I Tried a Dragon Talon Assassin (HC, SSF, NO MOSAIC)

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SMW 2: Yoshi's Island - Flower Garden
Donkey Kong Country 2 - Primal Rave (Recreated)
Brood War - Protoss 1
Castlevania - Symphony of the Night - Overture
Super Mario and the 6 Golden Coins - Athletic
Metroid Fusion - Boss 4 - Ferris
Pokémon Red and BLue - Kanto Trainer Battle Theme (Dance Remix, GlitchxCity)
Donkey Kong Country 2 - Crocodile Cacophany (Fan Remastered)
Silent Hill 2 - Forest
Diablo 4 VoH - Lingering Hatred
Silent Hill - Silent Hill
Rockman X6 - Amazon Ruins (Commander Yammark Stage)
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[@DonaldBarringer-i5c]

Just finished Looter's new video. back to back baby.

[@jcase123]

Korean lore from looter, Eminem lyrics from nuclear rabbit. Perfectly balanced

[@DonaldBarringer-i5c]

@@jcase123 as all things should be.

[@looter_game]

Kick only? Ok. you inspired me. I'm going to play Smite only. 🔥

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Smite only is much stronger cause it has ITD. Good luck!

[@aleksanderadamiec5953]

Looter, zarfen and nuclear rabbit are like unholy trinity of D2 :D

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thanks haha :D

[@StevenJeffrey-h2g]

Nuclear is the funniest of the 3 !

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Not saying I agree. But not saying I disagree either

[@zarfen]

That's some nice loot! 👀 Also very funny that you ended up with plain white boots to go with all that other gear! :D

[@TastySouP-ic7kq]

@3:50 your kicks base damage is based off of your boot’s flat damage combined with an equation, using your strength and dexterity, that also provides flat damage to your kick. Then strength double dips and provides the +% attribute damage as 1.2xstr, that combines with dragon talon’s +% skill damage, might aura, etc. Much harder to stack in hardcore, but just enough hp, and a ton of strength goes a long way. Awesome video, it was fun to look back on an old build, keep it up!

[@Evil_Arthas]

Usual melee experience in D2, high risk - no reward

[@ValterMarink]

Silent hill music on the background, a man of culture

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I've been enjoying watching people play the remake :D

[@ValterMarink]

@@thenuclearrabbit didn't know there was a remake, gonna check some videos. SH1 is one of my all time favorites, and the OST is out of this world

[@thenuclearrabbit]

It's 2 that got remade. It's not trash which honestly is all you can hope for with this series. Fully agreed on the ost being amazing I have the whole thing favorited on Spotify

[@Lanstat]

Bro started rapping at 2:39

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Just casually throwing out my own lyrics you know :D

[@DMBlade4]

Wow, Reaper's Toll is a crazy find. That's amazing

[@tecnicadellamoto4903]

I have been inspired by your videos, and I recently made my own journey into the the hardcore mode SSF, and the first guardian few days ago has been the Dragon Talon sin (what a coincidence!); I finished Hell at lvl 82, farming here and there (not being as lucky as you were during your run), and playing with player count (all normal P8, hell mainly in P1). Few tips I have learnt: might merc is the only one to pick up (he basically doubles your damage) while act 3 fire merc is really a valid option for normal and beginning of nightmare (and he would have taked down the physical immune in hell, but he would have cut in half your damage output). Contrary to my believe, death traps are quite useless for dealing with physical immunes, which have been taken down by the shadow warrior (20 hard points); continues recasting her close to Akara she comes up with a black right hand weapon (cruel modification, 200-300% ED), you have to be quick since she starts casting fade, blade shield and venom (then both weapon will be green and you can't know what she was spawned with). Once she casts fade, she becomes immune to all 4 elemental sources of damage (!!) and thanks to 40% phys res by default at the end she is quite tanky. Then I used Peace rw for armor in swap for the lvl 15 Valkyrie cast (when you swap it out she is still there). For early levels I suggest to focus on elemental damage: 2 socket claw with RAL-RAL for 10-60 fire damage before the end of act 1, and the rest will be a breeze: act 3 fire merc will help later on. At the end my build is very similar to yours: 20 points to dragon talon, shadow master, death sentry and fade (this one only 19 actually), 1 in dragon flight, CoS and MB. My Gear: strength rw in greater claw (never found a 2 socket greater talon for -30 ias), rhyme shield, bulwark helm, duress armor (Peace for valkyrie precast), res or AR thrash jewellery, venom grip, upped goblin toe (replaced with scarabshell, never found higher damage boots, I tried few times shopping them from anya or gamble them, but the % are really low, around 1-2%). STR 170, 90 DEX, 250 VIT, 20 unused, 45% CB, 6500 AR (angelic combo would have helped a lot), 1300 hp (with fade resistances were overcapped, and a 35% physical res in total with bulwark). Merc with Kelpie Snare (75% slow) and smoke (capped res). My goal was to get hustle rw for both armor and secondary weapon, or Lawbringer (decrepify is a game changer) but KO never showed up (looter and you get all of them!!). Main strategy is quite simple: Cloak of shadow, cast 2 death sentry in the feet of the enemies, teleport the party there and start kicking to make the first corpses, then everything blows up. For tough fights (Death Lord PI, might or Fanaticism aura, Lister) mind blast from far. All done at the very first attempt (hell ancients and lister too); never used save and exit strategy nor reset skill points. First time I tried hardcore, and had really good times. Oh, and if you think that too many spells are to be binded, then try the martial art sin (claws of thunder/ice/phoenix strike) and you'll find out that another keyboard is needed. Good job mate as usual, see you next time.

