Is 25 minutes too short now for Celestial portal?

[Saphra20]

Just seeing what people think, with the new added 5th stage is 25 minutes just not enough time for the skins and Loader alt Secondary? I did the math and unless something changed all 8 of the teleporter events take a minimum of 12 minutes which gives you roughly 1:40 on each stage to both find and get too the teleporter while also trying to kill monsters and buy items. That just seems a bit too short in my head but maybe i'm wrong. What do you people think

[squat_instructor]

you can skip stage 5 with artifact realm

[Taylor]

I did it with my brother not too long ago.....loader is really strong without items, so all we did was boss rush then loot whatever was close.

doing the prismatic trial as mercenary without getting hit seems extra hard now though

[Hunter_Mearo]

Originally posted by Sailor_seller:

you can skip stage 5 with artifact realm

I never even thought of this, I was just glad to have gotten it done when the skill was launched, still would be nice to have the portal on stage 7 and 12 again though.

Originally posted by Taylor:

I did it with my brother not too long ago.....loader is really strong without items, so all we did was boss rush then loot whatever was close.

doing the prismatic trial as mercenary without getting hit seems extra hard now though

My only advice for this would be to wait until they patch out the increased hordes of the many spawns (hopoo have addressed this in the recent dev diary) and then do the old crowbar, fuel cell, focus crystal, preon on first stage and abuse i-frames again. I got the challenge done like that back when skills 2.0 launched.

[ninjaguyDan]

You don't get to farm when going for that challenge. There just isn't enough time. You basically have to go straight to the teleporter on every stage.

But the artifact portal skips stage 5 AND stops time for you, so you can do an artifact challenge to get some items for the rest of the run.

[squat_instructor]

just did a drizzle run in 18m without skipping stage 5 with whatever items, considering you can do it with Command it's still not that hard