[Galeesa]

Yes you read that right... after 6 years of playing this game (don't go off my account created date... the first galeesa got deleted while i was in iraq... <_<) I'm finally giving HC a go. Yes, it may be with my multi, but it's a HCO run and odds are that i'm going to hate my life for a while... but i intend to make a BM runner out of it for some reason. Even though the whole reason i created it was to become a buffbot eventually... maybe i should drop the restrictions, but i think if i do 6 bm runs... it'll make the normal runs that much faster. Any comments?
Any info on how to speed this run up would be greatly appreciated. We have a clan full of ppl that seem to prefer HC runs... it seems odd to me that we don't have a reference for HC players :p


oh! Any chance you could pass leadership back, tyred? I left for Africa thanks to the USMC and returned minus a clan :-P

[Tyred]

First, advice:

Go seal clubber for your first HCO (if you haven't already), the shiny there will be most helpful. Your first skill pretty much has to be the L15 skill to be able to smash and create wads, which are a godsend in HCO.

The first run is probably going to suck. A lot. I would recommend saving adventures for stat days to make sure that you get everything you can.

HC is a much different animal than SC because it is just you against the kingdom. High level and awesome weapons do not immediately abound, so check the shop for a few things if you are struggling to do damage.

Hair spray is your friend. Use your friend.

As for BM. I went through the BM loop and it was not too terribly bad for the muscle classes or the moxie classes, but the myst classes will make you cry. They're miserable. I don't even really know how to adequately express how awful those runs are. That is why I took a long, long break there.

Fortunately, you're going through on a newbie character anyway and you've not had a whole lot of ascending experience on any character (while I waited until about ascension number 40 to start BM, which was bad. I loved all my shiny skills), so it might not be too bad for you.

As for the clan leadership, you weren't even the "leader" when I got it. It went from Trerro to me. So, .

Tyred

[Trerro]

Sauceror is another option for first run. Elemental Saucesphere allows you to bypass all elemental checks, saving a whole lot of annoying runs.

[Galeesa]

So i finished my first HCO run. I was thinking of perming the first lvl saucecrafting skill, so i can create serums of sarcasm (which saved me a tremendous amount of time at the end there). I won't ascend until after the Crimbo season. For the next 6 runs, i'll be doing BM runs. By that point, i should have a pretty clear idea on how to ascend quickly and finish out the plexi set and stainless

Definitely was starting to wonder if i was going to be able to get out of HC before the actual crimbo event kicked off... and i did, barely

[Galeesa]

By completing a 100% Black Cat Bad Moon run, you have permanently unlocked the Bad Moon sign for your character.

ascension #4: 01/24/11  lvl: 13     Bad Moon  turns: 2,440 days: 29 not too shabby if i say so myself. i actually think that goes faster than HCO.