This was super entertaining! Poison nova is one of the coolest skills imo, but there sure are a lot of poison resistant enemies in hell 💀 To be honest, after watching this I knocked any poison centric build ideas down a notch on my to-do list 😂
You really need to go all in when it comes to poison necro which is especially hard in SSF/offline since that includes having to find Death's Web in order to really see it pump out damage. Once it's going though, it's a very satisfying build.
@@thenuclearrabbit I think I'm going to attempt to make a bone necro, and see how viable ubers will be on it. I'm addicted to HC and SSF, but I just suck at the game HAHA!
I liked this video a lot, mate! I'm glad to see you finally plowing through the game after a rough start! Please keep making these videos 🙂 Some ideas though: - For bosses and though single enemies in general, your strategy of slowing them to a crawl is excellent. But a good addition could be to apply Crushing Blow with poison dagger strikes. Put a "Strength" Runeword into a dagger, get some blood gloves, and you can have 30-35% already. That would make boss fights a lot faster. - Act 2 mercenaries are really nice for their auras and Insight polearms, but in the early game, barbarian mercs are pretty good at tanking and distracting enemies. The two handed ones have more health than desert mercs, and also have Iron Skin and use taunt to lure damage. With two swords, you can use powerful combos with Coldsteel Eye (unique Cutlass), "Malice", "Strength" and so on. Keep it up, man! 😎👌
Thank you! I will do just that :D Yeah the bossfights could have definitely been improved. But I just didn't get that kind of gear this run unfortunately. I could have grinded for it but I didn't think I needed to. I don't mind being patient for my victories. A barb merc would have worked as well. I just thought it was funny to edit in a bunch of times the merc died. He actually did very well all around :)
I wish poison dagger automatically hit like smite and did all of it's poison damage instantly. But dreams aside ty for your vids, you deserve more views!
Even cutting the length of time for the poison to deal damage and increasing the range of poison explosion would probably help this build a ton. Thank you! Glad you like them
Easiest probably the Griswold ng+ hammerdin. Ubers had some risk but it wasn't mechanically hard to play or anything. Hardest was the Maul bear probably cause I was just so done with that char before it actually got done
@@thenuclearrabbit ah that maul bear video was something else, have you done a summoning druid playthrough yet? If not that'd be a great build to see you run
Cool video! Even an elderly member of a black metal band, poking monsters with a butter knife, was able to complete the game, the Amazon did not... it's very funny)
Yeah that is a big part of it. I also know my maps and builds very well so I always know what I need to move on to the next part. I've also gotten used to beating the game with very budget gear
3:25 Due to this build a bit gimp it woldn't hurt to put 1 or more points into bone prison to lock group of mobs at the point with corpses for a poison explosion AND to prevent necro facing whole pack at once due to lack of AoE and survivability. Actually bone prison is a good spell even for a standard poison nova necro to bind packs while poisoning em.
Congrats! Many years ago I was thinking about poison dagger build, because the dmg was looking interesting in theory... But now I see how wrong I was for all the time. For Duriel the best would be golem + iron maiden. Iron maiden is not that good like before 1.10 but still it can beat melee monsters to dead...
Congrats on the success! 👍 But why not use lower resist curse? It makes the monsters take about 3 times more poison damage and really speeds up the poisonmancer build! And bone prison? It can hold the monsters captive while you use poison nova. Anyway, great vid.🙂
I tried a melee only Necro once. Started out with poison dagger, but the skill is hopeless. Switched to other weapons - Blizzard should let poison dagger work on all bladed weapon - and found Passion was barely cutting it. Biggest problem was AR rather than damage. Had to resort to corpse explosion to make it work at all and eventually switched to poison nova. Necro definitely doesn't have any melee options worth trying IMO. Suggestion - would a bow gemmed with emeralds be valid for this run? Does Amp damage increase poison damage? Might help with those early boss fights. Otherwise my only other suggestion has been mentioned below - to use Strength for the CB.
