Enjoyed the video! I pre-ordered D3 at launch, but never made it past act 2 because I was really disappointed in it. About a year ago I picked it up and played through it all the way to high torment levels with two characters and enjoyed it. I'm guessing partly the game has improved, but also that my expectations have shifted as well.
I haven’t been following D3 the entire journey, but the game is very different now compared to what it was at launch. I enjoyed the release version too, but I think I might have some selective memories because I know there were some really bad stuff in the game.
As someone who's been playing since day 1 I can say you missed out on 11 great years that you'll never get to experience now. Kind of dumb to not play through it at least once before deciding.
@@JohnDoe-ld8nr I'm glad you enjoyed it, but I think it's "dumb" to force yourself to play a game you don't enjoy. I don't regret stepping away or else I'd have missed out on playing many games I liked instead.
@@JohnDoe-ld8nr As someone who played it at launch and several times since to see if the game had improved I can say you wasted 11 years playing D3 instead of many much better options. Kind of dumb to stick to a bad game instead of trying out other games with much better ratings and gameplay.
My favorite challenge I did for Diablo 3 for fun was beating the game while my Primary Skill was Disabled. The quote on quote "only" way was I chose Demon Hunter and I unequip the hand crossbow and boom, skill was disabled. It was legit fun and made Act l challenging. But once I got Sentry, it became a breeze.
Random fact: my first HC character (a barbarian) only once felt threatened and that was against Malthael himself, that was when I noticed my health actually start to go down, he was actually taking chunks out of me. As to the challenge, this was a fun video to watch, I suspect that when you regretted your decision to choose Crusader was during the phase 2 Diablo fight, that was a nasty combo the clones pulled on you.
I still remember, when i first played diablo 3 every skill having "damage is xxx% of your weapon" got me really confused and angry at first, because it made no sense to me. I could understand SOME damage scaling with weapon. But literally ALL of it?
You didnt underestimate balial. You prepared for pre nerfed D3. The games difficulty got extremely scaled down around the time Reaper of Souls came out
@zarfen yeah once the difficulties got reworked from inferno to torment they kind of made torment 1 the new "hard" and master, expert and normal into normal, easy and "here for the story" difficulty
My guess is that he would be able to clear at most a T2 GR (I think that's like GR14) within the 15-minute limit. And maybe not even that, since dealing with the Rift Guardian will take a long time.
Here's my reasoning: The game treats shields as armor, not weapons. And shield bash uses weapon damage to calculate its damage even if the animation is with a shield.
@zarfen there are companions so you could try a gearless build for druid, sorc or necro. New dlc comes out too and there will be mercs and a new class. Thorns would be funny but its also pretty strong on tiers 1-2 so it wouldnt be much of a challenge
This video made me want to install Diablo 3 back since the Diablo 4 has been quite the disappointment. Had fun in season 2 but even that got boring so fast :D
at release I rushed inferno acts for cow level access, Izual was needed for on of the components. His "unavoidable shoot" was one shotting my character, eventually I went trough it because a guy who was either cheating or a genius eventually joined the party and perma froze it. Then I did pinatas runs for 1 week and paid my rent for 6 monthes using crappy magic find gear and abusing a reliable part of the layout which blocks elites(reflect was oneshotting me and lightning was crappy to deal with tho^^). I had more fun flexing than playing, I was looting a big set piece every other hour and 2 to 3 inventories of highest ilvl yellow items per hour(most of them being crap but got some god rolls). Ofc I never spoke about my strategy to anyone except to a gaming friend who had a sorc so I tryed duoing with him for few hours which was less fun and less worth it, this is not regular hns gameplay and manipulating monsters is way harders in duo.
A fun challenge to watch and hear about. I loved D2 and played a fair amount of D3, but was very disappointed with it in the end, haven't touched it in years. Pre release we got to see skill trees, and other screenshots and then it launched with just unlocking skills via leveling and no actual player choice in how to build your character to be stronger via skill point allocation. I guess they just deletes the RPG from the ARPG, or neutered it at least. A two handed mace or axe being a best in slot(at any point along the way, not necessarily endgame) for a caster was also really stupid. I'm not a fan of everything scaling off your weapon damage. If I'd only know all I had to do was just not equip a weapon! Anyways, didn't want to crap on D3/4 too much, so will leave it at that. Good video.
