You said it, man. It is just more about this game then Items. I do really like the Grind to get some OP Runewords. But HC fresh starting with no gear and not doing the Sorc or Hammerdin is really challenging. The best Part for me is, when you find a good Set or Unique that helps you out so well. Thats why i love to play the HC Ladder.
Yeah, you HC players are the ones playing the game properly. Or at least, starting the game fresh is playing it properly. I've done grinding items and my god it gets boring.
I loved the grind but at this point I'm 6 items from completing a grail and have found every rune multiple times. It really isn't the same anymore. Still enjoyable but more of a process
I've been on a massive bowazon kick since this run. They are so much fun. I've played a Mavina frostmaiden before which was really sweet. Glad you like it. Cheers
Because of this video, I tried this build for the first time and I must say it's now one of my very favorites! It's so chill in the chaos sanctuary cuz you can deal with any kind of enemy.
Rather than always doing cows at the end you could demonstrate on what the best place to farm is (or your favourite) with this character. Probably that's why everyone is asking since a lot of people grind out moo moo farm.
I found all the Mav's set and thought I'd play another FA zon. I decided to add a maxed exploding arrow to the mix which works out great for cold immunes. One thing I do that seems to make play even safer is always keep up a valk, and I use decoy a lot too. Monsters go to them and then it's just another mob you can freeze/burn and own. Also, magic arrow is clutch in those times when you're low on mana or arrows and you just need a few more shots to get the act boss or really pain of a pack boss.
I usually like these D2R videos because they have a lot of tactical discussion about how not to get owned. But I loved this one discussing strategy not to get owned! I guess I would really like that series focused on it then!
People have been asking for tutorials and strategy stuff a lot. Hence me talking about it more :) a lot of it is just habit and instinct though so I have to translate it all to words which is the hard part for sure
Back in 2000 zons used to use frosties and iceblink and eye of etlitch for the freezing and cold duration but eventually blizzard nerfed it all too much and nobody uses that stuff anymore. Shame really. Nice to see that freezing arrow can work
You should try an Immozon, one of my favorite builds. You do 20 Immolation, 20 in both synergies, 20 in Decoy, 1 in Valkyrie, 1 in Pierce. For gear you must have Peace. Mercenary is cold rogue. She needs Treachery, some cold damage to increase freeze length, and then skills and IAS. Her gear is kinda more important than yours. I always play my endgame build from level 1, so for leveling I just get a ruby bow, and then a Ral bow, and use level 1 Exploding arrow until level 24. Then I level Immolation and Decoy simultaneously. You use Decoy and Valkyrie to keep enemies away from your merc, and then she will kill everything for you. Use Immolation arrow is there's cold immunes lol
Furthest build I got, but on Nintendo Switch in A2 (hell, 1p), game hangs whenever you find death beetles mob, esp in maggot. The way around is to switch to OLD graphics (really old). Game still can hang but less often.
Thank you :) you should try it Bowazon are some of my favorite characters they aren't super powerful but very satisfying. I'm on my third one since recording this video haha
mate I enjoy all of your HC series. GOAT of D2R! mate, I really wanted to try HC for a change however I dunno how do you sequence your skills. Is it straight forward?
Cool to see you playing on console. I also do hc on xbox, have a lvl95 fohdin but I love the bowa idea as well. Try magic arrow against the dual immun monsters ;)
@@thenuclearrabbit haha no way I will grind for 99 :D it simply took 95 lvls for a SSF enigma/hoto/cta ;) fohdin is safe af , its like a tank and kills almost everything from big distance. Bowa is a bigger challenge ;)
Really nice video as usual. I've never in my life done a Fire/cold Bowazon. I have done a Physical Bowazon, but never a Fire/cold one. I generally don't like Amazons but this vid was inspiring. Question though. I guess, since you leveled all the way to lvl 80, that you had put some points on Immo arrows. Why not use them. Since one of the first Resurrected patches, ability cooldowns don't affect other abilities (as demonstrated on your Fire Druid). You could use it to pump up your damage a bit against non-fire immunes.
