Going to update this thread just for fun.

Going for a two handed basher barb, at least to begin with. Most likely switch to concentrate later, but keeping an open mind due to what items i may find. Coupled with double throw, at least that's the intention. If i find a good shield, i will use that for protection, but the idea is double throw.

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1) Name.

2) Bone ash dealing about 120 damage with the frost nova. 80% of my hit points.

3) Decent damage early on. Many enemies die in one or two chops.

4) Beginning gambling, hoping for a good unique item, faster run walk is desirable. I know it's a long shot though, 1/2000 chance.

5) Decent rare gamble.

6) Lucky find.

7) Good damage on the javelin.

Last picture i forgot: Andy drop, some decent items but sadly no uniques or sets.

Now for act 2. Going to be a long hazardous journey, dreading the scarab demons myself having having 0% lightning resist. Will just going to have to tough it out. May make a shield for the purpose.

Currently level 27, soon 28. Done about 200-300 normal travi runs, will do probably upwards to 1000 before i go to nightmare. It's not very fruitful - i do get the odd rune, thul highest so far. Some set items. Average gold is about 30 000 each run, which of course is ridiculously low, but this is early days. And this is an experiment. I'm happy doing this, instead of running like an idiot around diablo and getting annoying being shoved back by baal's hoarfrost. Much less risky as well.

Got about 400% extra gold. Merc got the strongest gear, lol. Eth pike, stealth, and a good rare circlet.

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1) Funny anomaly .... lower kurast clicked the rack, got stuck behind it, couldn't get out even with tp. Never had that happen before.

2) Finally reached travincal .. the grinding can begin.

3) Level 22 to 25 doing traviruns .. in 1-2 hours.

4) Decided alkor would get my business ^^ all my gold ^^ I should go to act 5 and gamble there, i would get more gold back .. only 15 000 gold for pricey items here, but that's okay. The items are surprisingly cheap, and sometimes i break even and i do think i make gold with certain mods on certain items.

5) Getting cool gold piles this early.

6) Gambled a quite cool circlet.

7) Gambled my first unique. I should have thought better of it - by this time i tried to hone in on gambling only daggers, heavy belts and chain gloves - to hope for either gull, goldwrap or chance guards. I never thought about gambling for specific uniques. It's a fun thing. But it does take a lot of tries. Spent about 3 million gold so far.

No big updates now. Only one cool circlet ... the going's been rough and i am strongly contemplating moving to nightmare, which is a bit premature. Done about 400-500 runs in total. Level 22-30. I must have gambled about 1000 items. After the gorefoot gamble, i have only gambled poleaxe, dagger, heavy belt and chain gloves, hoping to hit at least one of those relevant unique items. But hit none of them. And circlets now and then, they can get pretty cool modifiers. Got about 6-7 that i keep for later characters or gear options.

It seems spending the time to look for specific items, does eat up a lot of time .. just keeping an open inventory and quickly selecting items is much faster, but then one does not choose specific items, if one is looking for particular uniques.

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1) Common drop, a bit on the low end. The right items fetch more gold than what is dropped.

2) Got a funny setup going. Found a good amount of set items the last 100 runs. Finally things have loosened a little bit. Actually i am leaning towards magic find right now just for fun. And i am considering moving on to nightmare now, managed to stick it out ~100 more runs, and it paid off. Only thing is, i am considering making one more character first, an amazon, perhaps going with a daggerzon build, maybe in combination with poison javelin ... poison ama build is very overpowered early, and also in hardcore .. it's ranged poison. The dagger thing is just for fun, but it also deals a bit of damage in combination with critical strike. Fast attacks helps getting around the shield block lock animtion, and having a shield helps with defense and resists. Found a cool blade with some extra damage .. deals decent damage.

Belt + gloves = Sigon
Weapon 1 + amulet = Tancred
Weapon 2 + armor + ring 1 = Angelic
Helmet + ring 2 = Cathan

Tancred combo gives 78% magic find, weapon has ok damage, two items give +15 lightning damage which adds up with quick swings. Only sad thing is i am missing the boots, which would really boost frw.

Angelic combo gives 50% magic find (each ring if using more than one), and has decent armor, fire resist and great damage againt undead. And of course the attack rating bonus.

Sigon gives 30% ias, good armor and 10% life leech.

