There's also the fact that there's an infinite ceiling with how powerful you can get. I mean, sure, there's a theoretical cap, but between perfect rolls, ancient or not, etc, it's impossible to reach 100% theoretical efficiency.
Things looks legitimate!
And reason I suggested the separate classes was entirely because I thought it woulda been fun to have a random class speedrun night. Viewers pick the class kinda thing. :D
How 'bout different categories for the separate classes? And until more teams start routing/running the game, move the multiplayer categories(with no separate categories for the different team combinations because that would literally be asinine) to be all miscellaneous so there's not too much clutter? As for renaming, how about "NG Acts 1-5". Fits more inline with literally every other speedgame. Rules for all categories, start on first input(first click to move), end on credits, go as fast as you can. No vendors/crafting because materials/gold/plans are shared. Run invalidated if someone joins the game(turn off quick join in social while you're running!). Difficulty changes alright as appropriate to your routing.
Anything wrong with what I'm suggesting?
Followers would be nice, yes please. :D
They do provide a few nice utility things(Kormac's healing/resource regen and Eirena's/Lyndon's damage buffs and crowd control). Plus, for the demon hunter runs, you can hand off gear to him. :D
No glitches, really. It is a semi-competitive(Greater Rift leaderboards and Hardcore) Blizzard game, after all.
Skips, though, you can run past several quest objectives and the game will be like "Oh, yeah, you did that!" The ones that immediately jump to mind are running past Kormac to his gear(while he's being chained up) in Act 1 and running past the Lacuni in act 2 that are chasing some Iron Wolves and Refugees. Additionally, spacebar is the default to skip dialogue/cutscenes/etc and it has some application in bosses. Again, the one thing that jumps to mind is Belial's phase 2 to 3 transformation.
EDIT: Still would like an explanation as to why pausing the timer isn't cheating, but followers are.
Pardon the salt, but why are the rules batshit insane? No followers makes no goddamned sense and being able to pause the timer? Ludicrous, man.