Short-term goal was 4th place. I missed that by 10 seconds, because I lost nearly 4 minutes to forgetting where to go in grove OoB.

I don't remember how many deaths there were in cata 1 or 2, but I think there was just one death throughout the cata 3 visits, which is quite good. I did forget to buy iron axehammer for cata 2, but it wasn't the worst thing since you're already set up with rock throw. I got a couple lucky breaks, most importantly the big xp tome and might stone in cata 2 revisit (on that chest I literally was about to say "please have a might stone" and it gave me both...). Getting the cata 2 kill quota and deathgel cores early didn't matter a whole lot because I still wanted the levels from doing it all the way through.

Besides the obvious "don't get lost in grove" from this run specifically, I think my main timesave is still combat. Colossus loses around a minute on its own if I continue doing the dumb cheese fight, but if I avoid dying and have cleaner combat in the other dungeons, then I think I can reasonably get a sub 45?