The idea of a paladin in the middle of a fight with a demon, suddenly looking at his scepter and going: "....holdon I'll be right back" opening a portal, running to town, visiting a blacksmith, and then returning to continue beating a demon to death, is very funny to me :3
This video confirmed the fact that you will finish all 3 difficulties of this game no matter what challenge you choose. Nothing can stop the loot goblin from getting through the whole game. Great video, as always. Thank you for maintaining the quality of your videos very high. P.s. Merry Christmas!!
I mean… yes and no. The people doing these challenges have a very very deep understanding of the game. I’ve had toons that just couldn’t survive in hell mode more than once and every time a demon looked at me I died
This reminds me of my friend's dad. He is 70+ senior and in love in D2. When we got to chat about it and he found out that I also play the game, he proceeded to proudly show me his characters. Most of them looked like Your mighty Paladin 😎
Big GG for not going "Lister spawned Immune to physical damage so there was no way we could kill him and I lured him out and skipped him to reach Baal".
This what I dislike about Mr llama. “Get a tele staff and skip every quest boss by clicking fast and leaving” basically if it’s any challenge he just avoids it.
@@ChandonAram-dz3gw Lol sounds like some Fire Emblem games "here's a difficult map where you need to quickly fight your way through to the boss before you're routed by reinforcements....or warp your Jaegen to the end and bonk the boss"
Lore is almost never the wrong decision for you. Your merc can look after himself (or not, but not your problem). A random assassin would be cool. They've just got so many weird and wacky skills, that whatever you find might be useful (with a few +skills). Traps, kicks, multi charge explosions, summons. It'd be a kaleidoscope of pressing skills and seizure warnings.
I would disagree on both your statements. Lore is cool, but bulwark was way more important. And the assassin barely has any good skills without actually putting 20+ points into them. I bet you'd end up using blade fury/sentinel and dragon talon. If you're very lucky, you would unlock death sentry at some point, but none of the other skills would matter. Thst is, unless you get some lucky points into shadow warrior as a blocker. There is just no skill to deal damage besides kicks and blade skills, that do jig require a lot of skill points.
What Christmas present, I found your videos the other day and a binged them all xD Would you ever consider a challenge with Necro in the future? I'd love to watch that, or melee Assassin, Amazon or Sorcerer? I always loved both Ama and Ass, trying wacky builds with them, but all their melee builds seems to suck. I'd love if you gave that a crack in some of your challenges! Either way, love your stuff man, keep it up =)
Thanks, glad to hear you like the videos! I’m going to do Necro for the next video or maybe the one after that. I don’t usually plan too much ahead but the channel could use a bit more variety in classes for sure!
When I saw you pick paladin, I was hoping it would be a conversion run. Then you kept fighting and I was thinking "is he not going to figure it out?" but then you did and I knew it was over for baal, haha. I used to love playing conversion/thorns in the early days of D2. It was never good, but I had a lot of fun. Glad to see it in the wild again. GGs.
I've been playing D2 since I got my first computer for Christmas in 2003, and I've only ever made a Conversion-using Paladin a couple of times.. but I remember them both fondly. There's something about it that makes it a very satisfying skill to use.
This is a very fun idea! I like how gear takes one a whole new meaning when you’re fighting for every percent of hit chance! Can’t wait to see a high energy barb lol
It seems to me that this paladin had a thing for fire😂 Great video, man! I always go back to D2 when I see your videos, all the best and Merry Christmas!
Unique bows that fire exploding arrows don't just add Holy Fire to the arrow, but to the explosion too, which makes it pretty powerful. Same isn't true for Holy Shock or Freeze I think
Nice I found the unique fire bow that fires explosive arrows. I will have to try using it with fire bowazon, enchantress and holy fire paladin someday!
The pul rune at the end could be used for wisdow, which is ith eld pul in a helm, to get that extra Pierce and cannot be frozen. I salute u for the courage to try this insane challenge, great video !
