Just wanted to say thank you! Even though I played Diablo 2 when I was younger, I actually beat the game for the first time yesterday - I used your fire druid build all the way, played on players 8 and had so much fun! Probably gonna watch all your "Let's Play Diablo 2" videos since they are so chill and informative. Keep up the good work!
Very good video! Watching a fire Sorc is one of the more entertaining early game builds and is one of my personal favorites all around. You also gave all kinds of useful information throughout the playthrough that would help people of all experience levels. Which I really appreciate. You're the best D2 UA-camr out there as far as I'm concerned! Part 2 here I come!
I just started a single player sorc and I'm loving it. I agree with the stuff you said around 52:00. Not having access to trading makes finding good stuff super exciting. Also the maps stayin between sessions is incredibly chill, which has made this single player run incredibly fun so far. I'm actually looking forward to boss farming because it's so relaxing when you got the map layout stored.
For mercs i think they should add useful to player things. A3 sorcerer should either do frost nova, static field or enchant. A5 barb should either shout hp/def bonus or do find item.
Before D2R, I played a lot of plugy and also had fun shopping for low level BIS items from act 1 and 2 vendors like 3 fireball leaf, 3 bone spear white, 3 blessed hammer socketed with tirx2, etc.
I used one of my Akara respecs to go into hydra/orb after 2.4 went live, and I love it. I like it much more than orb/firewall, just because firewall was unreliable.
This is my absolute favourite of 2.4. A well-placed Orb is comparable to Blizzard in P1 Online play, coupled with a couple of Hydras for Cold Immunes and bosses and yo're good to go. I absolutely love the versatility in terms of farming areas the build brings to the table.
This combo is very good. I tried leaf on my druid before the season and that weapon is simply too powerful and cheap to pass on. So I leveled as fire and just the staff was powerful enough to save skill points. So I've been keeping hydra at 2 skills and fire mastery at 1 (plus item bonuses) and the rest on frozen orb... mainly because FO os cheaper to max and what's not to like about FO
@@HammerOfDawnn its a bug that lets you tele further away, if you have a tab open on either side and point at the corner. Beats me and ive pleayed for a couple decades at this point. Although for the first decade i mostly played as stuff like a 2h melee summon fire druid lol
@@HammerOfDawnn it's really weird coding. when you have your mouse on your char and open one of these tabs, your mouse shifts. somehow they didn't cap your mouse to the visible screen, so when you are teleporting and open the tab, you start going further. you do have to tele before opening though
Yes MrLlamaSC is it possible to do all the Let’s play guide with all characters like the old series you have in page since they changed some things from LOD to Resurrect thanks for all the videos
That is the one thing i didnt like about immune monsters. That they could stall a character if you only went down one tree. I mean its a learning experience but hey it is what it is.
Depending on the monster, your better off teleporting past cold immune still sometimes, hydra is shit if the monsters are fast moving, or big groups of them. Like fetishes in act 3 hell etc
one way to get lots of gold early is to stop leveling at lvl 3, then do burial grounds runs. kill nothing, just enter both tombs, open all the chests, crypts, golden chests, etc. loot everything, save quit, then vendor it all in town.
Clearly its my personal preference but i only like to us teleport to take odd shortcuts or get out of a tough spot. Im not a fan of just bouncing over the game
You misunderstood the Ice Bolt synergy, what it does is adds 2% per ice shard. you see those dozens of shards flowing out of the orb, and you know how you can hit a boss with all of them if you position correctly, ya, it's a lot of damage to single targets. I also prefer just charged bolt right through to 24, does great AoE kills everything in one shot all the way to NM on P1, ya, you have to get close, but it is no big deal.
I'm liking a Hydra/Blizzard sorceress in ladder now (I tried orb, just felt the damage was letting me down). Reason is damage is better on blizzard (than orb), and I'd rather do synergies on blizzard than hydra (more % per point), even though I can't max either, its pretty strong. Maxed hydra and fire mastery for damage there, rest as needed on cold mastery/ice blast for synergy/cold damage. Gives me a decent secondary spam spell that I can use for cold as well.
How are you able to keep moving while going into inventory and drinking potions or adding points to your skill tree? Are you using something other than your mouse to move around?
