This would be really cool from a townsperson’s perspective. All of your problems like the evil countess who bathes in blood, the mummy who lives in your sewer system, the demon woman who’s taken over the kingdom all start mysteriously dying one by one ever since that half naked guy ran out of your village that one day.
I remember the day that man apperated into town. In an instant he was there, and in an instant he was gone. Then the rumours trickled in: the Den of Evil cleared; Blood Raven ravin' no more...
I love imagining this from the townsfolks perspective. You look out your window from your peasant hut and see this wild, nearly naked man covered in whatever he's ripped from the corpses of demons screaming and wielding a wooden stick and yelling about how he needs more bag space for magic scrolls. Your eyes meet, and in response he flees in terror screaming about how he's not allowed to make friends.
just wow :D thanks for your sacrifice for our entertainment ;) I also got my thinking cap on about how to resolve the non-repairability issue and throwing weapons mastery came to my mind :D you made a good point saying it starts to shine at levels 40+ - build calculator shows that at skill level 15 you get 99% chance not to consume quantity, adding replenish on crit and possible "replenishes quality" on the weapon itself would make the life of poor Jayden a lot easier :D
Man the sheer amount of Patience and dedication of this vid makes my daily 1 hour grinding seem puny..Hats off to your will bro and a Happy New Year!! Keep up the good work..
I was thinking of a few runs that you could do. One I just thought of was Merc only. Using the merc as your only offence and whatever you can in order to keep them alive. Aura's / enchant etc. The character class I leave to your discretion (Paladin would be the obvious choice but may be a bit easy.) Also, an aura only run. Whatever auras you want, but you can't hit anything yourself. I just made a fire aura druid with this and it was pretty wild. Relies heavily on runewords though for anyone other than the paladin.
38:00 the Diggler could be used in the off-hand for resistances, and since Concentrate doesn't use the off-hand, added resistances without durability loss!
I've tried an Iron Man barb run similar to this but with really complicated rules. Anyhow, when I revisit this I'll do it HC, only play each area once - no going back. I've played this through normal, but can't seem to go beyond NM Act 1. When you've managed durability, then the next biggest challenge is damage output. However, in the past I did miss the fact I could hork as a barb. If you do this run again, here are some tips: 1. Using thrown weapons as melee weapons will give you access to items with much better longevity. Essentially the quantity acts as durability and can far exceed 100+ on some items. 2. Rare items with repairs durability become really, really valuable. You'll keep backup weapons until you can find self-repairing weapons and this would include thrown weapons (used as melee weapons) with replenishes quantity. 3. Ditto weapons with life leach or items with good health regen. 4. Belts with zero durability still let you store pots. 5. Bows don't have durability. Arrows (or cubing bolts) can be found everywhere. Or horked. Tri-socketed bows with emeralds, or better Tals, can take Meph, Diablo and Baal at range. It's safer and easier on the pots. Keep this on swap. 6. Go Double Swing/Bash. You'll attack faster and at lvl 9 double swing is mana free. As in, you don't have to worry about mana pots. DS/Bash allows you to be weapon agnostic, but dumping 1 point in mace or sword mastery is something I hadn't considered before but worth it for the modest boost to damage. 7. As others have mentioned you can repair items with the cube. I save this only for premium items, usually unique items. e.g. a Bonesnap on swap or strength/steel/black item on swap. 8. You can use chipped gems to reroll magic weapons. 9. Look out for life tap wand being dropped. Really helpful taking down bosses if you go melee. 10. You can use a magic amulet plus one of each kind of gem to make an all res amulet. 11. Life shrines eventually reset like wells. They take longer but I've used that for some boss fights. On my runs, if an identify tome doesn't drop then its a PITA. Then again, after a while its only worth identifying rares and uniques anyway. I could argue that identifying blue items at all isn't worth the scroll. Depends. I'd only consider using small charms and they can be re-rolled with perfect gems too. EDIT: The only gems worth keeping are Emeralds for poison damage, unless you're going for a cube recipe of some sort. Also if you do manage to survive into NM and beyond, then the opportunity to upgrade/reroll items becomes possible. Hope this helps.
Javelins aren’t infinite durability if used as melee weapons. I used to think that. But try it. After use the number slowly decreases and you can repair to replenish the stock.
