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As someone who had played diablo 2 since original launch, I love that there is always something new to try even after all these years. Thanks for the content.
Great, Great recommendation, thank you RUclips! My first time here, I love watching D2R playthroughs and challanges and although there are many channels that do this kind of thing I stayed here for the whole video. The narration is perfect - calm and funny with no overreactions and other youtuber-like stuff. Keep up the good work :)
49:00 Yooo that's cool as heck I had no idea blood nests could be heroes. I'm glad you took the time to include it in your video, I love stuff like that.
Dang you did AMAZING your really an entertaining commentaries! I was like how did i miss your videos/channel, looked at your history and was shockes this is your first video. Also absolutely loved the teeth chattering end GGs man well gained!
goodness what a slog! Congrats on making it happen and letting us tag along! Really enjoyed the whole thing! And like someone else said - you stayed true to the challenge and didn't let an OP merc do the heavy lifting.
Nice video man, I really liked the IRL footage at the end :) Grats for completing the challenge, it must have been insane! I have a full summon druid and even that can be tedious sometimes, with wolves, bear and merc...
As a diablo 2 n00b I would enjoy watching this exact style of video (not rushing, focused on details, stretched out, detailed) but with one of the better builds. And if it could be made challenging somehow that would also be great!
I really like your style of video. It's concise and informative. A good trick to the start there would have been to sell what you find in chests, then check Charsi for a piece of armor with the 'Of Thorns' suffix.
Yes bro!, Your approach to narration is actually decent and similar to how i present my stuff at work. Very light touch on the important things and only explain the niche scenarios with a few random puns which dont sound tryhard, the Lynx joke was top shelf lol. Less is more sometimes. Also, fantastic content and keep this stuff up. :D
what in the holy hell. I click a video about Diablo 2, and I see a cinematic from Myth 2. Big salute to you for referencing that excellent but forgotten game.
This was truly excruciating to watch thank you for doing it. Yeah ravens are viable, albeit you're supposed to have the whole zoo out. With enough +skills and fully synergised your ravens will end up doing thousands of damage per peck, and your wolves and bear are no slouches either. But fair enough you're doing a challenge run for the content. Really nice to see those real life corvids at the end. Very poetic as you say.
oh wow.. I have never seen that Storm Eye ring before.. I kinda wish I hadn't now, what a waste of lot in the lootpool, I take a rejuv pot before that.. None the less, I saw somethin totally new today I didn't need to see, thanks!! 🌹 also another incredible run, your patience would wear down mountains lol
I don’t think it takes away from raven only to melee your first level up. It really isn’t any different than killing with a poison shrine since that isn’t a raven
In areas where bear walk a murderous flock of black birds follow. Fun run. I used to always rush the low levels through having them hide for the Diablos kill. 👍
Nice video and I particularly liked the end! Just so you know that your mic has some sort of intermittent crackle. No big deal but I thought you would want to know. Cheers
Yeah man, thought someone might mention this. When I connect headphones directly to the mic it buzzes (probably when i'm moving around), but have stopped plugging it in now so future videos it will be sorted. Thanks for holding out to the end despite it, appreciate it.
Maybe I misunderstood, but the belts did show up at Gheeds unless you were looking for a specific type. They show up a few times in your fast forward, just below the amulets and rings in the top right.
Read the title and was trying to figure out how just killing blood raven until hell would even work .. what magnificent glitch you might use to get past the difficulty locks, how you would kill her at level 1 .. .. than I remembered that I never got into druid, especially not summoner / caster druid and that I completly forgot about that skill.. makes alot more sense.
Underrated comment! The only barrier with a lot of these runs is the farming, mainly for exp, but this run (compared to my current) had really good unique finding. My latest run has had such poor luck this raven run seems really lucky!
They are so rare. For my pacifist run I list a few, but they are rare unique rather than magic prefixes or suffixes so I couldnt and didnt rely on them
wow i did this same exact thing in resurrection beta, took it over to my original diablo 2 because of how curious i was and still ran it all the way to the end i love doing this kinda stuff. doing it in path of exile right now with just the basic skeleton warriors
@@prophetezekiel Thanks for the info. The game looks interesting enough from what i managed to find about, so i will genuinely consider it. Now to hope that i : 1. can actually get my hands on it, and 2. get good enough at it to see it trough the end.
I love these challenge runs. Been playing D2 since pre LoD expansion so meta builds are not very interesting for me. I find these to be entertaining though :)
The replayability is insane. I'm struggling to think of one decent challenge run for diablo 3 or 4, and even path of exile 2, but this game has so many as it was just crafted with such care. Pick it up and enjoy the journey!
