This video series is by far my favorite, as I really appreciate the way Llama explains everything while he's doing it. I've used the knowledge of previous guided play-throughs to make Trapsins, Javazons, etc. of my own. I do think this most recent one was a little too speed-run-like, though. There were several times where I wish Llama had slowed down a bit and worked through a tough monster pack and/or reset the spawns, as opposed to just using his brilliant teleport micro to skip through. (I play on console mostly, so teleporting is not always a guaranteed out for me.) I also think Llama might have gone back and farmed for the Eld Rune for 'Hustle' a few years ago, since I feel like his older guides have more time dedicated to farming. Not that I'm complaining at all -- just submitting some constructive feedback for the next one. Great video, overall!
Tips: _The Pits are an excellent place to farm for runes, even on P1! _Want the ultimate "lucky try"? Go to Act2-Arcane Sanctuary with a character that can teleport (I recommend doing this with a somewhat geared character). Now, teleport around and pull every single ghost you see to the middle platform, do this for each way, and then kill the massive wave! P7 is the ideal, you get a nice chance for runes! You have the tree main factors: P7, Ghosts and Monster density! In one single day, i got 2Bers, 3 Ist, 1 Jah and a bunch of middle runes (Um up). Don't expect to have runes raining on you tho, yes i had this lucky day, but after was just mediocre with runes no higher than Mal dropping.. but for real, just try it. Avoid pulling "extra fast" and "aura/enchanted". _Need some Skiller? P8 Nightmare Cows. Want to roll some Skillers? (Cube the charms with 3 perfect gems). But you're afraid of the massive roll possibilities? Act 2 Nightmare Tombs (Those fake Duriel tombs) farm some charms there, they have a limited roll possibility due to item level, that caps right on the skiller rolls.
In all of my time playing D2/D2R I have never made an Assassin, so after watching these 3 videos it has definitely made want to give her a go, possibly an HC straight off the bat. Thanks for the effort you put in to all these videos, MrLlama, it's really appreciated
Tedious fact about me: I played the hell out of D1 back in the late 90's, but for some reason when D2 came out I didn't get it right away. I think maybe my PC at the time couldn't run it. It wasn't until the expansion was released and the Assassin was one of the two new classes that I finally purchased D2. However, in my younger days I didn't like playing as female characters. I'm not really sure why, I just didn't like it. As a male I always preferred playing as male characters with very few exceptions. One of them being the Princess in Super Mario Bros. 2 because she floated and the other I can think of is Joanna Dark in Perfect Dark on the N64. I have long since gotten over my phobia of playing female characters, but just like you I still have yet to start an Assassin. Recently I've been looking at different Assassin builds and I even watched videos on the viability of using a bow, which apparently can work quite well depending on the type of bow. I also watched videos on using Shadow Warrior and Shadow Master, as none of the builds utilize either one.
@@Tom_Van_Zandt I was late to the party with D2, only purchasing on advice from a friend back in 2002/3 when I saw it in a games store, on offer - 3 for £10 which included D2, D2 LoD and Half Life 1. My reasoning for not playing as Assassin initially was a bit simpler, in that for the physical side I saw her as a weaker barbarian and the 'magic' side (traps) I saw as weaker Sorceress skills, so a bit of jack of all trades, master of none. I'm glad I've started a build with her now though, gone for a Fire Trapsin on HC mode and so far has been a lot of fun. That's very interesting regarding the bow option, I'll have to look into that also
Loved all three videos in this series! Learned a lot about the Trapsin I didn't know. I was always reluctant to try hell on mine but now I have and all done. Thanls Llama!
Finally finished diablo 2 on Hell. It was really hard doing it with Trapsin. My first time doing it, tho. Ever since I was a kid (played, stopped, repeat). Thanks Mr.Llama!
I do absolutely love trapsin. Has been my favorite class since original d2. It is so true what someone else said, that it's pretty necessary to play sorc at the start of a season or you're seriously crippling yourself. Tele is just way too strong.
