Tenray

I really don't know =( I played as Woedica/Streetfighter. Primarily because of the streetfighter bonus you get while being on 1 health all the time.For some encounters I used Belt of Magrans Chosen to flank myself in order to deal more damage against a single target enemy for example Dorudugan. I picked up Woedica because as a rogue we got access to invis anyways AND the Spritual Weapon from Woedica is insane. The Hands dealing additional raw damage. Smoke Veil is totally fine. I never upgraded it. With a a couple of points in INT it lasts for 10 seconds which is enough for my playstyle, you can however reroll if you are higer lvl and pick up Shadowing Beyond, which I would recommend if you feel safer with it because it's duration is alot higher. But it's really not that needed. And yes you are right about Scordeo's. If you get double streetfighter buff you really do not need Scordeos. However I went for the saferoute and picked it up for the mega bosses. I did some testing however and you can beat all megabosses without scordoes except Hauani O Whe (ooze). Since we do not have any access to CC we just have to burst as much as we can, which streetfighter is really good at. You can go for Priest of Wael and get Gaze of the Adragan, but the Spiritual Weapon is so bad. Shroud of the Phantasm was actually only used ONCE in this run at Jadaferlas. After Jadaferlas you can get the upgraded version of your watcher ability and trigger Brilliant. From this point I decided to make a rest-run. My first Ultimate Run ended with an ingame time of 71 days, so I got alot of time left. I did plan to rest 15 times for my new run in order to kill everything which is in total 5 days and 8 hours that you need to invest for resting. At this point you will notice that I still have time left and it should be manageable. You might ask yourself but how about protecting your Brilliant buff from being dispelled. That is also the reason I picked up Rogue. I skilled Slippery Mind which gives you immunity to mind afflictions while you are near death, which we are permamently. So there is no need for Captains Banquet or Waels Wind. In fact I picked up Shark Soup a couple of times which makes you immune to EVERYTHING combined with Slippery Mind. Quite funny. Enjoy. Tenray

Hello guys, I just finished Ultimate Run No.2. My personal goal was sub 10 hours and I managed to do it in 9:45 and I think it can be done even faster. This time I played as Priest/Rogue, was alot of fun. However I am thinking about uploading or not because as I already told you my internet connection is really bad and I actually have not any motivation to do so. The reason for this is my first Ultimate run. Some people were pm-ing me about my first run and were asking when I am getting the approval and all I can say is: I don't know. I haven't got any kind of answer/response from Obsidian so far. I did send a reminder and got no reponse and I even send a mail from a different domain, because I thought there might be something wrong with my email account. I have no clue if I got even disqualified or if they are still watching my videos. I cannot answer you these questions, I am sorry. Nevertheless I have nothing to hide and like to share ideas and strategies and you can ask me whatever you want about running it as Priest/Rogue. I try to commnicate as well as I can and would happy to help you out if you try to beat the Ultimate as priest/rogue aswell. For now I am really exhausted and I am not quite sure if I keep working on SC monk because some fights are really luck dependant, especially the arena fights. Probably I need a break from PoE2.

After playing so much multiclassed priest/wizard and overbuffing yourself into oblivion you reach a point where you do not even see any new buffs because the number of buffs reaches the bottom of your screen. My suggestions: - "scroll-able" active buffs that you can look at while fighting, I am sick of opening character summary to look at ALL my current effects. I simply have too many of them - OR, probably the easier solution, being able to manually display specific buffs/effects

Negative.

I did send it to theultimate@obsidian.net as posted here. I do not even have twitter. You know what ? I'll do another run. A faster one. They'll get a better one. Quitting on my SC monk for now. I have a job to do.

Well not that long ago, I did my submit on the 2nd August. You are right, of course ... watching all those clips does take a while and it is probably not the most enjoyable work you can do. A typical task for some interns =P I mean, if there is something really wrong about my run, I would probably just try again. I am a maniac, I am so obsessed with this Ultimate challenge and if they reject my run, I'll do another one. I got still this weekend to manage another run before I have to work alot again. But not getting any kind of response after a week is a little disappointing.

@Boeroer Thanks to you! I used it in my Ultimate run and it saved me primarily real time instead of waiting for the normal regen. You posted this idea a while ago. I am not sure if it is a "game breaking" bug or not, but unfortunatelly I haven't got an answer yet from Obsidian if my run is actually ok or not. Still waiting. Anyways I shared my run with you because I do not fear competition and like to share ideas and strategies. With a Brilliant+BDD character it is quite safe but I am currently playing SC monk and it is so super weird. Enemy AI just doing random stuff, it is really annoying. ____ Just noticed I forgot to share the hidden dirty strat to get rid of Vela for the arena fights!!! Read carefully!!! - Equip Bounding Boots - Jump onto the spectator platform - save => load => Vela gets teleported to the spectator platform - jump back into the arena - CYA VELA DO NOT DISTURB ME WHILE FIGHTING, TY !!! Enjoy.

