Let's Play Diablo 2 - Paladin Nightmare Difficulty Guided Playthrough

[@Elliotfan09]

I havn't played in like 12 years. I installed the game and start following the video in an online game. Some guy joined and asked whats up. I told him I havn't played in a while and I was following this guide. He said brb and came back and started throwing all kinds of gear at me. Cool community.

[@d_no_allyn_86]

One of the best, if not the best. Hopefully diablo 4 brings us all Back and it's another 2 decades of great diablo glory. Hopefully it weeds out all the d3 shit people. Lol.

[@mityakiselev]

PogU

[@appalachiabrauchfrau]

​@@d_no_allyn_86 it won't, we still play on d2 too, might want to avoid it as well.

[@jackfeeney7885]

@@d_no_allyn_86 To be fair before reaper of souls i thought diablo 3 had the best community in a game i have ever played (i havent really played d2 multiplayer and dont know what is going on with it)

[@Hungryj1111]

D3 hardcore community is great… will d2 res have clans??

[@prestongrizzard6416]

D2 will be played forever. Your insights and dedication to the community is unparalleled.

[@MrLlamaSC]

Should we take this Paladin and try some undergeared/underleveled ubers?

[@illusion-]

Make a black rw

[@xilendorf]

Why not?

[@LuciferNS]

Yes and remember to do the runewords correctly :)

[@LtSMASH324]

Yes please!

[@GuyDudeman97]

Id love to see this

[@LonestarNomad_]

Your patience with us in chat is astounding. Mythickitty is legend. #PoundSquad

[@majorgecon4698]

it makes me so happy to see people enjoy this game

[@MP-cf3pr]

Me doing play along: “Ah, finally have my Tal and Eth runes from Countess!” Meanwhile MrllamaSC: “And congrats, you just beat Normal with your pally!” Cuts back to me: “I ducking what mate?!”

[@wheelchazeal8089]

🤣😂

[@marianmarkovic5881]

Lama pretty much streamroll entire dificulty in time i go truth 1 act....

[@a-aron14]

Dude you are totally reignited with all the D4 energy. Much love for crushing this game still and holding the torch. Definitely my favorite of all time, and I'm REALLY hoping D4 does the trick. Keep it up!

[@Moorb0y52]

Rip :(

[@duncanedgin9433]

D4 didn't do the trick I'm afraid

[@stitt11]

MrLlama’s guide to pounding dudes part II! I haven’t been this excited for a sequel since they announced D4 Lolol

[@MrLlamaSC]

lul

[@Zer0cul0]

30:00 Really breaking it in. *Watches Llama make a fist.* Gotta just give it a good pounding.

[@d_no_allyn_86]

As long as we all know what kind of pounding you mean, it's cool. Lol.

[@MicaelSG23]

Hello Mr. Llama. I've found out about your channel last night. I'm an old Diablo 2 gamer, but I'm still learning a lot about the game, specially about mechanics and loot drops. Thank you for this guide. I always sucked playing as Paladins, Amazons and Necros. I'm looking foward for all other guides. Please continue these. I've also followed you on twtich, so I can get your next live streams. Thanks again!

[@datiger39]

You still playing Micael? You digging D2R?

[@phantomfade3398]

These let's play runs are great, I mean I learned from your regular speed runs on how to use the character but this is much more helpful. Thank you

[@linkdam]

I never thought I could learn more from this game, great job at theses tutorials Llama !

[@ImaBearOk]

I was doing NM ancients on a HC Sorc for a friend back in the day. We were both messing around and meleeing the last guy down. I was lvl 80ish with nice gear and still got one shot by the fire enchant.... I learned the hard way about fire enchant

[@rastorres1]

I'm playing again after 12 years passed since last time. Soooo good!!

[@nocturnal5784]

Is a great game, never will die.