Thank you. At that point I hadn't even thought of it. I was so used to just using the two it never occured to me. It was still totally fine I wasn't lacking damage or anything. You should try this build, it's very satisfying to play
Yeah a guide to get through hell would be really good! Neither my brother nor I have finished hell despite having several characters with 75+ levels; I think the guides online are no good. The builds recommended only work if you have a sundercharms or a jah rune, or over 99 skill points to allocate. I’ve decided a build to get through helll needs two sources of damage, tele staff, and a chunky merc. My FOH paladin is stuck at eldritch, javazon is stuck at lightning immunities, and so on.
You should try doing less meta builds. I bet you could beat hell with a summon druid + rouge merc for phys immunes. Any amazon with 20 in Decoy, 1 in Valkyrie, and Peace armor. I'm currently going through hell with a Blade Assassin (20 sentinel, 20 shadow master, 20 fury. 20 shield) and it's easy mode. All these builds use summons to tank, so maybe that's the secret.
The java is just gonna have to poke it's way through with the help of a merc. With a fohdin you can either get your merc to kill him or just spam foh on them 1 by 1 for the lightning damage. I have a fohdin run recorded but still need to edit it, should be online in a few weeks
I play my own builds. A lot of things kind of build themselves though and I have played almost every character in the past 20+ years so I know my basics and preferences and stuff so I build of that :)
I did this build in SSF - all fun and good until you get to hell and it takes forever to kill things. Constantly swapping and using a lower res wand to deal enough damage. Doable - but tedious.
Oh for sure I'm going to do the other elemental combinations at some point. Zon is the perfect mix and match to taste character. All the variations are great to play
nice video, DavidBowie 😂 my second favourite after a javazon which called BritneySpears
Thank you!
Very good video! I binge watched all your solo self found adventure, I really like them, keep'em coming! You"re the best
Thank you! Will do
@@thenuclearrabbit i would really like to see a charger paladin playthrough :)
It's on my list of things to do
You said it, man. It is just more about this game then Items. I do really like the Grind to get some OP Runewords. But HC fresh starting with no gear and not doing the Sorc or Hammerdin is really challenging.
The best Part for me is, when you find a good Set or Unique that helps you out so well. Thats why i love to play the HC Ladder.
Yeah, you HC players are the ones playing the game properly. Or at least, starting the game fresh is playing it properly. I've done grinding items and my god it gets boring.
I loved the grind but at this point I'm 6 items from completing a grail and have found every rune multiple times. It really isn't the same anymore. Still enjoyable but more of a process
Hc or Sc doesn't matter. As long as you have fun :)
HC fresh would focus on loot hoarding, a poison vine druid is safest for that.
Cold bow zon are my favorite character, and if you manage to get a cold sunder its GG!
Digging your playthrough man! Cheers
I've been on a massive bowazon kick since this run. They are so much fun. I've played a Mavina frostmaiden before which was really sweet.
Glad you like it. Cheers
Because of this video, I tried this build for the first time and I must say it's now one of my very favorites! It's so chill in the chaos sanctuary cuz you can deal with any kind of enemy.
I'm glad you like it :) very chill to play build for sure
Well it seems I’m all caught up on the series now! Cool videos man!
Thank you! There will be much more.
Rather than always doing cows at the end you could demonstrate on what the best place to farm is (or your favourite) with this character. Probably that's why everyone is asking since a lot of people grind out moo moo farm.
I'm pretty sure they wanted to see cows specifically, but I can mention that as well
I found all the Mav's set and thought I'd play another FA zon. I decided to add a maxed exploding arrow to the mix which works out great for cold immunes.
One thing I do that seems to make play even safer is always keep up a valk, and I use decoy a lot too.
Monsters go to them and then it's just another mob you can freeze/burn and own.
