havoc616 - Speedrun Analysis - A10 Kitava - 2:31:25

Create scion
Ignore all monsters on the way to Hillock
Bait hillock right up to the rock near the exit, move around to his other side and start using spectral throw, this makes the spectral throws return faster
Log out and back in to get to the vendors faster
Generally don’t identify magic items before vendoring.
Don’t equip a chest piece, this will increase your movement speed
Hold on to 2 green gems to use later on for vendor recipes
Check vendors for nice links/colours and check for movement speed boots on both characters when you’re nearby the vendors
You’re looking for GGB for your explosive trap, BBG for later on for explosive trap, BBG for your orb of Storms, BBB for your arc, arcane surge and flame dash.
/hideout via macro to travel to hideout for faster access to stash
Log out and create Witch character
Step towards the exit while fighting Hillock
Purchase explosive trap from Nessa
Take Freezing pulse as quest reward
Ideally link Freezing pulse with arcane surge and onslaught
Travel to The Coast

Mostly ignore monsters, trigger onslaught on them as you run past
Manage your inventory while you run
Pick up blue boots and identify them in hopes of getting movement speed boots.
Grab the way point and travel to The Mud Flats

Kill mobs while grabbing the fossils, Havoc hits level 3 while doing so
Complete the Fossil Quest
Travel to The Submerged Passage

Grab the waypoint, go back to the coast and travel to Tidal Island

Havoc hugs the inner wall and kills some mobs on the way to Hailrake
Loot everything
Log out and back in
Take lesser poison as quest reward and put link it to your explosive trap
Vendor trash, Havoc also vendors an armorer's scrap
Check for wands with links and colours again
Purchase Orb of Storms and Elemental Proliferation support
Take Frost Bomb and Frost Blink as quest reward and check for movement speed boots and/or items with good links/colours
Travel to hideout for quicker access to a waypoint
Travel to The Submerged Passage

Manage inventory and gems while running
Link Frost Blink with Arcane Surge
Replace Freezing Pulse with Orb of Storms (drop Freezing Pulse)
Socket Frost Bomb in the same link as Orb of Storms Orb -> Onslaught -> Frost Bomb
Make sure you keep moving while allocating passives
Socket Ele Prolif to level it for later
Use Frost Blink liberally for increased mobility
Travel to The Ledge

Use Orb of Storms and Frost Bomb to kill packs as you run along
Travel to The Climb

Skip Navali
Travel to The Lower Prison

Travel to The Upper Prison

Follow the blood trail on the ground when coming up to The Wardens Chamber
Pepper brutus with explosive traps! (and every other skill you got)
Log out to get back to town fast
Take added lighting as quest reward from Nessa
Vendor trash
Purchase a medium mana flask? I guess this is maybe only if you haven't found one
Link Added Lighting Dmg to your Explosive Trap
Take Flame Dash as a reward from Tarkleigh
Check vendor for movement speed boots
Travel to hideout for faster access to waypoint
Waypoint to Prisoner’s Gate

If you have a higher iLvl Quicksilver flask, transmute it in hopes for adrenaline
Travel to The Ship Graveyard

Grab the way point
Travel to The Cavern of Wrath

Grab way point
Log out and in
Take Arc as a quest reward from Nessa
Switch Frostblink out for Flamedash
Waypoint back to The Cavern of Wrath
Travel to The Cavern of Anger

Activate the treasure chest containing Merveil’s daughter, kill the entire pack including Merveil’s daughter
Enter Merveil’s Lair.
Throw Explosive traps at her feet and prepare an orb of storms before she activates, repeat this as she’s transitioning into her second phase
Exit Merveil’s lair and continue on to the Southern Forest without logging out.
Continue to The Southern Forest

Travel to The Forest Encampment

Vendor trash
Travel to the Old Fields

Travel to The Crossroads

Grab the waypoint
Travel towards The Chamber of Sins
Don't bother killing the unique mob guy
Socket Arc in with Arcane Surge and Flame Dash, use it as your primary attacking skill now

