@@luckyduckfarms591 They put those drops on him originally because sometimes you couldn't get out of his pit there. That was a fucking bug at release, and they never updated his drops after that though. He is basically guaranteed to drop 1, but we all know this game has these issues.
Started my amazon after 10 years not playing D2. It is such a good feeling to come back into the game, step by step. Amazing, thank you so much Llama and D2 Community.
Yeaaaaa, another one! Because of you MrLlama, I was able to initiated my girlfriend to play D2 for the first time, we watch your speedrun together, she really like the amazon so your lets play are the best thing there is to show her how to play and appreciate this wonderful game :) Thank you so much.
Once you get comfortable with vanilla D2 you should try the path of diablo mod if you feel like playing online, alot of stuff was changed slightly so spend a bit of time learning the original game so you understand it more
Love watching this in preparation for Diablo 2: Resurrected! I played this game when I was younger and... realize while watching your videos that I never actually knew it. Thanks!
Just got back into Diablo 2 and I really appreciate you for uploading these! Helps me understand how to play other characters that are not in my comfort zone!
I'd love to see a walkthrough like this with the other characters. I usually play a sorc first to get gear for other future characters, but its nice to see how to get through the game without relying on a mules and trading. So many guides out there only focus on endgame and assume you're getting the best gear or just stumbling upon specific uniques. Its impossible to follow. Really like this kind of content as well as the meme build runs you've been doing lately. The donation alerts aren't that annoying honestly and as long as you can get your points out there it is more than good enough. Also I had a question. As a streamer, do you get tired of being asked the same question over and over again?
This serie was awesome, one of the very very few multi hour videos that I have watched fully in TH-cam. I really hope we get the pally version as well.
Amazon was my first character that I played D2 with but I never managed to complete Hell with her. Watching these playthrough videos have really given me the appetite to get the game installed again as I haven't played it for about 10 years and loved it so much.
Binging these tutorials, Ty so much for helping me back into this game ! Played from 2000-2001 until the 1.10 patch ruined all my builds haha but your content helped me back into everything !
Llama at 2:16:50 "I can just remove that from the youtube video" Me watching on TH-cam: "Oh no, I hope he doesn't remove it, that was funny, youtube people deserve to see it"
I just discovered you could force to respawn different monster types in the area by restarting the game. I thought you need reset it all like difficulty switch.
@@CrysisFear I have played D2 on-off for years and I only found about what "damage goes to mana" actually means watching this video. Damn did I feel like an idiot XD.
Really loving this series and I've been following along with a couple characters now (hammerdin, sorc and amazon). For this one I saw the issues llama had in hell mode though, and went with his recomendation to go for a hybrid build instead. I maxed lightning fury, charged strike, frozen arrow and cold arrow with a couple points into pierce. Got a melody runeword on swap (a double bow without any + to bow skills. Wouldve been MUCH better if I had found +1-3 bow skills) Got a 3socket ptopaz helm and wealth runeword armor for MF while doing runs Farmed NM Baal until lvl 70 and Act 1 Pits + Andariel until 78 to help get my bow damage up (used the bow A LOT in hell, so was worth it) Found 2 sets of rare javs with +2 skills and +30-40 IAS Shopped +2skills+20IAS at NM anya for both bow and jav, and swapped around later depending on the area I was in. Replaced the Peace runeword with Smoke for extra resists. Found decent rings and amus: raven frost from andariel and large resists on other ring + amu (raven frost is great since then you also can't be frozen while using bow) Also found Aldur's boots with 50 fire res and some resist charms Shopped for 100 health belt Found a Whitstan Guard which helped a ton with max block as java (worth noting that resists on shield and great since then you dont have any when you swap to your bow) Finally I got some decent gear for my merc to help tank for me (cryptic axe with strength runeword, thieves helm and duriel's shell armor) But with this setup I was able to progress quite nicely through the game, hopefully that helps somebody!
Mrllama, thank you for keeping this game alive for me. I frequently watch your VODs, and these videos specifically have made the game even more enjoyable. Keep it all up!
I recall in one of your guides you said if stand behind baal he'll only decrep you and not the merc. So I spawned the decoy there and it works too! He only decreps the clone and leaves you and the merc!
Thank you Mr Llamas. Fantastic 'Let's Play'. I recall giving up on my immolation bowazon build 20 years ago 3rd act in nightmare. This inspired me to give the javazon a go!
Tip for Javazons: Nightmare Act 2 defensive Merc (with some decent weapon / lightning res) & Lvl 17 Valkyrie (with extra skills) will get you through any lightning immunity heavy area safely and will also help deal with the ancients. If you're lucky with your lightning res / or even have some absorb (lightsaber, thundergods for example) you can also add in extra damage with your lvl 1 spear skill. Not a lot of extra damage but it will help in case you don't have a teleport ready. I prefer to hit hell with lvl 70 and thus have a few more skills to put into valk at that point.
Personal Bookmark: 16:20 - tower time! 29:36 - going through all the runewords for new characters. 45:22 - WTF?! a Lem rune?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? I have farmed a week for now on Act 1 Hell, no Lem is found... 1:44:10 - this game becomes a horror game in hell Act 3 for javazon. 1:45:00 - time for the A2 mercenary, more details about it at this timemark
I remember when I got my Ethereal Titan's Revenge in Kurast Sewer in Nightmare difficulty. I screamed like a moron. Good old times. Makes me want to scavenge my old harddrive again to get the save file.
It's fascinating to me that people can stay upbeat and entertained playing old games like this over and over and over. Not hating.....genuinely fascinated.