Love the content so far. With you saying how easy mercenaries make it, how about a merc only run? You get to kill blood raven, but after that all damage must be done by your merc?
You can always cube three magic rings or amulets together to get a new amulet if you do rings or an amulet if you cubed the rings. Would have been useful for this run since you had so many at once so often
@@prophetezekiel Not only that, but usually by the time reaching in NM or Hell, if stacking up enough on Orts and Rals, they are for repair durability recipes. Ort + weapon in cube fixes it, and Ral + armor fixes it.
I thought you could repair items in the cube? RAL & ORT runes? or is that against the spirit of the run? Really good video by the way - enjoyed it a lot:) Nm, The rules scrolled past too fast and I missed the 'no repairing' at all bit :)
So you think there could be builds to aimulate yhe act bosses a little bit and see how yhey do? Duriel:tanky double swing bard with cold damage Diablo: fire/lightning sorc etc
Yeah agree with this. It's a close compromise but true ironman is a lot more hardcore. This was extremely tough, but I'll be honest poison dagger in hell...
Frankly... this would be a more enjoyable viewing experience if you had access to your stash, even if it was a limited resource like only being able to open it once per level up. Imagine if you could could use 'level up coupons' to access a shop or hire a mercenary instead, also giving worth to the gold you pick up. Maybe it would even make picking up certain quests worth it for the rewards or area access? Makes the challenge more tactical, engaging, and perhaps faster on your end with recording as well. It would have saved hours of grinding early for identify scrolls. I know it's not what you were aiming for with this run, but maybe a 'death row inmate' style character who has to EARN the right to simply be tolerated by the other survivors of this land, to speak in their presence, to spend your gold, or even make use of a spare chest? Idk it just sounds like that'd make for another very fun video to watch. I loved this video!!
Death row inmate is a very cool idea! Maybe a rng wheel of super unique kill contracts and then shop access/stash access/repair privileges. Love this idea dude!
Jayden Braydon the Barefoot Hobo Barbarian; the hero no one wanted, but the one they got despite… except for those barbarians still locked up in Act V.
It's harder to follow for some viewers if I do things too quickly, so I actively avoid doing this (unless it's dropping loads of pots before ancients fight).
From start to End Hell Hardcore char with no Save and Exit and no town? Like an Ultra Iron Man. And if farming is allowed (Save and Exit), why not use rune-words? Like Stealth or 3x Tal runes for crazy weapon damage that is also great for vs bosses to hit and run and not having to face-tank duriel for example?
you would need to magic find the full sets first. but you could try doing challenge runs of only using low level set items. especially the bad ones. since you like to challenge yourself you could just not use any other gear only those specific set items. like Sander's Folly is a melee set for necromancer anda faster cast rate wand. overall terrible. and for sets that don't have bels thats an extra challenge in inventory management.
This would've been cooler if it was a real iron man run. Being able to replay/ grind sections diminishes the challenge a lot. Also, did you forget there is a cube recipe for repairing stuff?
Unfortunately a lot of that is time-based. It takes long enough without meta-grinding areas. Part of me wants to compromise but the run would take 3 times as long and the variation helps with wanting to do it. It's just a hobby after all! I think an iron man is on the cards dont worry!
The challenge was not just finding the runes but storing them too. I think for nightmare it will be worth it, as the countess can drop some half decent ones, but farming rals in normal when you're a higher level means no experience and inventory issues
@prophetezekiel combat skills should be allowed just no offensive auras is a very differnd playstyle maybe salvation so no need in all resist items or max devensive build interesting choices But is the damage enough will see 😅
I'm halfway through and I don't understand why you aren't using any cube recipes... This is turning into an infuriating watch, though probably not as annoying as it was to play it
This would be really cool from a townsperson’s perspective. All of your problems like the evil countess who bathes in blood, the mummy who lives in your sewer system, the demon woman who’s taken over the kingdom all start mysteriously dying one by one ever since that half naked guy ran out of your village that one day.
I remember the day that man apperated into town. In an instant he was there, and in an instant he was gone.
Then the rumours trickled in: the Den of Evil cleared; Blood Raven ravin' no more...
I love imagining this from the townsfolks perspective.
