I started playing FoH Pally when the FoH changes were made. Double Spirit, Stealth, 10 fcr rings, amulet and crafted caster belt was pretty much all I needed to start clearing Chaos Sanctuary on P1. Have Black and rhyme on swap and maybe lifetap wand for Diablo. Easy clearing, rather fast and very very profitable MF runs. Since Pally is doing all the clearing I always choose A1 Mercenary with insight to have mana regen always topped up.
Thats smart af thanks bro for the a1 merc insight idea. Didnt tought of that one. A2 merc is a doofus and half my pots go to him. Need to babysit him like a child. Cheers bro
My best ladder start yet. Appreciate your content. Knowledge helps pushing deeper into hell and not getting burnt out early on when your getting whacked pretty good in the early hell stages; so thanks for your many videos
Thanks for the video with some realistic stuff. I like that there's a few ways to build it, I chose to max FOH/HB/HS and then put remaining points in Fanaticism, since I gave my merc a grief and a hustle. He handles the non-demon and non-undeads. Love it!
I respect the way you play. Some other content creators I know just deck out their characters using last seasons money (forum gold). Thanks for keeping some honest content out here for us.
fellas, any tips on amazon build that can solo hell? stuck on act 3, most things seems light immune. But dont wanna waste a bunch of respecs to go frost or fire and then get stuck on fire or frost immune
The problem I see with the maxed Defiance synergy is that your gear is composed of all normal quality pieces of armor. So your base Defense is pretty low, and you don't get as much from multiplying it to get to a level where the chance of monsters to hit you after max block would be low enough to make a significant difference in survivability. If you would put a bit more points into Strength perhaps, to equip Exceptional or Elite quality pieces of armor, it would multiply a much bigger base Defense to justify 20 hard skill points into Defiance. But I get that a FoHdin is not lacking skill points, so enjoy anyway I guess!
Hey phil a good way to make this guy able to kill everything. Sacrfice the skill gear for some crushing blow and open wounds. Deadly strike is nice but the other two are more necessary. Its not much of a stretch to make a paliden tanky so it works really really well with charge i thought about putting the skills into charge itself but i went with zeal so i could destroy the mobs that are not demons undead. He ends up killing everything really well players 4 and up he can get stomped but the damn amp damage but hey thats only for the very select few you have to melee.
Don't think I ever watched live stream untill now...just so easy watching, down to earth played like we did 20 years ago while taking breaks from team practice for counter strike 1.4. God I'm old:)
The thumbnail is funny i just noticed the gold paint on the paladins zakarum shield in the thumbnail pic are those supposed to be 2 lizard people facing each other 😂
You honestly only keed 1 point into Holy shield and Smite, and then the correct gear in stash to do ubers. Ubers are so easy to do with a Paladin it's almost crazy how much effort it takes for you to be able to do the same with other classes, even a barbarian.
Little late to the party, but personally, in most cases I wouldn't do Stealth on a chain mail or any other armor that has a speed penalty but I guess the paladin can get away with it because of Vigor and Charge, and maybe an Assassin with the speed burst skill (I'm blanking on the name atm). I prefer speed over the defense stat.
@@WarrenPuffetI know what his drop odds and rates are. That has absolutely nothing to do with the fact I’ve PERSONALLY never had him drop anything of worth out of 1000s of runs.
I've always played Fury druid. If you stack a bit of crushing blow and avoid areas with physical immunes (there aren't many), it's tanky and pretty fast.
@@wertyriusLT check maxroll or icyveins for build guides, MrLlama has good videos on TH-cam too with best in slot and starter recommendations. If you're doing solo self found then mid-level runewords like Smoke, Hustle, Lionheart, Bulwark will help. In terms of weapons, I like two-handed weapons and generally use Obedience runeword, of Immortal King ogre maul if I can find it. Good luck!