@@NewSorpigal1 I really don't think that is a relative comparison. The graphics are terrible by todays standards. The movement is terrible by todays standards. I've played arpg's long enough to know that the tactile feel of the combat is of paramount importance. Losing yourself in the lore and aesthetics is a close second. Neither of which is possible in D2. Maybe in the 90's but not today. Our brains understand the difference, hence my fascination.
@@NewSorpigal1 I understand the depth of D2 as I played it back in the 90's. I'm now a POE guy and it has plenty of depth. Of coarse these are my opinions, I never implied otherwise. This would be a helluva sparse comment section without them.
Hello! Thank you for this magnificent work, I took a speedrunner approach, without farming. Just countess on normal and nightmare, didnt killed a single boss more than once. I was playing plugy tho so everything was in my chest. So my thoughts about a game: nightmare was easier than normal. Hell was a fking HELL. I had so much fun with ancients, I didnt have any armor/helm or runes that I could give my merc, he was dying so quickly. I respeced to max valkyrie at ancients which killed me maany times, I runned ancients way like 20 times this game, on succesful run I dropped horadric cube and forgot to take >
1:14:00 different immunbreakers are only 1/5 effective when above 100 res so i will not expect higher level curse will break'em, beetles got ~115 res or higher so conviction aura is a thing we need.
Damn the brutality of Hell especially after Act 3 is insane. But nicely done MrLlama, you showed that us normal people can beat the game not so dependant on gear, just by doing good resource management, knowing what to kill and avoid, and where to put your talents effectively. Waiting for the other classes' guides!
Ya Hell gets really nasty... That being said, this is where farming a bit higher on nightmare baal, farming the bosses for gear, etc all really help out! For the sake of time I didn't do this but for those playing a little more casually that's a great way to avoid these hurdles
This might be stupid answer but i was looking into diablo 2's excel tables and a thing about curses is: they have just higher level in higher difficulty. The longer duration corresponds a bigger necro skill level, and a skill level does not exponentially grow between NM and hell (i do not remember the exact values) so i think a reason to be "cursed for the rest of the run" there is mainly because of larger amount of bosses and 3 (4 for SE) mods on bosses.
Going through the hell maggot lair with the javazon was maybe the most painful experience I've ever had in this game. I'm impressed he did it so quickly
Thanks for your Lets plays - Just played through the game my first time SSF with PlugY ... Though hell reminded me why i always stopped playing this game in hell.... In my Opinion the Immunities are the one of the worst game design decisions of all ARPG history. Its just not fun having to skip alot of mobs and needing gearswaps to clear at least a few immunities + having to reset areas over and over. I Know there are a few runewords that can deal with that, but until you get them youre anyways through the game already. The Hell Portion of my own Playthrough was just a "i wanna finish this" kinda thing, and it was not nearly as fun as Nightmare was. I Ended up playing Hybrid with the Cold-Damage-Arrows but took years to kill mobs with that. The immunities dont add difficulty, they just kill a lot of the fun there would be without them. In total it was very fun, but the endgame of D3 and PoE are way more enjoyable. I Hope there will be a good endgame without immunities in D4. Thanks again - You're awesome i hope you keep on doing well
Yeah, Hell is between boring and frustrating. Idk what they had in mind, but then again it's not like Blizz could foresee that twenty years later we'd be grinding this game like crazy. I guess they either didn't really test the sp portion of game having in mind that multiplayer might be more important, maybe they were unable to make the game challenging in some other way. idk. But it still sucks.
Hi, I've always wanted to try the Amazon but she was a bit intimidating imo, but I jumped on-board with your let's play through and I'm enjoying a lot the char. I can't find the Titan's but found an insane item for sorc it's an orb +2cold skills +3bliz Good luck for mang song, I wish you the best
Hey llama just thought of a cool series idea where you create a plugy universe where the end goal is to get all characters to an endgame build. Give you the option of what class you want to play any given day and gives us the grind to end game builds on all characters :) just a thought. Love your content!
Are you going to do some end game runs and farming once you've rounded up all the classes? I would love to see your perspective on that! Either way, loving it (now back to finishing up the NM video)
Look up his grail sorc. its been a running series for several years now, but you can see what ultra late game grinds and maxxed out characters look like. his sorc is a little insane
I tend to kill everything, open every container, explore everything on 1st play throughs. You don't even bother to get all the waypoints. My ocd can't handle it!
I loved the Lets Play, even though it still felt a bit like a speedrun. But I guess that was expected with a character using flat dmg skills. I would really like to see you do the same with a wolf/bear druid. I thing it would be really interesing to see what weappons and runewords you will use, as the druid would depend much more on his gear.
Call it what you want, but I can't seem to get plugy to work on my "diablo2 laptop" but hero editor and go mule work fine. So what I do is use hero editor for a few things and go mule to transfer stashes. I use hero editor to create and design things like insight and enigma, however I find the runes or gear before I do that. I also use hero editor for my holy trail because I have to export all of my items into a grail folder because I can't hold them in my stash. I will however allow myself to loan an item or two if I need it. I always use a javazon for my grail because sorcs are boring in my opinion, which you NEED an infinity, I just can't seem to beat hell without one. And since javazons cannot stack MF well I might add 100mf to a couple charms that are in my stash so that I can effectively magic find on my favorite character. It can be really fun to mess around with putting random skills on characters that they don't normally have but if your just building op busted gear that can't even spawn I don't see how that can be fun.
this is what i comment above, don´t kill anything, my baba 96 lvl kicks ALL asses, killer souls, burning/black souls, Lords of the Death or Moon, viperine magus, skeletons, anykind of undeads, beatles etc. and sometimes i'm alone because my merc dies. I use just 1 portal pergamine and 4 mana pocions, 8 life pocions and 4 purple full pocions.