After not playing since 2004 and being a hc path player coming back is super fun and its what I play once leagues done. My question as a pro is how in the heck do you use your storage space like for ladder seasonal? The games awesome I just have learned to horde and buy more tabs.. since thats not an option how do u get around this?
I just started Hell on my sorceress being a 100% blizz sorceress (only cold skills) and that wasn't fun! I tried Hydra/Frozen Orb and it's not as fast but at least I can clear everything. I always play with a friend (hammerdin) with that sorceress.
Funny you did this. I was just thinking about this build and was contemplating it. It just makes sense really, running dual level 30 spells as your main attack skills. Meteor just does SO much damage tho.
Back in my day we had meteorb for a no-respec run - because there were no respecs. You did normal with fireball, NM with orb, hell with meteorb, and you liked aiming the meteors!
Not enough skill points to go fire ball and lightning so maybe fire ball and thunder storm? Thunder storm is not too strong but passive boosts your total damage and does not require too many synergy points. Might want a one point wonder frost nova to make them move slower.
@@MrLlamaSC your 2019 Sorc lets play is what got me onto your channel and through hell SSF; It is still one of the best references out there. Thank you for taking the time to make up all these resources for the community.
i am in nightmare and none of the quests for the horadric staff are working. No queen maggot in maggot lair an no staff in the chest. Amulet will not drop in snakes. I have not completed these in nightmare and now Im stuck. Anyone know about this?
58:30 Quite the contrary, I'd even make the game harder but I would in fact remove immunities. Maybe make the monsters cap out at 95percent immunity or something so they take barely any damage without aura/LR curse but to compensate give them some more damage and life. Or maybe add a 4th difficulty which would have all bosses at lvl 99 and monsters at 95, same loot tables as hell but with more experience gained so that solo leveling experience would be better (monsters would also be stronger at those levels and take longer to kill but instead of only diablo, baal and nihla giving exp, you could just run through all the game killing everything and gaining exp)
I feel like starting with charged bolt and then respecing into fire baLL at around 16 is the best strat for sorc, because fire bolt sucks, charged is much better at lower levels.
My strat for any sork: clear den, kill blood raven, buy 3os bow for merk, and together we can easiy get 6lvl, then 1pt in frost nova, other points to static, then after 12 to ~70 stay on nova, stats half life half energy. Then respec on hell. In the middle of 1-2 act ask akara/drognan for +2-3 to frost nova/nova staves
if youre put of respecs and are online, u can trade or farm 1 of each essence from andy/meph/diablo/baal to make a respec token. you can also just farm areas with no/low cold immuenes like cows/trav/ancient tunnels/stony tombs to gear yourself or your merc up. he should be able to take out cold immunes once decently geared. example would be cold immune seal bosses at Diablo or baal waves to help gt the essences. by the time u get 1 of each essence u may get accustomed to going full cold build tho.
I think they should remove the fireball synergy from Hydra and raise the firebolt synergy. Maybe people will actually use firebolt past level 12 for once.
Just wanted to say thank you! Even though I played Diablo 2 when I was younger, I actually beat the game for the first time yesterday - I used your fire druid build all the way, played on players 8 and had so much fun! Probably gonna watch all your "Let's Play Diablo 2" videos since they are so chill and informative. Keep up the good work!
Oh to beat the game for the first time lol. I think I was like 10 or 11? I'm 30 now
@@g0stn0te who cares im 41 :) d2r just sucked me after all those years.
@@g0stn0te what a dick response and loser flex. Pretty immature for a 30 year old.
@@g0stn0te you beat hell at 10 or 11 years old?
@@paladin_au loads of people did
Very good video! Watching a fire Sorc is one of the more entertaining early game builds and is one of my personal favorites all around. You also gave all kinds of useful information throughout the playthrough that would help people of all experience levels. Which I really appreciate. You're the best D2 UA-camr out there as far as I'm concerned! Part 2 here I come!
I just started a single player sorc and I'm loving it. I agree with the stuff you said around 52:00. Not having access to trading makes finding good stuff super exciting. Also the maps stayin between sessions is incredibly chill, which has made this single player run incredibly fun so far. I'm actually looking forward to boss farming because it's so relaxing when you got the map layout stored.
I always start off trying to play like you but then my OCD takes over and I have to kill everything and collect all the gold and rates etc.
