Gurk's Cope Auf Circlet Journal

As with the TL pendant journal, I am once again in dire need of a coping mechanism to deal with helm booming despair. I also heard that making a journal brings you good luck (50/50, it either does or doesn't) so all the better. Because this'll likely be a rather bland journal, I'll also throw in some dpm tests to make it a little less one-note because why not. Heck, maybe I'll even throw in screenshots of dead runners so we can point and laugh a̶w̶a̶y̶ t̶h̶e̶ p̶a̶i̶n̶.

My goal on hero is simply to make a modest 40+ str helm and because I also wish to get out of having to do auf runs as soon as possible, I will not be picky when it comes to helms. All helms shall be slammed and destroyed!!

If by some miracle and with Kimmy's blessing I somehow manage to finish my hero's helm, I will go back to working towards a helm on my sair and repurpose the journal to accommodate for it.

Current Stats
Helms boomed: 16
Boom scrolls used: 50
Average scrolls per helm: 3.125 (expected: 4)
Record for scrolls passed: 4
Record DPM: 7.54m

 

Some history of previous helms for your viewing pleasure:

























DPM from earlier today:


For future updates, I will also include screenshots of the helm stats and/or maybe gifs of the scrolling.

 

Update #2:
hello Chat and Gamers (in my best TTKirnk impersonation)! boy, do we have some content for you guys today.

As I couldn't find a run to join because auf is clearly dead content (who in their right mind would run auf after all, not me ha ha!!), I started hosting a new run that debuted today. This squad was meant to be a 5-man run where I would mule my bishop to minimize helm looters as well as save myself the pain of having to find one. I immediately roped in GrimSanity and fael so as to lock in at least two paladins for the run as paladins are just too cracked not to have for auf. One big obstacle stood in the way however, which was finding a bucc for the run. Prospects for finding a bucc seemed initially dismal as I did not get any immediate responses back from my recruitment posts and I had also seen how much Nightz had struggled to find one the week prior for his runs. However, thank my lucky stars, I was ultimately able to get the strongest bucc on the server, TiniBikini (TTKirnk ur still #1 in my heart tho, bro), on board! The caveat was that she would be muling her NL for helms, which meant that the squad would have to be a 4-man, the thought of which admittedly made me slightly queasy as I didn't want to spend anymore time in that abandoned mall than I needed to for the sake of my mental. Thankfully, Hampy was generous enough to offer his services on his bishop as a non-looter for at least a few runs to keep himself sharp until he started hosting his own runs, which meant the run could go back up to a 5-man for now while staying at only 3 helm looters.

With that boring stuff out of the way, let's get into the meat of it.

Run 1:
I was starting to sweat a bit before the run even began as one of our runners was still nowhere to be found 2 minutes before the run time. Turns out he forgot about the run and needed a reminder ping and showed up a few mins late, wowsers!! I won't drop any names as to who it was as I'm above that pettiness but their name rhymes with Devin.

Anyways, the run was quite smooth and took just under 43 mins, which exceeded my 45-50 min expectation. I haven't had to keep any timers in quite some time, with the last time being my short bishop stint in HT about 10-11 months ago, so I wanted to practice in preparation for when I would have to eventually mule my bishop and busted out my handy timer app. Was a little overwhelmed at first but I eventually got used to managing the timers for sed, DR, and DP and calling them out and to be honest it even made the run a bit more fun. I'll add on stun timers next time around now that I'm more comfortable with it.

Unfortunately I forgot to start my dpm test so I can only console you with this random ass dpm3 during triplets. Might be a good idea to take some short dpm tests across different parts of the fight next time for data purposes.

Spoiler: Drops

Only two helms dropped and I got to loot one of them.



22 str, it's slam time lesgoooooo




womp. next time for sure!


Run 2:
My friends, disaster struck in our next run. Yes, it's the content you wanted!






This run took considerably longer (just over 56 mins) for obvious reasons. Safety tragically died to a stun + dp five minutes into the fight and Qubert died blasting a charging DR'd auf near the end of second wave clone.
For the last wave of triplets, I ended up popping a gelt to speed things along and Fael reciprocated with an apple. However, I still ended up getting whited by him! Oh, it's so joever for heroes...

Here's another random dpm3 during triplets on gelt with no shield since I didn't bother starting a dpm test after we lost our bishop.


Safety stuck around even after he expired from the map and continued to keep timers for us so props to him. He also taught me something cool that I didn't know about during this time, which was that you can actually dodge the auf stun by jumping up at the right time. Apparently it won't reach you as long as you're about parallel with the computer! He also brought to my attention that by pressing up in the air you can float and slow your descent, making the timing for avoiding the stun a bit more lenient in case you hop too early.



Really cool stuff! Gives me more of a reason to keep timers for stun now.

Spoiler: Drops

Wow, no pouches both runs. I didn't realize this boss was such a scam... sike! Four helms dropped so everyone was able to loot two helms each in the end across both runs, which is about as good of an outcome as you can hope for.



21 str, we take those.



we'll get 'em next time.

also wtf guys, faith the size of a mustard seed smh


Updated Stats
Helms boomed: 18
Boom scrolls used: 58
Average scrolls per helm: 3.222 (expected: 4)
Record for scrolls passed: 4
Record DPM: 7.54m
Auf KD ratio (since journal start): 1

 

I originally worded it as "the most pog bucc" but didn't want to get in hot water :')