Can the Paladin Beat Diablo 2 Without Gear?
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- I tried beating Diablo 2 without using ANY gear on my character. And to really push this challenge, I didn't stop after normal difficulty, but tried taking on all 3 difficulties.
This challenge was really tough and took a long time, but it was also fun to see how far it could be pushed.
It turns out that the Paladin is a really powerful character.
Diablo 2 no gear challenge run.
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I wish you had hovered over each gear slot so I could see the details of the items during the gear check
Haha! Sorry, that was an oversight on my part. Here’s a summary from memory:
Weapon:
Shield:
Helm:
Body armor:
Gloves:
Belt:
Boots:
Amulet
Ring 1:
Ring 2:
@@zarfen Thank you. I will try this build out.
I can't believe you got the rng needed to complete your build so early
@@zarfenAre you sure about the Ring 1? There was cursor so we didn't see properly. You may have cheated :(
@@zarfentoo rich for my blood! Maybe if I find an hr early next season!
Alternative Title: Holy Naked man and hired friend defeat the Devil and his Nefarious minions with nothing but their fists, and their imaginations.
not once but three times
Naked man and friend fisting? Nah, I dunno 😂
And gifts from faith
They also have the power of God and friendship on their side.
@@blacklight1104 Any DM would willfully and passionately disagree. The hate for paladins is real! I KNOW BECAUSE I (jokingly) DO TOO!!
It's been 25 years, and Paladin is still op.
“Not for damage… but for humiliation” 😂😂😂😂😂
I laughed a little bit out loud when he said that
Incredible video, man. Pleasure to watch all the way through. Love the original idea and story telling. Keep 'em coming!
Thank you so much, man! Really appreciate it.
Meanwhile I can't beat hell ancients in 30 minutes with a power leveled sorc wearing the best gear I could find up to that point.
Hah, I don't remember that i'm defeat a game on hell difficulty even once...
Static is your friend 😉
Its impossible with 60-70 percent of affix combinations
I always cheese tf out of the ancients lmao. Personally the boss fight I struggle with the most
You casting holy bolts to the merc honestly looks like your cheering him on and healing him through positive vibes :)
Haha now that you said it I totally see it with they way the Paladin pumps his fist in the air!
Reminds me of another challenge video where the character was not allowed to attack. Gear was allowed so it was all thorns and aura damage all the way. Thanks for the video!
yes, the pacifist built.
Yes the Backlogs. He makes incredible Videos. By far my favorite youtuber.
You got me with the “well.” instantly subbed
Hahaha amazing timing on that zoom out at 0:52 right as you said "well". Got an audible chuckle out of me.
I immediately paused and started scrolling through the comments to see who else appreciated that 😂
after all these years I didn't think I'd learn something new about this game. handy crafting recipe, kudos
U should try this challenge with all the characters. Ur dialogues and documentary are awesome to listen to.
Thanks a lot! I would have never considered making this a series… but maybe, I’ll consider it!
Sorc, Sin, Necro and Druid can do it just fine. Barb maybe with warcry, but Hell Ancients would be ridiculous. I don't think Amazon can do it at all
I’ve played since ‘06 LoD, and it was nice to see such a fun/unique twist on a playthrough.
Enjoyed watching all the way through to the end, good job homie.
I’ve gotten the D2R itch recently and playing through single player again (sorc first and then may do a trapper or melee class) and i’ve been binge watching all of your videos while im at work and can’t play. I just have to say that polearm recipe blew my mind after i thought i’d seen just about everything after 20 years. Amazed at the depth this game has even after all this time. Thanks for the vids
It does show how D2 is balanced extremely towards skills. Items are important for melee but for casters using abilities its optional (of course it makes game easier and progress much faster but items are still only optional). I think naked cold sorc is another great example
Really enjoying all of your videos.
super entertaining and you give so much background information when it comes to runewords and loot ingenerell.
keep up the good work :)
Thanks, I appreciate it!
"Let's do a gear check" absolutely dropped me 😂
You are one heck of a player doing this. Massive respect man.Might be one of the best Diablo 2 player out there.
Insane lol. Well done man. That must have been very painful at times.
It was a grind for sure, but holy bolt + sanctuary helped A LOT.
Thinking back to the early 2000s, I never managed to beat the game on hell difficulty. And you managed it without any gear! Holy shit, dude! 😄
Great video. 👏
Well to be fair I also played back then but never stopped so I’ve had a few practice runs 😅
Thanks a lot!
