I'd just like to say, that I really enjoy your mix of humour, of examining and appreciating the details of the maps, and commentated gameplay. I think it really works, and makes your videos a delightful watch.
Wild how a D2 challenge run channel has become one of my favourites. No idea how you make this so entertaining, but I always look forward to the next one
I think I'm hitting a bit of a limit! Getting to act 3 hell with Golemdad is giving me a lot of mick dagger flashbacks so I'm about ready to move on to something new. Any game suggestions let me know!
@@prophetezekiel I feel like coming up with ideas for these runs is the most difficult part haha. I already floated the mouse-only idea a few videos back. Also, you could do something like a runeword roulette. Add all runewords which only require runes below Um or so to a randomizer. Each time you finish an act or a difficulty or whatever, you draw once to see which runeword you're allowed to use. No other gear allowed.
@@prophetezekiel What about you are only allowed to use equipment farmable in act 1 normal to complete the game? and you have to use an off meta build, not some easy mode summon necro or blizz sorc. Normal cows would also technically be allowed as it is accessible via act 1 normal. This would give you Bishbosh/Rakanishu/Normal Andy/ normal cows/ normal countess...so a decent selection. All without access to the ridiculous OP runewords and items available later on...can you complete hell difficulty using Hsarus and Cleglaws and other such 'crap' on a Dagger-Zon or whatever?
@@prophetezekiel I read this comment at about 37 minutes, starting thinking that perhaps some CRPGs, in particular either infinity engine games, BG3, or something like wrath of the righteous, might be interesting for the kind of story telling that you have. Just before you named your love for BG1 and 2, and resistance to BG3. (BG3 is very good). Playing the original trilogy might be an option for you?
I laughed the whole time as how extremely British you are, my guy. Love it. 10/10. “Candles unattended”. “Someone will need to tidy that up.” “Look at that bony mess.” “Absolutely fuck-all.” Lmaooo
Upping the item drops sounds fun. I haven't fully watched but this is fun stuff well done :) 01:37 had me laughing hard. But I had no chance of reading that before it disappeared
I think I have pinpointed what I enjoy the most from your videos - it is the slow descent to madness and inappropriate comments over time that mirrors my own internal dialouge. It tickles my adhd brain in a really pleasent way and you seem like a humoristic and likeable lad
Oh wow. What was the demo, just act 1? What classes could you play? I remember getting hooked on the diablo demo which was just the first 4 levels with the warrior, and playing it so much I had loads of unique and was really over levelled
Awesome vid :) Couldn't help but chuckle at the Fuh-rawst Mage :D The details added in the monastery in A1 are so cool. I believe the symbol stands for the Sisterhood of the Lidless Eye, from where the Rogues and Akara are. Hence why it seems it is literally a sister/rogue floating above a lidless, wide open eye. Creepy
Ill admit, the title got me wondering so I had to click 😄 Pretty neat mod, using existing assets to cobble together a believable female necro. Looking forward to binging this video soon!
Skeleton posse is peak fashion, so always worth maxing. I wish skeleton mastery changed the number of skeles you could have of all types, so you could have 20 melee or 20 mage or 10 of each for instance.
Unless you have teleport, the mages actually lower your damage output by blocking your melee summons from attacking. And considering how fragile they are, their damage is just unacceptably low. They are glass without the cannon.
Lord De Seis is named after Rick De Seis, who was actually named after the black death by his parents. This is why his name sounds like "disease" - he just slayed the room every time he told a joke!
I think when it comes to modding, the most important thing is that if you're having more fun, then absolutely go for it. Not like you're in some PRO DIABLO II E-SPORTS LEAGUE or something where they're gunna make a 10 page google doc about you, to which you'll need to hire an astrophysicist to confirm your luck odds. As always man, keep up the good videos! Always look forward to them. :)
I'm really happy that I found your channel about two weeks ago (I think). Really enjoyed binge watching your content. Challenge idea: Synergy only. The skills that you use can only be level 1. But skills that are synergy to those skills are allowed to be maxed. Sorc not allowed(!). And for extra spice, if wanted; the skills that you use isn't even allowed to have +skill via equipment or barb-shouts or anything.
Annoyingly twister is lvl 18 I think, so a lot of time to build up to it, but I've thought of a arctic blast only run in normal then switch to twister for nightmare. Will take another look!
31:40 my favorite build is hands down a throw barb, probably his best mercenary is an act 1 merc with a faith bow. Auradin gets an honorable mention too since he can use her really well. The fanaticism buff from her is great.
Really enjoying the content m8 keep it up. Also if you wanna try another masochistic run in another game try doing a full campaign play through with palm strike skills only in poe2
Ah, finally. My personal favorite D2 visual asset inspection channel has posted another saunter through normal difficulty. Glad that it's impossible to die in D2 on normal. Makes it so much more comforting.
@@prophetezekiel Hope you don't mind me asking: Any opinion on the PoE 2 Beta/early access? I'm sorta done with it for now. Did what I tend to do in ARPGs. Play one character to "completion" (aka. I've done what I wanted to achieve and then went on for maybe 20 more hours until I don't feel like playing it anymore) for a season and will come back next season for a different character. I feel it has loads of potential. I like they sorta reigned in some of the insanity of the depth of PoE 1 (which I felt went a bit far in some regards) but at the same time it feels like it definitely needs more time in the oven. The story playthrough was great, but endgame hit me like a brick wall. 'Specially survivability is such a premium and can't really be had from anything but gear it feels like you need such good rolls on gear to make it usable that 99,8% is just trash simply from not rolling the right affixes. And then those have like 3-9 tiers so yeah. You can basically farm forever and never run out of possible improvements but, imo, the barrier to start the endgame could be lowered quite a bit. Had a bit of a "the rich get richer" feeling. I need such a gear improvement simply to get started and suddenly I was able to clear maps in minutes and was swimming in resources after days of scrounging the bottom of the barrel.
