The jokes were good with this one. Was not expecting to, but watched the whole thing. The "surrounded by some black dudes, think i saw this befor" totally got me xD
Regarding the part where the Glooms type letters: it's not really a secret message, apparently it's just the initials of some of the devs. And it does boost magic find by a TON, but it doesn't show in the stats. I think it was something ridiculous like 300% or 600%. And yea, it persists until you leave the game, from act to act. So you can go get the buff and then clear every act.
@@prophetezekieldiminishing returns kick in for uniques/ sets around 250 mf like you said. But when it comes to magic and rare items the ceiling on mf is higher before diminishing returns. Some of the best items in the game are magic/ rare. Any build that is killing lots of monsters in many area’s would benefit from it and imho.
This is so chill to watch! I'm rolling another joint and happy to see this being such a long video :) Btw: afaik in Resurrected Andariel is now permanently quest bugged as the devs decided to make it a feature - so you dont have to go straight to act 2, shes always gonna drop quest loot.
FYI Diablo's lightning hose attack is 50% lightning and 50% physical. No fire at all. Technically you can block ticks of damage with your shield because of the physical component.
Hi, I recently discovered your channel and I really like it! Your sense of humor is exactly my cup of tea. As for the challenge idea, how about this: Let's fix the stupid game logic and be real for once. Monsters don't carry any loot. Isn't it absurd when a swarm of wasps drops heavy armor or a badass two-handed sword? Kinda silly right? So the only way to get ANY items has to be realistic and by that I mean chests, rocks, dead bodies (they don't need it anymore, so morale...whatever), armor and weapon stands, barrels and so on, you see my point. A gift from NPCs is also fine. However no buying any items anywhere. You're a poor hero with five kids to feed, so all the gold you find goes to your wife's account. Sorry. No buying also applies to all potions, you use what you find. Barb´s "find item/potion" skills also out of the question. Yeah and I nearly forget, no endless farming of superchests. Open it once and move on. No class or build restrictions. Whatever works best for this stupid challenge. (Assassin's ability to unlock chests might actually come in handy. Keys can't be bought either, sorry :D) That could be fun ;-)
Your videos are very fun. Your laid back approach and commentary are a great juxtaposition to the seeming pain of some of these runs. I appreciate your pace and the format & length of your videos. Even with being in NZ I didn’t know Path of Exile 2 was out (live under a few rocks), so I’d be interested in seeing something on it -knowing extremely little of the game as I do.
I saw a dude with a thorns build in d4 before i gave up that game for dead. The best thing to come out of the game was turning my attention to thorns in this one. Ggwp subbed
Thank you brother. Was a thorns only in d4 any good? I played d4 with one character but had my fun and put it down. Might look at some challenge runs there
I think what as happening with Achmel near the end was that the other unraveler was healing him. He was out of melee range, like you said, so he was trying to throw Unholy Bolts, but a trait of Paladin's Holy Bolt is that it heals allies if it hits them, I wouldn't be surprised if that was carried over to the unraveler version.
Poor pacifist Ratman. He thought he felt a spark with the “pacifist” sorceress. Oh, how right he was. Now she has his all of his belongings, and he’s been left a broken ratman. Love can be so cruel.
The sorcereress looking down to face the man sitting is such a cool detail! Reminds me of the statues after river of flames wp who turn following you or the roof of chaos sanctuary slowly changing colors (idk if this is in the remake though or only in the original).
Man it's gonna be a sad day the first time you ever die on normal difficulty! Another top notch video. POE2 and PD2 videos will both be great. Wouldn't mind seeing what you come up with for a challenge run on POE2.
