I've taken the liberty of creating a discord server, I thought it might be useful to start more consistent discussion about running the game. Here's an invite link for those interested: https://discord.gg/vHRDAkX

I just ran a route attempting to get all of the player skills as early as possible:

I know it can still use some improvements. The section in the cathedral in particular is pretty sloppy, because I started getting lost.

In either case, routing the skills this way with no hiccups will easily take about 45min to an hour, but since the shard cost of nodes on the skill tree is based on how many shards you've already invested, I'm curious to see if this would enable you to grab some optimal skill upgrades with minimal shard investment, farming some perks during/after finishing retrieving all skills.

My initial thoughts on continuing a full run from this would be to farm T1 perks, kill the Area 1 boss and see if that's enough to set you up for farming T2 perks (and thus getting you closer to being ready to take on the Area 2 boss)

In this route I grab the corrupted Leaping Device because cannon strats + glide help navigate a few of the Cathedral areas.