Diablo 2: Sacrifice Paladin vs Hell Duriel

Otto has continued on. In the link posted, he faces the Ancients and actually uses the Sacrifice skill exclusively. • Diablo II: Emodin vs A...
I've had less and less interest lately in this game, mostly due to Diablo Clone still causing server crashes once the clan kids and item sites get their annihilus charms but I still have a few builds I'd like to showcase. This is one of them. Nicknamed the Emodin because he hurts himself on a successful hit, but this guy isn't going to be found crying in a corner, he's going to be kicking demonic ass. He may not be cranking out the same kind of damage as a hammerdin, but this guy doesn't need mana potions unless he's going to be smiting.
It seems that enhanced damage vs. demons do not count against you, and although I had an upgraded Butcher's Pupil, I found the combination of Laying of Hands and Aldur's Rhythm to be more effective in general, although I think dropping an Um rune in place of one of the Amn runes for the mace would be a better choice because Open Wounds is as effective as it is pretty.
I made a few mistakes, namely I was using a wand with Life Tap charges while my Hireling has a runeword sword with a Decrepify proc, and I should have used Crushflange when I was smiting rather than relying on just my Gore Riders. I plan to cut another video of this build later, but I thought I'd try him out against something other than the usual.

[@thenikko8292]

cool iedea but most of the damage done was dealt by smite tho. that sacrifice didnt realy do anything at the begining there

[@Modighen]

This is true, but like the Sorceress uses Static Field as a skill for those initial chunks of life, Smite is often too tasty a skill to pass up for boss fights, especially with open wounds and crushing blow. I did, however, use Sacrifice more against the Ancients, so I'll link you the video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYa1dWVrgrdsd8k

[@ZetsubouGintama]

Duriel... also known as Lord of Pain. Because he pain in the ass.

[@asch7906]

No wonder his name sounds like a condom brand.

[@VGamingJunkieVT]

By far the hardest boss in the game. Diablo and Ba'al, you'd think would be harder, but nope. They're jokes compared to him.

[@Ehrle6969]

@Jack Dude duriel is a lesser evil, diablo is the strongest among the prime evil on raw Power ask google.

[@Binmusu]

@@Ehrle6969 not gameplay wise though

[@estring123]

@@VGamingJunkieVT hardest boss is lister the tormentor if ur doing single player

[@Havenscythe]

Oh god that Lut Gholein music so nostalgic

[@estring123]

best music is act 4 town music

[@darklord809]

Running back to town to heal and stock up potion mid boss fight. Diablo logic

[@justice4all190]

Yea lame... Only thing which i hated in D2....

[@scottwarren4998]

can u beat duriel 1v1 without running back? ehehe, but yeah, i dont like the way he does this.

[@danielandrews1801]

@@scottwarren4998 depends on ur build. a summoning necro has to in Normal. but most builds don't need to if made right and played right. the very first time i faced duriel, i was using a fire sorceress. i beat him without going back to town. i just kept kiting and firing. my cold armor slowed him down which was good.

[@marvmarv5629]

Nostalgia is hitting me harder than Duriel

[@danielandrews1801]

DOORIEL LOVES YOU!

[@Kriegerdammerung]

Diablo spreadsheet: Accuracy percentage 80 Me hitting bosses: Fuck it!

[@Destiny4Travail]

i like this vid. doesnt have to show gg geared toons or over used specs. thanks for the upload ^^

[@Doppe1ganger]

Love it. Hope you found some better items going forward

[@machoman6969]

Even after playing this fkn game non stop since 2003 tombs music still gives me chills

[@Asrudin]

90% of boss HP loss was due to crushing blow tho, pretty painful to see. :P But everyone can make an OP build, kudos for trying different builds.

[@Arthi556]

50 unallocated att and 10 skillpoints didn't use holy shield not even maxblock using sac instead of zeal didn't quick switch weapons to cast lifetap revived merc just for him to die again 6/10 would not want to be mercenary of

[@sevsko7468]

lmfao

[@namenullvoid]

@P4 Magic find and small resistance charms are useful. Any attribute charms or other are useless yes

[@imakrewitatl]

@P4 You mean movement speed faster?

[@Tom-us4lr]

Absolutely amazing

[@receptionblcp6463]

Just seriously! I can't take it.. why the older games has way way way better design and atmosphere and game mechanics than the newer ones???