You look out your window from your peasant hut and see this wild, nearly naked man covered in whatever he's ripped from the corpses of demons screaming and wielding a wooden stick and yelling about how he needs more bag space for magic scrolls. Your eyes meet, and in response he flees in terror screaming about how he's not allowed to make friends.
Ha epic! I'll be getting you to write the biography of his semi-naked adventure
Is repairing via cube not allowed. Ral + Armor = Fully repaired armor. Ort+weapon = fully repaired weapon
So stoked to see this come up in my feed. I ADORE your slow paced D2 longform challanges. So happy to have stumbled upon your channel.
just wow :D thanks for your sacrifice for our entertainment ;)
I also got my thinking cap on about how to resolve the non-repairability issue and throwing weapons mastery came to my mind :D
you made a good point saying it starts to shine at levels 40+ - build calculator shows that at skill level 15 you get 99% chance not to consume quantity, adding replenish on crit and possible "replenishes quality" on the weapon itself would make the life of poor Jayden a lot easier :D
Great idea! I think this will be a great switch into nightmare, so thank you
Man the sheer amount of Patience and dedication of this vid makes my daily 1 hour grinding seem puny..Hats off to your will bro and a Happy New Year!! Keep up the good work..
Thank you, and happy new year to you too brother!
You should use the cube to repair
53:31 hahahha omg loving the run so far, thanks for making this video man. Happy New Year!! Would love to see a nightmare continuation of this run
Earned a sub. This is an awesome idea and a great video
Kicked out of town for whipping out his crude club. Lol
He was faught playing with decard cains peg leg :-))
That finishing blow was so good, another mad run
really cool run! never thought about this possibility of no town... nice!
Cheers man, thanks for entertainment. Pacifist sorceress continuation would be nice.
Noted! Will look at doing a poll in few days and get thoughts on which sequel people want
Nice editing and funny challange. Well done
This run was amazing - would love to see it go all the way to hell.
I was thinking of a few runs that you could do. One I just thought of was Merc only. Using the merc as your only offence and whatever you can in order to keep them alive. Aura's / enchant etc. The character class I leave to your discretion (Paladin would be the obvious choice but may be a bit easy.)
Also, an aura only run. Whatever auras you want, but you can't hit anything yourself. I just made a fire aura druid with this and it was pretty wild. Relies heavily on runewords though for anyone other than the paladin.
Yeah I like this. Merc only I think could be good, and I'd probably go for sorceress and enchant only. Keep the ideas coming!
Awesome video dude with great editing and entertaining content keep up the great work you deserve way more subscribers 😊
Thanks dude, means a lot x
That was a completely different take on D2. I really liked it!
These challenges are so stupid... I love it! 🤣
Keep it up.
38:00 the Diggler could be used in the off-hand for resistances, and since Concentrate doesn't use the off-hand, added resistances without durability loss!
Dat block chance tho...
Doesn’t matter if the unique is ethereal. Basically everything you have on is ethereal.
What a run. GG!
I've tried an Iron Man barb run similar to this but with really complicated rules.
Anyhow, when I revisit this I'll do it HC, only play each area once - no going back. I've played this through normal, but can't seem to go beyond NM Act 1. When you've managed durability, then the next biggest challenge is damage output. However, in the past I did miss the fact I could hork as a barb.
If you do this run again, here are some tips:
1. Using thrown weapons as melee weapons will give you access to items with much better longevity. Essentially the quantity acts as durability and can far exceed 100+ on some items.
2. Rare items with repairs durability become really, really valuable. You'll keep backup weapons until you can find self-repairing weapons and this would include thrown weapons (used as melee weapons) with replenishes quantity.
3. Ditto weapons with life leach or items with good health regen.
4. Belts with zero durability still let you store pots.
5. Bows don't have durability. Arrows (or cubing bolts) can be found everywhere. Or horked. Tri-socketed bows with emeralds, or better Tals, can take Meph, Diablo and Baal at range. It's safer and easier on the pots. Keep this on swap.
6. Go Double Swing/Bash. You'll attack faster and at lvl 9 double swing is mana free. As in, you don't have to worry about mana pots. DS/Bash allows you to be weapon agnostic, but dumping 1 point in mace or sword mastery is something I hadn't considered before but worth it for the modest boost to damage.
