26:20 the 4 jewels I presume give the 4-296 lightning damage. But from what I remember, that is applied to weapon damage, and sorceress does not use the weapon for damage. It does work for the Javelin of the Amazon
no he using 5/5 light facet unique jewels which give -5 enemy lightning resistance and +5% lightning skill damage which increases the damage of your lightning spells so with 4 its -20 enemy light res +20 light skill damage
putting points in dodge evade and avoid makes your javazon considerably worse these skills prevent you from actually attacking, which would kill everything, and instead get you stuck in dodgelock.
Anyone remember when nova sorceresses were insanely overpowered (back when doing cow levels was the main way of leveling post-game)? You'd teleport into a mass of cows, spam nova for maybe five seconds and most of them would be dead and the rest would be low health.
Long time ago static was was not capped to 50% in hell. Sorcs with max static could bring several screens of mobs to few % HP in 2 sec. The lightest breath of wind would finish them off. They were loved for that. Teleport was only available to sorcs. With telekinesis they could pickup any item from distance and were hated for that. Sorcs were truly unique. Those days are gone. Now every stinky barb can tele around like leprikone.
@@jurijgera7125 i think static was limited to 50% on the expansion. I haven't played it in a long time, though, so things might have changed on classic since then.
you rock man, good video, yoiu explain very well everything. i used to play like 15 yrs ago, and now i came back and im sharp as a new pencil lol greetings from argentina!
Great list. I've had one of each of those but probly my fav was a Fury druid w/ ebotd Tmaul. Def not as much burst as a sorc, would max out at 16-19k, but those 5 hits especially on a single target were just brutal.
Witht he druid, If you're having issues breaking cold immunes with Infinity, you could consider Reaper's Toll instead. Insane raw damage and decrepify breaks most phys immunes.
First time viewer, and I love your knowledge and passion for this game. Not a lot of people find enjoyment or have a passion in life, and it makes me happy to see people like you.. Truly awesome!
I feel like it's basically Java sorc, CE necro (psn or summon) in S tier when kitted out. Lighting sorc, trapsin, dream sealer, hammerdins are all great but never seemed to get the same clear speeds if we're talking all-round monsterbashing and not doing something like pit or strictly popping seals and related bosspacks in CS runs. Then of course there are some niche builds for select areas like the pitzerker which may equal or outshine the S builds for the select task at hand.
manald heal is a bad ring for a javazon 14% mana leech, with 1500dmg javelins, when you take in account damage reduce, drain effectiveness and -66% leech penalty in hell, is about 15mana per throw so instead of spending both ring slots for 15mana/throw, you could use silkweaves that give 5 mana/kill, and since you get about 10 kills / throw on a javazon, that's already more than 3 times more mana/throw, and you get to use 2 soj or soj + raven + facet in helm
First off dude, I love your videos been following you for a little while now. My only issue is other than the fact that you do everything on single player, is that all these builds being extreme end game and pretty much unrealistic unless you’ve been playing regularly for the past few years. I was an original core players who gave it up a while back and I’ve come back-and-forth a few times in the games history recently just picked it back up again. Being able to actually find any of this gear unless you’re a veteran player that’s been playing for a long time is next to impossible. I put together a Javazon on the current ladder but Only good gear I’ve been able to cobble together has mostly been donations from other kind of players. Which is very few and far between online nowadays. I can’t even get myself a damn Titans. Magic find even when I played back in the day always sucked for me was never able to find crap. I don’t even get me started on actually finding enough runes to build any of this stuff.
With me and my Javazon I use the runeword Phoenix in a shield because it offers the Redemption aura when equipped and it solves the running out of mana problem with Javazons. Plus it would allow you to use a different ring or rings such as a Raven Frost. With a hammerdin build I would put a point in to Redemption because of the mana regenerate it offers.
Silence seems pretty expensive for what it gives you, although the +75% @ res does look attractive. That way you can reach max resists in hell while using Burst of Speed (increased move speed and attack speed is just too good in terms of gameplay).
Tbh hoto and laying of hands instead of trag gloves and silence is way better will give you the same amount of atk speed and more fcr and an extra skill
You don't find blood gloves you craft them, you can find 3 Java 20% ias gloves(farm gold from travs spam buy random gloves, and join hell games checking vendors), and 4+2 magic javas spawn (6 possible to Java skill total). And ideally you want a Jewelers monarch of deflection with 4x 5/5 lighting facets.
Rescue Animations dude I’m waiting. I grew up on this game and had a top 3 sin on us west. I miss it so much I’m about to go buy this game again and say screw these new games lol
I started back in 1.09 in say 02 or 03 and when 1.10 came out and opened so many amazing synergy options. That's when I totally fell in love with my windy druid. I really enjoy your builds and more technical videos very nostalgic. Keep up the good work X.
