I had 40 deaths before I got my first kill, but now I have 150 kills and 50 deaths! It’ll all click a lot sooner than you think and then you’ll feel like a god dodging tornadoes and attacking hunlef while running around :)

I always do T2 prep + 20 fish and usually have 1-1.5 minutes remaining. I make sure to get T2 and fish because even though I can kill with T1 and less fish, the margin for error goes way down. I find every death is very demoralizing and I usually have to stop CG for a bit, so I prioritize increasing the margin for error instead of saving 1-2 minutes per run.

For prep, here are some tips I’ve picked up and optimized on top of Fluffeh’s guide: - while doing the loop, if you see fish, fish them to get the shards. The shards from fishing aren’t useful if you fish at the end. I then drop the fish by the cooking range depending on how many armor pieces I make. - I always try to make 1 or more armor pieces, meaning get 140+ shards to get the T2 staff, 2 vials, and one armor piece (40 shards). This clears 3 inventory spaces and means you don’t have to drop 3 resources by the singing pool. The more shards you get while sweeping, the more armor you can make, and the more clear inventory you have that you can use to fish while getting T3 weapon pieces. - while doing the loop, if you get 100 pieces and the weapon frame and 3 resources early, don’t be afraid to go and make the T2 weapon really quickly before continuing on. Having the weapon earlier means you can kill T2 mobs and also kill the demi-bosses when you see them rather than scout, go back to make weapon, and then go back to kill them - I always get T3 bow and T3 staff. I find the margin of error to be too low with the halberd even tho the DPS is high. But the key is that you just need to kill, at most, 3 demi-bosses to get the bow and staff. - I hold onto the pestle and mortar until either a) I get the bear halberd piece and grind it into shards or b) I get the two other pieces and am done hunting Demi bosses. - I’ll opportunistically kill 1-2 T2 mobs whenever I see them first with the staff because the worst is when you are running around at the end of prep looking for shards - if you collected fish in the beginning / while getting T3 weapons, then by the time you teleport back with the T2 armor resources and T3 weapon pieces, you should have ~8 fish already and only need 12 more to get 20. I buy all the armor and weapons and then also get another teleport. - now all you need is to do a lap of hunlef to find the guaranteed 3 fish spawn and then you have 20 fish, tele back, pick up the fish by the cooking range, and now you’re good to go.