Hour 7 in Hell: Act 5 multishot/freeze arrow bowazon scared for my life each frame watching someone teleport through in 2 hours and laughing/cracking jokes 🤣😅
There’s always a chance they’ll add it. That’s one thing with d4 that makes it so promising is with how it looks like they’re gonna handle it. Anything could be possible to be added in a season
just finished in Hell with my Trapsin. I used gear from other characters like Enigma, Arachnid mesh etc and Foritude and Infinity for my merc and even two sunder charms for lightning and fire. the game was both easy and hard in some places. I died some times in A4 when several Burning Souls started firing against me. I had quite a penalty to lightning res because of Hell diff and charm but I managed through. now I'm lvl 83. I play only online and I also found several 5 and 6 socketed bases.
I've finished yesterday act 3 hell with help of your video. What a nightmare :D the worst act ever. First map all lightning resist. I had to jump through whole. I hope act 4 today will be more fun
All the big urdar types before River of Flame in Act IV were lightning immune for me. Mind blasted/convert then death sentry with merc attacking and fire blast. Slow going but I got through. Farming for infinity now.
Wow, what a struggle. Got stuck on Act 2 and I feel like I've had enough of D2R. Normal and NM was a blast, Hell is just too finicky for me. Thanks for the video, at least I know what I was missing out on.
The Holy Grail series is great for this. You really get to see the progression in an incremental way as he finds various gear pieces and upgrades his character(s).
With the new changes, my question is if it's viable to run dual fire/lightning traps in Hell? Something like (at Character level 80) 20 to Fire Blast, Lightning Sentry, Wake of Fire, and Shock Web. 10 to Death Sentry and Charged Bolt Sentry 1 to some or all Shadow Disciplines except Venom. If my calculation is right, each Lightning Sentry at that point would do 1-936 damage/shot, Fire Blast would do 478-635, and WoF would do 195-223, which is definitely low on a per-shot basis, but with 5 shots a trap it looks a lot better. I'm not sure how good a decoy a level 1 with +Skills Shadow Master would be, though.
loved these trapsin videos. finally made me level a 'sin past about 12... lol. really enjoy the IDEA of the 'sin, but actually levelling one never felt as enjoyable as the other characters. as for re-doing the previous parts... could you not just delete / private / rename them when you're ready with the new versions?
@@Ozzull I’m currently doing it right now with an insight bow (currently level 76 in hell) and it’s really not bad at all. Not as fast as most characters, but still fun hunting for upgrades.
@@lNTERESTlNG yeah i always enjoy playing hunters classes :) I've 4 bowa builds, and the most enjoyable is the Faith / Poison / Crushing B. It melts bosses lol But without proper gear it's too slow. I prefer going full frost and later, after farming nightmare, going physical. Some nice mana leech rings and a decent bow/armor with crushing b will make things way more enjoyable
@@petergriffinson1907 I know what it is. I was just asking what it was called. I found it in another video of his but it doesn't work anymore after patch
yep, i think MrLlama's said a while back, he's only seen a couple of Zod's drop, even with his multiple tens of thousands of hours played. and ofc there's his grails, where the first one took him like 3 years of farming to get his final item (Mang Song's Lesson).
@@tzxazrael shit. When in multiplayer, you must be close to the other players to get drop bonuses? Or if you are in a area and they are in other, still get drop bonuses?
@@addictedplayer4453 i'm not sure "drop bonuses" are a thing? like... # of players in game, # of players in your party... that's all that affects how much drops. (and MF% "improves" what does drop)
Llama is afraid talking to strangers….thought hes doing this everyday… And even if they are strangers, why is a gentle talk strange? Is that a USA thing?