Summoner necro with max ce and gg merc is the fastest most versatile imo Will expload entire screen in a sec. I would say hdin then light sorc because the time it takes for the animation to reach target with sorc and hdin plus you constantly aim with sorc. Best pvm would be javazon if the fcr break points were viable with enigma
Reminds me of my most boring teachers lol same tone for most of it , lucky i m here just for the informations , cause more than a couple minutes of it just makes me want to run away screaming.
i havent played D2 since 2002, but back then Lightning Sorcs used mana shield, with dumped points into energy. They were practically unkillable, like the hammerdin. Is there a reason why you didn't do that?
in classic diablo 2, might, concentration and fanaticism all boost blessed hammer damage. having 3 hammerdins in a game with each using a different damage aura gives you absolutely massive damage.
Hdin Light Sorc Javazon Trapsin - Fire blast with remaining point My last pick would be a summon necro or berserk barbarian. Berserker barb can tele same speed as 105FCR sorc which is faster than 125fcr din and if played properly can clear Chaos sanctuary & nihlathek faster in 8 person games every time. Necro can solo all of the Ubers if played properly so he's quite the tank if you know how to use him. Javazon and Hdin can do ubers as well. With the right pieces of gear in the stash most chars can.
Would be nice for a starter guide to go from nothing to Uber D and Uber’s (for the two charms). A how to and what to do guide. I’m on phone. If you have already done this. Forging me 👍
I had lower res wand with infinity and like -175 to -185 to cold res for cold mastery maxed along with a death fathom and nightwing both faceted on a blizzard sorc and I was able to break every cold resist monster in the game. But this is in d2r and they might of patched it with the last couple updates I'm not sure. I hope not. It was nice using cold sorc not having to worry about any cold immune at all.
the gloves at 19:25 are not legit if they were perfect they would have 3life leech and 20life, not 6 and 20 even if they're somehow elite blood crafts from 08, they can have 6ll, but still no more than 25life
It is possible if you roll life with the 4 affixes you get from crafting blood gloves. But every item in this video except the screen shots are hero editor items
hey im a big fan, would you like to make a video, of how to properly play the endgame in diablo , like should i get a mf charcater? a character for clones one for pvp, how you manage that? how many chars should i have? should i have another account etc etc . i would really appreciate that
Drink every time he says 'ridiculous amount of damage' haha. Great video man, really enjoyed it. Considering cracking out the old copy of diablo 2 from the attic after watching this.
17:31 "frw is a really big advantage" which is why you should be using enigma even if you literally never teleport, eni is still better than coh, because it has 45frw
it is a tradeoff, with enigma you get the FRW, MF and STR so you could go for spirit/stormshield with COH you get the necessary defenses i personally go for Treachery (IAS, FHR, @res) and cheap with the other gear going full out on FRW you hit >100 and it is more then enough to get from A to B quickly.
@Canberk Hancan the reason you oneshot everything with lf and cs is that you deal lightning dmg, which is not affected by %dmg to demons, making the stat irrelevant. If ed was relevant and tele wasn't, then the best armor would be forty. If you ever move around, eni is 10 times better than any other option. If you never move, a 4s armor with facets is best. If you're broke, treachery. There's no scenario in which coh is a sensible choice, outside of something like "you're broke and someone gave you coh for free AND you don't know how to trade". And if you have points in dodges you're doing it wrong.
@Canberk Hancan No. CS has a physical part which is just a regular attack and scales with ed, and a lightning part that spawns lightning bolts, that, like any other spell, don't scale with ed. The lightning damage would scale with ed if it was converted from physical dmg (like lightning bolt, or berserk), which it isn't. Here's how much physical dmg you gain per hit from 200%ed, against diablo, using cs, with the character in this video: base dmg 160-294 average 227 200ed: +454 physical dmg 1600ar lvl88 vs 2500def lvl94: 1600/(1600+2500)*2*88/(88+94) = 38% cth 50%block 45% physical resist => 227*2*0.38*0.5*0.55 = 47 actual dmg per hit Now the lightning damage: 5826 cs 2913 average 9bolts can't miss can't be blocked resist 50-85-35=-70 => 2913*9*1.7=45k actual dmg per hit 200%ed = a tenth of a percent of your actual dmg.
@Canberk Hancan 20-20 armor and shield and griffon do grant the highest dmg indeed but mobility is much more important than dmg when you already oneshot things, so eni> gloves = 3java 20ias magic about gores: ow is a low dmg dot that's irrelevant in pvm outside of UT (where you can use it to stop their 1%/s regen) ds doubles your physical dmg, which doesn't matter on a javazon cb is normally good against bosses, but on a java, with 38%cth and 50% to get blocked, it's very much negligible so boots are WT for mf, silks for mana sustain, else aldurs
Well talking about hammerdin being the number one botted class , as i saw and heard of there's no more bot? Or im just outdated but the biggest one got shut down last chrismast ?
I boted last season for about few days, then got bored on bnet. so they kinda work. Then started single player with plugy, thats when u start to enjoy game and no bots or cheats needed.
