Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a solo speedrun I’ve been working on over the past few weeks for the game. The goal of this run is simple: **defeat Dracula on Normal Difficulty as fast as possible**, without using any cheats or glitches, starting from scratch.

# 🕒 Final Time: 5h17

**Category Rules:**

* Solo only
* No cheats or glitches
* Normal difficulty
* Full run from character creation to Dracula kill

# 📈 Time Splits & Progression:

* **Gear Score 29** (Iron weapon): 57min
* **Gear Score 50** (Full Act 2 gear): 1h39
* **Gear Score 56** (Pendant + Reinforced Iron Weapon): 2h01
* **Gear Score 65** (Dawnthorn gear): 3h03
* **Gear Score 74** (Dark Silver weapon + Blood Merlot Amulet): 3h54
* **Dracula Pull at GS 83**: 5h04
* **Dracula Kill**: 5h17

# ⚔️ Underleveled V Blood Kills (High Risk Fights):

Most of the major V Blood bosses were fought significantly underleveled, making for tense and unforgiving fights:

* **21min – Koda (ilvl 35)** at GS 22 (**-13 ilvl**)
* **33min – Quincy (ilvl 37)** at GS 24 (**-13 ilvl**)
* **2h24 – Ungora (ilvl 63)** at GS 56 (**-7 ilvl**)
* **4h07 – Azariel (ilvl 79)** at GS 74 (**-5 ilvl**)
* **4h46 – Styx (ilvl 84)** at GS 75 (**-9 ilvl**)
* **5h06 – Dracula (ilvl 91)** at GS 83 (**-8 ilvl**)

# 🧠 Notable Strategies & Time-Saving Tricks:

* **4min** – Early opener with Dunley Lumbermill + Monastery: fast copper weapon, horse, and sourgestones
* **38min** – Iron cave farm using rock elementals to break nodes (still with copper weapon!)
* **4h29** – Base relocation trick to skip long ride home and save key minutes

# 💎 RNG Highlights & Struggles:

* Got lucky with **Tailor Floor** and **Merciless Iron Axes** books
* RNG wasn’t great for **Sanguine weapons** – only got Twinblades then Mace which I dislike
* Just barely scraped together enough **gold and mats** for sanguine upgrade, goldsun coins and onyx tear crafting

# 🛠️ Potential Improvements (Sub-5h Feels Doable):

* More usage of **base relocation trick**
* Avoid deaths (I died in Cursed Forest, at Ungora, and at Dracula...)
* Better Sanguine drop luck (having a proper weapon for Dracula would help a lot)
* More Ember Glass drops from caravans for faster progression

Hope you enjoy the run! Would love to hear your thoughts, strats, or any feedback that could push this even further.

Cheers,  
**Kytruz**

I speedran the game (Dracula kill) in 5h17! Details in the description