Love builds like this. Every time I play for a while. I find something neat and start thinking. You should try my delirium total poison/curse necro build. Delirium bone visage, bramble, 3 pc trangs, gore riders, wedding band, raven frost, high lords and the fleshripper socketed with a eth. Trangs wing socketed with a 15 all res + 29 lightning res. Just make sure your regular attack is available. Still waiting for a more perfect fleshripper drop. Rolled the lowest damage. Tough sometimes. But still effective. Also running a faith bow merc
I remember my first ever D2 playithrough was as a barbarian. I only used frost nova armor because I thought the crowd control was the best thing. I couldnt make it past act 3 on normal difficuly with that gear :D but it was fun while it lasted
I really think experimentation, off meta, early learning the game that makes the most memorable journeys. This is almost why I do these runs, to capture the spirit of the first time we played and had so much more to learn and explore.
Few things about D2R, Andarial is always bugged (feature), cow level can be redone infinite times even if the king dies, the wisps are spelling initials of the developers of Diablo II.
8:45 I'm pretty sure they don't sum the chance to proc charged bolt in the stats, is because it's not simply added together. For example: if you had 10 items with 10% chance you still don't have a 100% chance. Each hit it rolls a dice 10 sided dice - and that 10 times.
Amazon Basin says they do, but the caveat is that it has to be the same skill and the same level e.g. level 3 charged bolt. Might be out of date information though!
youtube ain't letting me edit my comment for some reason but, didn't they make Andys bugged loot state permanent in some patch some time ago so you don't need to do the travel shenanigans anymore to keep it.. also the tele staff once took me 1,5hrs lmao, I have some idea just how long these runs take and you do wonderful job with your editing!!
Im playing POE2 as well! Would be interested in watching how you go about it. I just defeated the big Colossus dude in act2 with my warrior for the first time, he was such a damage sponge.
The bosses are a real slog. Tends to be a 'can my flasks last to the end of the 20 minute fight or will I run out before the bullet hell final form or not'. Still enjoying it though!
@prophetezekiel yea, I ended up investing heavily in life leech and health regeneration with high armour, basically a tank build, great at clearing mobs with stun blast, but not highest dps. My high survivability, low dps makes bosses a bit of a slog, but at least I can survive without potions.
Andariel is always bugged now, you don't have to do anything. It's something they kept in D2R or simply set her loot table to the bugged one from before. no idea why, but this is also why TZ andariel is so juicy
@@schaezar I figured it out. The fix was that they modified andariel and duriels normal drops to only drop quest drops. So either way you get the improved drops. Then at some point with terror zones the quest bug overrides the terror zone, so you don't get the improved drops. This was finally fixed as well. I think the bug still exists, there's just no difference between the bugged and non bugged versions.
Just a thought, but don't think defense helps with how much damage you take, only whether an enemy will hit or miss. So ideally you want a low defense, high block, and some sort of reduced damage taken like on String of ears. I'd recommend as much life regen to go with the procs.
Yeah you're right, high defence still helps in the not getting hit though! I swear I used to find string of ears all the time and now not at all. Learning diablo's lightning attack is half physical I'd love some DR
You do realize that the mana shield spell and damage taken goes to mana from items are not the same thing right? The mana shield spell from a sorceress sacrifices mana in place of health at a base rate of 200% per health damage taken up to a % of the damage hit.
@prophetezekiel that is good to know. Thank you for the quick reply. Good content. Got recommended your recent gem only video, looking forward to seeing your other stuff
I usually sell those chance to cast spell gears thinking they are useless but now that i know they get stronger from synergies might be a fun meme playthrough. Play as nova sorc with chance tobcast nova gear for free novas.
That could be epic, but the damage is really low! I think getting the gear would be the hard part. I didnt even realise chance to cast hydra was a thing.
@prophetezekiel I wouldn't do it yout way where I never attack. I'd still spam nova but free novas couldn't hurt. Same with the proc for charged bolt and frost nova. One youtuber DoubleBilly is doing a double charged bolt run for new season. Spamming charged bolt and using proc charged bolt gear
Had a sand raider style enemy standing in place. It was revived and just hanging out peacefully on some stairs. Pissed me off. Completely blocked my skeleton army from attacking stuff. Had to execute him.