Barb helms seem to drop frequent and paladin shields in stony fields and lower kurast/upper kurast will also drop orbs but not frequent but these seem to drop less than most in game
i am more of a fire sorc type but i remember my brother's light sorc doing 49k Dmg with 75% chance to block ( max dex until 75% ) and the remaining pts in life .. that sorc is .. mehh.
assasin: can use disciples gloves for cannot freeze+fire res (I think) or trang gloves. Correct me if I'm wrong. You fail to mention that the reason to get cannot freeze on assasin is again, not to lower attack speed, which lowers faster cast rate. Also do NOT get shadow master because it uses the mind bomb skill thingy that captures enemies. But you SHOULD get it for yourself... use it to tank big mobs. Dont put points in fire trap, use fire bomb instead
Whats the best way to start a Single player Bowazon, Im at 20 lvl and i feel its too hard for me to kill bosses particularly. Tried 2sock bows with 2 tals , tried some rare bows, the damage its just too low. should i switch for Jav until i finish normal then go for bow after nightmare?
Dude you have to try a death hand, trang glove+belt+shield psn necro with maxed skeletons. About 350 base dmg/skeletons, 10k psn nova with -90 psn res on gear with 3 facets, -65 res lower resist. It just destroy everything even on P8, CE as soon as they die also (usually in pack). Comes 2nd place by far, probably 1st on other areas than cows and baal runs. Also a dual dream conviction zealer with grief+enigma, wiz spike+spirit on switch for tele and a faith+delerium merc. About 25k dmg/hit, a ridiculously strong holy shock aura and crazy crowd control, better than hdin for me. Almost nothing can kill these 2 builds. 200 fcr nova sorc is much better than a lightning sorc IMO, just use charged bolt for melting bosses. My ranks would be: Nova sorc, Psn nova+skelly Necro, Javazon (1st for p8 cows), Dual dream conv Pally and trapsin. (The holy shock damage 1-3 shot 90% of monsters on p1 with conv on). Cool vid man! As always.
How do you get a spirit shield on single player mode? I thought it is only available on Ladder characters? I recently got back Into D2 and downloaded it via Blizzard. I do not have any add-ons. I assumed he was on Battlenet until he set the player difficulty. If anyone has a moment to spare and explain to me how I can get ladder Runewords on my Version 1.14D single player characters I would greatly appreciate it.
There's realistically no purpose in putting more than one point into holy shield for a pure PVM hammerdin that is well geared. The character is so overpowered that the additional points don't really matter and you're better off putting the rest into holy bolt for additional damage on wave 2 of Baal. Points into defiance and salvation are a complete waste, a point in redemption would be better, but that's a waste as well since you'll be lowering the merc's damage while holy bolting but it's nice for the utility. You can swap in nature's peace ring to prevent the skeletons from being revived on wave 2 (super easy nith as well.) Also, using a sacred targe spirit and a rare ring with dex/fcr (ideally with life, fire res, and mf) to hit the 125 FCR breakpoint is critical for speed. As far as a fast killing PVM sorc build; there's only one build type that's worth discussing and that's 200 FCR lightning sorc builds. Griffon's eye (possibly a 2/20 circlet but those get expensive and you'll need an expensive amulet as well since you're losing 5 FCR) + 3/10 light/FCR amulet (or a 2/15+ crafted caster amulet which is expensive and unnecessary) + HOTO or eschuta (need 40 fcr and the build is much cheaper with HOTO due to the resistances) + 35 all res upped VMagi + 35 FCR spirit monarch + magefists + 2x FCR str rings (preferably with life, mana, all res / FR, and MF) + arach + whatever boots you want. There's a lot of different ways to build this character but hitting 200 FCR is critical. Honestly, the 120 FCR MF lighting sorc using full tals (2-2-2 orb w/ ist) ptopaz helm + ptopaz armor + mages + 2x rare fcr str rings + travs does a great job at finding items and since you hit the 105 BP for tele without the rare FCR rings, those slots are optional can be replaced with whatever you want. ETH reaper's toll + andy + treachery for an elemental druid merc is pretty standard as you want as much IAS to get decrep to proc as frequently as possible. Dual HOTO's for tele trapsins is pretty standard although admittedly bad. +3 trap 40 ias +3 lightning sentry greater talons that hell socket quest to two sockets (it's not 100% chance to get 2x sockets) are insanely rare and expensive. Ideal jewels for the sockets would be 15 all res 15 ias jewels and those aren't exactly common as well. I personally don't bother to build extremely high-end trapsins as each claw is worth ~500+ jah/ber runes. Those javazon gloves are beyond mindblowing and expecting to find anything like that is not a reasonable expectation. Honestly, 2/20s are somewhat rare in themselves. Sanctuary RW in a troll's nest or dragon shield for a telezon is really nice for the 70 all res. Who puts cham in a griffon's eye?... No mention of minionless PBN novamancer that uses lower resist and CE to screen clear on p/8 = sad.
in reality every build he showed had sub-optimal gear when you are trying to make the best of the best do the research and show what they really can do this is some early ladder gear at best
@@wolizuka why the hell would you use the trangoul gloves when the cold resist can be maxed out easily even without it(and even if it isn't, fire and light are the priority)... Do you realize the utility that the magefists provide ? Mana regen maybe? Without an insight merc, your mana consumption is a problem... +1 fire skills means +1 to warmth = 12% faster mana regen, now combine that with the additional 25% mana regen that the gloves provide... ta-da there goes your answer why...
