Dec 24: One-week HC Race

nugiyen didn't get 1 shot, he shot 3 times before he died, although on stream it looked like his computer started to lag after the 1st shot so he couldn't stop firing.

http://www.twitch.tv/nugiyen/b/352294507?t=26h11m50s

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Fucking impressive show guys. While I was against it previously I'd like to see a completely solo week race.

Also Kripp was a great addition as he brought more competition to these races. Usually it's first to 79 then take the rest of the race off. I don't think I've ever seen a race where someone got to 79 and was 12th.

Solo races will end up level 74-77.

After the filler fix there was only a 1 week turbo race where several players who reached level 70+ here got killed off in Turbo.

The Turbo race barely had party of 3+. I think dmouze had a full party at the end while our party had only me playing since everybody reached their personal goals.
When I compared map level I was on 1 level 62 then 63 64 solo at the end while dmouze had only level 62 maps but he catching up around 2-3 million per map and I had a 20 million lead.
But during the race the common partysize were 3 players.

I would like to compare Dominions /played with my Templars from the 1 month race that got decided by fillers. I was solo till level 59 which was the 2nd or 3rd day then I couldn't play 10 days and from then on I mainly had multipliers of 4-5 some parties of 3 and at the end either multiplier or 4 or 6.

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Races are going to be really tough in OB.

Not if HC Turbo, all the streamers played quiet reckless and would have been killed on Turbo.
The Turbo race forced players play slowly. Grindis123 and Invalesco rushed into maps(well I would say a 4h lead towards the next players) Invalesco died farming pyramid and grindis died the first map he entered solo.
Not to mention that around 5 rushers died because they still rushed beyond points of the first turbo race.

I don't know if spaulding got to maps but I doubt it and IMDisappoint never logged in again after he reached level 62.
But I know 25 characters got into maps and 10 died that's a 40% Riprate.
From this race only 2 players felt Turbo maps.
Certain mods are deadly or have a complete different feeling.Same thing applies to bosses(ever guessed Thicket could actually get really dangerous?)

Fleet barely effects mobs

Ranged+Multishot is bullet hell and either you find cover, do all or nothing or try to dodge all projectiles(I posted screens of a catacomb map in the support board how a multishot map with split arrow archers(I think they also had additional projectile mod) ended up painting the walls with arrows-->0 FPS. The entire action took around 3 minutes only.
Even 1 merveil daughters frost breath with multishot got a high chance to freeze you.


Lightning damage+ many spark skeletons = triple shocks for 1 sec over time(or rip with CI)
No Regen= No Fun
Smothering= Actually isn't that welcome 30% depending on mobs.
Frenzy charges+ Poison Spider =3 viper charges 1 hit.
Frenzy charges + brutus = Huge difference between brutus without frenzy.
We were 2 Summoners and with 4 totems 2 manual castings with ~40 minions we couldn't overpower brutus with 1 frenzy charge. We killed him but we had to move backwards because every 2 attacks all skeletons were gone and he started hooking totems.


On the other side other mobs like flicker mobs, hit and run snakes(slomo in turbo instead of moving like hasted moves quickly snake) and rhoas are far less fearful in turbo.
Normal turbo rhoas are fearful because of many consecutive heavy hits but once you get to cruel 1 rhoa hit doesn't to that much damage because it's still one attack and not several attacks in 1 animation or in 1 projectile.

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I was the first to enter Maze in the one month race and killed the Oversoul then as well.

I should look at the chatlog when I get home.
I think it was Minyun.

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I was in two separate parties of six that killed Vaal twice in that ladder, neither of which had Independent. Minyun, nullsFaith, FittaMF, MLO_KimboSlice, ZELEK, Spacke, and I think Technique was there as well on one of them. ZELEK was the only one that died there after he got three rocks in a row.

FittaMF was a Ranger? If yes then I mistook FittaMF for quebec and quebeccurse avoided vaal because fittamf got hit hard by rocks and not as first person experience.

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Hilbert wrote:

Solo races will end up level 74-77.

I dunno my 2nd race I got to 71 with maybe 5-6 lvls doing fellshrine and a few maps with fayded and DDT. Otherwise I was totally solo and personally only found a total of 5 maps, the 5th being the one I died on. In the last 1 week race I did I made it to 71-74 before partying up with ceto and epsi to 77.

I generally play solo and I'm not as experienced or flat out as good as some of these racers so I think a stiff competition it might be possible to see 80 solo. I think now you might be right, 77-79 range but OB when everyone is back and ready to fight for first, it could be insane what we see. Guys like panda and mouze who will do the first 36 hours straight, Kripp and his group who will do the last 24-30 straight.

Just like I didn't think 82 was possible in a 1 week, I don't remove the possibility that 80 can be done solo by maniacs fighting for first.

Also relax on the turbo shit. We don't need a full recap.

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Powster wrote:

For years I was sleeping 2-4 hours a day (not all at the same time) and being completely rested. I thought of taking this race seriously and going for 4 hours of sleep a day again but decided against it since I don't like having to fix my sleep schedule again and wasn't confident enough in my hardcore experience. Learn about da vinchi sleeping you can do 100% for 6 hours straight then take like 30-40 minute nap and do another 6 hours. In just a one week race it would be so easy to get to the end with WAY less sleeping than a normal sleeping pattern with 0 risk to health.

Da Vinci usually worked for hours straight forgetting about food, drink or sleep. He did not take the 30-40 minute naps you describe. He did however take siesta-like naps during the day that lasts a few hours. He did not sleep more than twice in 24 hours (during the night + a nap).

If you were sleeping 2-4 hours a day the most likely explanation is that you had a sleeping disorder.

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Marftrus wrote:

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not much time to play :(
but isnt this wand crazy?

I't a really nice wand but when i died on lvl 68 3 days ago i had this thing.

Congrats to all the winners!

Also thanks to all the streamers\teams, it was so much fun to watch you guys competing against each other.
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Unlike some ppl here, I can't really say it was the great race. There were so many desync\EU gateway disconnection problems. And at the end of the race I was really shocked how stupid Zoldyck's death was. It's so freaking unbelievable(

Shame about Zoldyck dying:|

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Marftrus wrote:

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not much time to play :(
but isnt this wand crazy?

I't a really nice wand but when i died on lvl 68 3 days ago i had this thing.

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i see those wands and raise you.

This was great fun to watch. Thank you so much to the streamers, specifically Kripp and Dime. Watching your team provided valuable information about the high level content I have yet to explore. Some genuinely hilarious moments over the week as well!

Great job to all the participants.

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Hilbert wrote:

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I was in two separate parties of six that killed Vaal twice in that ladder, neither of which had Independent. Minyun, nullsFaith, FittaMF, MLO_KimboSlice, ZELEK, Spacke, and I think Technique was there as well on one of them. ZELEK was the only one that died there after he got three rocks in a row.

FittaMF was a Ranger? If yes then I mistook FittaMF for quebec and quebeccurse avoided vaal because fittamf got hit hard by rocks and not as first person experience.

FittaMF was a summoner Witch. QuebeCurse did the three floors before the boss with us in the second Maze map, but he didn't participate in the boss kill.

I'm not sure what brought the old ladder race up anyway. Congratulations to everyone that survived this race.