Nice run!

Do you have any tips for me to improve on apart from getting a steering wheel or using manual? I only did this run so far, so might not be a lot. I hope to give you some competition on some of the tracks, but I'm a bit all over the place with games and irl.

Thank you! I will look into the "Current Patch" tab soon.

I still can't join the server. I tried everything that the internet has said. It might be that I am banned, because I got hacked 1,5 years ago and never tried to join again.

Hey, this will be a long post, so sorry for that.

First of all, I think that the Discord link on this site is expired. I wanted to ask these questions in the Discord, but I cannot join. Here is also fine since my questions are speedrun related.

All my questions are about adding pages on sr.c for different categories/mods. I would like to see if other people also would be interested in these ideas, an open discussion. I am fully aware that adding these categories/mods may lead to dead leaderboards and a mess on the site. My expectation is that all 3 ideas are going to denied, but it never hurts to ask for a game that I love.

Question 1: Glitchless? (BL2 Main Leaderboard) Some glitches that are being used (weapon stacking and infinite ammo with Vladof rocket launchers, just to name the 2 major glitches) change the speedrun significantly. The playstyle change that these glitches have on the speedrun is not fun for me. I like the luck based farming and more skillful shooting. I was wondering if other people also would like to see a glitchless category. (I sold this very poorly xD)

Question 2: TTAoDK: A Wonderlands One-shot Adventure? (Own Leaderboard?) I remember asking about this 2 years ago somewhere, but I never got a clear answer. Maybe there are new people that would like to give it a try. In my opinion there are enough differences in this "game" than the original. Start in the adventure at level 1, 2 skill points per level up, more/different sidequests, bosses with loot pools, slightly different enemies (armor on orcs) and some other slight changes like starting chests and seraph crystals. I already did a run 2 years ago. You can watch it here.

Question 3: Roguelands mod? (Category Extensions/Own Leaderboard) 4 weeks ago Joltzdude139 with the help of some amazing people made a roguelike mod for Borderlands 2, Roguelands. I believe that 90% of people here already knows what it is. I really enjoy playing it and I think that it would be a fun speedrun. It's fun and pretty fast for a BL2 speedrun. There is even a version with less levels for people that don't have a lot of free time. Players may not like it since it's very rng heavy, but I really like rng in speedrunning. Today I finished my first speedrun with Zer0. You can watch it here.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this!

Which kind of quota runs are you talking about? Glitched?

If it's "Glitched" you are talking about, then you have to play on v40 or v45, because the Ladder Glitch is patched in the newer versions.

If you are talking about the "Glitchless" category , then your statement that it is mandatory to play on v40 is not true, only based by looking at the leaderboards. You also have the gift boxes that have been added with the v45 update.

My experience is also that in v49 that I get more runs going. Loot seems "better" than in the older versions. (I have found more toy robots and hairdryers on Assurance playing on v49, but again, it is just my personal experience.)

And if you split v40 and v45+ then the main leaderboard would become very messy

Why are all categories gone?

Like, I know why. AVNJ made a thread saying that the game looked dead because of the seperation of the categories (which is way worse in other games). Then he became a mod? and then all categories that he thought were unnecessary are gone. oh and he deleted his thread for some reason.

This isn't the most famous game. It can become dead for a while and than a new person does a run and get's their friends to also play the game. (there are enough games on this site that are completely dead)

It was fine as it was. those categories were made because people did speedrun it and wanted seperation, because it was different from just a normal any% run.

There are reasons why those categories existed. They all bring something else to the table. 2 character runs are way different than 3 character runs, and playing with friends is different than playing alone, and why even get rid of "All Dungeons" runs?

It just feels wrong for someone seemingly coming out of nowhere with no run on the leaderboard to become a mod and disregard all categories. It also seems like AVNJ didn't ask the community before he made these changes.

I just want to know from other runners what they want. If they only want to have any% than I'm fine with it. These changes should have been communicated with the runners of the game and I feel like that didn't happen.

the DS, PSP and the PS2 version of the game has 8 levels per wonder and the PC version only has 7 per wonder. Some levels are also slightly different. Look at 1-1 from PC and the one from PSP

Also the "bonus" power-up you get after using 4 horizontal or horizontal + vertical stones works differently. It will always destroy 4 blocks with stone or 3 and 1 beneath the block.