Fastest route to lvl 99 (if lvl95 is your goal, just follow this but do Ancients on lvl94). 1. Do not do Hell Ancients until lvl98 2. Do tons of Chaos runs (mostly players1, but for Diablo players7) until lvl98 (or to lvl99) 3. Do tons of Nihlathak runs until lvl98 (or to lvl99), without dying of course (not for all builds is this a good option!) If you don't want to use /playersx command, farming XP Shrines will be a thing. This will still take insane amount of time... If you are on bnet, whole another story, get a team that will kill seal bosses in Chaos and Baal waves 1-2-3 for you then you join and do the Diablo and wave 4-5-Baal killing and then you just jump games that your teammates are creating. Also Ondal's Wisdom can help if it fits your charbuild and a good Annihilus charm.
MrLlamaSC @ 1:06:19 on D2R "We'll have to see about that. Maybe it comes... Maybe". You knew back in Nov 2019?? You can't hide that smirk behind your microphone!
First time passed all difficulties without single death in a single player PvM - solved this by having javazon. I was inspired by your video :) Did couple things differently: I first maxed lighting fury and charged strike, then maxed out valkyire, after valkyire was maxed put the rest to lighting strike to further boost fury and charged strike. Spent some time to get Sanctuary off of 3-socket dragon shield and found some immortal king equipment that I took along the way (mostly for increased strength, resistances, IAS and 40% walk speed). Didn't find the Titan's Revenge, so I had to stick to some random Matriarchial Javelin with +2 to javelin skills and a massive enhanced damage boost - and that's it! Immortal king gear is what helped me to equip it (gauntlets, belt and boots). As far as other stuff is concerned - still had crappy lore and stealth I got early in the game. Instead of holy freeze I took Might merc (it had +skills on his gear to increase an effect of might aura) - and that adds a lot of damage to physical attacks of my maxed valkyire and javazon, so even Ancients weren't that big of a deal. I also used decoy a lot to lure enemies to it first before touching merc and valkyire. In the end of the day, I think it is due to Sanctuary and its massive defensive boost that I didn't die - as I didn't pay attention to enchanted monsters and a few times it was close - all I had is a red line on the health bar. It is unfortunate that single player doesn't provide access to thunderstroke and spirit. Is there actually any chance to get Titan's in non-ladder setting?
I keep getting a million zealots at travincal, impossible to get to the counsil members :'( Thanks for the guides Llama! I started playing again after about 13years of doing vanilla, still LOVE it
I enjoyed this let´s play very much! Seeing as you got a ton of druid drops, perhaps you could consider doing the next let´s play on a druid? Especially a werewolf druid would be so awesome, it´s my favorite out of all D2 classes/specs.
1:52:22 thank you for this! i was skipping some of your lessons because the video is too damn long so i have to watch it again and look on why i keep dying to those ghost bastards.
I finished to watch your all Normal, NM and Hell amazon let's play! ~15h is long but damn was worth it! Thanks a lot to share this kind of format as it's simply amazing to learn the game! That said i still have 1 question left, you probably won't see since the video is over a year old but ho well... You say we can dual spec lightning dmg + either Freezing Arrow or Exploding Arrow but you never mentioned Plague Javelin, is this skill too bad?
Really enjoyed playing along with this, even though i'm kinda stuck at Hell act3 gonna try and get to lower kurast and use Those super chest strats or go back and farm Andy for some better gear. Can't wait for the next play along with a Paladin or a sorc
Ya Act 3 hell might be the hardest part of the game for the amazon. Definitely a time to upgrade gear, take it slow, get a merc/valk strong enough and walk through it slowly, etc
Llama, you are the god of D2, the lord of knowledge and the king of speedrunning... But why arent you right clicking when you buy something in shop? I see that you dubble left click and get that "Buy: xxx, Gold: xxx, yes/no" messeage. Is it some keybinding that trigger this or is it just a bad habbit?
I tried looking up what item that set light plate was, but its confusing, the wiki seems to think its Naj's Light Plate, but that item actually isn't light plate, its hellforge plate...
I think you should mention /nopickup on the next one of these you do. I'd also put in my request that Paladin be next because that's what I'm going to be playing next, but more seriously I think you should do Sorceress next to cover the people that want to play a pure caster.
hi, could you do a "Let's play" on a Sorc? I'm having trouble to pick the moment I need to respec... :( Btw, great videos on the Amazon, I'm totally into playing her now ^^
@@ShredzZzZ currently it's a nova sorc - but at the end of act 2 on NM, im not dealing enough dmg. Gear isnt that bad - Lore, Stealth, shield with good resists etc. Also i've got a lot of FCR
@@iliyaatanasov9123 hmm im not sure nova is worth using in vanilla d2 on later difficulties, if youre going light i think its best to go down the middle skill tree. You can also look at hybrid sorcs too, if immunes are becoming a problem
@@ShredzZzZ yeah, i might go meteorb, just like i always did back in the day, but i saw llama going for nova, and i've decided to try it. thanks for your help, although i'd love to watch a Let's play on a sorc. =]
Please do a Skelly summoner play along through hell next. Reason being, it is n00b friendly, fairly gear independent build that is considered difficult in Hell....be good to see how you take him through the 3 difficulties. Would be a good template for a starter farming build for many beginners
I benched my peace and am using my dead merc Treachery and I'm guessing Venom damage to get through ActIII. It's working to kill the insects and flayer types
Hey MrLlama, what do you think about immunities in D2? Are they a required game mechanic? Would you like them to exist in D4? Could you please share your thoughts about them? I'm really curious. For me they punish my chosen build way too hard but im D2 noob so waiting for your insight, thanks!