Hi all, just a quick question for you all, i have a lvl 64 barb and im stuck on the ancients, second last mission of act 5 on nightmare difficulty. It appears I am stucl. what do i do. I hear some ppl say i must farm runes (and loot) to build powerful runewords to defeat the anciets. Is this correct? What runewords should i make? also what is a good build to defeat the ancients. do many people have this problem to?
Frenzy barb with some life leach pull up the arreat summit website in their original rune word section there are a bunch of good rune word that are easy to make and make them in a dimensional blade for that attack speed and you should be fine
barb is by far the weakest character for a walkthrough, so your getting stuck makes sense one thing you can do for the ancients is bring lots of potions in the area and drop them on the floor before spawning them you can try crafting blood helm for deadly strike and blood gloves for crushing blow if you manage to get a lem, you can make treachery (45ias and fade) some good and relatively cheap ladder runewords are insight, oath, obediance if you don't have ladder runewords enabled, there isn't much you can do with runewords unless you get very lucky with runes drop you have to randomly find some good unique like headstriker headstriker you can upgrade to elite with lum pul perfect emerald (will be lvl65)
0:25 Windy Druid
6:05 Trap Assassin
10:48 Hammerdin Paladin
14:55 Javelin Amazon
23:40 Lightning Sorceress
Lightning sorceress can be the most powerful class but it’s very weak n not even close the most efective character.
26:20 the 4 jewels I presume give the 4-296 lightning damage. But from what I remember, that is applied to weapon damage, and sorceress does not use the weapon for damage. It does work for the Javelin of the Amazon
no he using 5/5 light facet unique jewels which give -5 enemy lightning resistance and +5% lightning skill damage which increases the damage of your lightning spells so with 4 its -20 enemy light res +20 light skill damage
putting points in dodge evade and avoid makes your javazon considerably worse
these skills prevent you from actually attacking, which would kill everything, and instead get you stuck in dodgelock.
aww thats lame as hell
@@JohnB-ws4ge its fixed now in d2r v2.4
Recently, I've enjoyed the Trap Assassin
Anyone remember when nova sorceresses were insanely overpowered (back when doing cow levels was the main way of leveling post-game)? You'd teleport into a mass of cows, spam nova for maybe five seconds and most of them would be dead and the rest would be low health.
People don’t play vanilla at all anymore? I still do but I’m finding out about PD2
Sorceress always been the easiest for me to level up. Paladin and Barbarian take so long.
Yup. I was one of those sorceress. I rarely played xpac. classic player only.
Long time ago static was was not capped to 50% in hell. Sorcs with max static could bring several screens of mobs to few % HP in 2 sec. The lightest breath of wind would finish them off. They were loved for that. Teleport was only available to sorcs. With telekinesis they could pickup any item from distance and were hated for that. Sorcs were truly unique.
Those days are gone. Now every stinky barb can tele around like leprikone.
@@jurijgera7125 i think static was limited to 50% on the expansion. I haven't played it in a long time, though, so things might have changed on classic since then.
you rock man, good video, yoiu explain very well everything. i used to play like 15 yrs ago, and now i came back and im sharp as a new pencil lol greetings from argentina!
Great list. I've had one of each of those but probly my fav was a Fury druid w/ ebotd Tmaul. Def not as much burst as a sorc, would max out at 16-19k, but those 5 hits especially on a single target were just brutal.
Witht he druid, If you're having issues breaking cold immunes with Infinity, you could consider Reaper's Toll instead. Insane raw damage and decrepify breaks most phys immunes.
First time viewer, and I love your knowledge and passion for this game. Not a lot of people find enjoyment or have a passion in life, and it makes me happy to see people like you.. Truly awesome!
Thank you Alexander. I'm gonna have to screenshot that comment. Thank you.
that druid helm is amazing
I feel like it's basically Java sorc, CE necro (psn or summon) in S tier when kitted out.
Lighting sorc, trapsin, dream sealer, hammerdins are all great but never seemed to get the same clear speeds if we're talking all-round monsterbashing and not doing something like pit or strictly popping seals and related bosspacks in CS runs.
Then of course there are some niche builds for select areas like the pitzerker which may equal or outshine the S builds for the select task at hand.
manald heal is a bad ring for a javazon
14% mana leech, with 1500dmg javelins, when you take in account damage reduce, drain effectiveness and -66% leech penalty in hell, is about 15mana per throw
so instead of spending both ring slots for 15mana/throw, you could use silkweaves that give 5 mana/kill, and since you get about 10 kills / throw on a javazon, that's already more than 3 times more mana/throw, and you get to use 2 soj or soj + raven + facet in helm
If not before that, this is the point where people should realize he's got no clue
@@Mirosworld it was the druid with the infinity merc that got me
First off dude, I love your videos been following you for a little while now. My only issue is other than the fact that you do everything on single player, is that all these builds being extreme end game and pretty much unrealistic unless you’ve been playing regularly for the past few years. I was an original core players who gave it up a while back and I’ve come back-and-forth a few times in the games history recently just picked it back up again. Being able to actually find any of this gear unless you’re a veteran player that’s been playing for a long time is next to impossible. I put together a Javazon on the current ladder but Only good gear I’ve been able to cobble together has mostly been donations from other kind of players. Which is very few and far between online nowadays. I can’t even get myself a damn Titans. Magic find even when I played back in the day always sucked for me was never able to find crap. I don’t even get me started on actually finding enough runes to build any of this stuff.
