I Tried a Berserk Barbarian (HC, SSF)

[@wynniedenny1036]

I've been watching your videos for 3 days straight now while trying to finish each character ssf in hardcore. This is top notch content and I hope the list of videos never ends!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you! I have enough on my to-do list for years of videos :)

[@blazedehart2748]

This is probably my favorite video in the series. A full play through with Berserk is wild in HC. Also, the drops in this vid were just plain dumb lucky man. Finding Death Sash on a fresh melee char is insane. Bone Snap. Butchers Pupil. Eth merc wep. LoH. Wild drops for sure!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah this was a very lucky and very fun run to do. One of my favs to play as well

[@IM-xg2ki]

Love these! This is my favorite part of Diablo 2, the leveling and finding sick items and using all kinds of things that you never get to experience once you're farming 24/7 with a sorc/pally. Keep them coming!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you! Yeah it's my favorite part for sure as well. I rarely just farm for the farming anymore these days. They will keep coming! I have over 450 runs that I still want to do in just Diablo 2 alone

[@Tentin.Quarantino]

11:45 love this tune! Hades really does have some great music

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah the Hades ost is amazing

[@mikehawk8984]

Fuck! Thank you! I've been sitting here for like 4 minutes trying to rack my brain and remember where I've heard this music before 😂😂

[@thenuclearrabbit]

@@mikehawk8984 Yeah Hades is awesome. I'm getting pretty close to the Platinum on it haha

[@alexandrucirtu6506]

really enjoying your content! as a long-time D2 fan, seeing someone make cool HC & self found runs is really fun

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you! I've been blown away with how well received these are it's amazing

[@alexandrucirtu6506]

@@thenuclearrabbit yeah for sure! I bet there's a lot of people out there who really like this fast-forward type of D2 content

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Oh I'll mix it up with other games so I don't burn out but I'm planning on keeping this going for years. I have 100's of requested runs at this point. There's so many requests that I need to colorcode them in an excel sheet just to separate them

[@andrewcooke-hedin1903]

This was a cool video. Solo self found is my favorite play style of d2.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you! It's my favorite as well

[@rodney5269]

Actually the barb is the safest build because of his battle orders, you will always have time to exit the game before you instantly get one shotted and lose your character in hardcore. The huge amount of life pool makes the barb the most long lasting hardcore character in my opinion.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Eh, I can kill 'm all. I still wanna do no bo barb runs though. But I'm gonna get through the regular stuff before I do challenge runs like that

[@Aeriss169]

tnx for great content. Your videos is very calming to watch, relaxing

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you! Glad you like it

[@cacadodo666]

Nice!! My self finding frenzy barb had that barb luck, too. Rixot keen gambling low level, another dropped by Bishbosh and both upped in nm, hawkmail used all the way to hell, high mf dual res boots, 2OS 3 BO white helm made into Lore, Bloodletter and Butcher’s, Lightsaber on Hell plains, obedience in eth partizan on might merc with another hawkmail and tal helm, and finally a Lawbringer. That Lawbringer is OP! 700%+ damage to undead and decrep completely obliterates physical imunes and undead in hell.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Lawbringer is so good. It's the weapon your aiming for on non-berserk barbs but it's actually pretty hard to get in ssf. Those are some sick drops. Gratz!

[@kyrnsword72]

I love your quick to the point videos and the awesome background music! How you fo through the game with each character I seem to be playing wrong or something. Thanks for lots of fun there.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you! Glad you like them. There are many ways to play Diablo, none of them are wrong :)

[@knightjaz2598]

I love this video. I like that you didn't use double swing /frenzy and use respec like most playthroughs do. Awesome playthrough

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you! I try to switch up my starts :)

[@JayTheProduct]

Unbending will phase blade is my preferred option for budget zerker, hope you keep up this series.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I will do some other stuff in between because I can't do only diablo 2 for the sake of my sanity. But there will be much much more of this I've got like 75 builds that I still want to do. Edit* unbending will PB is a great idea I hadn't even thought of that!

