Media Eo Boss Only Speedruns [solo + Duo] [no Consumables]

SOLOS:
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The final event of WithTheFish's Wynn Olympics was an EO boss only speedrun with no consumables. There was some pretty intense competition in all the previous speedruns, and this was no exception. My run ended up being the fastest at 2:22
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[The text and /class at the start were part of the requirements for Fish's challenge, to prove we used no consumables or buffs from other classes.]

The Eye has a lot of downtime in the fight, with about 25 seconds spent on the falling eyes, 50 seconds spent on the multiple laser eyes, and a few seconds for The Eye to spawn in at the start of every phase. I calcualted the total time that the Eye was damageable for each run, by including all the time between when the Eye's healthbar spawns for each phase (when The Eye lands and emits black smoke on phase 4) and when the screen changes to black at the end of each phase. My solo run had a total DPSable time of 52.536 seconds. Using the Eye's total 3,500,000 health gives me a solo DPS average of 66,621.
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DUOS:
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@FlamingoBike and I had competed fiercely for the best time in all 3 Olympic speedrun rounds, so after the EO round ended we also decided to do a duos run. We changed the strategy a little bit and used CURSE DIVZERS, even though divzer has -550% water dmg or so.

The added damage from the double curse proved to be worth the loss in base damage, and we got a time of 1:56
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The time difference may seem pretty minor considering we had double the people, but that's just because of how long the non damaging phases are. Using the same method, the total DPSable time in this run was cut down to a mere 20.65 seconds. Our group DPS average was 169,492, giving us each 84,746 DPS.​

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Most other Eye speedruns are solos, and use consumables. The next closest thing I could find is @Crokee 's 3 and 4 man (3 DPS + someone being carried) runs. Their runs were the entire dungeon, so their boss time isn't necessarily their best run, and they used healing potions. Regardless, their best run was the 4 man run with a boss time of about 2:05 and a DPSable time of 31.533 seconds. Their group DPS was 110,995 and their individual (divided by 3 to not include the warrior) was 36,998 DPS.​

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This post isn't here just to flex; I want to expand Fish's Olympic challenge to the whole community and see if anyone can beat our no-consumable times. I'm interested to see if it will be easier or harder after the upcoming item update too. Solos, Duos, etc; just kill the Eye a bunch. I know there are a lot of good speedrunners here, so I'm looking forward to seeing some good competition. I also think it's better to focus just on the Eye fight rather than the whole dungeon, to avoid the glitches in the rest of the dungeon and the RNG involved in the miniboss spawns that can make or break a run.

Fish required us to record a /class at the start of the video to prove we had no consumables, but we didn't do this on the for-fun do run afterwards. I can upload my POV of the fight to show that I also didn't have consumables on (wynntils would've shown, and I opened my inventory.) Ideally, if you want to challenge our times you should have some evidence that your group didn't use consumables.

Spoiler: DPS Calculations and Timestamps

Here are the speedrun clock timestamps (in seconds) that I used to calculate total DPSable time and DPS for each run.

Crokee's runs started at the beginning of the dungeon, so the timestamps are actually more like 2:23 instead of the 23 I listed. I just subtracted out 2 minutes from all those numbers to make it more manageable. I also calculated which phases for each run had better or worse DPS compared to that run's average dps, and the results vary greatly.

 

It will be interesting to see crafted water bows with armor powdered with water and see how that goes. Also, rage gma as well.

 

I tried rage GMA for the solo run, and I ran into a few issues. Building enough mana to output the same amount of high damage 1 cost storms was really tough (even compared to my 6/4 divzer). I ended up going with mana steal and even tried with curse, but I couldn't get the same level of consistency and damage as with Divzer. I had to spend a lot of the fight avoid hints and being more aware of every enemy rather than just being able to focus the boss. I'd bet that it would do really well in 2+ player group though, because of how much shorter the damage phases are with more people.

Spring is sure to be a new candidate for #1 next item patch with the huge buff its getting + conc, though. Especially considering how much base DPS divzer loses to equip curse.

 

The eye speedruns during the olympics were actually insane to me, it took me like 20 minutes to solo the eye so I can barely comprehend you guys tearing the eye to shreds in a minute lol. Interested to see any other speedruns that pop up!

 

I tried gma abuse but it was too difficult to remain alive when doing 1hp and speed running at the same time.
I used like 20eo keys to try and do it and get a good time like the top 5 people that used a divzer but i wasn't good enough (using a none 1hp gma build with rage abuse powdered gear did help though because I just spam spells till it dies while I take damage and get rage damage buff)
Give it a go you might be able to pull it off and if so the dps is so much better

 

if you can play fully optimally rage gma is defo the way to go, but having a bit of tankyness can allow for more riskier moves in order to gain slight dps