I played the campaign coop and tweaked my build so often I ended up gimping it completely. I played a lot of path of exile and I dont think it ever truly clicked for me. I can never unlock a decent build without help, and there are too many uniques for me to ever learn. I liked it, but it wasnt a total riot as I'd hoped, and I'll admit I had more fun levelling and campaigning in d4 than poe2 in current state which everyone in this comments will hate for me to say but is the truth.
@ Don't let the vocal minority get you down. Haters will hate. I think I get where you're coming from. 'specially with how uniques are in that game. Also, at least in the current state, several classes are just made to struggle if you don't happen to guess that one build direction that actually works well in the mid game.
About the Act 1 Mercenary: in Remastered, they allowed you to build the Insight runeword in a bow. She's actually pretty good at that because she doesn't try to 1v5 cursed might aura megademon boss packs.
I liked it a lot, that you used more curses and the normal skeletal warriors (at the begining). Felt like less of a slow grind, but more like playing the game. I didn't mind the extra drop rates at all. Nice to see good gear.
it's a testament to how nuts the rest of the curses are that dim vision often feels hard to justify, cause if you just took it and gave it to like, the amazon (replace inner sight with it for example) and it would be an automatic "level this to at least 15, use it constantly in every build" kind of skill
Being able to play as monsters would be fun. I've always thought the Act 2 cat-people had an interesting fighting style with their whips, poison bombs and javelins, like a weird twist on Amazon.
I think they wanted you to feel the progression from swamps to jungle, to hut villages, to temples and then to dungeons in A3 to make the world seem real, and act 3 is pretty cool once you get out of the jungle. I think the relief you get when you finally get to the kurast bazaar? and out of the jungle is part of the experience of the act, like you can finally breathe again. I was always rushed through A3 as a kid, but now that you are forced to assemble the flail, I have learned to appreciate it. It may not be as fun as A1 or A2 but you can tell the devs put a lot of love into it. I also get the feeling that they started with the end of A3 and worked backwards, which is why the jungle and swamp sections aren't as fun and polished as the later parts of the act.
Agree. I feels like a trek to a lost civilisation, and I wouldnt it was longer I wouldn't mind if it were more linear or just had some jungle variety. Kurast always feels amazing so maybe that's the goal of it all. Fuck the great marsh though
Given I am at the 48 min mark and we are only in act 2 I am gonna assume this doesn’t go to NM or hell. So if you do go a couple pieces of advice. 1. highest priority of skill progression should be 1. skeleton mastery, 2. lower resist ( until level 11)3. Mages( after level 11), 4 summon resist. The reason for this is. Mages in D2R have a hidden “ missile level” as part of how mages damages are calculated. To explain it the simplest, skeleton mastery increases missile level every level. Level 20 skeleton mastery makes the missile level 20 ,meanwhile level 20 mages while you do have 2 more mages have only level 9 missiles. So if your choice is 6 mages with level 26 missiles and 8 mages with level 20 missiles the while the 2 extra mages is an increase of 33%, the level 26 missiles(for the fire mage ) is 128.5 average damage vs 174.5 average damage a 35% increase though this gets better at higher levels as 30+ gives the best scaling so priority on skeleton mastery vs mages levels it’s better to prioritize mastery. To explain just like certain skills have different scaling based off level ,mage missiles have scaling with levels for reference level 26 missile fire mage does 79-270 while level 20 missile fire mage does 47-210. 2. If going into MN take the time to purchase a +3 mastery,+3 mages “ bone wand” as this will be the best base for using larzuk to make it a 2 open socket wand to make a “ white “ runeword in. White give 4 to mastery. This will give you plus 1 mage( every 3 levels gives one more mage) and +7 mage missile levels greatly increasing the damages as scaling of 30+ missile is the highest and fastest scaling 3. Idk if you considered it against the idea of the run, but clay golem is a huge tank with just a few points with stuff like splendor, lore and white( one point in revives also are crazy tanks with a lvl 20 mastery as it pretty much 3x the life of monsters, and monster do not do much damage , but have huge life totals. For reference pit lords in nightmare do 47-75 damage for a melee attack but have 2606-3102 Hp this is true for pretty much all monsters, in all difficulties. Even a bigger difference in totals in hell 94-150 damage vs 12982-15455 life plus they keep their resistance like fire immunity and the natural % damage resist{physical resist} monsters get in hell) 4. Teleport charges are your best friend with these mages, TP works in a fun way, similarly to tele stomping, with a pure mage build you ranged “ tele stomp” you have a bigger hit box then the mages same thing with golem and a few other revives like blunder bore, pit lords etc. when you tele if you do not move after you trap the mages in one spot, this removes the ability for the mage to move thus removing the ability for the mage to take the move action instead of attacking vastly increasing DPS of the mages. Now there is still the 15 frame random delay on all minion attacks, but removing the ability for them to fan out, and takes bad angles on doors and completely miss targets also helps DPS of the build.
Would you consider doing these kinds of runs in different games? Grim Dawn is a game I'd be really interested in seeing challenge runs in, that game doesnt get a lot of coverage in that regard, could be a nice niche to slip into 😄
@prophetezekiel Well the first one that comes to mind is a shield only run, on count of the second DLC giving access to guaranteed hidden legendary drops that are main hand shields (Totally Normal Shield, Totally Normal Buckler, Totally Normal Arbiter, plus a couple more(these are available in the base game, and the 2nd DLC hub that you get access to at the end of act 1)). I do agree that modern ARPG stories are getting long, PoE2 is a MAMMOTH of a campaign at the moment. But I do think Grim Dawn has an edge over others here, that being the static map, only having randomized environmental blocks and locations of some entrances having a couple possible spawns. Sure, sometimes you have to go left instead of right on a dungeon, but the raw layout will ALWAYS be the same. This allows you to cut out a TON of the fat of the campaign, skipping most unneeded content as you get used to the flow, and what you actually need to do to progress. I peronally keep the interactive map open at all times on my secon monitor while playing, mostly to not miss secrets though 😄 I also think that the base game and DLCs would both be enough content for their own videos, as the DLCs are basically the length of the base campaign. Speaking of which! The third DLC is slated to release not too long from now, which I wager is gonna boost the interest in Grim Dawn content for a good while 😄 Sorry for the wall of text, hope it was clear and to the point!
