Enter the Portal Immediately

[Yxklyx]

Has anyone every picked this? I've got over 1600 hours and I know this is a new addition but I never pick it.

[ZSlayers]

Well, it's the reason I finally managed the 20 minute speedrun achievement (I got the event early act 3 and finished with 4 minutes remaining, so I needed it), but other than that, I've never taken it.
The opportunity to get stronger and the rest site before the boss is much too valuable to skip. I think I might take it a little more if it took me to the rest site before the boss, rather than the boss itself.

[Zu]

Originally posted by ZSlayers:

speedrun

/thread

[Yxklyx]

Originally posted by Zu:

Originally posted by ZSlayers:

speedrun

/thread

All that for one achievement? Kill it. Kill it now! I think it's a wasted space.

[gripatorts -rng]

I used it once when i entered act 3, won that run too.

[Dusk_Army]

I've taken it a couple of times, usually when I feel confident my deck could beat the boss in question, but not handle the entirety of Act 3. After all, don't need to upgrade anything if you've got a bottled Apotheosis, for example.

[Testo2137 не понимаю]

When I know my deck is strong enough to end I dont really like the run I will take it

[Zadavaka]

According to Wiki: "Secret Portal event will not trigger if fewer than 13 minutes and 20 seconds have elapsed on the run". So this event is not possible for real fast runs.

[Zadavaka]

I think the reason for this event is then, for example, you have slow deck and fast room fights or elites can screw you really hard. So you have more chances against immediate Boss.
Actually you need to know the game truly well for such risk evaluations, so this event feels weird for not very experienced players.

[=M$= Oroberus]

Originally posted by Zu:

Originally posted by ZSlayers:

speedrun

/thread

The portal is not even useful for speedruns as the code for the ? in Act 3 includes a timer and the Portal Event can't even show up, before a certain amount of run-time has passed (I think it's ~13 minutes, but I'm not sure).

[Isley]

Originally posted by Dusk_Army:

I've taken it a couple of times, usually when I feel confident my deck could beat the boss in question, but not handle the entirety of Act 3. After all, don't need to upgrade anything if you've got a bottled Apotheosis, for example.

This.