I know this video doesn't cover exact details and tell you everything to do, because it's very hard to do that for this. The standard pieces are: 1. Level up. Be at least low to mid level 60 if not higher 2. Have items farmed up from Mephisto/Chaos/Cows/Pindle/Etc. Life, resists, FCR, FHR, IAS, FRW. You can die very easily in Hell without these 3. Do not engage monsters in the same way. Learn to kite and position yourself in doorways and abuse monster AI so you only fight a few at at time 4. Avoid immunities you can't fight. You will encounter some and you can either run past them or use a Mercenary (Who is Merc bugged. Video in description) to fight them slowly to progress through dangerous areas.
I was wondering if you have a guide on how to understand the map cells. Like knowing where the exit will spawn relative to the entrance etc. I remember watching one of your speed runs, I think it was the most recent world record and you covered some of it. A comprehensive guide for that would be really great for people looking to get more efficient with their playthroughs.
Thank you for this guide. I thought I was ready for hell as a level 60 trap assassin and was immediately thwarted by their high resistance and my low resistance.
Some pretty good advices. I am glad that you mentioned that this game is not as easy as people would like to believe. It is rather easy when your characters are fully decked out but for the average players who doesn’t have access to a plethora of high level rune words, making an efficient character is not so easy even if you know what you’re doing and know how to play the game.
I've found that with a relatively small number of tips and the right approach to building your character, solo self-found budget gear is no problem. Then again, I lean towards caster characters which are not particularly gear sensitive. My only serious failure was a charger paladin who started struggling in act 5 hell. Then again, before I got the right hints my builds were probably less good. Here are the hints: put enough points in strength and dexterity for your gear and everything else in vitality (chug mana potions instead of pumping energy), or optionally put enough dexterity for max block. Make sure you max your resistances, especially lightning (high damage _and_ high variance) and fire (high average damage). Put 20 points into your one chosen skill and all its synergies, modulo having a plan for immune monsters.
I feel like some of the advice in this video is valid in real life: "Kite them, don't fight the ones that are too much trouble. Sure it's scary but it works." :D
MrLlama at first I was like "woah! slow down!" but over the last few days you have easily become my favorite resource for my casual D2R experience! nevertheless please allow me to list a few ideas for further beginner videos: 1. What is early game? - No, it's not the first 30 levels! 2. Mechanics? - durability on items? Sometimes I have XXk gold repair build after running normal countess 15 times without death and then I have 0 after dying like 5 times.... Very personal questions ofc but that's where I find myself struggling the most. Thank you for all the content! Really much appreciated! D2R is a great experience for me and really takes me back some 20 years!
Bonus fact: chest armor & shields fall into light, medium, and heavy categories with heavier armor penalizing movement speed and stamina drain. Thanks, MrLlama!
Also remember to watch monsters attacks/casts and attack them right after they attack and are on cooldown. Like enemies who breathe fire, they are dangerous, so deal your damage in the window after they breathe fire by baiting the fire out of them.
I always love the fact that no matter how hard you are grinding in Nightmare difficulty to get level up, when entering Hell, you find it really hard to kill just some zombies outside Rogue Encampment. I gave up a lot of characters in Hell when my gears were not good enough to kill fast.
Same situation with my hammerdin. Hell act 1 my hammerdin with concentratiob has damage of 4.5k but my resistance is really low. I had to switch to conviction and lose 70% of my damage just to do andy and countess runs
@@fyr3st0rm65 eh idk, my summon necro is wearing literally MF gear and I made it to Griswold in Hell with no difficulty whatsoever. Gonna actually equip some gear tonight and see if I can fuck up Andariel
Idk what it is my sorc can kill in hell but my merc has no chance at all, tried my best to get my gear and resists up but I'm still recalling struggling, so I made a paly as well, found my first raven frost yesterday for my paly tho I was excited
Yeah I was excited to play a javazon, hit a2 hell and started getting mad at beetles then in a3 the flayers were too much. Went and immediately made a hammerdin lmao and they can pretty much scrape by no mater what with dual spirits, high stealth and now an anni(had a buddy come help me cause dclone spawned lol) bout to kill diablo and see how that goes at level 77 rn
@@janvandenhooren9397 depends on the class/build you use. My trap assasin uses lightning sentry, death sentry, fire blast(for lightning immunes), burst of speed and fade.
Just arrived in hell yesterday with the ligthning fury zon. man this build is busted, i followed your guide on it Llama and geez I cleared hell act I in about 30 minutes with what, a ravenfrost, peace, lore and ancients pledge. Thanks for the tutorials, theyre fire 🔥🔥
Thanks so much. First time really enjoying this game. I'm off work for awhile right now because I'm ill, so trying to play time to time to get out of the bed. Just beat nightmare tonight, guess I got some farming to do! Your videos have been really helpful.
i love this video. i wish i could like it twice. the whole thing is amazing but one thing i told my friend when it came to gear is to stack resists. we were in normal and he said "i hit the cap i'm good".... "nope go bigger, stack it higher".... we get to nightmare already having like 50 all resists even after the penalty and i'm like "stack it higher" and now he doesn't question it, he's stacking resist charms out the wazoo lol. we're gonna start hell soon and i'm waiting to see his reaction when his near capped resistances suddenly drop to 0 or even slightly negative lol
i played hammerdin when d2r was released. got thru hell until I reached the 2nd group of baal minion, look through your guide on hammerdin and realised holy bolt pierces their magic immunity. what a find, thanks for the guide and all!
I tried hammerdin in hell, (from holy fire build reset to hammerdin at lvl 42) its really clunky and i cant get use to it. The damage is incredible but i just cant get used to it the playstyle..
@@apui4eva you need to find a balance between positioning and use of your ability. it takes awhile. I thought the same thing when I hit level 18. Then after awhile, I learn how to swap between hotkeys to get some fluency on the character
Thank you for this video MrLlama, I got a shock when I got to Hell and started getting whooped. Your guide has given me a direction I can take my Paladin. 😃
A dedicated leveling guide would be useful. Ie, trist runs 1-15, tombs, cows, etc. I'm sure you have a wealth of knowledge and knowing when/where to take a break and farm for gear, then knowing when to keep pushing would be great expertise to lend
For me, i usually run counteas to about 15 and thats decent enough to not need to level the rest of the way through normal. Then just run players 3 baal.