I agree with your comment. I think D3 is a fun game, but it’s more of a “hack n’ slash” action game than an rpg. I enjoy playing it from time to time, but it couldn’t keep me hooked like D2 does. In addition to what you said about skills, gearing also ends up being pretty shallow in the end game, since all the best gear shoehorns you into a specific build. Like the sets that grants a skill +10,000% damage if you use it in a specific way
@@zarfen yep. The itemization in D3 is quite bad. If you want to be optimal you have to use one of those 1000 percent damage builds. Also crit chance and crit damage percent was king. Really pigeon holed the gear hunt to main damage stat and crit stuff. Just kind of boring to me. Guess I didn't want to just make a here's all the things I dislike about D3 comment. Tried to rein myself in. The story was minimal in D2. Some act cinematics and basic quests, but that worked a lot better to me than D3 and 4s story(azmodan greatest general of hell telling you his next plan every step of the way, etc). (admittedly didn't finish D4, but don't like the follow x npc to y spot so you can then talk to them). I know some people love D3 though. And I got to watch a cool video thanks to you. Never thought of a no weapon challenge since everything is tied to it. Some of the initial controversy was funny to me. A rainbow!? Over a stream of water during the day?! This isn't diablo. D2 had plenty of color in it. It's the tone of the story and the lack of rpg mechanics like skill points and building a character that I didn't like about it. D4 went dark with the world and story but the skill tree thing is pretty shallow and more importantly the items are boring. Anyways. Rambling too much. Back to reading my book.
d3 is actually a fun game, it's just many people couldnt get into the numbers crunching part of the endgame, even though funnily enough it's simpler than D2R
100% I forgot how fun it is to play “casually”. If you don’t feel you need to use the best build to grind for highest GR, there so much variety in builds and playstyles too.
My main issue with D3 is that I beat it on my first run with zero deaths. I'm not a smart man, so I don't think it was skill. Just didn't really feel like a Diablo game :/
D3 doesn’t really have a real difficulty. You just set the difficulty slider to as high as you can still kill basic enemies very quickly and go. Before playing D2R and PoE I thought the difficulty slider was fine, but it’s really not that great. Makes it a good game for challenges like this because without being on torment 1 while doing the story everything just tickles you.
Yes I really want to do more d3 runs, but right now I have so many d2 videos I want to make. I think I would do another challenge completely though rather than weaponless in another character.
I didn’t research too carefully but isn’t that just for looks? He still uses weapon damage for everything right? Or maybe you mean for the flavor and in that case I totally agree :)
you actualy just need the heart of iron legendary chest to get thorn going: 300% of your vitality = thorn. (unless they changed it) quite easy to get via random drops usualy and wouldve made your experiance smooth even without a shield
Unsure how easy it woulda been to make work but thorn crusader is usually pretty good and doesnt scale from weapon damage i dont think so this challenge is probably way easier if you do something like that
Holy moly you ran good on early legendary drops. Getting multipliers literally saved your run. Also never play on Expert. They miscalculated the experience and magic find multipliers and it's not worth it.
@3 Hell no i opened diablo 2 resurrected diablo 3 and diablo 4 back to back and diablo 3 seems bad than a mobile game. And i saw people even do reshade stuff for diablo 3 to make it looks infinitely better so what stop blizzard from making a texture patch. Textures are clearly way too low quality or and resolotion So basically playing diablo 3 again ruined my memories XD now i wonder how the fuck i ever played it.
i loved first Diablo, also love both D2 and D3. cant wait for new PC and then i will also buy and play 4. each of those games have something that you dont find anywhere else.
I need to play more of D1. I never really played it much. I had a friend who had it on the PlayStation but I didn’t “get it”, and didn’t get into Diablo until Diablo 2 came out
Any suggestions about some kind of interesting challenge you could do in D1? I’d like to play it more but currently I don’t feel I have the time to game outside of when I make videos for the channel.
@@zarfenOne that fits into the spirit of this challenge and the D2 no gear run you did is to beat all 3 difficulties using only cursed items on a Sorceror You start naked, have to pick up and identify everything, and if you find an item that gives negative stats you have to use it. You can use spells as you normally would Not sure how it would go from scratch, since cursed items are only found on the first few levels for the most part. back in the day we used to twink these chars with the worst cursed items we had for an extra challenge😆
Not sure! Are there any skills that scale off something other than your weapon? Except for this video I haven’t played much d3 in a while so I’m not too knowledgeable about the classes at the moment.