[@luizotavioviana1826]

wtf dude, insane run, look at these drops!!!

[@derekgreen7319]

Lightsabre is super dope. That lighting absorb should not be overlooked.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Lightsabre is one of my favorite items in the game. First high end unique I ever found

[@FluffyFractalshard]

this was quite the interesting format to watch!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you :) glad you enjoyed it

[@brandongriffin4819]

Another great video in the books! Do you keep the characters from these videos if you make it through? I'd love to see further progress on ssf gearing. Another video that I think would be pretty cool is a breakdown of the important runes and techniques for ssf. I've played this game for 20 years but only recently started ssf play. It's pretty fun and a big change of pace from online play.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you. Yes, but I do start muling gear over. I could do a making of a SSF char for sure that sounds fun. Consider it added to the (quite backed up) queue. Yeah I've done online and stuff and while fun it's like a completely different game.

[@bayousurvivor]

My favorite build. Good job!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you!

[@plastichairball]

I've built a similar build and it's great. I find other builds safer and easier to clear but the joy of finding a new weapon is the best part. With other characters you're looking specifically for just a shield or javelins, but with a barb there's a wide variety of applicable gear!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah barb's versatility is amazing. I wish the masteries didn't force you into a certain weapon though

[@plastichairball]

@@thenuclearrabbit Absolutely. Barb is the only character I've used 4 respecs on in one play through for that exact reason. I found a really good maul and so I had to respec away from polearms. However, I suppose it's a decent incentive to earn respec tokens?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah it is but it's so rough when playing through the game the first time

[@93Beefcake]

There is something about solo self found characters that are melee that just keeps drawing me to Diablo my first playthrough was almost 20 years ago and with plugy I gave ssf another chance (bigger stash)

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Same! I've basically been playing for 20 years straight. This game is like crack to me. The bigger stash is a massive upgrade for sure. I use all 4 tabs. I don't want to run out of stash space ever and worrying about it is not a thing I enjoy

[@93Beefcake]

Imagine if they just added cleave attacks as a passive in the barbarian tree to make non whirlwind like „fury“ barbs viable

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I get what your going for and that would be fun. But Whirlwind is like the least viable barb build. Actual everything is better than whirlwind. It is the coolest though

[@93Beefcake]

@@thenuclearrabbit only because they nerfed this shit out of the skill because of some crying pvp players since diablo is 99% pvm tho i don't know what the point is just look at the attack rating and scaling of the ww skill it is nonexistent my last barb was a fury barb on plugy mod that has had cleave damage as aoe socketed jewel so thats why i suggested it for normal diablo aswell melee is comically bad in d2 and to be honest the games balance is just horrible if you think of it

[@timofeyzhukov-khovanskiy9173]

I'm debating weather I should do a ssf run on zerker or frenzy barb. I got a half decked out conc boy(Highlords, grief, fort and 4 piece IK) but wanted to do a challenging playthrough untwinked

[@thenuclearrabbit]

You can do 1 point into zerk and spec into frenzy, that way you get both

[@timofeyzhukov-khovanskiy9173]

@@thenuclearrabbit Yeah, I just get 1 pt in most combat skills for mobility and immunes

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah the barb is like 3 skills and 20 1 point wonders usually. Very enjoyable though haha

[@CyBeR1129]

Geez the drop is insane, everything is dropped what needed to be a stronk enough barb to beat the game :D

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah I found everything I could ever want on this one. Sometimes you just run hot

[@peterlustig1534]

It's you again 🤗 and it's 20 Min long 😍 niiiice!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@peterlustig1534]

Yes really good! I want to start playing HC and I have no idea how to survive, so I watch you to learn 🤗

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Someone asked for a how to SSF video earlier today. So stuff like guides have been added to the queue and will pop up eventually

[@ohly1290]

hey man, planning on starting such a character. just wanted to know why battle cry to reduce defense is not an option to deal with AR issues?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

It totally is and will work :) it's just not a synergy for berserk if I remember correctly

[@Tsteve0]

plz tell me you gave that Occy to one of your tunes????