I do believe raven is the main damage dealer outside of having a merc when I tested after beating baal. The ravens do so much damage I still directed them to attack and left everything else to soak damage. Wolves were useless as they die so quickly but bear was good. Problem is all builds are good with epic equipment!
Not a lot. After the run I tried summoning everything: wolves are poor in all forms, bear is a good tank, but ravens are in fact the main dps (although I'm sure a merc would outshine them all).
Not sure it might work but i think running out of the door while Andariel was chasing. Closing the door before she exits and leaving her inside with crows helps :) Figured this often tackled mercs in good ol' d2:lod so why not weaponize it? :D
I don't mean to sound critical, but for a run like this, how is the shrine killing your first level of enemies different from you doing it yourself? Just started watching and excited to see how the run turns out!
@@prophetezekiel Uh.. All you said was belts in the video so.. I just assumed you were missing them or something. Had you said 12 slot belts, I may have thought differently..
I guess so, which is annoying as I wanted to do a extra enemies mod but I'm worried it will be a bit pointless if half are background extras in the fight
At 1:16:24, you said you needed stealth for the run/walk speed but changing it to a plate mail actually made you slower since heavy body armour has a higher speed penalty then the chain mail.
You didnt lose the point from the den of evil quest when you remade your character. You start with zero, so at level 6 you should only have 5 total points but you scale raven back up to 6. So the point was accounted for
Music is a little loud in your mix and it’s kinda distracting, even though it’s arguably one of the best soundtracks ever created. Other than that fun video and challenge idea, pure raven with synergies is crazy, an idea I’ve had in the past but never had the time or mental instability to attempt it lol.
ALSO for the Druid summon tree ONLY soft points into synergies COUNT so that helm you got from Anya in normal would have applied the synergy bonus from dire and spirit wolf.
ALSO for your nightmare countess runs you got the spirit runes, grab a long, broad, or crystal sword from normal cows and cash in your larzuk quest for a spirit sword.
Love that game and the intro always stuck with me as a top tier classic. The cinematics are only bested by the guy who narrates the mission diary entries.
![Felix "Unfair" | [Stray Kids : SKZ-PLAYER]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Oswujxm2Ag0/mqdefault.jpg)
Appreciate there are some audio pings and crackles on this video. Audio sorted on newer videos, so thanks for your patience - I was very new to youtube when I did this! Love you brothers!
I made it just over an hour in before I realized it wasn't my own computer making the pings. -_- Good work none the less. Keep it up.
I was playing Cyberpunk and it took me a while to realize it wasn't some sort of environmental thing in the game. Lmao
Challenge runs are so cool. Forget the meta builds these playthroughs are more entertaining.
Thanks dude. More incoming soon!
@prophetezekiel I'm glad you did it om softcore. Most of the meme builds challenge runs do hc and don't make it to the end.
@@prophetezekielВсего-то и надо - немного ускориться
На "хмуром" плотно сидит некромант.
As someone who had played diablo 2 since original launch, I love that there is always something new to try even after all these years. Thanks for the content.
Raven only is dumb af
I love the bear casting animation, like its throwing ravens at the enemy with both hands
I named my summon druid, Hype Bear. Between summons and shockwave he looks more like the mascot hyping up his team
Great, Great recommendation, thank you RUclips!
My first time here, I love watching D2R playthroughs and challanges and although there are many channels that do this kind of thing I stayed here for the whole video. The narration is perfect - calm and funny with no overreactions and other youtuber-like stuff.
Keep up the good work :)
Thank you, means a lot!
49:00 Yooo that's cool as heck I had no idea blood nests could be heroes. I'm glad you took the time to include it in your video, I love stuff like that.
Dang you did AMAZING your really an entertaining commentaries! I was like how did i miss your videos/channel, looked at your history and was shockes this is your first video. Also absolutely loved the teeth chattering end GGs man well gained!
Thanks dude! I've learnt a lot since this run (mainly audio) so check out my newer vids, and let me know any builds you want me to try
goodness what a slog! Congrats on making it happen and letting us tag along! Really enjoyed the whole thing! And like someone else said - you stayed true to the challenge and didn't let an OP merc do the heavy lifting.
Holy shit, that poetic symbolism there at the end. Chef's kiss. Amazing video, bro. Keep it up!
You using myth 2 FMV is enough to deserve my like and sub, nice work
Thanks for doing this, your patience is admirable.