Hello again and sorry for the late answer, was busy today doing alot stuff in my garden =D But ye, I was talking about the 20hp on kill from the pets you get, I did try it now several times and I am certain it does not grant you the 20hp on kill. Furthermore, I think that in general Resonant Touch does not grant you on kill effects in general. That's what I was trying to say. I did not check it on other on kill effects like Grave Calling or something like that, so I cannot say it for certain. For hp on kill from the pets its definitely not working. As Boeroer said, it's probably that Resonant Touch is "not connected" to your character properly.

Not quite sure if this is fixed already by one of your patches since I am playing for the Ultimate and obviously not using any mods or the community patch. I am playing SC monk right now and noticed that killing with Resonant Touch does not grant you the 20hp back on kill. Maybe it's also not working with other on kill effects, haven't checked that yet. But health on kill is definitely not working for me with resonant touch.

SC bloodmage solo in general would be a pain, but just killing Concelhaut to get the nice grimoire from Arkemyr is quite easy, imo. Before they released the Megabosses I played solo Wizard and Concelhaut was the least problem as far as I can remember. But you are right anyways, there are alot encounters I really do not want to face. I knew someone will notice it. Yes I just consoled it quickly. I am currently playing and didn't want to waste 10 mins+ to trigger Brilliant from cloak. It is just a showcase in the end.

Does not matter. Wall of Draining ticks every second and gives you +1 second to all beneficial buffs regardless if it hits or crits. ---- I just found out a way to extend the buffs with only one enemy. It is hard to describe it in words sometimes, so I just made a showcase video. It just seems that you have to drag the enemy along the wall until you find the right place/pixel on which it should stand to get multiple ticks off. I hope you just get my point xD Enjoy.

You played alot around with draining wall in the past on your tactican+bm, but when I tried to prolong the buffs with draining wall I always failed so hard. Couldn't make it consistently work, but afaik you need at least two enemy targets in order to get more duration than you are actually losing, don't you ?

SC paladin fighting with Dire Talon let you summon really weak wurms on crit which can give you almost instantly 6 zeal back, when they get downed.

That's how I initially tried it before going for yolo WotW spamm. The problem in SSS is that the enemy AI is super weird there. Some of the enemies for example the naga fight at the beginning just run straight towards me once I use Dichotomos Soul and if they come close Vela gets somehow Frightened. You can also not reset aggro from the Naga Warriors somehow neither when I try to withdraw Vela only and stealth away nor withdrawing both of us. The Naga just stand almost on top of me waiting for me to get out of my withdraw and instagib me or Vela. Weird AI.

My English is sometimes not the best and I quoted badly probably, but I was actually talking about the debuff of the Hand Mortar. I want to increase it's debuff duration, heavily if possible.

Vela still dies so fast ... The mortar debuff is really nice and lasts alot longer than the Ajamuut's stunn but I need to increased the debuff duration probably by alot in order to cast Withdraw + WotW without getting "rapid fired" by 20 projectiles. Does it scale well with INT ? As a Helwalker I do only have 10 Int + turning wheel => 10-20 INT so it kinda varies alot. I could get rid of Vela for the arena fights by some dirty tricks but that is not really the spirit of the challenge right. 1. Talking about the stopwatch made me smile because I did it the same way back then. Wael's challenge is just a pain. "Rinse and repeat" sounds really nice and alot better than the need of standing afk trying to trigger Brilliant from cloak sometimes for 15 minutes or even longer. But you really need a safe spot for Vela before the actual fight, don't you ? What are you doing for the arena fights in SSS, especially for the Battle Royal fights ? 2. When I was playing around with tactician, I was using this here. You simply cannot be flanked and spamm AoE on yourself that could flank the enemies. 3. Didn't know that ... really nice but it makes sense. So brilliant from tactician is not really a buff, somehow a condition that you have if everyone else is flanked not matter what happens to you.

I did alot of testing and if you run into enemies that do mind afflictions like dominated you will lose your brilliant buff. Initially I thought resistances are enough to protect you since resistances degrade a tier3 afflication to a tier2 and Wiki also says that inspirations makes you immune to the corresponding affliction. That is however only half-true. In fact it does make you immune against ONE cast, then your brilliant gets ripped off and on the second cast you will be dominated. Doesn't really matter at this point anyways because you already lost your brilliant. The only way to protect yourself from losing brilliant is either reacting to every affliction cast from the enemies or to get immunity. Captain's Banquet helps, but many of you forget Wael's Wind which I also used in my run. You can carry it for 14 days Edit: Haven't noticed that Waski already answered your question. My bad. I haven't completely given up because I can actually beat anything else in this game with SC monk but the arena fights are really insane ... It's not about the stunn immunity, you can stunn almost everything, but it does not really last long enough to cast withdraw and to cast WotW again ... That is the actual problem. I forgot about the mortar even tough I have it in my inventory, lol. I will try it out now. I used so far Ajamuut's + Grave Calling to make sure at least one of these stunns are applied to the enemies and Aldris to get a little HP back.