[@eddiekelley7524]

I was rocking along in nightmare until I hit the maggot cave in Act 2. My hammers just constantly banged up against the wall. I was guzzling mana. Positioning was like trying to move around in a casket. Mobs could be kited to a limited extent. They wouldn't go around corners. Sometimes I found mobs in front and mobs behind and couldn't hit either regardless of positioning. This cave ranks among the highest unfun experiences in rpgs. I finally hired a pikeman and we moved through the cave with relative ease since the mobs are actually easy kills....if you can hit them! Sometimes the pikeman wouldn't go around me to attack and that was frustrating. I'm sure better players figured this cave out and breezed through, but I'm just a normal player trying to run in a nightmare game. I've never finished hell and that was before the very helpful videos like Llama we have today. I hope to have a better result with all of the help from this video(s). Thanks

[@mykhalable9433]

I have this reoccurring dream where I go fly fishing with my two little sisters. While wading out into the middle of the river, my foot and ankle become lodged between two rocks. I am stuck; and when I look back toward the shore for help, my sisters have transformed into the pigtail-murdered twins from The Shining. As I fruitlessly attempt to recover my mobility, my sisters continuously chant, “Will you come play with us?” I awake at this point, drenched in sweat, still crying out “No!” Do you ever have similar dreams where you are stuck in a stream, bombarded with already answered questions, repeatedly?

[@kingkrankSPW]

nice.

[@MrLlamaSC]

oh god

[@JeffBarberDigideus]

Stop eating cheese before bedtime

[@diegowfrk1]

What the hell, i started playing this game in 2000 and i literally never seen that nest as boss group on 12:50 hahah, amazing.

[@Elrinth]

yeah I never saw that either. but the game probably changed alot of the years and they might've patched it in.

[@ronnie9379]

I was in disbelief when you started spitting Pi, and in even more disbelief when you stopped only cus you were getting tired, not cus you reached your limit. You're a genius Llama

[@MrLlamaSC]

Just some memory stuff from back in highschool!

[@samuelkim5174]

i can't believe people still plays this game, and after watching him made me download the game again lol

[@stzawadzki]

I'm considering buying Windows to play this game :P

[@trattorettoteto]

I went and bought the original and expansion due to immediate nostalgia strike watching him play :)

[@HyperNovington]

when a game is well made it's hard to drop.

[@krasimirapostolov8469]

@@HyperNovington се проведе,,,,,,

[@krasimirapostolov8469]

@@HyperNovington се проведе,,,,,,

[@racer927]

That conversation in regards to thinking about combat is a neat perspective which I do appreciate where you have to consider immune enemies. One the opposite end, I'm also a fan of Torchlight II in the way skills are handled allowing either a broad variety of skills or speccing into a single tree since nothing is outright immune. I think it does make up for that with the proper difficulty selection, since any build can work in Casual and Normal, especially skills that compliment each other, while Veteran and Elite is more like this game where you need to study effective equipment and skill builds or you're just going to get flattened not even halfway through Act I. There are some Hammerdin-like skills that you always spec out like the Engineer's Healing Bot (health/mana regen *and* an armor bonus) and the Embermage's Prismatic Bolt (five homing bolts that are spectral hits). tl;dr, I've grown to enjoy Torchlight II's skill system where you don't need to think too hard on the easier difficulties as long as you can use them in ways that compliment each other like following up a Chain Snare (an AoE grappling) with Ravage (an AoE slash)

[@jamesmc0716]

Only started playing D2R when it came out on Xbox a few weeks ago and your videos are amazing so informative and helpful in explaining the myriad of things going on in Diablo 2. Thank you thank you!!

[@tekofalco103]

the set and unique drops on this char are crazy!

[@iwinl0l]

@6:55 totally thought that user name was "my thic kitty" for a second lol Looks like chat had the same thought lmao

[@ricardoao19]

MrLlama, keep up the good content. I really enjoy this guided streams, since I'm doing a zealot and taking my ass beated at nightmare. Thanks for the tips!

[@micahreeder1707]

I played D2HC for 10 years and had 2 accounts full of level 98-99 HC toons when I stopped playing. My Enigma WW Barb SpareChange was a HC Dueling legend US East HC ladder with stash filled with ears. Quit playing when my level 99 Javazon got nuked by lag spiked hell souls running bail runs for friends... lag spiked... frantic jamming alt+F4...loaded back in to a cloaked tune... that was the last time I was willing to let hell souls and lag nuke months of grinding... then I stumbled across your videos the other night and immediately downloaded the game lol.

[@zollof6699]

I have never been able to remember the Tomb order until your explanation here. GJ.

