Chaos Speedrun Comp

Hey guys,

I was just doing some tinkering and wondered who truly has the fastest clear of Chaos P1. There are many opinions and I'm not convinced Mosaic really has it - even though the damage output is on another level on its own.

I was thinking whether it would be fun to hold a sort of speedrun comp to determine what class, but more importantly - what player is the fastest.

It might be hard to manage rules per se due to map seeds and skipping of targets but if anybody was interested or had some experience and expertise in this area to lend, it might be fun. It could be something like - post 3 runs and the average is your score etc.

We could hold a pot of Jahs and all donate in or something.

Any thoughts, queries or objections welcomed.
Cheers

On Ladder (maybe faster with better gear on non ladder but not more like a few seconds max) with a ES

Nova Sorc 181% mf and 211% mf when act boss die as i swap weapons to cta for when diablo is about to die.

atm i just do seal bosses and kill diablo when i do Chaos/Diablo run

I just did 1 timed run doing this, took me 1 minute and 1 Sec starting from town act4 until diablo died.

Picked up 1 rare amulet and 1

Ral and identified the amulet within the run. (using the time when waiting for diablo to spawn to identify the amulet)

maybe subtract 1 second as i used maybe 1 second to do the /time to see how fast i was.

PS. i think it was a tad slow like 2-4 seconds, first time i timed it too, ill do 1 more and edit the time for next run in here

2nd run nothing picked up took me 56 seconds, and didnt count the time for clicking the /timed again.

i dont know if killing elite packs on the way is worth it, as i do get seal bosses doing the run, and can just do a new run right after for more seal bosses and act boss, so i just skip all i can, sitting on 99

Bul-Kathos' Nightmare on ladder.

Mosaic doesn't even come close.

Mosaic is OP because it annihilates literally everything on P8 in record time with precious little thought ever needing to be given to "safety".
The performance-impacting cost to that however is ramp-up time to get the first round of charges and lower FCR breakpoints for travel speed.
If you're looking to clear a full TZ or even multiple, Mosaic is nigh impossible to beat as the insane clear speed quickly outweighs the ramp-up in those cases and full(er) clears favor kill speed over tele speed.
Additionally Mosaic tends to win the "crap gear" side of the spectrum as they're just insanely cheap to make and then instantly take you to god mode.

If you're looking at max speed clears of a single zone however, focusing solely on the boss and at most certain elite packs, Mosaic doesn't stand a chance as both, ramp-up time and lack of tele speed annihilate it. That's even more true for longer-travel bosses like Meph or

Baal but even CS already gives you a very obvious difference.

What you want there is max tele speed and instant kills.
A barb could get you the tele speed but can't reliably insta-kill entire packs/dia so that leaves you with a sorc.
The tele speed bit is easy enough there and you do have multiple builds that can instantly wreck the seal packs, some of which can also (near) instantly annihilate dia himself.
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Nova sorc would be the "easy way" to exceptional times as you don't need to aim. But she does take slightly longer on dia so she's not quite the best solution.

Personally, I've snatched multiple community-event speed run wins on a fire sorc (for CS and beyond) as she simply can't be beat for that purpose. You get max tele speeds. You can annihilate literally any pack instantly. And for dia especially, with time to pre-cast, you can wreck him the moment he spawns as well with no additional casts needed. Very few other builds can combine all 3 to pull even and pulling past it is pretty much impossible as there is nowhere left to go beyond "max tele + instant kill". The only downside of a fire sorc is that she actually requires proper aim to not waste time on seal bosses so does offer a bit of a skill

Cap. Though personally, I'd call that an upside more than a downside.

from charackter selcetion screen to charackter selcetion screen, like most spedruns are:
on average >1:10min
I've measured the time about a dozen times.
Blizz sorc with ~450 MF