I applaud the effort to note it all down, but just so you know I was totally winging the stats and skills after 27. You just want enough str and dex for the bow you'll end up using and rest vit and skills would be all things that help decoy (penetrate included) and a couple crit for valks (as crit is bugged and doesnt work for decoys).
Watching again before s9 start. I noticed another summon zon vid he mentions a5 bo merc is best for hell, I'm just curious why you went with a4 dark merc?
@@Christoff070 Right. If I have high level amp bow on myself, I'll roll with act3 cold merc instead. There's 0% chance you can keep a melee merc alive through the UT fight, whereas with proper positioning a3/a4 have no issues.
@@bubblespd2 Any reason not to use Amp from spell steal? This would allow using a3 cold merc if its pefered. One small optimization I picked up from [327] for D2: 4:23:04 you can see a torch in the middle of the screen. If its position is closer to the right tree - you get the place with a quest organ. I would assume it works for PD2 as well.
@@alextelegin6467 I completely forgot spellsteel had amp lol. It's also very annoying having to recast heart of wolverine after swaps. Good catch with the act3 read, I'm still not great at it. I'll revisit this run once I'm done with ladder, I've ripped multiple sub7h paces in destruction key farm due to playing aggressively.
Tower has guaranteed 1 (sometimes 2 if you there's the corner tile with bonfire) elite packs per floor except in very rare cases, so I highly prefer that for hitting xp routing over trist. You want the stealth anyway and as an added bonus itheleth for malice in a brandistock will take you all the way to 27.
@@bubblespd2 yes, I know the basic meta in speedrans. I didn't mean the very presence of packs, but their quality. You never want to get archers and there were perfect random in your towers - only ghosts and the fallens and that's fucking awesome.The same thing in the barracks. It's probably not so important when you run amazon, but I run a sorceress and it's critically important to get good packs
@@viktortemirov6809Ah yes, getting that xp out of 2 tower runs is pretty exceptional. As you can see from my average splits, I usually end up having to do 3 towers to hit my xp routing (the average splits include my decoyzon season starter runs to hell pits so the start is the exact same). However I end up playing the rest of the game a lot slower than in other runs, killing tons of extra stuff for charms and whatnot. Maybe I'll revisit this after I've recovered from doing so much zon stuff to get an actually solid time.
Yeah, it kinda saved the run as it put me above 30 passives with passion on (I would've crafted caster bows otherwise). Would've preferred any of the +2 circlets to be zon skills instead of shako though.
I would never run harmony in actual UT since it does nothing for decoys (would rather take a +1 caster bow), but it is incredibly helpful in keyfarming.
Insane Job. Im trying the same. I have more or less same gear. But I just can’t do it… Baal Meph and Diablo just summon to much minions and I can’t get through… any advice?
Oh hey, didn't know you were into pd2. The algorithm has been showing me your d2r runs. Also, I've ripped sub or low 7h runs twice in keyfarming since then with a new routing, so definitely can be a lot more impressive. It's just hard to find days where I have the whole day to spend.
@@bubblespd2 yep, I feel that… I’ve been wanting to participate in these lod necro px hell runs that ryuquezacotl and others have been doing but usually can’t find time :/ But yea I’ve done some pd2 speedruns. Mostly sp normal runs, but also some 8man hell baal runs
Thanks. Unfortunately I usually listen to copyrighted music while playing but I still want to hear the game sounds, so I have to mute the ingame music.
Seems like I screwed up in editing while cutting the afk time off, it's showing you the start of a3 hell before going back to a5 nm. If you jump to a3 hell at 4:19:10 you can see the part that's shown at 3:14:09 is missing from the footage. I probably accidentally dragged a split section there.
It's arguably the biggest part of d2 speedrunning, as almost all the dungeons have set rules for where the exit will be. Plenty of resources and guides to help you with that though, and the basics are very easy to pick up.
Ive completed hell without a single elite drop, i really think that base MF is setted at character creation. There are some characters doomed to not be lucky at all. Thats why u should always have multiple characters.
Surprisingly none. I killed few runs myself due to bad rng while figuring out the routing for keys, but the 2 runs I got all keys for I also got a torch. I ripped a ton of mephi pulls back when doing the initial nogear UT run in s6 though, so I wouldn't call this exactly safe.
