Fastest way to the Incomplete One?

[Kylis]

What areas connect to the Black Bridge? I have seen the Ramparts connect to it but I cannot seem to get to the Ramparts without going through something like the Promenade. I am trying to get the timed door after the first boss but am having trouble getting the fastest path to him.

[QuaestComm]

You always have to go through two stages to get from Prisoners' Cells to the Black Bridge, but as you collect runes you get more options for which two stages those will be.

Since you can access the Ramparts, that means you have the Vine Rune already, so you have two choices each for your second and third stages:

• Second Stage: Either Promenade of the Condemned (easier) or Toxic Sewers (harder)
  
• Third Stage: Either Ramparts (easier) or Old Sewers (harder)
  • Old Sewers will force you to fight an Elite enemy on your first completion of the level on the current save file, but doing so will unlock even more options.

[Mirror]

i think the fastest route is toxic - old - black bridge. the other routes are harder which makes it longer. the prison depths is a huge level with hard enemies.

The enemies on my path dont scale as much and you can run past a lot of them, no teleporting.

[Pixel Peeper]

Indeed, strictly speaking there is no fastest way. You always have to do two areas before the Pont Noir.

There is, however, a major difference between the two sewer levels and the Promenade/Roofs; the linear levels are more predictable. You're never going to get through them quickly, but you're never going to have to explore 99% of them before you find the exit, either. Going through the sewers could make your run much faster, or ruin it entirely.

You've got a lot of time. Personally, I aimed for getting through the two areas before the Pont Noir in about 8 minutes. Enough time to grab gear and stats to make the boss quicker and kill it. If you get through the two areas too quickly, you'll have time to beat the boss but it will take forever to do so, so in the end, rushing doesn't necessarily save you any time.

[VoidInsanity]

Fastest consistent way is Prom > Ramparts. The Trick to geting there quickly is to just run past everything. First area is generally pretty quick due to it not being that much slower to kill things in your way and you can fully explore it and get out in around 2 minutes. Promenade is extremely quickly to run since its a straight line as the Raparts exit always spawns on the far right so you can easily get there by 5 minutes even with exploring. Now Ramparts just run to the right until you see a room with a TON of enemies around, the exit is generally below that area. You can still skip mobs when going down the pits, every wrong pit has a teleporter at the bottom to get back up.

Follow the above and you should be able to get to the boss at the 8 min mark consistently.