[@scottmichael7178]

thats why any new diablo game will never be better than d2 LoD

[@mathelgar]

I love watching these older vids

[@Modighen]

Hi Arthi556. Let me make a few points about your comment since I'm unable to reply to your post. This video features the sacrifice paladin, not the zealot. KZbin is overloaded with videos about perfect zealots and I wanted to walk a Martyr to show he's at least viable, not superior. I don't care if he's a viable a PvP build or not. I'll give that I could have added those 10 points to Holy Shield and added some dexterity, but have a habit of saving 50 points just in case I find some awesome unique elite or armor/weapon for a runeword that requires some massive boosts to my dexterity or strength. I like my barb. His sword has a decrep proc and I like that to an alternative to the Infinity/Last Wish merc because a Lawbringer is a lot easier to build and damn near everyone has a Desert Mercenary. I gave up on lifetap because not only did my barb override it with decrep, I preferred decrep to life tap in this case.

[@DarkSim64]

Modighen you should play on Single player, there's a forum section dedicated to D2 single player on diablo.Incgamers. They even organize multiplayer sessions over Hamachi and TCP/IP. Everyone in this small community is super nice.

[@FattyGetsFitty]

+Modighen What an odd little bird you are.

[@FartSmucker]

Well, make a better sacrifice pali than, thats fine to go against the meta but your equipment is average at best for the most part, you're in your 70s which isn't great or anything and you ended up using smite to fight duriel for most of the battle?..why!? And you went back to town twice showing you struggle just like everyone else does at hell fightning him so this doesn't even promote your build in a good way.

[@Modighen]

It would have shown what matters is accumulating forum gold for enigmashakomararachgriefexile, and I didn't want to spend more time watching a message board than actually playing the game. Also, smite doesn't miss and even if he's missing 3/4 of his health bar, there's still plenty left to remove. I could have followed bots to have an early-90's paladin, but that's not how I roll. It would have been better promotion, but I'm not trying to get people to stop playing hammerdins. For what it's worth, he does better against Diablo.

[@Modighen]

And for what it's worth, even if you didn't like the video, I appreciate the feedback because it's something I can work with for the future. I know this wasn't the best example of showcasing the build, but I want to use obtainable gear and walk the character rather than just take the quickest path from A to B.

[@dude_8434]

I like your Content-Builds and use of under used Unique/Set items... I run Gloom on my Zealot..

[@donfogg7500]

Awesome setup, I've never done sacrificer, as angry fella I do prefer vengence/blessed aim combo+ blessed hammer and dozen points at fist of heavens, just to rack the undead.

[@joeimanolmelchor]

Clean run playthrough

[@ytgc-royalewarex5190]

One of the toughest boss in Diablo quest beside the Butcher...

[@moonlighght8246]

Butcher can easily be killed if you play as a sorcerer. Simply cast a fire wall spell on a door, then close the door. The Butcher will be pressed up against the door and will burn quickly.

[@susulemons]

diablo 4 brought me here, and shows again how some challenge in the moment, can later on be so easily surpassed. because even in d2 the gear progression skyrocketed when sets/runewords are out and these bosses are melted in seconds. same for challenges we face in the current time point in society maybe

[@judgeees]

Real sacrifice was by Alcuin. He was told to wait by the stash.

[@DeejayFreak21]

Sacrifice has somewhat good damage, but the chance was questionable against Hell Difficulty.. I could really think about that sound, ''Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit''

[@WolfNamedJohn]

You should try a riftadin build. pure unique points fun.

[@Morphogenesis13]

+John Ferris rifters are so fun to play, agreed

[@smenkinsa]

Emodin ... :D

[@georgecatalinnicuta8559]

gg man

[@styleisaweapon]

severe attack rating issues

[@mark12347160]

Gz very nicely done better than all the boring bot found and duped cookie cutter rubbish that you see posted all over KZbin. Just incase you aren't aware if your a member on jsp hit the Diablo 2 player vs monster forum people post single player wt's on there an some do private walks together. I think your style of play judging by this vid anyway would be suited to it

[@Modighen]

mark12347160 I'll keep it in mind, although right now I'm trying a build or two this season on USWest and I hope to have some a them showcased with "cheap" stuff. And thanks for noticing that I walked this build with stuff that didn't involve "perfect cahrs."