Random skills and stats? Sounds like my first 50 playthroughs way back when 😂 Thanks for the upload! Always a good day when I get visited by a loot goblin! 🙂
I hate to ask here but could you tell Sir Goblin that his app doesnt fit on every screen because on my laptop I can't reach the bottom to click the buttons
When i was a kid, in 3rd world country. I swear the god, 3 words of English i knew were yes, no, okay. I did randomly add stats points, skill points like the video. But still beat up the game. Druid summons Wolf, Bear, Worm and Spirit ( Cracked version ) 😆
Is there like a easyish list on what items you can craft, like you did with the ancients pledge? I tried googling it, but didn't find anything interesting or good (imo at least). I only remember playing this when I was younger, and never found out about the whole "making new items" part which I see you do in a lot of your videos. So curious mostly, and maybe I'll try the game out again and actually do it this time :P
This is my favorite database for looking up runewords specifically: diablo2.io/runewords/ You can filter by item types, runes, number of sockets, and much more! I also recommend you look into some recipes for the horadric cube, including crafting. For that I browse the old school battle net page: classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/cube.shtml not the easiest to browse but it’s what I’ve always used
@@zarfen well damn, wasn't expecting a reply that fast, but THANKS a lot! Will definitely look into those the next time I start up d2. Even bought the resurrected one a month or two back, but haven't booted up the game since I was 15-16ish years old, and that's...well, lets just say a loooooong time ago :P awesome videos, as always ^_^
Yeah barb seems very tough! Level-up: here’s a point in mace mastery Level-up again: now here’s one in spear mastery Again: now how about some double throw?
"conversion" If you want to see the true greatness of such a build, try a Necro that uses Confuse as a primary skill. It's not super effective, but it's definetly a useful skill. "holy fire+kuko shakaku" Possibly THE best combination to level up with a paladin for quite a while.
When I found out how useful conversion is, one of my first reactions was that I have to give confuse another chance! My opinions of skills are still largely based on end game farming scenarios but some skills really shine in (low power) SSF play throughs.
don't suppose this randomizer has a choice for project d2? it has some different skills but i'd like to try this on it edit: so i'm trying to use it but the bottom of the page is completely cut off on my screen and i cannot access them? how do i change the window size
I don’t think I got any 5 energy level ups as far as I can remember, but I had to put 4 of the 5 stats into energy a few times and that was a bad feeling!
If you wanted to try this again, would you consider allowing re-rolls at Akara? You'd still take the random level-ups, but it would grant you 3 chances to try for something different if you get bottle-necked by RNG.
i think i gona try this one, but amazon is the way i going, there are only a few skills that are useless and you don't need a lot of skills in multiple arrow and penetration to make it a playable build i think
I was thinking about the problem of having skill points split between bow and javelin skill trees, but you have a good point! Actually a lot of her passive skills are really good even with just a few points invested. And if she’s really struggling she does have guided arrow similar to how my Paladin (eventually) had smite. Hmm I might have underestimated the Amazon for this! Good luck on the run!
@@zarfen yeah i think it comes down to that, whit very little luck you can get far, even if you get a lot of energy it's not totally wasted on her, and you had to be so imposible unluky to not get at least multishoot, if you get that and guided arrow or impale i think is doable slow but steady xd
I wouldn't say it's unethical, equipments are a different part of the game and don't have anything to do with the skill tree randomizing itself. There is always another way to achieve your goals, if you don't do this, you do that. But it's just a game, you make your own rules. Someone would consider them cheating, others wouldn't so it really depends on the player who is actually playing.
What if you attempted to make the most over powered character possible? If i recall correctly, you were using skills meant for other classes in some challenge run(though some seemed to glitch the game). What if you borrowed skills from every class to make the most devastating character ever!
I actually had that same idea when I did that challenge with random skills (it was a live stream only, no “real” video), but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. Combining auras, curses and strong skills on one character could create a real monster! You kind of already can do some of that with runewords, but still. Just something like putting the sorceresses Mastery skills on other classes would be huge!
