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Funny enough 2nd phase was the only phase I didn't hit a hammer. Missed a sub 18 cause I lost 20 seconds in the 1st and 3rd phases Head phase getting better

Regular Cox: Hand Phase (x3) - 77s mage / melee: 69s 0 dwh || 63s 1 dwh (2:26 or 2:20) (dwh saves 6 seconds per phase) Head -77 (1:17) 1:02 Intermission: Expected TTK = 9:37 - 9:19 depending on dwh hits CM Cox: Hand Phase (x3) - 85s mage / melee: 82s 0 dwh || 70s 1 dwh (2:47 or 2:35) (dwh saves 12 seconds per phase) Head - 76s(1:16) 1:02 Intermission: Expected TTK = 10:39 - 10:03 depending on DWH hits ----------------- OK so I definitely need to average sub 10 olms every regular raid, and sub 11 olms every CM raid. Will likely need to practice buy running some slower layouts just to get more olm attempts in.

Sending some regular no preps cause I need to practice being better at olm I definitely lose the most dps during headphase. I should be averaging sub 10 olm and probably around 1 minute head phase? I think expected time to kill for hand phases is 75s mage and 65s melee which is 2:20? If anyone has any VTV scouts with crab rope or something let me know

My girlfriend wants to do something similar (retire early and work part time). Involves something like moving out of Toronto and to a cheaper area like Nova Scotia or something I myself am not a financial expert. I'm happy to trudge along and 'work' (play osrs) and get paid every 2 weeks. We've just moved into a detached house last fall and although we still got a bit to go on our mortgage (under 400k CAD left) it's not like we have a ton of other expenses. Dunno! It's scary to think about retirement and stuff this early (I'm turning 30 this year) but apparently I should've started thinking about it like 5 years ago

Not yet

Yea the nerf was definitely necessary despite it being sad for speed running (all records needing to be reset or something) Until a new ranged weapon (or armour) come out, majority of the bosses that blowpipe was BIS at is still going to be BIS (probably bp vorkath suffers a lot but DHCB was already BIS there) . Which shows how overpowered the weapon is currently.

Got the dust on an extremely scuffed raid (first solo back in a while) Cool cool cool. I still really enjoy doing these so I expect I'll keep going (almost have more CM kc than regular)

Faster! That was our PB Olm by about 8 seconds. Still have time to shave there. Also looks like that was a 18:06 down time. We had another pb earlier today with a 17:38 down (28 seconds faster) Which means sub 24 very very close. Original goal Sub 23min 5 man CM (WR is 21:26) Almost! Probably have about 20-30 seconds to save at 1st floor (PB 4:56 - Aim for 4:30) 2nd Floor down was 11:19 (we should aim for like 10:30 or so) Lower level 17:38 PB (aim for 16 min somehow?)

Team got together for a little bit. We did around 4 runs and beat our pb twice - finally getting the sub 25. Still lots of room to improve but a big change is doing 7brew/4rev 0 Ovl prep Also we have all 5 guys bringing hammers and 2 guys with bgs and hammer. If 2 hammers hit, the bgsers will bgs. Otherwise they do another dwh PB Olm start for us was 18:11 and PB olm is 6:21. So there's a little bit more to do to get the sub 24. At the moment I think we lose 2 minutes at 2nd floor and 1 minute at 3rd floor. And our olms are too slow of course (need to be closer to 6 or sub 6)

Haven't done much of these recently cause gf working from home with me. I can average around 31 minute downs and 11 minute olms which end up looking around 42 ish minute raids. Saw a bunch of stuff dropping in price so I bought full inquisitor's after selling all my loot/implings etc (basically anything that is non raids gear/supplies). Haven't done a run with it yet but I shall write some notes with how it goes when I do

More tobbers yay

The wife still working at home beside me so I can't make as many attempts as I'd like to but I tried morning and got a really good tekton without any resetting so I just sent it Close to my pb first floor. Killed Shamans by 8:30 - so I still prepped for 2:30 which is slow 2nd and 3rd floors I need to shave a minute of both and have a 10-11 min olm and the run would be a sub 40.