Also, magic arrow is clutch in those times when you're low on mana or arrows and you just need a few more shots to get the act boss or really pain of a pack boss.
Oh yes that will do very well.
I usually like these D2R videos because they have a lot of tactical discussion about how not to get owned. But I loved this one discussing strategy not to get owned! I guess I would really like that series focused on it then!
People have been asking for tutorials and strategy stuff a lot. Hence me talking about it more :) a lot of it is just habit and instinct though so I have to translate it all to words which is the hard part for sure
Back in 2000 zons used to use frosties and iceblink and eye of etlitch for the freezing and cold duration but eventually blizzard nerfed it all too much and nobody uses that stuff anymore. Shame really. Nice to see that freezing arrow can work
It's not top tier or anything but it's definitely very playable. I've always done well with it
“Trade your money for time”. While playing a video game is wild lol.
Another awesome run, let’s get those subs up!!!
They are flying in, I was at 950 at the start of juli. It's been mindblowing
I like your play-style....Nice selffound character... GJ HF
Thank you :)
great video man, subscribed!
Thank you!
You should try an Immozon, one of my favorite builds. You do 20 Immolation, 20 in both synergies, 20 in Decoy, 1 in Valkyrie, 1 in Pierce. For gear you must have Peace. Mercenary is cold rogue. She needs Treachery, some cold damage to increase freeze length, and then skills and IAS. Her gear is kinda more important than yours.
I always play my endgame build from level 1, so for leveling I just get a ruby bow, and then a Ral bow, and use level 1 Exploding arrow until level 24. Then I level Immolation and Decoy simultaneously.
You use Decoy and Valkyrie to keep enemies away from your merc, and then she will kill everything for you. Use Immolation arrow is there's cold immunes lol
That does sound fun. I've added it to my list of things to play
Furthest build I got, but on Nintendo Switch in A2 (hell, 1p), game hangs whenever you find death beetles mob, esp in maggot.
The way around is to switch to OLD graphics (really old). Game still can hang but less often.
Have you looked into overclocking your switch? I wouldn't do it if your not technical but I've heard it helps a lot
@@thenuclearrabbit not gonna touch that stuff. Old graphics are acceptable.
I'm sure this would be Bowa approved!
I'm glad it would be. Save me Bow-ing out
could you manufacture more video about Diablo 2. I very like it
Thank you. Yes, I will do that.
Haha those jokes were funny😅😅 I found a couple of bow skillers so this looks interesting to build 🤔🤔 plus didn't know about the arrow crafting 🤣
Thank you :) you should try it Bowazon are some of my favorite characters they aren't super powerful but very satisfying. I'm on my third one since recording this video haha
mate I enjoy all of your HC series. GOAT of D2R! mate, I really wanted to try HC for a change however I dunno how do you sequence your skills. Is it straight forward?
Thank you for the kind words.
Do you mean on the skill tree per level or when fighting monsters?
everytime he makes any type of metal or rock references i like the video twice im just eagerly waiting for him to mention candlemass
That joke would have to be made in Solitude though
Cool to see you playing on console. I also do hc on xbox, have a lvl95 fohdin but I love the bowa idea as well. Try magic arrow against the dual immun monsters ;)
Fohdin's are great! You going for 99? Bowazons are really fun
@@thenuclearrabbit haha no way I will grind for 99 :D it simply took 95 lvls for a SSF enigma/hoto/cta ;) fohdin is safe af , its like a tank and kills almost everything from big distance. Bowa is a bigger challenge ;)
Haha I get not wanting to do 99. Like this is my parttime job and I'm still like "fuck no" on that grind haha
Really nice video as usual. I've never in my life done a Fire/cold Bowazon. I have done a Physical Bowazon, but never a Fire/cold one. I generally don't like Amazons but this vid was inspiring.
