4:30 Balanced with village + stick effigy!
Did a screen recording and uploaded it to YouTube, the fps is pretty bad though. The run mostly speaks for itself, luckiest thing was getting that bloodmist mask.
That's a really optimized run. You really have movement down. The only thing I feel you could save a few seconds on tho that shop at the beginning. figuring out whether you can afford a single steelskin potion there is not worth 5 seconds. Just immediately skip that shop and wait to buy things when you have a bunch of aura and don't need to use your brain
Yeah, touchscreen makes things way easier in terms of movement (although I've lost some runs trying to lock an egg during a transition and it just hatching).
For the shop thing, I will say that there was only one shop that showed up in the map for the entirety of acts 2 and 3 and I would've had only a little more aura if I went there (admittedly, after spending 750 on the fusion), with the cost being that the extra common items from the forge cause an overflow of items at the bottom which is a minor inconvenience. I agree it's probably better to wait for an act 3 shop in general though.
now that you have destroyed vm speedrunning. I suggest you take a look at the really funny things people have done in endless. Just say anything on discord and I can show you some mind blowing images including but not limited to getting 50000 hp on a single monster, healing billions of HP and dealing billions of damage in one battle, getting 500 rip stacks on an enemy at the same time and stunning voss so much it only attacked once.
I wouldn't say completely destroyed lol, there's still the normal balanced villageless stick effigy less and other stuff that seems like they'd be different speedrunning categories. Yeah I'm in the discord already, saw a bunch of those clips/screenshots the other day (idk how, I think I was scrolling through messages related to the keyword "speedrun" xD). Not sure endless is for me but some of those records are really incredible.
The framerate's likely just bad because of it being a screen recording uploaded to YouTube, it's not that laggy in real time. Yeah I thought of the lock thing because I didn't want the inventory to overflow, even though I never did end up getting a second shop. Heart of the ocean is probably my favorite rare equipment ❤
you want to know something really funny? i believe that going turmoil could be even better because it gives the enemies small stat boosts. It shouldnt matter vs the boss but it will probably matter when the enemies are trying to kill pyris. Might be the difference between taking 2 hits vs 1! Cant go calamity bc picking wounds at the beginning wastes time
Turmoil only gives max HP increases to the enemies, it's only at calamity where they gain str and int boosts. 15% increase to health is a lot though... for the final boss it might outweigh the potential for taking fewer hits throughout the run, especially if it requires 3 monsters instead of 2 to defeat. Might even be a signficant alternate category for speedrunning 🤔.