You've done something I didn't think possible. You made me want to pick up this game again after walking away some time ago. Currently re-downloading it.
Amazing video! And as a HC player I totally get what you feel. Once I ran a 2H maul zealot, somewhat twinked, and he was doing okay in NM but with signs of problems coming. The first boss in hell was a zombie, it was cursed so I got immediate deeds. I laughed like hell. Familiar feelings.
to avoid auto shooting while trying to interact with a shrine or so, remove any abilities from your action button (X on PS5), it will automatically activate a shrine and/ or open all chests and everything else regardless of nearby enemies
Black and Rhyme in a pally shield with 25+ res would have slapped man. I give it up to you for your massive balls running that weapon through hell lol.
Nice. I always volunteer to just run holy fire for my friends at ladder start so we can cruise to a5 NM before I respec and do hammers for our NM baal runs. Super strong!
@thenuclearrabbit yup. It's sad that there's no place for it before major end game when you're doing double dragon and hoj with conviction and a sunder charm lol
A small tip. Hotkey your Pick Up/Activate on your X button, and Attack on any other button to avoid attacking enemies when you would want to pick up an item or activate sth.
What a terribly amazing run. I am always surprised when you run melee without deaths sash. I will run cow king for as long as it takes to get 2 piece death set.
New subscriber and enjoying the content. For the auto aim and saving Cain thing, I always leave my x/a button clear of any skills for this reason Edit: What I mean to say is just rebind everything of the interact button
Yeah it's so funny looking. The character screen holding an invislble shield and holding the sword 1 handed made me laugh as well. Shows they never expected this kind of meme runs to happen
When playing with a controller and using a bow, put a different button to just attack (or skill) and one button to interact. That way you can loot or save Cain easily. Cheers!
We all thougt about it to use this sword for Holy Fire! But i think only you did it. :D Ah... another thing. tried to E-Mail you on your website. Didnt make the test on "im not a robot". Dont know why. But. here it comes. i would love to see a Duo Self Found Run with some Voice Chat Action. Of course on Hardcore. :) Maybe with Zarfen? But he is not the HC type of guy i think. Thos this would be even funnier! :D Why? It would bring some old memories, when i did these D2 HC stuff with my friends. But we dont have time for this now. End 30s, Kids, Wives, Jobs... you name it. Just my 2 Cents. See ya. And keep it going. Great stuff man. PS: Don´t make me use the Holy Handgranade of Antiochia
I'm open to doing a run like that. But like you I wouldn't know with who to do it. It's weird that the thing on the website doesn't work. Would explain why I barely get any mail on there. Thx for letting me know I'll look into it. Also, I hit 3 out of 4 of those as well. It's just that this is my job haha (no kids is the one I don't have)
I try to use alternative / interesting set-ups when I can. I'm working on doing a playthrough with every set and after that I'm going to move into using every unique. But the entire project is gonna take years :)
It's been requested a couple of times so I'll do it at some point but the waiting time is literal years on requests at this point so it might be a minute
Holy freeze HC play through right now is been giving me troubles as well. Hope to find a decent weapon to start hell at level 76. Sad to see all the time you put in come to a halt on act 3. Seems to be the trend for a lot of folks. Anyhow, great video!
I mean... if I was able to complete HC Holy Fire and HC Holy Shock runs... well I feel really good right now :D It is definitely doable, it just requires awful lot of NM and early Hell farming.
@@thenuclearrabbit Alright alright :D now I have two questions - do you plan to continue with that Getting Through X series? Part normal was wonderful, I'd say that NM and Hell would be even better. And how about livestreams?
I'm working on a guide in a different form. Where I just go lvl1 to hell baal explaining everything while doing all the quests with a character. I have done a few livestreams in the past but the time invested meant I was slowing down my uploads a lot. So I just don't have the time to do it right now cause my focus is on uploading video's
It is amazing how you always make these crappy ass builds work somehow. Truly impressive that you do it on HC aswell. Always enjoy your content, especially as of late with FULL commentaries that are also, may I add, very funny. Are you perhaps a ex-PC player of LoD?