A bit of accidental luck or careful strategizing on not hitting level 61 when dlc scalling kicks in. It makes game way harder and i dont think malthael would be possible past that point at least not without replacing all gear
Interesting. I remember there being several big upgrades in the gear you find/can craft after 60, but didn’t know about any big difficulty scaling. Pure luck
Only thorns? From the very beginning to the end? How did you do it, any tips? I was researching such a run but it seemed like thorns was so rare to find, especially early on, and also very low damage for a long time.
It would have been more interesting with vanilla Diablo 3 (there are some private servers for it): the current version is level-scaled (and I have a hunch enemies of any given level are easier than they would have been) and not intended to be played on any particular difficulty, and of course, the expansion legendaries are ridiculous as well. At some point you noted your damage increased fivefold from equipping a weapon, but well, your legos are stacking 2x and 3x multipliers, so 600% increase. But then, you were ultimately running on Torment I difficulty that increases enemy health by 819%. It was a pretty cool and interesting video nevertheless, I like your style of editing the playthrough to its relevant bits and the way you explain things.
Diablo 3 was a much better game than people gave it credit for even at launch. There was really going to be no winning for it, nobody was going to be happy with it unless it was literally just released D2 with more polygons but i was happy with it, especially by Reaper of Souls. It's funny now with people looking back on it with the dumpster fire D4 apparently is.
I agree with both of you. Both D2 and D3 are fun games, but in different ways. Personally I prefer grinding and doing challenges in d2 with more interesting items and character building, and play d3 more casually with more fun and fluid combat and cool skill-altering uniques
just goes to show how imbalanced D3 is I guess, I cant remember a time I ever thought it was well balanced. All I can say is this definitely is only possible with Reaper of Souls. The boss fights from the original 2012 release were a lot different, butcher, belial, azmodan, and others all had near 1 hit kill potential (and no way of turning the difficulty down either), getting hit by a single telegraphed attack likely ended in death. Leveling was much slower (by act 4 you were still under level 30) so that limited your spell loadouts pretty hard. Loot was busted in the completely opposite way from RoS, it was way too hard to find anything. The first legendary that ever dropped for me was in act 3 hell when I was level 59, it was a level 37 witch doctor mask... And I was a wizard... Atleast it made some decent gold on the auction house. I haven't come back to this game in forever but wow it changed. I love how quick the leveling is now, but it seems the new loot system kind of degrades the meaning of "rare" and "legendary".
@@zarfen i used some legendary legs from act 5 bounties that turn 750-1000% of your health per second into a damaging aura around you as physical damage and used the general damage increasers in the game like focus+ restraint, the inarius armor and some other stuff
I found so little gear with decent thorns damage though. Am I missing some way to get thorns damage reliably on gear? All I can think of is to reroll stats at the enchanter but that seems expensive. Crafted gear often at blacksmith but rarely saw decent thorns IIRC
@@lothar71also imo the complaints about its aesthetics were way overblown on launch and I think its more stylistic approach has made it age pretty well all in all.
7:40 Oooof more exp = harder enemy. In leveling, a trick is to explore a map before killing anything so they are level locked to lower level and easier to kill
Thorns is kind of rare and very low damage in the early game though. I mention it a bit later in the video. But it could be an interesting challenge to do only thorns and nothing else
Oof! I wonder if that is even possible given how much items boosts your defenses. Maybe if you’re a god gamer and can dodge everything (so this challenge isn’t for me! 😅)
@@zarfen I actually tried it some time ago, but I gave up at act 2😅 You have to intentionally skip monsters to avoid getting levels and making the monsters harder. It would be possible, but I think the last boss could take an hour or more and you have to dodge everything😆
I enjoy your videos, but: This character is really not a good example to use for this quest. You have to have a shield and you're using the shield initially as a weapon, so that's cheating (a lot). If you really want to go through the game with empty hands, you could have used the barb since you can run through the game with empty hands.
That's my issue with this challenge. It technically fits his goal because he states "doesn't apply to base damage". The shield does not apply to base damage, but there are skills it can scale with. There are probably other classes you could do it with, specifically a pet class or something similar. There are also a lot of skills you can't use without having a weapon equipped, so in a way it's creative. It's just bending his own rules in my opinion.
