ACT 1: Tower Levels - Left Outer Cloister - 3 Maps (Left WP = Go bottom right, Center Cross with top right wp = Go straight, Right WP with nothing in middle, Go top left) Jail 1/2 - Straight Jail 3 - Left Catacombs lvl 2 - Exit right of wp ACT 2: Halls of the dead lvl 1/2/3 - Left Maggot Lair lvl 1/2 - Right Maggot Lair lvl 3 - Straight Viper tomb - Left Tal Rasha Tomb - Left ACT 3: 2x6 blocks explained in video Flayer Dungeon 1/2 - Left Sewers - Right of Chest Durance of Hate Lvl 1 - Left Durance of hate lvl 2 - Straight across (WP left of entrance) ACT 5: Crystalline Passage - Left Glacial Trail - Left Ancient's Way - Left Worldstone Keep Level 2 - Right of waypoint
I've been playing D2 since 2001 and somehow in all that time I've subconsciously learned to read maps, like I can always immediately find the way down in the Tower and Durance of Hate, but if you'd asked me I would have not been able to tell you how I knew which way to go. So this is super interesting to hear it laid out.
i think its a combo of experience and the fact that most of the randomness of the game has a limit after 20 years. you guys played so much that instinctively the randomness of the game isnt random for you anymore. you have mastered the game mapping technique
Pro tip: If you have a shield, left is always the shield side. If you have a polearm or staff equipped, then left is the end closer to the ground. If you have dual claws, now this is where it gets interesting. Left is always on the side of the left claw.
LOVE WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS MAN. Can't wait to build a orb sorc when d2r comes out. You're extremely thorough with each and every video you make! Keep up the good work! Great content! Hopefully see you on release!
@@spacejaga For real. Never ceases to amaze me how many people can't use the search bar. Also to the OP, you should be saying "Thank you MrLlamaSC", since he's the one that takes the time to create and post this content.
@@gotdangedcommiesitellyahwa6298 dude writes a comment, other dudes: joking around. Girl writes a comment, other dudes: must. write. most annoying comment in the world. xDDD wtf with you guys really XDDDDDD started playing d2 again a month ago after 10 years pause XD
Thanks for making these guides and sharing your knowledge. Diablo was one of the few games I was not able to play as a kid, had to hear about from an older kid on the bus every day. These guides will be a life saver for me come D2R!
im glad to have it confirmed after all this time, my friend thought i was full of shit when i said there had to be a pattern or preference in the generation, after playing all those years we instinctually "knew" the way, or at least the friends that played a lot.
This is the most important video that wasn't made yet. Thank you very much, I'm a new sub and I often am stupified by how fast you find stuff, thank you. 00:25 "So I'm just gonna try to keep this short" (59min vid) was pretty funny also.
as someone who has been doing their 2nd play through ever (first back in like 2006), i wish i found this before i hit the durance levels. I spent SOO much time clearing all of the levels, but you saved me with nilathaks temple area. This guide is absolutely fantastic and will help me a TON once D2R comes out! Also loved your runeword tier list guide! I would love to see a guide on Important runewords i should be using throughout a playthrough until i get to the farming stage. I know spirit/malice/insight are really big but would love to see some more!
arcane is easy to find. you just need a llama. 2 possible scenario : either the llama try to speedrun, and then the correct way is the last he will think of or the llama is just meming and then the correct way is the first he think of
of all your videos this is prolly the most impressive one. the sheer hours and analytics to go into this is wild. there are people that love d2r. and then theres you lol thats a compliment
Seriously great content, very well thought out information. Map hack is really more an end game thing. When your grinding for gear. Meaning you’ve already passed the game and your just grinding for gear. I mean you probably don’t want maphack when your first playing the game, that eliminates the fog of war taking a lot of fun out of the game, exploring, getting lost, or being surprised. Things that make D2 so fun in the beginning. Depending how you play and how hard you grind for gear maphack becomes useful when you’ve already passed the game in all three difficulty levels.
You’re videos are super helpful. I’ve found it easiest to think in terms of my characters shoulders. As in : Stick to your left shoulder after entrance.
"I'm going to try and keep this short" sees video is an hour long... Haha jk I love you MrLlama, I'm glad this video talked about so much, very helpful!
Holy crap man, this is very useful, amazing how a 20 year old can be so complex. I got back to playing diablo 2 thanks to your videos (and dubrinskis). I can definitely say that when I played it way back I did not understand it very much.
okay, that detail with lower kurast and stony field exits being linked, kinda blew my mind. so it's possible, if you really wanna find clues for the right arcane sanctuary path, you actually have to look at every single map of every act to find anomalies.