All weapons would be fun as well. Imagine using poison dagger with a dweb. It might actually become good at that point. Necro has very little build variety even outside of melee. I wish the class had more going on but an entire tree to dedicated support really stifles the creativity and possibilities in builds. Yes but I don't see why you would want a bow. and no it doesn't. For extra poison damage you'd want lower resist. Strength would be good
@@thenuclearrabbit You seem to be able to go face to face with Meph and Diablo in HC Normal and not get killed! For some builds that don't have a ranged attack I use a bow gemmed with emeralds so I can take down the boss at range. Takes a while but is safer. I could be paranoid but I'm sure Amp damage cast on me is doing more than it normally would. Generally, I hate amp damage on me. It often leads to death :(
This was my absolute fav build back in the day. I never found a deaths web... still to this day 😂. Ive traded for many but my ssf grail is missing this item and storm lash.
@thenuclearrabbit yeap never got to it on ssf. On ladder is where I really fell in love with it... deaths web is an absolute game changer also with rabies aswell.
andariel on normal for some reasoon has a 80 poison resist, while nm and hell only have 50, so without lower resist, you hardly deal any poison damage to her. :(
You could do ng+ playtrough with full trang set and a dweb. The cast rate is annoyingly slow. But you can give him max block and zoom like a madman without dying, especially with an hfreeze merc
As long as CS is excluded xD I know its a fire skill and very strong but that's its problem. Its literally so strong every necro just turns in to CE necro
The thing that I love the most in his runs is the references on his characters names. Not the absolute beast that he is clearing the game SSF on HC, not his expertise in the game, not his humor, nothing. EddieBrock. Cuz he's Venom
@@thenuclearrabbit You should! I saw you mentioned it on Zarfen's stream when I watched his video and thought it was awesome you like it. I thought - I have the perfect quote!
1 point into iron maiden and 1 point into clay golem would kill any norm/nm boss easily and safely... Actually, just get those from wand/shield if you don't want to waste points on skills you won't use afterwards!..
@@thenuclearrabbit Oh, sorry ^^' I missed the goal, actually! Was also thinking : "just get poison explo for synergy and use corpse explo, instead" but yeah, if it's a poison-only run, that makes sense ;-)
I remember when i rerolled my summoner necro to poison necro cause i felt like my summoner is so weak in nightmare (i am a noob diablo player and i play it for fun since i was a kid). Oh god was i wrong lol, uninstalled the game after about 15 minutes of playing xD
I just dont understand, there are just two characters I was able to finish HC hell with. And you just take the shitties chars there are and make it look fairly easy :D
@@thenuclearrabbit its one i have never done. I started one and gave up almost immediately after fighting Duriel. I think next go i will try a NG+ with it and see if i can make it work. But i am not in a hurry to try it again lol
I get so stupidly excited for these videos
I'm glad to hear it!
I'm a simple man. I see a new video from TheNuclearRabbit, I watch it!
Thank you!
Same here
You are a true masochist. I've leveled a poison nova necro from 30 and it's pain.
Yeah this got pretty rough at times
This was super entertaining!
Poison nova is one of the coolest skills imo, but there sure are a lot of poison resistant enemies in hell 💀
To be honest, after watching this I knocked any poison centric build ideas down a notch on my to-do list 😂
Thank you!
Haha, I get that.
but sunder charm with lower resist might work
You really need to go all in when it comes to poison necro which is especially hard in SSF/offline since that includes having to find Death's Web in order to really see it pump out damage.
Once it's going though, it's a very satisfying build.
@@The1rust Oh yeah fully decked out poison mancer is one of my favorite farming builds. But it is so rough ssf
Ah thank you for bringing back the good memories of playing this build from scratch and constantly asking myself wtf am I doing wrong?!
The answer is nothing. It's just bad haha
“My mercenary evaporates in the lightning” lmao. That got me. I laughed. And well done using a blessed aim merc. That’s some big brain stuff!
I've been thinking about doing a poison Dagger necro and this helped me decide that if I do it I must have Treachery.
Treachery would be so good. Just going a bit harder on farming gear would probably already help a lot. I mean I used a spineripper up to hell baal.
Man, I simply love these videos. Keep grinding!
Thank you! Will do :)
The good old Ral-Tir-Tal-Sol Spirit Partizan, never change nuke ❤
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Awesome video! The in-depth knowledge you have on this game is insane. I've yet to try a necro on D2R, may avoid making a poison necro!
Poison necro is really fun to spec into at a high level. I love farming pits and cows with it. But it's not the greatest ssf char.