Are you using mods? If your not using plugy your not gonna find half of these in single
Basic Gear he says...Ikr
spirit is significantly better than zakarum on a hammerdin because it grants the 125fcr breakpoint for both teleporting and casting hammers.
this is the guy in "act1 tw help" games
With me and my Javazon I use the runeword Phoenix in a shield because it offers the Redemption aura when equipped and it solves the running out of mana problem with Javazons. Plus it would allow you to use a different ring or rings such as a Raven Frost. With a hammerdin build I would put a point in to Redemption because of the mana regenerate it offers.
I think the individual instance of - resist needs to be over 100 to break immunities at all
This dude is just making his gear. >>
And for assassin you get claws that add two to assassin skills +3 traps. And two open sockets. That’s + 10 to traps
Silence seems pretty expensive for what it gives you, although the +75% @ res does look attractive. That way you can reach max resists in hell while using Burst of Speed (increased move speed and attack speed is just too good in terms of gameplay).
Tbh hoto and laying of hands instead of trag gloves and silence is way better will give you the same amount of atk speed and more fcr and an extra skill
You don't find blood gloves you craft them, you can find 3 Java 20% ias gloves(farm gold from travs spam buy random gloves, and join hell games checking vendors), and 4+2 magic javas spawn (6 possible to Java skill total). And ideally you want a Jewelers monarch of deflection with 4x 5/5 lighting facets.
Use the merc weapon doom... -60 to cold rez... guilliams face or andys mask...you can also make doom in a zerker (or 2 with barb)
Someone's got a little carpal tunnel.
@Xtimus why don't you put points in lightning/ fire aura to get more resistence instead of more defence?
would love to have a D2 remaster and a nice group of people to play with
Rescue Animations dude I’m waiting. I grew up on this game and had a top 3 sin on us west. I miss it so much I’m about to go buy this game again and say screw these new games lol
Median XL is a nice start
Rescue Animations I agree. However adopt potion system from Poe. Carpal tunnel from picking up all these damn potions and managing them is game killer
@Albus Regnum was that news like legit ? I'm stoked.
Well... 😂
Paladin have you heard one into res cold light fire for a bug resist?
classic hammerdin. I remember when i got my first enigma, such a happy day at the time.
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suh dawg
made my first enigma in a breast plate with no ed or dura... good times, good times ^^
@@AwoudeX ED or dura not that important but yeah breast plate that is like normal base piece ouch
@@vincenthammons6705 well, the main thing was: teleporting on a hammerdin... despite it being in a poor base piece, it worked just fine
o m g the sorc facepalm
I started back in 1.09 in say 02 or 03 and when 1.10 came out and opened so many amazing synergy options. That's when I totally fell in love with my windy druid. I really enjoy your builds and more technical videos very nostalgic. Keep up the good work X.
Ben Richardson Thanks Ben.
1.08 or 1.07 was the best i miss hex charms
Summoner necro with max ce and gg merc is the fastest most versatile imo Will expload entire screen in a sec. I would say hdin then light sorc because the time it takes for the animation to reach target with sorc and hdin plus you constantly aim with sorc. Best pvm would be javazon if the fcr break points were viable with enigma
I prefer to lose some damage to get max resistance on a lightning sorc. I still one shot everything.
I would recommend Redemption aura on hammerdin.
zealadin and javazon frenzy barb thanks very informative 90s kid DIABLO 2 LOD
Thank you for the guide for these builds :) Other people may have remarked this before, but how Xtimus speaks reminds me of Christian Bale :P
Reminds me of my most boring teachers lol same tone for most of it , lucky i m here just for the informations , cause more than a couple minutes of it just makes me want to run away screaming.
Which soundtrack is it in the background?
Concentration aura from that one runeword doesnt buff nado dmg?
reapers toll on windy druid merc is way better the decrepify breaks phys immunes makes your nado do so much more dmg
this.
Or AmnLemKo
+1
My first enigma was given to me for free. It was in a hellforge plate lmao
@@kevinanderson9904 should have just put it in a breast plate from A1 normal
light sorc without 20pt nova :/
I remember playing this game...
I started using infinity voulge on my light sorc. Very fun and fast
Are your items/runes self-found or do you use an editor fam?
How you gonna run a holy grail sorc with no cold shield or energy shield.
you don't even need to max your traps lightning damage with death sentry. it has crazy range.
Big diffrence in Necro CorbExplosion and javazon in cows clear speed?
i havent played D2 since 2002, but back then Lightning Sorcs used mana shield, with dumped points into energy. They were practically unkillable, like the hammerdin. Is there a reason why you didn't do that?
in classic diablo 2, might, concentration and fanaticism all boost blessed hammer damage. having 3 hammerdins in a game with each using a different damage aura gives you absolutely massive damage.
