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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted October 23, 2012 08:50 PM |
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[...] which by the same way makes you look at an artifact and gamble on whether you'll get better for that slot later or not. At least if you do get better than what you got, you can choose something else, not as good as that other chest piece, but it + a lesser chest piece is better.
I found a workaround against it, now all artifacts are visible from the start  Since we have assembled 8 players the tourney can begin this very Friday! But if there are last moment joiners I won't deny them entry, you have a few more days to decide. Map is ready, will be posted soon along with a few suggestions.
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted October 23, 2012 10:28 PM |
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Edited by Elvin at 21:08, 25 Oct 2012.
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Here is a list of the known bugs so that you know what to avoid. I have highlighted the bugged units/abilities so that you can spot easier what you are looking for.
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
- Activated abilities(marksman multishot, all around slash, no return etc) do not trigger effects such as Snow Maiden's ice field, Pressed Attack etc.
- Glories attacking a vampire that is out of time will not return.
- After glories drop below a certain amount(about 1/10 of the original stack) healing effects stop working for them.
- Frozen Ground is visible to the enemy player.
- Triggering Vampire Lord's Out of Time dispels Ferocious Wound, the freeze effect of Ice Bolt and causes Bound by Death to heal it again.
- Spirit Link only transfers buffs FROM Mizu Kami TO the recipient, instead of working both ways.
- Heroism and heroic charge do not work for undead so avoid as a death knight.
- Not a bug but be warned that intimidation, taunt and life drain do not affect the undead.
- Heroic Charge doesn't work on Cerberus.
- Celestials do not have the improved resurrection so it only has 1 charge and will not give extra init/morale. I have messaged bigjoker in case he can mod it but you should in case we do not get a fix.
- Puppet master seems to disappear when using active abilities. Only tried with glories but be cautious just in case!
EXPLOITS TO AVOID
The following bug abuses are not fair and can get you disqualified if your opponent reports it. In that case I would require a screenshot or a video of the duel even if I do not believe any of you would resort to that Still it is a possibility that I have to cover for formality's sake.
- Pit lords are not immune to Puppet master, do not use it on them.
- Might Over Magic gives 100% immunity, do not use it!
Now some map advice As you might guess, you should follow the portal with your faction's native champion(pit fiend for inferno, cyclops for stronghold etc). After you collect your army from the fort, you will be met with a choice to increase one of your core and one of your elite stacks. On easy, elite stacks with regular growth(+3/5) will be 8, on normal they will be 10. Difficulty is up to you. Then you will have a series of artifact choices. My advice is that you start checking the relics first and then the major artifacts. It will help you decide easier which artifacts to pick and which to avoid - if you want to get the armour of forgotten hero(relic) then you will have no use for the shantiri armour(major) and so on.
I recommend that you record your battle, Polyglot's recording program no longer works but I believe he has found a solution that he will be sharing soon I would love to see some replays. After the game, both players should report the results and hopefully a few comments such as their strategy, their skills or their artifacts.
You can pick any faction unless you want to play random. In this case let me know and I will generate random matchups that I will post here.
Something I forgot to mention, do not use the following specials: Paragon of Vigour(+25hp to kensei), Shield to the Bloodless(+10 might/magic def to vampires) and Orc Warrior Master(+7hp to crushers).
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xerox
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
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posted October 23, 2012 11:34 PM |
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Edited by xerox at 01:03, 24 Oct 2012.
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Something I forgot to mention, do not use the following specials: Paragon of Vigour(+25hp to kensei)
Noooooo, my favorite skill is banned. =(((
btw I'm XeroxHC
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Over himself, over his own
body and
mind, the individual is
sovereign.
- John Stuart Mill
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Drus
Tavern Dweller
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posted October 24, 2012 08:41 AM |
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Edited by Drus at 08:42, 24 Oct 2012.
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Seems like everyone will spend the first duel checking everything thrice 
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted October 24, 2012 09:44 AM |
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Most of those are details, in the end it all comes down to picking your skills, your artifacts and handling your army As for the rules it is common sense, respect your opponent and don't exploit bugs just because you can.
What is problematic though is that the celestial's resurrection is hard-coded and we can't mod it back to what it was. Our best hope is that bigjoker can mod the seraph's stats after the celestial and add purity. I hope it's possible..
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The_Polyglot
Promising
Supreme Hero
Nuttier than squirrel poo
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posted October 25, 2012 01:43 PM |
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Once more, with feeling!
Duel replay instructions
Older Taksi works for menu, but not the whole game so we'll have to resort to PlayClaw trial version. (It needs admin privileges, sorry)
Easy to set up, select 'Set Folders', and specify your preferred folder.
Then, go to 'Basic capture options, and select hotkeys, encoding, FPS, compression threads and audio source if You need it, and You're ready to go, start and stop record with hotkey.
Minor eyesores abound, red url advertising PlayClaw, red fps in the top corner, CPU temperature and used percentage, which are impossible to remove. Quality is so-so, though when opened with BSplayer, it turns really nice, I dunno why exactly.
My settings were
MJPEG codec, 15 FPS, with 3 compression threads, but feel free to experiment.
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted October 25, 2012 09:16 PM |
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Edited by Elvin at 21:52, 25 Oct 2012.
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Turns out that the bug with the marksmen shooting through units that block it was fixed. Also you may want to avoid using activated abilities with a puppeted unit, when I tried it I lost control of the unit!
Regarding the tournament, I will add another set of portals for the artifacts to give you more viable choices.
