Hi everyone,

even though it is clearly stated in the rules that segmented runs are prohibited, I put quite a lot of time into running the main game aswell as the addon. And boy, did I segment the hell out of those games ^^

Without worrying about dying and with the certainty of getting exactly what you want from each merchant / chest, you can pretty much run through the game from start to finish without the leveling time that has to be spend in a legit run! This became possible with the introduction of new combat magic spells that both increase speed aswell as damage output!

I got the inspiration for that from the existing records by Alien who managed to play through both games in about 2 hours each while it took me about 20 hours to play the normal way! There is also an existing segmented run by LightningX who chose melee instead of combat magic to run through the game. He posted his run on another speedrunning site together with a very entertaining commentary!

If you want you can check out those runs, they may not be official records but they are still fun to watch, especially mine (hint hint ;-))

Best regards Balder