Thank you so much for this! This video just saved me so much time. I've done 3 of your guided playthroughs and these tips were always mentioned at random points throughout. I wanted a guide for all of these tips condensed for D2R launch, so I was considering trying to rewatch the playthroughs (yikes). Keep up the content! I feel like I've watched like 40 hours of your videos in the last 2 weeks.
Thanks so much man! The Countess and Meph are the main ones that help me for sure. I've gotten so much more gear just by cutting my times down with these tips!
feels like the word "orientation" is the word llama is spending all video trying to explain but cant think of lol. LEFT of the tile's orientation, RIGHT of the tile's orientation, etc... but the visuals explained it well enough even if his words failed him. good vid!
The way I learned this for durance is simply looking at my shield. Your character is always right handed with weapons. No matter what orientation you find yourself in, turning “into your shield” always makes you turn left with regards to the game. That’s about 95% of my Mephisto runs. I had one crazy map where following the left way ended up being durance of hate lvl 1 instead of 3 and where 1 should be was durance 3. Ran into that maybe 4 times out of 150 runs.
Huh, I find level 1 about 25% of the times scraping my shield against the wall. And many times I run an absolute huge distance before I run into level 3 anyway. Plus running away from the stygian dolls often makes me miss a left turn and end up getting lost. Durance is still not quick even with this in mind.
This is extremely useful information which I hadn't heard before. What's crazier is in the higher traffic areas out of habit, I was already going the correct direction because of years of having found the path to be shorter by heading that way. Here I thought I was just superstitious.
there will always be a "box" or "boxes" in the center. The open maps are designed specifically for how far your map can discover at one specific time. The moment you move out of view of one wall, another wall will appear. You can use this to easily discover an entire area by simply outlining the outer map as far away as possible. As a hardcore, single player you learn these things extremely quickly -.- walking through the same areas over and over and over to try and find things is SO damn annoying! I should note that important locations, such as "the pit," the countess' tower, the den of evil, etc, can act as an anchor point, much like a wall where if you walk just a little out of view from the wall it'll auto pop up on your map, meaning if there is a gap between the walls there must be some sort of anchor there. This works for ALL open areas except act 3... cuz F act 3 x.x
Never have i in all my days seen a maggot 3 map like that 😆 much appreciate this tutorial I don't find much joy in farming but i love helping people with rushes so this has been helping me out immensely!
the intro was kind of long and mspainty, but i followed it--- but when you put it together and used it to get to countess in like 15 seconds, that was so impressive
I wasn't sure I'd learn anything after all the lewd MS Paint art by Llama, but gradually Llama's lesson plan came together and I learned a lot! S tier content right here!
Such an amazing content. Ive been playing d1 and d2 since realese and never realized about maps arangement. All your videos are great but this one is mandatory to know.
"I'll be here 'til... well, forever, playing D2." lol I feel you, Bro. I've been playing since 2000. I've always just played "for fun," so I learned a few things from your video. It is a testament to the thousands and thousands of hours I've sunk into D2 that I "knew" a lot of this stuff intuitively without ever trying to figure it out. Sure, I tried (and beat) D3, but D2 is just better. Back in the "old days," games were created to be played "forever." It began with the Atari 2100 VCS, continued with arcade games such as Asteroids, and resulted in gems such as Diablo 2, Starcraft, Neverwinter Nights, et cetera. They tried to capture that genie in the bottle with MMO's (and remakes), but it seems they never really figured out the reason for past success. Then businessmen took over the development of games and tried to distill the art form into a formula. Now, we have "Harlequin" games the same way we have Harlequin novels. Blech!
You mentioned all of these in some of your videos and I very much apprecciate that you now compiled your vast map knowledge in this video! Just great, even for a veteran ;)! Maybe it would be cool to have a "Best cheap items"--Video, including good magic items to look for.
hey llama, top notch knowledge as always but if i were you i would be describing your directions as "clockwise" or "counter-clockwise" because these can be accurate without having to explain from perspectives of the direction your character is facing
your dropping some huge knowledge ahead of d2r. I was always looking for your map video because I've heard you talk about it in run-throughs, this is great information... amazing. I found it very amusing however when I was more alert to Nihlathak maps than you haha!
@@cursedsummoner If you have teleport, strat is to teleport straight on him and blow him up first. If u kill his mobs its insanely dangerous. only strat is to run away from corpses and try to get him down without going near them. If your a necro you could do corpse explosion yourself of all the corpses so that he cant
And sometimes you gotta cross the bridge and explore the second half of the zone t find it, d2 in a nutshell.. love it haha. Back in the day everyone used to complain about durance of hate level 2 and the tower in black marsh.
Talking about maps, It took me literally years before I found the gibdon to complete that quest in D2. Quite the maze. I was happy when I randomly stumbled upon it. Knowing a nice way to get it done (ie finding it) would be really nice and this video helps with that.
