Can I Beat Diablo 2 Using Cleglaw's Tooth? (Hardcore, Hell)

Well, can I?
Music Used:
Megaman 2 - Dr. Wily's Castle: Stage 1 (Bossfight Remix)
Pokémon Red/Blue - Viridian Forest
Donkey Kong Country 64 - Jungle Japes Lobby
Mario Paint - Creative Exercise
Mario Kart Wii - Award Ceremony - First
F-Zero GX/AX - Pico
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins - Star Maze
Diddy Kong Racing - Wizpig Challenge
Fall Guys - Everybody Falls (Fall Guys Theme)
Kirby and the Rainbow Curse - The Wild Red Yonder
A link to the Past - Dark Mountain Forest
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters - Metal Works
Bubsy - Woolering Heights
Pokémon Black and White - Battle! Trainer
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[@jriddleeleven]

Im so glad I found your channel. These runs really reinvigorated my love for D2. Great run. Your game knowledge and skill rival some of the biggest D2 youtubers.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I'mma gonna go highlight this cause I like it

[@TheCooderix]

@@thenuclearrabbit And then you go and spoil it all by doing something stupid like save and quit (this is a joke)

[@yan-amar]

People didn't hate the joke, they all went and made a bladesin with the Cleglaw set.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

That is a much better perspective. Thank you!

[@Deathbellows]

Considering the Cleglaw set has 25% slow, make sure to put the video to 0.75 playback speed for full immersion

[@tlee656]

Man!! Your background music selections for these videos is INSANE!! Gets all the nostalgic feelings going! Oh, and this was a really cool challenge. Loved it!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you!

[@UOGMathRoden]

Omg you did it!! Awesome job!! When I heard clegclaw challenge, I was thinking you'd choose a build that's not really dependent on gear (like zoo druid) lol

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Nah I do want to actually showcase things. Going for like a summoner really kills it imo. When I start working my way through the uniques I'll try and use them as interesting as possible as well

[@UOGMathRoden]

@@thenuclearrabbit I was praying you'd find another source of crushing blow lol

[@patrickmoore4071]

First off, I LOVE your channel! Most entertaining and watchable playthroughs of any D2R streamer I've found. Keep up the good work! I recently played a Bladesin, using Cleglaw's most of the way through. I found that I had a much easier time clearing things using blade fury, since the damage was better than blade sentinel. But, because of the stupid delay to start the throw and the constant interruptions, I needed a tank to allow me to just cut through everything from afar. Act V merc (especially once I found a Lem and gave him lawbringer), along with a couple points in Shadow Master for a reuseuable tank, made this run so much easier. With all the slowing and the damage increase from Decrepify, things pretty much just sailed along.

[@Capifaca]

You sir are an amazing player! I've watched every single video on the channel. You made me install Diablo2 again after a long 10 years break. Running a Fury Druid single player atm. Still act2 nightmare! Keep it up! Kudos from Brazil

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you! It's comments like these that make me love doing it. Good luck on your Druid!

[@tecnicadellamoto4903]

Cleglaw full set is actually a valid option for a bladesin: you get +50% damage and +35% CB, huge amount of AR (where a bladesin is lacking with poor gear) and some minor bonuses (slow and KB). You could cope it with Angelic or Hsarus for more AR, so you have plenty of room to cap your resistances (Smoke very smart choice) so you can use BoS for mobility (otherwise Fade is fine too, and I would go for Peace for Valkyrie and CS). The last issue is dealing with physical immunity, and I choose max Death Sentry, far more useful than Venom. Then I see that you don't eve use one the 2 strongest skills (Cloak of shadows and Mind Blast). Oh, and you forgot to socket the weapon (ETH). Anyway, good job again.

[@chiinesepeople]

well, i just met this channel, he plays like he is kinda new to the game, and also he plays with joystick (which i think it sucks, but well, thats because im too old and grumpy, and ive been playing for over 20 yrs on bnet online and i got my ways) but at least the content is entertaining and it adds some new challenges to the game, which is good and fun to the new players who make d2 community bigger and richer. That being said, geez d2 content creators really love to talk and overexplain things, i watch all these kind of videos on 1.25 as default.

[@FlyingElf777]

What kind of psycho kills duriel and then radamant?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Me lol

[@0Adam_S]

I'm always doing this

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I'm gonna keep quiet about regularly doing the den after act 5.

