The Time Trials

[Lurker Wyrm]

So I've been thinking, while this might not be a variant per say, it still might be fun to try. The idea is to make a brand new character and play your way through one of the campaigns or the whole game and see how fast it can be done and see how your time compares to others. Since we all have different time availability, the easiest way to measure would be through the /age command. Really, the only thing you need for this is an empty char slot since you can just delete the char after you're done with it.

Keeping with the variant tradition, we can add certain restrictions and try to see how people make it through with a certain type of character. For example we could specify making it through Prophecies using an ele with only Flare and Fire Attunement, and possibly Glyph of Elemental Power. Or a warrior using only starter weapons, or whatever.

Thoughts? Anyone want to try it?

[FoxBat]

Actually a number of guilds on places like Guru and GWO are playing the "post your best elite mission times" games....

50 minutes for FoW and Urgoz
1.5 hrs for UW
20 minutes for The Deep

Considering our usual times I am not sure our guild is anywhere near these levels of performance.

[Lurker Wyrm]

With PvE skills (aka Ursan) and consumables, those times really aren't that surprising. The reason our guild takes so long in those areas is because we generally are just messing around, we're not co-ordinating builds or attempting to tweak things to perfection.

The idea behind this variant wasn't to see how fast it could get through elite missions, but an entire campaign; aka something for me to do when I was playing those chars all the way through for contracts.

[theGrimm]

Considering our usual times I am not sure our guild is anywhere near these levels of performance.

Especially not if you include the time spend haggling about builds beforehand.