Found your channel after coming back to D2 with resurrected, major refresh listening to your guides and knowledge here, also love the tricks and stuff you guys have all learned playing the game so long, you can truly tell that your passionate about this game and that diserves a sub for sure
I know I might be a little late on this and someone else may have already posted, but for Cata 3 when you enter, you have to act as if you are standing in front of the Cata 1 exit and are trying to find the Cata 2 WP. Basically follow left wall and you'll hit Cata 4 entrance quicker.
For Arcane Sanctuary, i've read somewhere on Reddit that the biggest chance (not 100%) ,the way is the same that blood moor is facing rogue encampment (Act 1). Ive tried that and got 3/5 match.
Sometimes it feels like you say "across" meaning the direction of your character entering/exiting(a1 through 3), meaning go "straight" but sometimes (like A4 @ 46:00 ish) you mean across map wise (aka left to right from OUR human perspective looking at a screen), not within the rhombus/diamond shape, because that would mean top right corner and not the middle of the segment between top right and bottom right I wasn't sure if I understood correctly or not when you were explaining directions before, but now I am almost certain I did not lol
What's scary is I've never consciously thought about any of this, but I knew a lot of these before you said them because I've played so much I've just kind of internalized it. The Tower/Cata/WSK thing was new, but like Stony vs. Burial, UP, Outer Cloister setups, those I all knew.
Expand this comment to see my notes: A1-A5 Act 1 Den = Follow path Cold Plains = Burial always in corner // Stony always in center Stony Fields = Stones always next to path Underground Passage = Darkwood = Straight across // lvl 2 = Top Right Darkwood = Random Black Marsh = Path split to hole and to exit Tower = Left of Entrances Outer Cloister = WP top = straight // WP left go right // WP right go left Barracks = Left or straight Jail lvl 1 = Straight across Jail lvl 2 = Straight across Jail lvl 3 = Left of entrance Inner Cloister = Always same Catacombs lvl 1 = Random Catacombs lvl 2 = left of entrance Catacombs lvl 3 = Random Catacombs lvl 4 = Always same Act 2 Sewers lvl 1 = Enter from lower steps lvl 2 is usually right next to it Sewers lVL 2 = WP is to the left and exit is straight across Sewers lvl 3 = Left of entrance Dry hills = Exits always in corners Far Oasis = Exits always in corners Magot Lair lvl 1 = Right of entrance Magot Lair lvl 2 = Right of entrance Magot Lair lvl 3 = Straight across Lost City = exits always in corners exit is never in bottom left Valley of Snakes = Always same Claw Viper lvl 1 = Left of entrance Claw Viper lvl 2 = Always same Palace lvl 1 = Always same in corners Palace lvl 2 = Always same in corners Palace lvl 3 = Go to middle for exit Arcane Sanctuary = Random Tombs = Circle, moon, square, sun, double down, triangle, circle over moon Tal Rusha's Tomb = Left of entrance Act 3 Spider Forest = Leads to Great Marsh or Flayer Jungle (2x6 blocks exits on 3,5, or 6) Great Marsh = Leads to Flayer Jungle (2x6 blocks exits 3,5,6) Flayer dungeon lvl 1 = Left of entrance Flayer Dungeon lvl 2 = Left of entrance Flayer Dungeon lvl 3 = Always same Lower Kurast = Top left or bottom right Kurast Bazzar = Middle for quests Sewers lvl 1 = Right of chest Travincal = Always Same Durance lvl 1 = Left of entrance Durance lvl 2 = Left of entrance to find wp and Left of WP to lvl 3 Durance lvl 3 = Always Same
Act 4 Outer Steps = Can be top left, bottom right, or right bottom Plains of despair = Can be bottom right, straight across, or top left City of the Damned = Random River of Flame = Top right Forge = Top right or bottom left from WP Chaos Sanctuary = Always same Act 5 Bloody Foothills = Straight across Frigid Highlands = Top right or top left - same direction stairs face Arreat Plateau = Top right or top left - same direction stairs face Crystalline Passage = WP to the right/ Exit to the left / Straight across is Frozen river Glacial Trail = WP top right or left (down tile) / Straight across Frozen tundra Frozen Tundra = To left Ancients Way = WP to the right/ Ancients to the left Worldstone lvl 1 = Random Worldstone lvl 2 = WP = Counter Clockwise, Exit = Clockwise // Right of WP to exit Worldstone lvl 3 = Random Throne room = Always same
There is a pattern when you enter the cold plains. If you enter towards the right blood ravens will always be to the top left of screen. There is a pattern for each direction you enter the cold plains from
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ACT 1:
Tower Levels - Left
Outer Cloister - 3 Maps (Left WP = Go bottom right, Center Cross with top right wp = Go straight, Right WP with nothing in middle, Go top left)
Jail 1/2 - Straight
Jail 3 - Left
Catacombs lvl 2 - Exit right of wp
ACT 2:
Halls of the dead lvl 1/2/3 - Left
Maggot Lair lvl 1/2 - Right
Maggot Lair lvl 3 - Straight
Viper tomb - Left
Tal Rasha Tomb - Left
ACT 3:
2x6 blocks explained in video
Flayer Dungeon 1/2 - Left
Sewers - Right of Chest
Durance of Hate Lvl 1 - Left
Durance of hate lvl 2 - Straight across (WP left of entrance)
ACT 5:
Crystalline Passage - Left
Glacial Trail - Left
Ancient's Way - Left
Worldstone Keep Level 2 - Right of waypoint
Love your work. TYSM!