In the game and with the ruleset, it's more armor than weapon since theres no weapon damage butonly block n block chance along with other typical stats on them.
Even though I think Diablo 3 and 4 suck absolute donkey balls in most ways, I still enjoyed them the same way I enjoyed Two Worlds. At least Diablo 3 and 4 don't feel like shit to control most of the time, which is always a positive. Having said that, I enjoyed this video and would be interested in seeing more non-D2 content from you. In fact, you've inspired me to try out a few no gear runs in various games.
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25:20 "both could be avoided with good movement, so I got hit with them many times" had me chuckling heartily
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"...since I had two fingers, as opposed to just one neck."
That sure did make more than chuckle.
I just heard that and was about to comment, I burst out laughing
"Is it even possible to beat the game this way? And why would anyone even - HI! In this video..."
Gold. Pure gold.
You came up on suggested and I am loving your content - punchy, funny, topical!
Thanks! Glad you like the videos!
Thats....some lengendary loot drops for the Loot Goblin. That could have been a GGEZ season start for a Crud. Cheers mate. Hope your channel grows up.
Enjoyed the video! I pre-ordered D3 at launch, but never made it past act 2 because I was really disappointed in it. About a year ago I picked it up and played through it all the way to high torment levels with two characters and enjoyed it. I'm guessing partly the game has improved, but also that my expectations have shifted as well.
I haven’t been following D3 the entire journey, but the game is very different now compared to what it was at launch. I enjoyed the release version too, but I think I might have some selective memories because I know there were some really bad stuff in the game.
As someone who's been playing since day 1 I can say you missed out on 11 great years that you'll never get to experience now. Kind of dumb to not play through it at least once before deciding.
@@JohnDoe-ld8nr I'm glad you enjoyed it, but I think it's "dumb" to force yourself to play a game you don't enjoy. I don't regret stepping away or else I'd have missed out on playing many games I liked instead.
@@JohnDoe-ld8nr As someone who played it at launch and several times since to see if the game had improved I can say you wasted 11 years playing D3 instead of many much better options. Kind of dumb to stick to a bad game instead of trying out other games with much better ratings and gameplay.
"Is it even possible to win the game this way, and why would anyone even- Hi! In this video.."
LMAO that gave me a belly laugh
Thanks for your videos, they're all very entertaining.
Thank you! I really appreciate it
Alternative title : How to beat Diablo 3 as Captain America
This video is pure gold and nostalgia, nice work!
nostalgia over d3? ew
My favorite challenge I did for Diablo 3 for fun was beating the game while my Primary Skill was Disabled.
The quote on quote "only" way was I chose Demon Hunter and I unequip the hand crossbow and boom, skill was disabled.
It was legit fun and made Act l challenging. But once I got Sentry, it became a breeze.
4:55 Leoric always drops his crown the first time you defeat him in story mode
Did not know that, thanks for the info. That explains why it felt like he drops it so often, haha
LOL roasting Blizz for killing Cain is the realest thing you've done
Random fact: my first HC character (a barbarian) only once felt threatened and that was against Malthael himself, that was when I noticed my health actually start to go down, he was actually taking chunks out of me.
As to the challenge, this was a fun video to watch, I suspect that when you regretted your decision to choose Crusader was during the phase 2 Diablo fight, that was a nasty combo the clones pulled on you.
Yeah you are right. I never faced Diablo with a crusader before so it was a total surprise when it happened!
@@zarfen The fact that you increased the difficulty to Torment 1 probably didn't help matters lol
@Linkforlife199 haha true
After playing this game for over a decade, it's nice to find a channel that is funny and makes the game enjoyable to watch 😁
Thank you, I’m glad you liked it! I really want to do another D3 video soon because I’ve got the itch to play it again
Now the milliinndollar question is can you clear GR150 with your bare hands.
I haven’t beaten GR150 at all 😅
I still remember, when i first played diablo 3 every skill having "damage is xxx% of your weapon" got me really confused and angry at first, because it made no sense to me.
I could understand SOME damage scaling with weapon. But literally ALL of it?
diablo 3, where leather clothes look like metal armor lol
Urzael is an angel with a gun.
Blessed Hammer is an OP beginning ability for Crusader.
