I will check it out after school! I'm a little busy but it won't be long

Shearing Wind, the third upgrade of Cutting Wind you get from the daggerist's jewelry set, is faster than running and used primarily in the New Game Plus speedruns. It is also unaffected by weight. I'm currently looking for a way to implement Gale Harness into the mix, but the casting time far outweighs any use of it - except in, perhaps, the Griffin fight. However, most speedruns are done as Strider due to the skill Mad Dash being used to ensure players dont accidentally kill an NPC in Gran Soren, so Gale Harness likely is out of the run

I'll need to ask Glasnonck, but for now I would play it safe and just disable any mods that aren't purely visual mods, due to unforeseen complications dealing with Dogma's natural mod incompatibility plus the off chance that developers changed some things without telling their audience. I'm glad you asked us first! Do we know how exactly the stats are tweaked? Is it an actual physical number change like upping your strength or just an ease for the reader like a format difference?

What mods? If they alter the gameplay in any major way (world difficulty, any combat/AI changes, cheat mods etc) then I doubt they would be allowed. List the exact mods and what they do, and depending on what they are I'll provide you some answers.

Not a skip, but a great refinement. If there's one thing I learned about the Gorechimera, it's that it isn't luck that decides how he hits you - it's your position. I have a video brewing where I get EVERY dragon door pressure plate on the first attempt. The catch: we've been routing it wrong, and we can't have ANY pawns. Follow roughly what I did in my video, and stay to the relative sides of the gorechimera, and he will almost always perform his paw attack which is perfect for the plates.

Update 4: We have a problem. Damage boosting would be too precise, however I found a way to, within the games boundaries, almost perfectly manipulate the gorechimera's attacks. Killing the goat sends him into a cyclical frenzy, in which he runs up to you, stops a few meters away, roars and lunges at you. Forward rolling slightly left to his attack, immediately jumping and grabbing will allow you to grab the tip of the snake's nose. I will have footage of this as soon as the video is fully edited, however until then note that I have also tried using this snake's tendency to disobey walls to my advantage - to no avail. The Arisen is taken off of the snake if the threat of a wall pass appears. My next idea is to get my modder friend to see if the invisible wall is shorter than the door - if so, a Ladder Blade could he enough to launch me over it. More on that later, as this requires a lot of preparation for me to perform.

Update 4: We have a problem. Damage boosting would be too precise, however I found a way to, within the games boundaries, almost perfectly manipulate the gorechimera's attacks. Killing the goat sends him into a cyclical frenzy, in which he runs up to you, stops a few meters away, roars and lunges at you. Forward rolling slightly left to his attack, immediately jumping and grabbing will allow you to grab the tip of the snake's nose. I will have footage of this as soon as the video is fully edited, however until then note that I have also tried using this snake's tendency to disobey walls to my advantage - to no avail. The Arisen is taken off of the snake if the threat of a wall pass appears. My next idea is to get my modder friend to see if the invisible wall is shorter than the door - if so, a Ladder Blade could he enough to launch me over it. More on that later, as this requires a lot of preparation for me to perform.

Update 3: They have a failsafe in BBI for skipping through the barred doors, which implies the loading zone past the Dragon Door may not activate until those doors are open either - however, until I make it past the invisible wall (a feat I've attempted but have yet to succeed in doing) I won't know for sure. I've enlisted a modder (LDKSuperDante) to, in his free time, see if he can figure out anything from the game files and props in the room and such.

There are no barrels in the Tainted Mountain, but we may be able to pull off a damage boost through the invisible wall that's inside of the door asset! That's right, the door itself is NOT a solid object! You clip halfway through it when running into it, implying the only thing separating us from the Dragon is an invisible wall.

Ser Mercedes spawns EXTREMELY close to the Training Area if you sleep until night right before the Cyclops, which only loses you a second, and gains more than six! I used this refinement in my upcoming Death Slayer run, which will be submitted tonight!

As speedrunners, we likely all know about the moonbeam door skip in BBI. What if we did that, but bigger? Completely skipping the Dragon Door could shave up to 40 or more seconds off of any given run, and completley remove the RNG element from that scenario. We should, as a community, work on achieving some sort of Dragon Door Skip. Update this forum post with ANY discoveries we could find, or your thoughts on the skip as a whole.

Or Obscure Bosses, such as the trainer from The Encampment or the tiny cyclops/tiny ogre, the VERY SPECIFICALLY TIMED griffin you find outside gran soren, Balsac who isnt too obscure but c'mon balsac

My thoughts are as such: Major Bosses. I.E. ANY boss considered 'required' or 'main story', such as: Cyclops, goblin chief, griffin, watergods altar cyclops, salomet, gazer, death, dark bishop, both Daimon forms, Wights, maybe the gate gorechimera, Dragon, maybe the ur dragon, and seneschal, among any others I missed.

I'd love to be one, specifically for ps4/gamepad console runs! I have tons of free time, and I enjoy watching runs! I'm willing to join the team! I say gamepad console because I don't understand PC as much, and can't see signs of cheating as well as I could on console

I met glas on youtube, and he is currently going through a ton of runs, catching up with his inactivity :) I wanted to say this because it means that we will get our runs looked over within the next few weeks!!