Oh yeah I've played consistently since I was 13. I'm 36 now. I completed all classes guardian for the first time when I was 17, so almost 20 years ago at this point. To give some perspective. If my calcs are right, I'm somewhere around 18k hours played. Most of it in various hc runs like this. Edit 2: also, thank you!
@@thenuclearrabbit I figured. That is quite an achievement. Please never stop making these, but just a heads-up would love to see you do some PoE content also if you want to change it up. If not that is entirely respectable and of-course up to you. This swede will still watch and enjoy all of your d2 videos, and let's never stop playing this amazing nostalgia game. I started when I was 15 with D2 and am now 28. Can't never let it go somehow I always come back
I tried getting into PoE but my brain just went "nope" and back to d2 I went. I've tried a bunch of other arpg's like grim dawn, titan quest and last epoch as well. But none of them do it for me like d2 does. Hell, I don't even like d1. D3/D4 are fun every once in a while though. No worries I'll keep making these like it's my job!
I just did holy fire and i am stuck in lut gholein on hell :D I found whole arcana set, it has 100 cold damage. Basic damage can be low because you have holy fire damage. Sorry for my shitty english :D
Oh man arcana set on a fire zealot. That sounds rough haha. Yeah I leaned into holy fire damage hard for this one as well. No worries your english is fine and good luck on the rest of your run!
Oh my apologies I forgot to answer. As far as I know fire golem gets + skills from generic + to fire skills on leaf but not if it says something like (paladin only) or (sorceress only)
I’ve always been sad the scaling on holy fire is just linear and small with skill levels. I would’ve loved it to have at least twice the damage at level 25 than 20… Great run!
Nah twice is too much of a spike. I think the way to improve it without making it too broken is to remove the holy fire synergy, but give a synergy to one of the level 30 aura's instead. But buff both of them to 15% instead of the current values. That should spike the damage up quite a bit without making it even more broken early game.
Man... I want a mod kinda like the old d2 bots. I want to make a bot that will just follow me around fighting things with me. Like a mercenary, but it's a whole extra player and we can share auras and maybe auto pick-up filtered loot. I often play with my brother and/or girlfriend, but they run around playing semi-independently so we don't have consistent auras or backup.
That run reminded me of how little the pally is loved these days... Holy Fire starts to be ineffective at Nightmare difficult, even with a softcore char its painful. Fana-Zeal isnt fanatic anymore, ever since they nerfed the hell out of crushing blow, its just not crushing players 8 anymore. That beeing said: as a Paladin main, I recently started playing FoH again and I do like the changes: piercing bolts is nice to have. But at what cost? You can only hit undead and demons with bolts, and FoH its lightning damage is as useful, as the HF aura is. I guess Paladin stays Hammerdin... 😕
I'm sorry I don't know about any crushing blow nerf and googling doesn't seem to find me anything either. Paladin's actually still feel very strong to me
@@thenuclearrabbit Crushing blow got nerfed back in vanilla 1.10: damage scales with the number of players present - the more players present (including "/players 1-8" command), the less dmg it deals. That change back in the day killed my Fanaticism + Zeal Pala pretty much, it also made items like razors edge or Guillaume's Face pretty useless for me. I'm not sure about the difficult impact, since all calcs take only the amount of players into account, but still: it's a difference in 50% damage reduction for normal mobs and about 31% for bosses between "/players 1" and "/players 8"... Strong? Yes, Pala still is strong. But Fist of Heavens or Holy Bolt are very area specific or too slow for beast & humanoid enemies, so Act 2 and 5 are kinda nogo. Havent tried the FoH-Smiter yet, but I really dislike the Hammerdin playstyle :(
The Cathan Challenge: wear the full set and try to beat Hell Baal in SP HC SSF fashon. Cathan is by far the worst set, and few other limitations are added, otherwise all characters that can finish the game naked would easily do it. No active summons; only decoy and druid spirits are allowed (no wolves nor bear), no other summons nor revives are allowed. Also there are other restrictions: no blizzard nor frozen orb for the sorceress, no bone skills for necromancer, no fow, hammer nor holy bolts for the paladin, no elemental spells for the druid, no leap attack for the barbarian, no traps for the assassin. A second Cathan staff in switch to prevent the use of buffs or tele staff. Get ready to say goodbye to all the runewords, +skills, most of fcr and resistances and everything that's good for the green color of our meme goddess among low level sets. Are you three knights of Apocalypse (Nuclear Rabbit, looter and Zarfen the Loot Goblin) ready to fight for Cathan?