[@TheMythriel]

Was working through Arcane Sanctuary and got an awesome drop of a 4 socket Herald shield with +11 resis all! 4 perfect diamonds later and now I'm rocking that with my Spirit Sword and pretty much MF gear everywhere else!

[@yossefelkilany623]

You have got one of the best smiles I have ever encountered , spiritually before physically!

[@evernight5084]

We are enjoying the guided playthrough. Will love to see more.

[@wheelchazeal8089]

The commitment of Twitch chat to the “pounding dudes” joke is admirable. 🤣😂

[@laru09]

Thanks to these videos I finished hell for the first time ever with my sorc a couple of weeks ago! Now I'm going to try the pounding-din

[@blackbeardbarkbark]

Super hyped for this series

[@jitjit2x]

This video made me play d2 again. Just finished my norm hammer pally and norm sorc. Tnx mrllamasc

[@loichockey1]

Those are really nice due to all of the advices, tips and tricks. Keep it up!

[@bowlock9901]

Loving the new content MrLlamaSC!

[@HugSeal42]

I like the comment about infinite progression. If there is infinite progression that just means that progression is useless. There is nothing to progress towards and any progress you make will be infinitely irrelevant if aiming for the ultimate build.

[@ethandaley69]

12:50 THIS JUST HAPPENED TO ME ON MY HELL DRUID! Wow first time I've ever seen it was like 20 minutes ago and now here we are and it's happening again. I thought maybe my game was kinda glitched at first or something. So awesome!!

[@Nneoh1]

Thanks to you I just have killed Baal for the first time on Nightmare, being able to now step into hell-mode ..for the very first time in my life. Thank you Llama!

[@Tio.Maneco]

Hey bud, great videos!! I Know this is wa very old video so I'm not even sure if you'll reply. But right now I'm playing Hammerdin on nightmare and I got the HoZ shield. Just wondering if I should use the socket quest on it and what should I put on it? perfect diamonds to get the resistance the highest for HELL?

[@StealthPig42]

These videos are so good man .

[@Blueridgedog]

Getting ready for "remastered"...trying to figure out the class to play. Back in the day I did zealer, windy druid and ww barb (I have a hard time with fragile toons). I always hated the lack of aoe. I am thinking a hamerdin. I tried a zon and a bliz mage this week in order to "train" for the release, and they have such a hard time farming in hell, limited to such specific areas due to immunities.

[@djnorth2020]

This video helped my hammerdin staying alive staying alive a ha a ha a ha a ha. Biggest thing I'm getting even as old time Diablo player is, don't pick up everything, don't kill every regular monster.

[@bulent.kalafat]

That fist magic find response to the 400 dollars was one of the best contents I've seen on this channel

[@jimmyggs91]

3:10:36 KAREN! Poor bot, she's beyond redemption now, chat corrupted her XD Besides all the trolling, good run MrLlama. Excited to see the Hell run and Ubers maybe?

[@gameaddict6969]

Can you do another one like this but in hardcore? This is what I've been working on for months. On my 7th try and it's way different only having 1 life. I'm stuck in Hell difficulty and would love to see the way you kite,cast, and tackle some of the magic and resistance problems. Also, where is the Hell mode of this 3 part series Hammerdin let's play?

[@froggythekid8955]

Good lord that twitch chat is obnoxious, regardless thank you for these guides, they are very much appreciated! 🙏 😀

[@supersmash8388]

There's really nothing fun about immunities. It just means stopping all the time to switch skills. It isn't difficult, it just breaks up the flow of the game, over and over and over again. Oh look, there's a fire immune group and a cold immune group hanging out. Hit em with one skill, switch to the other, over and over until they're all dead. On a controller, it would probably be fun (especially if it was D3-style where pressing the new button fires off the new skill instead of just switching to it), but not on a keyboard. Unless you're one of the weirdoes who likes mashing keyboard keys for everything. To that idea, I press "F." (And the reason people say they don't like Hammerdin is bc he is just super strong. Even if he had to rely on elemental skills and had to switch to them over and over, he would still be overpowered.)

[@Eugenes84]

I’ve been playing diablo 2 off and on as long as so many people, over 20 years. Even after hundred of hour of gameplay I’ve never done Ubers. Please walk them though with us. It would be much appreciated. I would be excited to do them for the first time.

