A real challange - 10 round competition - 1st prize is 350 Astral Shards

[Stratimics]

Didn't have much time to play last weekend, but we managed to squeeze in a couple of attempts on VoN3, and here are the results.
No difference in points compared to our previous posts – just a speedier run.

The Jungle of Khyber (R1) – 07:08 (modified 05:21)

PS. I forgot to mention that I'm pretty satisfied with our run when you take into consideration that I was blinded for 50 seconds of the run in total, got stuck in the water and had to find my way to the shrine to rest... xD (Video: 02:44 and forward.)
PPS. Oh right, after that incident I almost immediately got Finger of Death'ed by a beholder...

[Cardo]

Still decided to sneak in a speed run of VoN 3 with our first lifer group, with a time of 7:08 modified down to 5:21.
Video provided by Stratimics as always.

[Saekee]

Round 7

https://ddowiki.com/page/Wrath_of_the_Earth
https://ddowiki.com/page/Diplomatic_Impunity

Max level is 14, bonus point for running at level 13.

This round ends on Dec 13th.

Cool! I was hoping for Blockade Buster! Wrath should be easy for the sorc nukers and casters here; depending on Reapers maybe I can come up with a good DIplo run.

[mikarddo]

Cool! I was hoping for Blockade Buster! Wrath should be easy for the sorc nukers and casters here; depending on Reapers maybe I can come up with a good DIplo run.

I try to get a mix of quests in across the rounds so there is something for everyone. Some longer and some shorter. Some linear and others that cater to splitting up. Some that give stealth options and others that require killing. Some with undeads and some without.. etc.

I certainly wont claim any degree of perfection but I do try

Level 12 might be my favorite level wrt quests. I had many candidates but settled on these two. Not too long. Some required killing in one of them - little required killing in the other.

But true, Blocade Buster would obviously be perfect for stealth. On that note - I love that you did Amber on R10

Personally, I am more into speed running but I like that both speed running and high reaper running is part of this so there is something for both tastes.

[Draconica]

My von 3 speed run screenshots, just adding the links to the pics this time, since there wasn't much of an update Too bad my laptop isn't really up to capturing video since I think I was the one speeding ahead on this one bc of the whole blindness/water incident!

Von 3 (R1) – 07:08 (modified 05:21)

https://i.imgur.com/165uTHz.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/3F2oXEc.jpg

[Magnus_Arcanis]

Updated. Let me know if I made any mistakes.

Apologies. I made a mistake. My death house run, I used a level 12 character. Oops. So I only earned 15 points.

Corrected my previous post as well.

[mikarddo]

Apologies. I made a mistake. My death house run, I used a level 12 character. Oops. So I only earned 15 points.

Corrected my previous post as well.

No problem, fixed.

[mikarddo]

Round 4 has ended. The top 4 are:

Magnus_Arcanis: 37 points (Von3 16, WPM 15, video 1, speed run 5)
Mikarddo: 29 points (WPM 13, Von3 13, speed run 3)
MLVan: 28 points (Von3 11, WPM 11, video 1, speed run 5)
Stratimics: 28 points (Von3 11, WPM 11, video 1, speed run 5)

Point codes are being send by pm, well done.

[Stratimics]

Voici – our runs of Death House and Tempest's Spine for week five! Tempest's Spine was surprisingly easy for a raid, except for Sorjek's Call Lightning in the end fight that shocked us quite badly in all of our runs and accounted for 90 % of our deaths. Not much you can do to survive it on a squishy first lifer...

Death House (R1) – 02:24 (modified 01:48)
Death House (R4)
5 Base
4 Skulls
3 All first lifers
1 Lower level
13

Tempest's Spine (R3) – 09:23 (modified 07:02)
5 Base
3 Skulls
3 All first lifers
11

1 Video

13 + 11 + 1 = 25

[Cardo]

Week 5 was really interesting and challenging. Doing Tempest's Spine on reaper with just three first lifers was not what I had expected.
Even though I've played the game for over 10 years I'm not that familiar with the raid.
Before our final R3 run we tried several runs on R4, but every time it was a wipe to lightning hitting us in the final battle.
Without the lightning hits of double or triple our HP it probably would have been doable even on higher skulls.