I’ve played it for a bit! Even streamed act 1 here on the channel a couple of weeks ago. Was very fun for sure and it might make an appearance on the channel in the future if I can come up with some fun challenge ideas
The idea of a paladin in the middle of a fight with a demon, suddenly looking at his scepter and going: "....holdon I'll be right back" opening a portal, running to town, visiting a blacksmith, and then returning to continue beating a demon to death, is very funny to me :3
The idea of the conversion skill is also pretty damn funny.
I love these silly things about video games.
and in the meantime the demon is just waiting there outside the portal like "is he coming back any time soon... ? "
This video confirmed the fact that you will finish all 3 difficulties of this game no matter what challenge you choose. Nothing can stop the loot goblin from getting through the whole game. Great video, as always.
Thank you for maintaining the quality of your videos very high.
P.s. Merry Christmas!!
Thank you for the kind words, and Merry Christmas!
I mean… yes and no. The people doing these challenges have a very very deep understanding of the game. I’ve had toons that just couldn’t survive in hell mode more than once and every time a demon looked at me I died
This reminds me of my friend's dad. He is 70+ senior and in love in D2. When we got to chat about it and he found out that I also play the game, he proceeded to proudly show me his characters. Most of them looked like Your mighty Paladin 😎
I wonder what his favorite class is...
@@NightVisionPhantom he had few sorcereses and two paladins amongst single's of other classes :)
It's kinda frustrating how super useful reading about mechanics and breakpoints is.
You still had 7 empty fingers for more Nagelrings.
😂
Always love seeing a new video from you. What a great Christmas present!
Big GG for not going "Lister spawned Immune to physical damage so there was no way we could kill him and I lured him out and skipped him to reach Baal".
This what I dislike about Mr llama. “Get a tele staff and skip every quest boss by clicking fast and leaving” basically if it’s any challenge he just avoids it.
@@ChandonAram-dz3gw Lol sounds like some Fire Emblem games
"here's a difficult map where you need to quickly fight your way through to the boss before you're routed by reinforcements....or warp your Jaegen to the end and bonk the boss"
@@ChandonAram-dz3gw he just like the speedrun strats, i also think its lame, but its a speedrun thing, no biggie.
Yes, 100%. Respect for taking on the fight.
15:40 Potion seller, I'm heading into battle, and I need your strongest potions
You can't handle my strongest potions traveler, they're too strong for you.
Man, You are a real D2 enthusiast! Quality video as always, thanks. also Merry Christmas! :)
Thank you, and Merry Christmas!
Lore is almost never the wrong decision for you. Your merc can look after himself (or not, but not your problem).
A random assassin would be cool. They've just got so many weird and wacky skills, that whatever you find might be useful (with a few +skills). Traps, kicks, multi charge explosions, summons. It'd be a kaleidoscope of pressing skills and seizure warnings.
I would disagree on both your statements. Lore is cool, but bulwark was way more important.
And the assassin barely has any good skills without actually putting 20+ points into them. I bet you'd end up using blade fury/sentinel and dragon talon. If you're very lucky, you would unlock death sentry at some point, but none of the other skills would matter. Thst is, unless you get some lucky points into shadow warrior as a blocker. There is just no skill to deal damage besides kicks and blade skills, that do jig require a lot of skill points.
Zarfen keeping me company on Christmas morning.
Merry Christmas!
It’s it Christmas
Merry Christmas!!!
What Christmas present, I found your videos the other day and a binged them all xD
Would you ever consider a challenge with Necro in the future? I'd love to watch that, or melee Assassin, Amazon or Sorcerer?
I always loved both Ama and Ass, trying wacky builds with them, but all their melee builds seems to suck. I'd love if you gave that a crack in some of your challenges!
Either way, love your stuff man, keep it up =)
Thanks, glad to hear you like the videos!