Also, thank you!
@@thenuclearrabbit I think I'm going to attempt to make a bone necro, and see how viable ubers will be on it.
I'm addicted to HC and SSF, but I just suck at the game HAHA!
Bone necro ubers. Wow good luck. I don't even know if that has ever been done
Oh yea this challenge is gonna be awesome to watch 🎉🎉🎉 thx for the grind ❤
No problem thank you for watching!
I liked this video a lot, mate! I'm glad to see you finally plowing through the game after a rough start! Please keep making these videos 🙂 Some ideas though:
- For bosses and though single enemies in general, your strategy of slowing them to a crawl is excellent. But a good addition could be to apply Crushing Blow with poison dagger strikes. Put a "Strength" Runeword into a dagger, get some blood gloves, and you can have 30-35% already. That would make boss fights a lot faster.
- Act 2 mercenaries are really nice for their auras and Insight polearms, but in the early game, barbarian mercs are pretty good at tanking and distracting enemies. The two handed ones have more health than desert mercs, and also have Iron Skin and use taunt to lure damage. With two swords, you can use powerful combos with Coldsteel Eye (unique Cutlass), "Malice", "Strength" and so on.
Keep it up, man! 😎👌
Thank you! I will do just that :D
Yeah the bossfights could have definitely been improved. But I just didn't get that kind of gear this run unfortunately. I could have grinded for it but I didn't think I needed to. I don't mind being patient for my victories.
A barb merc would have worked as well. I just thought it was funny to edit in a bunch of times the merc died. He actually did very well all around :)
Excellent video my dude! That's a monster grind... woof.
Thank you!
It's good to see you again, Hero.
For "pure" poison Necro builds, I like to make a iron golem out of a Bonesnap, or some other weapon with crushing blow for bosses
That would definitely work! I just ended up doing the Clay Golem strategy
"An IV of potions" :))
IV's make you feel nice and help you survive :D
I wish poison dagger automatically hit like smite and did all of it's poison damage instantly. But dreams aside ty for your vids, you deserve more views!
If it does damage instantly, how would you know it's poison?
Even cutting the length of time for the poison to deal damage and increasing the range of poison explosion would probably help this build a ton.
Thank you! Glad you like them
Im glad Zarfen introduced me to you. Good shit, bro! Diablo 2 is a game of a lifetime
Welcome! Hope you enjoy the video's
@@thenuclearrabbit Oh I do, ive got some 97 videos to binge watch the next couple of days. Quality content, thank you so much!
None of this would be possible without people watching. So thank you for watching :)
I've ben waiting for this!
Hope you enjoyed it!
So nice to see this video. I am waiting for a video of Martial Art Assasin HC SSF.
I am working on a Dragon Tail Sin video. It's in Hell currently but it's also turning out to be a very long run so it'll be a bit
Wonderful video as usual nice job
Thank you!
Nice run! I always craft a lifeleach Helm for my Merc at the Start. It helps a lot to Keep him alive.
Good call I didn't think of that
What's the song you have in the background early on in the video (norm Andy)?
I don't recall the exact name (I'm not at my pc). But it's from Earthbound (Snes)
11:25 - when you needa call your husband to crack open that pesky jar lid
In your opinion what was the easiest and hardest runs you've done so far?
Easiest probably the Griswold ng+ hammerdin. Ubers had some risk but it wasn't mechanically hard to play or anything. Hardest was the Maul bear probably cause I was just so done with that char before it actually got done
@@thenuclearrabbit ah that maul bear video was something else, have you done a summoning druid playthrough yet? If not that'd be a great build to see you run
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I've also done summon necro (classic and expansion) and a summon barb :)
Cool video! Even an elderly member of a black metal band, poking monsters with a butter knife, was able to complete the game, the Amazon did not... it's very funny)
Poison Nova and Decrepify do a lot of work. Slow and steady is much stronger than well... the entire spearazon
Hey Rabbit, how long does it take for you to do one playthrou up to Baal Hell? Several days or more like a week ?
Depends on the build. I can do a good build in 10-14 hours. This took me 25 hours to do. But there have been builds that went up to 40 hours
@@thenuclearrabbit rushing most of the game untill farming spots to catch up levels & get geared ?
