@crimsonraziel said in [My Athena Speed Run Method]
Exactly! And once you're Athena 10 you can finally start having fun.
Hahaha yessss!!!!
@zyrkal said in My Athena Speed Run Method:
@goryreceptacle What a boring way to play a game where levels mean nothing except time...
What other games don't? You should be able to buy levels... It requires times.. It's called leveling up right?
@kzoo-kid said in My Athena Speed Run Method:
I don't think hopping around is worth the time. You certainly do want all islands close by. If you can do 3 voyages in a row on the same server then you are in the money because islands can double up after that ( I had an Athena voyage with only 5 unique islands, one of which was an outpost for both merch quests). Usually this doesn't happen because your 2nd or 3rd voyage give you all the leftover islands you haven't hit yet, which tend to have corner islands like marauders arch, discovery Ridge, smugglers bay.
The best thing you can do besides what you already mentioned is recruit a noob sloop to join you. Have one reliable member of your crew (they can't ever die) sail to all your GH islands with the sloop and give them all your chests. This cuts the voyage in half at the cost of being 1 crew member short, and is very lucrative to a solo sloop who would only get a few seafarers on their own in this time. I have even heard that some people ask to join the boat when the solo sloop leaves to maintain control of both boats.
Yeah, having another ship that wants to sail certainly helps if you stay in the same server, we've done 50min runs with other ships. I just don't spend that time doing that since we hop anyways. As long as it's island to island you're golden. I've gone from level 3 to level 8 in the last couple days.
@w4r34gl3-4-l1f3 said in My Athena Speed Run Method:
@goryreceptacle
I speed run Athena as well. I have not tried hopping servers till I hit sanctuary though. (I will have to try this). I do leave the Marauders chest, and hateful skulls on the island. I collect my captains chest, and villainous skulls. I like to leave at least one of these on the barrels in the corner of the tavern for the next player that spawns in.
Before I place my Athena I buy legendary merchant missions. I cycle through till I have what I fell are enough cages. I then hit Crooked Mast and load up on chickens and snakes. This helps two ways.
- I already have the items for merchant and those two missions are completed quickly.
- In the event I am sunk for any reason, I can go back to any merchant and get all the cages I need because I didn’t collect them for the mission.
I then place my Athena. Most of the time I hardly have to change the color of animals as I have collected enough of all the colors the mission ask for. I then set off to collect my pigs and any gunpowder that I didn’t find on Crooked. Whatever animals or cages I have left get set at what ever outpost I have to turn in at.
I also avoid shipwrecks, messages in a bottle, and forts. As they slow you down.
My average run is between an hour to two hours from start till finish.
I did a solo once, never again! You generally avoid pvp and all that since you never stop unless at oos or for animals. Loading up before without collecting the Athena stuff does help if sunk but we normally just board and anchor anyone chasing us.