Banners of Ruin Speedrun Guide

Resources

You can find all the resources needed on speedrun.com.[www.speedrun.com]

Settings

Go to Settings > Gameplay:

Gameplay Speed: Very Fast

Confirm Playing Cards: Uncheck

Characters

You should take 2 Wolves for higher chances to get Strength of Will.

Skills

The most important Skill cards you should have in order and then duplicate them in the same order of importance:

The most important Skill cards you should remove from your base deck in order of importance:

Talents

Mostly forfeit Talent cards that doesn't fit the strategy, this Agnostic Talent is a good alternative to Strength of Will, ignore every other Talent.

Passives

Agnostic Passives available on all characters that you should get in order of importance:

Good alternatives if nothing above is available:

Weapons

Weapons you should have, other choices can be viable like Rondel Dagger:

Fenra's Rapier & Scourge's Hammer are unique weapons you loot when defeating their respective owner. They are the most powerful weapons in the game.

Armour

The only armors you will ever need are Heavy Armor and then if possible stash 2x Superior Heavy Armor for the Noble Quarters:

Encounters

Every encounter cards in order of importance, you can ignore everything that is not in this list. More detailed view on the Banners of Ruin Wiki[banners-of-ruin.fandom.com]

Choice before a boss:

Smithy > Monastery > Tavern

Choice after a boss:

Excellence > Unity > Wealth

Choice in Noble Quarters:

Catacombs > All

XP choices:

Courage > Quick Thinking > Sparring Partner > Intelligence

Remove card choices:

Wishing Well > Over Encumbered > Blackfoot Stash > Boat Merchant > Sage > Smithy's Apprentice

Weapon choices:

Weapon Cache > The Hunter, Fenra > The Hunter, Scourge > Weapon Merchant > Loot

Skill card choices:

Kilderkin > Mentor > Vagrant > Knight Errant > Helping Hand > Merchant In Trouble > Crazy Weasel

Upgrade Token choices:

Black Market > Hidden Gem > Talisman

Other choices if none of the above are available:

Drunken Guards > Altar > High Spirits > Doggedness > Quick Round > Blackfoot Contact

Game Exploits

Game exploits that can improve your time and control the RNG (for version 1.1.19):

1. Weapons & Armours Reset

You can re-roll indefinitely Weapons and Armours by quitting your run and get right back in (by spamming the space bar), when you open the menu to quit you will have a few seconds before the game goes to the next encounter card. You will keep the items you have on your characters and in your inventory. It might cause glitches and slow downs later on but nothing alarming.

2. Weapon Merchant Reset

Same exploit as above for the encounter card "Weapon Merchant" (although you are stuck with the weapon category you have chosen). Once you got what you wanted do the reset one more time without taking any item so you can avoid paying him.

3. Courage Reset

Same exploit as above for "infinite" stamina with the encounter card "Courage", but be careful, if you abuse it one of your characters could die.

4. Prisoners Skip

For The Prince run you can skip the second Prisoners combat by quitting the run and get right back in.

Tips

Keep restarting your run until you get the first encounter card to be Weapons and use the game exploit to get weapons like the Falchion and Great Axe.

I am using a keyboard, a mouse AND an Xbox controller (in my case) to skip turns faster with the X button. I also think that pressing the space bar instead of left click is faster in certain situation.

If you get a Bleeding Upgrade Token then put it on a Red Powder so the Bleeding effect applies to the whole rank.

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This guide was moslty based on the one made by nwgilstr.

Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2718971831

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