Mount Olympus Speedruns except this time I elaborate my opinion on how it should be done
4 years ago
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Basically, I think we should separate the leaderboard first by school because, in a max level environment, It's unfair to compare say, Death to Storm or Fire because of how hard they hit. After that separation, I feel that they should be further separated by if we allow crowns/hoard items or not because Dworgyn's Dire Hood gives a mass feint item card and that makes the death run specifically so much faster. Only restrictions there would be the slipstream boots and +50% mounts. Edit 1: I just wanted to say that this isn't a run I would submit

Edited by the author 4 years ago
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Regarding your points, first I'll say that crowns items will never be allowed for any speedrun. Introducing any potential pay to win element into speedruns wouldn't be fair imo. The only exception to this I would say is using a crowns pet for WotNP% because it changes nothing in that category, since it's just a pet obstacle course. And probably 40% mounts, since you can get those with gold (as long as they don't have additional stats that is). If max runs were to be allowed, you would have to use non crowns gear and pets. It's possible lore cards may also be banned for the same reason, but I can't say for certain because it IS possible to earn them without paying, though the odds are very low. In terms of separating the leaderboard by school, that was brought up by another speedrunner in the past and the compromise for that idea was adding school variables to each run. This way people can filter by school if they want to see who was the best by school and overall. Having a separate category for every school would be too messy. While I realize some schools may always be better over others, I would just say that's the nature of speedrunning, where people will choose the better options to do these runs. I know this would be more of a problem with max speedruns as opposed to any category now since everyone starts fresh, but there's not really anything else that could be done about that.

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That's a completely fair argument. Banning lore spells is probably not a good idea because you can craft them or farm for them and with how you would structure the leaderboard, like none of them would be used. Storm just straight up has tempest, fire has meteor and dragon, ice wouldn't be used because of how slow and weak those spells are, death has crow and needs to set up anyways, myth has humongofrog and probably wouldn't be used because of the amount of myth resists in the dungeon, balance has sandstorm, and life runners would have lifestorm.

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