Great knowledge dude. I thought it was half fire half light but youre right it's half physical half lightning meaning a shield can actually block a lot of the damage.
Regarding the popularity, I belive the nightmare (and hell videos) will perform better if you space them out with another videos in between (maybe is worth testing).
Good advice. I tried releasing another after a few days but it might be better to do one a week (if possible), and let it build slowly. Thanks for the help though!
For very early game this would be really good advice. I was thinking shield will be needed for resist, but 4 perfect skulls in a 4 socket shield would actually almost do as much damage as thorns. Will see what nightmare brings!
@prophetezekiel i usually start out with a 1os shield with 1 chipped, and farm 3 chipped, so i have 2 for a 2os shield later. 4os shield for sorc is a monarch, and not viable. I dont even bother with ctc charged bolt gear with a 2 chipped shield. Just level straight into ctc nova gear and you can actually find lvl 4 and lvl5 ctc nova later on. Not a huge difference, but now that static is a synergy, its actually not bad. Rares with ctc nova can have res and some nice stats too.
Really like the fact that you look at all those tiny details most of us just rush by when playing. Keep 'em coming!
Exactly! Love it
The ratman champion figured out the secret...He just wanted to be loved.
Tis better to have loved and lost (your life) than never to have loved at all - Ratman 2024
I'm happy that humor is still alive and well. Thank you!
New video from my favorite new channel. Thx and please don't stop. Looking forward to new challenge, or should i say new video.
Thank you brother! Glad you enjoy. Let me know if there are any challenges you want to see
47:40 wow never seen a pacifist enemy. Guess he was doing a pacifist run too!
He wants to be a companion!
Great jokes man! The hobo in the park, surrounded by black dudes, plus a funky challenge, insta sub! Also LOVING the old kung-fu movie cuts!!!!!
🤣
The jokes were good with this one. Was not expecting to, but watched the whole thing.
The "surrounded by some black dudes, think i saw this befor" totally got me xD
Ikr…so funny
Amazing. Really enjoyed your appreciation of the finer details. Most fun I've had watching a D2R video since looter!
Thank you mate, appreciate this
Really enjoyed watching you pull off all those dudes!
Great video! - That "beating me like a hobo in the park" had me in stitches!
"Succumbs to tennis elbow" 🤣
Regarding the part where the Glooms type letters: it's not really a secret message, apparently it's just the initials of some of the devs. And it does boost magic find by a TON, but it doesn't show in the stats. I think it was something ridiculous like 300% or 600%. And yea, it persists until you leave the game, from act to act. So you can go get the buff and then clear every act.
I heard from others the mf is massive, but the diminishing returns from mf is so huge that 4000% is barely better than 250% your struggle to notice
@@prophetezekieldiminishing returns kick in for uniques/ sets around 250 mf like you said. But when it comes to magic and rare items the ceiling on mf is higher before diminishing returns. Some of the best items in the game are magic/ rare. Any build that is killing lots of monsters in many area’s would benefit from it and imho.
This is so chill to watch! I'm rolling another joint and happy to see this being such a long video :)
Btw: afaik in Resurrected Andariel is now permanently quest bugged as the devs decided to make it a feature - so you dont have to go straight to act 2, shes always gonna drop quest loot.
Glad you enjoyed my dude. Making games chill again.
FYI Diablo's lightning hose attack is 50% lightning and 50% physical. No fire at all. Technically you can block ticks of damage with your shield because of the physical component.
Learnt this in the last few days. Good to know, and the shield block will make a big difference. I thought red meant fire. I am a caveman.
Hi, I recently discovered your channel and I really like it! Your sense of humor is exactly my cup of tea.
As for the challenge idea, how about this:
Let's fix the stupid game logic and be real for once. Monsters don't carry any loot. Isn't it absurd when a swarm of wasps drops heavy armor or a badass two-handed sword? Kinda silly right?