*Attention guys: Running from Act III town to the spider forest portal takes more than 2 hours and died more than 30 or more times, with the same gear Mr Llamasc used. When character holds a teleport staff without shield it dies very fast.
Watching these makes me want to play again, until I watch the hell games. Whoever thought that spell immunity was a good idea in single player, over several patches, should be tarred and feathered.
@MrLlamaSC Hey, recently your mic is much further away. Look at this video the sound is awesome and you do not "hear the room" at all. Is there a reason you moved the mic away in you latest streams/videos? You get a lot of "sound trolling" in your streams so I did not want to write in your chat in one of your streams. Yet I want you to let you know that you can improve your sound by just setting up your mic a little closer. Thank you for your content.
Yeah, that's basically what she does. There is a set map for the last floor of the Tower, as there is for 4th catacombs, Chaos sanc., etc, but she stays near the room opposite of the entrance to the 5th floor.
I play in Nightmare as a Hybrid until I find either Titans or a good Bow (hopefully Witchwild). Then I respec to the appropriate build. Dodge and Evade don't stop you lol. Your character is not well built if that happens. I've not lost a high level Zon since Iron Maiden was removed, because you use Stone Armor, and a Defiance merc, and you use Sanctuary shield, all easy to make, and boom, you have a 10% chance of being hit or something. There's no reason to worry about. You can see your Valk occasionally get locked for a moment or two, but I've never even come close to dying, the monsters have to hit you first, and as annoying as archers are, I've not had any issues there either. You just cast decoy and LF them, toast.
After my 3rd failed attempt to go through the Maggot lair with Amazon, I just went and bought teleport staff from Drognan lmao :D I guess it's called "Hell Difficulty" for a reason.
hey MrLlama, i saw that you had quickly brought up 6/40 javelins -- i have been looking for these now what feels like eternity - do you know if you can shop for them or am i completely at the mercy of RNG to ever find a pair?
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If your ever in need of tp and id scrolls, just farm hell duriel, its the most effecient boss to grind
once duriel dropped 5 Town portals, that's it- wow
@@stevejeffrey11 just happened to me, too lol. Weirdest drop ever
@@luckyduckfarms591 They put those drops on him originally because sometimes you couldn't get out of his pit there. That was a fucking bug at release, and they never updated his drops after that though. He is basically guaranteed to drop 1, but we all know this game has these issues.
TPs could be worth a lot in the 2020s
What are you slow? You can buy them from a vendor dummy...
That's right. I came here after a year to troll bait someone. I need help.
29:13 Going over good Runewords
53:57 Drop calculator
1:04:29 Shop Act 2 Normal for 2 socket armor for Treachery
2:53:12 Amazon gear to look for
Oh no... You are killing me... Now i downloaded lod and will play all night long... Haha am a mum of 2... Tomorrow will be a looooong day for me
Dad of 4. I know the felling. No sleep d2r
MrLlama: You can drop up to Zod in Cow Level
Me: *goes to farm cows*
Cows: *drop one El rune*
😂😂😅
Literally just happened to me
hilariously, if you look at how the game calculates rune drops, el is almost as unlikely to drop from a hell cow as a zod.
@@Reztiips In my experience El rune is a rare drop only when you actually need it
@John Smith if you did hell cows you killed baal, in which case you could as well farm A4/5
Started my amazon after 10 years not playing D2. It is such a good feeling to come back into the game, step by step. Amazing, thank you so much Llama and D2 Community.
Same story here! Thanks Llama!
Loving the "Let's Play Diablo 2" videos! Looking forward to seeing more of these with different classes :)
Yeaaaaa, another one! Because of you MrLlama, I was able to initiated my girlfriend to play D2 for the first time, we watch your speedrun together, she really like the amazon so your lets play are the best thing there is to show her how to play and appreciate this wonderful game :) Thank you so much.
9 months now, I wonder if your GF got through hell yet? LoL
only recently got really into d2. as a newcomer, this is much appreciated for anyone who is starting out.
you're a God Llama
Once you get comfortable with vanilla D2 you should try the path of diablo mod if you feel like playing online, alot of stuff was changed slightly so spend a bit of time learning the original game so you understand it more
Love watching this in preparation for Diablo 2: Resurrected! I played this game when I was younger and... realize while watching your videos that I never actually knew it. Thanks!
Got back into D2 after seeing these vids. Having great fun following along. You are great at explaining things. Awesome series. Thanks.
Just got back into Diablo 2 and I really appreciate you for uploading these! Helps me understand how to play other characters that are not in my comfort zone!
I'd love to see a walkthrough like this with the other characters. I usually play a sorc first to get gear for other future characters, but its nice to see how to get through the game without relying on a mules and trading. So many guides out there only focus on endgame and assume you're getting the best gear or just stumbling upon specific uniques. Its impossible to follow.
Really like this kind of content as well as the meme build runs you've been doing lately. The donation alerts aren't that annoying honestly and as long as you can get your points out there it is more than good enough.
Also I had a question. As a streamer, do you get tired of being asked the same question over and over again?
This serie was awesome, one of the very very few multi hour videos that I have watched fully in TH-cam. I really hope we get the pally version as well.