I always was rushed before in d2. This go around with d2R beat nightmare ancients solo with my sorc and my gosh it was hard. I had to just let the one guy leap at me and I’d move and hit him with a single fireball or make them chase me into my meteors. over and over again. Hell will he insane.
This is why i never ask to be "get rushed" because if i did, i basically skipped a majority of what D2 gameplay is. The journey is sometimes as important as the destination. I love the challenge of actually completing content on my own.
Great video and great advice. D2 is most rewarding when efficiency is the modis operandi. It can be pretty frustrating being in Hell and hitting that brick wall for long periods of time.
Is there any chance you'll do a gear progression kind of video for new players like me? Such as good early game gears for the player + mercenary. I'm so overwhelmed since all your gears are mainly end-game gears.
Haven't played in years. Made a javazon and imagine my surprise when I arrived at travincal and the council is lightning immune. Needless to say my merc was not up to the task.
I feel like either the game is trolling me or like 50% of the monsters and a good chunk of elites are lightning immune. I knew I should have made a sorceress.
I find the easiest way to farm nightmare/hell mephisto in the beginning is to make a Firewall sorc. He can't hurt from beyond the moat, You can kill him quickly with no gear at level 60, Warmth is the main synergy for Firewall so it really helps with mana to have that maxed. On PD2 the Moat trick doesn't work, but you can simply make your sorc MaxBlock with a Stormshield or Whistan's Guard, telestomp mephisto and he uses physical swipes instead of lightning and your firewall will kill him before he kills you. Once you get some better gear you can respec to something easier to use and more versatile than firewall.
Watching this as a vet. Almost 88 fully geared storch included. Suprised how good I still am at this after never getting good drops in PoE. So much better
I hate PoE loot system tbh. I just want to play the game and have a nice dopamine rush when my shit drops as loot, not spend hours at this bullshit crafting table and rerolling items lmao
Damn all my years of diablo 2 and i never knew about that interaction about character level, monster level, and attack rating. And that explains alotta things
Early runewords are usually way stronger than uniques and set items. Stealth, Rhyme, Ancient's Pledge, Lore, Leaf, Insight, even Honor are powerful and cheap and can be used all the way through Hell.
Just reached hardcore hell.. Most resistances are +-50% (after reductions) and am level 61. My merc went down instantly, I went through my potions not much longer (yet, I live! :P). But hell this scares me so much more than on softcore.. Thanks for the guide though! Your guides helped me on my first hammerdin as well :) (which is the char I'm playing now)
Still watching these even I have beat hell in past. YT was not a thing back then. Just watching these to entertain myself and avoid mindlessly scrolling in social media/internet.
Thanks for this explanation. It really helped but I also understood a lot of this from playing Grim Dawn, where the same system applies, you go into 3 difficulties through the game and ever higher one gives a resistance penalty. Skipping the mobs is a good point, although as a Blizzard Sorc The Den of Evil is a bit meh. I got by with Static Fields and let my Templar murder them but he still died 3 times (with 60ish res all).
I put probably thousands of hours in this game when I was a kid, but now playing Diablo 3 which keeps it fresh with seasonal changes, I just wish D2 (D2R) had an actual endgame instead of item farming for no other goal in mind.
all it really needs in that regard would be something like a leaderboard with uber Tristam clear times, maybe overall and for each individual build/class so that loot hunt in the endgame has a purpose...even if its just internet bragging rights (see d3 for that). I hope they keep supporting D2R in that way, any way for that matter
Diablo 3 endgame was EXTREMELY weak in my opinion, there’s 3 things to do - bounties - rifts - Ubers?? BORINNGGF you farm for a primal for hundreds of hours and it gets boring as hell
@@billyschroeder2671 How is that any different from D2? Hundreds of hours killing Meph to get loot to make yourself stronger to fight..... oh, wait, nothing because you are already OP. At least there is a leaderboard and a sense of progression while farming. If you're MFing on D2 for one specific item then you can do it for literally months before you see it and it's a very minor improvement while in D3 you're still leveling up, pushing for higher level Grifts and making your place on the leaderboards.
Made a barbarian using my little knowledge of Diablo 3… Diablo took me 13 times to beat lol, but I’m on hell now and have a real build. Thank you big guy!
Hi Mr Llama. Thanks to you finally I finally finished Hell. :) Take time, take farm and take learning. My Char is a Paladin Zealot. Thanks for your guides.
I didn't realize how much my summonmancer build wad making my playthrough a cakewalk. I wS breezing in hell, then respecced to poisonmancer(with only some of the endgame gear) and it brought where I was ready for in Hell back down to Act1/NM runs so I'm definitely excited for this video
An excellent item with lots of resists is Moser's shield with two perfect diamonds in it. This shield is one of the reason why picking up rare shields isn't worth it, as (no exaggeration) 99.99% of all of them are worse.
this was very good to hear, i've been struggling a bit with playing safe on my fury druid mostly because he's so damn fast and i easily get overwhelmed by mobs in tight corridors and i was wondering if i was just under geared or something and needed to farm in safer places, but now knowing that i just need to play more safely and it's a part of the experience i feel more confident that i can do the content that i was struggling a bit with, just play slower and more tactfully until i get the things i need and sometimes don't even worry about it, just run past it.
That's been my issue bro, I leveled really high going into hell with ww Barb. I didn't change up my play style and I regretted it, now I'm taking it slower and I'm enjoying it. Damn physical immunes!!
As an Assassin main who never min-maxed, the ultimate challenge of Diablo II single player is the Rite of Passage quest in Act 5. All my efforts are geared towards THAT particular fight. I dunno if that changes this time around with guides all over the place.
It gives me chills seeing your gear laying on the ground. I hope you have a hard wired conntection. I learned not to leave my gear on the ground with wifi. Thanks for the info.
remember you can dual wield spirit weapon and shield for fat resistance. make sure to get a raven frost if possible for cannot be frozen. rhyme is also good covering both with overall resist plus cannot resist. If you can score a paladin shield and play a pali you can get over 20+ to resist socket shields that stack on top of these words to really make the move into hell alot easier.