But with +6 to my skill this must be the best weapon in the game!! All kidding aside. It's probably still bad but doable with like double spirits or something. Some crushing blow would help a ton as well
You mean ssf all the way through? Cause I've done that for the channel once and a couple of times before the channel existed. Naked ubers isn't a thing afaik
You've done something I didn't think possible. You made me want to pick up this game again after walking away some time ago. Currently re-downloading it.
Rip your next 20 years
Amazing video! And as a HC player I totally get what you feel. Once I ran a 2H maul zealot, somewhat twinked, and he was doing okay in NM but with signs of problems coming. The first boss in hell was a zombie, it was cursed so I got immediate deeds. I laughed like hell. Familiar feelings.
Rip haha
For the whole video, I was just thinking: "Get a fast weapon and shield already, c'mon!'"
But my meme would die!
the rant is worth it I think! it's not only a sort of item lesson for newer D2R players but also let's us know where you are coming from.
to avoid auto shooting while trying to interact with a shrine or so, remove any abilities from your action button (X on PS5), it will automatically activate a shrine and/ or open all chests and everything else regardless of nearby enemies
Yeah someone else commented that as well. I love picking up stuff like this from random moments in my video's. Thank you :)
I always go down without a problem
Are you Mephisto?
9:55 Coolest moment
12:30 ❤
Ko-olest moment for sure ❤️
These runs are becoming masochistic
Luckily for me they won't all be like this. But yeah D2 can be a very mean game at times
Black and Rhyme in a pally shield with 25+ res would have slapped man. I give it up to you for your massive balls running that weapon through hell lol.
Oh yeah I know that with good gear this will do much better. But memes :D
Oh nice a new video of yours! Good watch to myself as I'm starting the watch :)
A good watch to you
Nice. I always volunteer to just run holy fire for my friends at ladder start so we can cruise to a5 NM before I respec and do hammers for our NM baal runs. Super strong!
Oh yeah if you switch out of it in nightmare it is amazing :D
@thenuclearrabbit yup. It's sad that there's no place for it before major end game when you're doing double dragon and hoj with conviction and a sunder charm lol
A small tip.
Hotkey your Pick Up/Activate on your X button, and Attack on any other button to avoid attacking enemies when you would want to pick up an item or activate sth.
Why have I never thought of that? It's the small things
What a terribly amazing run. I am always surprised when you run melee without deaths sash. I will run cow king for as long as it takes to get 2 piece death set.
Thank you!
I've done that before as well. But it takes me just as long to do that as to just go and beat nightmare for better stuff
New subscriber and enjoying the content. For the auto aim and saving Cain thing, I always leave my x/a button clear of any skills for this reason Edit: What I mean to say is just rebind everything of the interact button
Welcome! Thx for the tip
I think it's best to shop a holy fire scepter rather than go with leaf.
It's usually not too hard.
you just love making song references :D love the Eminems ones :D
I do it in real life as well haha. I am basically made out of cabaret, movie and music quotes
@thenuclearrabbit the "queen" reference was AMAZING hahs
Your deeds of valor will be remembered
Rip
Loved the demented hacking animation of the sword whilst zealing away :)
Yeah it's so funny looking. The character screen holding an invislble shield and holding the sword 1 handed made me laugh as well. Shows they never expected this kind of meme runs to happen
Look at that guy, he's zealed out of his mind, and he's zacking enemies ON STREAM
Melee without a shield is so rough! Kudos for sticking with the 2h sword, and that one in particular! 😁
Thx haha! Yeah this was a run alright. But can't let memes be dreams
Loot goblin spotted
Sometimes I wish skills that work well in Normal could work just as well in the other difficulties instead of falling off a cliff
To be fair this would be a lot better if I didn't go and use the meme sword
All he needed was a shield and Holy Shield, and it would've been fine.
@thenuclearrabbit very true but sometimes you just gotta have the meme weapon
Exactly!