Yeah that is a big part of it. I also know my maps and builds very well so I always know what I need to move on to the next part. I've also gotten used to beating the game with very budget gear
3:25 Due to this build a bit gimp it woldn't hurt to put 1 or more points into bone prison to lock group of mobs at the point with corpses for a poison explosion AND to prevent necro facing whole pack at once due to lack of AoE and survivability. Actually bone prison is a good spell even for a standard poison nova necro to bind packs while poisoning em.
That would have worked for sure :)
Congrats! Many years ago I was thinking about poison dagger build, because the dmg was looking interesting in theory... But now I see how wrong I was for all the time.
For Duriel the best would be golem + iron maiden. Iron maiden is not that good like before 1.10 but still it can beat melee monsters to dead...
Thank you! It's very challenging but satisfying to complete. Yeah golem+maiden is much better for Duriel but I like staying on theme :)
That Hell Duriel fight.. damn .. 😓
Yeah that was one of the worst Duriel fights I've ever done😅
Congrats on the success! 👍
But why not use lower resist curse? It makes the monsters take about 3 times more poison damage and really speeds up the poisonmancer build!
And bone prison? It can hold the monsters captive while you use poison nova.
Anyway, great vid.🙂
My merc and Golem weren't able to tank the monsters with Lower resist. Bone prison is another way to play this for sure :) Thank you!
Hell yeah! There it is. Thanks
Np :)
I tried a melee only Necro once. Started out with poison dagger, but the skill is hopeless. Switched to other weapons - Blizzard should let poison dagger work on all bladed weapon - and found Passion was barely cutting it. Biggest problem was AR rather than damage. Had to resort to corpse explosion to make it work at all and eventually switched to poison nova.
Necro definitely doesn't have any melee options worth trying IMO.
Suggestion - would a bow gemmed with emeralds be valid for this run? Does Amp damage increase poison damage? Might help with those early boss fights. Otherwise my only other suggestion has been mentioned below - to use Strength for the CB.
All weapons would be fun as well. Imagine using poison dagger with a dweb. It might actually become good at that point.
Necro has very little build variety even outside of melee. I wish the class had more going on but an entire tree to dedicated support really stifles the creativity and possibilities in builds.
Yes but I don't see why you would want a bow. and no it doesn't. For extra poison damage you'd want lower resist. Strength would be good
@@thenuclearrabbit You seem to be able to go face to face with Meph and Diablo in HC Normal and not get killed! For some builds that don't have a ranged attack I use a bow gemmed with emeralds so I can take down the boss at range. Takes a while but is safer.
I could be paranoid but I'm sure Amp damage cast on me is doing more than it normally would. Generally, I hate amp damage on me. It often leads to death :(
This was my absolute fav build back in the day. I never found a deaths web... still to this day 😂. Ive traded for many but my ssf grail is missing this item and storm lash.
I'd give you one if I could I have like 5 of them. The fully decked out version is one of my fav builds as well
@thenuclearrabbit yeap never got to it on ssf. On ladder is where I really fell in love with it... deaths web is an absolute game changer also with rabies aswell.
Ooh I hadn't even thought of that. I like it!
But you do have other damage types! You just go for corpse explosion. Lower resist -> poison nova -> amplify damage -> corpse explosion.
Yeah, but the goal is to be pure poison. So no corpse explosion :) Corpse explosion is better than the entire build on it's own
4:22 enchant helped a lot.
смотрел и слезы на глазах, очень люблю некра с ядом, но вот игра за него это отдельный вид мазахизма )
He is amazing with some good gear though! Thank you for enjoying the video
Wow i always wanted to make a poison necro build for levelling but this vid jist showed me it aint no walk in the park
It is very satisfying when you get it though. And farming for better gear than I had will help a lot
The best place for novamancer is pits. It clears it very fast, and with revive it's literally impossible to die, the revived monsters tank all the dmg
Yeah the novamancer is one of my favorite pitrunners
posion lagger, that is... any plans on conquering classic mode with the amazon?
Absolutely that is still on the list of things to do. Just so many video ideas so little time.
Snes music for the epic finale!
Snes music is the best music
Let's go!
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Nova necro ❤ i love this dude
One of the best
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Ok, but you basically dropped playing with the dagger at the first opportunity :o
I did pick it back up again and used it for bossfights.