I lost my HC LVL 83 Sum Necro to Ball, made it back to hell in about 20 - 25H of gameplay. Now I'm back to LVL 76, yes I'm doing it only for a trophy, but every time I look up some kind of guide, I feel like the RNG in this game is just messing my run up, not to mention I was stupid enough not to do offline char. And yet you have MrLlamaSC here having the best charms in the game at LVL 87 :D
I've played for a good 3-4k hours back in the day, certainly not inexp, but I decided to reinstall after a many years long break and grind out some single-player. I wanted to level a hammerdin first for ease, and it was easy enough SSF until I got to hell and quill rats were chunking my hp massively whenever I stopped to cast. It was at that moment when I realized how OP glacial spike was on sorc and how much I actually relied on it for undergeared progression play. D2 is definitely a hard game for a new and undergeared player because of how punishing it is, emphasized moreso without having any guidance. It's easy to forget once you've incidentally MFed gear for alts, how hard it is to level without all the appropriate buffers. But it is fun.
Great video, have learned alot.. Played alot d2 back in the early 00s but I am really rusty, so really nice with this guide.. I don't seem to be able to find your Mephisto run guide video.
Its funny, when I was a kid 20 years old, I didn't run any builds, didn't respecs or use any rune words (no internet to check recipes), I just use whatever drops for me and still manages to beat HELL with all the characters. Not sure if I can do it still today. lol
Same for me lol and back then i literally know nothing about english and i just equip anything that got bigger number, because when i first touched diablo 2 i was at 6 grade and in my country we starting to learn english at 6 grade at that time haha
I was like 12-14 when i played d2, now im 32, i did the same as u, just get whatever i get from drops or npcs, and try to kill diablo in hell with summon necro in 1-2hs 😂😂
@@introchris6083 Id be inclined to trust him. I also remember taking like 6 hours to kill Hell Diablo because my build was probably atrocious but I had levels of time/patience/dedication I'll never have again.
Extra tip: you can take easy S class build, that clears all, including immunes. These would be: trap assasin, necro summoner, hammerdin, mb blizz sorc (but u need lvl 20 cold mastery to deal dam to immunes, and still will be hard). Otherwise aim for the party with a friend. 2 Coldl and ightning sorcs can clear all together in a blink of an eye and have same movespeeds. Only con would be that you need same drops.
I always have more than one damage type available before going into hell, e.g. A good merc can give casters access to lots of physical damage. Most melee characters can access elemental damage types. Helps with the immunes. Melee characters need to MAX out their damage going into hell, because everything is tanky as f*** and if you're doing little hits you'll need to repair your weapon incredibly frequently. My first venture into hell on a melee character was a fury druid and I was literally heading back to repair every 2 minutes. I was just using Aldur's with +speed runes and the damage just wasn't enough, so I switched to a big 2-hander in the end.
Low budget gear: Iratha's Finery. The combination gives lots of elemental immunities. Upgrade the belt (in the Horadric Cube) to get the necessary potion slots.
On those last points about resists... I did an untwinked restart in D2R SP, and I was super lucky and found The Rising Sun, in late NM I think. So, I played through Acts 1 through 3 of Hell with something like -50% fire res with no problems. Elemental Absorb is very strong, but that affix only comes on Unique items (and maybe some set/runeword items).
I don't know if running around immune mobs is a good advice for newbies. You'll have to deal with a lot of ifs: if you have a good faster run/walk, if you have good fast hit recovery, if you have good block, etc. I think what lhama did come with experience. I would sugest to take the safe route and make a double elemental character. He could have some points into freezing arrow / ice arrow and take it slowly and killing almost everything.
Am I the only one who uses shortcuts for inventory management? Ctrl-LClick would drop those charms on the ground immediately, or place them in an open stash or cube. I saw DBrunski's 100 unique rings from Andariel video. It bugged me that he didn't assign identify scrolls to a skill button for that video. Would have been faster.
Your guides have been super handy but I cant help but get PTSD when you grouped all those imps/fetishes together. Flashbacks of a blood and gunfire (poison darts hehe) in a hail of chaos and add a few firebreathers to ice the napalm
Holy shit you dropped a BER rune!!! To add up to this: once you do decent damage due to having a decent, you can mow through Nightmare like a freight train o'death. You do not need +Res and +Skills gear any more. So just get a 4 Sox armor, 3 Sox Helm and PT them. Then you do Nightmare Meph/Dia/Baal. They will drop good stuff that is hell-capable.
If you're goin' through hell keep on going. Don't slow down if you're scared don't show it. You might get out before the devil even knows you're there!
Damage:Max preferred Vitality: you know the drill. :resists preferred 0+ or almost or at 75 for fire and lightning. Cold 25 (thawing potion abuse) poison 25 (same but being quick on the draw is hard maybe 50 PR)
Actually, I had difficulty when I reached hell with my barb. However, I realized so much things in order to survive hell: 1. Resistances 2. Tankiness 3. Warcries (very important as they can buff your barb greatly) 4. FHR
People keep mentioning your name on my single D2 vid with soj gamble, did you ever get one? You have excellent content glad to be exposed and subscribe. Diablo has been a mainstay game in my life over 20 years and I appreciate your content! I probably have played d1 and hellfire as much as D2 but both hold a place in my heart. Sorry not a fan of d3 except roll mechanic on console was dece. Wishing you all the best! My advice for hell hardcore is max resist, play kiting classes, play synergizing duos. Almost done right now with my buddy, he's hammerdin and I'm summon necro, with act 2 mercs(auras). Excellent synergy. Don't play high player count in maggot lair though, it's hell for that duo.