No pb's the past week but watched a few of the WR holders do some insane shit Too poor to use 100-200 purple sweets per raid but still need to somehow work on having only 2 inventory spots for stamina for future raids. With that in mind, sent a couple shitty raids and lowered my prep amount to try to make first floor a bit faster. Was able to successfully complete the raids using just 2 stams (even had a 1-2 sips remaining) but I kept dying to other rooms cause I was trying to be speedy. Stupid deaths like getting punched in mystics or dying to a scav on the way to vesp cause I was fixing quick pray and forgot to pray melee. The new goal before I make any changes now is to get a sub 40 with this strategy: 2 stamina/4 angler/1brew Pick up rev/enh/ovl At prep only make 3 revs and 12 brews (15 vials/buchu) With good rng that SHOULD be a sub 11 minute down Then I need to be consistent and get my 2nd floor to be around 8 minutes. This will include learning rope skip with 1 pneck (Kirby Skip 2.0) 3rd floor so far my PB is also just around 9:09. I need to lower that to 8 minutes as well but other than praying for RNG I don't actually know what else I can do (blowpipe for mystics and small mut?) If that's the case I need to get better at luring them so I don't spend 3 brews just getting them in position Olm I need to be a bit more consistent in. Need to remember the max hits so I don't keep getting rekt. New WR had like a 8:16 olm which is fucking insane and will never be replicated again - but I should be able to more consistently get around 10 minutes instead of 11+ Max hits • Phases 1 & 2: 38 (39 when crippled) • Phase 3: 41 • Head phase: 42

9:30 shamans end > 2min prep for the 11:35 first flood I don't think prep can be faster so I need to knock time off demon/shamans 2nd floor was 8:17 which is my pb or close to. Regularly getting 3 min vangs now with ~2 mins thief and ~1:30 vesp Only way to get sub 8 is to learn full rope skip - which will save some brews but will cost some inventory spaces (need at least 1 pneck and sweets or a second pneck) 3rd floor was 9:09 I think I had below average guardians and mystics. Chop was 55 seconds at mutta Need to figure out how to get this floor to sub 8 or around that Olm was bad - 12mins ruins any hope of a pb. Need to try to consistently get sub 11 Need to do like 8 mins for hands 1:02 for intermission <1:30 for head phase ------------------------------------- Not gonna work on full rope skip until I can consistently get to shamans by sub 9 2nd floor ~8 mins 3rd floor ~8 mins Olm ~11 mins Should be able to do 40 min prep cms with those times

I've done a 8:16 2nd floor before but had a 57 second vesp which is very very lucky Should aim to bring 2nd and 3rd floors close to 8 minutes as much as possible and 1st floor to 11 mins with a mini prep. I think I'm losing too much time with the scavs in demon Crabs I need to work on to be a bit more consistent and clean. I think I mess up one bounce each time which loses like 20 seconds

Got the sub 43 half rope skip and good vangs make a huge difference. Also I'm resetting tekton if I dont kill within 2 minutes which is approximately 3 anvils. If I didn't get fucked by mutta and vasa I could've had a 9 minute second floor which would've been a sub 40 Much improvements!

Sub 43 and probably Sub 40's are so close. I just need to keep 2nd and 3rd floors less than 9 minutes and not have a disastrous olm like the last two pb's have had.

Haven't tried it yet. Need to consistently get sub 9 minute floors before I try it. It's main pro is to help me need less prep but I lose time in the rooms anyways so no point trying it yet

New pb! Slower olm by a lot - mainly due to noodle bow and missing specs in both p1 and p2. I don't think I missed any ticks in my 4:1 but had to brew a bit too much from a bad acid run. Slow tekton but I said fuck it Then I fucked up crabs but still chugged on Felt like a fast demon but still seems a bit on the slow side Shamans for sure I hit many 0's. Main time lost however was lost on the 3 minute prep Finally did a good 3 minute vangs room. I think I know what the cycle / pattern I need to do to keep hitting and not resetting any Thieving decent/ Vesp decent I should've seen my time and done a half skip (kill rangers leave magers) - would've saved like 30 seconds there Could've had a sub 9 minute second floor if I did just that one thing Guardians and vasa were 2 minutes a piece which is also about average. I don't see how I can speed up guardians other than praying for rng Vasa I feel like I hit all my switches in time so that's all rng at this point too. Mystic I got punched twice but didn't venge any so that was sad Mutta was slower cause I was brewing too much for big mutta. Need to do brew+twisted in the ticks between my bow shots Also banking between Mutta/Olm I should try to be faster - maybe if it was only 45 seconds instead of 57 I would've had a sub 9 minute 3rd floor too

