What?
~HARDCORE DUEL (Ear + inventories + LvLs + bragging rites)

When?
~Saturday Evening
~~ 5pm Mountain Time (my timezone) aka Alberta
~~ 6pm yoyoyobilly's Time

Who?
~Drinkinthepink ~~~ on freshly lvled Zerk/Conc Barb (xDrinkinthepink) __ (5.7k health, maxblock, 4.3k dmg Zerks)
~Yoyoyobilly ~~~ on WW enigma Barb (Don aka HouseOfPain) __ (7.7k health, grief+beast WW +3x dmg with amp charges)

Where can I watch?
Twitch.tv/Drinkinthepink (The kindest and best looking GM Hardcore D2R player youve ever met who leads by example)
Twitch.tv/Yoyoyobilly (A deadly PvP force to be reckoned with, hes a bit of an @$$hat to most people, but he's been chill to me. He might be a jerk, but he knows the game, and its a hardcore game.)
(I will be live an hour early for setup and chilling)

Rules?
~No Mercs (unequipped to save merc gear incase of death)
~~~~~(Don kindly agreed to no merc to keep my gearing up costs lower, thank you)
~Amp okay (its hardcore)
~Rejuvs okay (its hardcore)
~Save+Exit okay (its hardcore)
~Self buffs only, no outside enchant/BO/aura
~Moor will be cleared for the looter anyway, so Iron maiden will not be relevant.


Why?
~Ears....
Because dueling on hardcore as well as softcore is fun, I am looking forward to the duel regardless of the outcome!
For those who do not know, Don (barbarian) is a well known BM PKer in the hardcore community, and is well known for being toxic on the softcore (HouseOfPain) community as well.
He has called out the hardcore community for being trash, and has without any doubt slain more people than anyone else, creating maaaaany enemies along the way.
That being said, he is not my enemy, this isnt a hate match, this is two people who know how to duel, meeting up in the moor.
With the help of an EU sponsor, who will remain nameless, I was able to find the remaining items required to complete this duel.

Hopefully I can step up and secure a kill on behalf of the hardcore community.


Technicalities and strategy?
Do be warned, there is a high chance that I get 1shot on the opener, as I am going in as an underdog.
Because he is running enigma+WW+gavelofpain, and I am running fortitude+zerk, he will get a free AMP'd opener on me.
There is a high chance I roll over and die in the opener; if not, I do 2shot damage and at that point it is a coin toss on who wins first.
Don has the advantage with WW to be able to save/exit and rejoin at 1hp, I have the advantage of being able to rejuv as fast as my digits let me.
Don has the advantage of triple dmg after amp (-50%), I do double dmg with amp+concentrate, and magic dmg with zerk.
If I zerk into a WW I will die from zero defense, so he may just let me zerk once to debuff myself then WW out.

My money would be on him winning (if he opens with amp), however I do have a chance, and I am looking forward to the dance!!!

Come, Tune in, Have a saturday evening drink with me, and enjoy the show...
But most of all,
Stay awhile, and listen.

You're friendly hardcore d2r canadian streamer,
Drinkinthepink

My maxroll will be on my stream.
See yeah all on Saturday evening!!!!

Please Please Please Clip the fight folks...It is always appreciated!!!

Pls kill him

I will try

And if I fail, I will try again lol

you just get Trashkiddo to agree that he still needs to post a video on his twitch, even if he loses.

is he paying you 465 dollars to host this SNL Skit?

I wish I could get paid for putting on a show, that would be nice
But no I am just having fun and entertaining the best I can.

just remember to walk so your defense doesn't go to 0.

edit: while not zerking

This post was edited by athirstymonkey on Jan 28 2022 01:38pm

Is the defense really such important as long as enchant could be applied before start?

This post was edited by Brightblade9 on Jan 28 2022 01:45pm

CtH % = (100 * AR / (AR + DR)) * (2 * atLvl / (atLvl + dfLvl))

AR: Attack Rating
DR: Defense Rating
atLvl: attacker level
dfLvl: defender level

in short yes it is.

To the death or this has no point of being an actual thing anyone is interested in. One of you MUST die. Simple as that.