I’m going to do Necro for the next video or maybe the one after that. I don’t usually plan too much ahead but the channel could use a bit more variety in classes for sure!
@@zarfen I'll be there, and I'll hold my breath for a Assassin claw-build xD
When I saw you pick paladin, I was hoping it would be a conversion run. Then you kept fighting and I was thinking "is he not going to figure it out?" but then you did and I knew it was over for baal, haha.
I used to love playing conversion/thorns in the early days of D2. It was never good, but I had a lot of fun. Glad to see it in the wild again. GGs.
I've been playing D2 since I got my first computer for Christmas in 2003, and I've only ever made a Conversion-using Paladin a couple of times.. but I remember them both fondly. There's something about it that makes it a very satisfying skill to use.
This is a very fun idea! I like how gear takes one a whole new meaning when you’re fighting for every percent of hit chance!
Can’t wait to see a high energy barb lol
uploaded 41 seconds ago and already on my recommended 🙌🙌
The RUclips algorithm is working over the holidays! 😁
@@zarfen they do say the best month to upload is in December, happy holidays!
Thanks, same to you!
Man, this really shows just how strong the Paladin is. It really doesn't seem to matter if you have a build or not, at least for experienced players.
It seems to me that this paladin had a thing for fire😂
Great video, man! I always go back to D2 when I see your videos, all the best and Merry Christmas!
Thanks! And a Merry Christmas to you as well
Unique bows that fire exploding arrows don't just add Holy Fire to the arrow, but to the explosion too, which makes it pretty powerful. Same isn't true for Holy Shock or Freeze I think
Nice I found the unique fire bow that fires explosive arrows. I will have to try using it with fire bowazon, enchantress and holy fire paladin someday!
The pul rune at the end could be used for wisdow, which is ith eld pul in a helm, to get that extra Pierce and cannot be frozen. I salute u for the courage to try this insane challenge, great video !
Happy Xmas mr. loot goblin, thanks for the video!
Thank you, and same to you!
yo man you’re a champion keep grinding out this game i just found the channel after finally giving D2R a try thank you for the wonderful videos!
Thank you, glad you like the videos!
I love your videos. Diablo camping at the town portal made me lol
I’m glad you like them!
That was a funny moment, had a chuckle when narrating that part 😁
Ah, new D2 content. I will never tire of it
bro got more uniques in 1 norm run than ive seen in my passed 100. i love d2
Random skills and stats? Sounds like my first 50 playthroughs way back when 😂
Thanks for the upload! Always a good day when I get visited by a loot goblin! 🙂
Haha I can relate 😂 to be fair you had try to every skill!
Thanks for the kind words!
That was crazy! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
The fact I can play through normal and almost never find a unique without grinding a little, and you got 3 in act 1 is wild to me
Always a happy moment when you see a new Zarfen video.
Appreciate the kind words!
Just wanted to say Zarfen, been loving your channel. I wish I was as good at this game as you are!
Thanks, I’m glad you like the videos!
I wish I had anywhere near your luck when I play lol, merry Christmas and thank you for the video
This was a lucky run for sure when it comes to drops! Merry Christmas
Great Video, maybe later try the other 6 classes. I am learning a lot about the game from you and you make it look very fun & rewarding.
Pretty cool how far you can get with random stats and skills.
Sweet! I should try the randomizer sometime
Let me know if you do!
buying a wand with lifetap charges would have done wonders with this build
The switch to the bow is such a cool decision.
Found your video by accident and they are great! Subbed!
Glad you like them!
Merry Christmas zafren, may santa bring you 2 soj's
Merry Christmas! SoJ was the first item on my letter to Santa
Very cool challenge and some fun twists and smart choices to get through it.
Glad you liked it!
Very cool. Since you went mainly with conversion you could have used thorns merc for the real old school leveling method, as well.
Those were an unusual number of uniques in the first acts.
very nice video! btw I think you shouldve went for speedrun death strats for Lister!