I have a question that I know Mr Phil won’t answer but someone will. At 66.9 years old I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never killed Baal in Hell despite 3 decades of trying. I now have a 76 Amazon using Lightening Strike and Charged strike and Plague Javelin to deal with the immune Bastiges. So far, Act 1 He’ll everything seems to be fine but I’ve been here before. My plan is to use Plague J. to deal with Lightning immunes. Is this a good idea or stupid. Also, are Lightning Enchanted just more resistant to Lightning damage not immune? My 67th birthday is approaching and I want to kill Baal on that day. Is it possible with my present course of action. Budget gear, offline, but I do have Titans. ?
@@zachsteele6964 yes I finally did with a Hammerdin. I used Smite on that Bastige in the 2nd Wave in the Throne Room. That was the one and only time. I’ll try again with a Javazon eventually. Thanks for asking 🙏
The amount of people that don't realize how incredible treachery is for a mercenary blows my mind. Treachery blows smoke out of the water. Treachery is better then fortitude in a lot of ways. The only downside is you need to wait for it to proc but it happens relatively quickly.
I traded a sur for occy and skullders and i traded a 45 res pally shield for cold sunder and occy i got a white gt waiting for items to roll itbbut i got a 15/3 16/270/5 exceptional version of the giant thresher
The bolts do magic damage so conviction doesnt help. The Initial Lightning damage of FoH is negligible without The synergy, which he didnt get iirc. And its only on the Initial target too. You can use it for a playthrough to kill the acients for example, but then usually spec out of it as your running redemption and dont need to do damage to non undead or demon while you farm. Personally i like using cleansing aura from time to time to get rid of poison and nasty curses but thats optional.
Im runnint fohedin too, similar but have got 25 in conviction for the -150%rez for foh. Havw hoto too, gris armour for mf shako got luxky and found arach. 39 base apirit shield. Found an ohm and finally found a 5 soc base ane got 654 cta 😅😁
Love the video. One thing in particular stands out to me in the video which puzzled me. Diablo in nightmare and in hell has a pocket up close to him where the lightning doesn’t hit, and I’m surprised you weren’t up on him to avoid the lightning damage and instead took it, then moved. You still have to move from firestorm, but the lightning is the real killer from diablo. Note: normal doesn’t have that safe pocket only nm and hell due to how they scaled the size of the attack in nm and hell, it creates that pocket where it starts from.
I did solo self found ofbthe items i traded and im decked out also had a new born so a few lucky finds can get you going quick i can do chaos p2 ez now so ive just been running t zones i can do and 1-3 p terror zones
If you like runnin a lot of chaos sanctuary its a good option to slap a point into the sanctuary aura for lord desais and the occasional oh shit moment.
Playing something like this in offline HC, found a Hand of Blessed Light but have no idea how to socket it. I guess it beats Spirit at least until I can put a Vex together for the HotO right?
I notice you're leaving out that every stream I saw you playing you were in private games with your audience who would leave things laying on the ground incredibly long times for you to grab first. Weird how you leave that out of your explanation of how you got "DECKED OUT" in two days. Edit: He responded with bullshit and then muted me from replying to his reply with evidence.
@@SweetPhil Don't even dignify it with a reply Phil! It's your game to play however, whenever and whoever with. Whether the accusation is true or false (like it matters lol), simple fact is that OG D2 was all about looking after friends and helping them to get the best game experience possible. A lot of people spend real cash on creating a powerful character. Maybe they guy's p'd because he doesn't want to lose his pocket / allowance money 😂
Let's say his party did leave stuff lying around 1) who cares that's the point of playing with a party 2) you act like he has anything on his character that would be considered elite lol. You sound jealous buddy, bad look.
Ooh, ooh, Sweet Phil got a rush so he could film it and share with newer players! That's soooo unfair!!! I wish I had friends and was a successful D2 streamer lol! Also, why say ur blocked from sharing 'evidence'? Unless I'm replying to thin air, it doesn't look like ur blocked to me....