not me writing this down in my notes and then finding this comment after finishing the video
Great video, thanks man. Really helpful.
Nilhathak 3 possible exits and drawing in last room to find him.
Not sure how helpful this is but the tower in black marsh can always be found by hugging the perimeter walls
For anyone wanting to jump to a specific map, here's timestamps. It appears there's no Route graphic for Act 4/5, unless I missed it, let me know if I did and I'll update.
0:00 - Intro
1:06 - Tiles Explained
8:34 - Forgotten Tower (Farm Countess)
9:42 - Catacombs WP (Farm Andy)
11:17 - Durance of Hate WP (Farm Meph)
12:27 - Worldstone Keep WP (Farm Baal)
14:37 - Act 1 Route & Blood Moor
15:41 - Act 1 - Cold Plains
18:29 - Act 1 - Stony Field
18:58 - Act 1 - Underground Passage
20:22 - Act 1 - Dark Wood, Black Marsh, Tamoe HL
21:05 - Act 1 - Outer Cloister
21:52 - Act 1 - Barracks
22:23 - Act 1 - Jail 1/2/3
23:16 - Act 1 - Catacombs 1/2/3
24:13 - Act 2 Route & Sewers
25:52 - Act 2 - Rocky Waste, Dry Hills, Far Oasis
27:08 - Act 2 - Lost City
27:43 - Act 2 - Claw Viper Temple
29:00 - Act 2 - Maggot Lair 1/2/3
30:18 - Act 2 - Palace Maps
30:55 - Act 2 - Arcane Sanctuary
31:29 - Act 2 - Canyon of the Magi
31:54 - Act 2 - Tal Rasha's Tomb
32:25 - Act 2 - How to find Duriel Tomb
33:40 - Act 3 Route
35:12 - Act 3 - Spider Forest / G-Marsh / F-Jungle
38:53 - Act 3 - Flayer Dungeon
39:24 - Act 3 - Tiles Explained
40:50 - Act 3 - Kurast Maps
42:30 - Act 3 - Sewers
44:20 - Act 3 - Durance of Hate 1/2
45:11 - Act 4 - Outer Steppes
46:53 - Act 4 - Plains of Despair
47:20 - Act 4 - City of the Danged
47:32 - Act 4 - River of Flame
49:10 - Act 5 - Bloody Foothills
49:20 - Act 5 - Frigid Highlands, Arreat Plateau
49:53 - Act 5 - Crystalline Passage
50:28 - Act 5 - Glacial Trail
51:18 - Act 5 - Frozen Tundra
51:29 - Act 5 - Ancients' Way
52:01 - Act 5 - Worldstone Keep 1/2/3
54:09 - Act 5 - Halls of Anguish/Vaught
54:58 - Act 5 - Halls of Pain
56:16 - Act 5 - Halls of Vaught (Nihlathak)
59:00 - Outro
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Please add this to the video description 🙏
Thank you for this
Thank you!
Champion, thanks !
You are a true gem. Thank you for this.
This is legit the video I have been waiting on since I reinstalled the game back in March. this stream of content is nuts, keep it up Llama.
I've been playing D2 since 2001 and somehow in all that time I've subconsciously learned to read maps, like I can always immediately find the way down in the Tower and Durance of Hate, but if you'd asked me I would have not been able to tell you how I knew which way to go. So this is super interesting to hear it laid out.
I'm totally with you. Somehow I just knew where to head without knowing why.
Same here. I 3rd or 4th way every time, without fail.
Same. It's a really interesting experience to hear someone explain in detail something you know very well, but only subconscienly.
I used to be like that. I lost that skill in my 15 year hiatus. Its funny how much work muscle memory does. Even picking up the game after so long.
i think its a combo of experience and the fact that most of the randomness of the game has a limit after 20 years. you guys played so much that instinctively the randomness of the game isnt random for you anymore.
you have mastered the game mapping technique
Pro tip:
If you have a shield, left is always the shield side.
If you have a polearm or staff equipped, then left is the end closer to the ground.
If you have dual claws, now this is where it gets interesting. Left is always on the side of the left claw.