[@aaronaustin9814]

You on West ladder or you a single player Master race type person?

[@proximityAlert]

Could you perhaps talk briefly to some different Paladin builds that are endgame/high difficulty viable other than Hammerdin? What do you prefer to play/what do you consider the most *fun* pally builds other than hammerdin?

[@MrLlamaSC]

FOHdin, hammerdin, smiter, zealot, auradin, chargelot those are 6 decent ones you could play around with! I've tried all of those and enjoyed them in different ways

[@Warcrafter]

I think a more concise way to explain breaking immunities would be: Immunities are 100% resistance or more. If the spell lowers their resistance below 100% you can deal damage. the higher over 100 the harder it is to break e.g. it would take -50 resist to take a 125 resist monster below 100 (not sure on that math but thats the idea)

[@kas1778]

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[@hscar20]

A quick written guide would be sick, kind of like what you'd find for PoE builds on their forums. What to farm for at what level, what runes you need, what points to assign where, etc.

[@ChugThatEstus]

And here I am in nightmare act 3 with my hardcore self found warcry barbarian shouting a mosnters nonstop. Why haven't I picked an hdin =_= Just kiding even tho I don't need guides, love you content MrLlama ):

[@TheMythriel]

At about time marker 47mins, I'm listening ahead while finishing all the quests in Norm Act 5, and Nihlethuk drops the Magefist gloves right when you were talking about it! My MF was 65! Crazy odds how things happen like that! 🤪 I put them in my stash and I'm keeping the MF going!

[@chrisflaig5157]

Dang it... Now I'm going to have to make a pally after watching this...

[@msarilyn7677]

An Ort + Sol Lore Helm would fix lightning resistance at the start here. Not too hard to get the helmet in act 2 normal and get the runes from the Countess in nightmare.

[@mityakiselev]

I also memorized π up to like 100th digit in school when I was bored. Didn't have anything to do or any friends -to do- so I memorized numbers, like a true nerd. Although funnily enough, I can't name it in English or follow when you say it fast. As a non-native English speaker, I kinda have a little bit of lag with numbers, when I speak it in my head in Russian, I say it sorta as a rhyme, a mnemonic technique, so writing it down on paper, typing, or translating it to English is a little off. Maths teacher here #πgang

[@MrLlamaSC]

love it!

[@aa65064]

I‘m a Diablo 2 player since day one but I haven’t played in like 12 years. I always had a MF sorc to equip my other chars. I am tempted to play the game again but don’t feel like having the time to play several characters. Is the paladin viable as only character? I mean magic find wise. As hammerdin certainly, since it was one of my mains in one season but I had the most fun with my Zealot that I created for ubers.

[@Coziest777]

51:12 the true origin story 1:13:01 Llama flexing pi knowledge

[@NatuRElated]

2:12:45

[@Ghost-eu1rg]

“Give yourselves the clap” always gets me 😂

[@LastAphelion]

I laughed so hard @ "pi isn't infinite it's less than 4"

[@Humantelope]

Let's paladin through guide nightmare play episode 2 Diablo Edit: love mister c throwing out the silly text to speech right away.

[@WOLigma]

Started nightmare on my hammerdin yesterday finally grinded out my spirit that was my first weapon upgrade since act 2 normal lmfao. But now I’m ready I’m gonna try to farm some uniques. I’m going for TANK boi with guardian angel 90 all resist it’ll be fun, until enigma that is

[@michaelfawcett9935]

...I see a Gem Shrine in Blood Moor at least 1 out of every 5-6 playthroughs...so either I'm very VERY lucky or you need to rethink your explanation for that.

[@ValericiusVocari]

You should try 'Throne of Darkness' (2001) game. It's ARPG with Japanese mythology and you play 7 heroes (4 are active at most, 3 are resting).

[@MrLlamaSC]

I'll have to look it up!

[@Destroymaster100]

so for hammerdin mods/stats that are embedded in the gear. you want to look for mods like +skills, +FCR, +FHR, +RES, when farming for gear right? am i missing something? Faster block also im assuming and max defense 75%?