[@Morninglightwga]

Your content is getting better and better! You’re very entertaining

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you!

[@ChrisStapper]

Its not a sin to kick ass. In fact, I love this talon asskicking. I'm glad you didn't let this video fade into nothingness. I hope you had a fire blast filming this :)

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I'm just happy chasing the Dragon :D

[@ChrisStapper]

@@thenuclearrabbit Glad you kicked everything but the bucket!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

That would be a tale to end all talons though

[@Gopiciko2]

that Eminem line was just pure perfection :D

[@thenuclearrabbit]

:D

[@Gopiciko2]

@@thenuclearrabbit also, can I ask you for a recommendation? Im gonna play HC amazon and have Thunderstroke and a few good bows in my stash.... what build would you recommend for making it to the end of the game for a first time amazon play-thru? I dont mind taking it a long time (just finished assasin which took me like a month to get thru)

[@Grey-1447]

So many kick puns afoot. I'm surprised you didn't imbue those white boots.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

It's been a long while since I did this run. But I think I just forgot about the imbue

[@timofeyzhukov-khovanskiy9173]

That vipermagi is def a collectible item. Like a 10/10 barb torch

[@thenuclearrabbit]

If I had infinite character slots I would totally keep it haha

[@shaneanigans440]

Despite your abhorrent luck with those resistance rolls, looks like you sloughed your way through hell pretty decently.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah but that was definitely thanks to the thresher though, that thing solo's the game

[@shaneanigans440]

@thenuclearrabbit For sure. Definitely a great find for your follower.

[@dimimat]

lol , the comedic moments were 100% on point , much love, thank you for the video

[@ragnar3434]

After all this, one mystery remains. What is foreshadowing? The riddle is unanswerable.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

No one knows :O

[@noos48]

This is legit fun, currently playing D2r Reimagined mod, with the melee splash damage unique charm.

[@Dinicorps]

At 9:44 you were saying you're annoyed that you didn't get "Cannot be frozen" for Duriel fight, but Duriel has holy freeze aura, which applies a special kind of cold that isn't blocked by "Cannot be frozen", it still applies chill effect anyway

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I know. But he hits with cold damage as well which does apply seperately, meaning at least his direct cold damage could be prevented with cbf. Making the effect much less horrible. I could also just have chugged thawing pots I now realize

[@Dinicorps]

@@thenuclearrabbit oooh that's a good point, I never thought of that! Great content, keep it up!

[@Emiljantzen]

I was so confused by the john Lennon pun. Right up until you said the word beetle. One of your more sneaky ones for sure. Great vid as always 🎉

[@Jak_To_Mozliwe]

You said it was a sloppy run, but this "sloppy" run was much better than almost all my runs, as only one char I was able to run through hell. And I'm playing since the very beginning. Ancient just took my pleasure, I'd say. :P

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah but I play professionaly as my job, which is a whole different ballgame compared to just enjoying the game and having fun with it :) and hey 1 is not 0. You got it done!

[@TickleFFA]

Love this vid!! Just saw it recommended after looter. Earned a sub fam!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you! Welcome!

[@skops7343]

How big are these run video files you have sitting around on your computer? Has to be massive.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

They are between 150 and 350 gb depending on the length of the run. The final result is usually just a couple of gb. I churn through terabytes of raw video every month

[@Ch-thalassa]

you make puns about kicks thru the whole video lol. very fun haha

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Glad you like the puns!

[@Playburger1337]

Loved as you kicked the eminem lines :=)!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

:D

[@MrRRoyal]

Why do I always hope that you start singing "1000 Miles" from Vanessa Carlton, when you begin a sentence with "And then we make our way down..."?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I don't know that song but I'll look it up. Edit nvm I know that haha. Never knew who made it

[@jonathanarie2813]

What do you MEEAAANN, brother... you are breaking my heart...

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Do you mean the trang-oul run? I finished recording on that one

[@jonathanarie2813]

@@thenuclearrabbit the hype is real

[@thenuclearrabbit]

@@jonathanarie2813 I did not realise the hype was this real. Next video will be Trang Necro :)

[@dvhunter7455]

🙋‍♂️ 7 kicks = kick kick kick kick kick kick kick +Ass 😊👍

[@oblivix1]

Kyoko Ono... Omg😂

[@absalomvane7776]

At least you used Cloak of Shadows, haha!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I used more than that haha. I used all the things.

