User:Patrick2011b/0.31 Tournament
This tournament ran from January 19, 2024 to February 4, 2024. The tournament page can be found here, while my profile for the tournament can be found here.
This was my first tournament, so I came into it just trying to get a win. I soon realized that with categories and banners, there's a lot more to a tournament than wins, though the first win is still a major milestone. I did manage to get a win, but it was with a build poorly suited for tournament points (caster = more real time taken, low spellpower = more turns taken, Foxfire + Fulminant Prism = more kills). Now that I've done a tournament, I think the key to improvement is to do better in the early game so I'd get more uniques, piety points, and banners. I'd also like to get a melee win, or at least a win with a more points-friendly build. Less than 20% of tournament players get a win, so just getting a win is pretty good by itself, but more deep runs would help.
Stats
The tournament had a total of 2,731 players with 454 of them getting at least 1 win. The total win rate for the tournament was 1.9%. I had 27 games in the tournament with 1 win (win rate 3.7%). The leaderboards compress ties, but the ranks given here won't compress ties. For example, if there's a two-way tie for 14th in something, the next lower score will be considered 16th. Here are my scores and ranks for some key categories as well as overall:
- Overall Score: 25,247 (340th)
- Best High Score: 1,799,189 (363rd)
- Lowest Turncount Win: 58,128 (148th)
- Fastest Real Time Win: 08:57:09 (401st)
- Most Pacific Win: 2,759 (366th)
Wins
This section contains a log and brief writeup for each of my winning characters. The altar in each entry shows what god the character won with, which matters for the piety category. Essentially, each distinct god won is worth 400 tournament points unless the god was either never championed or was Gozag, Ignis, or Xom (those gods don't use the standard 6* piety system), in which case it's only 200 tournament points. The wins are given in chronological order.
GrFE^Vehumet (3 runes): This was a pretty standard blaster caster with Plasma Beam acting as the bread and butter starting in the S-branches. By the time I was getting close to 20 each in Fire Magic and Conjurations, I noticed Fire Storm was (barely) online, so I decided to go for Sif Muna's tier 2 banner, which was to win with all skills below level 20. Zot:1 had an unlucky ambush, adding several thousand turns to my run as I decided to do Elf:3 in the hopes of getting loot and consumables. The only useful find there was a wand of digging, but the rest of Zot was manageable. I did get a bunch of bad mutations from a Zot trap, so I couldn't use Fire Storm in the orb chamber. With my lack of relevant consumables at the end, it's a good thing the orb run was uneventful.
Notable Losses
This section contains a log and brief writeup for each losing character that I consider notable enough for a writeup. If an entry has an altar in it, it means the character championed that god (i.e. reached 6* piety at some point). Essentially, each distinct god championed is worth 200 tournament points, though Gozag, Ignis, and Xom don't use the standard 6* piety system and therefore can't be championed. The games are given in chronological order.
MiFi^Hepliaklqana: This was my first champion of the tournament. I found a Hep altar on D:2 and figured it was good enough to take rather than wait for the Temple. I went with a knight ancestor, presumably for tankiness, though a hexer or battlemage might be better for a melee character. I managed to get the Lair gem on this character as well as 2 runes, but Elf:3 didn't go well for me. The character felt reasonably strong, even if resistances were lacking, so the death probably made me fear Elf:3 more than I needed to for a while.