You didnt underestimate balial. You prepared for pre nerfed D3. The games difficulty got extremely scaled down around the time Reaper of Souls came out
That explains it
@zarfen yeah once the difficulties got reworked from inferno to torment they kind of made torment 1 the new "hard" and master, expert and normal into normal, easy and "here for the story" difficulty
Having messed with a hammersader before. That legendary shield and bracers ya found are key parts for that build.
Mitten Squad did it
RIP Mitten Squad
A legend, RIP
Next do Greater Rift push without a weapon! :D My favorite game tbh... too bad it's so unpopular. Thanks for the videos!
It is a fun game! I hope to do some more videos in D3 in the future.
My guess is that he would be able to clear at most a T2 GR (I think that's like GR14) within the 15-minute limit. And maybe not even that, since dealing with the Rift Guardian will take a long time.
@@Crateron1 True, true. Zero to Hero GR push from zero gear to however high he can go would be awesome to see too!
Man, I love Diablo 3 so much!
Good to see it on this channel.
I want to do more challenges in D3 in the future.
@@zarfen Very cool!
A Captain America run i see
Isn't a shield considered a weapon if you have an attack skill with it?
Here's my reasoning: The game treats shields as armor, not weapons. And shield bash uses weapon damage to calculate its damage even if the animation is with a shield.
A while ago I was upset about D4 not allowing attacking withiut a weapon. Now I see it as a blessing 😂
Wait, I didn’t know about that! I guess this challenge won’t make it to D4 😜
I checked it 6 months ago. Things could have changed.
@mihata-gaming I want to do some kind of stupid challenge in D4 eventually so I’ll have to look into it.
@zarfen there are companions so you could try a gearless build for druid, sorc or necro. New dlc comes out too and there will be mercs and a new class. Thorns would be funny but its also pretty strong on tiers 1-2 so it wouldnt be much of a challenge
This video made me want to install Diablo 3 back since the Diablo 4 has been quite the disappointment. Had fun in season 2 but even that got boring so fast :D
at release I rushed inferno acts for cow level access, Izual was needed for on of the components. His "unavoidable shoot" was one shotting my character, eventually I went trough it because a guy who was either cheating or a genius eventually joined the party and perma froze it. Then I did pinatas runs for 1 week and paid my rent for 6 monthes using crappy magic find gear and abusing a reliable part of the layout which blocks elites(reflect was oneshotting me and lightning was crappy to deal with tho^^). I had more fun flexing than playing, I was looting a big set piece every other hour and 2 to 3 inventories of highest ilvl yellow items per hour(most of them being crap but got some god rolls). Ofc I never spoke about my strategy to anyone except to a gaming friend who had a sorc so I tryed duoing with him for few hours which was less fun and less worth it, this is not regular hns gameplay and manipulating monsters is way harders in duo.
A fun challenge to watch and hear about. I loved D2 and played a fair amount of D3, but was very disappointed with it in the end, haven't touched it in years. Pre release we got to see skill trees, and other screenshots and then it launched with just unlocking skills via leveling and no actual player choice in how to build your character to be stronger via skill point allocation. I guess they just deletes the RPG from the ARPG, or neutered it at least. A two handed mace or axe being a best in slot(at any point along the way, not necessarily endgame) for a caster was also really stupid. I'm not a fan of everything scaling off your weapon damage.
If I'd only know all I had to do was just not equip a weapon!
Anyways, didn't want to crap on D3/4 too much, so will leave it at that. Good video.
I agree with your comment.
I think D3 is a fun game, but it’s more of a “hack n’ slash” action game than an rpg. I enjoy playing it from time to time, but it couldn’t keep me hooked like D2 does.
In addition to what you said about skills, gearing also ends up being pretty shallow in the end game, since all the best gear shoehorns you into a specific build. Like the sets that grants a skill +10,000% damage if you use it in a specific way
@@zarfen yep. The itemization in D3 is quite bad. If you want to be optimal you have to use one of those 1000 percent damage builds. Also crit chance and crit damage percent was king. Really pigeon holed the gear hunt to main damage stat and crit stuff. Just kind of boring to me.
Guess I didn't want to just make a here's all the things I dislike about D3 comment. Tried to rein myself in.
The story was minimal in D2. Some act cinematics and basic quests, but that worked a lot better to me than D3 and 4s story(azmodan greatest general of hell telling you his next plan every step of the way, etc). (admittedly didn't finish D4, but don't like the follow x npc to y spot so you can then talk to them).
