Really enjoying the non cookie cutter-ness of this wt
Crafted axes
Lawbringer on act 5 Merc
Slow miss and valk peace usage in throw barb

Very cool

Keep looking for unique strategies!

I just registered on this forum and started playing D2 for the first time in maybe a decade again. These walk throughs are hilarious. How much time did it take you to do all these runs? Such a huge investment in time haha. Makes me want to try hardcore honestly.

But your account is 10 years old...

Like I think he means he just put in his username and password again for the first time in ten years

lol well I'm not unique by choice. I'm just trying to ball on a budget. Part of my self-imposed restrictions was only to use throwable axes, and there are 2 or 3 (if you include an upped Scalper) great throwable axes in the game. So I've been forced to craft for decent sets. "Lawbringer" was D2jsp's idea, not mine. So can't take credit for that. However the "Peace" was all me I had to upgrade my armor somehow and it was the only thing available for me to make that I could make use of. It's been great so far. Working on a "Fortitude" though; I just need to find me a Lo.... any day now!



I used to only play SP softcore by myself. Then I got on Bnet and would only play that. However, a year ago, I downloaded this nostalgic game and joined this community and haven't really turned back. When I joined, I noticed majority of the people were only doing HC, so I decided to do it and it added a lot of life and exhilaration to the game by trying to avoid death. I usually play the not-so-popular builds so progression takes some time and is not nearly as fast as some other builds like a traditional Hammerdin or Sorc, but I find more enjoyment to play with more difficult builds. Because of this, my runs are very slow compared to that of any AoE class or OP build because I take my time clearing and making sure area is safe or else I could die easily. For example, when I was doing my recent Lower Kurast runs, I rerolled the map until there were 2 campfires w/ superchests semi close to the WP. Majority of my runs consisted of me just avoiding any and all enemies and tapping the super chests and redoing it. These particular runs took about 1-1:30 minutes. I also did full-clear runs which took close to 15-20 minutes due to my limited damage to only 1-2 enemies at a time. These runs hardly compare to my Diablo and Baal runs in Nightbmare. Those bitches took anywhere to 45 min to an hour just to complete 1 run of each. I can't teleport and I can't kill mobs quickly w/out merc dying, it took a few minutes to clear Sanctuary and Baal waves. Lucky for me, this time of year is really slow at work so I do majority (at least half) of my playing on the clock

This post was edited by G0ldM3mber on Jun 20 2017 02:17pm

I considered switching my merc to a barb merc to make a Lawbringer for hell, but I think (think) I'm getting roughly the same benefit from battle cry. The advantage that Lawbringer has is in the slowing of enemies as well as reduction of defense and damage tho.