[@chiseler151]

has anyone done treehead woodfist runs? i wanna see what he drops

[@WatsonatorSC2]

It's 2 years later during the D2R release, but I figured I should include that I died to a fire enchanted explosion in NM before Baal xD

[@Ails1234]

2:49:06 I died to a fire enchanted + cold enchanted countess in NM, dunno what she dropped and didnt bother to run back to check u.u

[@xregularxjohnx]

Hello, I am from the future. You can now craft Spirit in single player and non-ladder multiplayer D2: Resurrected.

[@thomaschristensen5621]

How would you go about finding a 4-socket sword for Spirit at the start of nightmare after you've used the socket quest in Normal on the shield?

[@MrLlamaSC]

Gonna have to just hope you find it at that point! Just gotta farm areas and pick up socketed swords there

[@hansa5867]

Honestly, the whole "illusion of choice" argument is dumb. Saying that HoTo is the best is a null argument, at end game, there are very well defined and well tested guides that some super nerds have minmaxed. But if you play the game yourself, levelling up and what not, that's where the decisions are. You can always go and read a guide for any game. But in these old games the unbalance is real but not always clear, the gear is seldom well defined with iLvl and what not that determines exact quality to make it equal with all other gear with the same ilvl. Some end game items are trash whilst some early game items are BiS.

[@HyperNovington]

Any tips on finding diamonds. I made it to nightmare but I'm having trouble with resistance. I'm playing in plugy. Where can I find a pally shield with resistance. I check shield but never see anything with resistance on it.

[@Elfcheg]

35:46 "I feel I should be a rapper". You knew that already, didn't ya?

[@synthesis9957]

Yooooo hope your youtube grows with d2 resurrected comming

[@fabeys2816]

Llama, your latest video made me reinstall this gem of a game. Absolutely having a blast with my Hammerdin. Found an early gull and rocking that mf 😂 Ran a few nm andy runs and found a unique 50 ics dagger with 10 all res and a helmet with 20 faster run Walk and al res. Build my runeword shield and am rocking like never before (note: i played this game 15 years ago on battlebet and didnt know shot 😂

[@Entertainer114]

I feel like this channel is singlehandedly tempting me to buy a new computer so I can simply reinstall this game and play it after a 15 year absence from PC gaming.

[@aa65064]

Eric Nyberg dude this Game runs on a potatoe. Any used 150 bucks laptop cuts it

[@ZergrushEddie]

3:15:37 Big disagree here. The worst unique is not Venomward but Stone of Jordan. Why else would so many people vendor them? :P

[@BorisAnatolievich]

I am confused about monster res, always thought it can go down to -255. Different sources of info give different result. Also i think it is 1/5 effectiveness of anything that is trying to lower resistances with above 100 value, how come? UPD: now passed part with 1/5 divider explanation

[@vanxius15432]

Still loving your videos

[@Yslohr]

Io Dol and pounding jokes will never stop just like the restraining order running gag. Please send help.

[@ChubbsRN]

I'm loving the twitch chat. So many hilarious moments. I've been wondering, where did the Io Dol meme originate from?

[@MrLlamaSC]

who even knows. They start something and just latch on. I never even failed a white wand before lol

[@jakubany]

I just started playing this game... thx to your videos... i have a questions... can you socket items like the tyraels armor or other rare stuff? and what would you put in those sockets?

[@MrLlamaSC]

Ya you can put 1 socket into them. Depends what you want! More MF? Runes, jewels, gems, the world is your oyster!

[@jakubany]

@@MrLlamaSC :D So cool man. This game is so addictive... Tbh i wouldnt be playing this, cause I just didnt get much of the stuff. I mean i was grinding allready as a kid this game but i came from diablo 1 and didnt get the skill trees at that time. In diablo 1 you had TOMES. So it was more obvious. and after few hours i stopped playing it. Didnt wanna play a game where you have to run away from a group of 4 mobs. Few years ago i came somehow to the Diablo 1 mode called Belzebub... I dont know if you heard about it. Was crazy difficult, i feel even more difficult on Hell than this, so i never made it through Hell there. I had to install the Pluggy mode cause i just couldnt bare it to throw away all the good stuff that i found with amazon, and when i see you throwing away all the Porn-items for other classes makes my stomach crawl :D And paladin is definately my next character to go and play it. Sry for my bad grammar, im from Germany. And thx for your VIDS!!!! PS: Will have to donate soon if i would be on when your streaming as my gratitude.

