2009-04-01, 02:23 PM
Stereo Wrote:I can always "feel" when I'm sealed at Zakum, character just responds a bit differently. Don't need to wait for the status to come up. Darkness on the other hand is hard to tell.
I second this claim. Character doesn't "respond" when sealed. Whenever i see "MISS" i just use an all-cure regardless if it's me or not.
There are many things based on luck when doing a speed run. The shield wdef buff on arms, the number of times seal and darkness occurs, and the most important one, the big wdef on the bodies. None of these things are controllable.
However there is one factor that IS controllable. That is the amount of training, lvl, and gear of your character. The stronger you are the faster the arms will be taken down, therefore the less time and opportunity zak has to cast seal/darkness/weaken/etc. Sadly i don't see many 19x-200 players in these speed runs. Gear is important, but so are the lvls. Putting gear aside, a 170 nl vs. a 200 nl is already playing at a 165 luk disadvantage (adjusted with mw). 165 luk undeniably adds a nice boost to damage (also more avoid).
I saw the some warrior hitting 99,999 crits already. But what about the non-crit hits? And what about the minimum damage hits? Just cuz you hit max damage with NARCAIN doesn't mean the damage cap needs to get raised. Can you hit max damage with apple? What percentage of your hits actually achieve max damage? What about non-crit hits? As a warrior, crits aren't as common as for a nl or bm/mm...you can't control when you hit a crit, but you can control the damage that you most consistently hit.
My only critique is everyone needs to train more! The fastest run is still to come.