As a summonancer...my biggest issue in Hell is the AI of skellies/revives/merc. If I can get a mob in a room, and surround them even partially, I am fine. Things like the Maggot lair and the Arcane Sanctuary are really hard, as I can only get 1 skelly to attack the mob....so it takes a reaaaaaaaaaally long time. And my merc, who i have given some good gear to, just hangs out at the back.....very annoying
I havent played since the original came out and i never got to hell because as a kid i was always making new characters and trying early/mid game builds. But now, my first character is a ladder hardcore summon necro. Im on act 5 nightmare (ancients way) and the difficulty has jumped a lot. Currently lvl 52 and the rush from playing hardcore so far has been amazing. I didnt expect to get to act 5 nightmare. Diablo 2 is a very hard game. Without guides and help there is no way i could make it so far with my first character. If i die it will be ok because of what i have learned from people like the guy in the video. I made extra runewords, almost a copy of my main characters equipment sitting in my stash. The difficulty makes this my favorite diablo game of all time. D3 feels like a joke. Not saying its a bad game just saying D2 suits me better.
@@faustomadebr Is it possible to ‘skip’ it? I mean, you have to pass it through to get to the next location. I barely could take it with a sorc, but those light immune kinda ghosts… I‘ll have to do some research for my javazone *facepalm*
@@faustomadebr Yeah, I guess. I just always think that streamers have some magic ways to bypass such dangerous zones, while we mortals have to kite, dodge and what not 😆
I made it into hell at like 65 on my sorc and went to ancient tunnels till 78 I think, got a bunch of decent bases, some random uniques and a Merc weap then slapped the rest of the game with single element blizz sorc.
The only difficulty with lightning skills is probably the Hell ancients which very likely have high lightning immunity. My way is to respec to other builds (plague javelin) and then respec after finishing the ancients.
I played the original for years and I fall into the category you spoke of - I was rushed and given amazing gear by my friend who played the game before me and we just totally roflstomped the whole thing for shits and giggles. Now I'm playing resurrected alone and I'm like holy SHIT...this is frustrating!! lol
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I know this video doesn't cover exact details and tell you everything to do, because it's very hard to do that for this. The standard pieces are:
1. Level up. Be at least low to mid level 60 if not higher
2. Have items farmed up from Mephisto/Chaos/Cows/Pindle/Etc. Life, resists, FCR, FHR, IAS, FRW. You can die very easily in Hell without these
3. Do not engage monsters in the same way. Learn to kite and position yourself in doorways and abuse monster AI so you only fight a few at at time
4. Avoid immunities you can't fight. You will encounter some and you can either run past them or use a Mercenary (Who is Merc bugged. Video in description) to fight them slowly to progress through dangerous areas.
Nice! How was the dinner with the BagelGirl btw ? 😎 Shes lovely ❤️
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I was wondering if you have a guide on how to understand the map cells. Like knowing where the exit will spawn relative to the entrance etc.
I remember watching one of your speed runs, I think it was the most recent world record and you covered some of it. A comprehensive guide for that would be really great for people looking to get more efficient with their playthroughs.
Maphack in your mind video on my channel!
I have just solo and beat hell 3 days in just been to busy to fly through on day 2 since servers where trash
"I'll go to hell at 49" - That phrase taken out of context is hilarious
I go at 35
@@doyouevendab77I go at on(c)e
Hey man. Played this game 20 years ago and your guides have been instrumental in getting me going. Much appreciated and keep up the good work.
Same here brother.
Thank you Mr. LLamaSC
Thank you for this guide. I thought I was ready for hell as a level 60 trap assassin and was immediately thwarted by their high resistance and my low resistance.
😂😂 just ran into this today. Just working on light immune, gonna try a wand?
Some pretty good advices. I am glad that you mentioned that this game is not as easy as people would like to believe. It is rather easy when your characters are fully decked out but for the average players who doesn’t have access to a plethora of high level rune words, making an efficient character is not so easy even if you know what you’re doing and know how to play the game.
I've found that with a relatively small number of tips and the right approach to building your character, solo self-found budget gear is no problem. Then again, I lean towards caster characters which are not particularly gear sensitive. My only serious failure was a charger paladin who started struggling in act 5 hell.
Then again, before I got the right hints my builds were probably less good. Here are the hints: put enough points in strength and dexterity for your gear and everything else in vitality (chug mana potions instead of pumping energy), or optionally put enough dexterity for max block. Make sure you max your resistances, especially lightning (high damage _and_ high variance) and fire (high average damage). Put 20 points into your one chosen skill and all its synergies, modulo having a plan for immune monsters.
I feel like some of the advice in this video is valid in real life: "Kite them, don't fight the ones that are too much trouble. Sure it's scary but it works." :D
Not in North Korea. Kim Jong don't like someone? He shoots them. Done deal and moved on. Nobody gonna say anything.
Yeah your Korea comment is hyperbolic nonsense
I already play kitey in Normal `\_•_•/``》
MrLlama at first I was like "woah! slow down!" but over the last few days you have easily become my favorite resource for my casual D2R experience!
nevertheless please allow me to list a few ideas for further beginner videos:
1. What is early game? - No, it's not the first 30 levels!
2. Mechanics? - durability on items? Sometimes I have XXk gold repair build after running normal countess 15 times without death and then I have 0 after dying like 5 times....
Very personal questions ofc but that's where I find myself struggling the most.
Thank you for all the content! Really much appreciated! D2R is a great experience for me and really takes me back some 20 years!
Bonus fact: chest armor & shields fall into light, medium, and heavy categories with heavier armor penalizing movement speed and stamina drain. Thanks, MrLlama!
Dang this game is insanely intricate
Also remember to watch monsters attacks/casts and attack them right after they attack and are on cooldown. Like enemies who breathe fire, they are dangerous, so deal your damage in the window after they breathe fire by baiting the fire out of them.
I always love the fact that no matter how hard you are grinding in Nightmare difficulty to get level up, when entering Hell, you find it really hard to kill just some zombies outside Rogue Encampment. I gave up a lot of characters in Hell when my gears were not good enough to kill fast.
Just about every summon necro I've ever made makes it to hell and immediately gets punted back to nm.
