WR SOLO NEX Speedrun
| Date | 2024-01-12 |
| Type | speedrun |
| Video | youtu.be/HeG8Qyfx-gs |
Summary
Gnomonkey completes a solo Nex speedrun in 26:30, which the description calls the fastest time by over 10 minutes. The video is mostly raw gameplay with little spoken explanation; the description credits Saxerpillar's lab work for making solo Nex possible and says the kill took 106 sweets.
Outline
- 0:00 Run starts with a one-hour clock joke
- 0:54 Restoring stats at the altar before fighting Fumus; minions use most of the supplies
- 1:22 Frustration at repeated low damage rolls
- 2:28 Remainder of the run (little narration in the transcript)
Topics covered
Nex
- (0:00) Gnomonkey's world record solo Nex speedrun finished with a final time of 26:30, which the video description says is the fastest time by over 10 minutes.
- (0:00) The video description says solo Nex became possible thanks to over a year of lab work by Saxerpillar.
- (0:00) According to the description, the final hurdles to solo Nex were max distance resets, blood sacrifice and ice prison tick eats, plus simply figuring out to tank through Glacies.
- (0:00) Gnomonkey says solo Nex is absolutely not worth it for GP, although it is still somewhat profitable.
- (0:00) Gnomonkey says solo Nex can be done 100% consistently and plans to speedrun it in the future.
- (0:00) Gnomonkey rates solo Nex as roughly equal in difficulty to a normal solo Theatre of Blood.
- (0:00) The 26:30 solo Nex run took 106 sweets, with many more used on attempts, and dragon arrows were also used up on the failed attempts.
- (0:54) In Gnomonkey's solo Nex run, most of the supplies used over the whole kill go on defeating minions, because he cannot tick-eat while also killing them.
- (0:54) Gnomonkey restores his stats at an altar before fighting Nex in the speedrun.