Also I'm waiting for bigjoker to finish his seraph-to-celestial mod, it seems the only way to have balanced haven games. Changing the celestial's bugged resurrection was not possible but giving the seraph purity and celestial stats was. We will be using that mod for official games.
I will be posting the participant matchups shortly!
As usual I assigned each player a random number and Polyglot helped by providing 4 random number pairs. The results:
Simpelicity vs Drus
Xerox vs Nikolas
Locksley vs Blizzardboy
Elvin vs The_Polyglot
That's right poly, YOU AND ME, LET'S GO! Will the pupil surpass the master? We will know soon enough 
I'll let you know when the tourney begins, still waiting for bigjoker.
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Drus
Tavern Dweller
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posted October 26, 2012 11:59 AM |
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Ok, two things: first of all, I will be available since Sunday about 04:00 PM GMT +1 (welcome to Poland . Secondly: I'd rather prefer, at least for me, a random faction since I'm not very convinced to any of them (I perceive them as equal ).
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted October 26, 2012 12:07 PM |
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Do you want me to assign random pairs or are you going to use the first hero you get when you create the game? The latter has a drawback, if you have more heroes from one faction the results will be biased Also the player who creates could switch his hero to one of his preference before the other joins.
I'll be free in an hour or two and I would like to test the seraph mod if anyone is available
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Drus
Tavern Dweller
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posted October 26, 2012 12:08 PM |
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Rather to create random pairs - some of them are... well, you know
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted October 26, 2012 12:34 PM |
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I think I'll create a random pair for everyone and let the players decide if they are satisfied or they want to pick for themselves.
Let's try random.org. I have assigned 1 to sanctuary, 2 to necro, 3 to haven, 4 to inferno and 5 to stronghold as is the order of factions on the map. By generating numbers between 1-5 for each player I get..
Simpelicity (4) vs Drus (2) - Inferno vs Necro
Xerox (4) vs Nikolas (4) - Inferno vs Inferno
Locksley (3) vs Blizzardboy (3) - Haven vs Haven
Elvin (2) vs The_Polyglot (5) - Necro vs Stronghold
Since some people do not like mirror matches I rerolled and got 1,2 for xerox and nicholas respectively and 3,5 for locksley and blizzardboy. So if the above are against a mirror match they can play:
Xerox (1) vs Nicholas (2) - Sanctuary vs Necro
Locksley (3) vs Blizzardboy (5) - Haven vs Stronghold
Obviously hero, class and reputation is your own business and similarly you can reach a mutual agreement on selected faction if you do not like these results.
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arvisme
Adventuring Hero
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posted October 26, 2012 01:28 PM |
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Edited by arvisme at 13:37, 26 Oct 2012.
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i m in
uplay account : arvismetoo
email : arvismetoo@yahoo.com
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted October 26, 2012 01:40 PM |
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Edited by Elvin at 13:41, 26 Oct 2012.
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Hello there You place me in a dilemma friend, not sure if I should give you my position or give it a couple of days and see if anyone else joins. What time zone are you from and how much free time do you have?
Btw I need someone to test the seraph mod before the tourney can begin, I'm in a dueling mood if you or anyone wants to try the map
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arvisme
Adventuring Hero
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posted October 26, 2012 02:01 PM |
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Hello there You place me in a dilemma friend, not sure if I should give you my position or give it a couple of days and see if anyone else joins. What time zone are you from and how much free time do you have?
Btw I need someone to test the seraph mod before the tourney can begin, I'm in a dueling mood if you or anyone wants to try the map
Im gmt+2 from Romania, i can play allmost every day after 18 until 12:00. I m up for duels if u want.
Hope some else joins would be a shame to let someone out.
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted October 26, 2012 02:12 PM |
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Edited by Elvin at 14:18, 26 Oct 2012.
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Sounds good. If you also happen to be available now I'll get ingame to add you, otherwise we'll play some other day.
And finally here is the map. I have windows 7 so by default I have it in C/Users/MyUsername/My Documents/Might&Magic Heroes VI/Scenario
If you have a different windows check My Documents, should be somewhere there.
Duel Map
And the mod that allows haven to have a proper champion. Actually a seraph with the celestial's stats and abilities which is as close as it gets It is a Data18.orc file, you place it in the game directory. If you have another mod with Data18.orc please replace it for the remainder of this tournament, we are not supposed to play with mods anyway.
Seraph Mod
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Gameslayer989
Known Hero
Always looking for a fight!
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posted October 26, 2012 02:56 PM |
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*cough* what about me? *cough*
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted October 26, 2012 02:57 PM |
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Since a few people have expressed interest in joining I will leave it until Monday until the slots are closed. Whoever wants to join go ahead and post here
And sorry gameslayer, I almost missed you  So far it looks like there will be 6 pairs which should work fine.
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Gameslayer989
Known Hero
Always looking for a fight!
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posted October 26, 2012 03:00 PM |
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No harm done
Yeah i should probably get a profile picture up someday, it seems it's easy to miss someone with no profile picture 
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted October 26, 2012 03:07 PM |
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Edited by Elvin at 15:07, 26 Oct 2012.
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Discrimination because you look different!
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Elvin
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Endless Revival
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posted October 26, 2012 03:42 PM |
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The people from the first 4 matchups may start playing if they wish. But the week for this round will start counting from Monday when the slots for last moment joiners close.
If you have any feedback or notice a bug that others should be aware of people let me know. I will update the masterpost soon.
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