Lol re claws 🙂
LOVE WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS MAN. Can't wait to build a orb sorc when d2r comes out. You're extremely thorough with each and every video you make! Keep up the good work! Great content! Hopefully see you on release!
que hermoso ver a alguien tan dedicado a este hermoso juego que es el D2, hiper hypeado hasta el 23/9, grande LLAMA
Was waiting this for 20 years, thank you internet
Well he already did it 5 years ago so you could've saved some time ;)
@@spacejaga For real. Never ceases to amaze me how many people can't use the search bar. Also to the OP, you should be saying "Thank you MrLlamaSC", since he's the one that takes the time to create and post this content.
@@gotdangedcommiesitellyahwa6298 dude writes a comment, other dudes: joking around. Girl writes a comment, other dudes: must. write. most annoying comment in the world.
xDDD wtf with you guys really XDDDDDD started playing d2 again a month ago after 10 years pause XD
@@spacejaga sorry was too busy playing d3
@@emeraldweapon0 Your comment explains a lot, as it has nothing to do with everything. You still didn't say, "Thank you MrLlama."
I´m super hyped for D2. I never got to play the original since i was a strategy guy. Age of Empires, Roller Coaster Tycoon and stuff.
Been waiting for this video. You always explained it briefly in walkthroughs but I needed the full thing. You’re a man of the people
These videos help me keep my mental health till the D2R is released. And this one was actually super informative. Great work.
Thanks for making these guides and sharing your knowledge. Diablo was one of the few games I was not able to play as a kid, had to hear about from an older kid on the bus every day. These guides will be a life saver for me come D2R!
im glad to have it confirmed after all this time, my friend thought i was full of shit when i said there had to be a pattern or preference in the generation, after playing all those years we instinctually "knew" the way, or at least the friends that played a lot.
This is the most important video that wasn't made yet. Thank you very much, I'm a new sub and I often am stupified by how fast you find stuff, thank you.
00:25 "So I'm just gonna try to keep this short" (59min vid) was pretty funny also.
It actually was made, you just didn't look for it ;) try "reading Diablo 2 maps" and you might see old MrLlama doing some more drawings :D
by old I think you mean young :P
Chat provides the entertainment while MrLlama provides content. Beautiful symbiosis
you read the chat?
Yep. It helps to stay in the loop of what is going on since Llama interacts with chat all the time
as someone who has been doing their 2nd play through ever (first back in like 2006), i wish i found this before i hit the durance levels. I spent SOO much time clearing all of the levels, but you saved me with nilathaks temple area. This guide is absolutely fantastic and will help me a TON once D2R comes out! Also loved your runeword tier list guide! I would love to see a guide on Important runewords i should be using throughout a playthrough until i get to the farming stage. I know spirit/malice/insight are really big but would love to see some more!
arcane is easy to find. you just need a llama.
2 possible scenario : either the llama try to speedrun, and then the correct way is the last he will think of
or the llama is just meming and then the correct way is the first he think of
Finding summoner fast is based on Fire eye position!
of all your videos this is prolly the most impressive one. the sheer hours and analytics to go into this is wild. there are people that love d2r. and then theres you lol
thats a compliment
That initial demo of the tower was so good on it's own, but then you kept going. Beautiful.
That quick durance of hate explanation and exit find had me shaking my head... SO MUCH lost time teleporting around that place...
ILY 🙃
Seriously great content, very well thought out information. Map hack is really more an end game thing. When your grinding for gear. Meaning you’ve already passed the game and your just grinding for gear. I mean you probably don’t want maphack when your first playing the game, that eliminates the fog of war taking a lot of fun out of the game, exploring, getting lost, or being surprised. Things that make D2 so fun in the beginning. Depending how you play and how hard you grind for gear maphack becomes useful when you’ve already passed the game in all three difficulty levels.
You’re videos are super helpful.
I’ve found it easiest to think in terms of my characters shoulders. As in : Stick to your left shoulder after entrance.
"I'm going to try and keep this short" sees video is an hour long...
Haha jk I love you MrLlama, I'm glad this video talked about so much, very helpful!
Holy crap man, this is very useful, amazing how a 20 year old can be so complex. I got back to playing diablo 2 thanks to your videos (and dubrinskis). I can definitely say that when I played it way back I did not understand it very much.
okay, that detail with lower kurast and stony field exits being linked, kinda blew my mind. so it's possible, if you really wanna find clues for the right arcane sanctuary path, you actually have to look at every single map of every act to find anomalies.
Excellent explanation! I already knew the basics, but your additional level of detail makes it so much clearer and more useful.
Thank you so much for this! This video just saved me so much time. I've done 3 of your guided playthroughs and these tips were always mentioned at random points throughout. I wanted a guide for all of these tips condensed for D2R launch, so I was considering trying to rewatch the playthroughs (yikes).