Replace Frost Bomb with Ele Prolif in the links with your Orb of Storms, drop Frost Bomb
Havoc tries to hit level 13 in here, kill all large mob packs you come across
Travel to The Chamber of Sins Level 2

Try and get close to 14 before making it to Fidelitas, Havoc hits level 14 from killing him here
Log out and in
Take herald of thunder as a quest reward and vendor your trash
Purchase a herald of ice

Grab the waypoint
Havoc creates a new instance of the zone here, i’m not sure why this is. Perhaps he doesn’t like the layout of the current zone?
Travel to The Western Forest

Grab the waypoint
Travel towards The Weaver’s Chambers

Travel towards the boss room
Throw the 10 traps down at the location where the weaver will drop from
Engage the fight
When the weaver goes up, kill the adds and then throw traps at the location where the weaver will come down again
Loot Maligaro’s Spike and any rares or magics on
Log in and out
Take Controlled Destruction as a quest reward from Silk
Vendor trash
Travel to hideout for faster access to waypoint
Travel to The Riverways via waypoint

Travel towards The Wetlands

Locate the way point
Havoc leaves a portal between the waypoint and the general direction of the bandit’s location
Enter The Vaal Ruins

When you reach level 16, socket herald of thunder and herald of ice, activate both of these when socketed.
Travel towards The Northern Forest

Havoc hits level 18 in this zone
Travel to the Caverns

Grab the way point and the crafting bench tome thing
Travel to your hideout and craft movement speed on your boots if you don’t have movement speed boots already
Waypoint back to town and go through the portal you left in The Wetlands

Socket controlled destruction to level
Travel towards Oak and kill him (remember to trap at his feet before fighting)
Pick up Oak's amulet and log out and in
Vendor trash
Purchase Wave of Conviction
Travel to the Crossroads via waypoint

Travel to The Broken Bridge

Hug the wall and run towards the bridge, Flame Dash over the bridge walls to get onto it quicker
Travel towards the bandit and kill him (remember to prep traps at his feet)
Pick up the bandit’s amulet and log out and in
Travel to The Western Forest via waypoint

Travel towards Alira the bandit
Help her, take the apex, and log out and in
Travel to The Caverns via waypoint

Travel towards The Ancient Pyramid

Travel to the Pyramid Apex
Havoc aims to hit level 19 by the end of the Vaal oversoul fight
Engage Vaal Oversoul, remember to prep traps
Try and keep all the minions dead while attacking Vaal oversoul to keep him from going underground. Find a balance between dealing damage to him and trying to keep the adds down.
Prep traps while he’s in the ground
When Vaal is dead, log out and in
Vendor your trash and travel to The City of Sarn

Travel towards Clarissa and kill the guards, walk a certain distance away from Clarissa to speed up her stand up animation? or just to kill extra mobs idk
Speak to Clarissa and head towards The Sarn Encampment
Once reaching The Sarn Encampment, head straight to The Slums

Travel towards The Crematorium
Havoc hits level 21 in this zone

Grab the waypoint
Travel towards Tolman & Piety
Prep traps under piety
Grab Tolman’s bracelet and log in and out
Talk to Clarissa and grab the keys from her
Take Conductivity as a quest reward from Maramoa
Talk to Hargan and vendor an iron ring and one of your green gems to get a Topaz ring, if you have an iron ring.
Travel to The Slums

Travel to the sewer entrance, enter The Sewers

Loot all 3 busts
Havoc hits level 22 in this zone
Travel to The Marketplace

Grab the waypoint
Travel to The Battlefront

Travel towards The Solaris Temple and leave a portal halfway there
Continue towards The Solaris Temple

Grab the waypoint
Travel towards The Solaris Temple Level 2

Grab the waypoint
Travel back to town and vendor trash
Havoc picks up a two stone ring here of fire and lighting resist
Go back through your portal to The Battlefront

Travel towards the location of The Ribbon Spool, and loot it.
Travel to The Docks

Go find the Thaumetic Sulphite
Havoc seems to be aiming for 25 in this zone, killing a bit more mobs than usual.
Log out and in
Hand in the busts
Vendor trash
Travel to Hideout
Craft a res on your white two stone ring
Travel to Solaris via waypoint