Cathan i realize could well be sigon helmet and angelic ring, but the cathan combo gives 15-20 fire damage, which, when you use dual swing with all that ias, hits very fast and the damage adds up quickly.

Only problem now is, i spent points in bash, polearm mastery and throwing weapon mastery ... tancred weapon is axe, angelic is sword. And i am using dual swing. So using a reset quest now is like, a noob move, but i may do it. We'll see when the time comes if i keep this setup, or switch to 2-handed or poleaxe bash again. Been gambling poleaxes hoping to get the battlebranch, which would definitely set me up for moving forward. But no luck .......


When or if i get to travincal in nightmare, i hope to have gotten some decent drops from the bosses.. otherwise it may be a tough struggle there. But the gold will be much bigger, meaning i will be able to gamble much more.

Made a big find on my way to travincal nightmare .. Spire of honor. And from a normal monster too, in arcane sanctuary. Crazy how random drops works, lol.

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Picture 3) Previous merc weapon. Done a good job this far.

http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/exceptional/uspears.shtml

It deals big damage, tested it on my merc, and he deals good damage with it, but actually i am taking use of it myself, ironically, as the first thing i contemplated doing this season was 2-handed spear and concentration. But as always, one has to go with what one finds. +% to demons harmonizes well with traviruns too.

Invested in a sol rune to make insight in a normal 4 socket bill i had found. Decided to reskill to whirlwind. It works okay. It seems to be a bit bugged, as i took a video and wanted to show that. I have a lot of attack rating, and it seems to hit quite often, but sometimes it seems to just go through packs... can go through them 4-5 times without hitting. It seems bugged.

Diablo 2 Hardcore Nightmare Act 3 Whirlwind Bugged

https://youtu.be/izPBMpAZObc


Also, two more videos i have been meaning to post. Just adding them for fun.

Diablo 2 Killing Duriel in Hardcore with Barbarian

https://youtu.be/4KqDu8f4_Lo


Diablo 2 Hardcore Barbarian Normal Diablo Act 5 Baal

https://youtu.be/0cim2RoUYC4



Finally made it to nightmare travincal! It's going to be fun to see now how the grind continues. I can't afford to swap too many gear pieces to goldfind% yet... but i will gradually try and see how vulnerable or not i become. The focus is as always on survival. But i have actually quite high hopes for some good drops in nightmare travincal... i will be only doing this until deciding to move to hell mode, so again, more than likely have to do 500-1000 runs.... if not more..

Regarding gambling, i have not decided what to gamble yet. Most likely will be focusing on rings, amulets and circlets. And chain gloves, heavy belts and falchions, hoping to find chance guards, goldwrap and/or blade of ali baba.

Your warn IS TOO DAMN HIGH

No pic access

Too right. The way of the world. What can you do...

So, time for another update.


Probably up to about 400-500 runs on nightmare now. Or closing in on that number. And the findings has picked up - so has the gold numbers! After finding lem rune from one of the members, that was a huge leap forward, i decided to make treachery with that, which boosted my merc's attack rate by a huge lot. With spire of honor, now he's like a walking short range tank and kills the members fairly quickly.

I get about 100 000 - 150 000 each run now, the extra gold is probably in the 800-1000% range. Chance guards is eluding me, so is goldwrap, but i manage well without, having gambled quite good gloves and belts.

Posting some pictures here.

One last thing that i should have pointed out probably in one of my first posts, but has forgotten ........ on the very last run in normal, i was lucky enough to find a wand with life tap charges. That has been paramount to my merc's survival. A knife with level 3 life tap charges dropped some time later, and is just absolutely mandatory to do these runs. If it doesn't drop, shop for one. I don't know what level one needs to be .... search it up.

I appreciate any price checks on any item ...


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78 (also in last post)) Finally made it to travincal nightmare. The going was good, spire of honor is a very strong weapon.

79) Cool circlet. If only +2 skills..........

80) First unique ring drop. Turns into a...

81) dwarf star, which is a great goldfind upgrade.

82) Very cool boots dropped. If only 1 more resist....... people tell me it's worthless. I'm not convinced.

83-85) Gold piles are increasing.

86) The big lem rune drop. Big moment in the ladder run.

87) Lots of charms dropping, 10% lr 3% mf sc, stuff like this becomes valuable when moving on to hell mode.

88) Probably won't beat a spirit cs, but funny and beefy stats anyway.

