This strat is banned form the speedrun leaderboard, so the actual WR is still 2:23 (also completely insane). The fact that this is completely working as intended just shows that this game absolutely nails destroying reality with complex magic.
This strat is banned form the speedrun leaderboard, so the actual WR is still 2:23 (also completely insane). The fact that this is completely working as intended just shows that this game absolutely nails destroying reality with complex magic.
I believe it’s technically possible to get a wand with that many slots, though it’d be unbelievably rare, and it would definitely not have anywhere near that much mana; I don’t know how much mana you’d actually need to cast this (it’s actually probably pretty reasonable because of all the triggers, though.) My understanding is that it’s like 1 in 10,000 to find a wand that can potentially have more than 26 slots, then you have to actually roll those slots, so it’s astronomically unlikely. It would be interesting to see a speedrun category that could only be finished using this exploit, and where the wand had to be built legitimately during the previous run. The 2-second one wouldn’t be reasonably possible, but one of the more reasonable ones would.
That’d be particularly interesting since it wouldn’t be about building the perfect wand, just a functional one with what you could find (since even if it was very slow to work, it’d still be faster to make an inefficient one than to keep looking for a perfect one), and would require ridiculous mastery of wand construction to put something together on the fly.