[@zero1994LP]

Pretty often. It's faster

[@zarfen]

GG! I thought the CB and slow would carry the set hard, but I guess the damage is really lacking and later it just pales in comparision to some pretty easy to make gear (black + ancients pledge combo like you mentioned)

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah that is exactly what happened. Slow +CB pulled through. But yeah Black + Ancients Pledge crushes it

[@tannerrauen7878]

That Barbie joke was incredible. Well done sir!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you!

[@kristopherleslie8343]

For those not aware cleglaws has been the champion for pvpers for decades. It’s a starting set we use to get the best mods at low level until we get Better jewelry. For context my charger Paladin was hitting 2000-2500 range with same set and other jewels. That’s at level 20 or so.

[@CaptainAngryface]

This kind of pettiness is impressive.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

:D

[@BetsaidaReyes-s7k]

You got me at barby girls lol 😂 love this kind of vids, fun, unusual and very entertaining 👍

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Haha yeah I had a lot of fun writing that one. Thank you!

[@historylessons6495]

cleglaws is totally underrated

[@jakenaylor7625]

Cleglaw's set is very good, mixed with other sets. Only taking other 3 items, you can mix and match. The deadly strike is nice early on.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Oh you can wear it with a full other set. Thx for the video idea!

[@Sweetguy1821]

You forget the base damage of the sword is also multiplied by a percentage of your str stat and any +damage modifiers. A topaz is always just a topaz

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Forget is the wrong word. I just don't think it's interesting to explain that much

[@Dysphoric4life]

I subscribed because you did this out of spite. I really appreciate that mentality lol

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you!

[@Grey-j6s]

The only thing bad about "Save and Exit" are hacks that auto-quits the session at an HP Threshold. Other than that, its fair-game to me.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah hacks are definitely a no go.

[@mrsquiggles1379]

The fact this was made out o spite fuels me too lmao

[@benswitzer4679]

You can get through Hell with this set, if you use act 3 merc. I recommend a cold merc as it provides great CC and due to its ice armour is actually quite tanky.

[@Igwi]

Great run, I can't imagine how much time it took to record all the footage. I think Cleglaw's could have played the dragon tail assassin pretty well. Plus you can upgrade your weapon with the cube.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Dragon tail would have been fun as well. I know but I preferred the vitality over the extra damage :)

[@deaDParrot88]

bladesin build is arguably one of the best ladder starters, you can easily do all content with it and cleglaws set is actually really good if you get the full set of 3, upping it helps aswell

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I considered upping it but didn't want to lose out on the hp :) yeah it was better than I expected it to be for sure

[@nichtwichtig5699]

Ah. Another Vid for us to see you do weird stuff on Hardcore. :) I repeat myself but, as a only HC Player i just like it man. Your Style, your recklessnes and your suffering. :D Keep this baby running, mate.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you! Will do

[@Pejay691]

What a banger again. Perfect video to watch while smoking a nug and starting the weekend

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you. Enjoy the weekend!

[@Deathbellows]

Assassin is actually one of the classes I never played, and thus have no idea how the set interacts with the skills you used. I therefore had to go and look up the skill and find out the interactions, and how the damage of the skill works, like it uses 3/4th weapon damage. So for future runs, It might be an idea to show the primary skill on screen, and give a short 5-10 sec explaination of what the skill does. Since this skill uses weapon damage, and they made set pieces upgradeable, if the correct runes was found, it might have been a good idea to get this upgraded. Damage would go from 3-19 (long sword) to 10-42 (rune sword) to 5-77 (cryptic sword), the set gives max damage based on character level, and the deadly strike would help out too. Edit: Just saw someone else commented on the same thing, and seeing your responce about the item needing higher stats to be wielded.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I can add that. No problem :) Yeah it sacrifices a lot of hp. But I'll explain that next time as well cause I've gotten a lot of comments on it

[@jared07x]

It gains damage per level, i still have cleglaws on my 64 zealer/holy fire.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Good video as always buddy

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you :)

[@jerberus5563]

Liked because of the pun/punishing joke. GG

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thx GG

[@michaelgriffin3230]

Try it with kick, and kill way faster with clew set

[@Freaksnake]

Ages ago i made a 'max investment' blade sin and cleg's gloves were more or less regarded as bis. Other bis was grief zerker (eth would have been true bis), Phoenix monarch, Gface helm, fortitude armor(I think), Gore riders, Highlord's, Ravenfrost, BK, Can't remember belt but I think it was verdungo's... The gloves were preferred for the KB

[@Tsuntsu86]

Even the time you put into these videos deserves a reward! I’d of given up 😅

[@thenuclearrabbit]

To be fair I can't really give up this is my job. But point taken and very much appreciated!

