This is all great stuff! Love it! We're doing a lot of discussing about this very type of thing right now in a Darkest Dungeon discord in a speedrunning channel. Come check it out. AncientRelyk is going to be recording a party building walkthrough/tutorial soon, so this is perfectly timed.

Here is the discord. Once in, look for the dd_speedrunning channel. https://discord.gg/pitchblackdungeon

Any thoughts if this can be added as an official run?

According to my estimates, you could reasonably do this in 32 weeks in Radiant mode (hence why I suggested radiant mode). You've got 15 heroes all who have to get to resolve level 40. The best mix relies upon using Medium length missions. A good run would be good RNG on most of those hitting the "Complete 100% of Room Battles" missions and having good scouting and layout. Also, no deaths, even though Radiant mode does allow for the heroes to return with high stress more often. So that might not be a complete reset even if that does happen.

If I did this run, would anyone else run it as well?

I re-did my run this evening, since Tricrow decided to drop a much better time than me. Here it is. I still wipe one week, but improved my time by 31 minutes, so that's respectable. I REALLY like this run even though it's over 2 hours long.

And we have a channel! Go to: https://discord.gg/pitchblackdungeon and look for DD Related Content / dd_speedrunning

I've got some time today. I'll post/poke around and let you guys know what I find out!

The problem is more that the general channel gets about 5-10 messages per minute. It's not reasonable for it to be noticed there (I had to search to find your message).

Maybe shoot a note to one of the Mods in a DM.

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:

That said, I'd love to have either a channel in that discord or a separate discord altogether to talk about DD speedruns.

There is a pretty massive discord already setup for it. It's not focused on Speedrunning the game, though. It's not official, but it is a partnered discord server. https://discord.gg/pitchblackdungeon

Yep. If you're doing Necromancer or Hag just uncheck all DLCs. If you're doing Courtyard uncheck all but Crimson Court

I know this is an old post (but I just started running this game). I would think All Rooms would be great. 100% sounds like you need to get full levels, and we already have a lvl30 run that focuses on that.

One question about that ... it's a bit unclear when you're playing Courtyard. I'm assuming that you should only enable the DLC that is necessary for that particular mission. So for Courtyard you only have Crimson Court, right? If so, that should probably be updated in the rules.

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!

Ooh! I really like Dook's recommendation of all Apprentice bosses. That gets my +1

I would think it would make sense to have it be Miller% as that's the first boss you encounter there. That would make this run similar to the other runs out there, but is very different due to how different the Farmstead itself is.

As for an endless run, I would probably set something like kill X number in endless mode. Don't know what a good number would be as I have yet to get into endless mode myself. SGDQ has been taking up most of my time. :D

I see you added the Weald in (thank you, by the way). I'm assuming this is to defeat the first Hag? The rules don't clarify.

I would love to take advantage of this as well. Would definitely run it if it were available