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Ofcourse I did

[@ona6052]

Have you tried taunt and battle cry? I bet you would say "insane" but they both are amazing barb skills. Taunt is the opposite of howl and also disables range attackers, battle cry helps with low AR, especially on bosses.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I have used them before but my playing style has developed in a way where I don't regularly use them. I have been incorporating battle cry more in my more recent runs. I wouldn't say it's insane to use them haha. I know both are very good and it's a point of learning for me to incorporate them more

[@grif.n]

Does berserk just do more damage than frenzy? I have a frenzy barb which I think is better geared and I feel like I struggle much more than your zerker! What makes you so tanky with berserk compared to frenzy? Just the shield?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Berserk has more damage and it's also magic damage which ignores things like stone skin and physical resist. The tankyness comes with the dealing more damage. When you kill things faster there are less things hitting you. You also get to use howl to clear things 1 by 1 instead of just running in and hoping for the best

[@tonikoskinen3872]

Heya, any chance put skill tree / gear like in d2r planner?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I'm not going to. I used to but it's a bunch of extra work and my gear won't be good anyway cause it's ssf and I show the build at the end :)

[@tonikoskinen3872]

@@thenuclearrabbit i see thx

[@Mangakadenizgaming]

Lucky findings for this char lol good video

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah like I said I should have called him captain spoonfed. This guy found everything his heart desired. Thx!

[@Mangakadenizgaming]

@@thenuclearrabbit ^^

[@vladimirtchuiev2218]

I would actually be happy to see a run with Delirium, I've made it once wayyyyy back and was a ton of fun playing with it.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I'll add it to the to-do list. But no promises on when it's getting done. I have 100's of requested runs at this point

[@zengash7434]

for leveling what your recomend stats and skills? 1 - 30 30-60??

[@thenuclearrabbit]

1-30 just do whatever you feel like. Fastest is double swing with tal-tal-tal / Ith-El-Eth flails. 30-60 just go bo/berserk/mastery depending on what you need. Stats I go for 60 strength, lots of vit and I go for a bit of dex to boost AR. But it's very gear dependant. My final goal is about 10k AR. I'm working on how to make a good guide for stuff like this. I'm getting a ton of questions like this.

[@zengash7434]

@@thenuclearrabbit pls makes guide

[@zengash7434]

@@thenuclearrabbit about the build that you indicate I did one following the maxroll but when I got lvl 31 and did the respect as the guide recommends it was my abyss, I didn't feel good with the scream build the problem I'm at the beginning of the 5th act and I thought in remaking the char, because my char is bad to play mana ends very quickly

[@thenuclearrabbit]

You can put sapphires in your helm for mana. You can put points into energy. And you should be chugging mana pots every few seconds. If you can make it to cows or act 1 nm you can get a 4 socket weapon for your merc which can give you the insight runeword. Worst case you make it to the den in nightmare and respec again. Edit: I fill up my entire inventory with mana pots every time I leave town. You should be able to bring 25-30 pots with your belt filled up as well. That should keep you going for a bit Edit2: you should also try to get spirit swords. They will help you a lot

[@IIGrudge]

Always appreciate the humor in your vids. Can you talk a bit on the skill progression, especially in normal? How much did you put into howl, etc ? As a Barb I always struggle at Act 4-5 because you haven't found a decent weapon and your attack rating is shit. Any tips?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

The skill progression is very feel along the way. If I need damage I'll pump mastery, if I need survivability I go into howl or bo harder. Act 4-5 I tend to use a blessed aim merc, mastery and some attack rating items. Charms, rings whatever, I also put a ton of amethysts in weapons like I did in the video it really adds up

[@venomslayerx177]

Angelic Amulet + ring = attack rating issue. make sure u add enough dex to compensate the rest comes from your lvl vs the enemy level.