I know some people love D3 though. And I got to watch a cool video thanks to you. Never thought of a no weapon challenge since everything is tied to it.
Some of the initial controversy was funny to me. A rainbow!? Over a stream of water during the day?! This isn't diablo.
D2 had plenty of color in it. It's the tone of the story and the lack of rpg mechanics like skill points and building a character that I didn't like about it.
D4 went dark with the world and story but the skill tree thing is pretty shallow and more importantly the items are boring.
Anyways. Rambling too much. Back to reading my book.
d3 is actually a fun game, it's just many people couldnt get into the numbers crunching part of the endgame, even though funnily enough it's simpler than D2R
100%
I forgot how fun it is to play “casually”.
If you don’t feel you need to use the best build to grind for highest GR, there so much variety in builds and playstyles too.
right now anyone can do 150s even without heavy grinding because of the seasonal bonuses. try it@@zarfen
I saw that a new season just started. Might have to give it a go even though I probably should make videos instead 😅
My main issue with D3 is that I beat it on my first run with zero deaths. I'm not a smart man, so I don't think it was skill. Just didn't really feel like a Diablo game :/
D3 doesn’t really have a real difficulty. You just set the difficulty slider to as high as you can still kill basic enemies very quickly and go. Before playing D2R and PoE I thought the difficulty slider was fine, but it’s really not that great. Makes it a good game for challenges like this because without being on torment 1 while doing the story everything just tickles you.
Are you planning on doing more D3 special runs? Could the weapon less be done with necro? I haven’t looked too much into it though😂
Yes I really want to do more d3 runs, but right now I have so many d2 videos I want to make.
I think I would do another challenge completely though rather than weaponless in another character.
I'm surprised that you didn't go Monk immediately since he does a lot of hand to hand stuff
I didn’t research too carefully but isn’t that just for looks? He still uses weapon damage for everything right?
Or maybe you mean for the flavor and in that case I totally agree :)
you actualy just need the heart of iron legendary chest to get thorn going: 300% of your vitality = thorn. (unless they changed it)
quite easy to get via random drops usualy and wouldve made your experiance smooth even without a shield
I don’t remember this item so I looked it up - and wow that would really enable a thorns build!
Pls make more d3 videos
I've been waiting for another video ❤
Unsure how easy it woulda been to make work but thorn crusader is usually pretty good and doesnt scale from weapon damage i dont think so this challenge is probably way easier if you do something like that
I love your humor
Whats sad is i wanna do a rebuild dh build and do this on the new season *sigh* I appreciate the push
Holy moly you ran good on early legendary drops. Getting multipliers literally saved your run.
Also never play on Expert. They miscalculated the experience and magic find multipliers and it's not worth it.
In hindsight it’s pretty crazy, and they worked so well together too!
Thanks for the info, good to know!
If you play in a group and do Zbarb or ZDH it could work.
Ah I miss elite mobs in D4. And the uniques are so easy to defeat. D3 really is so much more fun.
Cool to see a d3 video
not cool to see how ugly this game actually is XD Holy shit is it that hard to bring high quality texture patch to this game?
@@EnderElohimdoesn't look that bad if you play it. looks better than d2r
@3 Hell no i opened diablo 2 resurrected diablo 3 and diablo 4 back to back and diablo 3 seems bad than a mobile game. And i saw people even do reshade stuff for diablo 3 to make it looks infinitely better so what stop blizzard from making a texture patch. Textures are clearly way too low quality or and resolotion
So basically playing diablo 3 again ruined my memories XD now i wonder how the fuck i ever played it.
It's over 9000! xD Great video.
:D thanks!
You made the shield a weapon lol
how can you like act 2 ? its the worst right after act 3,4 and 5
GD I would have picked skills with thorns boosts and you can roll thorns secondary's on every piece of gear and it's base damage. 😉
i loved first Diablo, also love both D2 and D3. cant wait for new PC and then i will also buy and play 4. each of those games have something that you dont find anywhere else.
I need to play more of D1. I never really played it much. I had a friend who had it on the PlayStation but I didn’t “get it”, and didn’t get into Diablo until Diablo 2 came out
@@zarfenIt's a very good game. Doesn't have the depth that D2 has but is a lot of fun & still holds up today
Any suggestions about some kind of interesting challenge you could do in D1? I’d like to play it more but currently I don’t feel I have the time to game outside of when I make videos for the channel.