[@liffordius8630]

Yet another God tier drops run, you sure you don't have the streamer client installed 😝

[@thenuclearrabbit]

We don't talk about the streamer client ;)

[@liffordius8630]

@@thenuclearrabbit keep cranking out these bangers man! Also have you given any thought on a discord?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

@@liffordius8630 Will do :) Your free to make one, but I'm not interested in managing more things currently. I'm always short on time as is.

[@liffordius8630]

@@thenuclearrabbit well I have no way of contacting you outside of this and I do believe it's TOS to provide links in comments

[@thenuclearrabbit]

[e-mail]

[@TheGeniesis]

If I remember well assassin is now better ubers killer than smiter (kill in less than 1min) :)

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah the mosaic sin, but I kind of meant for ssf runs. But to be fair I should have specified that

[@BergSlays]

Yooo! New video, let's go!

[@marcelwiesbeck]

The Eminem lines 😅💪💪 Great video m8💪

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you!

[@tlee656]

That was 3x Ko's you got in this run!! INSANE!

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah it was wild :0

[@opengrapefruit1534]

cool video one thing would make it a little cooler. if it was uploaded in 1440P

[@thenuclearrabbit]

1440p on console plays bad (it's choppy) otherwise I would have no problem uploading at 1440p.

[@jamesharrison5420]

Why not use cold steel for 50 ds? Or does it not work for kicks. Love the builds

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Deadly strike doesn't work on kicks afaik. But even if it did I would take the 40% CB over it. Thank you :)

[@shiva5949]

as usual, nice story telling, nice journey😉

[@Dinicorps]

For your frosty knowledge 🙏

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Thank you so much!

[@GriefGrumbleTheMauler]

DT is now uninterruptible, right? Loved a Dancer with Voice of a reason in PB: multi-orbs flying in all directions is not what you see everyday. I remember something called "blender" - similar multi-proccing Sin build that used Blade shield. Emerged in some patch beta, was quite good. Ofc Blizz couldn't have that and nerfed it to 0. Now you can only get remotely close to that with Rift and spamming Blade shield - dubious pleasure. But with additional gear might be niche-viable. Because of knockback DT was quite dangerous in Legacy: multiple-enchanted unique monsters. Could be mended with swap-cast, omitting the last kick, preventing the knockback. Might merc could've increased your damage by 30%+. Because of Fade's %DR, it's relatively easy to reach a cap of 50% - Tankysin! Maxed SM with maxed Fade often can tank Lister. I personally dislike Venom: numbers seem good, but you don't hit every 0.4 seconds - you hit much faster. I never really played Dragon claw Sin. Considered her as a DT option for Ubers in Legacy (short sequences are better when interruptible), but I never saw a good guide. Calcs tell 50% more DPS and slightly less AR. And no knockback. Wear any boots, but worry about claws. Among all your amazing finds, I celebrate Angelic wings (ring is easy to find). Without it, you'd need to pump up Dex so hard. Even without Reaper's, it would be much more tolerable than without the amulet.

[@MakutaBrainhax]

you could've imbued dem boots.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yes, I said that in the video. That I had forgotten to imbue them

[@M0nster0114]

Where I Kick WOOD!

[@davesafish]

Wait, you never imbued those boots?? Great video though.

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Nope I think I just forgot I had the option. Thx

[@Anog_kc]

Please make a Bow/throw Paladin🎉

[@thenuclearrabbit]

I've added it to the requested run list. Gonna be a while though the list is huge

[@Dawit49]

I dont know why. But playing with controller makes it looks like a kid game

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Weird looking kid game

[@xlatheblackdragon705]

miltank solo run next plz ty

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Lol what. What would that even look like?

[@Karlsruhaider]

Supermario 2 🥳

[@thenuclearrabbit]

First game I ever beat as a kid! It will always have a special place in my heart

[@Karlsruhaider]

@@thenuclearrabbit good ol game boy first generation times

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Oh yeah good times for sure. My hands were barely big enough to lift the damn thing and I spent all my allowance on batteries haha

[@Karlsruhaider]

@@thenuclearrabbit same here, damn batteries 😄

[@lolwhatidk]

fade op

[@fabriciofenryir397]

Chun li build?

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Ooh I didn't make that connection at all until now. Good one!

[@prepthenun]

im here to kick gum and chew ass

[@goatunnheim]

so ez

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Ezpz

[@rykox8877]

yeye run is from a year ago huh... not when you were piss drunk or anything haha

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Haha I get what you mean but I haven't had alcohol since 2018

[@rykox8877]

@@thenuclearrabbit damn bro thats a lot

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Yeah it's cause of meds. If I ever get off them the first thing I'm doing is getting absolutely smashed though haha

[@rykox8877]

@@thenuclearrabbit thats super understandable and you should stay clear 💪 the world has other fun stuff to offer, like grinding d2r until even it gets resurrected haha

[@thenuclearrabbit]

Never stopping the D2 grind haha. I'll be a 100 years old with a controller in my hand grinding mephisto haha