[@Xdeadlyxphantom]

Good memories

[@julianpeterson6464]

this is what we call "portal cheese"

[@Agent1W]

Considering it's a Hell difficulty boss, it's not quite as bad. I'm shocked that Sacrifice doesn't hit a bit harder per swing.

[@aaadj2744]

"Looking for BAAL !?"

[@Mrcloc]

"Cannot be frozen" - that's the key to beating Duriel.

[@malterkaroly9075]

Zeal, my friend, zeal. :)

[@Kinta8888]

I was expecting sacrifice to deal more damage

[@chaseleim4773]

Why didn't you use vampiregaze,guardian angel, crescent moon,bulkathos wedding band string of ears,war travelers, herald of zakarum,frostbite gauntlets,grief pb

[@Modighen]

This game is pretty easy once you learn how to play it. That stuff will make it quicker, but none of that is really necessary.

[@chaseleim4773]

Well obviously, it's about pathing and stay layout and strategy, I beleieve these were meta rules, you didn't have much viable build by gears and skills to make your builds stronger, with an emodin and these skills etc, I was able to do players 8 1.14b in hell, I ran into an issue fighting undead because this skill kills you and the gear won't leech undead,was going to do some life replenish small charms but I haven't found any.

[@Modighen]

@@chaseleim4773 I missed the memo about builds being nonviable if you don't do players/8 and I just decided to walk him based on budget gear online during the Ladder. I didn't see the point in following a max dmg build from JSP. Dracs, lifetap wand might help a bit with undead. I had one, but my hireling's Lawbringer keeps invoking Decrepify, which I found helpful. This character did walk past Ancients, but I stopped before Baal for some reason. I think Ancients can be tougher in some ways.

[@chaseleim4773]

I don't have that problem anymore just had to hit some levels....my res was -20 and I was in act 5 at level 60

[@WhabClassics]

Start at 00:20

[@TardRepellent]

"uses the Sacrifice skill exclusively" you misspelled Smite

[@Modighen]

I did say Ancients, but I did change the wording since it's so easy to miss.

[@TardRepellent]

@@Modighen ye I saw Ancients. you mean Talic Madawc and Korlic?

[@Morphogenesis13]

this video shouldnt be longer than 15 seconds

[@Modighen]

+Morphogenesis13 I wasn't aware that KZbin needed another Diablo II video featuring a cookie cutter paladin build with enigmashakomararachs and a Last Wish Desert Mercenary. I've been thinking I need to start calling my videos "Poorman builds"

[@Morphogenesis13]

+Modighen even a pair of goblin toe's would have doubled your speed and if you were to craft some CB gloves, cheap and very easy things to get.

[@Modighen]

+Morphogenesis13 Not a bad suggestion, because I agree that Crushing Blow is important but I'll posit you this: Gore Rider + Crushflange makes 48%. How would the extra 15-25% double my killing speed given how it works (and having to give up that damage bonus from Laying of Hands once I'm satisfied with the level of crushing damage?)

[@Morphogenesis13]

+Modighen didn't even look at your items previously, you said poor man's build so I didn't expect you to be running around with gores...and use holy shield, please

[@Modighen]

Should have mentioned earlier. I have a video of this character versus Diablo, it took just over 30 seconds (which oddly has less than 800 views).

[@igorjames278]

2:52 Dungeons & Dragons Master Dungeon Theme

[@wonokairun69]

How To Buff Instantly: 1. Be A Kid 2. Play Diablo 2 3. Try To Kill Duriel Without Returning To Lut Gholein 4. Done, You Buff Now

[@novy1198]

i remember 8 years ago while i was playing diablo, i were necromant propably and killed him at first try but it was so fucking hard. duriel should be main boss

[@RhythmWithn]

30 Cold resist against duriel? Why not drink a thawing potion?

[@Modighen]

+Werner Heisenberg His Holy Freeze aura causes 7-8 points of damage and 35-40 with his attacks, so I'm not bothered by the cold damage. And because it's Holy Freeze I can't shrug it off the slowing effects unless I have a level 7+ Holy Freeze aura.

[@RhythmWithn]

+Modighen Thanks for replying

[@Romul099]

Looking for Bail..

