(Sep 9 NZT) Hardcore No-Party Ladder Race

I cant get into the spirit of playing alone for 3 hours...I get bored after 10 minutes, its actually more fun to die because then my reward is I dont have to play any more.

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Metronomy wrote:

I cant get into the spirit of playing alone for 3 hours...I get bored after 10 minutes, its actually more fun to die because then my reward is I dont have to play any more.

Spot on metro! ditch the solo race for a while :P

RACE STATS

Top 10

Congratulations to all winners!

Everyone else, better skill next time.


-Temple of Exiles

Another fun race! My best ever. Managed to get to cruel ledge and rank #12. Had mediocre gear too and trouble getting flasks early on. Only bit of luck was finding some rare boots with runspeed. The weapon was alch'd.

My gear:

Yay! First time I have a unique drop in a race..

Too bad its about as useful as.. I don't even know.

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wakkage wrote:

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Metronomy wrote:

I cant get into the spirit of playing alone for 3 hours...I get bored after 10 minutes, its actually more fun to die because then my reward is I dont have to play any more.

Spot on metro! ditch the solo race for a while :P

I think we've shown the results weren't biased in a party friendly race. In fact despite the benefits a party may be disadvantaged as the solo races have seen higher level chars and further progression.

As such, midas well make them party-OK races so players have the choice.

I'm pretty happy with my result.

Not a very fast start but I picked up there near end of act1. I think I got into cruel at 22 at around the 2 hour mark. Apparently it can be done at 2 hours at lvl 24, or alternatively at 22 and faster than 2 hours. Not sure where I could've cut time. I suppose movement boots probably would've helped, I only got my first pair of movement boots at 21 when I went into vaal caves level 1.

Probably could've sped up the finish as well. Had a decent level 22 mace but couldn't roll yellow my 27 mace due to no alchemys the entire run. Blue rolls didn't turn out good at all.

Overall I think 32 is definitely possible. If this has never been done before I guess I'll try for that.

Here's my gear at the end of the race:

For me it was the first time when I found a Unique during the race too.



Another nice thing was a Lightning Strike gem with +14% Quality (socket). Pity that I found it so late.

Better race then normal, still not great drops for me, but thats rng. Two deaths, one to massive desync, one to being a scrub in some laggy play, I think a lot of that lag was from trying to record it. I may try to upload that to youtube, but the quality is so bad, idk.

Still after making a third char almost 20 minutes in, I managed 15th overall and 6th in class, not too bad I guess. Ended up being fun despite negative issues like lag/desync.

Congrats to the winners, #1 tore it up this time, I think thats a tie for top level in a three hour.