So the only way to get ANY items has to be realistic and by that I mean chests, rocks, dead bodies (they don't need it anymore, so morale...whatever), armor and weapon stands, barrels and so on, you see my point. A gift from NPCs is also fine. However no buying any items anywhere. You're a poor hero with five kids to feed, so all the gold you find goes to your wife's account. Sorry. No buying also applies to all potions, you use what you find. Barb´s "find item/potion" skills also out of the question. Yeah and I nearly forget, no endless farming of superchests. Open it once and move on.
No class or build restrictions. Whatever works best for this stupid challenge. (Assassin's ability to unlock chests might actually come in handy. Keys can't be bought either, sorry :D)
That could be fun ;-)
what about enemies that have armour and weapons? Can you take an item if it looks like something they wear/wield?
D is David (Brevik), E is Eric (Shaefer), M is Max (Shaefer) etc.
Your videos are very fun. Your laid back approach and commentary are a great juxtaposition to the seeming pain of some of these runs. I appreciate your pace and the format & length of your videos.
Even with being in NZ I didn’t know Path of Exile 2 was out (live under a few rocks), so I’d be interested in seeing something on it -knowing extremely little of the game as I do.
Thanks for this, means a lot when the channel is just starting. Will look at poe2 but it's kicking my arse right now!
I saw a dude with a thorns build in d4 before i gave up that game for dead. The best thing to come out of the game was turning my attention to thorns in this one. Ggwp subbed
Thank you brother. Was a thorns only in d4 any good? I played d4 with one character but had my fun and put it down. Might look at some challenge runs there
I think what as happening with Achmel near the end was that the other unraveler was healing him. He was out of melee range, like you said, so he was trying to throw Unholy Bolts, but a trait of Paladin's Holy Bolt is that it heals allies if it hits them, I wouldn't be surprised if that was carried over to the unraveler version.
Poor pacifist Ratman. He thought he felt a spark with the “pacifist” sorceress. Oh, how right he was. Now she has his all of his belongings, and he’s been left a broken ratman. Love can be so cruel.
A modern romeo and juliet, just slightly smaller and hairer ❤
here from Alaska loving the videos so far
The sorcereress looking down to face the man sitting is such a cool detail! Reminds me of the statues after river of flames wp who turn following you or the roof of chaos sanctuary slowly changing colors (idk if this is in the remake though or only in the original).
It is in the remake! I defo mention it in one of my newer videos.
>Cast charge bolt on being hit
NO, NO, NOT THE DESERT BEETLES, NOT THE DESERT BEETLES AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGH
I will console you with some fun facts: they have 0% lightning resist despite their skill, and have a chance to use jab. Rest now my child.
No mention for Tiamat's Rebuke? I remember using that on a conviction zealot back in the day. My favorite wacky item.
Man it's gonna be a sad day the first time you ever die on normal difficulty! Another top notch video. POE2 and PD2 videos will both be great. Wouldn't mind seeing what you come up with for a challenge run on POE2.
Made me laugh x
Love builds like this. Every time I play for a while. I find something neat and start thinking. You should try my delirium total poison/curse necro build. Delirium bone visage, bramble, 3 pc trangs, gore riders, wedding band, raven frost, high lords and the fleshripper socketed with a eth. Trangs wing socketed with a 15 all res + 29 lightning res. Just make sure your regular attack is available. Still waiting for a more perfect fleshripper drop. Rolled the lowest damage. Tough sometimes. But still effective. Also running a faith bow merc
Not raven frost. Carrion wing
Would love see part 2!!
My friend, this is all I need to hear x
I remember my first ever D2 playithrough was as a barbarian. I only used frost nova armor because I thought the crowd control was the best thing. I couldnt make it past act 3 on normal difficuly with that gear :D but it was fun while it lasted
I really think experimentation, off meta, early learning the game that makes the most memorable journeys. This is almost why I do these runs, to capture the spirit of the first time we played and had so much more to learn and explore.