The random monster names is one of my favorite parts of diablo 2 that i wished they had carried over to the newer games. The D4 unique monster names are so bland. I want to fight Pus Blister the Flayer or Mold Heart the Unclean
I so wish there was a monster mode where you could play as a random monster and get a retinue of goons to follow. The name should be rogue like too based on your skills and kills/deaths
I watched the whole thing and sussed straight away youd upped the drop rates. Finding uniques when all youve got is plus 1 to raise skeleton was a bit of a giveaway 😂
You've seen my luck in action before. Not sure if I like the extra drops or not. I think a slight increase is so much better on nightmare and hell as so much of those difficulties can be gear grinding and I dont have that much free time to deck out every meme build!
One thing that would help your skellies tremendously: casting clay golem as a distraction vs bosses. It will get killed easily, but you don't need a corpse to resummon it, extending your mages' lifetime by quite a bit.
Golemdad said he wouldn't let a lady with my reputation take his son out. Clay golem with some decent investment in golem mastery would definitely make this easier, but it wouldn't be skeleton mage damage only then!
on the BG2 Strongholds every stronghold actually has its own stronghold quest line, The Cleric and the Druid being my fave strongholds. (although the druid stronghold is the only one with a endgame option. you can literally turn into an archdruid at level 14 which you typically only reach as a solo player in BG2. and only as single/class druid. I don't think i reached 14 as a fighter/druid before going to the abyss even while playing solo) but all stronghold quests are well worth playing. As you mentioned a Diablo 1 style crawler and then BG1 by mistake I first thought you wanted to go towards Durlag's tower which is a brutal dungeon in BG1. difficulty wise probably worse than Watcher's keep in BG2 (as long as you know WK is impossible on low levels)
I used to love getting to Durlag's tower, the loot is just consistently great. I'd like to do a random character solo BG run, but worried it's too text heavy a game, or maybe a Minsc only run through both games.
@prophetezekiel minsc only? Use a mod or EE keeper to play as Minsc or Bhaalspawn and Minsc? But honestly BG1 Solo isn't that dialogue heavy if you narrate the quests yourself instead of reading the dialogue. even works with BG2 but BG2 is mechanically too complex and swarmed with thousands of highly optimized videos that tbh aren't fun. Bg1 solo runs only need you to know 3 'secrets' if you want them to be easy but they are very doable without those small (well 1 big) optimizations. 1) if you go straight south in the first area where gorion died you can unlock high hedge 2)south of high hedge in the northern part you can find Melicamp the chicken a super easy quest to bump you to level 2 3) evermemory ring in friendly arm Inn well in a 1pixel field in a rock southeast the draw bridge (highlighting saves your sanity) thing sells for 9k and only is good for wiz and sorc
37:00 yeah, bg1 and 2 are so fun. Bg3 just looks dreadful to play in comparison imo too. I did a solo mage/fighter/thief in bg2 that used a 2h staff to one shot people and had all the buffs from mage spells but i could switch it up and just aoe some areas. Some fun was having max fire resist from items and spells, using one of the higher level spells to save several fireballs in a quick cast to just blow up some rooms after having broken stealth and insta killing or severely wounding one of the enemies.
The progression to that point, from running from having 9hp and running from a goblin to so become a room clearing god is unmatched. I think you may have sold me to doing a run for my next video
@prophetezekiel for your starter stats, don't worry about str, you can buff yourself for that, don't worry about charisma, you can get the belt or ring in the circus tent right after the start prison, one of the best staves in the expensive shop when you escape the starting prison where you can pick pocket a regen ring with a thieving potion. Also, shield? Just buff yourself. Don't forget about haste buff later, OP. Btw, once you get cloud kill and other aoe like fireball, break the game by using a spell to get the wizards to show up in an empty area then run away and just aoe them from the fog of war until they stop coming to harrass you about your spell casting. I usually used the area near the gate at the part of the city where you discover the tanner/skinner. Then you just have the rest of the game to worry about. I like the uber lich fight where i sacrifice party members who don't matter for his sick ring.
Dude I remember pick pocketing that lich ring then killing him to get two, and it was so overpowered! I loved the drow story of the ring of the ram too.
The increased drop rate gets a pass from me. Normally, one is stuck with abyssmally bad items all the way to Baal and sometimes even through nightmare, so avoiding that is cool. Ironically, most of your best items have not been gotten by drops, but by dedicated shopping and gambling tho :P
Thanks brother. Given it's all edited down, it just means I can show more content without farming, so feels worth it for everyone! (Just trying not to upset the vocal sweatlords)
I’ve grown to be a big fan of Act One mercs. The AI is way better than Act 2 mercs who charge in and get killed, way more mobile too. Very survivable if well equipped. Using a cold bow merc with three socket bows and sapphires as well as socketed armour packed with rubies for extra life.
so bewildering to see a character mod in this game, I mean the clearly took the sorc and made a few slight cosmetic changes but still, it's so wild to me lol
I was so excited when they hyped up a skeleton mage buff during d2r development. My disappointment when we saw the numbers was immeasurable, and my day was ruined.
I actually have the collectors edition! I was never as much of a fan of the 3rd edition rules as the 2nd, but enjoyed the game enough to complete it. Worth a run do you think?
I heard you can use cosmetics that don't change the games engines and not get banned for cosmetic only mods. Is this true ? I definitely would not be using mods that have options to change the machinists if one was going to test and find out if they get banned. I so wish we had more cosmetic options.
@@prophetezekiel ok.. I'll just have to keep searching to find ones that are cosmetic only mods. I thought most mods will work online and its up to self to gamble banned.
