I believe it is because there haven't been any new seasonal runs since then. Basically no one submitted any season 3 runs. We are heading into season 4 not 5 btw. Possibly more interest again now that there have been some significant changes. I think a lot of people were just burnt out.

@Aamp Jymnasium added a guide on how to setup to get ready for speedrunning yesterday. It is pretty good, and actually shows how to get the setup and make it even nicer than the one I have set up. You should check it out :) I would ask him on any splits questions, but its mostly preference on how you want to do it in the middle as long as you have RTA start and finish. I think the runs will become more specific in splits to compare as they fill in more. CC: @Jymnasium

Apparently you can reroll normal rares with just veiled crystal. Which makes it even more of a reason to have a determination.

Definitely not a waste of time for the potential damage output boost on any class that uses a 2h sword at least (maybe sorc with the staff of elemental command i haven't tested the run yet). Eventually the best route will be determined as the objective best route. (like jail strats in d2) The whole run I think will come down to a gamble on the ilvl and affix roll of the unique elite boss item, and its subsequent enchantment roll.

Rerolling outside of that is a much smaller gamble as soon as you get a big drop with 3/4 good stats, and greatly benefits anyone who plays a lot of the game outside of speedruns. Someone who can fully upgrade gear at all times, reroll at least once each item for the quick gamble, and imprint at 25 every piece of gear, is going to have a massive power and survivability advantage over someone who doesn't.

I will grind out the stuff if necessary, but the fact that this stuff isn't addressed in the rules and the paragon points are when characters are sub 50 just seems odd. This is a complex game and it has a lot of different things in it that give you power between characters. I want to make sure these specific things are addressed.

There needs to be a discussion on using the occultist to reroll stats (enchanting). I have not done it yet in my runs as the only characters in sorftcore I have in T3 or above were ones I did runs for... BUT this is an absurdly strong advantage for any run prior to T3.

If it were to be approved, which I am not sure I would even be in favor for, I'd suggest that the only run you can do rerolls for is the fallen temple. Again, I am hesitant on that. I am really hoping there is some patch out there that adds the SSF realm or something where you get a clean character but in the meantime we probably actually need to have a few actual sit down - round table - rules discussions.

The thing I would want to avoid the most is for both the Diablo 4 at large and the speedrunning at large communities to call this whole thing a joke. Which it could quickly become without a lot of communication, explanations, and clarity as the game itself does not make this a simple answer.

That is the rough bit of RTA. I have all my settings almost bottomed out and low FX selected. I also disabled crossplay. That all seemed to help with my lag and gamecrashes, especially while recording. I hope that helps!

Not gonna lie, this seems like a bad category without character creation required. IF you can just use an existing character then the bar for entering into the speedrun will become extremely difficult very quickly if/when this category becomes popular at all. BIS gear will be mandatory to even be close to competitive as soon as these runs have like 10+ runs on it.

For speedrunning of this game to take off there has to be better and clearer rules not requiring you to get extremely lucky and/or spend hundreds of hours on prepping and beefing up a character for a run prior to even starting. You already need to farm resources to do an actual proper run from fresh character. The less time we are required to sit and mindlessly farm stuff in order to prep for a run the better.

For example in Diablo 2, there isnt a "clear the dungeon" speedrun. People would do millions of mephisto runs and they time them but there isnt a load into the game and clear durance speedrun. There isn't a speedrun to clear andy, meph, diablo, and baal with a fully maxed out geared character.

Do we know what the category name is going to be and are the rules going to be the same as the campaign runs?

I am also working on a guide for the route. Right now its just a messy word doc. But I would like to clean it up to share so others can attempt as well.

T3 capstone unlock from fresh character (necro) 4:46:28. I haven't seen anyone else time it, my last run was 7 hours. I intend to claim this as WR until someone beats it (definitely easily beaten, if I ran it again I can shave off 20 minutes immediately, probably significantly more depending on the rules).

Several additional rules also implemented during the run. Would like this as a category, and want to discuss the rules. This certainly would have passed any rules that are come up with comparing to the campaign run. (no obels use, no codex until 25, no codex unless you complete that dungeon on the fresh character) I also dont play softcore so I barely had any resources and had to salvage almost all my drops.

Also, I plan on doing this run on HC as well. Should be a separate category and I do not know why that isn't one for the campaign. I do not see why we have a category for every dungeon and not this, which is really the closest thing to speedruns for D2 so maybe I am out of touch.

Any update on this? would love to watch it