Nice video man, I really liked the IRL footage at the end :) Grats for completing the challenge, it must have been insane! I have a full summon druid and even that can be tedious sometimes, with wolves, bear and merc...
Myth Soulblighter! I see you are a man of culture as well.
Very cool run! Love to see that old Flamespike hasn't been forgotten either.
Nice job mate, I respect how mucch you honored the challenge. I would have likely used a merc and shockwave to make it less frustrating
Getting ready for bed after losing my 81 druid to hell ancients. Got greedy. Nice to find a new diablo youtuber. Keep em coming. (= theyre good.
Thanks mate, that means a lot.
Really cool challenge run! Definitely was feeling your pain towards the end, haha.
As a diablo 2 n00b I would enjoy watching this exact style of video (not rushing, focused on details, stretched out, detailed) but with one of the better builds. And if it could be made challenging somehow that would also be great!
Good idea. I think I will do a relaxed guide to enjoying D2
@@prophetezekiel nice dude! Looking forward to it!
Enjoyed this one, fair play for keeping on going with the grind on this.
Thank you brother, appreciate this. Quality of this makes me cringe a lot, so please check out my newer vids when you can!
I really like your style of video. It's concise and informative.
A good trick to the start there would have been to sell what you find in chests, then check Charsi for a piece of armor with the 'Of Thorns' suffix.
Thanks brother! Check out my pacifist run if you wants some thorns action!
@prophetezekiel oh, I most definitely will! 😁
Yes bro!, Your approach to narration is actually decent and similar to how i present my stuff at work. Very light touch on the important things and only explain the niche scenarios with a few random puns which dont sound tryhard, the Lynx joke was top shelf lol. Less is more sometimes. Also, fantastic content and keep this stuff up. :D
Thank you brother, this means a lot! This was my first video so I cringe at the editing and audio already, but more to come so hope you enjoy.
what in the holy hell. I click a video about Diablo 2, and I see a cinematic from Myth 2. Big salute to you for referencing that excellent but forgotten game.
This was truly excruciating to watch thank you for doing it. Yeah ravens are viable, albeit you're supposed to have the whole zoo out. With enough +skills and fully synergised your ravens will end up doing thousands of damage per peck, and your wolves and bear are no slouches either. But fair enough you're doing a challenge run for the content. Really nice to see those real life corvids at the end. Very poetic as you say.
I thought you meant Hell difficulty and thought to myself, no effin way 😂. That was a great run, hilarious.
oh wow.. I have never seen that Storm Eye ring before..
I kinda wish I hadn't now, what a waste of lot in the lootpool, I take a rejuv pot before that..
None the less, I saw somethin totally new today I didn't need to see, thanks!! 🌹
also another incredible run, your patience would wear down mountains lol
Diablo II content, I instantly press subscribe what a nostalgic game good build and video ❤
Love the real ravens showing up at the end, very good stuff
Thanks dude
I don’t think it takes away from raven only to melee your first level up. It really isn’t any different than killing with a poison shrine since that isn’t a raven
Bro you need more subscribers. Keep up the good work
Thank you brother! Early days :)
Really nice. I felt so sorry for you in the end! And such a pity you could not find Ravenlore.
Your channel is underrated!
Great job! This would have driven me nuts!
Subbed before 1k! This will be nice big channel one day!
Thank you! Means a lot x
really enterntaining video, dude. I would never ever have the patience to do a challenge like this! NEVER EVER. And what cool ending
Thank you brother, means a lot. Glad you enjoyed
I enjoyed this while I went to sleep. Good voice to relax and chill to.
Thank you brother. Later videos are much better quality, so hope you enjoy!
In areas where bear walk a murderous flock of black birds follow. Fun run. I used to always rush the low levels through having them hide for the Diablos kill. 👍
The blood nest elite pack is crazy. I've never seen that before till just last night and then to see it again after 20 years of playing is crazy
I liked that ending, that was a real cool way to close out the video
Nice video and I particularly liked the end! Just so you know that your mic has some sort of intermittent crackle. No big deal but I thought you would want to know. Cheers
Yeah man, thought someone might mention this. When I connect headphones directly to the mic it buzzes (probably when i'm moving around), but have stopped plugging it in now so future videos it will be sorted. Thanks for holding out to the end despite it, appreciate it.
Worth the watch just to find out the crows came out in solidarity at the end
Love the comparison between old and new image in game. I am so interested in guessing where you are when you stand at a corner of the town😊
10 videos in and I'm running out of new spots! Love the detail of the remaster
Boy, that Dark Souls music is horrifyingly appropriate by Hell difficulty.