[@derekgreen7319]

Cannot be frozen needs to be on more items. I'd settle for like a craft recipe that just makes a cannot be frozen on a ring with no other mods

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I would like for it to spawn on rare armors mostly. I would redo crafting completely if I were to design the game. There are like 3 relevant crafting recipes that you are happy to use

[@Dadlevel99]

Do you keep it P1 or go up and down through out the run?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I go up and down depending on what I want to get. I start off pushing the playercount as much as possible but lower it when I just want to move things along

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Hopefully you do it again this time leap barb or throw barb 😂❤️😎

[@justinsavedra7633]

Made a summon druid. Spirit sword Spirit shield. Lore helm. Got me pretty damn strong

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Nice :)

[@UOGMathRoden]

Max Heart of the Wolverine + Might Merc and you run over everything like a truck lol

[@foxsmith5718]

Biggins Bonnet and Pelta Lunata in 30 minutes of the game- ... not even at Andy yet, and YOU got the GG (hard to find) items-

[@thenuclearrabbit]

To be fair act 1 is the best place to find those items. But yeah still nuts I got both

[@foxsmith5718]

@@thenuclearrabbit yes, YOU can farm an SOJ in nm classic easier too- We only have 3 rings- ... xpac has like 7 rings-

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Fair, I did do that in one of my runs.

[@petriruuskanen7804]

Won Diablo fight as lv29 barb by using TalTalTal bow.It does 225 poison dmg.Same with Mephisto.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Hahaha nice. I use tal tal tal flail all the time but never even thought of doing it with a bow

[@DM-sc9rg]

I just found my first ever soj offline hssf so badass

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Gratz!

[@mannsoemoehtike721]

I just notice that your background music is from Hades right?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah

[@Wacck]

Would you say this is the best barb leveling experience?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Either this or warcry. If you go just 1 level into berserk you can spec it together with frenzy. As well which is nice. I usually level with double swing and only pump damage skills till like end of nightmare. If you use like a black or a strength you can use that to hit like lvl 60/70 in nightmare. Oncr your ready just farm mephisto nightmare till you find a weapon. It'll never be fast but don't be afraid of going lower difficulty with higher player count. P8 baal isn't to hard and can get you lvl 50 with a bit of grinding, it gets better from there but it'll always start slow that's just how the build goes

[@shayjenkins6641]

I did this very same thing a few years back. I did finally succeed but being a hardcore self found barb is a challenge 🤣

[@thenuclearrabbit]

It could be because I got super lucky with items this run but this went very smoothly. It was a very sweet run though for sure.

[@gabrielnagy1164]

btw, why are you not using battle cry? that -25% dmg and -50% def is insane for berserk against any enemy

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I should have. Just forgot about it

[@derekgreen7319]

I'd watch you do a full playthrough. You should stream one. I like when you do the melee characters but I'd watch any character type. I promise I'll make a donation if you do a stream

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I have thought about streaming before but I want to focus on KZbin first. Between work/life/youtube I sadly just don't have the time to do it all. The thought of someone donating is very flattering. I'm grateful that you would even consider that. Thank you

[@derekgreen7319]

@@thenuclearrabbit understandable man! If you ever decide to stream on KZbin though, I'll definitely watch!.

[@wynniedenny1036]

@@thenuclearrabbit

[@cooldogdude2225]

Awesome video

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you!

[@sjok101]

hearing the bgm makes me want to play hades lol

[@thenuclearrabbit]

It's been recommended to me a ton. I'll probably do a video of my first playthrough very soon because the game looks really sweet and the soundtrack is amazing.

[@financebeaver]

What's your favorite ssf barb build? I'm debating between this and singer barb. SC so survivable isn't an issue.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Both are very safe. The berserker is a bit more challenging because it's more item focuses (you need a weapon and stuff). The singer is a bit easier cause ypu just go double spirits and that will easily carry ypu through the game

[@financebeaver]

@@thenuclearrabbit thank you! I will give singer a try since it’s my first barb ssf unless I dropped a butcher pupil like you haha

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Even with the butchers pupil the singer is easier. You have piles of hp and everything is stunned. Bossfights are very slow for a singer but it's an excellent first ssf build because you can just go double spirit stealth lore and it covers almost everything you need.