Whenever you teleport, a Leharas is saved somewhere
Amazon was my first character that I played D2 with but I never managed to complete Hell with her. Watching these playthrough videos have really given me the appetite to get the game installed again as I haven't played it for about 10 years and loved it so much.
Binging these tutorials, Ty so much for helping me back into this game ! Played from 2000-2001 until the 1.10 patch ruined all my builds haha but your content helped me back into everything !
I just beat Diablo 2 hell difficulty for the first time ever thanks to mrllama. Getting a level 17 valkyrie was EXCELLENT advice!
This has helped me finally get a zon thru hell
Llama at 2:16:50 "I can just remove that from the youtube video"
Me watching on TH-cam: "Oh no, I hope he doesn't remove it, that was funny, youtube people deserve to see it"
2:29:17 D2 is still great in 2023 :)
i cant keep up he is too good.. im still act1 normal
Its 2019 and i just found out the Andy bug...
I just discovered you could force to respawn different monster types in the area by restarting the game. I thought you need reset it all like difficulty switch.
@@CrysisFear I have played D2 on-off for years and I only found about what "damage goes to mana" actually means watching this video. Damn did I feel like an idiot XD.
Hey streamer, do you ever get tired of getting asked the same questions all the time?
Haha imagine he heard that question before 😂
Really loving this series and I've been following along with a couple characters now (hammerdin, sorc and amazon). For this one I saw the issues llama had in hell mode though, and went with his recomendation to go for a hybrid build instead.
I maxed lightning fury, charged strike, frozen arrow and cold arrow with a couple points into pierce.
Got a melody runeword on swap (a double bow without any + to bow skills. Wouldve been MUCH better if I had found +1-3 bow skills)
Got a 3socket ptopaz helm and wealth runeword armor for MF while doing runs
Farmed NM Baal until lvl 70 and Act 1 Pits + Andariel until 78 to help get my bow damage up (used the bow A LOT in hell, so was worth it)
Found 2 sets of rare javs with +2 skills and +30-40 IAS
Shopped +2skills+20IAS at NM anya for both bow and jav, and swapped around later depending on the area I was in.
Replaced the Peace runeword with Smoke for extra resists.
Found decent rings and amus: raven frost from andariel and large resists on other ring + amu (raven frost is great since then you also can't be frozen while using bow)
Also found Aldur's boots with 50 fire res and some resist charms
Shopped for 100 health belt
Found a Whitstan Guard which helped a ton with max block as java (worth noting that resists on shield and great since then you dont have any when you swap to your bow)
Finally I got some decent gear for my merc to help tank for me (cryptic axe with strength runeword, thieves helm and duriel's shell armor)
But with this setup I was able to progress quite nicely through the game, hopefully that helps somebody!
When I was playing D2 as a child, I never realised you could just run past imune monsters. I was clubing them for half an hour, 1 HP at a time.
Mrllama,
thank you for keeping this game alive for me. I frequently watch your VODs, and these videos specifically have made the game even more enjoyable. Keep it all up!
I recall in one of your guides you said if stand behind baal he'll only decrep you and not the merc. So I spawned the decoy there and it works too! He only decreps the clone and leaves you and the merc!
Thank you Mr Llamas. Fantastic 'Let's Play'. I recall giving up on my immolation bowazon build 20 years ago 3rd act in nightmare. This inspired me to give the javazon a go!
Tip for Javazons: Nightmare Act 2 defensive Merc (with some decent weapon / lightning res) & Lvl 17 Valkyrie (with extra skills) will get you through any lightning immunity heavy area safely and will also help deal with the ancients. If you're lucky with your lightning res / or even have some absorb (lightsaber, thundergods for example) you can also add in extra damage with your lvl 1 spear skill. Not a lot of extra damage but it will help in case you don't have a teleport ready.
I prefer to hit hell with lvl 70 and thus have a few more skills to put into valk at that point.
Personal Bookmark:
16:20 - tower time!
29:36 - going through all the runewords for new characters.
45:22 - WTF?! a Lem rune?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? I have farmed a week for now on Act 1 Hell, no Lem is found...
1:44:10 - this game becomes a horror game in hell Act 3 for javazon.
1:45:00 - time for the A2 mercenary, more details about it at this timemark
I've learned here: Andariel, Duriel, Mephisto and Diablo are weakest enemies in whole hell difficulty.
I remember when I got my Ethereal Titan's Revenge in Kurast Sewer in Nightmare difficulty. I screamed like a moron. Good old times. Makes me want to scavenge my old harddrive again to get the save file.
It's fascinating to me that people can stay upbeat and entertained playing old games like this over and over and over. Not hating.....genuinely fascinated.
@@NewSorpigal1 I really don't think that is a relative comparison. The graphics are terrible by todays standards. The movement is terrible by todays standards. I've played arpg's long enough to know that the tactile feel of the combat is of paramount importance. Losing yourself in the lore and aesthetics is a close second. Neither of which is possible in D2. Maybe in the 90's but not today. Our brains understand the difference, hence my fascination.
@@NewSorpigal1 I understand the depth of D2 as I played it back in the 90's. I'm now a POE guy and it has plenty of depth.
Of coarse these are my opinions, I never implied otherwise. This would be a helluva sparse comment section without them.