I think increasing the drop rate like that is a bit too much. But you are the one playing. If you are gonna do that I think also stacking on MF gear is a bit too much
Kinda agree. I had a lot of uniques by the end of normal, but that was kind of the point. Because so many arent useful with this necro it didnt seem overpowered.
It is annoying. I think it's my yeti mic, as it rarely hits the right db, but will note for next video to boost overall levels more as I've suspected it's not loud enough. Appreciate this comment brother!
Well BG3 is more like Divinity than Baldur's Gate, so you might like it then. Just don't expect Baldur's Gate, aside of the name it has nothing to do with the og saga.
I'm not sure how I feel about upped drops...maybe not x2, it looked too OP in this challenge. Also I've noticed you use increased playback speed in this video a lot more often than in previous runs. I understand why you do this, but maybe you should consider making the final video a little bit longer but with more real time playback speed. Personally I feel it takes away some of the charm of your videos
You gotta bring down the player count when doing countess runs. At players 8, you're rolling away some of the runes she would typically drop for items, and a lower player count will net you more runes per drop.
Tbh I'm only after tal and eth and I seem to get them after 3 or 4 runs every time, so I only really there for that sweet exp. Good to know this though!
How about a Corpse Explosion only Hell run? I mean that you are not allowed to actively deal any damage to enemies yourself. No mercs. Thorns damage and curses are allowed. I honestly have no idea whether this would be too easy or impossible.
It's getting that first body that would be the challenge. Also, wouldn't work for bosses I dont think, maybe andariel and mephisto though...something to think about!
@@prophetezekiel it would work for diablo as well, you can kite him/the monsters around to put them into a position for blowing up. Your big problems would be duriel, the ancients and baal. If thorns is allowed you should be able to clear the game
@@prophetezekiel I was thinking 2h spear, or javelin and just refuse to throw them. Normal is probably fine, not sure how cursed that would be taking it to nightmare/hell. But then you did a poison dagger necro.
Would appreciate if you combined all three difficulties in a 2 hour video. Having to watch a 6 hour run is a bit excessive. You just end up skipping through most of it.
It's my style dude. I dont like trying to speed through games, I like the journey and seeing the details. Appreciate the little battles and seeing what random challenges pop up. Up to you to skip through, do you just look at the act boss fights then?
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I'd just like to say, that I really enjoy your mix of humour, of examining and appreciating the details of the maps, and commentated gameplay. I think it really works, and makes your videos a delightful watch.
This was a lovely comment to read! Thank you so much, means a lot ❤
Wild how a D2 challenge run channel has become one of my favourites. No idea how you make this so entertaining, but I always look forward to the next one
I'm amazed how you can keep re-playing the story over and over and not get bored. No clue how you do it. Anyways, back to my 1000 Andariel runs.
I think I'm hitting a bit of a limit! Getting to act 3 hell with Golemdad is giving me a lot of mick dagger flashbacks so I'm about ready to move on to something new. Any game suggestions let me know!
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@@prophetezekiel I feel like coming up with ideas for these runs is the most difficult part haha. I already floated the mouse-only idea a few videos back. Also, you could do something like a runeword roulette. Add all runewords which only require runes below Um or so to a randomizer. Each time you finish an act or a difficulty or whatever, you draw once to see which runeword you're allowed to use. No other gear allowed.
@@prophetezekiel What about you are only allowed to use equipment farmable in act 1 normal to complete the game? and you have to use an off meta build, not some easy mode summon necro or blizz sorc. Normal cows would also technically be allowed as it is accessible via act 1 normal. This would give you Bishbosh/Rakanishu/Normal Andy/ normal cows/ normal countess...so a decent selection. All without access to the ridiculous OP runewords and items available later on...can you complete hell difficulty using Hsarus and Cleglaws and other such 'crap' on a Dagger-Zon or whatever?
@@prophetezekiel I read this comment at about 37 minutes, starting thinking that perhaps some CRPGs, in particular either infinity engine games, BG3, or something like wrath of the righteous, might be interesting for the kind of story telling that you have.
Just before you named your love for BG1 and 2, and resistance to BG3. (BG3 is very good). Playing the original trilogy might be an option for you?
I laughed the whole time as how extremely British you are, my guy. Love it. 10/10.
“Candles unattended”.
“Someone will need to tidy that up.”
“Look at that bony mess.”
“Absolutely fuck-all.”
Lmaooo
Upping the item drops sounds fun. I haven't fully watched but this is fun stuff well done :)
01:37 had me laughing hard. But I had no chance of reading that before it disappeared
Soo... We got Golem Dad, and Skelemom?
Skelemom is a much better name, nice work
Not everything has to be something.
Love your channel sooo much how you appreciate this games every detail. Keep up the great work. HUGE THUMBS UP!!
I think I have pinpointed what I enjoy the most from your videos - it is the slow descent to madness and inappropriate comments over time that mirrors my own internal dialouge. It tickles my adhd brain in a really pleasent way and you seem like a humoristic and likeable lad
The nostalgia factor is through the roof. You're on the way to being the premiere D2 authority. Well done.
never played Diablo 2 other than the demo when I was kid. Been enjoying all your video a lot
Oh wow. What was the demo, just act 1? What classes could you play? I remember getting hooked on the diablo demo which was just the first 4 levels with the warrior, and playing it so much I had loads of unique and was really over levelled
Another banger. Great stuff as always! Hope your day is going well ☺️
Wonderful video as usual man, I really liked the hero name edits hahaha. Thanks for doin another super cool run!!!
Thank you brother as always!
+2 Skeleton Mastery and +1 to Amplify Damage wand from Den of Evil, great find. Always happy to see a new video from you, fantastic job!
Had some luck in this run, which always feels like a cheat! I'm so used to finding (and gambling) for nothing!
Awesome vid :) Couldn't help but chuckle at the Fuh-rawst Mage :D The details added in the monastery in A1 are so cool. I believe the symbol stands for the Sisterhood of the Lidless Eye, from where the Rogues and Akara are. Hence why it seems it is literally a sister/rogue floating above a lidless, wide open eye. Creepy
Great knowledge dude, love this. Will try and remember to mention it in my next video. Glad you enjoyed!