That's right but I haven't done any bounties on my Ultimate run either. My pathing let's you hit lvl 16 right when you enter Ashen Maw with 10+ days more to spare, which results in 35+ days (I am playing quite fast, so I mostly end up having 40/41 days) left for everything else in the game when you get teleported back to Neketaka after you talked to Eothas at Ashen Maw. This here is actually my best run, unfortunatelly not the successful one: 45 days left for everything else, except Jada ofc, after returning from Ashen Maw. Cool idea, Rakhan + Essence also hits really hard for a good damage roll. You need however to do alot more quests + going back to Port Maje for the bow.

That's what I exactly started to play yesterday. =D I am currently at Concelhaut. Tbh, it's not quite bad, but I thought the PL 8+9 are alot stronger. A little underwhelming, imo. The damage is ok, but not that crazy in contrast to Wizard, which both of us played before. Reason for the lower damage is obviously the missing PL you easily get from BM buff and the Hit to Crit buff. You could craft the potions of course, but really annoying. Haven't found that many Reptilian Eyes for Perfect Aim potion, maybe just unlucky. Not sure. From my experience so far, I should maybe mention some great things about SC priest: - allows technically earlier fights, because you get SoT very early - symbols are all really strong (PL8) - Symbol of Skaen targets Deflection => does a ton of damage to various type of enemies - Symbols do "stack", with alot of INT they last for 30+ seconds which allows you to stack easily 5+ symbols onto each other Some disadvantages: - priest of skaen is must have (because of invis .... no clue how you should beat, sigilmaster or nemnok without invis) - needs constant use of potions to deal really good damage - has no access to self damaging lightning spells to trigger Deltro's => needs arcana 3 for crackling bolt against a wall which does not deal that much damage => arcana 9 for chain lightning for the really dope 100+ rolls

I really want to believe that it is possible without Brilliant, but I doubt it. Btw forgot to mention. I found a "new hippster way" of triggering Brilliant from shroud for EVERY class. However only recommended for Priest+X to prolong the buff with SoT of course. Equip generic blunderbuss + Belt of Magran's Chosen and shoot Vela. Vela will regen health really fast. When you managed to summon the Fire Blight of her you need some health regen (Potions, Regen, Lethandrias swap shenanigans) and can wait till the Fire Blight triggers your Brilliant + you are obviously in combat and can instantly cast SoT when your Brilliant triggers unlike with the Rakhan Field boots. I haven't found it being posted somewhere so I thought I will share it quickly. It needs more patience ofc, but it opens more builds. Pretty much everything combined with priest. Enjoy.

I thought Hylea + Adra stacking is common knowledge. I am using it in my run aswell. For everyone who is wondering how it's going for me with SC monk, I am thinking about throwing in the towel. I managed to beat everything EXCEPT SSS. All these arena fights are so impossible, no clue what to do. You probably think: "There are so many enemies! Should be awesome with WotW spamm!" Yea well, that's what I thought initially aswell. Some of the fights on their own are already quite tough. Every second you are not in your WotW animation, you are getting so insanely much damage + you need to cast withdraw on Vela from time to time. The recovery time you need after casting a withdraw will almost always kill me. I went with Helwalker and I have 422Hp. I wish I went with Napalzca and maxing Alchemy, that's what I would recommend for everyone who wants to try it.

Class: Priest/Wizard as Skaen/Blood Mage Date: 7/30/2019 Link:

That's excatly what I thought first: "Wtf why does Ukaizo Guardian reflect sometimes .... Ah right script turned on selfcast ..." #Facepalm

You were still the first one =D Last part of my run is so horrible. I blame the beer. Sailed into a storm like a noob, miss-casted spells at the Auranic Sigilmaster and casted Concelhauts Hammer on myself for 10 minutes (quick epic script midfight).

Hello boys and girls, I am finally done. Videos are done processing. Ask me anything you want if you find something weird about my run and start scratching your head =D Submit was made to Obsidian, let's hope they approve it. Sorry @Decadency if I am posting it here aswell, but I honestly think there should be a new thread created consisting of everyone who managed to achieve the Ultimate. A thread where only youtube/dropbox w/e urls are linked. Would be a little more organized, wouldn't it ? Either you or me could create one. But nevertheless. Enjoy my run if you have the time to watch. Rougly 12 hours total (3 hours no fighting at all just questing). FULL RUN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6RIB3zV2cE&list=PLZKwaOuQ1KOOkeVx1gORfWqGv0bDOU_nY