I've watched my recordings and both times the counter stopped when I moved the map to look around. So I've tried to replicate it, but to no avail, which leads me to believe I did in fact stop it myself probably hitting num0 (which was my start/stop) when using arrow keys. I was so sure it can't be my error, but it seems like it was.

I've changed my hotkey to numpad - which is very far from the arrow keys.

Sorry for bothering you guys, I should've checked myself, but I was so upset after that happened I blamed the program instead of checking for my error.

I also have another batch of questions!

1. In one of the linked sites, in the "items of interest" section about Boots I can read "Only take Chain Boots if they have Faster Run / Walk". Do Chain Boots slow you down somehow that they are not advised unless they provide FRW themselves?

2. In the same node, I remember reading or hearing once that if you wear a "heavy" armor then your character runs slower. Is it ok to put Stealth into a Ring mail if I buy a 2os one? Or should I stick to lighter armor?

3. Why is Defense on items pretty much neglected? Resistance is one of the most important stats, but Defence, which I believe is like Physical Resistance (am I wrong here?) is neglected. I feel like most of the time as Barb I'm in the middle of action with all the archers and melee monsters bashing my skull and defence would help greatly. That ties in with the previous questions, I'm considering being extra on the lookout for chain boots for imbue and 2os Ring Mail when shopping at Charsi

4. Is the only way of obtaining Choking Gas potions Poison Shrine? And does Poison Shrine give them 100% of the time?

5. Can I somehow thaw myself at Duriel or will I be permanently frozen? I drink some before the fight for res, but during the fight the thawing effect doesn't seem to work.

Thanks in advance!

Hey thank you guys for all the replies!

I've done two runs now, and the first one didn't go really well, but the second one was extremely lucky - I got Hsarus from Andariel, looted Nagelring off a beetle in A2 and found Choking Gas potions as well as plenty of xp shrines.

But both my runs ended in the middle of Act 3 where at around 2h 12 min my timer suddenly stopped. I don't know what causes it, I have the timer start/stop at a key far away that I don't click even on accident, and I don't even want to go complete a run if my timer will stop midway through it and I won't know the time

I'm using LiveSplit, did any of you guys also had it happen?

Bump, added one more question and looking for answers! Thanks :)

Hello!

As (I assume) we all here I love Diablo 2 and have decided to try my hand at speedrunning. I tried speedrunning the Paladin in the past but after 2-3 tries something else got my attention, and now I'm coming back to try out the Barbarian, I do have a couple of questions though:

1. The Paladin uses a Scimitar with Steel, where Barbarian uses Scepters (arguably a Paladin weapon?) and then Flails with Malice and TalTalTal. What is the reasoning behind this?

2. Again, the Paladin uses Javelins at very early game but none of the Barb speedruns I've watched utilised them. I've grown to like having Javs on W switch very early on and was wondering why are they considered good and used on Paladin but skipped on Barb.

3. What item should be imbued IF I get lucky enough to get Hsarus boots? Gloves? And can I imbue a white Jawbone Cap even if it has some Barb related bonuses? Would that be essentially "rerolling" it in hopes for getting Mace Mastery or some other useful stuff?

4. More of a general question, but my game stutters very much. Everything is fine then my FPS drops to 0 for a second then picks up, all at random, and it happens pretty often. Does anyone have an idea how to combat this? I am already using compatibility with XP Service Pack 3.

Edit: 5. From d2speedruns site mentioned in the Guides section I can read that the Malice Flail should go to the Right weapon slot. Why is that?

Thank you very much!

If you're interested in running, have any tips or ideas for various skips, write here :)

Currently the run will take above an hour to complete, but I'm sure we can think of more.

I heard (I think it was on Andyrockin's current #1 video) that there are some major skips but you can't execute them, because you die if you skip a checkpoint.

Do You mind sharing how to do some big skips so I can play around and try to make them work?

Thanks in advance

I think we should archive 1-100, introduce 1-110 and introduce worgen starting zone (that I asked for some time ago)

Hey, thanks a lot! Nothing wrong with self promotions ^^

Gotta try this now and hopefully succeed. One more question guys, how many times out of 10 can you pull off jumping down into the lab? Does it become almost 100% consistent thing if you practice long enough or when recording speedruns you have to reset often?

Thanks :)

All window skip tutorials I saw were the glass boosting ones, and recently I watched Finath's video (kind of Outlast celeb huh? :D ) where he jumped up and kind of jumped back while crouching and skipped the whole rub on glass backwards jump timewasters.

I'm completely fresh to Outlast speedruns and I'm only actually interested in Any%s, so I'd love to hear how to do that no-glass window skip.

Cheers guys! :)

Please, if possible add the category "Fastest Worgen Tutorial", many cool glitches and different ways there, definetely would be interesting. I can provide a run if needed. And I think the 1-100 run category is pointless.

@sadrunslive