@prophetezekiel just realized my fail. Not lidless, that would be the lidless wall. But sightless, so I guess the eye is blind. Exactly as creepy :D
Ill admit, the title got me wondering so I had to click 😄 Pretty neat mod, using existing assets to cobble together a believable female necro. Looking forward to binging this video soon!
Thanks Brother! Let me know what you think
Love that you always spin a theme for the runs, like you being golem's dad, it worked well here, also the mods are appreciated.
i wait on your videos, i get so excited every upload
And as you told me at last video comments, in this run, you are looking at environment details much more 😂 I love it!
Summon necromancer is my favorite build. I always max skeleton mage even though everyone says it is bad.
There is some decent utility in a single poison and cold if you ask me
They are not very effective.. none of the skeletkns are. I max em anyway.
What else am i gonna max, a curse?
Skeleton posse is peak fashion, so always worth maxing. I wish skeleton mastery changed the number of skeles you could have of all types, so you could have 20 melee or 20 mage or 10 of each for instance.
@@prophetezekiel That would be pretty interesting. It would also mean no more mages unless they reworked em to be decent
Unless you have teleport, the mages actually lower your damage output by blocking your melee summons from attacking. And considering how fragile they are, their damage is just unacceptably low. They are glass without the cannon.
I’m glad to see your Zero-Deaths-In-Normal streak remains unbroken
Its actually incredible how the devs of the remake added in so many cool new details to the environment! And I love that you are showcasing those :)
I think a lot of games have details we skip. Taking the time makes you appreciate it all!
Oh boy have I waited for this. ❤
Lord De Seis is named after Rick De Seis, who was actually named after the black death by his parents. This is why his name sounds like "disease" - he just slayed the room every time he told a joke!
I think when it comes to modding, the most important thing is that if you're having more fun, then absolutely go for it. Not like you're in some PRO DIABLO II E-SPORTS LEAGUE or something where they're gunna make a 10 page google doc about you, to which you'll need to hire an astrophysicist to confirm your luck odds.
As always man, keep up the good videos! Always look forward to them. :)
I'm really happy that I found your channel about two weeks ago (I think). Really enjoyed binge watching your content.
Challenge idea: Synergy only.
The skills that you use can only be level 1. But skills that are synergy to those skills are allowed to be maxed.
Sorc not allowed(!).
And for extra spice, if wanted; the skills that you use isn't even allowed to have +skill via equipment or barb-shouts or anything.
Glad you're enjoying. Nice idea, I will do some research and think about it!
love it when a new prophetezekiel video drops ^^ keep up the great work m8.
Here's my challenge run idea for you btw, twister only! :p
Annoyingly twister is lvl 18 I think, so a lot of time to build up to it, but I've thought of a arctic blast only run in normal then switch to twister for nightmare. Will take another look!
Watching these feels so nostalgic and relatable
31:40 my favorite build is hands down a throw barb, probably his best mercenary is an act 1 merc with a faith bow. Auradin gets an honorable mention too since he can use her really well. The fanaticism buff from her is great.
Really enjoying the content m8 keep it up. Also if you wanna try another masochistic run in another game try doing a full campaign play through with palm strike skills only in poe2
Cool editing with the elite names.
Ah, finally. My personal favorite D2 visual asset inspection channel has posted another saunter through normal difficulty. Glad that it's impossible to die in D2 on normal. Makes it so much more comforting.
Amen Brother!
@@prophetezekiel Hope you don't mind me asking: Any opinion on the PoE 2 Beta/early access?
I'm sorta done with it for now. Did what I tend to do in ARPGs. Play one character to "completion" (aka. I've done what I wanted to achieve and then went on for maybe 20 more hours until I don't feel like playing it anymore) for a season and will come back next season for a different character.
I feel it has loads of potential. I like they sorta reigned in some of the insanity of the depth of PoE 1 (which I felt went a bit far in some regards) but at the same time it feels like it definitely needs more time in the oven. The story playthrough was great, but endgame hit me like a brick wall. 'Specially survivability is such a premium and can't really be had from anything but gear it feels like you need such good rolls on gear to make it usable that 99,8% is just trash simply from not rolling the right affixes. And then those have like 3-9 tiers so yeah. You can basically farm forever and never run out of possible improvements but, imo, the barrier to start the endgame could be lowered quite a bit.
Had a bit of a "the rich get richer" feeling. I need such a gear improvement simply to get started and suddenly I was able to clear maps in minutes and was swimming in resources after days of scrounging the bottom of the barrel.
I played the campaign coop and tweaked my build so often I ended up gimping it completely. I played a lot of path of exile and I dont think it ever truly clicked for me. I can never unlock a decent build without help, and there are too many uniques for me to ever learn. I liked it, but it wasnt a total riot as I'd hoped, and I'll admit I had more fun levelling and campaigning in d4 than poe2 in current state which everyone in this comments will hate for me to say but is the truth.
@ Don't let the vocal minority get you down. Haters will hate.
I think I get where you're coming from. 'specially with how uniques are in that game. Also, at least in the current state, several classes are just made to struggle if you don't happen to guess that one build direction that actually works well in the mid game.
technically act3 merc should also be considered skeleton mage
Literally crossed my mind!
About the Act 1 Mercenary: in Remastered, they allowed you to build the Insight runeword in a bow. She's actually pretty good at that because she doesn't try to 1v5 cursed might aura megademon boss packs.
glad you also like to poke fun at the named guys cx
"Unattended candles" he says after killing everything that could be attending to them x)
Great fun watching you. Now make it a nightmare and hell run please!
'They're coming to get youuuu, Barbara!"
Edit: I decided to come back from my drive to the bridge. Single and looking.
I liked it a lot, that you used more curses and the normal skeletal warriors (at the begining). Felt like less of a slow grind, but more like playing the game.