Added note: The other consoles have 8 Wonders.

I also couldn't find a IOS version of the game

I have a video of the Statue of Zeus played on PS2:

I suggest to make PC and PS2/PSP/DS separate categories.

those are already categories, they are just hidden by the dropdown thingy

Livesplit would still be inaccurate, (unless there is an auto splitter for the game). the best thing to use would be Avidemux (or "YT-Retimer" or something like that)

I will add a timer next time rendering the video.

That is good to know. thanks! Even tho it doesn't make sence since the scale of the map should be the same

Congrats! I think that 49sec is the max on this map, unless they retime it personally and add ms. I will try to get a 49sec time soon. GG!

Thank you! 30 to 40 takedowns were slow compared to the rest. GL! I hope to see you beating this time.

You can still finish it. Here is not the correct place if a puzzle is broken, you would have to go to the Hearthstone Forum and make a ticket there.

Solution: You need to trade the right River Crocolisk in his and kill yours with the Holy Smite, then trade you other Crocolisk in the Yeti and Heal the other Yeti.

Next time do a little bit more research before you make such claims.

1. Lap glitch (which you can't do because it's 1.3) and Boss skip are the only major glitches, but you can't do them in 'Career 100%'. So glitches and glitchless is irrelevant in the 'Career 100%' & 'Game 100% categories.

2. Thanks, I will look for the patch :)

Can you still get career 100% with boss skip then? otherwise you can't preform any major glitches, right?

So I can never do a challenge series run and a 100% run because of 1 challenge series bugging my game? Does anyone else have that problem that you know of? I have reinstalled it already and that didn't work.

I couldn't verify in the discord, so that's why I am asking here.

Career 100% glitchess and glitchless are the same, right? Same for Game 100%?

In the challenge series, challenge 101 crashes my game, so can I still do a challenge series 100% run?

The descriptions of the "view rules" are a bit confusing for me, knowing that you can't preform the lap glitch and in Game 100% it says 68 challenges.

Final question: Are there going to be more categories like in the normal MW? For example: challenge 125, carreer busted and/or bad ending?

Thanks in advance

I will write some things here to help you to beat these bosses mabye a bit easier. This will mostly be strategies for speedrunning ofcourse.

Very long post

Disclaimer: These are my strats, you can find something else helps for you.

You can go to: https://hearthstone.gamepedia.com/Book_of_Heroes for more info about the decks.

Archmage Antonidas

This is a tricky one to speedrun. Mainly because the deck you get is not all that great and Mirror Image from Antonidas.

There are 2 strategies: 1: Don't kill the Mirror Image tokens 2: (obviously) kill the tokens (Although it's not worth it, No further explination) 3: No Mirror Image is played ( Play minions, and hope for the best, No further explination)

Main goal: Antonidas's board full of Mirror Image tokens. Play minions with stats and hit face with spells in the meantime, play flamestrike and go face.

Get a Antonidas's board full with Mirror Image's, so he wouldn't play any other minions. He can do this with: 2x Mirror Image or Echo of Medivh or Molten Reflection. When his board is full he will waste his Freezing Potion and Molten Reflection. And He will likely play Research Project, which will benefit you the most.

Now that his board is full: Play minions with stats. The best would be Gray Cats, Water Elementals and Animated Avalanche. Play a Water Elemental on 6 mana so the effect of Animated Avalanche will be active on turn 7. If you cannot play a minion that turn, hit face with frostbolt or fireball. When you have enough damage to kill him with your minions play Flamestrike and kill him.

Dead Cards: Animated Broomstick, Voracious Reader, Mirror Entity, Flame Ward, Polymorph (Icicle, counterspell, Archmage, Stormwind Champion)

Good Cards: Gray cat, Water Elemental, Animated Avalanche, Flamestrike, (frostbolt, fireball)

Keal'Thas

This is a run killer for sure. 
He has a lot of clear, can make his board big in a turn with Wyrm Weaver and his heropower doesn't really help you to accomplish your goals.

Main Goal: Play defensively. play minions when you can (MINIONS ARE KEY, your minions have to do the most face damage), hope that your minions don't die, slowly kill him.

