With the removal of Capstone dungeons from D4 with season 6 and the Expansion, we will be archiving the Capstone (Cathedral of Light and Fallen Temple) Speedrun categories.

There are now several new potential categories with the content that has been added as well, including the Vessel of Hatred campaign

Have reorganized seasonal categories from each season to a general Seasonal category separated by patch and re-verified runs.

If you notice an error on the patch you ran it may have automatically defaulted to the wrong patch. Currently working on properly updating to reflect accuracy. Please feel free to let me know if you notice an error.

Sorry to all the runners for the spam updates in your inbox while this was happening.

A reminder to use a Timer when you do a speedrun.

There is a link in** resources** to Livesplit timer; and Jymnasium made a great guide on how to set up for a speedrun under guides.

Not using a timer, or not including in your VOD, takes a significantly longer amount of time to verify a run, and it will likely not have priority to be verified over other submitted runs that do include a timer even if they were submitted first.

Cathedral of Light, Fallen Temple, and Campaign have been updated to include rules on tempering and allowance cache. 
Cathedral of light and Fallen Temple have been updated to include rules on Blood Maiden and Aberrant Cinders.

What is allowed?

• You can start on any world tier and change it at any time through the character selection screen or at the world tier statue in Kyovashad
• You can use the mount at level 1
• You can use the 10 skill points, potion slots, altars stats and paragon points from the renown system.
• You can repair at the Blacksmith
• You may ONLY use the Blacksmith to temper when you hit 15, at which time the Temper quest populates
• You can upgrade your potion and craft elixirs at the Alchemist
• You can buy gear with gold at all Vendors
• You may ONLY gamble gear at the Purveyor of Curiosities if you show proof that you are starting your run with 19 Obols or less and it MUST be shown before leaving town for the first time in your run. When you gamble, you must NOT go below your starting value. (e.g if you start with 19 Obols, you must never go below 19 Obols - if it happens on accident, just drop the item)
• You may ONLY use the Occultist when you hit level 25, you can not use it before that if you unlock an aspect from completing a dungeon
• You may ONLY use the stash for storing/withdrawing items found during your run, it is preferred if you use an empty tab to make verification easier
• You can use paragon points

• Macros, hacks, scripts and mods are not allowed
• You may NOT use items found from another character in the stash
• You may NOT use Red Dust (PvP) at the Unsavory Oddities
• You may NOT use the Allowance Cache
• You may NOT use/participate/leech/kill the monsters from the Accursed Ritual or the Blood Maiden in Helltide.
• You may NOT use stored Aberrant Cinders from Helltide from a prior game, if there are leftover cinders at the start of a run you may never go below that amount of Aberrant Cinders (Eg., you have 298 cinders from a prior run, you may never go below 298 cinders during that Helltide before it resets).
• Intentional assistance is NOT allowed

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.