Keep up the content! I feel like I've watched like 40 hours of your videos in the last 2 weeks.
Thanks so much man! The Countess and Meph are the main ones that help me for sure. I've gotten so much more gear just by cutting my times down with these tips!
amazingly useful video. and one of the highest moments of youtube, when you started to draw the tower entrances and certain comments were written
Yeah… this video is a really big deal. I had no idea orientation was based on the tile AND THEN moving ‘left’. Good content idea. Thanks man.
feels like the word "orientation" is the word llama is spending all video trying to explain but cant think of lol. LEFT of the tile's orientation, RIGHT of the tile's orientation, etc... but the visuals explained it well enough even if his words failed him. good vid!
This was really helpful. Really sped up my farming. First meph run after watching this, I got a telling of beads too!
The way I learned this for durance is simply looking at my shield. Your character is always right handed with weapons. No matter what orientation you find yourself in, turning “into your shield” always makes you turn left with regards to the game.
That’s about 95% of my Mephisto runs. I had one crazy map where following the left way ended up being durance of hate lvl 1 instead of 3 and where 1 should be was durance 3. Ran into that maybe 4 times out of 150 runs.
Huh, I find level 1 about 25% of the times scraping my shield against the wall. And many times I run an absolute huge distance before I run into level 3 anyway. Plus running away from the stygian dolls often makes me miss a left turn and end up getting lost. Durance is still not quick even with this in mind.
This is extremely useful information which I hadn't heard before. What's crazier is in the higher traffic areas out of habit, I was already going the correct direction because of years of having found the path to be shorter by heading that way. Here I thought I was just superstitious.
Oh my god this is unbelievably helpful. I cant imagine how many hours you've just saved me.
there will always be a "box" or "boxes" in the center. The open maps are designed specifically for how far your map can discover at one specific time. The moment you move out of view of one wall, another wall will appear. You can use this to easily discover an entire area by simply outlining the outer map as far away as possible. As a hardcore, single player you learn these things extremely quickly -.- walking through the same areas over and over and over to try and find things is SO damn annoying! I should note that important locations, such as "the pit," the countess' tower, the den of evil, etc, can act as an anchor point, much like a wall where if you walk just a little out of view from the wall it'll auto pop up on your map, meaning if there is a gap between the walls there must be some sort of anchor there.
This works for ALL open areas except act 3... cuz F act 3 x.x
Magnificent. I have been looking for Mephisto the quick way all the time without knowing it.
This is insane, I had no idea haha ! Farming just got 100x easier/faster - Thank you!!
Never have i in all my days seen a maggot 3 map like that 😆 much appreciate this tutorial I don't find much joy in farming but i love helping people with rushes so this has been helping me out immensely!
Dude this is probably the one single most helpful Diablo 2 video I've ever watched. Thank you xD
Thanks for putting this together. I watched it earlier and its already cut my mf/rune run times down significantly. You the Man!!!!!!!
blows up my mind how easy this is. tyvm will safe a lot of lifetime
one of the most important guides I've seen so far. sped up my farming immensely. thanks a lot llama!
the intro was kind of long and mspainty, but i followed it--- but when you put it together and used it to get to countess in like 15 seconds, that was so impressive
Dude, you are on fire with all these guides. I almost can't contain the hype, and you're not helping!
JK, keep up with the good stuff.
So I've been using these tips and it has been saving a ton of time. No more exploring the entire Durance of hate. Legit stuff.
This is kind of cool. I figured this out just from sheer gameplay time but its neat to hear someone explain it.
I never understood this until you said "it is always left" Thanks for making it so much easier for me to farm and thanks for all your content
I wasn't sure I'd learn anything after all the lewd MS Paint art by Llama, but gradually Llama's lesson plan came together and I learned a lot! S tier content right here!
Such an amazing content. Ive been playing d1 and d2 since realese and never realized about maps arangement. All your videos are great but this one is mandatory to know.
"I'll be here 'til... well, forever, playing D2." lol
I feel you, Bro. I've been playing since 2000. I've always just played "for fun," so I learned a few things from your video. It is a testament to the thousands and thousands of hours I've sunk into D2 that I "knew" a lot of this stuff intuitively without ever trying to figure it out. Sure, I tried (and beat) D3, but D2 is just better. Back in the "old days," games were created to be played "forever." It began with the Atari 2100 VCS, continued with arcade games such as Asteroids, and resulted in gems such as Diablo 2, Starcraft, Neverwinter Nights, et cetera. They tried to capture that genie in the bottle with MMO's (and remakes), but it seems they never really figured out the reason for past success.
Then businessmen took over the development of games and tried to distill the art form into a formula. Now, we have "Harlequin" games the same way we have Harlequin novels. Blech!
This video was 1000x more helpful than I thought it would be. Thank you.
its crazy to me that I've played this game for actual decades and never figured out ANY of this on my own.