There's a difference talking about his passion and talking with randoms. Also on the PC he can just stop and walk away so it feels 'safer'. Talking as a fellow introvert
Dude! That is some of the worst trap placement I have ever seen! What are you thinking putting all the light traps down in one place right in the middle of the mobs? Put your traps down in an arc, in front of you but away from the mobs. Then when a brave monster starts walking towards you (you use yourself as bait of course) ALL your traps shoot that ONE monster and it dies very quickly. The way you played that cold plains at the start of the video was gruesome, it looked like a newb "first time playing a sin" 😬
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This video series is by far my favorite, as I really appreciate the way Llama explains everything while he's doing it. I've used the knowledge of previous guided play-throughs to make Trapsins, Javazons, etc. of my own. I do think this most recent one was a little too speed-run-like, though. There were several times where I wish Llama had slowed down a bit and worked through a tough monster pack and/or reset the spawns, as opposed to just using his brilliant teleport micro to skip through. (I play on console mostly, so teleporting is not always a guaranteed out for me.) I also think Llama might have gone back and farmed for the Eld Rune for 'Hustle' a few years ago, since I feel like his older guides have more time dedicated to farming. Not that I'm complaining at all -- just submitting some constructive feedback for the next one. Great video, overall!
Did you pull me over on the highway yesterday?
Tips:
_The Pits are an excellent place to farm for runes, even on P1!
_Want the ultimate "lucky try"? Go to Act2-Arcane Sanctuary with a character that can teleport (I recommend doing this with a somewhat geared character). Now, teleport around and pull every single ghost you see to the middle platform, do this for each way, and then kill the massive wave! P7 is the ideal, you get a nice chance for runes! You have the tree main factors: P7, Ghosts and Monster density! In one single day, i got 2Bers, 3 Ist, 1 Jah and a bunch of middle runes (Um up). Don't expect to have runes raining on you tho, yes i had this lucky day, but after was just mediocre with runes no higher than Mal dropping.. but for real, just try it. Avoid pulling "extra fast" and "aura/enchanted".
_Need some Skiller? P8 Nightmare Cows. Want to roll some Skillers? (Cube the charms with 3 perfect gems). But you're afraid of the massive roll possibilities? Act 2 Nightmare Tombs (Those fake Duriel tombs) farm some charms there, they have a limited roll possibility due to item level, that caps right on the skiller rolls.
Single player? Because if u solo play u can't p7
In all of my time playing D2/D2R I have never made an Assassin, so after watching these 3 videos it has definitely made want to give her a go, possibly an HC straight off the bat. Thanks for the effort you put in to all these videos, MrLlama, it's really appreciated
Tedious fact about me: I played the hell out of D1 back in the late 90's, but for some reason when D2 came out I didn't get it right away. I think maybe my PC at the time couldn't run it. It wasn't until the expansion was released and the Assassin was one of the two new classes that I finally purchased D2. However, in my younger days I didn't like playing as female characters. I'm not really sure why, I just didn't like it. As a male I always preferred playing as male characters with very few exceptions. One of them being the Princess in Super Mario Bros. 2 because she floated and the other I can think of is Joanna Dark in Perfect Dark on the N64. I have long since gotten over my phobia of playing female characters, but just like you I still have yet to start an Assassin. Recently I've been looking at different Assassin builds and I even watched videos on the viability of using a bow, which apparently can work quite well depending on the type of bow. I also watched videos on using Shadow Warrior and Shadow Master, as none of the builds utilize either one.
@@Tom_Van_Zandt I was late to the party with D2, only purchasing on advice from a friend back in 2002/3 when I saw it in a games store, on offer - 3 for £10 which included D2, D2 LoD and Half Life 1.
My reasoning for not playing as Assassin initially was a bit simpler, in that for the physical side I saw her as a weaker barbarian and the 'magic' side (traps) I saw as weaker Sorceress skills, so a bit of jack of all trades, master of none.
I'm glad I've started a build with her now though, gone for a Fire Trapsin on HC mode and so far has been a lot of fun.
That's very interesting regarding the bow option, I'll have to look into that also
I play the game my whole life, but your videos change my way to play completly. Thank you!