7. As others have mentioned you can repair items with the cube. I save this only for premium items, usually unique items. e.g. a Bonesnap on swap or strength/steel/black item on swap.
8. You can use chipped gems to reroll magic weapons.
9. Look out for life tap wand being dropped. Really helpful taking down bosses if you go melee.
10. You can use a magic amulet plus one of each kind of gem to make an all res amulet.
11. Life shrines eventually reset like wells. They take longer but I've used that for some boss fights.
On my runs, if an identify tome doesn't drop then its a PITA. Then again, after a while its only worth identifying rares and uniques anyway. I could argue that identifying blue items at all isn't worth the scroll. Depends. I'd only consider using small charms and they can be re-rolled with perfect gems too.
EDIT: The only gems worth keeping are Emeralds for poison damage, unless you're going for a cube recipe of some sort.
Also if you do manage to survive into NM and beyond, then the opportunity to upgrade/reroll items becomes possible.
Hope this helps.
Great way to start the new year
loving the vids!
Happy new year! 🇦🇺
Ps. Purely evil name
55:23 you're right, never seen you get that close to death in normal mode 🙃
Polearms such as lances were highly prized back in the day, before the whirlwind nerfs
very fun run
I am doing a run like this for myself with a summoner necromancer. And it has been fun, I might do a melee character another time.
I wonder if there's any way to make Hell possible?
Javelins aren’t infinite durability if used as melee weapons. I used to think that. But try it. After use the number slowly decreases and you can repair to replenish the stock.
Glad this wasnt my undoing!
How dare you insult the mighty Gidbinn like that :-)
Absolute cinema!
Love the content so far. With you saying how easy mercenaries make it, how about a merc only run? You get to kill blood raven, but after that all damage must be done by your merc?
Yeah quite like this idea. Maybe I have to use the local help only, so new merc for each act
You can always cube three magic rings or amulets together to get a new amulet if you do rings or an amulet if you cubed the rings. Would have been useful for this run since you had so many at once so often
I always forget this, as I've never got a decent reroll from this. Good knowledge though!
I never get good rolls either, but this was a desperate fellow. Anything could have been an upgrade. Thanks for the entertainment!
@@prophetezekiel Not only that, but usually by the time reaching in NM or Hell, if stacking up enough on Orts and Rals, they are for repair durability recipes. Ort + weapon in cube fixes it, and Ral + armor fixes it.
I thought you could repair items in the cube? RAL & ORT runes? or is that against the spirit of the run? Really good video by the way - enjoyed it a lot:) Nm, The rules scrolled past too fast and I missed the 'no repairing' at all bit :)
"Iv never liked ignore target deffence" still chucks an amethyst in greatswrod for attack rating.. 😅
So you think there could be builds to aimulate yhe act bosses a little bit and see how yhey do?
Duriel:tanky double swing bard with cold damage
Diablo: fire/lightning sorc etc
Does base diablo 2 have respec potion or do i play to much median xl?
What even is this?
@prophetezekiel mod for oryginal version
Finally iron man challenge❤ its oldest challenge I know so far, like years before d2r release. Better than, every set, unique only etc.
This is not iron man. Iron man does not allow replaying sections of the game.
An actual Ironman run is vastly more challenging than this.
Yeah agree with this. It's a close compromise but true ironman is a lot more hardcore. This was extremely tough, but I'll be honest poison dagger in hell...
diablo 2 is still the best diablo ever.
Frankly... this would be a more enjoyable viewing experience if you had access to your stash, even if it was a limited resource like only being able to open it once per level up.
Imagine if you could could use 'level up coupons' to access a shop or hire a mercenary instead, also giving worth to the gold you pick up. Maybe it would even make picking up certain quests worth it for the rewards or area access?
Makes the challenge more tactical, engaging, and perhaps faster on your end with recording as well. It would have saved hours of grinding early for identify scrolls.
I know it's not what you were aiming for with this run, but maybe a 'death row inmate' style character who has to EARN the right to simply be tolerated by the other survivors of this land, to speak in their presence, to spend your gold, or even make use of a spare chest? Idk it just sounds like that'd make for another very fun video to watch. I loved this video!!