Ran a few duo's today and without any fancy stuff beat my old PB Also died at olm and my partner had to get pick up dinner from the door and died during mystics during this raid WR pace for duo is 27:50 with a 7:35 Olm. So if we can get something close to 30-32 minutes I'll be really fucking happy. For olm we're just doing duo mage run and face tanking the melee with scythe. I think if we really wanted to go hard we'll look at doing no preps with blood fury. --------------------------------- Onto the Solo Cox content I ran a casual raid with overprep to practice some things I saw in a few guides/videos. Double checking with the excel I had here were my main 'differences' Tekt - 1:30 (SUPER FUCKING FAST - I won't get this RNG for a long time in the future) Crab - 2:13 (+70 seconds - super fucking slow. I smashed the crabs in the wrong spot, basically lost all the time gained from the fast tekton) Demon - 4:19 (+40 seconds - had some bad scavs / a few fumbles with picking axe/ dropping pots / etc) Shamans - 1:56 (+30 seconds - ran out of prayer and was afraid to run the shamans so I had to let it jump so I could safe spot it) Prep/Bank - 3:30 (+60 seconds) - decided to over prep so this was mainly because I was being chicken Vangs - 3:57 (+60 seconds) - I reset the vangs from 1 scythe + 1 claw on the ranger. Rest of it was done pretty well but I gotta stop resetting Thieving - 3 mins(+60 seconds) - did a really bad job of setting my inventory up after vangs before banking and spent some times going for bats which is a mistake (especially when I prepped so many brews) Vesp - 1:16 - Was faster than the average time so no complaints there Rope - 2 mins - (+20 seconds) I just killed magers and rangers so I didn't save time since I didn't half skip Guardian - 2:09 - basically same as average, didn't miss ticks so it's just rng here Vasa - 2:53 (+60 seconds) had to panic brew a few times so I missed hitting at 120 stats for quite a bit. I think it was 4 crystals and 2 tele's. I need to get better at this room for sure Mystic - 2:28 (this is just rng but I feel like I missed some time because vesp died in the opposite side of the room and I should've just dropped my low dose brews to pick up the fresh ones instead of chugging) Mutta - 2:10 - Basically the same as the average. I think I did it properly this time and got lucky I didn't get stacked out like I normally do Olm Average should be a minute faster. Probably 20 seconds in P1,p3 and head phase would fix it. Which basically equates to 1 botched acid run/brewed down hits for 15 seconds and missing ticks in head phase trying to dodge crystals. -------------------------------- Reading up, it looks like I'm not losing the majority of the time in a few specific rooms, rather I'm below average at all of them (the ones that aren't just RNG based) Great. At some point I need to learn to do vesp using 1 or fewer restores (camping enhance) Full rope skip (with 2 pnecks to start) After that I can consider doing no preps. However I need to first be able to consistently hit 40 min raids I think. No point trying to squeeze the extra 2 minutes from prepping less or none at all if I'm losing 8 minutes worth of time in the other rooms. Also need to get better at olm -faster to get into cycle -acid run without chugging 2 brews -maybe get inquistor so I don't miss so many hammers - cause each missed hammer is basically + 30 seconds -------------- Aight I think that was sweaty enough

I got some average room times for solo CM so I added a few seconds to every room and the banking/inbetween to get the following: Left side is basically a prep+half rope skip method which is what I'm most likely going to do? Right side is basically WR pace rooms + no prep and full rope skip with pnecks and the kitchen sink (no thanks) As I expected, thieving/vangs are my slowest rooms by far. And making olm mistake free will be nice so I don't lose 30k points to one death near the end

Same guys I learned Tob/CM with. Some friends from a previously disbanded clan that we just still hang about with. We just have similar schedules so we game a lot together ----------------------- SOLO CM News: Was a ridiculously scuffed raid. I didn't bring a defender in, so I didn't have it to spec demon/tekton hit guardian/vasa crystals/vangs. Still ended up having my fastest down time ever 11min first floor I scuffed a few crystals so I could should be faster here. Tekton rng was faster than average. Demon was slow and I didn't get enough kindling for the first burner so it ran out early I should be able to knock another minute off this by removing mistakes. Not sure how to be 'faster' than that because I'm still prepping a little bit 11:30 second floor Vangs and thieving were terrible. I think I opened 50 chests to get 30 grubs which is sad. Should aim for 2:30 vangs and 2 min thieving? I instead did like 4:30 vangs and 3 mins at thieving. Did a half rope skip (killed rangers but skipped magers) so on pb attempts I'll bring 2 pnecks and skip them both - I should probably practice this though 9:48 3rd floor Guardians and Vasa I probably lost around 3:30 minutes because I didn't have defender. I couldn't even kill the first vasa crystal in the first 17 hits. Was 120 stats the whole time but the rng was hilariously sad. 11:40 Olm I need to practice regulars to get this lower. I think CM olm should be sub 11 if you're not bad. Regular cox should be sub 10 as well. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Had probably my best rooms but died and fucked up the Olm 3xwhich ended up being a 14 minute olm. Lost all my times cause I didn't save it properly but it was like 47 minutes when a 10 min olm could've gotten me probably 44 minutes? Still can take a few minutes off of each floor and haven't done rope skip yet. Will try to document each floor better but I was a little tiled with how bad the olm went this time

Ok so the trick is to not be bad and die and I can get sub 40's probably