Same situation with my hammerdin. Hell act 1 my hammerdin with concentratiob has damage of 4.5k but my resistance is really low. I had to switch to conviction and lose 70% of my damage just to do andy and countess runs
@@fyr3st0rm65 eh idk, my summon necro is wearing literally MF gear and I made it to Griswold in Hell with no difficulty whatsoever. Gonna actually equip some gear tonight and see if I can fuck up Andariel
Idk what it is my sorc can kill in hell but my merc has no chance at all, tried my best to get my gear and resists up but I'm still recalling struggling, so I made a paly as well, found my first raven frost yesterday for my paly tho I was excited
Yeah I was excited to play a javazon, hit a2 hell and started getting mad at beetles then in a3 the flayers were too much. Went and immediately made a hammerdin lmao and they can pretty much scrape by no mater what with dual spirits, high stealth and now an anni(had a buddy come help me cause dclone spawned lol) bout to kill diablo and see how that goes at level 77 rn
Wow, how you've grown. Watching your old stuff that doesn't have 100k views to this day. This video has 100k in one day.
Remember the Resistance scrolls you've read (3 in total) , they combined decrease the penalty from -100 to -70.
Only when you get to act 5 hell, you'll be running -80% for first time through
Resistance scrolls? Where
Great content my dude, I can tell you’re one of the gurus. 20+ years later and still learning about this game. Subbed!
My first exposure to diablo franchise was through d3. And d2 is hell of a game.
d2 is way better than d3
@@krioni86sa That’s definitely an opinion.
d1 is way better than d3
@@janvandenhooren9397 depends on the class/build you use. My trap assasin uses lightning sentry, death sentry, fire blast(for lightning immunes), burst of speed and fade.
Welcome to d2, stay a while and listen!
Any chance you can make a guide on what charms/jewels to hold onto as you level through normal-nightmare, and what to toss away?
Would love that too
Just arrived in hell yesterday with the ligthning fury zon. man this build is busted, i followed your guide on it Llama and geez I cleared hell act I in about 30 minutes with what, a ravenfrost, peace, lore and ancients pledge. Thanks for the tutorials, theyre fire 🔥🔥
Thanks for the hints. I just started Hell and didn't realize I was so unequipped
You sir are a gift to the D2 community. Thank you for your efforts.
Thanks so much. First time really enjoying this game. I'm off work for awhile right now because I'm ill, so trying to play time to time to get out of the bed. Just beat nightmare tonight, guess I got some farming to do! Your videos have been really helpful.
Hope you feel better, man.
same here, covid-19 brought home from kids school... "thanks" to this my hammerdin is 71 on xbox now... remember good old times helps gettibg well
tip lama: you can trow items in floor with control instead of dragging. ;) thanks for your videos!
i love this video. i wish i could like it twice. the whole thing is amazing but one thing i told my friend when it came to gear is to stack resists. we were in normal and he said "i hit the cap i'm good".... "nope go bigger, stack it higher".... we get to nightmare already having like 50 all resists even after the penalty and i'm like "stack it higher" and now he doesn't question it, he's stacking resist charms out the wazoo lol. we're gonna start hell soon and i'm waiting to see his reaction when his near capped resistances suddenly drop to 0 or even slightly negative lol
Thank you for this! Literally been searching UA-cam for something similar and nothing compares. You’re the man!
@6:50 “Is Minus 40?!”
*Contemplates for a second if his whole life is a lie” 😂🤣
Mr Llama Open his mind - Matrix really exist :O
The Maggot Lair is absolut cancer on Hell difficulty, especially for a summoner necro! God i hated that part. 🤣
If you think its bad on summon necro, try doing it on a javazon lmao.
@yourleftnut1 i usually stick with wake of fire till hell then go death sentry, maybe worth a shot?
Enigma
Magot Lair is the worst place to be in Diablo 2
Sitting here crying on my hammerdin in solo hell lair lmaoo
this guide is awesome, it shows how hard the game actually is instead of saying just get geared and everything is ok
i played hammerdin when d2r was released. got thru hell until I reached the 2nd group of baal minion, look through your guide on hammerdin and realised holy bolt pierces their magic immunity. what a find, thanks for the guide and all!
I tried hammerdin in hell, (from holy fire build reset to hammerdin at lvl 42) its really clunky and i cant get use to it. The damage is incredible but i just cant get used to it the playstyle..
@@apui4eva you need to find a balance between positioning and use of your ability. it takes awhile. I thought the same thing when I hit level 18. Then after awhile, I learn how to swap between hotkeys to get some fluency on the character
haha forgot about the difficulty stat curve from NM to Hell and got rocked on the first lightning immune. Thanks for this guide!
If you're leveling for hell, do it on Nightmare Baal. He can drop many Hell items like Shako. Also, the XP is really nice.
Thank you for this video MrLlama, I got a shock when I got to Hell and started getting whooped. Your guide has given me a direction I can take my Paladin. 😃
A dedicated leveling guide would be useful. Ie, trist runs 1-15, tombs, cows, etc. I'm sure you have a wealth of knowledge and knowing when/where to take a break and farm for gear, then knowing when to keep pushing would be great expertise to lend
For me, i usually run counteas to about 15 and thats decent enough to not need to level the rest of the way through normal. Then just run players 3 baal.
I always was rushed before in d2. This go around with d2R beat nightmare ancients solo with my sorc and my gosh it was hard. I had to just let the one guy leap at me and I’d move and hit him with a single fireball or make them chase me into my meteors. over and over again.
Hell will he insane.
Act 3 hell will make u cry sometimes
Wait till you get to hell ancients and your fireball and meteor no longer damage them! 😂
This is why i never ask to be "get rushed" because if i did, i basically skipped a majority of what D2 gameplay is. The journey is sometimes as important as the destination. I love the challenge of actually completing content on my own.
At least I'm not the only one who has struggled with ancients
I like the first thing you brought up was attack rating and clvl. A major major mechanic that is overlooked or people are unaware how important it is
Great video and great advice. D2 is most rewarding when efficiency is the modis operandi. It can be pretty frustrating being in Hell and hitting that brick wall for long periods of time.
Is there any chance you'll do a gear progression kind of video for new players like me? Such as good early game gears for the player + mercenary. I'm so overwhelmed since all your gears are mainly end-game gears.
Haven't played in years. Made a javazon and imagine my surprise when I arrived at travincal and the council is lightning immune. Needless to say my merc was not up to the task.
