User:Bumcheekcity
How to Speed up your Hardcore Runs
The purpose of this guide is to show you how to break the fve-day barrier as quickly as possible in hardcore, and to comfortably ascending in 6-7 days each time. My first 5-day ascension was as an Accordian Thief when I had 21 skills, so don't go thinking you'll need 50-70 skills to be able to break the barrier. I did have a lot of shiny toys and Mr. Items though, so it did take a bit of meat to get quick.
Skills
Skills are the first place you should start thinking about. Ultimately you will need consumption skills (so you can play more turns per day), Item Drop skills, skills to survie and skills to gain more stats per battle.
Mr. Items
In this section I talk about items that you can use to speed up your runs. Obviously, in Hardcore you can't pull anything from Hagnk's, but the Familiars you can buy, as well as Tomes, are important.