What a dedication. Very cool run!
The ending with the crows really hit hard
If only the skill did...thanks for watching brother!
Killing Blood Raven with Ravens should been an achievement.
Maybe I misunderstood, but the belts did show up at Gheeds unless you were looking for a specific type. They show up a few times in your fast forward, just below the amulets and rings in the top right.
You assume I'm not a total moron however!
@@prophetezekiel I only know because I did it too during SSF before 😂
That comment about Lynx Afrika went hard 😂
But this on as a going to bed background video. And those little windows alerts kept giving me jump scares lol good video/Challenge regardless.
Sorted in my new videos!
I know right. I was playing EU4 and listening, and kept wondering wtf was going on.
A fun watch! Imagine doing this on Diablo II LoD without Raven synergies :D
I think youd get a shorter punishment for murder these days
I tried to play zoo Druid on classic Diablo 2 Lod. Not playable.
What is the music at 49:30? is that game soundtrack?
It is from the OST but is a dropped track, might be called roger and me, or I think outtake 1, 2 or 3.
fun to watch, like your humor!
Thank you brother!
You earned this subscription
love it, hoping for more!
Read the title and was trying to figure out how just killing blood raven until hell would even work .. what magnificent glitch you might use to get past the difficulty locks, how you would kill her at level 1 ..
.. than I remembered that I never got into druid, especially not summoner / caster druid and that I completly forgot about that skill.. makes alot more sense.
This gives me some ideas. I wonder if a boss only kill run is possible? Maybe 1 super unique and main boss every act only.
Good video, you got a subscriber
I enjoyed alot of the jokes and commentary in this video, that's a sub and a like from me!
Cool video. Found alot of the rare low level items, which probably says something about the amount of farming you had to do.
Underrated comment! The only barrier with a lot of these runs is the farming, mainly for exp, but this run (compared to my current) had really good unique finding. My latest run has had such poor luck this raven run seems really lucky!
Great video, keep up the good work :) !!
Aren't there other charged items or items where being hit activates a necromancer's curse to increase the damage that crows inflict on monsters?
They are so rare. For my pacifist run I list a few, but they are rare unique rather than magic prefixes or suffixes so I couldnt and didnt rely on them
Like the gravel of pain .... that so sad and painfull
wow i did this same exact thing in resurrection beta, took it over to my original diablo 2 because of how curious i was and still ran it all the way to the end
i love doing this kinda stuff. doing it in path of exile right now with just the basic skeleton warriors
Poe with skeles is tough! I started summon witch too and respecced to fire in act 3 and I'm totally screwed now. Let me know how you get on!
The animation in the opening, does someone knows where it comes from ?
Myth 2: Soulblighter. The cinematics are genuinely amazing, but play the game as they serve best as a mission completion reward!
@@prophetezekiel Thanks for the info. The game looks interesting enough from what i managed to find about, so i will genuinely consider it. Now to hope that i : 1. can actually get my hands on it, and 2. get good enough at it to see it trough the end.
Nice one mate!
Thank you brother!
I love these challenge runs. Been playing D2 since pre LoD expansion so meta builds are not very interesting for me. I find these to be entertaining though :)
i didn't even know this game existed. looks better than all the latest diablo combined
The replayability is insane. I'm struggling to think of one decent challenge run for diablo 3 or 4, and even path of exile 2, but this game has so many as it was just crafted with such care. Pick it up and enjoy the journey!
@prophetezekiel I definitely will do. 🙏
@prophetezekiel haven't been psyched about a diablo game since the original Diablo II
I always keep keys on me except assassins as they get to open locked chests for free. If you didn't know.
Big fan of druid.
Any curse that ravens don't over right ? I need to not have blind as I run thorns. My necro curses are gg.
Would be nice to see a hero edited character with raven maxed with gg items like ravenlore. Would it still be trash or better?
I do believe raven is the main damage dealer outside of having a merc when I tested after beating baal. The ravens do so much damage I still directed them to attack and left everything else to soak damage. Wolves were useless as they die so quickly but bear was good. Problem is all builds are good with epic equipment!
@@prophetezekiel with cta i believe you could achieve a level 53 raven with all the skills and be looking at almost 6k damage
53! That must be close to the highest skill level possible!
Sacks for armor and weapon always drop the same type of item in singleplayer. It's only randomized when monsters are nearby it. :)
Now I'm curious as to how much damage the other summons do when maxed out like that. Never thought I'd see 900 damage ravens.