Also, can you blame me?
andariel on normal for some reasoon has a 80 poison resist, while nm and hell only have 50, so without lower resist, you hardly deal any poison damage to her. :(
It's so mean :(
"Nothing happens ever but you will win" 😂
You could do ng+ playtrough with full trang set and a dweb. The cast rate is annoyingly slow. But you can give him max block and zoom like a madman without dying, especially with an hfreeze merc
I want to do a bunch of NG+ runs with the Trang set. I think it'd be good for pure poison dagger melee as well
Big time psn damage. Not the best option but nothing to be overlooked at all. I tested him with an infinity hfreeze merc. So firewall did its job too
I want to try a full fire necro as well at some point. Fire golem + trang set seems fun
As long as CS is excluded xD
I know its a fire skill and very strong but that's its problem. Its literally so strong every necro just turns in to CE necro
14:00 Is it Bastion music? :o
Yes
The thing that I love the most in his runs is the references on his characters names. Not the absolute beast that he is clearing the game SSF on HC, not his expertise in the game, not his humor, nothing.
EddieBrock. Cuz he's Venom
No. We are Venom.
@@thenuclearrabbit I am truly, truly sorry!
That's no ordinary rabbit! That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!
😂😂😂
God I havent seen that movie in months I should watch it again
@@thenuclearrabbit You should! I saw you mentioned it on Zarfen's stream when I watched his video and thought it was awesome you like it. I thought - I have the perfect quote!
I love that movie so much I can quote almost the entire thing haha
@@thenuclearrabbit Same brother! I grew up watching a VHS version over and over as a kid
Buy a teleport staff next time to bypass all those pesky barriers
I don't like using teleport staffs
@@thenuclearrabbit why?
I find they create very generic gameplay that allows you to just skip every problematic situation
@@thenuclearrabbit I see your point, but you wouldn't have to use it like that, just to skip the parts that are overtly greivious and time consuming
10:49 I have told you - normal is the hardest 😂
None of this was truely easy though.
1 point into iron maiden and 1 point into clay golem would kill any norm/nm boss easily and safely...
Actually, just get those from wand/shield if you don't want to waste points on skills you won't use afterwards!..
Yes ofcourse it would but iron maiden isn't poison :)
@@thenuclearrabbit Oh, sorry ^^' I missed the goal, actually!
Was also thinking : "just get poison explo for synergy and use corpse explo, instead" but yeah, if it's a poison-only run, that makes sense ;-)
No worries! I just try to go as hard as possible to stay on theme in these runs :)
You can't buy a wand with 2 sockets and + to nova at Drognans
Oh wow. I did not know that. Thank you :)
3:36 isn't normal the hardest? Let's see...
Glad to see you got a win this time. Seems like your last few vids ends with you dying haha.
Oh haha I didn't even notice. But it always feels good to get a hard run done!
Oh haha I didn't even notice. But it always feels good to get a hard run done!
EddieBrock. I get it. I gets jokes.
We are Funny!
wtf he facetanked Duriel...
corpsoison explosion :p
:p
I remember when i rerolled my summoner necro to poison necro cause i felt like my summoner is so weak in nightmare (i am a noob diablo player and i play it for fun since i was a kid). Oh god was i wrong lol, uninstalled the game after about 15 minutes of playing xD
Oof that is rough. But yeah poison necro is not a strong build to play through the game.
I just dont understand, there are just two characters I was able to finish HC hell with. And you just take the shitties chars there are and make it look fairly easy :D
I've been doing these kind of runs for almost 20 years. And I've died tons as well :)
3:34 if you actually beat this game with Poison Dagger, i will be absolutely stunned. It may be the worst damage focused skill in all of D2.
I'll try it at some point but I'm not looking forward to it.
I'll try it at some point but I'm not looking forward to it.
@@thenuclearrabbit its one i have never done. I started one and gave up almost immediately after fighting Duriel. I think next go i will try a NG+ with it and see if i can make it work. But i am not in a hurry to try it again lol
Oh it will do fine in NG+. You just work your way up to a fleshripper (the fanged knife) and then it's smooth sailing.
PS4!!!!!
PS5. But yeah :) My older stuff was recorded on ps4 :)