No Crutches

No Crutches
Win a mission without taking a single passive.

Rule: spells and their ranks are allowed. One passive pick breaks the condition; the game checks your build at the win.

Winning route

1. Choose the Warden-Mage for its ranged, homing Arc Bolt and march on the first node of a new expedition — 80 seconds, and the only mission that starts with no passives carried over. In the war-march panel set the stage to Stage 1 / 12; the picker opens on the stage you last started, and later stages are harder on every node. The ground is drawn at random; this run drew Korthveld.
2. Collect experience when the pack leaves an opening. At every draft choose a spell, never a passive. This run took an Arc Bolt rank, Gale Aura, Frost Sigil, then a second Arc Bolt rank.
3. Keep moving around the crowd and step out of marked charge lanes. Survive until the timer runs out with zero passives equipped.
4. Easiest route: the zero-experience run in Nothing to Learn earns this achievement too, since without a level-up there is no passive to take.

Full run

One continuous screen recording from the main menu through the mission, with the actual spell choices, to the earned achievement in the game ledger. Original game music and effects, recorded live; no commentary. The run was played by a scripted test player using only the game's normal controls at a person's pace, not by a person; failed attempts were discarded.

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