@@NewSorpigal1 You as well......im still fascinated though. Haha
Hello! Thank you for this magnificent work, I took a speedrunner approach, without farming. Just countess on normal and nightmare, didnt killed a single boss more than once. I was playing plugy tho so everything was in my chest. So my thoughts about a game:
nightmare was easier than normal. Hell was a fking HELL. I had so much fun with ancients, I didnt have any armor/helm or runes that I could give my merc, he was dying so quickly. I respeced to max valkyrie at ancients which killed me maany times, I runned ancients way like 20 times this game, on succesful run I dropped horadric cube and forgot to take >
1:14:00 different immunbreakers are only 1/5 effective when above 100 res so i will not expect higher level curse will break'em, beetles got ~115 res or higher so conviction aura is a thing we need.
Damn the brutality of Hell especially after Act 3 is insane. But nicely done MrLlama, you showed that us normal people can beat the game not so dependant on gear, just by doing good resource management, knowing what to kill and avoid, and where to put your talents effectively.
Waiting for the other classes' guides!
Ya Hell gets really nasty...
That being said, this is where farming a bit higher on nightmare baal, farming the bosses for gear, etc all really help out! For the sake of time I didn't do this but for those playing a little more casually that's a great way to avoid these hurdles
This might be stupid answer but i was looking into diablo 2's excel tables and a thing about curses is: they have just higher level in higher difficulty. The longer duration corresponds a bigger necro skill level, and a skill level does not exponentially grow between NM and hell (i do not remember the exact values) so i think a reason to be "cursed for the rest of the run" there is mainly because of larger amount of bosses and 3 (4 for SE) mods on bosses.
Going through the hell maggot lair with the javazon was maybe the most painful experience I've ever had in this game. I'm impressed he did it so quickly
Ugh and act 3 is even worse.
Can you remake this video in d2r? I think poison/lightning javazon will be viable. Please and thank you in advance.
Thanks for your Lets plays - Just played through the game my first time SSF with PlugY ... Though hell reminded me why i always stopped playing this game in hell.... In my Opinion the Immunities are the one of the worst game design decisions of all ARPG history. Its just not fun having to skip alot of mobs and needing gearswaps to clear at least a few immunities + having to reset areas over and over. I Know there are a few runewords that can deal with that, but until you get them youre anyways through the game already. The Hell Portion of my own Playthrough was just a "i wanna finish this" kinda thing, and it was not nearly as fun as Nightmare was. I Ended up playing Hybrid with the Cold-Damage-Arrows but took years to kill mobs with that. The immunities dont add difficulty, they just kill a lot of the fun there would be without them. In total it was very fun, but the endgame of D3 and PoE are way more enjoyable. I Hope there will be a good endgame without immunities in D4. Thanks again - You're awesome i hope you keep on doing well
Yeah, Hell is between boring and frustrating. Idk what they had in mind, but then again it's not like Blizz could foresee that twenty years later we'd be grinding this game like crazy. I guess they either didn't really test the sp portion of game having in mind that multiplayer might be more important, maybe they were unable to make the game challenging in some other way. idk. But it still sucks.
Hi, I've always wanted to try the Amazon but she was a bit intimidating imo, but I jumped on-board with your let's play through and I'm enjoying a lot the char. I can't find the Titan's but found an insane item for sorc it's an orb +2cold skills +3bliz
Good luck for mang song, I wish you the best
I can’t find Titans either. Lvl 79.
Thanks MrLlamaSC for the "tutorial" -> otherwise I still would try to get my javazon out act three im 2047.
Dude I cannot stop laughing at the Duriel Quest drop. What a reward, I guess the wiz pike was supposed to be your drop!
Hey llama just thought of a cool series idea where you create a plugy universe where the end goal is to get all characters to an endgame build. Give you the option of what class you want to play any given day and gives us the grind to end game builds on all characters :) just a thought. Love your content!
3:51:09 only nonagon infinity could do it. nice content by the way, loving these new videos
Just finished maggot lair with lightning javazon. It was abysmal and basically put decoy, run, teleport, get trapped, reset :D it took quite a while
Been enjoying this amazon playthrough/lecture over the past couple days. Hope you do Paladin next!
Looks like paladin is most likely going to be next!
@@MrLlamaSC I'm so excited! Just saw the normal run pop up on my subscription feed. Gonna tuck into it once I'm done watching Hell Amazon.
Are you going to do some end game runs and farming once you've rounded up all the classes? I would love to see your perspective on that! Either way, loving it (now back to finishing up the NM video)
Look up his grail sorc. its been a running series for several years now, but you can see what ultra late game grinds and maxxed out characters look like. his sorc is a little insane
I tend to kill everything, open every container, explore everything on 1st play throughs. You don't even bother to get all the waypoints. My ocd can't handle it!
Thynqikan same as me i thought I was the only one lmao my ocd.... Icant xD
I loved the Lets Play, even though it still felt a bit like a speedrun. But I guess that was expected with a character using flat dmg skills. I would really like to see you do the same with a wolf/bear druid. I thing it would be really interesing to see what weappons and runewords you will use, as the druid would depend much more on his gear.