Grab the Infernal Talc from Dialla
Run back to the way point and travel to The Sewers
Destroy the blockage
Travel to the Ebony Barracks

Make your way to General Gravicius and kill him.
Make your way to Lunaris Temple

Travel to The Lunaris Temple Level 2
Havoc hits level 26 in this zone
Grab the waypoint

Make your way to Piety
Havoc checks some of the ledges at dead ends he arrives at in order to see if he can flame dash over to a different platform as a shortcut.
Havoc hits level 27 in this zone
When initiating the fight with Piety, Havoc drops traps, an orb of storms and fires off a wave of conviction, which applies exposure and lowers the targets resists, and curses her before spamming arc
Upon killing piety, pick up the tower key
Log out and in
Vendor trash
Purchase Lighting Spire Trap
Speak to Grigor for skill point
Travel to hideout
Travel to act 2
Purchase a Controlled Destruction and Trap and Mine Damage from Yeena
Travel to hideout
Craft added lighting damage on both wands
Craft resists on gear
Travel to The Ebony Barracks

Travel to The Imperial Gardens

Socket Controlled Destruction for leveling
Socket Trap and Mine damage for leveling
Grab the way point
Travel towards The Sceptre of God

Make your way up the sceptre
Havoc hits level 28 in this zone
Socket Lighting Spire Trap with your controlled destruction and trap and mine damage 46:17
Havoc switches loot filters after killing Dominus
Travel to The Blood Aqueducts

Havoc hits level 29 in this zone
Skip the unique boss
Travel to Highgate
Go straight to The Dried Lake

Make your way to Voll
Havoc hits level 30 in this Zone
Log out and in
Vendor trash
Travel to The Mines Level 1

Travel to The Mines Level 2

Find Deshret’s Spirit
Travel to The Crystal Veins

Find Dialla
Grab waypoint
Travel to Daresso’s Dream

Travel to The Grand Arena

Grab the waypoint
Travel back to The Crystal Veins

Kaom’s Dream
Havoc hits level 32 in this zone
Travel towards Kaom’s Stronghold

Grab the way point
Travel towards Kaom and kill him
Loot the eye
TP back to town
Speak to Tasuni to get your skill book
Travel to hideout to access waypoint faster
Travel to The Grand Arena

Make your way to Daresso
Kill Daresso
Loot the eye
Log out and in
Vendor trash
Havoc rolls his quicksilver that he’s found
Waypoint to The Crystal Veins

Enter the belly of the beast level 1

Travel to The Belly of The Beast Level 2

Havoc hits level 34 in this zone
Travel to Piety Starfish Edition
Talk to Piety
Travel to The Harvest

Grab the waypoint
Go acquire all of Malachai’s organs
If you kill the boss that has no others nearby, log out and back in and go back to the waypoint
When you have all the organs log out and back in and then travel back to The Harvest and enter Malachai's Arena
Kill Malachai
TP back to town
Take Chain Support as a quest reward from Dialla
Also take Summon Flame Golem as a quest reward from Dialla
Travel to The Ascent

Travel to The Slave Pens

Find and kill Overseer Krow
Travel to Overseer’s Tower
Vendor trash
Enter The Control Blocks

Find the Miasmeter
Make your way to Oriath Square

Havoc hits level 36 in this zone
Havoc is using a granite flask instead of his second quicksilver at this point
Travel to The Templar Courts

Grab the waypoint
Make your way to The Chamber of Innocence

Grab the way point
Havoc tries to kill quite a lot of mobs here, hitting level 38 before he enters the Sanctum of Innocence
Havoc gets his orb of storms into a 4link with chain, ele prolif and onslaught now linked.
Immediately TP out when Innocence dies
Havoc takes a sulphite flask as a quest reward from Lani
Get your book of skill from Vilenta
Take a waypoint back to The Chamber of Innocence
Enter the Torched Courts

Travel to The Ruined Square

Grab the waypoint
Enter the Ossuary

Make your way around and grab the Staff of Purity
Log out and in
Waypoint back to The Ruined Square

Make your way to The Cathedral Rooftop

Make your way to Kitava
Take any moments you have while running to manage your inventory and switch out items etc, always be doing something towards the betterment of your run.
In the fight with Kitava, when the heart is about to appear, prep traps on the ground
Sail to Wraeclast!
Speak with Bestel and Vendor your trash
Travel to The Coast, round 2!