[@CASSD2RTV]

Berserk + howl Barbarian is good for hardcore, killing only Unique champions

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah this was a very solid run for sure :)

[@peterlustig1534]

Do you know BT Diablo? Would be awesome to see you play this mod 🤗

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I know of it but I would need to buy the game again on pc to play it.

[@peterlustig1534]

@@thenuclearrabbit damn that's right 😅

[@jpatty5964]

How are you barely getting hurt even with 0 defense?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I have so much hp nothing deals relevant damage anymore. At 2800 hp nothing can really kill you anymore. Other ways to do it are using howl or battle cry. A holy freeze merc also does wonders for survivability. Defense doesn't matter at all unless you get it to really high numbers

[@eagleriver900]

Self finders are the top

[@thenuclearrabbit]

They sure are! SSF runs are so sweet. I'm so happy people like them

[@Harok9]

Was this Online or offline?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Offline

[@mihata-gaming]

Quite fun run!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you! It was a very fun one. Highly recommend it

[@mihata-gaming]

I like the way it is presented even more. I did a run on BTDiablo recently. I will try to edit it like yours

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Good luck! If you have any questions on how I did things just ask

[@mihata-gaming]

I am pretty new into the venture of video editing. It will be a thing to do during nights when my wife is asleep and I can't talk out loud. 😂

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Good luck!

[@kristopherleslie8343]

We want more

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I'm working on it :) thanks for the support

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@thenuclearrabbit dope

[@venomslayerx177]

make sure u have crushing blow you should be chunking his hp down early on.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Who do you mean?

[@venomslayerx177]

@@thenuclearrabbit Crushing blow on gear is % damage to hp on bosses. Auto attacking builds as in none magical skill builds get crushing blow same with ur merc. Winged Helm *guillaumes 's Face 35% goblin toe boots 25% = 60% alone. So when the battle first starts out you will do a lot of damage right away to them because of their massive hp. I almost have every build on d2 completed then ill upload it to my youtube channel and ill link u a hell baal fight showing u how fast crushing blow eliminates baal and elites.

[@venomslayerx177]

Also for auto attack builds check out Angelic Amulet and rings combo to double and triple your attack rating if you're under 85-90% you will miss a lot and see that white dodge marker constantly.

[@venomslayerx177]

@@thenuclearrabbit kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIvImaKapsmUY8k Hope this helps :).

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Uhh yeah I get that. You just didn't specify where I didn't have CB. I mean I did most of this run with a Bonesnap that has 40% of it

[@jedrusnowak3317]

playing barb as ssf start is painfull

[@thenuclearrabbit]

It's very safe though :)

[@jedrusnowak3317]

@@thenuclearrabbit yup. But melee isbtotaly underpowered. Everything is worse and its usless for mf

[@nikolatripkovic9134]

👏👏👏

[@thenuclearrabbit]

:D

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Barb is easy just reroll whatever weapon you want. I base off savage polearm recipe and reroll

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Still only gets you so far. Really need something more

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@thenuclearrabbit like what 😂

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Just farm some uniques or runewords.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

I enjoyed Barbie with leapattack didn’t need much till hell

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah leaper and leap attacker are both very fun and are on my list to do as well! People really don't know leap is one of the most broken skills in the game. I'm curious to try out leap attack with the new aoe as well

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@thenuclearrabbit definitely works

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Get a big weapon and chipped gems and reroll. That’s about it :)

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I'm thinking dual spirit, but it always depends on what the game gives :)

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@thenuclearrabbit actually no you want a big 2 handed weapon or 1 weapon with decent ED and a spirit.

[@MrTroxism]

first time i see diablo 2 on controller 💀

[@thenuclearrabbit]

It plays a lot better than I expected. Not perfect, but still very good overall