@@kristopherleslie8343 ah yes those were the days lol, doing that same bot stuff over and over. Yeah back in the day I got to 75 in a few days. But 86 is still 11 levels off. Can you do TZ nowadays online as well? (I play on switch, so no online for me)
Sorry for the comments 1 after another just got the baby asleep and she gotta eat every 3 hours. If you do some runs tommrow i am going to do some baal runs
No offence but i don't get what's the fun in that? D2R is only fun maybe the first 2-3 weeks of new season. Rushing it and more or less be bis and done in day 2??? Well just my thoughts. Don't see the fun in that.
its wild. unless youre in a group of 8 that plans to run reset together you have absolutely noooo chance lol i mostly play solo online and this stuff would be way more impressive if it was the same.
Dead game? I'm level 89 on ladder as of this morning and ranked like 14,000 on ladder. I'd wager the number of active players is between 50k and 100k easily.
Lol I actually have better gear than this guy and I've played mainly by myself and with randoms I've never met. I'm not a steamer or youtuber, I just know how to farm efficiently. I also have a gf and go to the gym and am in my 30s lol so lots of adult responsibilities (meaning less time to play). If you farm mephisto cows and travincal early on and efficiently, everything you get is worth crazy amounts of value. Sell all early, wait 2 days and then bam you've got the gear he's wearing. Notable drops I got on day 1: Oculus, vipermagi, 4os monarch, dual res 10fcr ring, 1x cold skill gc, 1x MA gc with life, Ist rune, Um rune, Pul rune, tals mask, eth thresher, multiple lower tier insight bases, multiple spirit bases. Sold all early and now everything is worth half the price, so I have double the value, at least.
I started playing FoH Pally when the FoH changes were made. Double Spirit, Stealth, 10 fcr rings, amulet and crafted caster belt was pretty much all I needed to start clearing Chaos Sanctuary on P1. Have Black and rhyme on swap and maybe lifetap wand for Diablo. Easy clearing, rather fast and very very profitable MF runs.
Since Pally is doing all the clearing I always choose A1 Mercenary with insight to have mana regen always topped up.
Thats smart af thanks bro for the a1 merc insight idea. Didnt tought of that one. A2 merc is a doofus and half my pots go to him. Need to babysit him like a child. Cheers bro
Hey Phil just recently found ya and gotta say you are def top tier D2 content creator with the rest of them and got me back into the game ❤ GG slayer
My best ladder start yet. Appreciate your content. Knowledge helps pushing deeper into hell and not getting burnt out early on when your getting whacked pretty good in the early hell stages; so thanks for your many videos
Thanks for the video with some realistic stuff. I like that there's a few ways to build it, I chose to max FOH/HB/HS and then put remaining points in Fanaticism, since I gave my merc a grief and a hustle. He handles the non-demon and non-undeads. Love it!
Really like this style of video 👍🏼 fun part of reset is getting excited about mid level rune words and gear drops
Hey Phil i was watching you live, love the content keep up the grind!
I respect the way you play. Some other content creators I know just deck out their characters using last seasons money (forum gold). Thanks for keeping some honest content out here for us.
have you tried rebinding the skill keys to more convenient keys on the keyboard?
Nice Phil, some sweet gear and congrats on the rune word roll luck! Good luck farming in S6 and hope you keep finding gg’s as you always do.
How did the yellow Tiara from diablo roll?
If i didn't show it, it was doo doo.
fellas, any tips on amazon build that can solo hell?
stuck on act 3, most things seems light immune. But dont wanna waste a bunch of respecs to go frost or fire and then get stuck on fire or frost immune
The problem I see with the maxed Defiance synergy is that your gear is composed of all normal quality pieces of armor. So your base Defense is pretty low, and you don't get as much from multiplying it to get to a level where the chance of monsters to hit you after max block would be low enough to make a significant difference in survivability.
If you would put a bit more points into Strength perhaps, to equip Exceptional or Elite quality pieces of armor, it would multiply a much bigger base Defense to justify 20 hard skill points into Defiance.
But I get that a FoHdin is not lacking skill points, so enjoy anyway I guess!
Ya the idea is, i will be getting better bases for spirit and body armor runeword and such. Eventually. So defense will ended up higher.