Turn 2: ping Fire Fly, if not played, face.
Turn 3: Ping Starscyer if played Otherwise Gray Cat, Counterspell or Arcane Intellect.
Next turns really depends on what he plays. Try to keep the board stable and play your minions effectively, so they stay alive and can do some face damage.

His treatening minions are: Mana Wyrm, Firebrand, WyrmWeaver and Dalaran Mage (spell damage is scary when it's too late)

Dead Cards: Potion of Illusion, Luna's Pocket Galaxy (Ice Block)

Good Cards: (keep: Deep Freeze) ALL MINIONS, counterspell, iceball, frostbolt, draw, frost nova, blizzard, ray of frost, deep freeze.

Prince Arthas

Not too big of a deal

Main Goal: Get him below 10HP and finish him of with a pyroblast. or play a lot op spells so you can play both arcane giants.

His heropower: He will always use heropower when you have a minion on board, most of the time he will use it at the start of his turn, so making it's effect useless.

Your heropower: 2 mana deal 3 damage. This is very good to kill his minions and ping face with.

Kill his minions if needed, ALWAYS KILL PARAGON OF LIGHT. Do damage face, ALWAYS use heropower instead of spells. use Tortollan Pilgrim as draw, secret or boardclear. At the end play Siamat with windfury or some Arcane Giants to go face with. He has a lot of heal, but you should have enough burst left to burn him down. his secret is always Noble Sacrifice.

All cards are decent, but the worst are defenitly Sorcerer's Apprentice and Luna's Pocket Galaxy.

Grommash Hellscream

Easy as pie

It is possible to kill Grommash before Thrall's dialogue starts, but it will most likely not happen in a speedrun

Use heropower every turn you can and you win, you can just go face.
For the first 3 turns you try to get Fireball, frost nova or sorcerer's Apprentice

Archimonde

This is a kind of a weird one. This one has a lot of 'rules' applied

• Boss always has 1-2 mana minions in his starting hand and always draws Voidwalker on turn 1.
• The player always draws the cards on first six turn in next order - Ray of Frost, Frostbolt, Flame Ward, Fireball, Blizzard, Frost Nova. If any of these spells were got on mulligan, the player will draw a random card instead on respective turn. The spells above may be one of these randomly drawed cards which leads to another random draw on turns 1-6 accordingly.
• The battle ends with the player winning when Archimonde's health reaches 10 or less.

So you don't have to do anything during the muligan, these cards are all you need. Same with Grommash: use heropower every time you can, or something else must be better.

Garrosh Hellscream

Gosh darn pirate warriors!

Again press that heropower!
Muligan for Kirin Tor Elemental, Arcane Missiles, Archmage Kalec, scalerider, (scaleworm)
Trade at the start. (you can choose not to, but it can happen that you lose)

Thrall

Should be easy, but may be slow

You need to kill his minions, because of his windfury heropower. Your heropower will help inmensely with this. He has mostly big elemental minions

This is another defensive game. For the early game try to get: Kirin Tor Elemental, Archmage Kalec, Violet Spellwing, Scalerider and Scaleworm. Focusing Iris is defenitly the best card, but it usually gets counterd by Earthquake. Thrall doesn't really have many minions till turn 5 so play your minions and go face. Save your spells for when you really need them.

Aethas Sunreaver

First pirate warrior and now secret mage!?

Again play defensively and make an opening to play minions and attack.
He has 3 different kind of secets: Counterspell, Explosive Runes and Flameward.
Kill his secret synergising minions, Stargazer Luna and Wyrm Weaver.
Archmage Kalec is a minion that needs to survive, he is great playing the bigger spells like: pyroblast, Luna's Pocket Galaxy, flamestrike, meteor or just some fireballs from Staff of Antonidas.

When he plays Aluneth, your goal will be to play Arcane Giant and Violet Warden so he won't do any face damage with the minions. You can let him draw his whole deck and kill him with fatigue, but that is very slow. Just use your Pyroblast and Fireball to burn him down.

His heropower is almost useless and his Sunreaver Warmage is just a 5 mana 4-4, because he doesn't have any spells that cost 5 or more.


I hope this helped. If you have any tips yourself, feel free to post them below.
You can always go to: https://hearthstone.gamepedia.com/Book_of_Heroes for more info on the decks.