Chapter 4 is bad for lightning and fire lmao
All of act3 is light immunes basically.
Act 2 can be a little bitch aswell for javazon lmao sweet maggot lair lightning immune, gl kiting on this lvl 😂
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I feel like either the game is trolling me or like 50% of the monsters and a good chunk of elites are lightning immune. I knew I should have made a sorceress.
I find the easiest way to farm nightmare/hell mephisto in the beginning is to make a Firewall sorc. He can't hurt from beyond the moat, You can kill him quickly with no gear at level 60, Warmth is the main synergy for Firewall so it really helps with mana to have that maxed. On PD2 the Moat trick doesn't work, but you can simply make your sorc MaxBlock with a Stormshield or Whistan's Guard, telestomp mephisto and he uses physical swipes instead of lightning and your firewall will kill him before he kills you. Once you get some better gear you can respec to something easier to use and more versatile than firewall.
Watching this as a vet. Almost 88 fully geared storch included. Suprised how good I still am at this after never getting good drops in PoE. So much better
I hate PoE loot system tbh. I just want to play the game and have a nice dopamine rush when my shit drops as loot, not spend hours at this bullshit crafting table and rerolling items lmao
You're a vet?
One of my rabbits has this bald spot on her neck. Is this something to worry about?
Damn all my years of diablo 2 and i never knew about that interaction about character level, monster level, and attack rating. And that explains alotta things
Hah, I literally just asked you about immunities, then saw this 10 minutes later. This was helpful, thanks!
@@bigballedbastard7737 Not saying he did, I just thought it was funny that I had a conversation with him about this topic right before he posted it.
Wow. The universe is catering to your needs. You must be a very important person. I’m glad that you exist.
Early runewords are usually way stronger than uniques and set items. Stealth, Rhyme, Ancient's Pledge, Lore, Leaf, Insight, even Honor are powerful and cheap and can be used all the way through Hell.
But you need equipment to put them in, none of my stuff has even 1 slot for a rune and I’m in hell difficulty
@ 2:53 Todd Howard agrees: "It just hits"
The way llama say those equips name is like shouting out your killing skill LOL.. thanks for the guide!
Just reached hardcore hell.. Most resistances are +-50% (after reductions) and am level 61. My merc went down instantly, I went through my potions not much longer (yet, I live! :P). But hell this scares me so much more than on softcore..
Thanks for the guide though! Your guides helped me on my first hammerdin as well :) (which is the char I'm playing now)
Still watching these even I have beat hell in past. YT was not a thing back then. Just watching these to entertain myself and avoid mindlessly scrolling in social media/internet.
The very first time I played d2, i was so freaked by Andariel that i grinded to lvl 30..in act 1..before i killed her 🤦♂️
With or without players x? You'll end up about 25-30 on Players 8 Act 1 thanks to the extra EXP.
haha, I remember my dad had a lvl 45 assassin and he still hadn't entered nightmare, but you take the cake here.
@@Bloodlyshiva oh i was alone..literally the 1st night i played, b4 even LoD dropped
@@yankochoynev652 AND you're here talking about your dad playing which means he didn't ruin his relationship like I did with my then gf 🤣😂 Oops.
@@_Cicero_ Well my dad recognised the bad side of computer games and basically hates them, but for a short time he was into d2.
Thanks for this explanation. It really helped but I also understood a lot of this from playing Grim Dawn, where the same system applies, you go into 3 difficulties through the game and ever higher one gives a resistance penalty. Skipping the mobs is a good point, although as a Blizzard Sorc The Den of Evil is a bit meh. I got by with Static Fields and let my Templar murder them but he still died 3 times (with 60ish res all).
I'm playing Trap Assassin and absolutely loving it. Just beat Hell Act 3 at level 80, but lightning immunities are very, very annoying.
Got my Trapsin to Hell and can't get past the Stony Field lol. Still gotta get the right gear
Hell A3 is sooo brutal. A5 can be easy peasy or honestly worse than A3 thanks to guest monsters :(
I put probably thousands of hours in this game when I was a kid, but now playing Diablo 3 which keeps it fresh with seasonal changes, I just wish D2 (D2R) had an actual endgame instead of item farming for no other goal in mind.
all it really needs in that regard would be something like a leaderboard with uber Tristam clear times, maybe overall and for each individual build/class so that loot hunt in the endgame has a purpose...even if its just internet bragging rights (see d3 for that). I hope they keep supporting D2R in that way, any way for that matter
Diablo 3 endgame was EXTREMELY weak in my opinion, there’s 3 things to do - bounties - rifts - Ubers?? BORINNGGF you farm for a primal for hundreds of hours and it gets boring as hell
D3 is worthless. Level 70 in 10 minutes, then rift or greater rifts endlessly. What a mindless game compared to D2. Lol
@@billyschroeder2671 How is that any different from D2? Hundreds of hours killing Meph to get loot to make yourself stronger to fight..... oh, wait, nothing because you are already OP.
At least there is a leaderboard and a sense of progression while farming. If you're MFing on D2 for one specific item then you can do it for literally months before you see it and it's a very minor improvement while in D3 you're still leveling up, pushing for higher level Grifts and making your place on the leaderboards.
@@joekerns1298 So running Baal/Meph 3000 times per char is not mindless?
Made a barbarian using my little knowledge of Diablo 3… Diablo took me 13 times to beat lol, but I’m on hell now and have a real build. Thank you big guy!
And to add I was level 41 on normal and 68 on nightmare :o
Hey you, thanks for the guides!
Tip: If u press Ctrl + left click in some item, it will be dropped.
Hi Mr Llama. Thanks to you finally I finally finished Hell. :) Take time, take farm and take learning.
My Char is a Paladin Zealot. Thanks for your guides.
Same story for me, I've never beaten hell with my zealot pally, but I'm so close now!!!
Been playing this game since the early 90s, and it still an awesome game
I didn't realize how much my summonmancer build wad making my playthrough a cakewalk. I wS breezing in hell, then respecced to poisonmancer(with only some of the endgame gear) and it brought where I was ready for in Hell back down to Act1/NM runs so I'm definitely excited for this video
What lvl were you going into hell? I'm 67 summonmancer and I finished nm.