Loved all three videos in this series! Learned a lot about the Trapsin I didn't know. I was always reluctant to try hell on mine but now I have and all done. Thanls Llama!
Finally finished diablo 2 on Hell. It was really hard doing it with Trapsin. My first time doing it, tho. Ever since I was a kid (played, stopped, repeat). Thanks Mr.Llama!
Pretty sure the clone is called " Baal" with an extra leading space. So it's not the Demon tag that moves, but his name.
I do absolutely love trapsin. Has been my favorite class since original d2. It is so true what someone else said, that it's pretty necessary to play sorc at the start of a season or you're seriously crippling yourself. Tele is just way too strong.
At the start of every season. I tell myself I will not make a Sorc and play Necro or Trapsin. But day 2 or 3 im leveling a sorc to farm :(
@@jasco666 I say just give everyone an enigma 1 week into new ladder!
why not just level a trapsin until you can get a tele staff?
@@fredmanM Is that as optimal as a blixxard sorc from ladder start?
@@orion9k oh god ofc not. But it is still very much doable and very fun. Sorc will always be the meta for ladder starts
Hour 7 in Hell: Act 5 multishot/freeze arrow bowazon scared for my life each frame watching someone teleport through in 2 hours and laughing/cracking jokes 🤣😅
my favorite build, glad they did the +- elemental buff, def helped with build changes and things to shoot for with gear
This is something I truly miss in Diablo4... the ability to mix in skills from other classes via gear :(
There’s always a chance they’ll add it. That’s one thing with d4 that makes it so promising is with how it looks like they’re gonna handle it. Anything could be possible to be added in a season
just finished in Hell with my Trapsin. I used gear from other characters like Enigma, Arachnid mesh etc and Foritude and Infinity for my merc and even two sunder charms for lightning and fire. the game was both easy and hard in some places. I died some times in A4 when several Burning Souls started firing against me. I had quite a penalty to lightning res because of Hell diff and charm but I managed through. now I'm lvl 83. I play only online and I also found several 5 and 6 socketed bases.
I've finished yesterday act 3 hell with help of your video. What a nightmare :D the worst act ever. First map all lightning resist. I had to jump through whole. I hope act 4 today will be more fun
All the big urdar types before River of Flame in Act IV were lightning immune for me. Mind blasted/convert then death sentry with merc attacking and fire blast. Slow going but I got through. Farming for infinity now.
@@dresdyn100 I've finished act5 yesterday. Still act 3 was the worst. Now farming for my sunders :)
@@MrClinior Nice, same as well 😀
Amazing video, didnt know about the invisible wall bug!
Wow, what a struggle. Got stuck on Act 2 and I feel like I've had enough of D2R.
Normal and NM was a blast, Hell is just too finicky for me.
Thanks for the video, at least I know what I was missing out on.
I'd really to see a playthrough where you grind up a character, I wouldn't even mind which character you play... Awesome vid man
The Holy Grail series is great for this. You really get to see the progression in an incremental way as he finds various gear pieces and upgrades his character(s).
This is a great build to use a merc because you can keep them alive well with mindblast. They can get those initial kills to keep you exploding.
That vortex would've been interesting for early riftsin
Always solid content.
"Love me some tearhaunches"
Sells them right away
With the new changes, my question is if it's viable to run dual fire/lightning traps in Hell? Something like (at Character level 80)
20 to Fire Blast, Lightning Sentry, Wake of Fire, and Shock Web.
10 to Death Sentry and Charged Bolt Sentry
1 to some or all Shadow Disciplines except Venom.
If my calculation is right, each Lightning Sentry at that point would do 1-936 damage/shot, Fire Blast would do 478-635, and WoF would do 195-223, which is definitely low on a per-shot basis, but with 5 shots a trap it looks a lot better.
I'm not sure how good a decoy a level 1 with +Skills Shadow Master would be, though.