Play how you want :D
Act 5 forever. To this day it still blows my mind. I played classic as a kid and LoD just blew my mind especially Act 5.
From now on you are what I am going to listen for when I farm, I've done countless runs for a soj and I finally got one thanks to you.
Interesting to watch this play through. I’ve been fireball / orb forever - fireball’s stun is nice we’ll see how hydra does in place!
All mrllamaSC’s recent playthroughs are of my most recent chars, i feel like such a normie xD . Great playthrough and guide!
For mercs i think they should add useful to player things. A3 sorcerer should either do frost nova, static field or enchant. A5 barb should either shout hp/def bonus or do find item.
Before D2R, I played a lot of plugy and also had fun shopping for low level BIS items from act 1 and 2 vendors like 3 fireball leaf, 3 bone spear white, 3 blessed hammer socketed with tirx2, etc.
I used one of my Akara respecs to go into hydra/orb after 2.4 went live, and I love it. I like it much more than orb/firewall, just because firewall was unreliable.
When it comes to D2 .. theres no one else to watch. Loved the 6 hour race recently. I watch while playing D2 or POE.
I really suggest dropping like 20 into energy over rest early acts in normal. You will respec anyway. It saves a lot of potions, pain and time.
TIL potions can crit. This game is still full of surprises!
This is my absolute favourite of 2.4. A well-placed Orb is comparable to Blizzard in P1 Online play, coupled with a couple of Hydras for Cold Immunes and bosses and yo're good to go. I absolutely love the versatility in terms of farming areas the build brings to the table.
I've been playing Meteorb sorc for years, but might have to test this build!
This combo is very good. I tried leaf on my druid before the season and that weapon is simply too powerful and cheap to pass on. So I leveled as fire and just the staff was powerful enough to save skill points. So I've been keeping hydra at 2 skills and fire mastery at 1 (plus item bonuses) and the rest on frozen orb... mainly because FO os cheaper to max and what's not to like about FO
Would love to see a hardcore energy shield Nova sorc!!!
Why does he tele with either stat page open or inventory open???
@@HammerOfDawnn its a bug that lets you tele further away, if you have a tab open on either side and point at the corner. Beats me and ive pleayed for a couple decades at this point. Although for the first decade i mostly played as stuff like a 2h melee summon fire druid lol
@@HammerOfDawnn it's really weird coding. when you have your mouse on your char and open one of these tabs, your mouse shifts. somehow they didn't cap your mouse to the visible screen, so when you are teleporting and open the tab, you start going further. you do have to tele before opening though
This is the build I was looking for! Thanks amigo.
allways nice to watch your guided playthru, MrLlamaSC! thx for the good content on YT :D
Yes MrLlamaSC is it possible to do all the Let’s play guide with all characters like the old series you have in page since they changed some things from LOD to Resurrect thanks for all the videos
Thanks for this! I was waiting for an updated one before starting ladder.
That is the one thing i didnt like about immune monsters. That they could stall a character if you only went down one tree. I mean its a learning experience but hey it is what it is.
Depending on the monster, your better off teleporting past cold immune still sometimes, hydra is shit if the monsters are fast moving, or big groups of them. Like fetishes in act 3 hell etc
I love these! Timestamps with all the bosses would take it over the top
Best diablo content hands down.
Hail Hydra
Always enjoy the hunt for a perfekt leaf base or io-dol base
I even make a fun out of finding the perfekt low lvl steel base xD
Yes! I used her to get through Hell for the first time. She rocks. I have her at lvl 87.
This is THE best sorc build. It kills EVERYTHING with a decent merc.
I've been having a lot of fun with a Demon Machine/Enlightenment enchantress. Should've made it on ladder for Flickering Flame
one way to get lots of gold early is to stop leveling at lvl 3, then do burial grounds runs. kill nothing, just enter both tombs, open all the chests, crypts, golden chests, etc. loot everything, save quit, then vendor it all in town.
is this a better dual spec build than blizz baller/meteorb or more of a fun build?
Maybe I missed it but how do you see the entire map on new runs?
1:35:00 Respec at 18 for tele
New intro? Badass! Love it!