[@TheGeniesis]

My friend cube recipes are your besties: 1x Normal Set Weapon+ 1 Ral Rune+ 1 Sol Rune+ 1x Perfect Emerald 1x Normal Set Armor+ 1 Tal Rune+ 1 Shael Rune+ 1x Perfect Diamon 1x Exceptional Set Weapon+ 1 Lum Rune+ 1 Pul Rune+ 1x Perfect Emerald 1x Exceptional Set Armor+ 1 Ko Rune+ 1 Lem Rune+ 1x Perfect Diamond I don't know if you didn't know about them or just wanted to feel "true" challenge. Great work!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I didn't want to spend 88 statpoints to get a 30 base damage increase instead of over 350 hp :) Upping the shield is a downside cause it gets more block cause it interrupts your attacks

[@wizrom3046]

Wow you really earned that one, that was a hard build to take to guardian. 👍 Regarding the save and exits... i think in hardcore the game should only allow 5 save and exits and then you die. Like Mario lives, every time you save and exit you "use up a life".

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you! I would not change a thing to save and exits personally. I love this system and even with this I still die all the time

[@nichtwichtig5699]

Dude. This game is freaking scary enough many times. Save and Exit is the only Option so often, because there are some ... mixtures D2 is throwing at you. OMG. If you could not do the Save&Exit i would have lost so many more Chars. :D The Best Example is a Run in the Cow level. 4 Guys, good combination of chars. Good Gear blabla. Two Bosses at once. One with Fana Aura, the other Extra Strong and Extra Fast. We saw it. And instant Save and Exit. No way man.l

[@DMBlade4]

A unique conviction soul is just evil

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah such a sneaky way to casually kill you

[@gospurs2426]

Great run, congrats!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you!

[@mKeY43]

dont worry save and exit is a part of hc, glad you used it

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Oh yes for sure it just felt fitting to include it in a video themed around spite haha

[@0Adam_S]

Liked the Viridian Forest music in the jungle :D

[@thenuclearrabbit]

:D

[@danielearley8826]

Fall guys music slaps

[@NaturesBetter]

Bro I love the assassin and the blade skills after the new changes for next hit delay. So fun and so fast to rush through to hell now since your skills are so powerful before the gear. Burst of speed on the whole time never felt nicer

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah Bladesin very quickly went from never played to one of my alltime favorite builds. It's so much fun

[@NaturesBetter]

Make Blade Great Again! Stop going blind from the mosaicness lol

[@KeeperOfTheFunk]

Did I catch a Bubsy 3D reference? Disgusting, if so. Shame on you for making me remember that game. :P

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Just bubsy 1 for the snes. I even had the soundtrack in the back while I made the reference :) I've only played bubsy 1 and 2

[@KeeperOfTheFunk]

@@thenuclearrabbit Alright. You're forgiven, hahaha. I suggest Bubsy 3D just... just to experience it.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I have seen let's plays of it. That jis enough for me

[@nyfroggie]

prevideo thought: I know a Barb can complete d2 classic using cleglaws set and its actually very viable, but I wonder how it will be for the assassin with all the changes in expansion vs classic.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Ooh I hadn't thought about that at all. But yeah a Barb in Classic should murder everything with it. Would make for a fun video I'm writing that down thx!

[@dvhunter7455]

Teacher !!! WHY rabbit calculate about dmg ? Teacher : because he need everything to help this build .... advantage🙃

[@thenuclearrabbit]

😅

[@absalomvane7776]

Once again, reminding you that 1-point Cloak of Shadows would solve nearly all of your problems. Also, can't you upgrade sets now? It still wouldn't be good, but it would be better.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I was using it! You can see it well in act 2 hell. You can, but it's still a lot of stats to spend into str and dex instead of vit for not a lot of damage

[@theventhatiqtho8112]

Most underated d2r YT out there.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you :)

[@davesafish]

Wait, did you not upgrade the sword? Dang bro.. grinding runes to get the materials to upgrade the entire set would have been my number one priority. That being said, you're way crazier than I am, because I would never try this. Lol Great video as always!!!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

It gets you 30.5 base damage with 2 upgrades and costs you over 350 hp in stats. Didn't feel worth it to me for a run like this. I had thought about it and should have included that in the video for sure. Oh well, live and learn. Can't blame you haha. Thank you!