I didn't mind the extra drop rates at all. Nice to see good gear.
it's a testament to how nuts the rest of the curses are that dim vision often feels hard to justify, cause if you just took it and gave it to like, the amazon (replace inner sight with it for example) and it would be an automatic "level this to at least 15, use it constantly in every build" kind of skill
So true. It's so good it should be a higher level skill. Duration sucks without a lot of investment on hell though as Golemdad is finding out
The reskinned sorc is very reminiscent of the Diablo Hellfire days
Being able to play as monsters would be fun. I've always thought the Act 2 cat-people had an interesting fighting style with their whips, poison bombs and javelins, like a weird twist on Amazon.
Ah dude that is a really cool idea!
From golem dad to skelly mommy.
Told you Dim Vision was amazing. ;)
Your dry British humor is so funny.
I think they wanted you to feel the progression from swamps to jungle, to hut villages, to temples and then to dungeons in A3 to make the world seem real, and act 3 is pretty cool once you get out of the jungle. I think the relief you get when you finally get to the kurast bazaar? and out of the jungle is part of the experience of the act, like you can finally breathe again. I was always rushed through A3 as a kid, but now that you are forced to assemble the flail, I have learned to appreciate it. It may not be as fun as A1 or A2 but you can tell the devs put a lot of love into it. I also get the feeling that they started with the end of A3 and worked backwards, which is why the jungle and swamp sections aren't as fun and polished as the later parts of the act.
Agree. I feels like a trek to a lost civilisation, and I wouldnt it was longer I wouldn't mind if it were more linear or just had some jungle variety. Kurast always feels amazing so maybe that's the goal of it all. Fuck the great marsh though
Given I am at the 48 min mark and we are only in act 2 I am gonna assume this doesn’t go to NM or hell. So if you do go a couple pieces of advice.
1. highest priority of skill progression should be 1. skeleton mastery, 2. lower resist ( until level 11)3. Mages( after level 11), 4 summon resist. The reason for this is. Mages in D2R have a hidden “ missile level” as part of how mages damages are calculated. To explain it the simplest, skeleton mastery increases missile level every level. Level 20 skeleton mastery makes the missile level 20 ,meanwhile level 20 mages while you do have 2 more mages have only level 9 missiles. So if your choice is 6 mages with level 26 missiles and 8 mages with level 20 missiles the while the 2 extra mages is an increase of 33%, the level 26 missiles(for the fire mage ) is 128.5 average damage vs 174.5 average damage a 35% increase though this gets better at higher levels as 30+ gives the best scaling so priority on skeleton mastery vs mages levels it’s better to prioritize mastery. To explain just like certain skills have different scaling based off level ,mage missiles have scaling with levels for reference level 26 missile fire mage does 79-270 while level 20 missile fire mage does 47-210.
2. If going into MN take the time to purchase a +3 mastery,+3 mages “ bone wand” as this will be the best base for using larzuk to make it a 2 open socket wand to make a “ white “ runeword in. White give 4 to mastery. This will give you plus 1 mage( every 3 levels gives one more mage) and +7 mage missile levels greatly increasing the damages as scaling of 30+ missile is the highest and fastest scaling
3. Idk if you considered it against the idea of the run, but clay golem is a huge tank with just a few points with stuff like splendor, lore and white( one point in revives also are crazy tanks with a lvl 20 mastery as it pretty much 3x the life of monsters, and monster do not do much damage , but have huge life totals. For reference pit lords in nightmare do 47-75 damage for a melee attack but have 2606-3102 Hp this is true for pretty much all monsters, in all difficulties. Even a bigger difference in totals in hell 94-150 damage vs 12982-15455 life plus they keep their resistance like fire immunity and the natural % damage resist{physical resist} monsters get in hell)
4. Teleport charges are your best friend with these mages, TP works in a fun way, similarly to tele stomping, with a pure mage build you ranged “ tele stomp” you have a bigger hit box then the mages same thing with golem and a few other revives like blunder bore, pit lords etc. when you tele if you do not move after you trap the mages in one spot, this removes the ability for the mage to move thus removing the ability for the mage to take the move action instead of attacking vastly increasing DPS of the mages. Now there is still the 15 frame random delay on all minion attacks, but removing the ability for them to fan out, and takes bad angles on doors and completely miss targets also helps DPS of the build.
Dude this is insane, thank you!
Would you consider doing these kinds of runs in different games? Grim Dawn is a game I'd be really interested in seeing challenge runs in, that game doesnt get a lot of coverage in that regard, could be a nice niche to slip into 😄
Any ideas for some good grim dawn runs? I find the campaigns for newer arpgs to be really long, and my videos are long enough!
@prophetezekiel Well the first one that comes to mind is a shield only run, on count of the second DLC giving access to guaranteed hidden legendary drops that are main hand shields (Totally Normal Shield, Totally Normal Buckler, Totally Normal Arbiter, plus a couple more(these are available in the base game, and the 2nd DLC hub that you get access to at the end of act 1)).
I do agree that modern ARPG stories are getting long, PoE2 is a MAMMOTH of a campaign at the moment. But I do think Grim Dawn has an edge over others here, that being the static map, only having randomized environmental blocks and locations of some entrances having a couple possible spawns. Sure, sometimes you have to go left instead of right on a dungeon, but the raw layout will ALWAYS be the same. This allows you to cut out a TON of the fat of the campaign, skipping most unneeded content as you get used to the flow, and what you actually need to do to progress. I peronally keep the interactive map open at all times on my secon monitor while playing, mostly to not miss secrets though 😄
I also think that the base game and DLCs would both be enough content for their own videos, as the DLCs are basically the length of the base campaign. Speaking of which! The third DLC is slated to release not too long from now, which I wager is gonna boost the interest in Grim Dawn content for a good while 😄
Sorry for the wall of text, hope it was clear and to the point!
Great stuff dude, I will do some research as this has potential
@prophetezekiel glad to hear it!