I've lost a few HC characters because I found something to cool not to use
When playing with a controller and using a bow, put a different button to just attack (or skill) and one button to interact. That way you can loot or save Cain easily. Cheers!
Cheers!
We all thougt about it to use this sword for Holy Fire! But i think only you did it. :D
Ah... another thing. tried to E-Mail you on your website. Didnt make the test on "im not a robot". Dont know why. But. here it comes.
i would love to see a Duo Self Found Run with some Voice Chat Action. Of course on Hardcore. :)
Maybe with Zarfen? But he is not the HC type of guy i think. Thos this would be even funnier! :D
Why? It would bring some old memories, when i did these D2 HC stuff with my friends. But we dont have time for this now. End 30s, Kids, Wives, Jobs... you name it.
Just my 2 Cents.
See ya. And keep it going. Great stuff man.
PS: Don´t make me use the Holy Handgranade of Antiochia
I'm open to doing a run like that. But like you I wouldn't know with who to do it.
It's weird that the thing on the website doesn't work. Would explain why I barely get any mail on there. Thx for letting me know I'll look into it.
Also, I hit 3 out of 4 of those as well. It's just that this is my job haha (no kids is the one I don't have)
@@thenuclearrabbit Maybe looter a korean HC SSF UA-camr i found yesterday. He named you btw for his inspiration to do his Channel. :)
After listening to the music at 4:30 I realized that this is a walkthrough with the Holy Fire Paladin and Knuckles
Might fanaticism aura archer pack was crazy :D
First born for Cannot Be Frozen. Fair trade, IMO.
Yeah if I had kids I know what I'd do
Holy fire paladin is quite strong.
I know :)
The first thing I do when I play with a controller is rebind attack to square and leave x unbound
I did this too once, he was good up 'til he'll and was still "okay" for anything that wasn't fire imm, but the kill speed drops off a ton, quickly.
Oh yeah for sure. The killing speed was atrocious in hell.
Few ladders ago I got a kuko on my holy fire starter. Carried me all the way to hell with ease
Oh yeah kuko is great
Star Fox soundtrack, NICE
Ur jokes are top tier brosnan
Thank you!
An obedience and a fire sunder may have saved you
Can't find fire sunder until after hell. I had like none of the runes for obedience so that wasn't happening either
Crushing blow gloves dog
Yeah those would have helped for sure
@6:34 Nice Ancients' Pledge 🤣
Look 90 res is 90 res haha 🤣
Finally some underutilized gear getting the spotlight
I try to use alternative / interesting set-ups when I can. I'm working on doing a playthrough with every set and after that I'm going to move into using every unique. But the entire project is gonna take years :)
Awesome video 👏🏻👏🏻 can you wear the same gear from normal to hell on any char?
It's been requested a couple of times so I'll do it at some point but the waiting time is literal years on requests at this point so it might be a minute
Holy freeze HC play through right now is been giving me troubles as well. Hope to find a decent weapon to start hell at level 76. Sad to see all the time you put in come to a halt on act 3. Seems to be the trend for a lot of folks. Anyhow, great video!
Thank you! Good luck on your playthrough as well. I'm gonna retry holy shock and fire first but holy freeze is definitely in the planning as well
@ all good, take your time. It’s rough as well. Glad to see you’re still active bro.
Oh yeah I'm definitely still active. I try to post at least once a week :)
i really wanted to use kinemil's awl on my holy fire pally, but the lack of a shield made it really hard surviving 😭
I wouldn't know 😭
haha I just got that sword with my sacrifice paladin
Brutal.
+1 like for the Queen lyrics :)
I enjoy giving shoutouts to small artists :D
I thought the same thing haha
I mean... if I was able to complete HC Holy Fire and HC Holy Shock runs... well I feel really good right now :D
It is definitely doable, it just requires awful lot of NM and early Hell farming.
I'll go and do them haha this will not stand lol
@@thenuclearrabbit Alright alright :D now I have two questions - do you plan to continue with that Getting Through X series? Part normal was wonderful, I'd say that NM and Hell would be even better.
And how about livestreams?
