a small amount of this challenges? I can't imagine people doing most of this stuff in 3.5 days.
ABout boss kill notifications.

The end date is meant to be 7th october, i.e. 3 months in the season.

mortimer_85 wrote:afaik it can't track succesful upgrades (Bremm dragon, Jday, maybe the plain charm is enough for this challenge) and it can't track an actual Astrogha kill.
As soon as you kill the first single Astrogha the notifier will go off even if you fail to complete the quest and end up with no charm.

Thanks for letting me know. I Am going to leave Bremmtown and Judgement Day as they are to simplify things, but Astrogha will be added as a screenshot.
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I am bad at the game, this isn't for me.

However, good luck to everyone participating!

Looks like a great way to keep the community engaged. :)
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As someone with limited free time, good luck to all lol

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