Cannith Challenge Tutorials

[EllisDee37]

Images are back up. They're now all hosted on postimage.org, as opposed to the defunct imageshack, so hopefully they'll be around for a while.

[Stoner81]

Awesome m8! Thanks a bunch!

Stoner81.

[yoderc]

Images are back up. They're now all hosted on postimage.org, as opposed to the defunct imageshack, so hopefully they'll be around for a while.

You couldn't believe the sense of relief that we through me when i saw that! Thank you so much!

[Stoner81]

Dropped lucky tonight in Rushmore's Moving Targets and got 4 bosses and over 600 mats in one run took about 20 minutes though but still

Stoner81.

[Tangoro]

I did my first Challenge today, "Behind the door". I tried to follow the tutorial and it helped immensely, killed two bosses but when I got to the assassin I had 3/4 crests only, missing a bat crest. I ran around finding a few more crests but no bat and ran out of time.

What I am wondering about is how people keep track of what crests you have found and what you will need for the doors ahead. I was left to just check every breakable and pick up everything I found but I had no idea what I would need to proceed on the correct path. Also remembering what I've found would be hard I suppose. Is the trick here to just always do the same path and have a mental image of what you need and are missing at any time. Do all doors always have the same requirements?

If I try to do the shorter runs I imagine it will be more important to "move on" when you have the crests you will need.

[Saekee]

I did my first Challenge today, "Behind the door". I tried to follow the tutorial and it helped immensely, killed two bosses but when I got to the assassin I had 3/4 crests only, missing a bat crest. I ran around finding a few more crests but no bat and ran out of time.

What I am wondering about is how people keep track of what crests you have found and what you will need for the doors ahead. I was left to just check every breakable and pick up everything I found but I had no idea what I would need to proceed on the correct path. Also remembering what I've found would be hard I suppose. Is the trick here to just always do the same path and have a mental image of what you need and are missing at any time. Do all doors always have the same requirements?

If I try to do the shorter runs I imagine it will be more important to "move on" when you have the crests you will need.

I was just doing Rushmore. I use a hotbar that shows the crests (a PITA to setup, but once done it is handy). I am pretty certain that the crest requirements are randomized, so do a first route to pick lots of them up and then pray for the best. It is rare to not get them all (my challenge farmer is a GxBow iconic 13 rogue/2 arti/1 barb).

[khattiya]

What I am wondering about is how people keep track of what crests you have found and what you will need for the doors ahead.

I pop the crests into a hotbar so I know how many of each I've found so far. After I've got one of each, I rearrange them alphabetically - but the idea is you can arrange them in a way that makes sense to you.

After the Challenge, the images are ghosted, but the next time you run a Challenge, the appropriate crest will get colored in again when you pick one up. I add other challenge related things to a hotbar, too, like Torches, Healing Torches, etc. And if I'm not running Challenges, I can hide that hotbar and pull it out again when I need it.

I think the crests needed are random, so you don't know what you need until you get to a socket. But I find knowing I've got one of everything comforting, and place bets with myself on the odds of the next socket being that one crest I'm missing.

[Saekee]

I pop the crests into a hotbar so I know how many of each I've found so far. After I've got one of each, I rearrange them alphabetically - but the idea is you can arrange them in a way that makes sense to you.

After the Challenge, the images are ghosted, but the next time you run a Challenge, the appropriate crest will get colored in again when you pick one up. I add other challenge related things to a hotbar, too, like Torches, Healing Torches, etc. And if I'm not running Challenges, I can hide that hotbar and pull it out again when I need it.

I think the crests needed are random, so you don't know what you need until you get to a socket. But I find knowing I've got one of everything comforting, and place bets with myself on the odds of the next socket being that one crest I'm missing.

nice, I do this too--a challenge hotbar--although with a challenge farmer build parked at 16 to do them, not so much anymore

[Tangoro]

Thanks, that is good advice! I started doing that too now, had good success on first "Moving targets" attempt with 575 manuscripts awarded.

[EllisDee37]

Agreed on setting a hotbar for crests so you can easily track what you're low on.

I like to go to the observatory first, killing the succubus and the war chief dude as my first two bosses. Since I'm in the observatory, I can solve the puzzle for a crest if I'm short one. Also, after killing those two bosses, before I head back to the assassin I check if I'm short any crests and if so get one one from the puzzle before heading out.

[Stoner81]

Since you can record in 1080p m8 have you had any thoughts on re-doing these tutorials in 1080p to make them look better? Just a thought

Stoner81.

[EllisDee37]

Since you can record in 1080p m8 have you had any thoughts on re-doing these tutorials in 1080p to make them look better? Just a thought

Yes, actually, but I'm waiting until I finish upgrading his gear, which is a lower priority than other crafting projects I'm working on.

[Stoner81]

Yes, actually, but I'm waiting until I finish upgrading his gear, which is a lower priority than other crafting projects I'm working on.

Ah awesome sauce! I still need to finish mine and IIRC you said something about updating the enhancements since you use different ones now or something?

EDIT - Found the new enhancements in the build thread.

Stoner81.

[Stoner81]

Images have died again or is it just me?

Stoner81.

[Fedora1]

Images have died again or is it just me?

Stoner81.

Since you just posted, I would say the images died and not you.

[EllisDee37]

I still see them?

[Stoner81]

I see them now at work, will test when I get home tonight it could just be my machine throwing a weird hissy fit.

EDIT - Just tested at home and they are working now so no idea what was going on lol

Stoner81.

[Hostyle]

Such a great series of challenges, thanks for the guide.