Nightmare potential my ... 😂 definitely a nightmare
This run on normal is cake. Get to Diablo on nm with this build. That’s where the fun begins
shoutouts to Puke Lust, an utterly disgusting random-generated monster that won't stop showing up in my games for some reason.
Give a few years he'll have a spin off series
The random monster names is one of my favorite parts of diablo 2 that i wished they had carried over to the newer games. The D4 unique monster names are so bland. I want to fight Pus Blister the Flayer or Mold Heart the Unclean
I so wish there was a monster mode where you could play as a random monster and get a retinue of goons to follow. The name should be rogue like too based on your skills and kills/deaths
I watched the whole thing and sussed straight away youd upped the drop rates. Finding uniques when all youve got is plus 1 to raise skeleton was a bit of a giveaway 😂
You've seen my luck in action before. Not sure if I like the extra drops or not. I think a slight increase is so much better on nightmare and hell as so much of those difficulties can be gear grinding and I dont have that much free time to deck out every meme build!
Who's gonna clean up those cereals now?
One thing that would help your skellies tremendously: casting clay golem as a distraction vs bosses. It will get killed easily, but you don't need a corpse to resummon it, extending your mages' lifetime by quite a bit.
Golemdad said he wouldn't let a lady with my reputation take his son out. Clay golem with some decent investment in golem mastery would definitely make this easier, but it wouldn't be skeleton mage damage only then!
on the BG2 Strongholds every stronghold actually has its own stronghold quest line, The Cleric and the Druid being my fave strongholds. (although the druid stronghold is the only one with a endgame option. you can literally turn into an archdruid at level 14 which you typically only reach as a solo player in BG2. and only as single/class druid. I don't think i reached 14 as a fighter/druid before going to the abyss even while playing solo) but all stronghold quests are well worth playing. As you mentioned a Diablo 1 style crawler and then BG1 by mistake I first thought you wanted to go towards Durlag's tower which is a brutal dungeon in BG1. difficulty wise probably worse than Watcher's keep in BG2 (as long as you know WK is impossible on low levels)
I used to love getting to Durlag's tower, the loot is just consistently great. I'd like to do a random character solo BG run, but worried it's too text heavy a game, or maybe a Minsc only run through both games.
@prophetezekiel minsc only? Use a mod or EE keeper to play as Minsc or Bhaalspawn and Minsc? But honestly BG1 Solo isn't that dialogue heavy if you narrate the quests yourself instead of reading the dialogue. even works with BG2 but BG2 is mechanically too complex and swarmed with thousands of highly optimized videos that tbh aren't fun. Bg1 solo runs only need you to know 3 'secrets' if you want them to be easy but they are very doable without those small (well 1 big) optimizations.
1) if you go straight south in the first area where gorion died you can unlock high hedge
2)south of high hedge in the northern part you can find Melicamp the chicken a super easy quest to bump you to level 2
3) evermemory ring in friendly arm Inn well in a 1pixel field in a rock southeast the draw bridge (highlighting saves your sanity) thing sells for 9k and only is good for wiz and sorc
I caught that Arrested Development reference at 1:15:13 😂😂
You are my audience!
I think that skeletal mastery increases the damage of the mages. I believe that points in the mage skill just increase their life and number.
Yeah you're right! Good to balance them both, but feels so much better having a big team!
37:00 yeah, bg1 and 2 are so fun. Bg3 just looks dreadful to play in comparison imo too. I did a solo mage/fighter/thief in bg2 that used a 2h staff to one shot people and had all the buffs from mage spells but i could switch it up and just aoe some areas.
Some fun was having max fire resist from items and spells, using one of the higher level spells to save several fireballs in a quick cast to just blow up some rooms after having broken stealth and insta killing or severely wounding one of the enemies.
The progression to that point, from running from having 9hp and running from a goblin to so become a room clearing god is unmatched. I think you may have sold me to doing a run for my next video
@prophetezekiel for your starter stats, don't worry about str, you can buff yourself for that, don't worry about charisma, you can get the belt or ring in the circus tent right after the start prison, one of the best staves in the expensive shop when you escape the starting prison where you can pick pocket a regen ring with a thieving potion. Also, shield? Just buff yourself. Don't forget about haste buff later, OP. Btw, once you get cloud kill and other aoe like fireball, break the game by using a spell to get the wizards to show up in an empty area then run away and just aoe them from the fog of war until they stop coming to harrass you about your spell casting. I usually used the area near the gate at the part of the city where you discover the tanner/skinner.
Then you just have the rest of the game to worry about.
I like the uber lich fight where i sacrifice party members who don't matter for his sick ring.
Dude I remember pick pocketing that lich ring then killing him to get two, and it was so overpowered! I loved the drow story of the ring of the ram too.
@@prophetezekiel i really should have read more of the lore, if you make a video, could you explain some of it as you go?
My perfect job would be writing the descriptions for unique items in baldurs gate, so I will do exactly that I promise!
Worst part of skele mage Necro has got to be the Maggot Lair. Commenting pre-watch, good luck!
I have childhood memories of magot lair then arcane sanctuary just being awful...
Great work man! Keep the sense of wonder and don’t ever let them tell you it’s Autism! I know I didn’t!
Great vid! 👍 What AI program do you use to make thumbnails?
I would love to see a strafe bow amazon playthrough!
Yeeeey!!!! New video 🎉🎉
The increased drop rate gets a pass from me. Normally, one is stuck with abyssmally bad items all the way to Baal and sometimes even through nightmare, so avoiding that is cool. Ironically, most of your best items have not been gotten by drops, but by dedicated shopping and gambling tho :P
Thanks brother. Given it's all edited down, it just means I can show more content without farming, so feels worth it for everyone! (Just trying not to upset the vocal sweatlords)
I’ve grown to be a big fan of Act One mercs. The AI is way better than Act 2 mercs who charge in and get killed, way more mobile too. Very survivable if well equipped. Using a cold bow merc with three socket bows and sapphires as well as socketed armour packed with rubies for extra life.
