The Echoes Of Reality Cataclysm Highscore Runs Thread

I appreciate the effort even though I don't have time watch it all.

I took down the old videos earlier replaced them with a new video. More info is in the edited text of the opening post. I hope it's okay for everyone. I'll do some more videos soon probably and maybe I can switch something up and take a different route and do different tasks - although I really like the setup we are usually running and my "home route" because it works out very well for everyone. And I actually don't even know all the secrets in every area (yet) so I have to familiarize myself with the other regions a bit more if I want to 100% them when doing them instead of what I usually do.

Alright... I think I will just copy the description I put underneath the player in Youtube in here about this run:

I was trying to get a new run recorded for a while now but we constantly ran into some problems. Like having disconnects, interaction button bugs and other annoying things like that. Also I wanted to show a different route (event order as well as what I do after the events) to show other areas and secrets although most players should know the areas by now I guess. Last night we finally got a few good games going and I took advantage of the current inversion by using one of my Shard Storms - a lot. I didn't ramp up the damage further (with other gear that grant buffs) because that would have meant changing even more things to an uncomfortable degree.

Unfortunately we still ran into some problems in this game. Like one player not being able to use the interaction button (which is why we look like idiots at some point at the Takaro event with the revives and why we leave him dying on the ground at Kelrik so he can respawn). We also somehow had some of the stability bubbles disappear at some point. I'm still trying to figure out what exactly happened there. Because when we left each event the stability bubble was up at all of them. But later it had disappeared at some of them for some reason and I also think they might have disappeared at the same time and it must have happened before we finished the last event because I go straight to Magnus from there. I didn't even realize it at first when I headed there and basically just kinda auto-piloted the takedown. Only when I was heading towards what's usually the edge of the bubble to get outside of it I realized there actually wasn't even a bubble anymore. Not all of them were affected by this weird issue though. As you can see the bubble is still up in Diana's Landing for example. Obviously it's a bit easier to kill Valkyries at 16x then right at the spot without having to leave the stability bubble to get the full multiplier. But to show you guys how I usually go about these Valkyries that we leave behind for later to get them at 16x I've added two short clips at the end of the video from a different run last week in which I kill Magnus and Kelrik by getting out of the stability bubble in time.

I think we can still improve on quite a few things to get some more points. Like babysitting Casja for a while so we can get her at 16x instead of 14x for example. We also wanna increase the adds farming at Vara again after we have dialed it back lately because of the many server shutdowns it can cause and has caused for us in the past (even after they patched the double spawns). So I can see us go a bit higher in overall points - but I have no idea how we can get around 2 million more like the team that's currently in the number one spot. We might experiment further with routes and stuff if we find the time and the motivation for it during this last week of the event. But for now this is our highest score and I hope you'll enjoy the route and maybe pick up some things you didn't know about...

Not really. Last week I had a short problem  with F once.

The interact issues seems to hit me most often when getting repaired by a teammate/respawning after getting downed.

If I let myself get downed again and respawn (option A) … that has nearly a 100% success rate of fixing the issue.

Getting downed again and having a teammate repair me (option B ) usually works, but it's a somewhat lower success rate. 

Respawning without getting downed first (option C) … only seems to work on occasion.

For something like the cat, option B is probably the best course of action.

In freeplay, option A may be the only effective course of action.

Regardless, it's really annoying. [insert obligatory "BioWare, plz"]