We need more of this 2: Item Generation 3: item valutation 4: Item drop 5: Useful Cube Recipes 6:Monsters 7: Keyboard/mouse configuration etc Thanks
You mentioned all of these in some of your videos and I very much apprecciate that you now compiled your vast map knowledge in this video! Just great, even for a veteran ;)!
Maybe it would be cool to have a "Best cheap items"--Video, including good magic items to look for.
The quality and quantity of content that you produce is truly amazing. Thanks!
hey llama, top notch knowledge as always but if i were you i would be describing your directions as "clockwise" or "counter-clockwise" because these can be accurate without having to explain from perspectives of the direction your character is facing
Your extensive knowledge never ceases to amaze me
definitely was playing through act 3 hell and used the durance trick while watching the video and it worked. thats pretty awesome
A tip if you are mixing your lefts and rights. Right is the hand which your character holds your sword, left is the shield.
I've been noting every map hack you mention in your hours long play-throughs 😅. Good to have them in one place!
your dropping some huge knowledge ahead of d2r. I was always looking for your map video because I've heard you talk about it in run-throughs, this is great information... amazing. I found it very amusing however when I was more alert to Nihlathak maps than you haha!
I've always said your videos are as good if not better quality of knowledge delivery than some of my university lectures
Any tips on dealing with him and his Corpse Explosion. I usually get natures peace, but my merc sometimes gets a kill or 2 and that gets me killed.
@@cursedsummoner If you have teleport, strat is to teleport straight on him and blow him up first.
If u kill his mobs its insanely dangerous. only strat is to run away from corpses and try to get him down without going near them. If your a necro you could do corpse explosion yourself of all the corpses so that he cant
You are gonna end up making more of D2 content than Blizzard does kn the game release. Good work my dude.
Mega appreciate this video!
I doubt that I'll be doing speedruns anytime soon, but if/when I do, I know where to look for explanations on maps. :)
Ty so much for this video llama. Very grateful for all these videos. I look forward to every one of them.
I havent played d2 more than a few hours in 15+ years, but im still watching this? Gratz on the grail btw!
After years of D2 I kinda started to do this intuitively without ever understanding what lead me to the decision to pick "this" way. Very interesting!
Truly the MVP of Diablo 2 speedrunning. LLama is the man.
I love that sometimes you can get the waypoint right next to the countess tower, but then it’s another gamble on if the floors are short and easy.
And sometimes you gotta cross the bridge and explore the second half of the zone t find it, d2 in a nutshell.. love it haha. Back in the day everyone used to complain about durance of hate level 2 and the tower in black marsh.
This is by far the most helpful d2 video
I hope these videos never stop
Okay..that machamp drawing was pretty on point.
Talking about maps, It took me literally years before I found the gibdon to complete that quest in D2. Quite the maze. I was happy when I randomly stumbled upon it.
Knowing a nice way to get it done (ie finding it) would be really nice and this video helps with that.
I played this game for 20 years and i still find new things in it! never knew theres a pattern on maps
I normally never watch streamer content (the presentation method just isn't for me), but this was a very useful video, thanks!
Found your channel after coming back to D2 with resurrected, major refresh listening to your guides and knowledge here, also love the tricks and stuff you guys have all learned playing the game so long, you can truly tell that your passionate about this game and that diserves a sub for sure
"I'm going to keep this quick."
*explains left for 5 minutes
Sometimes that's what it takes, when well over half the population is below the minimum threshold for mental re tard ation.
I know I might be a little late on this and someone else may have already posted, but for Cata 3 when you enter, you have to act as if you are standing in front of the Cata 1 exit and are trying to find the Cata 2 WP. Basically follow left wall and you'll hit Cata 4 entrance quicker.
This here is the greatest diablo video ever
These are my fav type of vids
awesome thanks for this MrLlama! really will save me time on countess runs and meph and baal runs
My no tele countess runs are going really really smoothly now thanks
absolute D2 GOD! Thanks for the knowledge
For Arcane Sanctuary, i've read somewhere on Reddit that the biggest chance (not 100%) ,the way is the same that blood moor is facing rogue encampment (Act 1). Ive tried that and got 3/5 match.
Sometimes it feels like you say "across" meaning the direction of your character entering/exiting(a1 through 3), meaning go "straight" but sometimes (like A4 @ 46:00 ish) you mean across map wise (aka left to right from OUR human perspective looking at a screen), not within the rhombus/diamond shape, because that would mean top right corner and not the middle of the segment between top right and bottom right
I wasn't sure if I understood correctly or not when you were explaining directions before, but now I am almost certain I did not lol
Extremely useful guide. Thanks.
What's scary is I've never consciously thought about any of this, but I knew a lot of these before you said them because I've played so much I've just kind of internalized it. The Tower/Cata/WSK thing was new, but like Stony vs. Burial, UP, Outer Cloister setups, those I all knew.