[@amenbest9641]

Duriel is strong boss imagine I fight him when level 31 paladin but I focus on zeal and might and block

[@Evys]

you can make this sacrifice paladin a bit better vs bosses with conviction aura, which I know sounds weird, but you'll reduce their armor, which you need with your half-bad gear and lack-luster attack rating. 1 point should be enough and you hit more! will help with your life tap, try it out if you ever play D2 again, it can be fun. other than that I like that you're not showing the standard zeal boring paladin, fun build

[@fanaticfloyd]

Gotta say Vengeance / conviction pala is the way to go if you want to successfully kill baal on hell.. farm Stormshield at mephisto and then you are good to go.. ;) that build is alot more fun trust me ;)

[@mark12347160]

Fantacism works best with vengeance as you need lots of attack speed as vengeance only hits something once very dangerous if you get surrounded. Then use an act 2 Merc with infinity to provide the conviction aura.

[@Modighen]

fanaticfloyd I did an dedicated Avenger a few seasons past and have some video of him on my channel. I've always overlooked Sacrifice when I've walked paladins in the past, and I tried that out when I walked this paladin. While it's not as easy, I still enjoyed this far more than a Hammerdin or Smiter, even if I did resort initially to Smite.

[@Tyjohnable]

How come I can always see your mana? I haven't used maphack in a while but I thought it displayed both life and mana.

[@Modighen]

You can click somewhere on the life/mana globe and it will display it for you as opposed to having to guess. I've never installed maphack, even though Blizzard seems to be ignoring the vast number of people with 3rd party programs like maphack and pickit.

[@Tyjohnable]

Modighen I was dead against it for a long time but I got killed twice by people using tp Macro's and it was either get chicken hostile or stop playing online. The game is only fun for me Hard Core so you can imagine my frustration over losing characters to cheaters that Blizzard was doing nothing to stop. Seriously all they had to do was make going hostile have to be mutual and people like me and three of my friends would have never used maphack. But instead they released Warden and we all just went to single/Lan games. Unfortunately we all got addicted to MH in the process. I just reinstalled D2 last month after about 6 years and am really hating not having MH. The biggest thing is having to stop at every boss pack and put the mouse over the boss to check for fire enchanted instead of the mini map telling me. This makes physical chars very annoying to play. Also not being able to tell things like if an item is Eth or has sockets without picking them up.kind of sucks. I don't know shit about computers so it was one of my friends that got us MH and another program to open all rune words, randomly spawn Uber D, and enable us to open Tristam. Knowing me I would end up downloading a virus :) Also wow I didn't know that about the mana/life balls. I tested it and my char just moved so I thought you were full of shit but I kept trying different places and it seems like it only works near the bottom.

[@suffy101]

...

[@MrTr4d3r]

Smiter again... poor guy

[@tran1705]

how can we hire the barb soldier ??

[@Modighen]

Act V, Qual-Kehk will make them available to hire once you free the prisoners from their pens in the Frigid Highlands.

[@kollenmigiu6085]

used only eletric wave far away in killing the garbage

[@Tyjohnable]

Why not just diamonds in the shield?

[@Modighen]

Mostly because his fire and cold were well buffed up and I lacked particular gear to get those boosted properly.

[@Tyjohnable]

Modighen I don't get it though the difference between a topaz and a emerald vs two diamonds is only 2% plus they boost the other two. So even if you didn't need the extra 38% it would give you more freedom to move around charms (if you use them for resistances). On one of my characters I just dropped some res charms to get life/mana ones for similar reasons. I think you just thought it looked cool to have resistances over 100 on the shield lol. Hey it's all good I've driven a convertible with the top down in 10'c weather :)

[@Modighen]

Tyjohnable It's a good point, really, I just saw that his lightning and poison res could use a big boost and was too focused on that.

[@FirestormDeath666]

2:00 Your welcome...

[@youtubesewers915]

You saving the un-used stat points and skills for resurrected? 😂™️

[@aliencatcrew3336]

Irony; I always think I'm not that good until I see someone else or everyone else for that matter, use a helper. I NEVER USE A NPC HELPER EVER!!!