I think a merc only run is on the cards. Maybe I'm totally fashion only, merc is decked out
was entertaining good job
Curses are so underrated.
Hell yeah. Whole game could be necro only if you added an extra melee tree and mage tree and it would still be insanely replayable.
so bewildering to see a character mod in this game, I mean the clearly took the sorc and made a few slight cosmetic changes but still, it's so wild to me lol
So often I forgot what was going on as I'm so used to the character models!
I was so excited when they hyped up a skeleton mage buff during d2r development. My disappointment when we saw the numbers was immeasurable, and my day was ruined.
Her name should be "Goth Girl"
Love your material.
If I had a hybrid build I just use a low res gear on swop to save me 7 skills. I.e. shrunken head
You like BG 1 & 2. Ever play Neverwinter nights?
I actually have the collectors edition! I was never as much of a fan of the 3rd edition rules as the 2nd, but enjoyed the game enough to complete it. Worth a run do you think?
@prophetezekiel pretty niche, but I think people may enjoy. I still need to play thru BG 3!
Dim vison was smart, since you cant get the stupid mages to focus anything.
Correct me if im wrong but do you kill countess with players 8? You should kill her on players 1 because higher players count decreases her rune drops
Tbh I do full tower more for the experience than the runes, as I only really need a tal and an eth and they seem to always drop in 4 or 5 runs.
Gordon Ramsey ai voiceover
You calling me an idiot sandwich?
I heard you can use cosmetics that don't change the games engines and not get banned for cosmetic only mods. Is this true ? I definitely would not be using mods that have options to change the machinists if one was going to test and find out if they get banned.
I so wish we had more cosmetic options.
Mods using mod manager only work in single player so no ban potential there
@@prophetezekiel ok.. I'll just have to keep searching to find ones that are cosmetic only mods. I thought most mods will work online and its up to self to gamble banned.
Not many to choose from. I really hope more people get involved making them as I'd love to showcase more
Would like to propose a barrel and urn only hell run. Can only wear items obtained from urns and barrels. Go full Link. Try beat that one.
This is so silly it might just work. Are we saying no chests then? Not sure if there are barrels or urns in act 4...
@@prophetezekiel Yeah no chests, super chests makes it too easy. Think only act 4 has no urns tho, there are some in act 5
I think increasing the drop rate like that is a bit too much. But you are the one playing. If you are gonna do that I think also stacking on MF gear is a bit too much
Kinda agree. I had a lot of uniques by the end of normal, but that was kind of the point. Because so many arent useful with this necro it didnt seem overpowered.
No Potion sorcerer could be a good Challenge.
Nice idea. Mana shield and warmth build.
Feel free to raise the volume of your videos just a bit, yours are a bit quiet compared to most others :)
It is annoying. I think it's my yeti mic, as it rarely hits the right db, but will note for next video to boost overall levels more as I've suspected it's not loud enough. Appreciate this comment brother!
Well BG3 is more like Divinity than Baldur's Gate, so you might like it then. Just don't expect Baldur's Gate, aside of the name it has nothing to do with the og saga.
I'm quite worried about not liking it. I'd rather showcase why BG1 and BG2 are so good
Resurrected Reimagined has a real sorc skele build, I’d watch the vid if you gave it a try.
I'm not sure how I feel about upped drops...maybe not x2, it looked too OP in this challenge.
Also I've noticed you use increased playback speed in this video a lot more often than in previous runs. I understand why you do this, but maybe you should consider making the final video a little bit longer but with more real time playback speed. Personally I feel it takes away some of the charm of your videos
Good to hear. It's honestly to keep the play time under 2 hours as the videos are already quite long.
I also think you should stop using your melee attack as soon as you got your 1st mage :)
You gotta bring down the player count when doing countess runs. At players 8, you're rolling away some of the runes she would typically drop for items, and a lower player count will net you more runes per drop.
Good shout! I actually did this with LK runs with Golemdad in hell, but so easy to forget.
You should always switch back to players 1 for the countess, otherwise you will always only get one rune.
Tbh I'm only after tal and eth and I seem to get them after 3 or 4 runs every time, so I only really there for that sweet exp. Good to know this though!
How about a Corpse Explosion only Hell run?
I mean that you are not allowed to actively deal any damage to enemies yourself.
No mercs. Thorns damage and curses are allowed.
I honestly have no idea whether this would be too easy or impossible.
The problem is with the bosses. No bodies to blow up in their areas.
It's getting that first body that would be the challenge. Also, wouldn't work for bosses I dont think, maybe andariel and mephisto though...something to think about!
@ Yeah, I'm not seeing how you would do bosses like the ancients or Duriel.
@@prophetezekiel it would work for diablo as well, you can kite him/the monsters around to put them into a position for blowing up. Your big problems would be duriel, the ancients and baal. If thorns is allowed you should be able to clear the game
This run so lucky for item drops!
Is it just me or did the viedeo feel really laggy i dont think its my phone but it was really bothering me trying to watch
Im certain it's your side dude sorry. Time to get a new potato?
Considered a melee amazon?
Yes! What weapon do you think? Sword and shield? I feel spears might be a bit easy
@@prophetezekiel I was thinking 2h spear, or javelin and just refuse to throw them. Normal is probably fine, not sure how cursed that would be taking it to nightmare/hell. But then you did a poison dagger necro.
Aaa....nobody asking how our friend here have female necro??? Did i miss somthing ?!
Girls can be Necromancers too Marion, it's 2025
Would appreciate if you combined all three difficulties in a 2 hour video. Having to watch a 6 hour run is a bit excessive. You just end up skipping through most of it.
It's my style dude. I dont like trying to speed through games, I like the journey and seeing the details. Appreciate the little battles and seeing what random challenges pop up. Up to you to skip through, do you just look at the act boss fights then?
Do NM now
You're not my real dad!
A well deserved break from golem dad with a beeline to skelly mommy ♥️ 🦴💀
Golemdad's final outing being edited now!