Wow I never knew that. Thanks for sharing that would have been crazy.
I thought about it. it was AoE builds you were talking about. you missed one it is a nova necromancer.
Still think your videos are some of the best, man. Any chance we'll see some more in the future?
Coooley back soon :)
Hdin
Light Sorc
Javazon
Trapsin - Fire blast with remaining point
My last pick would be a summon necro or berserk barbarian. Berserker barb can tele same speed as 105FCR sorc which is faster than 125fcr din and if played properly can clear Chaos sanctuary & nihlathek faster in 8 person games every time. Necro can solo all of the Ubers if played properly so he's quite the tank if you know how to use him. Javazon and Hdin can do ubers as well. With the right pieces of gear in the stash most chars can.
Maximum amount of damage for lightning sorceress 20 into Thunder Storm and 1 into Nova sure maximum amount of damage xD
I know, 4K thunderstorm dmg is nothing. It hits random targets, takes forever in between bolts, no idea why he wouldn’t max nova and ignore it.
@@Ov3rshot synergizes with lightning and chain lightning, making you do far more damage than the ticles you do with thunderstorm
no redemption skill for the hdin? :O
No hardcore player would let his life get that low. SC tickles me
Ok? Nobody cares really
True. Amazing to see how these high end chars drop like to 20-30% of life ... really not balanced
@@robadonis Thats cause the EQ dont fit with the Classes. You need to build arround your Breakpoints.
Hardcore is a different beast, gets your heart pumping. Something softcore lacks.
then uses the runework pheonix on javazon
Would be nice for a starter guide to go from nothing to Uber D and Uber’s (for the two charms). A how to and what to do guide. I’m on phone. If you have already done this. Forging me 👍
I had lower res wand with infinity and like -175 to -185 to cold res for cold mastery maxed along with a death fathom and nightwing both faceted on a blizzard sorc and I was able to break every cold resist monster in the game. But this is in d2r and they might of patched it with the last couple updates I'm not sure. I hope not. It was nice using cold sorc not having to worry about any cold immune at all.
Fastest through history I've seen (definitely faster than any of these) was frozen orb sorc before cooldown nerf 😂
Frozen orb Sorc was my favorite that and bowazon
Now, best in game builds without items.
In surprised psn nova necro wasnt on the list i break almost all immunes except the demon lords in baals throne room
Good info!
Maybe for 1.13. .08 and .09 were around for years, fastest by far was static/nova/ts.
the gloves at 19:25 are not legit
if they were perfect they would have 3life leech and 20life, not 6 and 20
even if they're somehow elite blood crafts from 08, they can have 6ll, but still no more than 25life
It is possible if you roll life with the 4 affixes you get from crafting blood gloves. But every item in this video except the screen shots are hero editor items
@@willc5979 the 4 affixes are 2java 20ias 15str 30pr, so no life
Nova sorc and boltress kill fast maybe even faster then the lightening
I really love this game.
I would reccoment to take a look at an summoning necro (overlord with ce) with the same equipment lvl for comparison ;)
in some circumstances it might be the fastest killer out there, if you can pack large amounts of monsters together, like in cow level maybe
hey im a big fan, would you like to make a video, of how to properly play the endgame in diablo , like should i get a mf charcater? a character for clones one for pvp, how you manage that? how many chars should i have? should i have another account etc etc . i would really appreciate that
Drink every time he says 'ridiculous amount of damage' haha. Great video man, really enjoyed it. Considering cracking out the old copy of diablo 2 from the attic after watching this.
17:31 "frw is a really big advantage"
which is why you should be using enigma
even if you literally never teleport, eni is still better than coh, because it has 45frw
it is a tradeoff,
with enigma you get the FRW, MF and STR so you could go for spirit/stormshield
with COH you get the necessary defenses
i personally go for Treachery (IAS, FHR, @res) and cheap
with the other gear going full out on FRW you hit >100 and it is more then enough to get from A to B quickly.
@Canberk Hancan the reason you oneshot everything with lf and cs is that you deal lightning dmg, which is not affected by %dmg to demons, making the stat irrelevant. If ed was relevant and tele wasn't, then the best armor would be forty. If you ever move around, eni is 10 times better than any other option. If you never move, a 4s armor with facets is best. If you're broke, treachery. There's no scenario in which coh is a sensible choice, outside of something like "you're broke and someone gave you coh for free AND you don't know how to trade".
And if you have points in dodges you're doing it wrong.
@Canberk Hancan No. CS has a physical part which is just a regular attack and scales with ed, and a lightning part that spawns lightning bolts, that, like any other spell, don't scale with ed. The lightning damage would scale with ed if it was converted from physical dmg (like lightning bolt, or berserk), which it isn't.
Here's how much physical dmg you gain per hit from 200%ed, against diablo, using cs, with the character in this video:
base dmg 160-294
average 227
200ed: +454 physical dmg
1600ar lvl88 vs 2500def lvl94: 1600/(1600+2500)*2*88/(88+94) = 38% cth
50%block
45% physical resist
=> 227*2*0.38*0.5*0.55 = 47 actual dmg per hit
Now the lightning damage:
5826 cs
2913 average
9bolts
can't miss
can't be blocked
resist 50-85-35=-70
=> 2913*9*1.7=45k actual dmg per hit
200%ed = a tenth of a percent of your actual dmg.