What do you think of a Chain lightning/frozen orb Sorc? I am going to make one anyway for the fun of it but wanted you quick opinion. Thanks
The best series!!
Clearly its my personal preference but i only like to us teleport to take odd shortcuts or get out of a tough spot. Im not a fan of just bouncing over the game
Yeah you’re probably 1/100. Which is cool, to each their own! Seems like you’re casting judgement here though when you’re the odd one out!
@@KK-sg5gl dude just teleporting around to avoid the danger is boring.
if you are impatient, shopping ends at 56:10
What is the highest sockets you can have in something?
You misunderstood the Ice Bolt synergy, what it does is adds 2% per ice shard. you see those dozens of shards flowing out of the orb, and you know how you can hit a boss with all of them if you position correctly, ya, it's a lot of damage to single targets. I also prefer just charged bolt right through to 24, does great AoE kills everything in one shot all the way to NM on P1, ya, you have to get close, but it is no big deal.
I'm liking a Hydra/Blizzard sorceress in ladder now (I tried orb, just felt the damage was letting me down). Reason is damage is better on blizzard (than orb), and I'd rather do synergies on blizzard than hydra (more % per point), even though I can't max either, its pretty strong. Maxed hydra and fire mastery for damage there, rest as needed on cold mastery/ice blast for synergy/cold damage. Gives me a decent secondary spam spell that I can use for cold as well.
This is what I leveled in ladder. I love this build.
How are you able to keep moving while going into inventory and drinking potions or adding points to your skill tree? Are you using something other than your mouse to move around?
Omg, just started a Sorc the other day based on old video, kept wondering when a hydra cold sorc will be available
Just used this for my hardcore character and I had a lot fun. Hell was a bit tough but easily teleport through all the craziness.
Crazy man teleporting on hardcore
Think "Let's play" should stay, that how we know it by now:-) keep up the great work
After not playing since 2004 and being a hc path player coming back is super fun and its what I play once leagues done. My question as a pro is how in the heck do you use your storage space like for ladder seasonal? The games awesome I just have learned to horde and buy more tabs.. since thats not an option how do u get around this?
I just started Hell on my sorceress being a 100% blizz sorceress (only cold skills) and that wasn't fun! I tried Hydra/Frozen Orb and it's not as fast but at least I can clear everything. I always play with a friend (hammerdin) with that sorceress.
I've been running this all ladder. It's amazing
New into is awesome. Much better
Guided playthrough sounds fitting to me 👍
love the shopping music
Hello, may I ask. Why is there never many points added to Mana for a Sorceress and most into life. (even if going ES) New to the game. Thanks.
Funny you did this. I was just thinking about this build and was contemplating it. It just makes sense really, running dual level 30 spells as your main attack skills. Meteor just does SO much damage tho.
Also, the aoe of orb is best in the game, and the benefit of the utility hydra, helps add to it's new viability as being a good choice.
Back in my day we had meteorb for a no-respec run - because there were no respecs. You did normal with fireball, NM with orb, hell with meteorb, and you liked aiming the meteors!
Love you Mr lama
Do you think it would be possible/ viable to make a fire/lightning sorceress work? If so, what skills would you go?
Not enough skill points to go fire ball and lightning so maybe fire ball and thunder storm? Thunder storm is not too strong but passive boosts your total damage and does not require too many synergy points. Might want a one point wonder frost nova to make them move slower.
Shopping music is lit
how do you pick everything up insanely quick like you did with the gold doing countess ?
would you not run wall of the eyeless instead of ancients pledge?
Extra 500 percent XP only matters if you can kill it in under 5x the time.
Is this let's play or let's speed run? I spend half the time playing by myself with the video paused.
Pretty cool stuff. It would be dope if you played online though. I know it takes way longer but i guess most ppl will play along in online
If only I could clear the Hell Den of Evil to get the respec…
holy mouse click batman
Would a Damaged Crystal Sword roll 4soc from larzuk if it dropped in normal cows?
Is it worth it to spend some skills in Warmth for this build?
2:09:39 "If he's just getting kinda blasted by a bunch of dudes from all sides, you can move away and have them come one at a time." :P
Is it true that the certain stats were shown incorrectly in the diablo 2 from v x.x to v y.y ? If so has that been fixed ?
what's the idea behind going players 7 and not 8 and why switch back to players 1?