Defiance is trash..... it would be better to max shield bash or lightning res or conviction.
but then again.... streamers either bot, or whale gear
@@zarthemad8386there isn’t a skill called shield bash.
@@kristopherleslie8343 I think he meant to add a few comma's in there.
Hey phil a good way to make this guy able to kill everything. Sacrfice the skill gear for some crushing blow and open wounds. Deadly strike is nice but the other two are more necessary. Its not much of a stretch to make a paliden tanky so it works really really well with charge i thought about putting the skills into charge itself but i went with zeal so i could destroy the mobs that are not demons undead. He ends up killing everything really well players 4 and up he can get stomped but the damn amp damage but hey thats only for the very select few you have to melee.
Don't think I ever watched live stream untill now...just so easy watching, down to earth played like we did 20 years ago while taking breaks from team practice for counter strike 1.4. God I'm old:)
Seeing you not pick up that tiara at the end gave me anxiety. It could be a skiller! Lol.
Wait did the ladder season 6 start?
The thumbnail is funny i just noticed the gold paint on the paladins zakarum shield in the thumbnail pic are those supposed to be 2 lizard people facing each other 😂
You honestly only keed 1 point into Holy shield and Smite, and then the correct gear in stash to do ubers. Ubers are so easy to do with a Paladin it's almost crazy how much effort it takes for you to be able to do the same with other classes, even a barbarian.
Is chain mail the best base for stealth?
Little late to the party, but personally, in most cases I wouldn't do Stealth on a chain mail or any other armor that has a speed penalty but I guess the paladin can get away with it because of Vigor and Charge, and maybe an Assassin with the speed burst skill (I'm blanking on the name atm). I prefer speed over the defense stat.
im finally on hell pindles and losing my mind in the grind...just like 20 years ago :)
I have never had pindle drop anything of worth. Never.
@@qinghai1well his drop pool and odds are available, Pindle a solid farm for the proximity and time it takes.
@@WarrenPuffetI know what his drop odds and rates are. That has absolutely nothing to do with the fact I’ve PERSONALLY never had him drop anything of worth out of 1000s of runs.
Oh man, seeing all these runewords, can´t wait for new season of PD2
Anyone knows a good ladder starter ( lev 70 ) druid ?
I've always played Fury druid. If you stack a bit of crushing blow and avoid areas with physical immunes (there aren't many), it's tanky and pretty fast.
@@greggen63 Can you tell / link build where to more detailed info ?
@@wertyriusLT check maxroll or icyveins for build guides, MrLlama has good videos on TH-cam too with best in slot and starter recommendations.
If you're doing solo self found then mid-level runewords like Smoke, Hustle, Lionheart, Bulwark will help. In terms of weapons, I like two-handed weapons and generally use Obedience runeword, of Immortal King ogre maul if I can find it. Good luck!
I have a question that I know Mr Phil won’t answer but someone will. At 66.9 years old I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never killed Baal in Hell despite 3 decades of trying. I now have a 76 Amazon using Lightening Strike and Charged strike and Plague Javelin to deal with the immune Bastiges. So far, Act 1 He’ll everything seems to be fine but I’ve been here before. My plan is to use Plague J. to deal with Lightning immunes. Is this a good idea or stupid. Also, are Lightning Enchanted just more resistant to Lightning damage not immune? My 67th birthday is approaching and I want to kill Baal on that day. Is it possible with my present course of action. Budget gear, offline, but I do have Titans. ?
Did you ever do it?
@@zachsteele6964 yes I finally did with a Hammerdin. I used Smite on that Bastige in the 2nd Wave in the Throne Room. That was the one and only time. I’ll try again with a Javazon eventually. Thanks for asking 🙏
@@peternowlan5196 hooray
The amount of people that don't realize how incredible treachery is for a mercenary blows my mind. Treachery blows smoke out of the water. Treachery is better then fortitude in a lot of ways. The only downside is you need to wait for it to proc but it happens relatively quickly.
