This walk through has largely been completed(Hell Baal complete and continuing)
This is my 1st HC P8 character, with my favorite class; the Whirlwind Barbarian!
Named after Ryu for multiple reasons, being his quest to always get better, his iconic Hurricane kick(Tatsumaki), and the deep rooted history i have playing him in the Street Fighter series.
-Hardcore
-Players 8 (save for a small% of countess and LK runs in attempt to manipulate drops)
-Ladder rune wordsHistoryThis character is maybe 2-3 years old and has always been an open ended walk through to see how far I could get. Since I find myself still playing it from time to time, i figured i might as well make this post to get it up to date.
I've taken a lot of screenshots through out just in case I ever wanted to do this, so a lot has been accounted for, but maybe not everything.
The screenshots I've uploaded are primarily aimed towards a Holy Grail count and Pul+ rune drops. with extra ones i found interesting sprinkled in. (some items I didn't screenshot what i ID'd, like set item light gauntlets, amulets, crowns, etc. since many of those bases are shared by multiple sets, I haven't counted them, yet.)
I wasn't all that familiar with how to play PVM with a melee class, especially one in HC, so there were several sub-optimal choices in builds and strategies, but I learned a lot.
There were a few strong drops at very convenient times that made this run pretty special for me, namely at Nightmare Diablo quest kill, early Pit runs, good rune drops within my first 500 LK runs, and even a certain Countess drop.
As of starting this post Ryu is almost level 96, and has about 100 unfound items for the holy grail, so there's plenty of room to play, still.