Diablo's lightning attack is 50% lightning and 50% physical damage.
Me so thorny.
- Mike Tyson
good vibes, I hope you keep making these videos
Thank you brother!
love the vid, always looking forwardtomore from you!
Quite good commentary.
Few things about D2R, Andarial is always bugged (feature), cow level can be redone infinite times even if the king dies, the wisps are spelling initials of the developers of Diablo II.
Just found your channel, really enjoying those runs.
I wonder how far you could go with corpse explosion only
I've just finished golem only nightmare and I wanted corpse explosion so badly. How to get that first body though...
8:45 I'm pretty sure they don't sum the chance to proc charged bolt in the stats, is because it's not simply added together. For example: if you had 10 items with 10% chance you still don't have a 100% chance. Each hit it rolls a dice 10 sided dice - and that 10 times.
Amazon Basin says they do, but the caveat is that it has to be the same skill and the same level e.g. level 3 charged bolt. Might be out of date information though!
youtube ain't letting me edit my comment for some reason but, didn't they make Andys bugged loot state permanent in some patch some time ago so you don't need to do the travel shenanigans anymore to keep it..
also the tele staff once took me 1,5hrs lmao, I have some idea just how long these runs take and you do wonderful job with your editing!!
Thank you dude, means a lot
Im playing POE2 as well! Would be interested in watching how you go about it. I just defeated the big Colossus dude in act2 with my warrior for the first time, he was such a damage sponge.
The bosses are a real slog. Tends to be a 'can my flasks last to the end of the 20 minute fight or will I run out before the bullet hell final form or not'. Still enjoying it though!
@prophetezekiel yea, I ended up investing heavily in life leech and health regeneration with high armour, basically a tank build, great at clearing mobs with stun blast, but not highest dps. My high survivability, low dps makes bosses a bit of a slog, but at least I can survive without potions.
I did not look into it but i think energy shield makes your mana act as second life bar. Not give you mana. I think theres an immortal es sorc build
Yeah it functions like diablo 1 and would be as OP as diablo 1 if it weren't for mana burn deleting your entire mana pool haha.
Ratman trusted you ...
Izual voice: Ratman was a fool to have trusted me!
Aren't armor shrines (and defense in general...)kind of worthless in a 1v1 thorns fight? Fun run so far though!
The best commentary
Have you thought of taking this into cows?
How does it look like when fully decked out?
nice wine from Chile!!! Salud!!
25:11 Andariel bug should be fixed in D2R, but I can't remember which version fixed it.
I seem to remember they left it in the code, and you didn't have to trigger it by going straight to warriv anymore. It's muscle memory at this point!
@prophetezekiel it's pretty easy to check. If you get normal durability magic items from andariel you don't have the bug.
Andariel is always bugged now, you don't have to do anything. It's something they kept in D2R or simply set her loot table to the bugged one from before. no idea why, but this is also why TZ andariel is so juicy
@@schaezar I figured it out. The fix was that they modified andariel and duriels normal drops to only drop quest drops. So either way you get the improved drops. Then at some point with terror zones the quest bug overrides the terror zone, so you don't get the improved drops. This was finally fixed as well. I think the bug still exists, there's just no difference between the bugged and non bugged versions.
i believe d2r made the "andy bug" just a constant. no need to rush to a2, it's just always on.
Just a thought, but don't think defense helps with how much damage you take, only whether an enemy will hit or miss. So ideally you want a low defense, high block, and some sort of reduced damage taken like on String of ears. I'd recommend as much life regen to go with the procs.
Yeah you're right, high defence still helps in the not getting hit though! I swear I used to find string of ears all the time and now not at all. Learning diablo's lightning attack is half physical I'd love some DR
Just a heads up, you don’t have to do anything to get the Andariel bug. They made it a default/permanent feature.
I did think this, but thanks for confirming. Works like muscle memory at this point!