And seems like Stratimics beat me to it and already posted the vids.

R4 Death House
Base 5
Skulls 4
Only first lifers 3
No deaths 0
All under level 1
Total 13 points + 1 video

R1 Death House / Speed run
Time 2:24 modified down to 1:48

R3 Tempest Spine
Base 5
Skulls 3
Only first lifers 3
No deaths 0
All under level 0
Total 11 points

Week 5 total: 25 points

Death House R4:


Death House R1:



Tempest Spine R3:

[Draconica]

This week was a fun combo of quests! Even if I am now very wary of lightning :P But at least I learned to keep more of an eye out for those lurking reapers...

R4 Death House
Base 5
Skulls 4
Only first lifers 3
No deaths 0
All under level 1
Total 13 points + 1 video

R1 Death House / Speed run
Time 2:24 modified down to 1:48

R3 Tempest Spine
Base 5
Skulls 3
Only first lifers 3
No deaths 0
All under level 0
Total 11 points

Week 5 total: 25 points


My screenshots:
Speed run of R1 Death House (Also pictured, the lurking reaper that ended me)

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R4 Death House

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R3 Tempest spine (where I was yeeted by Sorjek... but at least i didn't die this time?)

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[Stratimics]

Here's the first half of week six, while we're still working on not getting roasted and charred by pesky Flame Skulls.

Purge the Fallen Shrine (R1) – 02:42 (modified 02:02)
Purge the Fallen Shrine (R4)
5 Base
4 Skulls
3 All first lifers
1 No deaths
1 Lower level
14

1 Video

[Magnus_Arcanis]

Squeezed in a run. Happy Thanksgiving.

Tempest Spine

Vid: https://youtu.be/MxPZr0QUbhY

15 Points - r4
9 = r4
3 = Only 1st Lifers
2 = True Solo (no hirelings)
1 = No Deaths
0 = All members below the quest level

[Cardo]

Week #6 Purge the Fallen Shrine. Might have been a good idea to have more than
one spell doing something else than fire damage.
Videos posted by Stratimics.

R4 Purge the Fallen Shrine
Base 5
Skulls 4
Only first lifers 3
No deaths 1
All under level 1
Total 14 points + 1 video

R1 Purge the Fallen Shrine / Speed run
Time 2:42 modified down to 2:02

R4:



R1 Speed run:

[Saekee]

Diplomatic Immunity: R1 with hire, solo no deaths, 1 level under.
I tried it a lot at R10 but the reapers would drop me. Had one heartbreaking R10 run end when killed by Boss. I hate what the devs have done to stealth in this game!

I could push this up to R5 or so with some extra runs but that will not stand up against a first life toon with video recording their runs at even r1 so will no longer bother with anything other than R10.

[mikarddo]

Round 7:

Diplo R1 vet w/bard [dont let cleric icon fool you, its a 5 bard, 7 cleric] below level no deaths.
9 points 5 + 1 + 1 + 1 +1

4:38

[mikarddo]

Updated this far. Please let me know if I made any mistakes.

I noticed I had forgotten to post videos for my runs in rounds 5 and 6. Those have been added.

Unfortunately, too much work and misc other stuff is keeping me from really competing so for now I am only posting speed runs with a vet char.

[Saekee]

R1 Wrath of Earth
This is just filler, ran with a PUG that speed torched it.
Tried R10 a few times but the reapers did me in. Thx Devs for your unimaginative implementation of Reaper difficulty!

[Zargarx]

Sealed in Amber:
13 points (5 base, +2 reaper, +3 1st lifer, +1 underlevel, +1 solo w hirelings, +1 no deaths)

[mikarddo]

Round 7, Yester Hill

9 point: 5 base + 1 R1 + 1 w/bard + 1 below level +1 no deaths

2:25