Good job buddy. I start my ladder with my war cry barb for the first time haha its so fun
I traded a sur for occy and skullders and i traded a 45 res pally shield for cold sunder and occy i got a white gt waiting for items to roll itbbut i got a 15/3 16/270/5 exceptional version of the giant thresher
Why not holy shock?
Did you know standing directly at Diablo feet his electric and most of his fire misses your char makes it easy to kill
Why no conviction?
The bolts do magic damage so conviction doesnt help. The Initial Lightning damage of FoH is negligible without The synergy, which he didnt get iirc. And its only on the Initial target too. You can use it for a playthrough to kill the acients for example, but then usually spec out of it as your running redemption and dont need to do damage to non undead or demon while you farm. Personally i like using cleansing aura from time to time to get rid of poison and nasty curses but thats optional.
Im runnint fohedin too, similar but have got 25 in conviction for the -150%rez for foh. Havw hoto too, gris armour for mf shako got luxky and found arach. 39 base apirit shield. Found an ohm and finally found a 5 soc base ane got 654 cta 😅😁
Love the video.
One thing in particular stands out to me in the video which puzzled me.
Diablo in nightmare and in hell has a pocket up close to him where the lightning doesn’t hit, and I’m surprised you weren’t up on him to avoid the lightning damage and instead took it, then moved.
You still have to move from firestorm, but the lightning is the real killer from diablo.
Note: normal doesn’t have that safe pocket only nm and hell due to how they scaled the size of the attack in nm and hell, it creates that pocket where it starts from.
I did solo self found ofbthe items i traded and im decked out also had a new born so a few lucky finds can get you going quick i can do chaos p2 ez now so ive just been running t zones i can do and 1-3 p terror zones
using my own FOHdin and found myself a hand of blessed light. Big help with killing, but i need more fcr
If you like runnin a lot of chaos sanctuary its a good option to slap a point into the sanctuary aura for lord desais and the occasional oh shit moment.
Good my foh 48h , torch , anni , shacko , 2xspirit , wealth , Craft belt , chance guards , boots rare frw magic find , dual fcr res ring and gheed ;p , amu seraphin
If you look on one D2 trade forum , ppl selling eg 100 gul , 10 unid griff , xx ber / jahs, after 48 H , Bots ruind this game -.-
@@vivaldi1739 I suppose Blizzard makes good money with number of paying bot accounts so doesnt care...
Started a character on ladder. Not sure if i can restart. Kinda lazy. Lmao i still play single player though. Letzzz get it.
Playing something like this in offline HC, found a Hand of Blessed Light but have no idea how to socket it. I guess it beats Spirit at least until I can put a Vex together for the HotO right?
YOU DIDNT pick up the white Litch Wand !!!!! wonder if it was a +3+3+3/2sox
Good progress
i d'like to farm Arcane Sactuary with my Foh Paladin too.
good video but i rather max smite then def
How do you get to 86 in 40 hours new player
Thanks for hosting chaos games! Put me on a 🚀 to level 86!
I watch all sweet Phil videos on .5x and he just sounds wasted 😂😂😂
Ohm for a bad sunder!! Thats wild. I took your advice to not rush baal and just farm places like pits but I guess that was a mistake.
Why didn't you id that mat jav? They can be worth a lot if they spawn right.
i've rolled 2 spirits and both rolled 25% FCR 😭😭
also didnt pick up the magic Java from Dia kill... wonder if it was a 6/40
I notice you're leaving out that every stream I saw you playing you were in private games with your audience who would leave things laying on the ground incredibly long times for you to grab first. Weird how you leave that out of your explanation of how you got "DECKED OUT" in two days. Edit: He responded with bullshit and then muted me from replying to his reply with evidence.
Kek
Lol full lie. All I got was one sunder charm in hours of playing with viewers. They got multiple mid runes, sunders, and uniques. Nice try troll.
@@SweetPhil Don't even dignify it with a reply Phil! It's your game to play however, whenever and whoever with. Whether the accusation is true or false (like it matters lol), simple fact is that OG D2 was all about looking after friends and helping them to get the best game experience possible.
