Le Toucan Race: Legion SSF SC, some hard mods, optional asynchronous 'Race to 125 Atlas'

The worst thing about an asynchronous race event is the temptation to log in and push an act on a Friday evening after a few beers .

I now have a very, very, VERY embarassing 24 deaths... after Innocence. OOPS.

I did have a number of performance issues after the patch but many of the deaths were just to stupid.

In any case, it's the weekend in half an hour. Tomorrow, I push to maps.

https://imgur.com/a/9Gyow6w

(idk how to make the image show)

Made it to 80 atlas, I have been and still am super busy so not sure if I can get the 125 but we will see. This was my very first real attempt at a private race with hard mods I have to say I GREATLY underestimated the difficulty. I have never died this many times before in such a short amount of time!

Had a ton of fun with this I hope i get to finish it, thank you so much for this race!

Time: 21hrs 12mins 44 seconds
Deaths: 26

Thx for a fun event!

Made it to 80 atlas completion so far. Was trying for a deathless run but at lvl 85 that dream was shattered :)
The league mods are way harder than they sounds like... awesome surprise!

@Sirgog, I'm not sure many people are aware that the YouTube vids are now tucked away in a playlist. I literally had to go hunting for them (which is far from easy on my so called 'Smart' TV, which I used to watch YouTube.


I really wanted to say that this league has made me a much much better player. The main league is the 1st one I've not played SSF, so used to that but I've never played hardcore. I was totally unaware of things such as log out macros & porting out of fights (neither of which I have done, or will ever do, I'm a bit too old school in some ways, I guess I'm playing hardcore hardcore).


My total time to finish all the acts is going to be slower than the last guys total time although still no deaths, but I'm trying to be faster now. Normal league is going to seem like a walk in the park now. You never know I might hit 80 map bonus by the time it finishes lol.


ps. Come on exile put the vids back in the main channel, we're all outcasts here ;)

pps. Just RIP'd to Blightblade in act7, gl everyone else :(

Really fun league so far -- thanks for setting this up! I think you set a really good penalty time for deaths -- it's generally worth it to avoid deaths, and if you do push things and stay alive it's rewarding.

Recently incurred my first death when I stopped paying attention -- whoops. Starting act six @ 8 hours, 15 minutes & 1 death.

edit: corrected the time for this point in progression

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LostMySword wrote:

@Sirgog, I'm not sure many people are aware that the YouTube vids are now tucked away in a playlist. I literally had to go hunting for them (which is far from easy on my so called 'Smart' TV, which I used to watch YouTube.


I really wanted to say that this league has made me a much much better player. The main league is the 1st one I've not played SSF, so used to that but I've never played hardcore. I was totally unaware of things such as log out macros & porting out of fights (neither of which I have done, or will ever do, I'm a bit too old school in some ways, I guess I'm playing hardcore hardcore).


My total time to finish all the acts is going to be slower than the last guys total time although still no deaths, but I'm trying to be faster now. Normal league is going to seem like a walk in the park now. You never know I might hit 80 map bonus by the time it finishes lol.


ps. Come on exile put the vids back in the main channel, we're all outcasts here ;)

pps. Just RIP'd to Blightblade in act7, gl everyone else :(

I deliberately hid my gameplay videos because they were getting a high 'abandonment rate' i.e. people closing them very early because they were disinterested. This drags down the entire channel.

I will post them here, however.

Part 1: Act 1 https://youtu.be/AIbM_IM4xAU

Part 2: Early/mid A2: https://youtu.be/1VaYRItfhXA

Part 3: Late A2 to early A3: https://youtu.be/t-v-__x3Q-A

Part 4: Most of A3: https://youtu.be/XT4f8jzG4JM

Part 5: A very messy A4: https://youtu.be/nuppphHzeV8

Part 6: Normal Lab: https://youtu.be/ggEE6dhKNtU

Part 7: A hideously awful A5 to Innocence (don't play after a couple beers folks) https://youtu.be/aXhBWDy6uwY

Part 8: A less awful rest of A5: https://youtu.be/rCZsMOyUnL8

Part 9: Act 6 up to Beacon: https://youtu.be/UBb2-07mqm4

Part 10: Brine King to Maligaro: https://youtu.be/1z0khp_J6ho

Part 11: Maligaro to Temple of Decay: https://youtu.be/7lS5awEINAI

Part 12: Arakali to Doedre: https://youtu.be/Dt_F-uax2Y8

Part 13: Act 8: https://youtu.be/DAlorj5fQJM

Part 14: Early and mid A9: https://youtu.be/VP2B2lL74UY

Part 15: Cruel Lab and Depraved Trinity: https://youtu.be/g8iS428pWPs

Part 16: A10 start up to Vilenta: https://youtu.be/1WSHipMlOfM

Part 17: Merciless Lab being Merciless: https://youtu.be/fzM2tovYc9c

Part 18: Early mapping - a very undergeared Ivory Temple: https://youtu.be/-Iw3zbkmHJo

Part 19: Early mapping: https://youtu.be/6S5WlF-Bgsw

Part 20: Early Delve mines: https://youtu.be/gK19yjlq3-Q

Part 21: More delving and some early mapping: https://youtu.be/hFbiFRQQ1Po

Part 22: Tabula drops just before I was going to farm it. Cleaning up tier 2s. https://youtu.be/MQWibUG3lXM

Part 23: Starting tier 3 maps: https://youtu.be/bQWhzx3v9h4

Part 24: Back to the Mines: https://youtu.be/_Eyp3k0BM54

Part 25: More white maps: https://youtu.be/43heazFmP6c

Part 26: Into tier 4s: https://youtu.be/ocShjW_fNyE

My final result.


Those late yellow and red maps just gets crazy :)

Thanks again for a fun race

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ToulBirger wrote:

My final result.


Those late yellow and red maps just gets crazy :)

Thanks again for a fun race

PRAISE

Impressive work. I've just gotten to 1/125 now, although filming everything certainly slows me down.

Glad you had fun!

I see you chose to do the Eternal Lab, do you feel that was worth the time?

Also I noticed you went deeper in Delve than anyone else so far. Was that for fossils, or XP, or standard currency?

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sirgog wrote:

I see you chose to do the Eternal Lab, do you feel that was worth the time?

I believe so for my character at least. It gave me a huge damage boost(going crit) and a decent defensive layer(-30% critMulti for mobs). After the last ascendency my damage were at a point where red tier bosses would be instagibbed. Vaaling Malformation(beam girl) I got two bosses, 2 additional projectiles and monster speed on top of the league mods, and the ability to kill them, before they could do anything, were not bad at all :)

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sirgog wrote:

Also I noticed you went deeper in Delve than anyone else so far. Was that for fossils, or XP, or standard currency?

I am not sure if delving was the right call. Usually I have to go a lot deeper to get fossils in a meaningful amount. I don't even think I got any :)
But I were able to keep the monster level roughly equal to story/mapping from around act 8, so the XP were alright.
I did it mostly for the extra currency and ESSENCES. The mine is packed with essences.

Doing only legion and delve I never had any shortage alch, chaos and vaal orbs. I did transmute for tier 1-3, alch for tier 4-10 + zana mod, and alch+vaal for 11+.
I believe I was running uncompleted maps for about 80-90% of the time. Surely the racers can do way better, but I am fairly satisfied with my result.

I wish you guys fun with your mapping

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ToulBirger wrote:

My final result.


Those late yellow and red maps just gets crazy :)

Thanks again for a fun race

Wow, that's impressive, grats.