This is so cool. I'm not planning on speedruning but this is still really helpful
I'm using Map hack from back in the day. Works just as well.
MrLlama, i dont know if you hear this a lot, but god damn are you an awesome dude. I appreciate everything you do for us plebs.
So much information i'm going to forgive it all once I left this video, but it was amazing!
Mr Llama has all this knowledge, and still fifth ways the Arcane Sanctuary.
WOW :O I literally needed to watch the video until 02:40, and I zoomed through the tower in tripple the speed I usually do... It felt like cheating!!!
ty for all your videos. I hope your channel explodes with the release of D2R
Thank you, Mr.LlamaSC, this is very useful. Subscription given. Do you know any more tileset patterns?
Aka, go clockwise/counter etc. I'm glad all the D2 tricks get a chance to be brought back into the light after 20 years.
So much good information, and with good presentation. You are a legend, thank you.
Been playing since 1.08 and the only area that genuinely confuses me sometimes is going from Kurast Docks to Lower Kurast. This def helped tho!
Ive been play this game sense i was 7 years old ( im 27 now) and that only part i couldn't figure out either
Expand this comment to see my notes: A1-A5
Act 1
Den = Follow path
Cold Plains = Burial always in corner // Stony always in center
Stony Fields = Stones always next to path
Underground Passage = Darkwood = Straight across // lvl 2 = Top Right
Darkwood = Random
Black Marsh = Path split to hole and to exit
Tower = Left of Entrances
Outer Cloister = WP top = straight // WP left go right // WP right go left
Barracks = Left or straight
Jail lvl 1 = Straight across
Jail lvl 2 = Straight across
Jail lvl 3 = Left of entrance
Inner Cloister = Always same
Catacombs lvl 1 = Random
Catacombs lvl 2 = left of entrance
Catacombs lvl 3 = Random
Catacombs lvl 4 = Always same
Act 2
Sewers lvl 1 = Enter from lower steps lvl 2 is usually right next to it
Sewers lVL 2 = WP is to the left and exit is straight across
Sewers lvl 3 = Left of entrance
Dry hills = Exits always in corners
Far Oasis = Exits always in corners
Magot Lair lvl 1 = Right of entrance
Magot Lair lvl 2 = Right of entrance
Magot Lair lvl 3 = Straight across
Lost City = exits always in corners exit is never in bottom left
Valley of Snakes = Always same
Claw Viper lvl 1 = Left of entrance
Claw Viper lvl 2 = Always same
Palace lvl 1 = Always same in corners
Palace lvl 2 = Always same in corners
Palace lvl 3 = Go to middle for exit
Arcane Sanctuary = Random
Tombs = Circle, moon, square, sun, double down, triangle, circle over moon
Tal Rusha's Tomb = Left of entrance
Act 3
Spider Forest = Leads to Great Marsh or Flayer Jungle (2x6 blocks exits on 3,5, or 6)
Great Marsh = Leads to Flayer Jungle (2x6 blocks exits 3,5,6)
Flayer dungeon lvl 1 = Left of entrance
Flayer Dungeon lvl 2 = Left of entrance
Flayer Dungeon lvl 3 = Always same
Lower Kurast = Top left or bottom right
Kurast Bazzar = Middle for quests
Sewers lvl 1 = Right of chest
Travincal = Always Same
Durance lvl 1 = Left of entrance
Durance lvl 2 = Left of entrance to find wp and Left of WP to lvl 3
Durance lvl 3 = Always Same
Act 4
Outer Steps = Can be top left, bottom right, or right bottom
Plains of despair = Can be bottom right, straight across, or top left
City of the Damned = Random
River of Flame = Top right
Forge = Top right or bottom left from WP
Chaos Sanctuary = Always same
Act 5
Bloody Foothills = Straight across
Frigid Highlands = Top right or top left - same direction stairs face
Arreat Plateau = Top right or top left - same direction stairs face
Crystalline Passage = WP to the right/ Exit to the left / Straight across is Frozen river
Glacial Trail = WP top right or left (down tile) / Straight across Frozen tundra
Frozen Tundra = To left
Ancients Way = WP to the right/ Ancients to the left
Worldstone lvl 1 = Random
Worldstone lvl 2 = WP = Counter Clockwise, Exit = Clockwise // Right of WP to exit
Worldstone lvl 3 = Random
Throne room = Always same
Great info, thanks!
thanks put it in a notepad for use at launch to look at tyvm
No problem 👍
Just gonna add this
Act 2 Halls of the dead lvl 1/2/3 - Left (usually needed in normal only)
There is a pattern when you enter the cold plains. If you enter towards the right blood ravens will always be to the top left of screen.
There is a pattern for each direction you enter the cold plains from