[@BurbachHC]

You murdered Andarial in 3 hits on normal lmao

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah she isn't exactly difficult

[@jprec5174]

Shoulda just upgraded the sword and put in a 40/15max jewel in it 😏

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I'll farm one next time

[@zlatanmorrison8182]

Spite-sin run...lets goooooooo!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

:D

[@yalex8796]

When u kill hell Baal u complete as Patriarch/Matriarch

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Ok

[@ragnar3434]

Complaining about save and quit? I don't get it. Sometimes you gotta bail.

[@johntroutman4207]

Missed pun opportunity. Baal instead of "bail".

[@blazedehart2748]

Cleglaw gloves are OP. I just did a phy Bowa playthrough and found a pair. Wore them till the end!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah they are amazing I've beem recommending them to people for years

[@blazedehart2748]

@@thenuclearrabbit I even tried crafting a pair of knockback gloves too. But then I realized how good the Slow on Cleglaw gloves is!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah slow is the best mod in the game by far

[@blazedehart2748]

@@thenuclearrabbit i had always known it was great on bosses. I had not seen it shine vs normal mobs really until Strafe. Hitting mobs off screen with Slow+Knockback was the best I have felt on an SSF Bowa. Particularly now that Insight can go in bows.

[@alexandreperreault8676]

11:15 xD

[@Bulfgang]

I think diablo feels lonely now

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Good, he deserves it :)

[@blazedehart2748]

The amount of dolls in this run is too damn high!!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Sure was they never stopped

[@foss2660]

Love youre work. Good fun. Side note: does blade sin use weapon damage so if you wanted to make a meta one just use a ebotd?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I don't exactly know how it works but I believe the BiS weapon is a fleshripper fanged knife. It doesn't count ED or something like that I forgot I just play the thing I don't really dive deep into mechanics. Also thank you :)

[@foss2660]

@@thenuclearrabbit fair same lol just thought it would be funny. I have an ebotd thundermaul. Be hilarious running around with it. No problems. Great content with humor and voice over!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Oh god ebotd thunder maul is a huge bucket list item for me. So many big dick hammer jokes to be made. Thank you!

[@foss2660]

@@thenuclearrabbit 😂 true

[@andrewvader1955]

i love all low lvl sets. be nice if they all could be upgraded to grow with character. my fav is Deaths set

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Death set is amazing. That weapon is a thing though

[@andrewvader1955]

@@thenuclearrabbit ​@thenuclearrabbit Try getting two swords. Put sheals in them. Put them on level 10 Barbarian with double swing. Of course you'll need some charms to give yourself the stats you need. That's can make you kill Tristram players 8, no problem

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah no I get that part. I'm more worried for the Hell Ancients with it

[@vladimirtchuiev2218]

That Megaman 2 remix is magnificent

[@thenuclearrabbit]

It's so good

[@griffincrowley1349]

ok next do sorc wearing full cathan's then paladin wearing full isenhart. dope music choices as always!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I've already promised to do trang-oul's first. But I'll get to those after. Thank you! It's always fun to look for music that's fun and works well together

[@Deathbellows]

They're taking the hobbits to Isenhart!

[@griffincrowley1349]

@@thenuclearrabbit oh that’s a good idea too. you could do the next attempt at spearazon in Hwanins set I’m sure that will go super well. Or maybe barbarian wearing cow kings leather set and bul kathos swords.

[@hispls]

@@thenuclearrabbit Trang suit is pretty endgame viable, and necromancer has a ton of defensive tools for HC. I've only recently gotten into HC but Dim Vision curse is my MVP. Thanks for the quality entertainment.