@@zarfenOne that fits into the spirit of this challenge and the D2 no gear run you did is to beat all 3 difficulties using only cursed items on a Sorceror
You start naked, have to pick up and identify everything, and if you find an item that gives negative stats you have to use it. You can use spells as you normally would
Not sure how it would go from scratch, since cursed items are only found on the first few levels for the most part. back in the day we used to twink these chars with the worst cursed items we had for an extra challenge😆
@Nisi1 thanks for the input. I didn’t even know about cursed items 😅
i think im gonna play my d3🤩
finally a new vid les gooo W
I have about 4k total paragon, still have yet to play the campaign lol
28:44 I believe you just need to be level 61 for death's breath to drop. I don't think you need to have beaten the campaign.
How about no all equipment ? this will be fun .
Before watching i already know works for sure i remember Athene Beats it naked
Naked? Without any gear? I didn’t even think that would be possible
@@zarfen After some Research i think i Mixed something… my fault Buddy
30:26 HYA!
Thorns.
Which class is ideal for this challenge?
Not sure! Are there any skills that scale off something other than your weapon? Except for this video I haven’t played much d3 in a while so I’m not too knowledgeable about the classes at the moment.
I have thousands of hours in this game and if you had asked me I would have said this was impossible.
A bit of accidental luck or careful strategizing on not hitting level 61 when dlc scalling kicks in. It makes game way harder and i dont think malthael would be possible past that point at least not without replacing all gear
Interesting. I remember there being several big upgrades in the gear you find/can craft after 60, but didn’t know about any big difficulty scaling. Pure luck
On normal difficulty you can beat the game without a weapon and without gear.
I beat the game with only thorns damage and it was actually pretty fun
Only thorns? From the very beginning to the end? How did you do it, any tips? I was researching such a run but it seemed like thorns was so rare to find, especially early on, and also very low damage for a long time.
"Item duper." lmao
Yea you can join me on my long journey to destroy demons..... 1 thing tho drop your weapons
It would have been more interesting with vanilla Diablo 3 (there are some private servers for it): the current version is level-scaled (and I have a hunch enemies of any given level are easier than they would have been) and not intended to be played on any particular difficulty, and of course, the expansion legendaries are ridiculous as well. At some point you noted your damage increased fivefold from equipping a weapon, but well, your legos are stacking 2x and 3x multipliers, so 600% increase. But then, you were ultimately running on Torment I difficulty that increases enemy health by 819%.
It was a pretty cool and interesting video nevertheless, I like your style of editing the playthrough to its relevant bits and the way you explain things.
шипы - чип боярский.
thorns - LoD , LoN
Diablo 3 was a much better game than people gave it credit for even at launch. There was really going to be no winning for it, nobody was going to be happy with it unless it was literally just released D2 with more polygons but i was happy with it, especially by Reaper of Souls. It's funny now with people looking back on it with the dumpster fire D4 apparently is.
It’s a good arcade romp and has the best combat of the four. 2 is superior to all, but 3 is fun
I agree with both of you. Both D2 and D3 are fun games, but in different ways. Personally I prefer grinding and doing challenges in d2 with more interesting items and character building, and play d3 more casually with more fun and fluid combat and cool skill-altering uniques
Your challenge was beating the game without a weapon, our challenge was having to sit through the Diablo 3 story again, haha.
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just goes to show how imbalanced D3 is I guess, I cant remember a time I ever thought it was well balanced. All I can say is this definitely is only possible with Reaper of Souls. The boss fights from the original 2012 release were a lot different, butcher, belial, azmodan, and others all had near 1 hit kill potential (and no way of turning the difficulty down either), getting hit by a single telegraphed attack likely ended in death. Leveling was much slower (by act 4 you were still under level 30) so that limited your spell loadouts pretty hard. Loot was busted in the completely opposite way from RoS, it was way too hard to find anything. The first legendary that ever dropped for me was in act 3 hell when I was level 59, it was a level 37 witch doctor mask... And I was a wizard... Atleast it made some decent gold on the auction house. I haven't come back to this game in forever but wow it changed. I love how quick the leveling is now, but it seems the new loot system kind of degrades the meaning of "rare" and "legendary".
go thorns
i pushed GR 70 back when the necromancer released without a weapon and no +damage stats or thorns. was pretty fun
How? Admittedly I don’t know the necro well at all
@@zarfen i used some legendary legs from act 5 bounties that turn 750-1000% of your health per second into a damaging aura around you as physical damage and used the general damage increasers in the game like focus+ restraint, the inarius armor and some other stuff
Last time i played campaning was 10 years ago...