Question though. I guess, since you leveled all the way to lvl 80, that you had put some points on Immo arrows. Why not use them. Since one of the first Resurrected patches, ability cooldowns don't affect other abilities (as demonstrated on your Fire Druid). You could use it to pump up your damage a bit against non-fire immunes.
Thank you.
At that point I hadn't even thought of it. I was so used to just using the two it never occured to me. It was still totally fine I wasn't lacking damage or anything.
You should try this build, it's very satisfying to play
space advantage is indeed a big part of chess
Yeah that doesn't surprise me. It's the same in every video and boardgame I've ever played and even in real life wars (I've never played chess)
@@thenuclearrabbit you sound like you'd be interestd in learning. Afer you learn the basic rules, Ben Finegold and Yasser Seirawan have good edu vids
2:41 should make peace in a breast plate, ring mail is medium armor, and you get 5% movement penalty. @TheNuclearRabbit
I usually just take whatever I have on hand but that is a good point that I hadn't thought about.
@@thenuclearrabbit you can shop a 3 socket breast plate from Fara in act 2, normal difficulty.
I know but thank you
I Bow to your awesomeness!
I will never Bow out of a horrible pun
how long took this run?
Sorry can't remember. Probably somewhere between 14-16 hours cause that's where most of my runs end up
Strafezon with Burizza. It can clear Chaos sanctuary on Hell but rather slow tho
Buriza is such an oldskool awesome weapon. I found one in one of the runs I still need to edit and it was awesome haha
Dire Dire Docks in the background :)
It's such a beautiful piece of music. I've had it in my playlist ever since mario 64 released
@@thenuclearrabbit I wholeheartedly agree
Yeah a guide to get through hell would be really good!
Neither my brother nor I have finished hell despite having several characters with 75+ levels; I think the guides online are no good. The builds recommended only work if you have a sundercharms or a jah rune, or over 99 skill points to allocate. I’ve decided a build to get through helll needs two sources of damage, tele staff, and a chunky merc. My FOH paladin is stuck at eldritch, javazon is stuck at lightning immunities, and so on.
You should try doing less meta builds. I bet you could beat hell with a summon druid + rouge merc for phys immunes. Any amazon with 20 in Decoy, 1 in Valkyrie, and Peace armor. I'm currently going through hell with a Blade Assassin (20 sentinel, 20 shadow master, 20 fury. 20 shield) and it's easy mode. All these builds use summons to tank, so maybe that's the secret.
Summon builds are just the best for ssf. But the meta is the meta because things are the best.
The java is just gonna have to poke it's way through with the help of a merc. With a fohdin you can either get your merc to kill him or just spam foh on them 1 by 1 for the lightning damage. I have a fohdin run recorded but still need to edit it, should be online in a few weeks
Bro, do you make you'r own builds or follow build guides?
I play my own builds. A lot of things kind of build themselves though and I have played almost every character in the past 20+ years so I know my basics and preferences and stuff so I build of that :)
@@thenuclearrabbit awesome man, thx for reply
No problem. Thank you for watching :)
Nice Video !!
Thank you
your voice is relaxing
Thank you!
I did this build in SSF - all fun and good until you get to hell and it takes forever to kill things. Constantly swapping and using a lower res wand to deal enough damage. Doable - but tedious.
I didn't find it tedious at all. My entire run went very smooth. I didn't even bother with a lower res wand and everything went fine.
could you do a classic run through hell would be something new
I've gotten that request a bunch. I'll go and start it sometime soon
Yay! This was a fun one!
Thank you
I like going cold bow zon with only 20 points in lightning fury it still owns
Oh for sure I'm going to do the other elemental combinations at some point. Zon is the perfect mix and match to taste character. All the variations are great to play
trade gold for time, diablo 2 and life lesson in one go 😀
I am a huge believer in having multiple passive streams of income. It nets you freedom and having that is amazing :)
always played strafe bowa, fkin useless but fkin fun, always with faith
I've actually never played a strafezon before. I should get on that