I'm working on a guide in a different form. Where I just go lvl1 to hell baal explaining everything while doing all the quests with a character.
I have done a few livestreams in the past but the time invested meant I was slowing down my uploads a lot. So I just don't have the time to do it right now cause my focus is on uploading video's
U can use might-aura while fighting fireimmunes.
I could but I don't think a very low level might would make a difference
Yessss! I love your videos! I'm just starting, but I bet this was an easy one.
Edit:
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😅
Gave me some good laughs
weee! new video! :D
You should have maxed out holy fire and it's synergies before maxing zeal
It is amazing how you always make these crappy ass builds work somehow. Truly impressive that you do it on HC aswell. Always enjoy your content, especially as of late with FULL commentaries that are also, may I add, very funny.
Are you perhaps a ex-PC player of LoD?
Oh yeah I've played consistently since I was 13. I'm 36 now. I completed all classes guardian for the first time when I was 17, so almost 20 years ago at this point.
To give some perspective. If my calcs are right, I'm somewhere around 18k hours played. Most of it in various hc runs like this.
Edit 2: also, thank you!
@@thenuclearrabbit I figured. That is quite an achievement. Please never stop making these, but just a heads-up would love to see you do some PoE content also if you want to change it up. If not that is entirely respectable and of-course up to you.
This swede will still watch and enjoy all of your d2 videos, and let's never stop playing this amazing nostalgia game. I started when I was 15 with D2 and am now 28. Can't never let it go somehow I always come back
I tried getting into PoE but my brain just went "nope" and back to d2 I went. I've tried a bunch of other arpg's like grim dawn, titan quest and last epoch as well. But none of them do it for me like d2 does. Hell, I don't even like d1. D3/D4 are fun every once in a while though.
No worries I'll keep making these like it's my job!
Id be so upset if i lost the best weapon in the game! Youll probly never find one again.
Yeah I'll never find like 4 this morning again ever 😅😂
I just did holy fire and i am stuck in lut gholein on hell :D
I found whole arcana set, it has 100 cold damage.
Basic damage can be low because you have holy fire damage. Sorry for my shitty english :D
Oh man arcana set on a fire zealot. That sounds rough haha.
Yeah I leaned into holy fire damage hard for this one as well.
No worries your english is fine and good luck on the rest of your run!
holy shock in was so hard with normal gear, made a twink one and so easy XD hardcore looks scary though
Holy shock is so much stronger than holy fire haha. Hardcore is really fun but you should ease into it :)
I saw a build that was 1/3rd hammerdin 1/3rd FoH and 1/3rd smite. Could you do a run like that? Or maybe like a tri-element sorc?
Foh/Smite/Hammer hybrid sounds fun. A tri-res sorc has been requested a couple of times before and is on the giant neverending to-do list.
Damn bro. Been a while since i saw you die.
But the Awl must be obeyed!!
Yeah it had been a while. I'm sure it'll happen again at some point though.
Obey the Awl!!!
6:11 you better jump for joy anytime you get any quest reward that isn’t total 💩
😂😭
"65% faster run/walk; if that doesn't make you happy then Idk what does"
+1 to teleport ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Fair. But I do actually prefer walking fast over teleporting. I dno teleport just doesn't do it for me
@@thenuclearrabbitI'm the same way. Walk/run speed > teleport
I don't think rings can be in tow. They can be on a toe i guess.
:) thx
11:02 I have never seen this one before :D
:D
Will Nuclear ever clear the game with a "auradin" u died on holy shock and fire, only holy freeze left, maybe that will be the one :)
I hope so. To be fair though both my auradins were not exactly full power serious runs
did anyone test if the fire golem gets anything out of +holy fire skills?
Oh my apologies I forgot to answer. As far as I know fire golem gets + skills from generic + to fire skills on leaf but not if it says something like (paladin only) or (sorceress only)
I’ve always been sad the scaling on holy fire is just linear and small with skill levels. I would’ve loved it to have at least twice the damage at level 25 than 20…
Great run!
Nah twice is too much of a spike. I think the way to improve it without making it too broken is to remove the holy fire synergy, but give a synergy to one of the level 30 aura's instead. But buff both of them to 15% instead of the current values. That should spike the damage up quite a bit without making it even more broken early game.
