Weekly Challenge 18 - Death can' ...
Well, had a go at this week's challenge, aiming at Untouchable and Manaless.
Here's the run.
Although, honestly, nothing to write home about...
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The untouchable and manaless are very attainable here due to the minecart and barricades.
Wyatan, I ended up one place below you because I placed two unneeded barricades and grinders at the end of the run. The money score would have put me over.
Yeah, it's a very easy one. Was my first try and I haven't tried again because the challenge just isn't there.
I believe I could easily have done with at least 5-6 grinder / barricade pairs less, when you take into account the Boulder Chute and a more aggressive wand usage for comboing. But at 20 minutes per run, I have more interesting stuff to do that fine-tune that one (like do that Christmas shopping on time for a change !). ;)
Now, if you do, I'll gladly watch. :)
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Yes it was.
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Which could mean anything between someone at Robot's being fat-fingered, to the end of the Weekly Challenges, at least in their present form...
Yeah, went without mana and got more than 58k in combo score, plus untouchable. Presuming a very low combo score without using mana because of no chill or lightning (uncommon 3x, extremely rare 4x), I think this is the way to go for solo anyway. Maybe a setup further back over the ash cart track could take advantage of the cart's burning and the boulder chute. Archers are a pain as always.
You can definetely get 5Xs on this stage using the minecarts. I'll admit when I started doing this I expected the hardest part to be dodging the crossbows, but nope the hardest bit has been having issues with having Earth Elementals getting stuff in the Barricade path and then randomly deciding to vault said Barricades so my last attempt got stopped because FOUR of them did this at the same time :S So depressing as my best run I must have ate a stray crossbow bolt somewhere which would have prevented second place score. :( At least it wasn't as bad the previous one where I kinda forgot about one set of flyers, derp.
Here´s my attempt at making a video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCDpKWtwy0M&feature=youtu.be
Nicely done, and thanks for sharing. :)
The untouchable and manaless are very attainable here due to the minecart and barricades.
Here's my take: [video processing issues; check back later for link]
Wyatan, I ended up one place below you because I placed two unneeded barricades and grinders at the end of the run. The money score would have put me over.
Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/pobercraft?feature=mhee