Love the long video where you can see the entire leveling process !!! PD2 is truly a special game
Skills & stats
NORMAL
2 - critical strike - 5 vit
3 - Jab - 5 vit
4 - save - 5 vit
5 - save - 5 vit
6 - 1 power strike & 1 jav n spear mastery & 1 evade - 5 vit
7 - power strike - 5 vit
8 - power strike - 5 str
9 - power strike - 5 str
10 - power strike - 5 dex
11 - power strike - 5 str
12 - power strike - 5 str
13 - power strike - 5 dex
rada book - inner sight
14 - power strike - 5 dex
15 - power strike - 5 dex
16 - power strike - 5 dex
17 - slow movement - 5 vit
18 - decoy - 5 vit
19 - charged strike - 5 str
akara - charged strike
20 - charged strike - 5 vit
21 - charged strike - 5 vit
22 - charged strike - 5 vit
23 - charged strike - 5 vit
black book - 5 vit
24 - charged strike - 5 vit
izual - 2 power strike
25 - charged strike - 5 vit
26 - charged strike - 5 vit
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27 respec - 1 inner sight, 1 slow movement, 10 decoy, 1 evade, 1 dodge, 1 crit, 1 pierce, 1 penetrate, 1 m. arrow, 1 multishot, 1 guided arrow, 4 strafe, +40 vit, +55 dex, +40 str
28 - decoy - 5 vit
29 - decoy - 5 vit
NIGHTMARE
30 - decoy & valk - 5 vit
31 - decoy & valk - 5 vit
akara - save
32 - decoy & valk - 5 vit
33 - decoy & valk - 5 vit
34 - decoy & valk - 5 vit
rada book - save
35 - decoy & valk - 5 vit
36 - decoy & valk - 5 vit
37 - decoy & valk - 5 str
38 - valk - 5 vit
39 - valk - 5 vit
40 - valk - 5 vit
41 - valk - 5 vit
black book - 5 str
42 - valk - 5 dex
43 - valk - 5 vit
izual - 2 crit
44 - valk - 5 vit
45 - valk - 5 vit
46 - valk - 5 vit
47 - valk - 5 vit
48 - valk - 5 str
49 - valk - 5 str
50 - crit - 5 str
51 - penetrate - 5 dex
52 - crit - 5 str
53 - strafe - 5 str
HELL
54 - strafe - 5 dex
55 - strafe - 5 vit
56 - strafe - 5 vit
akara - strafe
57 - strafe - 5 vit
58 - strafe - 5 vit
59 - strafe - 5 dex
rada book - strafe
60 - strafe - 5 vit
61 - strafe - 5 dex
62 - strafe - 5 vit
63 - strafe - 5 vit
64 - strafe - 5 vit
black book - 5 vit
65 - strafe - 5 vit
66 - strafe - 5 dex
67 - penetrate - 5 vit
izual - 2 penetrate
68 - penetrate - 5 vit
69 - penetrate - 5 vit
70 - penetrate - 5 vit
71 - penetrate - 5 vit
72 - penetrate - 5 vit
73 - penetrate - 5 str
74 - penetrate - 5 dex
75 - penetrate - 5 vit
76 - penetrate - 5 vit
77 - penetrate - 5 vit
78 - penetrate - 5 vit
79 - penetrate - 5 vit
80 - penetrate - 5 vit
I applaud the effort to note it all down, but just so you know I was totally winging the stats and skills after 27.
You just want enough str and dex for the bow you'll end up using and rest vit and skills would be all things that help decoy (penetrate included) and a couple crit for valks (as crit is bugged and doesnt work for decoys).
00:00 Act 1 Normal
23:18 Act 2 Normal
1:07:32 Act 3 Normal
1:32:51 Act 4 Normal
1:47:45 Act 5 Normal
2:10:00 Act 1 NM
2:25:21 Act 2 NM
2:45:41 Act 3 NM
3:02:40 Act 4 NM
3:14:07 Act 5 NM
3:37:10 Act 1 Hell
3:58:52 Act 2 Hell
4:19:12 Act 3 Hell
4:44:35 Act 4 Hell
4:59:21 Act 5 Hell to Ancients
5:12:22 Terror keys
5:45:29 Hate keys
6:16:48 Destruction keys
6:26:09 XP Farm to 79
7:39:19 Finishing Hell
7:48:10 Final prep, minis and UT
Watching again before s9 start. I noticed another summon zon vid he mentions a5 bo merc is best for hell, I'm just curious why you went with a4 dark merc?
Ahn, nvm, forgot he has amp dmg ;)) plus he is ranged, which prob help him survive ubers more easily
@@Christoff070 Right. If I have high level amp bow on myself, I'll roll with act3 cold merc instead. There's 0% chance you can keep a melee merc alive through the UT fight, whereas with proper positioning a3/a4 have no issues.
@@bubblespd2 Any reason not to use Amp from spell steal? This would allow using a3 cold merc if its pefered.
One small optimization I picked up from [327] for D2: 4:23:04 you can see a torch in the middle of the screen. If its position is closer to the right tree - you get the place with a quest organ. I would assume it works for PD2 as well.
@@alextelegin6467 I completely forgot spellsteel had amp lol. It's also very annoying having to recast heart of wolverine after swaps. Good catch with the act3 read, I'm still not great at it. I'll revisit this run once I'm done with ladder, I've ripped multiple sub7h paces in destruction key farm due to playing aggressively.
Lol that start is fucking insane. Both tower runs and barracks was sickly exp packs. Gj btw!