@Canberk Hancan 20-20 armor and shield and griffon do grant the highest dmg indeed
but mobility is much more important than dmg when you already oneshot things, so eni>
gloves = 3java 20ias magic
about gores:
ow is a low dmg dot that's irrelevant in pvm outside of UT (where you can use it to stop their 1%/s regen)
ds doubles your physical dmg, which doesn't matter on a javazon
cb is normally good against bosses, but on a java, with 38%cth and 50% to get blocked, it's very much negligible
so boots are WT for mf, silks for mana sustain, else aldurs
What mod and item creation tool is he using?
You missed the sorc mastery that breaks them.
Can anyone send a download link here?or mod like the one he's using?
why are your stash looks big and you can reset your skills and stats?
I miss my hammerdin rip D2
also lower resist wands with charges
In my expirience bonemancer is also good at fast killing. Bone spear is awsome.
Jesus Christ. That Nado helm at 1:40 is the perfect helm. I would give 30hr for that at a moment's notice.
It's not a real item. It would be worth $1500-2000 usd if it was.
Well talking about hammerdin being the number one botted class , as i saw and heard of there's no more bot? Or im just outdated but the biggest one got shut down last chrismast ?
I boted last season for about few days, then got bored on bnet. so they kinda work. Then started single player with plugy, thats when u start to enjoy game and no bots or cheats needed.
Treachery over Ebug fort on merc?
I've actually found the best farming spot for class helms and specific gear in game,
Barb helms seem to drop frequent and paladin shields in stony fields and lower kurast/upper kurast will also drop orbs but not frequent but these seem to drop less than most in game
omg that druid helm
You didn't mention necromancer and barbarian
Greatest build vid
i am more of a fire sorc type but i remember my brother's light sorc doing 49k Dmg with 75% chance to block ( max dex until 75% ) and the remaining pts in life .. that sorc is .. mehh.
assasin: can use disciples gloves for cannot freeze+fire res (I think) or trang gloves. Correct me if I'm wrong. You fail to mention that the reason to get cannot freeze on assasin is again, not to lower attack speed, which lowers faster cast rate.
Also do NOT get shadow master because it uses the mind bomb skill thingy that captures enemies. But you SHOULD get it for yourself... use it to tank big mobs. Dont put points in fire trap, use fire bomb instead
there are no cannot be frozen gloves
laying of hands do 20ias and 50fire res (and +350% dmg to demon which is irrelevant here)
Nice review of the character classes :)
Lmao he knows nothing about diablo2
Summonancer is clearly the fastest killer of most game modes
Ghosts are so annoying that i put rest of my points in ice blast as elemental druid
Whats the best way to start a Single player Bowazon, Im at 20 lvl and i feel its too hard for me to kill bosses particularly. Tried 2sock bows with 2 tals , tried some rare bows, the damage its just too low. should i switch for Jav until i finish normal then go for bow after nightmare?
@M B So you suggest that a bowazon cant do shit anymore ? Even in Singleplayer?
my light soso go up to 47k lightning dmg rn...but your vid was very helpfull because i forgott to soc my eshutas xD thx for that
would be great if you would put in some time stamp for the character you show. I play a barbarian and would like to know stuff about barbarians.
pick any other d2 content creator. this guy doesnt know jack shit about this game.
Dude you have to try a death hand, trang glove+belt+shield psn necro with maxed skeletons. About 350 base dmg/skeletons, 10k psn nova with -90 psn res on gear with 3 facets, -65 res lower resist. It just destroy everything even on P8, CE as soon as they die also (usually in pack). Comes 2nd place by far, probably 1st on other areas than cows and baal runs. Also a dual dream conviction zealer with grief+enigma, wiz spike+spirit on switch for tele and a faith+delerium merc. About 25k dmg/hit, a ridiculously strong holy shock aura and crazy crowd control, better than hdin for me. Almost nothing can kill these 2 builds. 200 fcr nova sorc is much better than a lightning sorc IMO, just use charged bolt for melting bosses. My ranks would be: Nova sorc, Psn nova+skelly Necro, Javazon (1st for p8 cows), Dual dream conv Pally and trapsin. (The holy shock damage 1-3 shot 90% of monsters on p1 with conv on). Cool vid man! As always.
where do these items come from
hey thanks for making this video. i want to make a kicksin/chaos claw hybreed sin.
Hello I was wondering how you record your d2 game play. I tried using obs but it refuses to show on screen? Any advice
The Zionheart I use OBS. I’m on the phone at the moment but I think you need to capture d2 with window capture not game capture.
Holy snap dude! thanks for the quick reply, was not expecting that :D
Trap sin is 2 x claw 2/3 os with ias jewel or what ever u whant or if rich 2/3/3 os
How do you get a spirit shield on single player mode? I thought it is only available on Ladder characters? I recently got back Into D2 and downloaded it via Blizzard. I do not have any add-ons. I assumed he was on Battlenet until he set the player difficulty. If anyone has a moment to spare and explain to me how I can get ladder Runewords on my Version 1.14D single player characters I would greatly appreciate it.
