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

[Cardo]

We decided to have fun with the whole guild and did some group runs of the quests.
We decided to run 3 WF sorcs made for the challenge using veteran status 2 and trying to
more or less brute force it which might not have been the best solution.

My guildie took videos of the runs and will post them, does that count as a video posted
when counting points :P

R3 Deleras Tomb 7:12 modified time -> 5:24
Base 5
Skulls 3
Only first lifers 3
No deaths 0 (Guildies died once)
All under level 1
Total 12 points





R5 TTT 6:20 modified time -> 4:45
Base 5
Skulls 5
Only first lifers 3
No deaths 1
All under level 1
Total 15 points

[Stratimics]

Howdy!
Here are the results of week one for our guild runs on Cannith after we quickly rolled up some fresh first life characters.

The Mystery of Delera's Tomb – 07:12 (modified 05:24)
5 Base
3 Skulls
3 All first lifers
1 Lower level
12

Two-Toed Tobias – 06:20 (modified 04:45)
5 Base
5 Skulls
3 All first lifers
1 No deaths
1 Lower level
15

1 Video

= 28 points


PS. I removed the audio from the videos so you don't have to suffer us shouting at each other in Finnish. Instead you get to listen to the soothing sounds of Beethoven and some other random YouTube audio tracks.

[Saekee]

nice to see groups doing this

I think a team of 3 can R10 Quid Pro Quo—alone I can’t take down the Fomorian

[DareDelvis]

First of all, thanks for doing this:
I will try and post the pics.
This is NOT a first life character
My times were not close to the fastest
Edit: used imgur as suggested.

Deleras R2: 10 = (5+2 (R2) +2 (solo) + 1 (no deaths)
TTT R3: 11 = (5 + 3 (R3) +2 (solo) + 1 (no deaths)

[mikarddo]

We decided to have fun with the whole guild and did some group runs of the quests.
We decided to run 3 WF sorcs made for the challenge using veteran status 2 and trying to
more or less brute force it which might not have been the best solution.

My guildie took videos of the runs and will post them, does that count as a video posted
when counting points :P

Excellent, thank you for joining. Very nice to see a group run. Its fine with just one per group posting the video.

[mikarddo]

Howdy!
Here are the results of week one for our guild runs on Cannith after we quickly rolled up some fresh first life characters.

Excellent, thank you for joining. Very nice to see a group run

[mikarddo]

First of all, thanks for doing this:
I will try and post the pics.
This is NOT a first life character
My times were not close to the fastest
Having difficulty uploading photos...(trying upload manager, but the "uploaded" screenshots never appear in after it looks like they are uploading)

Deleras R2: 10 = (5+2 (R2) +2 (solo) + 1 (no deaths)
TTT R3: 11 = (5 + 3 (R3) +2 (solo) + 1 (no deaths)

Thank you for joining in. Wrt screenshots I suggest uploading those to imgur (free and easy to use). After I upload there I right click on the screenshot on imgur to get a link and post here like this:


[img ]https://i.imgur.com/mt5tfh2.jpeg[/img]
[img ]https://i.imgur.com/97atHEH.jpg[/img]


Remove the space after img in both lines.

I hope that helps. I will add you to the scoreboard once you get the screenshots up

[Cardo]

nice to see groups doing this

I think a team of 3 can R10 Quid Pro Quo—alone I can’t take down the Fomorian

That would also need heaps of luck.
Even with a group of three we just couldn't push the skulls any higher on Delera while trying to keep up
some kind of speed. With first lifers there just wasn't any room for error. And with a group, there also
was an element of chaos with everyone running around and disagreeing over the amount of zerging that
could be done 'safely' XD

After Deleras the TTT quest felt much easier and there we could put in a few more skulls although our best
run almost ended in disaster when we had a Vengeance reaper spawn.

[mikarddo]

That would also need heaps of luck.
Even with a group of three we just couldn't push the skulls any higher on Delera while trying to keep up
some kind of speed. With first lifers there just wasn't any room for error. And with a group, there also
was an element of chaos with everyone running around and disagreeing over the amount of zerging that
could be done 'safely' XD

After Deleras the TTT quest felt much easier and there we could put in a few more skulls although our best
run almost ended in disaster when we had a Vengeance reaper spawn.

Do notice that speed runs can be done on R1 with seperate runs for max reaper skulls.