Death row inmate is a very cool idea! Maybe a rng wheel of super unique kill contracts and then shop access/stash access/repair privileges. Love this idea dude!
Dont stop boss, feed us more
Love the fact you jumped straight in and put rules over the gameplay. Too many long it out
Jayden Braydon the Barefoot Hobo Barbarian; the hero no one wanted, but the one they got despite… except for those barbarians still locked up in Act V.
Mac diablo 2... Ahh i remember my hdd was to small for diab2 + expansion so had to play only normal game in the day. Good times.
Someone shout this man a beer xD
FIND POTION?!
FIND ITEM?!
Did I really forget so much? XD
they're key barbarian skills for farming!!
They changed the maggot lair music to palace harem music? Feels super off to be honest.
I overlay the ost for consistency. I actually like the harem music for an epic desert boss fight!
@prophetezekiel thats why 😀 for final boss was kinds okey 😁
1:34:49 Stone Wood Bone Wand ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
He looks lik Big Lenny! R.i.P. big man!
Homeless Barbarian
Just like me...
I still love you brother x
Haha great challenge run :D Will you carry on with this through NM and Hell?
I've had a great comment that had inspired me for nightmare, so might well do. Thanks for the love brother!
Hi, you should try run a melee only sorceress, no spell damage allowed besides enchant.
Those are pretty fun to play. Enchant, ice armor, teleport.
ctrl+leftclick drops items from your inventory, it triggers me hard to see that you click them out of the inventory ....
It's harder to follow for some viewers if I do things too quickly, so I actively avoid doing this (unless it's dropping loads of pots before ancients fight).
It's more cinematic ;)
@@prophetezekiel ahhhh i see, at least you know it thats enough for me :D thx for clarification
Peak content. Moar plz.
From start to End Hell Hardcore char with no Save and Exit and no town? Like an Ultra Iron Man. And if farming is allowed (Save and Exit), why not use rune-words? Like Stealth or 3x Tal runes for crazy weapon damage that is also great for vs bosses to hit and run and not having to face-tank duriel for example?
you would need to magic find the full sets first. but you could try doing challenge runs of only using low level set items. especially the bad ones. since you like to challenge yourself you could just not use any other gear only those specific set items. like Sander's Folly is a melee set for necromancer anda faster cast rate wand. overall terrible. and for sets that don't have bels thats an extra challenge in inventory management.
This would've been cooler if it was a real iron man run.
Being able to replay/ grind sections diminishes the challenge a lot.
Also, did you forget there is a cube recipe for repairing stuff?
Unfortunately a lot of that is time-based. It takes long enough without meta-grinding areas. Part of me wants to compromise but the run would take 3 times as long and the variation helps with wanting to do it. It's just a hobby after all! I think an iron man is on the cards dont worry!
@prophetezekiel definitely looking forward to that one! Thanks man!
Was it never worth it to do any rune words?
The challenge was not just finding the runes but storing them too. I think for nightmare it will be worth it, as the countess can drop some half decent ones, but farming rals in normal when you're a higher level means no experience and inventory issues
😮Do a devensive aura only paladin next 🎉😅
Yeah, like this idea dude, will look into it
@prophetezekiel combat skills should be allowed just no offensive auras is a very differnd playstyle maybe salvation so no need in all resist items or max devensive build interesting choices
But is the damage enough will see 😅
I remember though don't remember why but for the longest time on one of my barbs I was using the helforge hammer.
It’s good for brand new characters because it has no requirements.
I used to save a copy of the flail of ages and use it to level characters through to act 3 without investing skill points
I'm halfway through and I don't understand why you aren't using any cube recipes... This is turning into an infuriating watch, though probably not as annoying as it was to play it
I lied, you finally use a recipe 47 minutes in
Ey Jaden is an ok Name. Worse would be Rotten Pissface or something.
I warmed to him a lot by the end!
I've literally seen you die in normal and in the next video also saying it ...
Not me brother, never happened
@prophetezekiel ua-cam.com/video/q5YCUbxnPtM/v-deo.htmlsi=hjA05iQ1qe5h2zxp
I think you might be missing the joke!
First. Other guy below me is a nob and missed the opportunity
What if he sorted comments by a different attribute?
This challenge is not possible, after you create a character, you fail hahaha
10:14 why throw away the helm????