Please tell me there's a new class coming up
Call it what you want, but I can't seem to get plugy to work on my "diablo2 laptop" but hero editor and go mule work fine. So what I do is use hero editor for a few things and go mule to transfer stashes. I use hero editor to create and design things like insight and enigma, however I find the runes or gear before I do that. I also use hero editor for my holy trail because I have to export all of my items into a grail folder because I can't hold them in my stash. I will however allow myself to loan an item or two if I need it. I always use a javazon for my grail because sorcs are boring in my opinion, which you NEED an infinity, I just can't seem to beat hell without one. And since javazons cannot stack MF well I might add 100mf to a couple charms that are in my stash so that I can effectively magic find on my favorite character. It can be really fun to mess around with putting random skills on characters that they don't normally have but if your just building op busted gear that can't even spawn I don't see how that can be fun.
man, we SHOULD to repeat this in the d2r, especially the flayer jungle :)
Just finished part 1 yesterday and part 2 awhile ago ❤️❤️❤️
How to play Hell mode in D2: run. run from everything.
this is what i comment above, don´t kill anything, my baba 96 lvl kicks ALL asses, killer souls, burning/black souls, Lords of the Death or Moon, viperine magus, skeletons, anykind of undeads, beatles etc. and sometimes i'm alone because my merc dies. I use just 1 portal pergamine and 4 mana pocions, 8 life pocions and 4 purple full pocions.
run! run! noobie! run! kkkkkkk
Awesome, could you do a guide on how to level up fast post game until 95? Like P8 Chaos or P8 Stony Field/Tristram? Thx man!
Fastest route to lvl 99 (if lvl95 is your goal, just follow this but do Ancients on lvl94).
1. Do not do Hell Ancients until lvl98
2. Do tons of Chaos runs (mostly players1, but for Diablo players7) until lvl98 (or to lvl99)
3. Do tons of Nihlathak runs until lvl98 (or to lvl99), without dying of course (not for all builds is this a good option!)
If you don't want to use /playersx command, farming XP Shrines will be a thing.
This will still take insane amount of time...
If you are on bnet, whole another story, get a team that will kill seal bosses in Chaos and Baal waves 1-2-3 for you then you join and do the Diablo and wave 4-5-Baal killing and then you just jump games that your teammates are creating.
Also Ondal's Wisdom can help if it fits your charbuild and a good Annihilus charm.
MrLlamaSC @ 1:06:19 on D2R "We'll have to see about that. Maybe it comes... Maybe". You knew back in Nov 2019?? You can't hide that smirk behind your microphone!
First time passed all difficulties without single death in a single player PvM - solved this by having javazon. I was inspired by your video :)
Did couple things differently: I first maxed lighting fury and charged strike, then maxed out valkyire, after valkyire was maxed put the rest to lighting strike to further boost fury and charged strike. Spent some time to get Sanctuary off of 3-socket dragon shield and found some immortal king equipment that I took along the way (mostly for increased strength, resistances, IAS and 40% walk speed). Didn't find the Titan's Revenge, so I had to stick to some random Matriarchial Javelin with +2 to javelin skills and a massive enhanced damage boost - and that's it! Immortal king gear is what helped me to equip it (gauntlets, belt and boots). As far as other stuff is concerned - still had crappy lore and stealth I got early in the game. Instead of holy freeze I took Might merc (it had +skills on his gear to increase an effect of might aura) - and that adds a lot of damage to physical attacks of my maxed valkyire and javazon, so even Ancients weren't that big of a deal. I also used decoy a lot to lure enemies to it first before touching merc and valkyire. In the end of the day, I think it is due to Sanctuary and its massive defensive boost that I didn't die - as I didn't pay attention to enchanted monsters and a few times it was close - all I had is a red line on the health bar.
It is unfortunate that single player doesn't provide access to thunderstroke and spirit. Is there actually any chance to get Titan's in non-ladder setting?
you can get all the ladder uniques. you just can't get ladder runewords
hear you there i am getting that for my necromancer for sure lower resist, when i see you play it makes me also want to play some d2 ;)
I spent two weeks going through hell as a javazon and it was PAIN.
I keep getting a million zealots at travincal, impossible to get to the counsil members :'( Thanks for the guides Llama! I started playing again after about 13years of doing vanilla, still LOVE it
I enjoyed this let´s play very much! Seeing as you got a ton of druid drops, perhaps you could consider doing the next let´s play on a druid? Especially a werewolf druid would be so awesome, it´s my favorite out of all D2 classes/specs.
haha werewolf druid would definitely require a little gear farming :D
@@MrLlamaSC All the more reason to make the let´s play so I´ll know how to gear my woof for Hell :P.
somehow I got titan's revenge on hell andariel 2nd try, lucky me
Mephisto 2nd try. Woot!
Love the series hopefully Sorc Frozen Orb next
1:52:22 thank you for this! i was skipping some of your lessons because the video is too damn long so i have to watch it again and look on why i keep dying to those ghost bastards.
I finished to watch your all Normal, NM and Hell amazon let's play! ~15h is long but damn was worth it! Thanks a lot to share this kind of format as it's simply amazing to learn the game!
That said i still have 1 question left, you probably won't see since the video is over a year old but ho well...
You say we can dual spec lightning dmg + either Freezing Arrow or Exploding Arrow but you never mentioned Plague Javelin, is this skill too bad?
Found sigons boots, belt, gloves in NM. Gives fire/cold res, IAS, faster run/walk, 50mf... not bad for running through NM.
That Baal fight was like mine last night. I could hardly do anything because of those tentacles. -_-
When is MrLlama put points into Valkyrie? What is the final build? do we continue to put points to power strike?
Really enjoyed playing along with this, even though i'm kinda stuck at Hell act3 gonna try and get to lower kurast and use Those super chest strats or go back and farm Andy for some better gear.
Can't wait for the next play along with a Paladin or a sorc
Ya Act 3 hell might be the hardest part of the game for the amazon. Definitely a time to upgrade gear, take it slow, get a merc/valk strong enough and walk through it slowly, etc
Didn’t like the Amazon until you made it lvl 30. Might give this a try in D2R
omg, i know it a bit to late... but so much thanks for share, it get me thru with amazon...
Simply brilliant series.
