[World Record] Shining Soul - Any% Warrior (Normal) in

Описание: I was so into the run that I split upon the final hit on the boss. It just feels more natural, even if the time actually ends upon entering the portal. Retimed to: 3:20:05

Exact Time:
Final Hit: 3:17:06.834
Entering Portal: 3:20:05.600
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Preparations:
My splits has icons for each of the Level Bosses, this makes it easy to recognize which enemy to look out for. Those without icons means to kill all enemies in the level to progress.

The Build:
• Name: Max (+10 Str)
• Stats: 3 STR / 1 VIT (Until ~100hp) → 3 STR / 1 DEX
• Skill Points: Spear → Mentalpower (Until Level 4) → Def Build-up

Thoughts:
This is my first run with this class, but also my first time ever playing it as well. So this makes it a bit different since I'm so used to Dragonute. I honestly think this run is not that great. I got hit so many times and lots of mistakes through the run, so a bit sloppy I'd say. This felt much more difficult that my Dragonute run, that's for sure!

Possible Improvements:
• Spear or Other Weapons?
I honestly don't know if the Spear is the best weapon to use. On paper it looks very strong, each level of charge gives an additional attack, so the damage potential is very high! This issues is that Warrior has quite low starting Dex, thus missing attacks is very often. So with the multiple attacks from charging and high miss chance makes it not that great of a time. I think trying Sword might be something to look into for future runs, or even Axe for that matter. But maybe it's just the stats priority that's the issue, who knows?
• Mentalpower or Build Def-up?
I now know what Mentalpower actually does, which I didn't do beforehand. What it does is when you take damage, there's a chance that you will ignore the hitstun and not be interrupted by the attack. I don't know if this is worth taking over Build Def-up or not. In theory it's optimal as you can keep putting out damage without getting interrupted, but my experience with this class is more defense could come in handy. I guess it comes down to preference.

Mistakes:
• In general I got hit quite a lot so there was several extra visits to the Town to restock healing items.
• I once again wasted 1 skill on Build Def-up in the late game. I noticed afterwards that I couldn't level up in time to get the remaining levels before finishing the run. It honestly doesn't really matter, but it's worth noting.
• 5th Boss, Iom fight pretty much was just chaos. The "Safe Spot" strat I used in my Dragonute run doesn't work for the Warrior class. He doesn't have the range for it and I didn't know what really to do. It was just a mess really.
• 6th Boss, Zeon fight was very bad. I just can't seem to find a good way actually hitting him. It just felt like a sloppy fight all around.
• I had a death in Dark Tower 3 which was all my fault. I should've healed when I had the chance, I played to risky. It doesn't lose all that much time, but it's still a noticable mistake for sure.
• Final Boss, Dark Dragon was just me choking all the time. I whiffed plenty of attacks and was so bad that the heads respawned several times.
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Emulator: BizHawk 2.4.2
Game Version: USA
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Splits: https://splits.io/5rx8 (I edited the final split to reflect that of the actual time as per the rules)
Speedrun.com: https://www.speedrun.com/shining_soul...