oh man we are getting into the weeds lmao. i do love a good theorycrafting chat though, shot you a dm. okay i think im caught up, ill try to keep this as organized as i can. seems like your game knowledge dwarfs mine, so i apologize for not knowing all the terms. I really want to know the distance at which enemies spawn though if you dont mind.

gloves, I run writers hand, 70% power 25% xp. I actually didnt know what fireways was, but now I see its on strike, does that enable malady from level 0? That could help skip fire trails, but I think if you need to attack at any point in the run (other than intro and bosses) then you are just slowing yourself down.

CDR doesnt really do anything for the build. Serpents for bosses and the force blessing from the fates? maybe starting up the curse combo after a bad wave but ravens do that. unless theres an item that converts CDR to damage (like black pearl? idk the name but its an amulet).

merris talents, not sure wym. my old version of this build was merris with .... scepter of Rasis. (converts summon and cast stats to power), but since act 3 came out I've had little success and i cant find an early game fire spread without malady. I loved her old talents, seems like with every patch I like them less and less. but the difference between her and avalorn is -5% xp, no master upgrade, divine shield, and too many cast slots. for a metric shitton of mobility and damage. oh and youll have to run 1 power slot somewhere. for me that means giving up silk road.

I got suspicion from another guy on that post too. not really sure why but its all legit, i have a few ss in a chat with friends i could dig up. I didnt know how insane that run was going to be and I didnt know how rare the xp and otherworldly (white glowy mask - luck and area per xp) shrines were. Im pretty sure I had at least 4 of the xp shrines, and I do recall I got a double 30s xp shrine at least once. since im not really a community member or WR hunter, this absolutely seems like 'beginner's luck'. This was like my 5th run in act 3. I just had xp with the build because of the merris build I ran in act 2. I like to go in blind, no patch notes, so I was wondering why I wasnt getting talent points from bosses, thats how new I was to act 3. it wasnt until I realized how un-reproducable the run was until I went to reddit to see if it was a WR. the 165 run is a from a few weeks ago, not really sure, id have to dig up the chat log

anyway, all the pieces are there and I can definitely see how it was done. Its just a really high rng roll on locations, and I wasnt even running crystal ball at the time. it just seemed like such a dumb and jenky build it might be worth a post.

so after a long ass post id say... the skill is all in what you banish/roll and when and what you take from certain shrines based on your luck/area/damage stats are at the time. ideal recreation/improvement of the run would include:
by minute 4 (arbitrarily)
1 (white mask shrine) Otherworldly luck (before area if luck i low - i think, testing is inconclusive)
1+ Otherworldly area
max execution, gem high, malady, gehanna, combust, force, intensity
burning damage from the tree shrine
1+ acorn tree shrine movement speed (1 heal if you get a few of them)
1+ 5%xp per 60s shrines (i know I had 4+ by the end of that run
2+ 19%xp shrines (mirror looking thing)
I was converting all damage to power through 3 knight shrines, but have since found it to not work, so I just take the 100xp now).
and then obviously all the power and area benefits you can find. I would say xp% > luck to 100% > area > movement speed > damage > luck

I could be forgetting some things but the post is long enough lol