Quote (mayUser @ Wed, Oct 14 2009, 09:18am)
I like it.
Quote (NeCrOdE @ Wed, Oct 14 2009, 05:15am)
cool never heard of this before!
great guide!
ty, that's my whole point here.
Quote (young2093 @ Wed, Oct 14 2009, 04:48am)
"helping units"
This entire thing is fucking stupid.
Learn to think outside the box
Quote (Ortus2 @ Tue, Oct 13 2009, 11:17pm)
What's more, the character must never be allowed to use offensive spells or summon any form of helping units
-oak sage isn't a summon rofl?
It's considered a buff, it's not an offensive creature. Much like the carrion vine, which is allowed, but his "twin", the poison vine, isn't since it deals poison damage.
Quote (f1aws @ Tue, Oct 13 2009, 10:30pm)
how the fuck do you kill shit without weapons/armor?
</wasteoftime>
learn 2 read guides before commenting on them
Quote (lordyuan @ Tue, Oct 13 2009, 07:19pm)
AweSomnia!!! XD So cool, I lately heard some crew killed cleared ALL content on norm/nm/hell included Dclone + Uber Trist. So cool someone has a guide ;)!
10/10 for simple style@!
I found this guide:
http://www.gossipgamers.com/diablo-2-hardcore-naked-ironman-style/Saw the clips and everything, the guys there do use the iron-man strict rule of indeed doing every instance of the game once
however, as you can see the skill trees are wide open for any use and array of choices to make. simply they made any c/c char you usually know and simply didn't use eq. making assa's mind blast and werebear's stun and barb's leap to lock any mob/area of mobs into a state of inability to do anything, hence no real challenge. The helping units and summons like the wolves/bear did it super easy for the group on any grounds, since they had an infinite amount of meat shields. I believe this "version" of Ironman is something much more challenging and team-work based than being able to use any skill you wish, because like the_nub stated, a conc hammer can practically rape anything in the game easily, and I agree on that he can solo it naked, except for some hell parts involving the high bosses. Therefore I firmly believe the "each instance is allowed only once" rule can never give this naked group a chance in nm/hell, where they have only their hands to show for their strength, not mb/stun/fb/ls/leap/whatever other skills were allowed. This german party that ironmanned naked-style was never in real peril, except for the act bosses / ubers, wherein I agree they were pure 1337 at team work.
Guys Guys GuysLet's get a few things straight here.
This is
not based on what you portray today as ironman. 1-9 hc duels licks balls next to this.
This is not even a
character guide, you know this forum is considered "
strategy & guides". Let's not mix the two. This is at most a guide
about a type of strategy/gameplay.
This is older than anything you learned of Ironman. The name was simply stolen in favor of other rubbish hc notions, such as lvl9 duels.
Rage all you want. True is true. I'm not here to bash words with you. I'm here to bring in more players to be aware of this side of diablo and re-light some
very old and fun (and btw unfinished, since nobody ever finished this, as far as the d2 community is aware of) and challenging game styles & dynamics.
This post was edited by Synonym on Oct 14 2009 11:26am