Grab the waypoint and enter The Tidal Island (v2)

Havoc hits level 40 in this area
Grab the manuscript, ignore the boss
TP back to town
Hand the manuscript to Bestel
Take whatever quest reward you need most currently, Havoc takes a leather belt.
Waypoint back to The Coast

Enter The Mud Flats

Make your way over to The Dishonored Queen and acquire the missing eye
Run back over and use the eye on the gate
Enter The Karui Fortress

Make your way to the boss and kill him
Continue onward immediately upon his death
Make your way to The Ridge

Grab the waypoint
Make your way to The Lower Prison (v2)
Havoc hits level 41 in this zone
Ignore the unique boss

Grab the waypoint
Continue onward towards Shavronne's Tower

Havoc takes a passive that gives him cold resist here to top himself off for cold resists.
Make your way up Shavronne’s Tower
When starting the fight with Brutus, Havoc places traps where Brutus will land after his first use of his grappling hook at the start of the fight.
In Brutus’s second phase, Havoc stays very close so that he can circle around Brutus, easily dodging his attacks.
TP back to town, vendor, check for links, etc. Havoc purchases a 3b wand here and alchs it, then switches it out for his current.
Waypoint to The Prisoners Gate

Make your way to The Western Forest

Grab the waypoint
Travel towards The Riverways

Grab the waypoint
Make your way to The Southern Forest
Ignore thee unique mob

Travel towards The Cavern of Anger

Travel towards The Beacon

Havoc hits level 44 in this zone
Make your way to the torch, activate it, and burn the black flag
Speak to Weylam and sail to The Brine King’s Reef

Travel to the brine king and kill him!
When fighting the Brine King, when the Brine King starts spawning mobs, havoc tps out and in, when he arrives back in The Brine King has started bringing in the waves and havoc can make use of his grace timer to avoid the damage in this phase where the brine king is immune. Havoc repeatedly utilizes this technique in this fight.
When The Brine King dies, tp out immediately and waypoint into act 7
Speak to Yeena and Helena and check their vendors
Continue on to The Broken Bridge (v2)

Make your way to The Crossroads (v2)

At this point havoc ditches his explosive trap gem as hasn’t been using it for a long time
Havoc sets up his lighting spire trap in his helmet with added lightning damage and controlled destruction
Make your way to The Fellshrine Ruins (v2)

Make your way to The Crypt
Havoc doesn’t have enough strength for his golem

Grab the waypoint and head to your hideout
Havoc takes this moment to rearrange his gems and set up new gear, and craft stuff on to his gear/new gear.
Waypoint back to The Crypt
Havoc hits level 46 in this zone
Make your way to the chest which contains Maligaro’s map and loot it
Log out and back in
Vendor trash & check vendor.
Havoc purchases an Elemental Focus support to link to his Lighting Spire Trap
Waypoint back to The Crossroads

Make your way up to The Chamber of Sins Level 1 (v2)

Make your way to the waypoint
Open and enter Maligaro’s Map
Find and kill Maligaro and loot his Black Venom
Havoc hits level 47 in this zone
TP out and acquire the Obsidian Key from silk
Continue to The Chamber of Sins Level 2 (v2)

Make your way to The Den
When reaching the linear stretch that would previously have led to Fidelitas, flame dash over the toppled chairs and rubble to immediately reach the entrance to The Den.