[Saekee]

Do notice that speed runs can be done on R1 with seperate runs for max reaper skulls.

wait so you can post two separate runs? One on R1 the other higher? The speed run thing is getting messy. I see the logic though

[mikarddo]

wait so you can post two separate runs? One on R1 the other higher? The speed run thing is getting messy. I see the logic though

Thats correct.

[Stratimics]

Toodles!

Here's the videos and screenshots for our run of Ruined Halls. First run is a R5 run and the other is a R1 speedrun.

Ruined Halls (R5) – 03:50 (02:53)

5 Base
5 Skulls
3 First lifers
1 No deaths
1 Lower level
15

1 Video

Ruined Halls (R1) – 01:29 (01:07)


PS. Oh boy, gonna be tough to post a total of 40 videos... Would have preferred if everyone was just allowed to post one entry per quest and you would have to strategize whether to run high reaper or do low reaper and go for speed.

[Cardo]

We moved on to Ruined halls.
As there are traps in this quest I rolled up a new contestant (2 rog / 5 wiz WF) while
my guildies continued on with the same characters as in round 1.
Now we did one R1 speed run and got a time of 1:29 modified to 1:06.
On the skulls side we managed a R5 run of which my guildie should shortly post the vids.

R5 Ruined Halls 3:50 modified time -> 2:52
Base 5
Skulls 5
Only first lifers 3
No deaths 1
All under level 1
Total 15 points (+ 1 point for vid)

Skull run screenshots:


Speed run screenshots:

[Magnus_Arcanis]

wait so you can post two separate runs? One on R1 the other higher? The speed run thing is getting messy. I see the logic though

Thats correct.

Oh, well in that case

Note* Updated my original round 1 post as well.
https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...=1#post6470699

R1 The Mystery of Delera's Tomb - 3:24

1st life, solo, no hirelings.

Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIVYUwZsUQ4

R1 The Legend of Two-Toed Tobias - 7:05

1st life, solo, no hirelings.

Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdgT34ctsx8

[Zargarx]

Thanks for running another challenge mikarddo!

All have 10 points minimum as 5 (base) +1 (reaper 1) +3 (1st life) +1 (hirelings only)

No char spots available so grabbed the only char I had at a usable level; unused for years except as a bank mule. Drank potions to make inventory space so could get Borderland Ethereal weapons... And wow a first life is a lot weaker.
Note ignore times, hard to get a few minutes without interruptions (e.g. make dinner, etc.).

Ha - I also misread the 3rd quest as Redwillow's Ruins so did that as well; was another level 6 quest.

Delera's: 10
TTT: 11 (+1 no death)
Ruined Halls: 13 (+1 as R2, +1 no death, +1 under level)
Total: 34

As for Quid Pro Quo, no Feywild ex-pack yet. Black Friday is too late unfortunately.










edit: redid Ruined halls as messed up the screenshot, also did R2 instead of R1.

[mikarddo]

Thanks for running another challenge mikarddo!

Thank you for joining in

Updated everything sofar. Let me know if I overlooked something or made a mistake - both not entirely unlikely scenarios.

[MIvan]

R1 The Legend of Two-Toed Tobias - 9:22

7 Points
6 = R1
1 = No Deaths

Sadly forgot to open charater sheet at end.
But did it in deleras, hope its ok that way. If not, I can redo next week.

Video: https://youtu.be/I240A_J5VO0

R1 The Mystery of Delera's Tomb - 8:36

7 Points
6 = R1
1 = No Deaths

Video: https://youtu.be/bgRQ8PfC1SU

[MIvan]

R1 Quid Pro Quo - 5:50

7 Points
6 = R1
1 = No Deaths

Video: https://youtu.be/edeFRzWiPzw

R3 Ruined Halls - 3:47

11 Points
8 = R3
2 = Truly solo
1 = No Deaths

Video: https://youtu.be/L_LBecTkEVA

[mikarddo]

R1 The Legend of Two-Toed Tobias - 9:22

7 Points
6 = R1
1 = No Deaths

Sadly forgot to open charater sheet at end.
But did it in deleras, hope its ok that way. If not, I can redo next week.

R1 The Mystery of Delera's Tomb - 8:36

7 Points
6 = R1
1 = No Deaths

Thats not a problem, thank you for joining in

[mikarddo]

-------------Speed Runs---------------

R1 The Mystery of Delera's Tomb - 3:24

1st life, solo, no hirelings.

Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIVYUwZsUQ4

R1 The Legend of Two-Toed Tobias - 7:05

1st life, solo, no hirelings.

Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdgT34ctsx8

I am curious. Whats the blue circular damage you use to good effect. Some kind of cookie?