[@jakenaylor7625]

Defense is shit. You have a defense of 0 while running, and thats 90% of the game as a ranged player. Also enjoyed the link to the past music

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah I've never cared about it either. I think 90% is even a low estimate. But people keep telling me it's important. Glad you like the music :)

[@MotorbikeMike028]

6:18 thats an insane amulet

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah it's one of the best amulets I've ever found during one of these runs

[@BillDaBigChief]

Now do it with Bul-Kathos set lol. Now that would really impress me.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

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[@Sara.Space.H]

but what if you could upgrade the set? lol, enjoyed the video btw

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I considered it but I didn't want to lose the hp for the extra damage. Thank you :)

[@Tyiriel]

Hey, at least it wasn't sigon

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Sigon's was waaaay stronger. I very easily cleared hell with it

[@freedomfighter8883]

Banjo kazooie music =D

[@LiveLongAndProsperHonestly]

Oh shit that super mario land 2 moon theme.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I loved that game as a kid. First game I ever beat

[@LiveLongAndProsperHonestly]

@@thenuclearrabbit It is one of if not the best og gameboy games imo.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Fully agreed. I played it again last year and despite being really easy it holds up well.

[@Christoffer2000F]

Why is life and mana inverted letters? Nvm the whole Diablo fight on normal was inverted somehow 😅

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Cause I thought it looked cool :D I did it a few more times in the video. I really like the effect I've been using it for a while

[@flamerollerx01]

So you didn't have the option to upgrade the set items to the next level of base item?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yes I did but decided not to because of the stat requirement. It would net 30 base damage at the cost of ~350 hp

[@mihata-gaming]

16:00 at what point do I ask about upping the weapon?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I should have included it in the video but I didn't want to spend the statpoints for it

[@jonathanarie2813]

Brother, might not be your cup of tea, but there ain't enough words to recommend Red Dead Redemption 2. If you haven't played, trust me, doubt you'd regret it. *whooshes away in wind druid noises*

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I tried the first one but it wasn't my cup of tea at all so I'm not interested in trying the second one to be honest

[@jronn2533]

Can you upgrade set gear?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yes. But I liked the extra vitality more

[@Lucas-tl4tb]

Gleglaw bladesin hc players 8 run to Ubers when?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Not in a long long time. Not saying never though. But I seriously don't think I can pull it off

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Of course it’s the second most OP set :) irathas is still # 1

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I have never used that. Guess I'll pick it up next farming session

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@thenuclearrabbit irathas pretty much is best starter set depending on needs. Caster, melee 1 handed and bow/jav When you add on other pieces it just really shines.

[@foxsmith5718]

... clegs set, lol-

[@liffordius8630]

Another great run, some of those fights took an eternity. Did you time how long it took to complete start to finish?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

About 14 hours. I don't keep track but I always see how long I took when I start editing the footage :)

[@liffordius8630]

@@thenuclearrabbit 14 hours is actually pretty quick for a challenge run like that maybe cleglaws pretty good lol

[@thenuclearrabbit]

14 hours is a lot slower than most of my runs these days. It is on the faster side for challenge runs but a regular run takes me nowhere near 14 hours anymore

[@liffordius8630]

@@thenuclearrabbit I get that but you were using cleglaws on a blade sin... Lol

[@IIGrudge]

The ol' save and quit. I use to do that when I had no skillz.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

So earlier today?

[@brothergrok]

what mods are you using?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

None in this run.

[@L00ww]

4:45 why is the screen mirrored???

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I like how it looks

[@L00ww]

@@thenuclearrabbit you madman

[@thenuclearrabbit]

It's funny people are starting to notice it more. I've been using that effect for a while

[@L00ww]

@@thenuclearrabbit you used it later in the video again ;)

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Jep haha :D but I've used it on a bunch of other video's as well

[@luiscabrales3478]

wow, first like and comment ever

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Welcome!

[@foxsmith5718]

:) -

[@DonaldBarringer-i5c]

Say what you want, IDC as long as the content is good. Your only sin is playing on console.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

No my only Sin this video is the BladeSin

[@Taika_talvi]

I didn't like your joke about the joke about the Trapsin. Unsubbed!1111!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Nooo!!!!1111!1!1oneoneone

[@RichDolo]

This was actually awesome, thanks. Now you can do the Arctic 🥶 enchantress ❤ for us please 😅

[@ogtm2227]

Hi please give your discord i want to chat with you someting , thank you alot🙏🙏🙏

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Please e-mail me. I don't want to give my discord in public. The e-mail address you can use is [e-mail]