This build I think every 14 year old kid thought of haha
Yeah I had to do it when the sword dropped
Man... I want a mod kinda like the old d2 bots. I want to make a bot that will just follow me around fighting things with me. Like a mercenary, but it's a whole extra player and we can share auras and maybe auto pick-up filtered loot.
I often play with my brother and/or girlfriend, but they run around playing semi-independently so we don't have consistent auras or backup.
Oh that does sound fun. No clue on how to do it though
That run reminded me of how little the pally is loved these days...
Holy Fire starts to be ineffective at Nightmare difficult, even with a softcore char its painful. Fana-Zeal isnt fanatic anymore, ever since they nerfed the hell out of crushing blow, its just not crushing players 8 anymore. That beeing said: as a Paladin main, I recently started playing FoH again and I do like the changes: piercing bolts is nice to have. But at what cost? You can only hit undead and demons with bolts, and FoH its lightning damage is as useful, as the HF aura is. I guess Paladin stays Hammerdin... 😕
I'm sorry I don't know about any crushing blow nerf and googling doesn't seem to find me anything either.
Paladin's actually still feel very strong to me
@@thenuclearrabbit Crushing blow got nerfed back in vanilla 1.10: damage scales with the number of players present - the more players present (including "/players 1-8" command), the less dmg it deals. That change back in the day killed my Fanaticism + Zeal Pala pretty much, it also made items like razors edge or Guillaume's Face pretty useless for me. I'm not sure about the difficult impact, since all calcs take only the amount of players into account, but still: it's a difference in 50% damage reduction for normal mobs and about 31% for bosses between "/players 1" and "/players 8"...
Strong? Yes, Pala still is strong. But Fist of Heavens or Holy Bolt are very area specific or too slow for beast & humanoid enemies, so Act 2 and 5 are kinda nogo. Havent tried the FoH-Smiter yet, but I really dislike the Hammerdin playstyle :(
If you have problem with autoaim why not assign interact to one of your buttons?
Cause I had never thought of that :)
Hustle in a weapon is way better :)
I'll give my sword 3 sockets next time :)
The Cathan Challenge: wear the full set and try to beat Hell Baal in SP HC SSF fashon.
Cathan is by far the worst set, and few other limitations are added, otherwise all characters that can finish the game naked would easily do it. No active summons; only decoy and druid spirits are allowed (no wolves nor bear), no other summons nor revives are allowed. Also there are other restrictions: no blizzard nor frozen orb for the sorceress, no bone skills for necromancer, no fow, hammer nor holy bolts for the paladin, no elemental spells for the druid, no leap attack for the barbarian, no traps for the assassin. A second Cathan staff in switch to prevent the use of buffs or tele staff.
Get ready to say goodbye to all the runewords, +skills, most of fcr and resistances and everything that's good for the green color of our meme goddess among low level sets. Are you three knights of Apocalypse (Nuclear Rabbit, looter and Zarfen the Loot Goblin) ready to fight for Cathan?
Nope. That sounds horrible
@@thenuclearrabbit It is horrible, just like Cathan Set is. BTW I started to farm the set in HC, then I'll start the meme challenge.
Good luck on that :)
eth in weapon?
Oh that probably would have been good. Good call!
Need to make a better weapon next time and maybe you'd have a chance but I doubt it!
But with +6 to my skill this must be the best weapon in the game!!
All kidding aside. It's probably still bad but doable with like double spirits or something. Some crushing blow would help a ton as well
Hexfire + spirit is better for low level holy fire build
Yeah even no weapon and a random white shield with some res is better than this. It's just for memes haha
oof
Big oof
Day 1 of asking for 1 to uber without gear 😂😂
You mean ssf all the way through? Cause I've done that for the channel once and a couple of times before the channel existed. Naked ubers isn't a thing afaik
Pointless to make a Leaf, if you can just take +3 Holy Fire Scepter >
If you get it yes. But getting a leaf is much easier/more consistent
@@thenuclearrabbit For Druid - ok, but for Pala... come on. ^___^
Kinemil's Awful run rofl
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to play holy fire with that sword and without shield in hell is such a heart!