You want to get a higher STR while we are killing less monster...??? thats impossible yeah And thats within 150 frames lol. Ive did the test and noted all frames... its 150 faster for medusa but it take 140 to recast, so its crystal clear that if you are lower lvl you aint gonna catch up within 150 frames.
Alucard shield is only slower by a few frames when you single cast medusa, by skiping the medusa shield we save also menu access and some frames.
You double jump to get to max height (if you dont watch ram dont bother trying), once at max height, you press and hold left, after switch screen you use 6 boomerangs then press wolf, he will just do a horizontal crossing over the gasp that requires the flamberge otherwise. Its same exact input than in any other movie except you have to use boomerangs instead the flamberge. It takes 600+ frames to use a Library card, imo its impossible to go for garnet. Even if it take like 200 extra frames to get the zircon theres no way you gonna kill a boss ect... in the same ammount of frames. It gotta be tested tho, just to know roughtly how long it takes. From the fairy card you gotta go lesser demon, revenge it, grab the garnet and lib card then back librarian, if you end up over say 2000 frames its moot. Edit: well, first I was wrong theres no lib card near the garnet, second you cant buy it from the librarian, and lastly it takes way over 2000 frames, revenge on lesser demon also requires the stopwatch, its definitly a no-go. Id would go personnally for no flamberge and no medusa shield, maybe we could just do both movie, its lot of work and should end up nearly the same, but if we are 3 on it less an issue already.
Right its 1000 not 2000, just bad memory, so its half zircon/garnet. So it mean you have about 900 frames to get to the garnet...? thats pretty short And btw, we cant do what you linked in the movie lol, this takes forever I sayd 100 frames not 3000 :p It works exactly same way than flamberge you just switch screen then trow and the wolf will levitate over the gasp.
Im using only 1 set to get upside stairs, I wasnt really focusing on doing better but rather adapt boomerangs to the old strategy. This look faster but requires 3 sets instead of 2 with the skull. And no you cant kill those tombstones you have to toss on them. 63 boomerangs are 126k thats 840 zircon or 84 garnet.
In 2 minutes there's 60*60*2 = 7200 frames. If it takes more than 7200 / 800 = 9 frames to sell 1 Zircon, then it'll take more than 2 minutes to sell 800 Zircons. And doesn't the Librarian manage to say "Hehe! Thank-" before getting cut off when you sell the next gem? That's gotta be at least a quarter of a second (15 frames), which would mean over 3 minutes of selling Zircons... Or am I completely misremembering how gem-selling works?
Well now whe know we need at worse 800 zircon so you can tell wich is faster, you could maybe not use the lib card and go outerwall, there toss on the axe guy to get the gem and here use the card, before the boss, the only revelant info is how long it takes to sell 800 zircon imo, then we know precisly how much faster are others to sell and if its worthy.
So erhm, just for fun ive tryed to fool around with boomrangs, the inverted keep will be a big time saver, we can save time on the wolf rise and get faster toss on the skull, we may use a third jump after the skull if we want to avoid the small rise, im not sure its worthy money wise tho, but the 2 first surely does save frames. Edit: well actually we can skip the flamberge alltogether, boomrangs can replace it in every situations. Id say; -3 sets for keep -1 set for chapel (2 at worse) -5 sets for marble/shaft So that would be 48-54 boomrangs for jumps, plus a few to open Richter switch (and save a menu access), and some more to optimize guardian lvlup shift (menu access as well) 60 boomrangs would be 120k$ wich is 800 zircon, 50 would be about 667 zircon , getting the frame count of selling 800 or 667 zircon would be nice :p (then of course if its like over 30 seconds, measure vase in library or outerwall and compare)
The dash arent completly connected I think, theres probly a few frames to wait before dashing again or the boss just dont take damage, like for any tas if you dont watch ram for boss hp closely you aint going to get far, thats while recording or replaying older movies, theres a cooldown between each hits so say you have the rain in between no dmg from dash yeah, the trick is to register them at same time, you can even jump after the first dash to regain height if your too far from his head. And yeah its optimized to the nearest frame usually; many tricks have no place for error like for exemple screen flickers, big toss and many others.
You dont need 3 million zircon, the boomrang are 2000 each, the problem is just to figure what part of the run can be improved from having more of them, and how many boomerang in total, so that you know how much money is needed exactly, theres a lib card in one of the vases, otherwise its only 500 anyway, thats still a lot more time consuming than just say kill a merman and drop an extra food since you cant have the chicken in the wall
Yeah well, entrance would be wasting only a couple of seconds, its bad, but affordable, for the garnet if you meant like... before the bat relic in one of those vases, thats more like half a minute to afford, and im not exagerating since youll fight a boss and lib card to come back, the third option outerwall is ... sort of moot since it would mean to waste nearly 2 minutes to get to library. The low value of the zircoon could be a problem if the selling time exceed say... well 30 seconds, then the garnet would be better, yet its still the same issue; I dont know exactly how many $$ will be required.
For the prologue.... theres glitches involved, the most important one been the damage increase with holy water, theres no "exact" timing to cast your spell but tossing a bottle after will increase damage, youll have to figure timing, as they change depending your or drac position and cast time, AFAIK you can still whore a dozen of frames further than me. Pro tip: to change drac position at start as well as where he jump, its all predetermined by candles you destroy before entering the room, im using the best outcome IIRC in any% but if you have different goals for the prologue you may adjust to something different. The best timing I know off is in the old pcsx movie [1363] PSX Castlevania: Symphony of the Night by arukAdo & pirate_sephiroth in 19:01.63, probly a few frames faster than current any%