I love this and I’m playing along.
loved these trapsin videos. finally made me level a 'sin past about 12... lol. really enjoy the IDEA of the 'sin, but actually levelling one never felt as enjoyable as the other characters.
as for re-doing the previous parts... could you not just delete / private / rename them when you're ready with the new versions?
Physical Bowazon guided play through when? #6
@@Ozzull I’m currently doing it right now with an insight bow (currently level 76 in hell) and it’s really not bad at all. Not as fast as most characters, but still fun hunting for upgrades.
@@lNTERESTlNG yeah i always enjoy playing hunters classes :) I've 4 bowa builds, and the most enjoyable is the Faith / Poison / Crushing B. It melts bosses lol But without proper gear it's too slow. I prefer going full frost and later, after farming nightmare, going physical. Some nice mana leech rings and a decent bow/armor with crushing b will make things way more enjoyable
I tried the lower resist wand but it doesn’t seem to do f all it’s something is lightning immune I do absolutely no damage can’t figure out why
@MrLlamaSC im starting this as ladder season 4 its worth going straight into fire assassin or stay light sentries ?
Good work
Ty for the video.
does putting crescent moon on a merc work for your traps now?
Mind blown on ancients bug! 20+ years in D2 and still learning shit.
hey mr.llamasc may I know more information about the mod? thanks!
i love your youtube voice
Huh, I always called him "Madawack" in my head 😂😂
Is the next hit delay and +skill damage only for ladder?
It works in single player ive been rockin hell fire trapsin all day yesterday.
it's just part of the overall 2.7 patch, so it should work everywhere once you update.
i missed it where is he getting conversion from?
Mind blast
Protip: the walmart brand diapers, think it's Parents Choice, are excellent and like 40% cheaper than name brand
I want to try so many other classes season 4 but you have to do sorc first if you want the loots :(
nicee 🙌🙌
Why not fire trapsin?
Just found a 6os pb on single player. Now i just need to find 6 facets
What hack mod is that?
hack mod? you mean adding players? its a single player benefit no hacks.
@@tekkenjamI was talking about the hack mod he turned off at 2:42
It’s his hero editor
@@petergriffinson1907 I know what it is. I was just asking what it was called. I found it in another video of his but it doesn't work anymore after patch
It's almost impossible to farm high runes playing 100% solo? Best one I got it was a ist... What about going over lvl 91 playing Alone?
All doable, just need to put in time.
yep, i think MrLlama's said a while back, he's only seen a couple of Zod's drop, even with his multiple tens of thousands of hours played. and ofc there's his grails, where the first one took him like 3 years of farming to get his final item (Mang Song's Lesson).
@@tzxazrael shit. When in multiplayer, you must be close to the other players to get drop bonuses? Or if you are in a area and they are in other, still get drop bonuses?
@@addictedplayer4453 i'm not sure "drop bonuses" are a thing? like... # of players in game, # of players in your party... that's all that affects how much drops. (and MF% "improves" what does drop)
@@tzxazrael but you need to be in the same map as your party? or they can be at any map and you into another, you will get drop bonuses anyway?
the fake baal cant teleport either
Llama is afraid talking to strangers….thought hes doing this everyday…
And even if they are strangers, why is a gentle talk strange? Is that a USA thing?
There's a difference talking about his passion and talking with randoms. Also on the PC he can just stop and walk away so it feels 'safer'. Talking as a fellow introvert
1:41:01 how is this fun?
Dude! That is some of the worst trap placement I have ever seen!
What are you thinking putting all the light traps down in one place right in the middle of the mobs?
Put your traps down in an arc, in front of you but away from the mobs. Then when a brave monster starts walking towards you (you use yourself as bait of course) ALL your traps shoot that ONE monster and it dies very quickly.
The way you played that cold plains at the start of the video was gruesome, it looked like a newb "first time playing a sin" 😬
Why is crescent moon good for trap assassin? you never strike anybody???? does -35% enemy lightning resis make that big of a diff?
Yes. Think of it like a passive effect similar to how a sorcerer lighting mastery works.
Jesus how boring😂