Insane Charakter. I really love it
I'm surprised you didn't do this all in one go. I imagine you are only going to take ~6h unless you stop to really deep dive into interactions.
Yeah might end up doing the next two parts together. I like to take it slower though so people can keep up
@@MrLlamaSC your 2019 Sorc lets play is what got me onto your channel and through hell SSF; It is still one of the best references out there. Thank you for taking the time to make up all these resources for the community.
Why no Orb/Firewall. Is Hydra better than Firewall or Fireball?
There needs to be Flame Wave for D2R - just replace one of the Level-24 tier Fire skills with Flame Wave and make it spammable.
Multishot Bowzon next pls!
Yes please
yes this was the one i asked if you would do on stream im hyped wish id gotten to see live
Part nightmare and hell tomorrow and Wednesday!
This was my first matriarch after 2.4 came out. It is a breeze to pay through the game (or as easy as it can be)
How do you avoid RSI from all those clicking with the mouse?
i am in nightmare and none of the quests for the horadric staff are working. No queen maggot in maggot lair an no staff in the chest. Amulet will not drop in snakes. I have not completed these in nightmare and now Im stuck. Anyone know about this?
Is my leaf staff bugged? I can't repair it at all, and no, it's not ethereal.
What's the final skill/attribute spread
Skip ahead when there's shopping music?! No way!!!
I'm running nova fireball with decent success
58:30 Quite the contrary, I'd even make the game harder but I would in fact remove immunities. Maybe make the monsters cap out at 95percent immunity or something so they take barely any damage without aura/LR curse but to compensate give them some more damage and life. Or maybe add a 4th difficulty which would have all bosses at lvl 99 and monsters at 95, same loot tables as hell but with more experience gained so that solo leveling experience would be better (monsters would also be stronger at those levels and take longer to kill but instead of only diablo, baal and nihla giving exp, you could just run through all the game killing everything and gaining exp)
The inventor of terror zones…..
@@AD-HVAC i c what you did there... I actually even forgot this comment 😅
@@markomancikas 😁 obviously a good idea…..now take blizzard to court for royalties 😂😂😂😂
@@AD-HVAC considering recent fiasco with d4... I probably should 😂
static works to take down even hell monsters to 1 hp in Classic.
Never used the maphack for the "maphack" only used it for the loot filter :p
Is hydra orb the new meteorb?
Does this build work with original d2 LoD with plugy?
I feel like starting with charged bolt and then respecing into fire baLL at around 16 is the best strat for sorc, because fire bolt sucks, charged is much better at lower levels.
My strat for any sork: clear den, kill blood raven, buy 3os bow for merk, and together we can easiy get 6lvl, then 1pt in frost nova, other points to static, then after 12 to ~70 stay on nova, stats half life half energy. Then respec on hell. In the middle of 1-2 act ask akara/drognan for +2-3 to frost nova/nova staves
how come no one does blizzhydra? it's a pretty good death trap in a small aoe
I just dropped Vmagi from norm Baal quest while doing league restart practice...
Ma and 2 days ago I have reset my sorc to blizz sorc. And now on hell I have same problems as you have sad in video. What to do now?
if youre put of respecs and are online, u can trade or farm 1 of each essence from andy/meph/diablo/baal to make a respec token.
you can also just farm areas with no/low cold immuenes like cows/trav/ancient tunnels/stony tombs to gear yourself or your merc up. he should be able to take out cold immunes once decently geared. example would be cold immune seal bosses at Diablo or baal waves to help gt the essences.
by the time u get 1 of each essence u may get accustomed to going full cold build tho.
@@xz5901 Thx, but what should I do now on hell? I cant clear den of evil, my merc is to weak to kill pack of cold imunes.
When I did socket for crystal sword on normel gave me a 6 socket. Did another using alt and gave me a 5 socket
I think they should remove the fireball synergy from Hydra and raise the firebolt synergy. Maybe people will actually use firebolt past level 12 for once.
where is the 'flower' picture? ? lol
It's a shame that flickering flame doesn't work with hydra
SOFT POINTS COUNT IN DRUID SUMMON TREE!? WHY HAVE I NEVER KNOWN THIS?
2:13:37 🔭forsen1 I C BAJS