Tower has guaranteed 1 (sometimes 2 if you there's the corner tile with bonfire) elite packs per floor except in very rare cases, so I highly prefer that for hitting xp routing over trist. You want the stealth anyway and as an added bonus itheleth for malice in a brandistock will take you all the way to 27.
@@bubblespd2 yes, I know the basic meta in speedrans. I didn't mean the very presence of packs, but their quality. You never want to get archers and there were perfect random in your towers - only ghosts and the fallens and that's fucking awesome.The same thing in the barracks. It's probably not so important when you run amazon, but I run a sorceress and it's critically important to get good packs
@@viktortemirov6809Ah yes, getting that xp out of 2 tower runs is pretty exceptional. As you can see from my average splits, I usually end up having to do 3 towers to hit my xp routing (the average splits include my decoyzon season starter runs to hell pits so the start is the exact same). However I end up playing the rest of the game a lot slower than in other runs, killing tons of extra stuff for charms and whatnot. Maybe I'll revisit this after I've recovered from doing so much zon stuff to get an actually solid time.
+2 barb / 45 / 20 / 19
A clean kill... you are ready. 😄 thats an Avatar reference.
Very enjoyable run to watch
That Shako Drop from Dia was nice.
Yeah, it kinda saved the run as it put me above 30 passives with passion on (I would've crafted caster bows otherwise). Would've preferred any of the +2 circlets to be zon skills instead of shako though.
Teleport staff op ^^ gg
wow! an i though ur items are endgame gears. this is GG!!
Thanks! Hopefully a low 7h run coming soon. I'll start doing tries before season 9.
very cool run. if you had the choice would you make a harmony bow for the +3/6 valks or would you take passion regardless for the HotW
I would never run harmony in actual UT since it does nothing for decoys (would rather take a +1 caster bow), but it is incredibly helpful in keyfarming.
Dude thats impressive
gg, that is really sick
Insane Job. Im trying the same. I have more or less same gear. But I just can’t do it… Baal Meph and Diablo just summon to much minions and I can’t get through… any advice?
Cool beans
Best run i ever seen😱😱😱🤙🤙🤙
That was badass 😎👍
very impressive
Oh hey, didn't know you were into pd2. The algorithm has been showing me your d2r runs.
Also, I've ripped sub or low 7h runs twice in keyfarming since then with a new routing, so definitely can be a lot more impressive. It's just hard to find days where I have the whole day to spend.
@@bubblespd2 yep, I feel that… I’ve been wanting to participate in these lod necro px hell runs that ryuquezacotl and others have been doing but usually can’t find time :/
But yea I’ve done some pd2 speedruns. Mostly sp normal runs, but also some 8man hell baal runs
Could you tell me what items are a must to make this build efficient ?
yeah cool stuff dude!
Hey, really inspired by this run :D What are you trying to roll on bows with chipped gems? amp on strike? :)
Thanks. Yeah, you can roll the lowest amp affix with chippeds. Now you can also shop the higher amp bows at lvl41 and 81.
@@bubblespd2 what would be ur merc of choice if u had decent amp bow?
@@Fifus92 Act3 cold on low gear is unbeatable, especially for ubers. A5 might for early mapping.
I have lvl 30 passives kill from crafters league with shopped amp+a3 cold and no charms.
Hey what add on is the PD2 timer? Nice job!
Livesplit, it's the most commonly used speedrun timer
Cool run. Wish it had the music tho
Thanks. Unfortunately I usually listen to copyrighted music while playing but I still want to hear the game sounds, so I have to mute the ingame music.
That normal hellforge 😂
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Can someone explain the time on bottom left shifting from 4 hours back to 3 hours on the video at 3:14:35
Is the afk time roll back?
Seems like I screwed up in editing while cutting the afk time off, it's showing you the start of a3 hell before going back to a5 nm. If you jump to a3 hell at 4:19:10 you can see the part that's shown at 3:14:09 is missing from the footage. I probably accidentally dragged a split section there.
Are map understanding and experience required for speedrunning?
It's arguably the biggest part of d2 speedrunning, as almost all the dungeons have set rules for where the exit will be. Plenty of resources and guides to help you with that though, and the basics are very easy to pick up.
Ive completed hell without a single elite drop, i really think that base MF is setted at character creation. There are some characters doomed to not be lucky at all. Thats why u should always have multiple characters.
Just a theory. No chars are doomed. You just farm hell with some mf gear
needless to say project diablo 2 is actually softcore
Yeah, because infinite re-entries to get more revives with harmony in d2r is so hardcore.
needless
Damn very cool. How many runs did you rip?
Surprisingly none. I killed few runs myself due to bad rng while figuring out the routing for keys, but the 2 runs I got all keys for I also got a torch.
I ripped a ton of mephi pulls back when doing the initial nogear UT run in s6 though, so I wouldn't call this exactly safe.