Creative concept and a big challenge. I enjoyed watching this completely, and I commend you on great content! THANK YOU! Very well done!
Thanks! I’m glad you liked it.
@zarfen Also, loved the cube recipe you shared for polearms! I used that this ladder season!
That’s awesome! @natasreficul6666
Excellent job with this challenge. It was fun to watch :)
Thanks! Glad you liked it
I havent played d2 since the early 2010's but its very enjoyable to watch you. Nicely edited and great naration!
Emilio definatly diserves a raise
Thanks!
Haha yeah, I hope he gets a cut on all the gold I paid to resurrect him.
Zarfen, you're incredible.
Diablo 2 is by far my favourite game of all time and watching you do these challenges just makes me love the game even more. I didn't know half of this stuff was possible, Kudos.
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoy the videos!
What a great watch this was, you structure your videos in a way thats glueing me to what you are presenting
Thanks!
This is the pinnacle of creating a build. No OP, no requirement for uber uniques, no rush for unholy amounts of damage, just plain skills. I bow my head
Just imagine this naked dude walking into the room and emitting such intense waves of heat from his skin that every one of your minions bursts into flame and crumbles into ashes. 🤣🔥
You got great humor (lol'ed at the start when you went the wrong way & when you decided to update the viewers with your gear setup which was just an empty page; this is the time in the video where I wrote the comment). Your speechcraft is quite impressive & somewhat interesting to listen to. My instincts tell me you'll find success. Keep it up.
I have listened to this run a couple of times while coding or doing chores. This time I finally caught the "I wondered how long that satisfaction would remain.... well" and actually cackled at my monitor
Loving this challenge series, this was fun to watch!
This as well as the challenge where you beat the game by only buying gear from vendors are some of the most interesting Diablo 2 videos I have watched in a very, very long time! Thanks for your content!
Thank you! I’m glad you liked them
Nice job . Seriously thanks for the video. I never would have thought holy bolt would have been able to carry you so well. Bravo man
Thank you for your kind comment!
In the old diablo2 it wouldnt have cuz it was undead only
Amazing content! I'd never go for this challenge myself haha, hell is hard enough without restrictions.
I just have a little note to add. When you go to Baal at the end of the video, there is a cheese to clear wave 5 without killing them. The game is programmed to only check if that specific room is cleared or not, so you can kite them out of there, and then when you go back in and they're not following you, then you can enter Baals chamber
Glad you liked it!
I am familiar with the wave skip, but for the videos I try to avoid using it if I can at all help it, as it often feels like the true final boss for a lot of characters instead of Baal.
Great video, Zarfen! Just a quick note, Prevent monster heal does only work if a player is applying it, won't work for mercs.
Dude, I just discovered your channel. This is amazing to watch. You have a real knack for making a story.
Thank you! Glad you liked it
man i'm new to d2 and this video showed me everything i'm doing wrong, i just crash when i get to hell and i can't clear "den of evil" thanks for the help!
There’s a lot of little “tricks” that make a big difference like certain runewords, but that the game doesn’t really tell you about! 😅
@@zarfen exactly, man i learned a lot from your video thx!
wtf, I haven't even beat act 1 hell mode, and here this dude just .. walks through everything naked
Well he plays a caster character and thus equipment is in fact unimportant (as you can see).
When you've played through this game a few times (or dozens, hundreds...a lot) it's not that hard to make it through. You'll get there, I believe.
Your comment is 11 months old, hope you've been kicking ass since lol
I'm going to be real with you: me and my buddy were rooting * against * you the whole time 😂
Good job proving us wrong! Baal was a huge let down across all difficulties!
This is crazy bro, great job!
Don't know if someone already told you but @28:12 you wanted it to have 4 sox but max sox is 3 which you got. Nice video! Looking forward to your next challenge :)
Yeah a few comments have pointed this out, but I had no idea while making the video! Thanks :)
Good video sir. In a world where I find myself sticking to my comfort zone, it felt good to hear a new voice having fun with the game. Subscribed.
Naked whirlwind fist barb would of been funny to see
You humble me, bro. Your devotion to this is admirable, well done.
Just got this video recommended and blitzed the channel I think ill go try D2R with mods this time
Thank you for this amazing content ❤
Does this emilio guy also have a youtube channel? you should put his channel in the discription you help you out big time, the real MVP.