Llama, you are the god of D2, the lord of knowledge and the king of speedrunning... But why arent you right clicking when you buy something in shop? I see that you dubble left click and get that "Buy: xxx, Gold: xxx, yes/no" messeage. Is it some keybinding that trigger this or is it just a bad habbit?
I'm curious what Llama thinks of the comments that he makes at 1:29:47 after having played both games 3 years later
I tried looking up what item that set light plate was, but its confusing, the wiki seems to think its Naj's Light Plate, but that item actually isn't light plate, its hellforge plate...
You are very wholesome and enjoyable to watch.
The worst thig on hell difficulty is so many lighting resistant monsters. Its crazy, my valkire is the only thing i can use against them...
I think you should mention /nopickup on the next one of these you do.
I'd also put in my request that Paladin be next because that's what I'm going to be playing next, but more seriously I think you should do Sorceress next to cover the people that want to play a pure caster.
hi, could you do a "Let's play" on a Sorc? I'm having trouble to pick the moment I need to respec... :( Btw, great videos on the Amazon, I'm totally into playing her now ^^
What kinda sorc are you going for?
@@ShredzZzZ currently it's a nova sorc - but at the end of act 2 on NM, im not dealing enough dmg. Gear isnt that bad - Lore, Stealth, shield with good resists etc. Also i've got a lot of FCR
@@iliyaatanasov9123 hmm im not sure nova is worth using in vanilla d2 on later difficulties, if youre going light i think its best to go down the middle skill tree. You can also look at hybrid sorcs too, if immunes are becoming a problem
@@ShredzZzZ yeah, i might go meteorb, just like i always did back in the day, but i saw llama going for nova, and i've decided to try it. thanks for your help, although i'd love to watch a Let's play on a sorc. =]
Please do a Skelly summoner play along through hell next. Reason being, it is n00b friendly, fairly gear independent build that is considered difficult in Hell....be good to see how you take him through the 3 difficulties. Would be a good template for a starter farming build for many beginners
Any other tips for fighting ancients with javazon? Obviously the merc bug is fixed now and can't do that anymore.
1:40:35 those drops insane omfg
I benched my peace and am using my dead merc Treachery and I'm guessing Venom damage to get through ActIII.
It's working to kill the insects and flayer types
Yeaa, i got lum in hellforge while watching this so i kinda understand how's it feel
MrLlama trying to kill the Ancient is still faster than me trying to find Titan at 158 MF at players 7
Hey MrLlama, what do you think about immunities in D2? Are they a required game mechanic? Would you like them to exist in D4? Could you please share your thoughts about them? I'm really curious. For me they punish my chosen build way too hard but im D2 noob so waiting for your insight, thanks!
impresive loot from Duriel,punished for bug quest Andariel
*Attention guys: Running from Act III town to the spider forest portal takes more than 2 hours and died more than 30 or more times, with the same gear Mr Llamasc used. When character holds a teleport staff without shield it dies very fast.
For me, I took the gears from Assassin which passed the Hell difficulty.
Act 3 is VERY hard for lightning characters lol
@@MrLlamaSC So far I was following it and it works, which helps me a lot. Thank you very much for making this series of great videos.
Watching these makes me want to play again, until I watch the hell games. Whoever thought that spell immunity was a good idea in single player, over several patches, should be tarred and feathered.
Where is the bow guide and the druid guide?
got a reaper toll in my hell cs drop from LDS much needded upgrade for my merc helped me kill quizer and finish the cs super fast :))
Thumbs up for the Duriel drops.
Gore rider is fine, as you will need 97 strength eventually anyway for TR.
@MrLlamaSC
Hey, recently your mic is much further away. Look at this video the sound is awesome and you do not "hear the room" at all.
Is there a reason you moved the mic away in you latest streams/videos?
You get a lot of "sound trolling" in your streams so I did not want to write in your chat in one of your streams. Yet I want you to let you know that you can improve your sound by just setting up your mic a little closer.
Thank you for your content.
19:40 I thought the Countess didn't leave the room?
No, she does, sometimes. On my bowazon ( that I've screwed up ) she spawned outside of the room every time, when I was farming for Stealth.
@@andrewgordon3589 Yeah, I used to think that it was a hard rule. I think she just tries to stay near where she spawned, which is usually inside
Yeah, that's basically what she does. There is a set map for the last floor of the Tower, as there is for 4th catacombs, Chaos sanc., etc, but she stays near the room opposite of the entrance to the 5th floor.
I play in Nightmare as a Hybrid until I find either Titans or a good Bow (hopefully Witchwild). Then I respec to the appropriate build. Dodge and Evade don't stop you lol. Your character is not well built if that happens. I've not lost a high level Zon since Iron Maiden was removed, because you use Stone Armor, and a Defiance merc, and you use Sanctuary shield, all easy to make, and boom, you have a 10% chance of being hit or something. There's no reason to worry about. You can see your Valk occasionally get locked for a moment or two, but I've never even come close to dying, the monsters have to hit you first, and as annoying as archers are, I've not had any issues there either. You just cast decoy and LF them, toast.
really hoping this turns into a series. i vote for Necro or Sorc next!
GG
1:40:40 The drops are just too GOOD!! 😂
After my 3rd failed attempt to go through the Maggot lair with Amazon, I just went and bought teleport staff from Drognan lmao :D I guess it's called "Hell Difficulty" for a reason.
hey MrLlama, i saw that you had quickly brought up 6/40 javelins -- i have been looking for these now what feels like eternity - do you know if you can shop for them or am i completely at the mercy of RNG to ever find a pair?