@@nebojsakmezic9763 62. I respecced Poisonmancer and it's just not as good without the gear(particularly death's web) as summonmancer.
Diablo 2 is mad hard. You're right. It's old school.
An excellent item with lots of resists is Moser's shield with two perfect diamonds in it. This shield is one of the reason why picking up rare shields isn't worth it, as (no exaggeration) 99.99% of all of them are worse.
Thanks to MrLlamaSC's videos, I have my first ever character to make it to Hell, not only that he has beat Act I
Before I watch this most likely excellent llama video. Mindset: don’t expect anything good to drop. Ever. Just accept the goodies as they come along.
this was very good to hear, i've been struggling a bit with playing safe on my fury druid mostly because he's so damn fast and i easily get overwhelmed by mobs in tight corridors and i was wondering if i was just under geared or something and needed to farm in safer places, but now knowing that i just need to play more safely and it's a part of the experience i feel more confident that i can do the content that i was struggling a bit with, just play slower and more tactfully until i get the things i need and sometimes don't even worry about it, just run past it.
That's been my issue bro, I leveled really high going into hell with ww Barb. I didn't change up my play style and I regretted it, now I'm taking it slower and I'm enjoying it. Damn physical immunes!!
As an Assassin main who never min-maxed, the ultimate challenge of Diablo II single player is the Rite of Passage quest in Act 5. All my efforts are geared towards THAT particular fight. I dunno if that changes this time around with guides all over the place.
Every D2R player needs to watch this
It gives me chills seeing your gear laying on the ground. I hope you have a hard wired conntection. I learned not to leave my gear on the ground with wifi. Thanks for the info.
remember you can dual wield spirit weapon and shield for fat resistance. make sure to get a raven frost if possible for cannot be frozen. rhyme is also good covering both with overall resist plus cannot resist. If you can score a paladin shield and play a pali you can get over 20+ to resist socket shields that stack on top of these words to really make the move into hell alot easier.
yeah, I got a 4 socket paladin shield with 24 resist all, put four perfect diamonds in it, giving me +100 resist all on my shield alone.
Ancients Pledge works pretty well before Rhyme as well.
Would you guys recommend sacrificing high def in favor of high res for the shield?
@@jkkim6928 I can't imagine defense being worth more than resistance unless you're already maxed in Hell difficulty
I love how going over spirit you didn't even mention the 55 fhr, it's so strong hahaha
I lost my HC LVL 83 Sum Necro to Ball, made it back to hell in about 20 - 25H of gameplay. Now I'm back to LVL 76, yes I'm doing it only for a trophy, but every time I look up some kind of guide, I feel like the RNG in this game is just messing my run up, not to mention I was stupid enough not to do offline char. And yet you have
MrLlamaSC here having the best charms in the game at LVL 87 :D
I've played for a good 3-4k hours back in the day, certainly not inexp, but I decided to reinstall after a many years long break and grind out some single-player. I wanted to level a hammerdin first for ease, and it was easy enough SSF until I got to hell and quill rats were chunking my hp massively whenever I stopped to cast.
It was at that moment when I realized how OP glacial spike was on sorc and how much I actually relied on it for undergeared progression play. D2 is definitely a hard game for a new and undergeared player because of how punishing it is, emphasized moreso without having any guidance. It's easy to forget once you've incidentally MFed gear for alts, how hard it is to level without all the appropriate buffers.
But it is fun.
Great video, have learned alot.. Played alot d2 back in the early 00s but I am really rusty, so really nice with this guide..
I don't seem to be able to find your Mephisto run guide video.
Its funny, when I was a kid 20 years old, I didn't run any builds, didn't respecs or use any rune words (no internet to check recipes), I just use whatever drops for me and still manages to beat HELL with all the characters. Not sure if I can do it still today. lol
Yeah buddy! They called that 'roshambo' (rock, paper, scissors) in reference to the basic tools used. Well played 👏
Same for me lol and back then i literally know nothing about english and i just equip anything that got bigger number, because when i first touched diablo 2 i was at 6 grade and in my country we starting to learn english at 6 grade at that time haha
I was like 12-14 when i played d2, now im 32, i did the same as u, just get whatever i get from drops or npcs, and try to kill diablo in hell with summon necro in 1-2hs 😂😂
To be honest, i highly doubt that.
@@introchris6083 Id be inclined to trust him. I also remember taking like 6 hours to kill Hell Diablo because my build was probably atrocious but I had levels of time/patience/dedication I'll never have again.
Extra tip: you can take easy S class build, that clears all, including immunes. These would be: trap assasin, necro summoner, hammerdin, mb blizz sorc (but u need lvl 20 cold mastery to deal dam to immunes, and still will be hard). Otherwise aim for the party with a friend. 2 Coldl and ightning sorcs can clear all together in a blink of an eye and have same movespeeds. Only con would be that you need same drops.
having great fun ssf to hell act 4 chaos sanctuary now, reminding me why I Iove D2 so much again.
I always have more than one damage type available before going into hell, e.g. A good merc can give casters access to lots of physical damage. Most melee characters can access elemental damage types. Helps with the immunes.
Melee characters need to MAX out their damage going into hell, because everything is tanky as f*** and if you're doing little hits you'll need to repair your weapon incredibly frequently. My first venture into hell on a melee character was a fury druid and I was literally heading back to repair every 2 minutes. I was just using Aldur's with +speed runes and the damage just wasn't enough, so I switched to a big 2-hander in the end.
Low budget gear: Iratha's Finery. The combination gives lots of elemental immunities. Upgrade the belt (in the Horadric Cube) to get the necessary potion slots.
On those last points about resists... I did an untwinked restart in D2R SP, and I was super lucky and found The Rising Sun, in late NM I think. So, I played through Acts 1 through 3 of Hell with something like -50% fire res with no problems. Elemental Absorb is very strong, but that affix only comes on Unique items (and maybe some set/runeword items).