Not a lot. After the run I tried summoning everything: wolves are poor in all forms, bear is a good tank, but ravens are in fact the main dps (although I'm sure a merc would outshine them all).
I dont comment on this account... but saw.... Myth 2 Cinimatic.... Love you for that
Would sockets only be heaven, or hell?
Check out my Santa Claws episode for the answer!
Not sure it might work but i think running out of the door while Andariel was chasing. Closing the door before she exits and leaving her inside with crows helps :) Figured this often tackled mercs in good ol' d2:lod so why not weaponize it? :D
I don't mean to sound critical, but for a run like this, how is the shrine killing your first level of enemies different from you doing it yourself?
Just started watching and excited to see how the run turns out!
Shrines are an act of god, while me killing is not! Just the way I like to justify it, plus it adds some challenge!
What was the intro anime?
Myth 2: The fallen lords. It's an amazing game, and the cinematics are peak cool
That throne room omg 😦
If it had been easier getting there I would have rerolled!
6:00 Did you not see the belts on the right... under the jewelry lol...
Was their a 12 slot belt or just sashes? I'm not suggesting I'm not an idiot, just didnt expect it to be this obvious to everyone ;)
@@prophetezekiel Uh.. All you said was belts in the video so.. I just assumed you were missing them or something. Had you said 12 slot belts, I may have thought differently..
51:35 too many enemy models loaded at once?
I guess so, which is annoying as I wanted to do a extra enemies mod but I'm worried it will be a bit pointless if half are background extras in the fight
Yeah i honestly dont know how d2 handles any of that but i doubt they updated it for the rerelease :/
At 1:16:24, you said you needed stealth for the run/walk speed but changing it to a plate mail actually made you slower since heavy body armour has a higher speed penalty then the chain mail.
Dude this is such good advice. Will remember for the future (maybe)
Nice to hear "Outtake" at 50:00
You didnt lose the point from the den of evil quest when you remade your character. You start with zero, so at level 6 you should only have 5 total points but you scale raven back up to 6. So the point was accounted for
Good to know!
Why didn't you use Cain to identify items? You did it all manually.
Who is Cain? It's just a fun way of going item by item. Feels a bit more rewarding revealing them one by one, especially after a long time farming!
that distortions made me worry about my pc. u made it intentionally? :D
This is great.
Thank you brother!
Music is a little loud in your mix and it’s kinda distracting, even though it’s arguably one of the best soundtracks ever created. Other than that fun video and challenge idea, pure raven with synergies is crazy, an idea I’ve had in the past but never had the time or mental instability to attempt it lol.
ALSO for the Druid summon tree ONLY soft points into synergies COUNT so that helm you got from Anya in normal would have applied the synergy bonus from dire and spirit wolf.
ALSO for your nightmare countess runs you got the spirit runes, grab a long, broad, or crystal sword from normal cows and cash in your larzuk quest for a spirit sword.
This is great advice, wish I'd known this before starting!
Hey I saw this on Reddit.
27:03
I've made dozens and dozens of spirits and I've still somehow not gotten the max fcr, apparently all my luck went to you 😂
I would have traded it all for a +3 to raven helm!
Ravens actually carry hard by themselves. You easily find a +1 to Raven on helm in act 1 wolf heads. Easily top tier starter
'Easily' he says....
Level 8 for Belts from Gheed.
Just amazing
Yeah, some skills in D2 are absolute dogs*** and I applaud you for having the patience to try a run with the worst of them -.-
But why put stealth in an armor where you get a run/walk penalty lol
You know, I knew this once, but long since forgot. Crazy how many nuances there are to this game!
god of raven
Never beaten hell so it was entertaining and embarrassing to watch at the same time
Man putting stealth in an armor base with negative movespeed killed me.
-5%?
@@prophetezekiel Yeah chain mail is -5%. I loved the video but seeing that hurt me inside.
Didn't know ravens are so much stronger than skellys 😮
You should read the poem 'the raven' by edgar allan poe. Thought of it when i watched this video
I actually thought about doing a poem at the end! Will consider for future videos x
Haha so nice, i love it !!! :D
i dont know what wrong with the sound/volume of your voice but something is off
My first ever video, so balance is really bad. Tbh the quality of this video isnt great, but newer videos are so much better so please check them out!
you should be able to wield a crowbill
Am I the only one who saw the belts under the rings/amulets?
I think he means the item specifically named "belt," which adds 2 layers of potions as opposed to 1 which sashes and light belts give.
nice use of the myth 2 intro
Love that game and the intro always stuck with me as a top tier classic. The cinematics are only bested by the guy who narrates the mission diary entries.