@ understandable! Love your content! You seriously crack me up with your jokes! Can’t wait to see what else you share with us ☺️
This guy found a way to monetize his masochism 👏
You can make money!?
Its run can be easy, if you use skulls in shield) good run, i am like it😂
Give me the strength and luck to find a 4 socket shield and I might agree with you!
You do realize that the mana shield spell and damage taken goes to mana from items are not the same thing right? The mana shield spell from a sorceress sacrifices mana in place of health at a base rate of 200% per health damage taken up to a % of the damage hit.
I do!
Don't know for sure, but I think the letters are the first letter in the names of some of the developers. Don't think it actually spells anything.
I like the idea of them all being in on it. I dont like the idea that they wasted their time not finishing act 4 properly!
Do the chances for something like charged bolt add together, or is it multiple instances of the 10%?
The gospel according to the Amazon Basin is that they are cumulative, so x5 10% chance is 50%
@prophetezekiel that is good to know. Thank you for the quick reply. Good content. Got recommended your recent gem only video, looking forward to seeing your other stuff
I usually sell those chance to cast spell gears thinking they are useless but now that i know they get stronger from synergies might be a fun meme playthrough. Play as nova sorc with chance tobcast nova gear for free novas.
That could be epic, but the damage is really low! I think getting the gear would be the hard part. I didnt even realise chance to cast hydra was a thing.
@prophetezekiel I wouldn't do it yout way where I never attack. I'd still spam nova but free novas couldn't hurt. Same with the proc for charged bolt and frost nova. One youtuber DoubleBilly is doing a double charged bolt run for new season. Spamming charged bolt and using proc charged bolt gear
Had a sand raider style enemy standing in place. It was revived and just hanging out peacefully on some stairs. Pissed me off. Completely blocked my skeleton army from attacking stuff. Had to execute him.
Shame!
Diablos lightning attack does 50% physical damage, thats why it hurts so bad even with high resists
Great knowledge dude. I thought it was half fire half light but youre right it's half physical half lightning meaning a shield can actually block a lot of the damage.
40:00
Dayum. Lol. 🤣
“Pacifist” my foot! You’re abusing these poor creatures and taking advantage of their habit of attacking nearby travellers.
Hey! Do you play PD2 at all?
Never tried it. Is it worth giving it a go? Any good challenges I could do with it?
Would love so see PoE 2!
RIP Rat Man :(
He was not the hero we deserved
Justice for ratman
The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long 🙇♂️
Regarding the popularity, I belive the nightmare (and hell videos) will perform better if you space them out with another videos in between (maybe is worth testing).
Good advice. I tried releasing another after a few days but it might be better to do one a week (if possible), and let it build slowly. Thanks for the help though!
its so sad, you cant dual wield shields. :(
Just mentioning that makes me want to play dark souls 2 again
RIP ratman
you should have farmed chests on p8 for a few skulls to put in a 2os shield. that gives you attaker takes damage from lvl1
For very early game this would be really good advice. I was thinking shield will be needed for resist, but 4 perfect skulls in a 4 socket shield would actually almost do as much damage as thorns. Will see what nightmare brings!
@prophetezekiel i usually start out with a 1os shield with 1 chipped, and farm 3 chipped, so i have 2 for a 2os shield later. 4os shield for sorc is a monarch, and not viable. I dont even bother with ctc charged bolt gear with a 2 chipped shield. Just level straight into ctc nova gear and you can actually find lvl 4 and lvl5 ctc nova later on. Not a huge difference, but now that static is a synergy, its actually not bad. Rares with ctc nova can have res and some nice stats too.
rat man the bugged
51:23 hmm that's a reference
I wonder if a zoomed-in only challenge would be fun or just kind of annoying and average lol
It would need another draw I think, like a skill that fills the whole screen like nova. I'll have a think!
Gambling just because i've got a problem xDDD
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You are an....inspiration