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Given the new categories that we are running and are wanting to run, I think it would make sense to re-organize the categories to the following (note the indentation. The idea is that you would have top-level categories to keep things organized). Note, Darkest mode unless specified:

• Boss% TOP LEVEL ---- Necromancer% (rename Necromancer% No Summons) ---- Necromancer% Open ---- Hag% ---- Swine Prince% ---- Siren% ---- Miller% ---- Baron% ---- Crocodilian% (this is the renaming of the current Courtyard% category)
• Map% TOP LEVEL (complete all achievement bosses within a map area) ---- Ruins% ---- Warrens% ---- Weald% ---- Cove% ---- Courtyard%
• Any% TOP LEVEL ---- Apprentice Bosses% ---- Veteran Bosses% ---- Champion Bosses% ---- Roster% (Radiant mode, bring all heroes to lvl6) ---- Darkest Dungeon% (Radiant mode)

I know many of these categories don't have submissions yet, but many of us are getting ready to run or have already run them. It'll be nice to have an agreed-upon category before they start getting run. Thoughts? Can we make this happen?

Hi guys. I just did a run of all apprentice bosses. It's FAR from an optimized run as you start to run up against guys who over-level themselves, and I had to do a medium run in the Weald to open the Hag.

However, I had fun with this one. It's quite different from the other single-boss runs as you do have to pay attention to stress levels and all that. It's quite complex.

Can we get this added as an official run? My run was 3hr 20min 16sec. I'm confident that I'll be able to PB a solid half-hour or more now that I've got the basic strategy of the run down.

Here is the video if you are bored and can't sleep:

So I know we just added Hag% and are talking about Color of Madness DLC ... but I think a different type of run strat would be to do a Roster 100% run where you need to complete all the roster goals, which is getting a level 6 of each character.

I would recommend this be on Radiant mode so that you can get to those levels faster.

This could be a non-DLC mode so that anyone can play and might appeal to players used to playing casually. It would be a longer run, but wouldn't force you to run through bosses, so not as much RNG hell. Would be fun to route!