Just another Zakum Solo

Grats on the solo. Looks like you estimated your solo to be under 70min, unless you were holding onto some gelts as backup

Actually, I got my imaginary time of 105 minutes for the 152 solo by checking my screenshots and finding how long I had been fighting the bodies by the time I did half their HP (182m). Turns out I had an SS at almost exactly that point in second body, and I could easily figure out from the other screenshots that I had been fighting for 35 minutes at that point. Since the arms took me 35 minutes as well, that gives me the time of 35+35+35=105.

So! I then recalculated my DPS back then (using my exact stats from the first few screenshots and adding 13 MW, apples, and Bullseye. I pretended Zakum had 1100 defense for all parts to make my life easier.) and found it to be 155111. At 105 minutes with that DPS, I figured out that I had roughly 49.33% efficiency. Meaning that on average, I was doing 49% of my theoretical DPS every second.

With my new DPS of 245555, at 49.33% efficiency, I was slated to kill Zakum in 66.3 minutes. However, I knew for a fact that my efficiency would do nothing but increase since I've gotten more defense, more avoid, max Rapid Fire, and almost 50% more boat HP. Not to mention a much smarter arm route. This is how I knew 7 apples would be enough for sure. My goal for the run, based on this, was 60 minutes (54% efficiency). With my actual time of 57 minutes, my efficiency ended up being 57.41%.

I could have gone a little higher if I didn't get hit with a few stupid 1/1s and other attacks that I shouldn't have. And both times my boat broke, it broke as he stopped guarding and un-broke within 10 seconds of him guarding again. Other than that, I guess more avoid would be nice. Getting bumped in the right direction is important too, but there's not much you can do to control their erratic movement. I think 60 or 65% efficiency might be possible, but I don't think I'll try again until 200.