[@Ex0rz]

Too bad when leveling up your first character you wont have 4 perfect diamonds lying around for that shield :D Currently got one and one flawless.. I have probably finished nightmare before i hit 4 perfect diamonds. I guess it doesnt matter that much as long as i stack lightning res vs Mephisto etc.

[@brandenoconnell5539]

Gem shrines he has videos explaining them and how they function and 4 sock pally shield is actually pretty to easy to get🤔

[@sonicman86]

Especially if you are trying to farm a place, or even play /p8 for more drops, how do you avoid the over leveling penalty? Everytime I try to farm countess or Andy for decent gear before moving forward, I start getting overleveled

[@ЛеняКоромыслов]

please make playthrough melee assassin through hell with emphasis on tanking

[@MrLlamaSC]

Could be a fun playthrough in the future!

[@TheGosslings]

Currently replaying in Nightmare with a Lvl 57 Paladin, primary tools are Vengeance and Conviction. Any advice from my fellow demonslayers? The Ancients are wiping the floor with my face!

[@safarfsaf]

Farm mephisto for better gear. Also drop a shit ton of potions on the ground so you can grab them as you use them off the ground. Also don't be scared to reset if their affixes are cold enchanted. Try to separate them. If you can shop for a tele staff you won't regret the time.

[@TheGosslings]

@@safarfsaf Man this is absolutely killer advice. Thank you! I've never had that much trouble with them. I can only imagine what they are like on Hell difficulty. The cold enchanted really defeats me. Good idea on the drop too!

[@TheGosslings]

@@safarfsaf Man thank you for the advice on the Ancients! I was finally able to best them once I employed Salvation for elemental resistances and frontloaded by dropping a ton of health and full rejuv potions around the Summit. Just about all of them came in handy! You're the man, thank you! If I ever went back and wanted to "farm" them, can they only be farmed for XP since they don't provide any drops and (I assume) the 10 stat points and 2 skill points they give are a one-time thing? I tried finding info about this online but came up dry.

[@marcfrijlink5272]

@@TheGosslings Those are a one time event because of the quest. If you want xp then just go for the throne room on players x.

[@Makaveli-7DT]

I'm curious if u can bug Andy in Diablo 2 Resurrected

[@mk-pp3rw]

Paladin best class in Diablo 2

[@Belfor09]

1:35:20 - what's skill GC? Or whatever he's talking about. Someone could explain?

[@xilendorf]

Look at that gorgeous thumbnail

[@kosterix123]

Do I understand correctly you play hammerdin on clvl 59 with p/8? What build is this?

[@Tarturis18]

Commenting because MrLlamaSC told me to!

[@Lucas92191]

I cant believe the drops on this run. Also, the durance map. Llama, how old were you when you hacked your first map?

[@MrLlamaSC]

lol it has been amazing this run

[@kevinparis6782]

Is it true if you are farming in arcane sanctuary to never kill ghost on steps because drop can fall into space and you can’t get them?

[@msarilyn7677]

The monster mechanic that can return in D4 ? Immunities of course.

[@heroesofruin27]

I have 200 magic find on my hammerdin is that good or should it be higher ?????¿??????

[@dylanbisson9780]

As a HC player your HP management gives me anxiety

[@georgemamasoukas9630]

Mr Lama why do you play on patch 1.14D and not 1.14C??

[@aventh1114]

Loving your playthroughs! Could you do one on battle.net for all of us who cant play the same mapseed over and over again?

[@MrLlamaSC]

when ladder resets I could consider doing 1 on bnet. The big difference is just...when you farm you need to know maps a little more :D

[@aventh1114]

@@MrLlamaSC Yeah still suck at that even after all these years lol. But also all the strats resetting bcs of immunitys become more punishing.

[@ivanbutcharsky4790]

Does it metter if i make a runeword in a item lvl 20 or item lvl 80+? The item will have the same stats? Didnt play diablo for over 10 years😅

[@berlinerjunge]

Love this Series, really helpfull

[@chosensmoker]

do You have any other build for paladin in pd2? maybe tesladin or for fist of heaven?