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Frost zealots FTW!
There's realistically no purpose in putting more than one point into holy shield for a pure PVM hammerdin that is well geared. The character is so overpowered that the additional points don't really matter and you're better off putting the rest into holy bolt for additional damage on wave 2 of Baal. Points into defiance and salvation are a complete waste, a point in redemption would be better, but that's a waste as well since you'll be lowering the merc's damage while holy bolting but it's nice for the utility. You can swap in nature's peace ring to prevent the skeletons from being revived on wave 2 (super easy nith as well.) Also, using a sacred targe spirit and a rare ring with dex/fcr (ideally with life, fire res, and mf) to hit the 125 FCR breakpoint is critical for speed.
As far as a fast killing PVM sorc build; there's only one build type that's worth discussing and that's 200 FCR lightning sorc builds. Griffon's eye (possibly a 2/20 circlet but those get expensive and you'll need an expensive amulet as well since you're losing 5 FCR) + 3/10 light/FCR amulet (or a 2/15+ crafted caster amulet which is expensive and unnecessary) + HOTO or eschuta (need 40 fcr and the build is much cheaper with HOTO due to the resistances) + 35 all res upped VMagi + 35 FCR spirit monarch + magefists + 2x FCR str rings (preferably with life, mana, all res / FR, and MF) + arach + whatever boots you want. There's a lot of different ways to build this character but hitting 200 FCR is critical. Honestly, the 120 FCR MF lighting sorc using full tals (2-2-2 orb w/ ist) ptopaz helm + ptopaz armor + mages + 2x rare fcr str rings + travs does a great job at finding items and since you hit the 105 BP for tele without the rare FCR rings, those slots are optional can be replaced with whatever you want.
ETH reaper's toll + andy + treachery for an elemental druid merc is pretty standard as you want as much IAS to get decrep to proc as frequently as possible.
Dual HOTO's for tele trapsins is pretty standard although admittedly bad. +3 trap 40 ias +3 lightning sentry greater talons that hell socket quest to two sockets (it's not 100% chance to get 2x sockets) are insanely rare and expensive. Ideal jewels for the sockets would be 15 all res 15 ias jewels and those aren't exactly common as well. I personally don't bother to build extremely high-end trapsins as each claw is worth ~500+ jah/ber runes.
Those javazon gloves are beyond mindblowing and expecting to find anything like that is not a reasonable expectation. Honestly, 2/20s are somewhat rare in themselves. Sanctuary RW in a troll's nest or dragon shield for a telezon is really nice for the 70 all res. Who puts cham in a griffon's eye?...
No mention of minionless PBN novamancer that uses lower resist and CE to screen clear on p/8 = sad.
Woah, you're like the architect in the matrix to neo.. Except for d2 lod! *i bow down*
in reality every build he showed had sub-optimal gear when you are trying to make the best of the best do the research and show what they really can do this is some early ladder gear at best
Im tired of ppl advising to put freaking magefists on non-fire sorc, trang gloves have COLD RES and have the same fcr. Just use trangs ffs
@@wolizuka why the hell would you use the trangoul gloves when the cold resist can be maxed out easily even without it(and even if it isn't, fire and light are the priority)... Do you realize the utility that the magefists provide ? Mana regen maybe? Without an insight merc, your mana consumption is a problem... +1 fire skills means +1 to warmth = 12% faster mana regen, now combine that with the additional 25% mana regen that the gloves provide... ta-da there goes your answer why...
@@dimitarkiryakov1871 you really don't need mana regen it doesn't do enough at all, trang is way better on a non fire sorc
Go on!
Hi all, just a quick question for you all, i have a lvl 64 barb and im stuck on the ancients, second last mission of act 5 on nightmare difficulty. It appears I am stucl. what do i do. I hear some ppl say i must farm runes (and loot) to build powerful runewords to defeat the anciets. Is this correct? What runewords should i make? also what is a good build to defeat the ancients. do many people have this problem to?
Frenzy barb with some life leach pull up the arreat summit website in their original rune word section there are a bunch of good rune word that are easy to make and make them in a dimensional blade for that attack speed and you should be fine
barb is by far the weakest character for a walkthrough, so your getting stuck makes sense
one thing you can do for the ancients is bring lots of potions in the area and drop them on the floor before spawning them
you can try crafting blood helm for deadly strike and blood gloves for crushing blow
if you manage to get a lem, you can make treachery (45ias and fade)
some good and relatively cheap ladder runewords are insight, oath, obediance
if you don't have ladder runewords enabled, there isn't much you can do with runewords unless you get very lucky with runes drop
you have to randomly find some good unique like headstriker
headstriker you can upgrade to elite with lum pul perfect emerald (will be lvl65)
Hi can i ask why do you use Silkweave boots? are they better than the others out there?
silks are used for the 5mana/kill
it's not a common sight on sorc
it's very common on javazon however (much better than manalds, obviously)