Ah, the "2002 1.0 version" build, can't wait to watch through it!
I'm not up to speed on meta and such, but is a bow wielding paladin a thing with a purpose build?
I hate to ask here but could you tell Sir Goblin that his app doesnt fit on every screen because on my laptop I can't reach the bottom to click the buttons
I will send this feedback to him! I am a complete novice when it comes to software and coding
mercenary dont need attack rating, they always hit!
great video!
Early unique always feels so good, edit: uniques plural even with the ring very nice haha!
Yeah! Very lucky start with drops for this character
are there any mods which randomize enemies and bosses for this game? because that, plus this would be a fun randomizer run
I don’t know if you have done this
already but , try to play without using the store or your storage . Only using your inventory , ground is allowed .
The lord of patience returns.
🫡
That run was insane. Kudos to you for making it work! How many hours total did you have yo put into it?!
Thanks! Didn’t track that unfortunately. More than I originally planned that’s for sure 😁
Just finished watching the video! Great content to see, Zafren, and I'm so glad I've been able to catch the streams! Keep up the great work, buddy!
Love the concept of your videos
Glad to hear it!
So we've now proven that you don't really need any relevant skills, gear or build at all to beat the game with a paladin. Good to know.
When i was a kid, in 3rd world country. I swear the god, 3 words of English i knew were yes, no, okay. I did randomly add stats points, skill points like the video. But still beat up the game. Druid summons Wolf, Bear, Worm and Spirit ( Cracked version ) 😆
Is there like a easyish list on what items you can craft, like you did with the ancients pledge? I tried googling it, but didn't find anything interesting or good (imo at least).
I only remember playing this when I was younger, and never found out about the whole "making new items" part which I see you do in a lot of your videos. So curious mostly, and maybe I'll try the game out again and actually do it this time :P
This is my favorite database for looking up runewords specifically: diablo2.io/runewords/
You can filter by item types, runes, number of sockets, and much more!
I also recommend you look into some recipes for the horadric cube, including crafting. For that I browse the old school battle net page: classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/cube.shtml not the easiest to browse but it’s what I’ve always used
@@zarfen well damn, wasn't expecting a reply that fast, but THANKS a lot! Will definitely look into those the next time I start up d2. Even bought the resurrected one a month or two back, but haven't booted up the game since I was 15-16ish years old, and that's...well, lets just say a loooooong time ago :P awesome videos, as always ^_^
Man, this challenge/mod with a barbarian would be so difficult. Whole bunch of wasted skills in masteries. I wanna try it
Yeah barb seems very tough!
Level-up: here’s a point in mace mastery
Level-up again: now here’s one in spear mastery
Again: now how about some double throw?
Alternative title : Diablo but your little brother chose the skills 😂
Haha I can see how that would have played out in 2003 😆
So many uniques in early game is awesome
Lucky start for sure! Nagel from the countess was probably my favorite and the biggest surprise
Rename this to "playing diablo 2 how new players would play without using guides or any help at all" challenge
"conversion"
If you want to see the true greatness of such a build, try a Necro that uses Confuse as a primary skill.
It's not super effective, but it's definetly a useful skill.
"holy fire+kuko shakaku"
Possibly THE best combination to level up with a paladin for quite a while.
When I found out how useful conversion is, one of my first reactions was that I have to give confuse another chance!
My opinions of skills are still largely based on end game farming scenarios but some skills really shine in (low power) SSF play throughs.
lol, props for the patience. I couldn't do it.
It was way harder and slower than I thought it would be before I started. A test of patience for sure!
This looks so much fun.
Your start was illegal
Merry Christmas and happy holidays!
And the same to you!
Are you gonna make any POE2 vids?