[@aaronaustin9814]

It's called a mercenary and that's cool but nobody cares so be quiet

[@GenMaster]

@@aaronaustin9814 no you be quiet, triggered kid

[@aaronaustin9814]

@@GenMaster my comment is a year old so you stfu fucking scrub this dude commenting complaining about someone using a mercenary

[@GenMaster]

@@aaronaustin9814 lmao look at this angry bird 😂

[@DarkLeviathan8]

This description made me cringe. "... causing server crasher once the clan kids and..." lmfao are you really implying that there are kids who plays Diablo 2? Most under 18 probably don't even know that the game even exist..

[@Modighen]

+DarkLeviathan8 Heh. Kids in this case are a term for their maturity, not their age. A lot of the people still playing the game can be indistinguishable from twelve year olds who think the only thing that matters in this game is a top duelling character. To which I retort "what's it like to win a manhood waving contest by default?"

[@DarkLeviathan8]

Modighen Well my bad then, when you put it from that angle, you're totally right

[@suffy101]

i have been playing this game since i was 5.. now im 19 and still playing.. when your comment was writen i was only 17 so yes.. there were under age people playing xd

[@smiteriuszryceriusz1258]

man use holy shield next time...

[@hentaiprotag7122]

Aldur is druid set

[@Holyknoble]

Holy shild would help lol

[@pedroalvarez6279]

i won the battle with thorns aura ;v

[@silenthill5054]

78 lvl? Pff...

[@saragarcia523]

Me have lvl 20 paladín xdd

[@brunovallesmunoz4757]

Shitty loot XD

[@Danlovar]

Looking for trash loot?

[@abdullahdenizkanl3638]

I hate duriel :(

[@1337shire]

lmao.. melee paladin without holy shield big fail

[@chaseleim4773]

Horrible accuracy

[@laconchadetumadrexd4125]

No kill duriel set cleglaw? Hahahahha rookie XDDD

[@estring123]

ur gear sux ebotdz exile coh coa dracs will easily kill him

[@Harygoole]

this build is bad how he can dogging your attacks uh uh. High end builds cant miss 90% of attacks :-)

[@Modighen]

Hammerdin, Zealot and Smiter are meta for a reason, but is there a point to having another video of those builds? I figured that since Sacrifice is one of those skills that everyone ignores, would it be possible on budget gear to get this build past Hell Baal? And the answer to that question is "yes."

[@JohnnyCasey]

Ideal strategy would be two handed weapon with massive damage, like how you do with chargedin. I honestly don't know why did he even bother to go one hand if he's not even gonna use holy shield

[@GatoVetusto]

ERES MAL JUGADOR......ESTÁS USANDO MAL LAS HABILIDADES DEL PALADIN..............

[@Modighen]

+GatoVetusto Eso fue muy util. Gracias.

[@aurelionsolph]

No life steal.. That sucks dude.. You need life steal in order for SACRIFICE build to work, with DEADLY STRIKE on it.. PVP works well.. PvM in early stages, it suck because its an item base reliant build..

[@Modighen]

I had an Aldur's Rhythm with three Amn runes (for 31% life leech), plus a wand with life tap charges, which I used more near the end of the battle. Deadly Strike isn't going to help me much in Hell difficulty unless I spend a lot of time trying to trade for some crazy runeword, and I don't have the patience for the wuw/wug game anymore.

[@aurelionsolph]

@@Modighen yes many AMN runes will make it right don't worry much ill got this 👌👍💪😎

[@aurelionsolph]

@@Modighen btw.. Ill fine a unique weapon that has a lot of life steal and return damage and ill make it 6 socketed then put 6 AMN rune easy.. Dont worry ok.. 😎 Ill build one💪👍👌

[@smokeschill9858]

Noob 😂😂😂

[@danielandrews1801]

terrible lol

[@cangaceiro8855]

One of the weakest characters in lvl 73 i ve ever seen

[@mikelikesit2122]

Nub :(

[@alexanderwicked8990]

Nub is what you have in your pants. Noob spells noob you noob.

[@lolleonlolable]

did u wanted to show how bad u are ?

[@Modighen]

lolleonlolable I wanted to do something other than the usual fight against Diablo or Baal. I could have planned it better, but I think I'll leave it up to show that even half-assed, he's a viable build. I don't put up any video to try to show that I'm "pro."

[@d3ltaforcer3d79]

+lolleonlolable Did you want to show how much of an ass you are?