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Cristiona

Dear lord, that was awful! Ran out of time somewhere around level 8. A 12 day, nearly 70 hour, 16 mettle run? 20 hours longer than my last maso run! Burned about three sold hours in-game just fighting the Mick. Over and over and over and over and over again until I finally figured out a way ...

Cristiona

Ugh. Forgot how much I hate maso, even masoloom. Nommy's insane.

Nommy

It really is all just playstyle. I did all of my early runs as an Elementalist in Maso and loved it. Ice Bolt is my best friend, and Proper Hydration makes the world a shiny place. Low chips are hard, but there are a few tricks to get you through so you don't have ...

I also found Gadgeteer way easier than Psion (a point noted by the fact that I finished up about 15 hours earlier in my Maso run thereafter). Of course in the first run I was using a futility belt for no good reason so that probably didn't help.

Nommy

So, I've been thinking. It's pretty obvious that we are a community of people who like challenges. From Maso and Heirloom to Futility Belt and other stunt runs, we tend to seek out challenges in the early game, instead of looking for trouble in the higher levels. As a community, ...

acidcat

Nommy gives good advice as Elemental and maso expert. I forgot the bandages - I only remember them for my maso competition runs.

I really miss all my skills when I go maso.

... drones in that time and nothing. I'm wearing +8% item drops too. Without super jump it looks like I'm stuck in the building with Mick and I'm on a Maso run. I think I found out what is so nightmarish about such a run as I can't just buy something to help me make the item I need! Tips would be appreciated.

My mistake. I was playing a game made by ICU earlier :) I meant IOU's of course. And phew! Must be the style of retcon I'm doing. Why did I choose Maso to start with? I think everyone does, lol. Maso's are for Masochists. Even Chris just does heirlooms and she is doing easy ones at that. I am trying ...

My mistake. I was playing a game made by ICU earlier

I meant IOU's of course. And phew! Must be the style of retcon I'm doing. Why did I choose Maso to start with? I think everyone does, lol.

Also, the futility belt (although hilarious) probably isn't great until you have your legs under you :) I may be the only person to do more than 1 Maso(the most difficult retcon type) Psion Futility Belt Retcon I am very certain I am the only person who will ever go into double digits. And, in ...

Harry Dresden wrote:
RKBrumbelow wrote:the smoke bomb effect is the most annoying ... or at the least teh one I complain about the most.
Try having it fire off 3 times in a row when you're trying to take down a quest boss. :/

Actually my record is 14 vs the Mick

Harry Dresden

RKBrumbelow wrote:the smoke bomb effect is the most annoying ... or at the least teh one I complain about the most.

Try having it fire off 3 times in a row when you're trying to take down a quest boss. :/

Thanks again to all who participated. Prizes have been sent! I'm pretty much down to nothing on my alt, so I'm not sure when the next one of these will be. Probably Augustish.

Cristiona

RKBrumbelow wrote:The futility belt does sometimes restore PP and HP (not at the same time)

I'm pretty sure those will only fire if the respective pool is already maxed.

... stunned) the smoke bomb effect is the most annoying ... or at the least teh one I complain about the most. I highly encourage everyone to do a maso psion run with a futility belt. After that every other run is cake.

Cristiona

That's the only good effect. Everything else is bad.

Harry Dresden

It gives a free runaway as the Nova skill. Does that count as a good effect?

acidcat

Yeah, I was astonished how hard it is to keep your hitpoints up at low levels.

Is the futility belt bad then? I haven't played with one yet, wiki makes it seem like you get lots of good effects.

Harry Dresden

Having a healing skill would have cut at least an hour off my run, probably closer to two. I just didn't think it through when I chose my class.

Harry, worse it was a Psion run

If it matters, those runs were done on my Khal Thralkhar account. Getting 13 points per level helps, but I suspect having access to foil and mettle makes a big difference as well.

Harry Dresden

RKBrumbelow wrote:I ended up in 3rd with a futility belt run... wow!

Thank you for reminding me just how bad I am at Maso.

I ended up in 3rd with a futility belt run... wow!

acidcat

Thanks for running the contest mara, was fun!

Congratulations Cris!

Cristiona

Holy cow. I won something.

Thanks to everyone for participating. It looks like the final results are as follows: Cristiona: 12 days: 49h 41m 0s Nommy: 13 days: 52h 54m 20s RKBrumbelow: 13 days: 56h 58m 50s Acidcat: 14 days: 57h 28m 42s Harry Dresden: 14 days: 59h 8m 40s First prize: Plaid Couch Second prize: 1,000,000 chips T...

acidcat

Missed the 11 day run by a mile. Today I've run out of time and I'm level 10, 1320 XP from level 11.

Even if I'd timed it so I could finish my run, don't think I would've even come close to challenging for first.

I enjoyed doing Maso in a truly maso way though - forgot how badly you miss healing.

Nommy

13 days, 52h 54m 20s as a Psion, because Psions are the worst.
15 days, 51h 10m 15s as an Elementalist, because moving makes it hard to play every day. >.<

Harry Dresden

I suck so much at Maso, especially when I'm an idiot and choose a class with no healing skill.

Jetpack 2013-05-29 12:46:14 14 59h 8m 40s 11 22 0 Maso

As this contest draws to its conclusion, I would like to remind anyone who has not posted here or has not messaged me in-game to do so over the next few days so I can figure out the results quickly. Thanks to all for participating.

102 Naturalist 2013-05-14 03:22:21 14 57h 59m 55s 11 22 0 Maso N/A Altruist
103 Psion 2013-05-26 03:27:53 13 56h 58m 50s 11 22 0 Maso N/A Altruist

I fail, especially given #103 was with a futility belt

acidcat

Poop, that was difficult. Really don't know how to play maso any more.

Time Played This Run: 2d 9h 28m 42s
Days This Run: 14

I'm going to have a quick second go to see if I can do an 11 day run in the remaining days. Unlikely on this form.

Cristiona

Stupid NCI.

12 days
49h 41m 0s

Should have been 11 days, but nooooooooo, I had to waste over a dozen turns and 4 smoke bombs trying to get a paperclip.

... but I'm not the fastest. Shiny won the contest last year, because of her crazy 9-day run. I think it was a 10-dayer. Is that still the fastest Maso out there? Looking at her account, it was about 30 minutes faster than my fastest Maso run. Maybe we need a new bounty thread :)

Nommy

Nah man, I may play it a whole bunch but I'm not the fastest. Shiny won the contest last year, because of her crazy 9-day run.

acidcat

Ready or not, here I come!

My money is on Nommy, maso expert extraordinaire.

Cristiona

Maso sucks. I miss my skills.

Can't wait to get back to heirloom runs.

Nommy

Best kind of contest.

I may as well throw my hat into the ring. I have not done a MASO in a while.

Harry Dresden

I'll try it out with DresdenII. I shouldn't, since I won't win a prize, but maybe I'll get lucky.

zillow

I'm doing this!

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