A lot of people spend real cash on creating a powerful character. Maybe they guy's p'd because he doesn't want to lose his pocket / allowance money 😂
Let's say his party did leave stuff lying around 1) who cares that's the point of playing with a party 2) you act like he has anything on his character that would be considered elite lol.
You sound jealous buddy, bad look.
Ooh, ooh, Sweet Phil got a rush so he could film it and share with newer players! That's soooo unfair!!! I wish I had friends and was a successful D2 streamer lol!
Also, why say ur blocked from sharing 'evidence'? Unless I'm replying to thin air, it doesn't look like ur blocked to me....
Level 86 in 48 days would be quite a feat. You’d have to be playing fulltime.
Negative all your doing is Baal or chaos runs
@@kristopherleslie8343 ah yes those were the days lol, doing that same bot stuff over and over. Yeah back in the day I got to 75 in a few days. But 86 is still 11 levels off.
Can you do TZ nowadays online as well?
(I play on switch, so no online for me)
@@kosterix123 yes you can
I found a ber rune in maggots L1.
@@kosterix123 my team mate found one in cold plains
The ohm rune for this cold sunder is a scam aha
FOHdin FTW!!
Wauv Phil, that runeword roll luck😮🎉❤
how do people find these high runes? i find crap, more crap and perhaps an ist if im lucky. :(
One Word, D2JSP.
lol i didnt even get to play until like 18h after the reset.. thanks for the 2 am reset on a weekday blizzard..
jsp is how he did it lmao
seems much worse than the prayer stacking version of this build.
I did the same thing with money and FG
Sorry for the comments 1 after another just got the baby asleep and she gotta eat every 3 hours. If you do some runs tommrow i am going to do some baal runs
No offence but i don't get what's the fun in that? D2R is only fun maybe the first 2-3 weeks of new season. Rushing it and more or less be bis and done in day 2??? Well just my thoughts. Don't see the fun in that.
Decked out with alittle help from your viewers. I seen a pair of Unid gore riders fresh from Diablo just sit there until money Phil picked it up.
its wild. unless youre in a group of 8 that plans to run reset together you have absolutely noooo chance lol
i mostly play solo online and this stuff would be way more impressive if it was the same.
ZERO reason to play S6, no updates, no changes, no gem stacking, no rune stacking, just a waste of time re-leveling characters, YAWN!
Go play d3 or d4 .. d2 is perfect as it is
changes or no changes thats still diablo 2 lol was playin lots of season but gets recked pretty early so started playin hc but stuck on d4 now lol
@@mrgrey9584path of exile is closer to d2, its actually enjoyable
reads like a trump tweet
My like took the likes from 420 to 421. 😢
Fd2r
Dead game
Your a dead game.
😂😂😂😂
Some of us just really love this game. I want updates as well, but my interest has not waned.
Blizzard wont invest much time in D2R because doesnt have microtransactions. I liked D2r a lot but its time to let go..
Dead game? I'm level 89 on ladder as of this morning and ranked like 14,000 on ladder. I'd wager the number of active players is between 50k and 100k easily.
Lol I actually have better gear than this guy and I've played mainly by myself and with randoms I've never met. I'm not a steamer or youtuber, I just know how to farm efficiently. I also have a gf and go to the gym and am in my 30s lol so lots of adult responsibilities (meaning less time to play).
If you farm mephisto cows and travincal early on and efficiently, everything you get is worth crazy amounts of value. Sell all early, wait 2 days and then bam you've got the gear he's wearing.
Notable drops I got on day 1: Oculus, vipermagi, 4os monarch, dual res 10fcr ring, 1x cold skill gc, 1x MA gc with life, Ist rune, Um rune, Pul rune, tals mask, eth thresher, multiple lower tier insight bases, multiple spirit bases. Sold all early and now everything is worth half the price, so I have double the value, at least.
Oh this is only a SC lol...
softcore? really?
wghit money
these high runes for bad cold sunder charms is just crazy stupid (what people actually paid for easy to find item, especially with such bad rolls)
i have the goat foh in lod and classic