Grab the waypoint
Travel towards The Ashen Fields

Travel towards The Old Forest Encampment
Kill Greust
TP out
Hand in your quests
Vendor trash
Havoc picks up some portal scrolls here
Travel to The Northern Forest via waypoint

Take Greust’s necklace to the shrine
Drop a tp outside the entrance to the dread thicket
Continue onwards towards The Causeway

Skip Incursions
Find and pick up Kisharas star
Travel to The Vaal City

Grab the waypoint
Travel back to town via waypoint
Havoc rolls some bubbling/instant flasks here
Take your tp and enter The Dread Thicket

Pick up all of the fireflies
Havoc hits level 49 in this zone
Log out and back in
Waypoint to The Vaal City

Speak to Yeena and enter The Temple of Decal Level 1

Travel to The Temple of Decay Level 2

Find Silk and Arakaali
Havoc hits level 50 before fighting Arakaali
Kill Arakaali
After killing Arakaali, Flame Dash over towards the exit
Enter The Sarn Ramparts

Grab the waypoint
Remember to set up your pantheon at some point
Travel towards The Sarn Encampment
Vendor trash and head towards The Toxic Conduits

Havoc hits level 51 in this zone
Travel to Doedre’s Cesspool

Find and kill Doedre
After killing Doedre, continue onwards and head to the right
Travel towards The Quay

Travel towards The Grain Gate
Ignore the quest involving the Ankh here.’
Keep an eye out for shortcuts across to other platforms that you can cross via Flame Dash.

Kill the Gemling Legionnaires
Travel to The Imperial Fields

Find the waypoint
Havoc travels to his hideout and mastercrafts his new 4 link helmet and switches his lightning spire gems into it
Travel to The Solaris Temple Level 1 (v2)

Grab the waypoint
Head towards The Solaris Temple Level 2 (v2)

Find and kill Dawn, Get the Sun Orb
Log out and in
Speak to hargan to get a ring as a quest reward
Vendor trash
Get your skill book from maramoa
Speak to Clarissa and check her vendor
Havoc buys a bbg wand and alchs it in hopes for an upgrade
Travel to The Solaris Temple Level 1 via waypoint

Travel towards The Solaris Concourse

Travel to The Harbour Bridge

Travel to The Lunaris Concourse

Grab the waypoint
Kill the magic pack that exists where General Gravicius would have been previously
Travel to The Lunaris Temple Level 1 (v2)

Travel to The Lunaris Temple Level 2 (v2)
Find and kill Dusk and loot the Moon Orb
Log out and in
Vendor trash
Havoc scours and alchs his chest
Waypoint to the Lunaris Concourse

Travel to The Harbour Bridge

Find, activate, and kill Lunaris and Solaris
Havoc aims to kill Solaris first
Travel to The Blood Aqueducts

Travel to Highgate (v2)
Speak to sin and Peterus
Vendor trash
Travel to The Descent

Havoc picks up some 4 link gloves and alchs them
Travel to Vastiri Desert

Grab the waypoint
Ignore the stormblade quest
Travel towards the Foothills

Grab the waypoint
Travel towards The Boiling Lake

Find and kill the Basilisk
Loot the Basilisk Acid
TP back to town
Waypoint to The Foothils

Travel to The Tunnel

Grab the waypoint
Travel to The Quarry

Grab the waypoint
Travel towards The Refinery

Find the Trarthan Powder
Log out and in
Waypoint to The Quarry

Speak to Sin
Travel to The Belly of The Beast (v2)

Travel towards The Rotting Core

Travel towards The Black Core

Speak to Sin
Enter Shavronne's Sorrow

Find and kill Shavronne
Leave through the portal and enter Doedre’s Despair

Find and Kill Doedre
Leave through the portal and enter Maligaro’s Misery

Find and Kill Maligaro
Leave through the portal and enter The Black Heart

Defeat The Depraved Trinity
TP back to town and waypoint to act 10
Travel to The Cathedral Rooftop

Travel to the Cathedral Apex and rescue Bannon
Travel towards The Ravaged Square

Grab the waypoint
Havoc hits level 58 in this zone
Travel to The Torched Courts

Travel to The Desecrated Chambers

Find and kill Avarius
Loot the Staff of Purity
Speak to lani and take an onslaught flask
Speak to bannon
Waypoint to The Ravaged Square

Speak to innocence
Enter the Canals

Travel to the Feeding Trough

Travel to Kitava
Engage the fight with Kitava
Havoc frequently portals out and in, in between Kitavas moves, like the flame breath.
Kill Kitava.