Haha he could maybe have a vlog style channel where he rants about having to save me all the time
How am I still learning new things about this game after 24 years ..
My father beated first act without leveling up, he simply didn't know, that you can level up in this game
Oh yeah. Now that I recall, the more obvious skill and stat-up boxes didn't come till later patches.
Was in a silly spot at the bottom. I can totally see someone not paying attention, and missing the boxes for the skill/Stat increases
Great video! I streamed a clear of normal on Hardcore with Barbarian (leap attack/leap) and Amazon (passive tree only T_T). Your choice of Holy Bolt was pretty brilliant. Good job!
Your choices seem difficult! Respect for doing it in HC.
I really want to do some kind of passive zon challenge but I haven’t figure out what to do yet
I’ve watched this video several times and the gear check still gets me every time 😂
very relaxing. i appreciate the lack of yelling or mercenary bullying.
nice diablo 2 content
wow you read my mind. I was thinking if you can beat this game without items.. and today i see this video.!
"My flaming fists of fury will destroy you, HAHAHA-man, who wrote this stuff?" - Sam 'Serious' Stone.
Killing hordes of zombies exclusively with your fists has to be the manliest thing ever.
"not for the damage, but for the humiliation" wow hahahahaha that was a good one
Imagine being a boss mob, rekt by unarmed rookie wearing nothing but clothes
Great challenge vid. I'm very surprised you managed to beat Hell this way. GG!
Always looking forward your next videos. They are very good. Keep it up :)
Top tier D2R content 10/10
Thanks! Glad you liked it
This video proves experience is everything. He beating this game easier than some folks with twinked out toons
A lot of these challenges devolve into “how much heavy lifting can my minions do.”
That 'well' gag caught me off guard, well played sir.
Always a banger when you upload bro ❤
Thanks man!
this video perfectly shows how op the pal is
I really loved this challenge. Great work friend!
Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!
Stop bro, the zoom out on the well 😂 subtle yet goated edit
14:26 "i've beaten the game, on normal difficulty, *Subtle laugh noises* without wearing any gear."
Very nice.
Another trick you couldve tried once you were relying on merc is maxing our prayer and running cleansing for the heal and curse cleanse. This would also make your holy bolt heal for more.
Then stack it even further with the classix merc setup cure/inaight/prayer
Hey, I stopped at 28:12 to tell you that Ogre Axe cannot have 4 sockets :P Either way, nice video and good job man!
Thanks! Yeah a few other comments also pointed that out. Still learning new things in this game!
honestly, I have never played Paladin cause I thought it's a bad class...but after this video, I tried making your build, and boy it's fun.... LOL
Its often been considered the strongest class
@@procow2274 okay tbf, I really suck at Diablo 2 XD
Man i really enjoyed the journey, good job
Good job, mate 👍
"Well"
*Zooms out to show a well
I don't know if that was intentional, but I enjoyed it.
0:51 "Well" - that got me lol :D
Dude, what a miserable experience, lol. It reminded me of my first playthroughs in the early 2000s, no idea how to play or what to wear, progress came in a similar fashion, slowly and with a lot of fleeing and dying.
It's rough when a playthrough goes like that. Doesn't happen to me as often as it did back in the day, but sometimes the grind becomes all too real.
That was really really fun lol. Great challenge and great video.
Thank you!
Resist fire is massive for holy fire. Gotta use it!
I can't even do hell with a geared necromancer and this guy is over here doing it gearless.
my boy equiped Khalim's will and pretends he used no gear ??
great vid anyway
great video! enjoyed every second of it.
Thank you, glad you liked it!
Look up Mr.Llamasc. Before D2R came out he took a Punch Barb to Hell, using gear, but no merc or weapon. And he did a Pacifist Paladin a few times.
A Pacidin
After paying attention to your play through, you failed to use sacrifice or zeal lol while you were doing melee, so you lost some AR/DMG haha and speed. Glad you still played through. Would have loved to see you try to play through with rainbow (cold, fire, lightning). I would have put 1 point into prayer for the buff to your healing and spare points there.
Alternatively you could have done one of the many variant/hybrids.
Holy Aura (which ever you like + synergies ) + FOH + Holy Bolt
or
FOH + Holy Bolt + Blessed Hammers /w Synergies. [This would have been preferred]
The wild card lol use conversion with you main skills as a way to give you some form of crowd control.
