When working towards my long-term ambition of Level 1-50 No Bank, I thought of a set of categories that could serve as stepping stones, and also add some extra lore, diversity, and ultimately mandatory boss fights to the Wynncraft No Bank runs: All Dungeons and (secret) Discoveries of a region.

The subcategories I have in mind would be Wynn Plains (containing DS, IP, LS, and UC), Desert (containing SST), Tundra (containing IB), Wynn Province (containing the prior plus UR), and All.

Time would start on selecting a new profile for the first time (and thus starting the tutorial), and end when either the last dungeon is complete or the XP for the final discovery are added (whichever happens last).

I'm posting this now because I got very close to finishing a run of DnD Desert today, and plan on doing so soon (will post the run when it's uploaded).

oh wow somehow i managed to end my recording like 20 minutes early. I died to Hashr and didn't have a backup key.

In my opinion adding discoveries to levelup speedruns isnt the best idea since its supposed to be speedrun after all. Maybe the regional discoveries would be interesting but im pretty sure people arent that interested in speedrunning them since its been a category in the past and nobody submitted runs.

And for the Wynncraft version and DXP subcategories, I think they are fine the way they are right now because it would be little unfair to have a really good run that could potentially unbeatable in the future updates due to future changes and the xp sub category should be alright since its cutting a significant amount of time from the runs

Of course it's supposed to be a speedrun. But a speedrun has a goal, and not every speedrun category has to have "levelup" as the goal. What I'm suggesting is a different category that has a different goal and happens to include levelup as part of the measure to achieve that goal. The goal is to complete the main lore of a region by finding all secret discoveries and beating all dungeons.

This concept is pretty similar to many speedruns in the The Legend of Zelda series.

As for the activity... the only No Bank levelup runner in here is attempting DnD and currently prefers it over levelup