Did you stop playing, or do you go straight to bounties and rifts at level 1 in free mode or whatever it’s called?
thorns damage help a lot
I found so little gear with decent thorns damage though. Am I missing some way to get thorns damage reliably on gear? All I can think of is to reroll stats at the enchanter but that seems expensive. Crafted gear often at blacksmith but rarely saw decent thorns IIRC
@@zarfen passive boost it it almost in coat,boot,leg
Wow... compared to D2 remaster and poe 2, D3 looks SO BAD it hurts
It's so much better than poe and I'm sure still will be better than poe 2
@@lothar71also imo the complaints about its aesthetics were way overblown on launch and I think its more stylistic approach has made it age pretty well all in all.
why is this game so baby lookin, where did the somber feel go
More important question : Can you beat Diablo3 and have fun?
7:40 Oooof more exp = harder enemy. In leveling, a trick is to explore a map before killing anything so they are level locked to lower level and easier to kill
Interesting! I didn’t know it worked that way. Seems very effective but a little bit cheesy
@@zarfen it is a bit cheesy, and it is more useful in season leveling when people only care about the time it takes to reach 70
@doctort2853 ok yeah I can understand that
use thors ....
thorns
diablo 3 without weapons= just use thorns tbh.
Thorns is kind of rare and very low damage in the early game though. I mention it a bit later in the video.
But it could be an interesting challenge to do only thorns and nothing else
yea definetly, thorns is just probs easiest way to beat the game without weapon IF you manage to find some gear/set pieces !@@zarfen
and you ''kinda'' use weapon on thorns build cuz u need topaz on weapon...@@zarfen
True, but maybe I will do a “thorns only” instead of “no weapon” in that case if I do something like that in the future.
@@zarfen looking forward!
now do it without any items;)
Oof! I wonder if that is even possible given how much items boosts your defenses. Maybe if you’re a god gamer and can dodge everything (so this challenge isn’t for me! 😅)
@@zarfen I actually tried it some time ago, but I gave up at act 2😅 You have to intentionally skip monsters to avoid getting levels and making the monsters harder. It would be possible, but I think the last boss could take an hour or more and you have to dodge everything😆
@MankeyMite I’m impressed you beat Act 1! What character/build did you use?
@@zarfen necromancer, with skeletal mage as main damage source
I enjoy your videos, but: This character is really not a good example to use for this quest. You have to have a shield and you're using the shield initially as a weapon, so that's cheating (a lot). If you really want to go through the game with empty hands, you could have used the barb since you can run through the game with empty hands.
Wow, your damage is pretty bad, I would recommend equipping a weapon.
with very good gear I was able to clear T1 Portals with a Frenzy Barb Build
I cant get over how bad this game looks.
D3 is fun. It's just not diablo.
Hmm, interesting idea!
I do like d3 a lot but it doesn’t scratch the Diablo itch the way d2r does.
You have zero respect for that elite arcane beam ability. You stood in every single one.
You started with a weapon so you failed your own challenge before it started.
What fascinates me most is the fact that you called diablo "he" several times and noone from the internet outraqe squad got triggered.
You failed, shield its a weapon
cheating shield its a weapon two !!! play with no equipment
Diablo 3: The biggest disappointment in all of gaming history
What a drama queen crybaby
Did you realized that the shield is a weapon?
That's my issue with this challenge. It technically fits his goal because he states "doesn't apply to base damage". The shield does not apply to base damage, but there are skills it can scale with. There are probably other classes you could do it with, specifically a pet class or something similar. There are also a lot of skills you can't use without having a weapon equipped, so in a way it's creative. It's just bending his own rules in my opinion.
In the game and with the ruleset, it's more armor than weapon since theres no weapon damage butonly block n block chance along with other typical stats on them.
Even though I think Diablo 3 and 4 suck absolute donkey balls in most ways, I still enjoyed them the same way I enjoyed Two Worlds. At least Diablo 3 and 4 don't feel like shit to control most of the time, which is always a positive. Having said that, I enjoyed this video and would be interested in seeing more non-D2 content from you. In fact, you've inspired me to try out a few no gear runs in various games.