I did put a skill point in zeal early on but I then realized it only gets 2 hits at level 1 and costs a lot of mana (for a gearless pals with not belt for mana pots 😅). So I figured points were better spent in Holy Fire. If I would have stayed with HF longer(which I maybe should have) I think it would have been a good move! Didn’t even consider sacrifice but that might have been useful.
There’s a lot of ways I could have gone with the build. I honestly didn’t plan it out too much in advance, and I’m hindsight I wish I had gone heavier on FoH, including putting points into its synergies, to make killing non-undead, no-demons faster. Any enemy holy bolt could damage was no problem, so I should have put more towards making the others easier. I put some points into fanaticism to help the mercenary out , but I’m not sure how much of a difference that really made.
Thanks for the comment, many points to think about.
@@zarfen yea mana becomes an issue then :)
@@zarfen yea if you make the “Angel” build which is really a hybrid of FoH / Holy Bolt and Hammers it pretty much can kill everything but Ubers since you have an equipment constraint. Obviously if you have a shield at least then you can smite
@@zarfen alternatively I had planned to do an extreme build like this in December but lost track of time.
Currently I’m doing the same build but with equipment. No points in anything but vitality. Gear is capped heavily. At end I’ll grant myself enigma :)
What do you skip from the hammer build to make the hybrid? Blessed hammer synergies or concentration? Not sure I’ve ever heard of that build
Woestave is pretty interesting overall. Nice find. Sure there are better options, but your merc hinders whatever it touches. Great vid.
The healing from holy bolt made most fights winnable with enough time. Woestave could have been really interesting in the difficult fights if I didn’t have holy bolt I think. Thanks!
Great video! Dedication at its finest. Watched the whole thing! ❤❤
Thank you!
This is a really cool video, i like how you explain your thought process throughout the adventure. :)
Btw Ogre Axe max sockets is only 3. It can't get more. The Grim scythe being 5 sockets means you could make obedience though, which is even more powerful than Insight (although no mana regen..) But you need a Fal rune
Thanks!
Yeah a few comments have pointed that out now. I didn’t know that when I made the video, still learning new things in this game!
I actually saved the grim schyte in the stash for that exact reason! But unfortunately I didn’t find a single fal or hel rune, might also have missed the ko but I don’t exactly remember. If I had struggled more against the ancients an option could have been to go grind the countess for those.
"Power of Friendship" Emilio is a keeper.
Thanks for the gear view during run, was wondering what you were using,,
*sees d2 challenge video*
Subbed. Love you, and love your love of the game I've played the most over the last 20 or so years 😂💜✌️
Thanks man, D2 is something special
This episode: Dedicated to Emilio!
The title is wrong tho, should be "Can Emilio beat D2?". Anyway, a good video!
Damn dude that Diablo circlet wasn’t bad! Visionary and FRW! Almost good enough for LLD!!
That is straight up insane.. good for you!
😁
Amazing video, loved every moment of it!
Thanks! Glad you liked it
Congratulations! it was very enjoyable.
That's impressive man, got my sub! Thanks for the entertaining video! How long did it take you total without editing?
Thanks, glad you liked it!
I didn’t keep track and playing was spread out over a few weeks but I’m guessing around 40 hours total 😅
I would love to see this challenge with other classes, it's a great video, and nicely done.
Thanks! I’ll definitely consider it, the response to this video has been great.
That was nothing short of amazing, wow. You should try pandemonium with no gear next
Great video as always! FYI, 3 sockets is the max for an ogre axe.
Damn, still learning new things in this game! 😅
@@zarfen Don't know if you had the runes, but 5 a socket polearm (the grim scythe at 28:03) would have been a great base for obedience, which is a relatively affordable RW and packs a lot of punch for the price :) (Hel, Ko, Thul, Eth, Fal)
@pitecusH yeah I actually saved the polearm in the stash in case I found runes for obedience, but it wasn’t even close (no Fal, Ko or even Hel if I remember correctly)
I could have gone at farmed the countess maybe for it if I had gotten stuck at ancients.
Man this was a great video. Really enjoyed it. Subbed
Thanks, glad you liked it!
I know that pacifist (character not allowed to actively attack) are possible, but that is often done through very specific gear and much more detailed follower customization.
This was fun to watch and I was quite surprised how tanky you actually were. Especially against someone like Duriel
I was surprised too, and I think it’s almost completely thanks to the sanctuary aura. And also that I put almost every stat point into vitality.
The paladin is going through his Kazuma Kiryu phase.