Speed Run Challenge : Hellfire Ramparts

11:03AM on 02 Sep 2009 by shieldbreakr
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Ever since I saw Nance's Hellfire Ramparts speed challenge post [and Rilgon and Drotara follow ups ], I've been curious about exactly how well a DK would stack up for this particular feat of strength.

14:27. A full minute plus behind Rilgon's 13:14.

Not bad for a first try with my DK as 13/55/3 dw frost gladiator spec. I started out a bit too shy, I think. By the end, I was pulling entire rooms simultaneously. Such as the last area where the Y is (left is Nazan, right is Omor) and there are five pulls. I pulled that in two parts, one massive pull that missed the few on the right side of the door and then the clean up pull.

Following Nance's rules:
* Start the timer the second you walk inside.
* You have to kill everything inside.
* You have to loot everything inside. Skinning is optional. (I am not a skinner)
* Stop the timer the second you walk outside.

DK Speed Running Tricks:
- Blood will probably win a lot of these speed running challenges since you can move along and heal on your own.
- If you're not blood, being in blood pres with huge howling blasts was healing me for quite a bit when I was fighting 10+ mobs.
- Don't forget Death Pact. Several times, I finished pulling huge packs and was only down at half life, sac'ing the pet put me back at ~100% and let me chain pull most of this instance. The small cooldown is oh so sweet.

I think if I had incorporated the healing tricks into my routine earlier, I could trim 2 minutes off this time [I sat to eat three times]. However, I felt the need to be honest and post a first run, as the others have also done.

While I didn't fraps this run, I did take pictures at every boss mob just to show where I was at, notice how long it takes (even with nitro boosts) to get out of the damned instance: wow.

Entrance
Watchkeeper
Omor
Nazan
Exit w/ time

Tags: SpeedRunChallenge HellfireRamparts 13/55/3

shieldbreakr

11:59AM on 07 Oct 2009

Well, I trimmed almost two minutes off my time by figuring out that you could jump off Nazan's bridge and land next to the exit.

New time: 12:31. Eat it, Rilgon.