Short-Man Shortmans

[Grunndi]

Are you tempted to swap EA to DC for better self healing? or just proc EA mantle extra heals from pally healing spells? I haven't done the nuanced math on which will be better self healing.

I’ll need to test if the EA healing proc gets snap shotted onto Renewal. Even if it doesn’t, having it go off on every renewal first tick is pretty nice, especially since I think it’s getting an increase.

Mostly I just like wings too much to give up though lol

 

[Grunndi]

LN Skele Solo with Opt ending.
(No friends, no bots, just a dwarf and his thoughts)

Been a while since I added anything here, but this one was kinda neat. Wasn’t ‘really’ possible to solo the Opt Ending with a TYWA Dwarf until recently. Obviously had to change the build up a fair bit, but the concept is the same (and I still have a pally icon ). No video since this was just a test run to confirm it’s actually possible, and I wasn’t expecting to finish. Hard will be… well… harder… I missed a tell for the Wrath’s big attack and it took me uncon in 1 hit (Thanks US core 4!). Will have to take it easier on the mini-Keg next time… or break out the good stuff… yeah prob that

(Also do any artificers know if there’s a better way to imbed Imgur pics? First time using it)

https://imgur.com/tgfk25w

 

[Zvdegor]

LN Skele Solo with Opt ending.
(No friends, no bots, just a dwarf and his thoughts)

Been a while since I added anything here, but this one was kinda neat. Wasn’t ‘really’ possible to solo the Opt Ending with a TYWA Dwarf until recently. Obviously had to change the build up a fair bit, but the concept is the same (and I still have a pally icon ). No video since this was just a test run to confirm it’s actually possible, and I wasn’t expecting to finish. Hard will be… well… harder… I missed a tell for the Wrath’s big attack and it took me uncon in 1 hit (Thanks US core 4!). Will have to take it easier on the mini-Keg next time… or break out the good stuff… yeah prob that

(Also do any artificers know if there’s a better way to imbed Imgur pics? First time using it)

https://imgur.com/tgfk25w

I use this for pics. Pretty easy to use.
1. Drag and drop/add your prefer pic
2. Set the size
3. Upload
4. Use full BBC code on forum

https://hu.imgbb.com/

 

[PraetorPlato]

LN Skele Solo with Opt ending.
(No friends, no bots, just a dwarf and his thoughts)

Been a while since I added anything here, but this one was kinda neat. Wasn’t ‘really’ possible to solo the Opt Ending with a TYWA Dwarf until recently. Obviously had to change the build up a fair bit, but the concept is the same (and I still have a pally icon ). No video since this was just a test run to confirm it’s actually possible, and I wasn’t expecting to finish. Hard will be… well… harder… I missed a tell for the Wrath’s big attack and it took me uncon in 1 hit (Thanks US core 4!). Will have to take it easier on the mini-Keg next time… or break out the good stuff… yeah prob that

(Also do any artificers know if there’s a better way to imbed Imgur pics? First time using it)

https://imgur.com/tgfk25w

Congratulations! I was tossing this around a while ago, but never gave it a try. Very very nice job.

 

[Mindos]

LN Skele Solo with Opt ending.
(No friends, no bots, just a dwarf and his thoughts)

How did you move your soul stone around the four corners for the jumps? Screenshot shows two deaths, I don't think you can reach two corners from one spot?

 

[PersonMan]

How did you move your soul stone around the four corners for the jumps? Screenshot shows two deaths, I don't think you can reach two corners from one spot?

You can reach multiple corners from middle points. You just have to be fast enough.

 

[Grunndi]

How did you move your soul stone around the four corners for the jumps? Screenshot shows two deaths, I don't think you can reach two corners from one spot?

This was actually something I learned while doing this run.

My initial plan involved dying in every corner and required DDooring to get back to the shrine followed by a 15-20min snack break to wait for certain specific, highly classified things to come off cooldown… Imagine my surprise when I realized the last zone has a Dimensional Anchor .

After I killed everything beside Ms. Sassypants, I swam around in the lava for a while to see if I could find a spot that wasn’t anchored (nope ), and eventually decided to just practice a couple jump paths so I let myself die near the SE corner. After clearing that I was playing around with how far I could get before rebounding. It took a few tries, but thanks to my builds decent runspeed (don’t be fooled by the stumpy legs) I was actually able to get the NE path done from the SE corner.

Once I figured that out, it was a pretty simple matter to use a bit of kit I borrowed from my good buddy Irk to move my stone to the middle of the NW and SW corners to complete the paths.

Then I was free to use my other super double top secret ability to finish it out.

Having done this, I def think that with a high enough base runspeed you could probably get all 4 paths by dying in the dead center of the map (in case anyone anyone wants to try this that isn’t on good terms with Mr. Bord).

 

[Grunndi]

LH Skele Solo with Opt Ending
(World First TYWA Dwarf named Grunndi Solo Completion with all Opts!!! I’ll drink to that!!)

https://imgur.com/Cl3eTkU

Played this one safe so the comp time was BAD 🫣, yeah… we’ll keep the bottom half of that XP report under wraps for now lol. More kills mean I’m more awesome… right guys?!?… right…? (Comfortably above 200 kills this run lol).

The First phase is still may favorite part to Solo.
Second phase is kinda meh if you remembered to bring your Resto Pots and force absorption. Evasion and pally saves def helps too.
3rd phase is a bit like watching paint dry while fleeing in terror from a giant dinosaur. Boring but also easy to die if you get careless, especially during the Purple Dino part. Drive by Quick strike/cutter while dodging puddles and running in circles.
Dino beat down was fun.

I did take video starting after I dropped the Dino, but I wouldn’t exactly call it a thrilling watch (10 minutes or so to drop the big hand ). It’s quite annoying that the end boss attacks/debuffs all have the same icon, since it’s just me I got the Eyeball a few times and due to the kind of weird timing of the big hits I was blocking a lot (with that 120 pajama MRR the big hits would prob 1-shot me). Spam Turn Undead to keep trash down, sneak in active attacks for debuffs and hit QC whenever it’s off cooldown.

I split the paths 2 and 2 again since I wasn’t 100% confident in my Mario ability from a single center spot. I may retry for a better time and give that a go… or I might TR out of these chafey pajamas back into some nice comfy armor.