I don't know if running around immune mobs is a good advice for newbies. You'll have to deal with a lot of ifs: if you have a good faster run/walk, if you have good fast hit recovery, if you have good block, etc. I think what lhama did come with experience.
I would sugest to take the safe route and make a double elemental character. He could have some points into freezing arrow / ice arrow and take it slowly and killing almost everything.
Am I the only one who uses shortcuts for inventory management? Ctrl-LClick would drop those charms on the ground immediately, or place them in an open stash or cube.
I saw DBrunski's 100 unique rings from Andariel video. It bugged me that he didn't assign identify scrolls to a skill button for that video. Would have been faster.
In HC, I actually build for -200 because conviction bosses are freaking everywhere.
Your guides have been super handy but I cant help but get PTSD when you grouped all those imps/fetishes together. Flashbacks of a blood and gunfire (poison darts hehe) in a hail of chaos and add a few firebreathers to ice the napalm
great guide, you nailed it. Hell is named that for a reason lol
This video was exactly what I've been looking for, thank you.
Holy shit you dropped a BER rune!!! To add up to this: once you do decent damage due to having a decent, you can mow through Nightmare like a freight train o'death. You do not need +Res and +Skills gear any more. So just get a 4 Sox armor, 3 Sox Helm and PT them. Then you do Nightmare Meph/Dia/Baal. They will drop good stuff that is hell-capable.
If you're goin' through hell keep on going. Don't slow down if you're scared don't show it. You might get out before the devil even knows you're there!
Damage:Max preferred Vitality: you know the drill. :resists preferred 0+ or almost or at 75 for fire and lightning. Cold 25 (thawing potion abuse) poison 25 (same but being quick on the draw is hard maybe 50 PR)
I liked your videos. Im new to Diablo 2 and I'm finding your videos very helpful.
Actually, I had difficulty when I reached hell with my barb. However, I realized so much things in order to survive hell:
1. Resistances
2. Tankiness
3. Warcries (very important as they can buff your barb greatly)
4. FHR
Thanks for the info man! First time here and been rockin the charged strikes and thunderfury Amazon. So much fun 🎉 crazy damage
i played a lot as a relatively young kid, i when random 1 poitns each in all stats etc xD i'm glad to have found your chanel to get to next level :d
At least im not the only one who did it...
"hey MrLama im lightning dmg, how do I kill lightning immunes?' - MrLama -> "That's the the neat thing, you don't"
Thanks MrLlama. Definitely learned alot from that. New player here... Your guides are very useful ❤️
playing hardore in nightmare right now and i'm nervous about getting into hell
I guess another point to make is simply research if you're serious about playing & getting through the game; knowledge is power : )
A Stoicgamer once said
1 - Face what you should face
2 - Avoid what you still can't face
3 - Be wise to distinguish one from the other
I still play D2 HC and with D2R rubber banding, I think I'll wait till it's smoothed out
Damn you’re cool af
@@BargedIn thanks, that really made my day. Your mom said go get a job btw.
People keep mentioning your name on my single D2 vid with soj gamble, did you ever get one?
You have excellent content glad to be exposed and subscribe. Diablo has been a mainstay game in my life over 20 years and I appreciate your content! I probably have played d1 and hellfire as much as D2 but both hold a place in my heart. Sorry not a fan of d3 except roll mechanic on console was dece. Wishing you all the best! My advice for hell hardcore is max resist, play kiting classes, play synergizing duos. Almost done right now with my buddy, he's hammerdin and I'm summon necro, with act 2 mercs(auras). Excellent synergy. Don't play high player count in maggot lair though, it's hell for that duo.
As a summonancer...my biggest issue in Hell is the AI of skellies/revives/merc. If I can get a mob in a room, and surround them even partially, I am fine.
Things like the Maggot lair and the Arcane Sanctuary are really hard, as I can only get 1 skelly to attack the mob....so it takes a reaaaaaaaaaally long time.
And my merc, who i have given some good gear to, just hangs out at the back.....very annoying
I havent played since the original came out and i never got to hell because as a kid i was always making new characters and trying early/mid game builds.
But now, my first character is a ladder hardcore summon necro. Im on act 5 nightmare (ancients way) and the difficulty has jumped a lot. Currently lvl 52 and the rush from playing hardcore so far has been amazing. I didnt expect to get to act 5 nightmare.
Diablo 2 is a very hard game. Without guides and help there is no way i could make it so far with my first character. If i die it will be ok because of what i have learned from people like the guy in the video. I made extra runewords, almost a copy of my main characters equipment sitting in my stash.
The difficulty makes this my favorite diablo game of all time. D3 feels like a joke. Not saying its a bad game just saying D2 suits me better.
19:13 "Fight the mobs that you can.."
Proceeds to run around the map for 5 minutes realizing everything is immune 🤣
Javazon: skip City of the Damned. Hahaha
Hey, it be like that sometimes, lol.
@@faustomadebr Is it possible to ‘skip’ it? I mean, you have to pass it through to get to the next location. I barely could take it with a sorc, but those light immune kinda ghosts… I‘ll have to do some research for my javazone *facepalm*
@@johnswire7859 You can explore carefully, wait for them to engage you, them you run away. Do it so you can find a safe way to the next level.
@@faustomadebr Yeah, I guess. I just always think that streamers have some magic ways to bypass such dangerous zones, while we mortals have to kite, dodge and what not 😆
I made it into hell at like 65 on my sorc and went to ancient tunnels till 78 I think, got a bunch of decent bases, some random uniques and a Merc weap then slapped the rest of the game with single element blizz sorc.
What was the significance of farming until 75 how did that make it where you could kill frozen immune mobs ?
The only difficulty with lightning skills is probably the Hell ancients which very likely have high lightning immunity. My way is to respec to other builds (plague javelin) and then respec after finishing the ancients.
I played the original for years and I fall into the category you spoke of - I was rushed and given amazing gear by my friend who played the game before me and we just totally roflstomped the whole thing for shits and giggles. Now I'm playing resurrected alone and I'm like holy SHIT...this is frustrating!! lol
Check those armor racks, got a 31 resist Skin of the Viper Magi off an armor rack in NM Meph run today.
Level up. Get resistances! And a split build between 2 damages types.