I enjoy playing the game. If I can come up with any fun challenge ideas I might, but nothing planned right now :)
don't suppose this randomizer has a choice for project d2? it has some different skills but i'd like to try this on it
edit: so i'm trying to use it but the bottom of the page is completely cut off on my screen and i cannot access them? how do i change the window size
That high energy stat on melee character hurts actually it would hurt on anything other than sorceress that has energy shield
I don’t think I got any 5 energy level ups as far as I can remember, but I had to put 4 of the 5 stats into energy a few times and that was a bad feeling!
this challenge would be fun in a party
well yeah, it also shows how OP paladin is imo :D
even 1point smite is a nice boss killer with swap
Hard u dont got any charge/Holy Shield
You are making great content
Thank you! Glad you like it
Just in time for my nap
Nice job mate!
GG, see U soon 🔥
If you wanted to try this again, would you consider allowing re-rolls at Akara? You'd still take the random level-ups, but it would grant you 3 chances to try for something different if you get bottle-necked by RNG.
Hmm I kind of like that. Like a limited gamble for a better build, but the chance of something even worse!
Solo-Self found players are insane, and I respect them for it
This is how I played when I was a kid lol
these are always the best!
Happy holidays everyone. 🎅
I think random stats should be calculated differently. As is, I expect it to be fairly uniform over time.
I can't believe how hard conversion carried the late game.
Yeah I too was very impressed with it!
Legendary challenge super cool
Still hoping for a necro skeletons only run
Random Sin next?
Surely this can't be done with any other class except the Paladin, right..right?
😉
i think i gona try this one, but amazon is the way i going, there are only a few skills that are useless and you don't need a lot of skills in multiple arrow and penetration to make it a playable build i think
I was thinking about the problem of having skill points split between bow and javelin skill trees, but you have a good point! Actually a lot of her passive skills are really good even with just a few points invested. And if she’s really struggling she does have guided arrow similar to how my Paladin (eventually) had smite. Hmm I might have underestimated the Amazon for this!
Good luck on the run!
@@zarfen yeah i think it comes down to that, whit very little luck you can get far, even if you get a lot of energy it's not totally wasted on her, and you had to be so imposible unluky to not get at least multishoot, if you get that and guided arrow or impale i think is doable slow but steady xd
Just think how much fun you'll have if you just get 20 points in multishot and little to no energy points! 🙂
@@davidhittner4989 I mean i only have played act1 for now but no risk of that... loooooads of energy is my higher stat...
10:00 AMONGUS!
would it unethical in this challenge to use weapons with skills on them?
I wouldn't say it's unethical, equipments are a different part of the game and don't have anything to do with the skill tree randomizing itself. There is always another way to achieve your goals, if you don't do this, you do that.
But it's just a game, you make your own rules. Someone would consider them cheating, others wouldn't so it really depends on the player who is actually playing.
The randomiser would not bless you with even one point into holy shield.
Would have been so perfectly helpfull.
Yes! I was almost counting on getting it eventually but I didn’t even get close, not even having all prerequisite skills :(
Under 1 hour gang. 😎
My first character in diablo 2
....So randomizer is just how badly I played as a kid..
What if you attempted to make the most over powered character possible?
If i recall correctly, you were using skills meant for other classes in some challenge run(though some seemed to glitch the game). What if you borrowed skills from every class to make the most devastating character ever!
I actually had that same idea when I did that challenge with random skills (it was a live stream only, no “real” video), but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Combining auras, curses and strong skills on one character could create a real monster! You kind of already can do some of that with runewords, but still. Just something like putting the sorceresses Mastery skills on other classes would be huge!
i love seer.
That was awesome
How can you get more loot from just one playrought taht I get from farming for hours ?! xD
Gosh, another broken Paladin build. Kuko Shakaku main hand! Do love to see off-class builds though!
Very good!
love these challenges. sub ON
Please try Path of Exile 2 Mr Zarfen, its a very fun game!
I’ve played it for a bit! Even streamed act 1 here on the channel a couple of weeks ago. Was very fun for sure and it might make an appearance on the channel in the future if I can come up with some fun challenge ideas
hard fought
Sweet
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