89) Going to make a fun amazon as the next character, using poison javelin ranged, knife and sheld as melee, and high-power damage weapons on bosses. It's going to be fun to see how how much damage this metes out with critical strike ^^

90) Very rare grand charm drop, 301 poison damage.

92) Very decent fcr ring. Level 29.

93) These can be fun, two seasons ago i found the same, and tried to get 2 sockets from larzuk. If sticking random resist jewels, or even expending 2 x um runes on it, it can become like a early level mini kira's guardian, hugely increasing resists. Just checked, and 30% can be dropped with item level 55, which i think will be like -25%, meaning level 42 or something .. which is probably perfect for um runes. Not sure on the calculation here.

94) Second unique ring drop...

95) Raven frost, big upgrade for moving forward, no more frozen moments.

96) Cool amulet for new characters, perfect variable.



That's all folks ^^

Quick little post before i start preparing to move to hell. Going to be an awful lot of muling now, figured out a new muling system; You make an acc full of mules, and you give the first mule the lowest level items, the last mule the highest level items you have, then sort it like that. I.e. if you have 10 mules on acc 1 with saved up stuff from the beginning, and want to sort it, you make 16 mules on acc 2, then sort them all in that order. I think that is the most efficient way to do it without writing everything down or making some other system. At least you know where to look.

Just wanted to post these two videos, thought i'd make them for fun before moving on. I must have done 500+ runs by now. Latest find is ko rune, in one of the videos. Not much else, some mid runes and other items, and a shit ton of gold ^^ Of course, gambled a hoard of quite useful rings, amulets and circlets... hence the big muling job just about to take place. The ko rune i may make harmony in a bow and use on the barb for running, but the goal is not to get there fast, but in one piece.......

I may decide to record the run to hell... it's going to take a lot of time, and space on comp, but it would be cool to do. I think my gear will be adequate ... hopefully.



Diablo 2 Hardcore Nightmare Barbarian Goldfind Runs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgCRfamOQrE

Diablo 2 Hardcore Nightmare Barbarian Goldfind Runs 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEZ7ffd2448

So been playing quite intensively the last days, and gotten all the way to hell travincal, with very few difficult battles. Quite crazy. This probably has been the best ladder start ever. This barb is tanky as hell and hits like a truck. I don't think i've ever gone through from nightmare to hell with such little worry. Meant to take more screenshots and videos with unique boss packs, but didn't. I just can't grasp how easy it was compared to earlier runs. So now i am ready to start farming high runes and better gear ^^ And not least, gamble properly!

Having treachery as armor, and switching it with merc's guardian angel armor when fade procs, boosts my resists to about 80-90 even in hell. This is paramount to be able to tank and survive. Armor is about 3500, almost doubled when using concentrate .. 40-50% chance to get hit, reduced to about 30-35% when attacking.

Most enemies dies in 2-3 hits, except for those with damage resist. Act 2 was a bitch, the sand maggots has 66% damage resist, so they take quite a few hits to kill.

Either way, life tap wand on switch is just paramount for survivability, also for merc. I do use war cry when i'm not worried about taking too much damage, having 8% leech from string of ears.

Going to make a video doing the act bosses and some other unique bosses. going to take a while to assemble, using openshot video editor. Gear will be shown there.

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97-100) Using the bonesnap 294% ed, used a token and focused on concentrate and mace mastery. The damage is outrageous. I was lucky to find one (actually found two) with such high ed%.

101) Entrance to claw viper temple.. i was fearful here as always, the claw vipers can deal insane damage, might extra strong pack. Luckily i didn't encounter that. I separated fangskin and his group and that went quite well, surprisingly.

102) Cool rare level 25 armor for new characters.

103) One of many strangely dense boss packs!! Here, there was no less than FOUR flayer boss packs! It was insane. And they all went down easily xD It was hilarious. Sadly no good drops though, even using find item on all the corpses.

104) Finally made it to travincal. Long journey, but made it safely. Even the feared bone fetishes in the sewers didn't do as much damage as i thought.. 300-500 explosion damage. But i let my merc do most of the killing of them. Now the real gold hunt and subsequent gambling can begin ^^ Will most likely post the video later today.

So here's the video. Now i can start doing hell travi runs ^^

Diablo 2 Hardcore Nightmare Travincal to Hell act 3 with Barbarian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYOAPuEwoj0