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Moonfire Faire Tower Speedrun Results!

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Friends of mine told me that the new seasonal event had a puzzle tower as a little fun thing to do, like Kugane Tower. After hearing that, I literally took my first day off work to do the seasonal quest, then finish up with learning the new (and probably extremely temporary) puzzle tower. I won't lie, this one made me happy, and oftentimes angry, to learn.

It took me 5 hours to learn the jumps of this tower and get to the top for the first time. After making it, and writing notes the entire time on little tricks to use (like Shukuchi to make it to the third "safe zone"), I took a nice hour breather, then did my first attempt.

Here's the explanation of the splits, if anyone is wondering:

Stage 1: Basically the ground to the quest turn-in NPC. Just the simple wall climb, timer starts when you jump off the grass to the platform, and split the moment you make contact to the "safe zone."

Stage 2: From Stage 1 up until the next "safe zone" after jumping from the pegs on the backside of the tower, it's the small "ring" before the next climb

Stage 3: The final flat "safe zone" before climbing the rest of the tower. Most Dragoons/Ninja do the movement glitch (i.e. Shukuchi) to skip 90% of Stage 2 to get to Stage 3 quicker. It's also what I did, hence the time between Stage 2 and Stage 3 are really short.

Stage 3.5 (Peg Tower): This is the part where the puzzle literally starts the finale of the climb as all your jumps are now really thin "pegs" that circle the last few meters of the tower.

Final/Top: This is where you call time, the moment you hit that little square. View is pretty, especially at night with the fireworks going off.

As you can see in the photo, I shrunk my time from learning in 5 hours, to a near 3 minute speedrun. It took 18 attempts to get a run with very little mistakes to do that starting at the ground up (I forced a reset if I went from Stage 3 back to 1, or hit the ground at the bottom).

I know on our server, there's a few people that have gotten to the top, but I don't think any of them were speedrunning the puzzle (and I'm pretty sure a lot used the Group/Ride Pillion thing to get up easier, which would've been nice for my speedrun, but alas). I'm willing to give advice to anyone who's looking to attempt the climb themselves, and feel free to share your screenshots from the top of the tower! No real reward for doing this, besides a place to make great screenshots!



Note: I'm on an outdated PC with keyboard and mouse, and I do all my tower climb speedruns with this setup. I cannot help well with controller users.



EDIT---- Did several more attempts after posting, and after about 10 more clears that were 5+ minutes, I finally broke the sub-2 minute mark! Photo attached for proof!
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Angel Kode

Jenova [Aether]

How do you line up the corner jumps?
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