The History of Tristram Speed Runs

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Diablo 2 LoD started it all. And now, in D2R, players are setting World Records rapidly running Uber Tristram Speedruns. You're not going to believe how many times this record has changed hands this week!
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[@Coooley]

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[@阳明子]

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[@WNxZerker]

Well done, that's some Quality content right there!!. Thanks for putting this together, much enjoyed

[@hokkypro]

G2A is the worst place you can get keys.. How you are shilling this in 2024 i have no idea. Have you ever researched why the keys are so cheap?

[@barial1]

I used to love G2A back in the day, haven't used them in years though. Keep hearing horror stories about fake/stolen keys and how hard it is to get a refund. Glad they're giving you a bag but I'll probably never use G2A again

[@phillystevesteak6982]

@@hokkypro Ive used g2a literally dozens of times. ive lost count. Ive gotten insane deals not offered anywhere else. never had a single issue. not one.

[@LuckyLuciano6]

This video is incredible, learned some history I hadn't even known! The friendly competition has been some of the most fun I've had in D2. Here's to breaking more barriers!

[@Xtimus]

Liking this video = 1000% Magic Find

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Only 1000% I have 9000%!

[@goatunnheim]

Rewatching this video = 3 high runes incoming

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@goatunnheim nah bro 😎 10

[@xledgeandairyx]

Liking this comment = 10,000%

[@ossada]

Like = 1% mf grand charm drop

[@goatunnheim]

Love this video! 4:50 Correction: Monster levels are 83-86, but the bosses are all 110!

[@Coooley]

Even in patch 1.11? Pretty sure they USED to be 110 (Ghost fix with the exp nerf)

[@goatunnheim]

@@Coooley Not sure (haven't played 1.11 myself). If minions have level 110 (and give xp), then running Tristram is faster than TZs!

[@Coooley]

@@goatunnheim It was by FAR the best way to level in the game's history. Sucked going back to CBaals after that

[@aleksandarcvetkovic5436]

I am playing 1.14d. Can I run Tristram event in single player?

[@goatunnheim]

@@aleksandarcvetkovic5436 (Edit: see below)

[@SebastianBohn]

Tales of Sanctuary at its best. Thanks a lot for this history lecture, Deckard Coooley.

[@Coooley]

Just tryna protect 'em from being lost forever :P

[@off-meta-michael]

I would lose my mind if the standard of heroes became an item for some new content

[@akindel6590]

This comment gave me a physical reaction. I would laugh so god damn hard

[@PixelPerspectives222]

As long as you activate the soul killer A5 dance glitch first - you go to act one and drop a wirts leg, and 9 ears from fallen foes into the cube it’ll open up Secret Uber Cow level… not many knew about that though….

[@BH-gh6qm]

@@PixelPerspectives222 full of shit

[@Royy]

@@PixelPerspectives222 the uber cows end up resurrecting diablo, baal and mephisto again

[@trialnsuffering9731]

Standard of heroes and the perfect gem activated will always haunt the community.

[@KevinCarlino]

This was a great video Coooley! The legacy to D2R graphics transition was sick. Could also do one on the progression of low-level fights against Diablo Clone, 🙂.

[@Coooley]

Thanks, man! Glad you saw that and enjoyed it! I was actually thinking about that the other day... Seeing just how low we could go with levels vs DClone. The history of THAT challenge might not have much to it... yet.

[@KevinCarlino]

@@Coooley maybe time to do some more theorycrafting 😎

[@davisranick2853]

I can remember thinking u could only spawn 1 portal and it was random. First torch took me a bit needless to say.

[@Coooley]

People used to try to trade the organs, you remember that!? Back before they figured it out.

[@darkhorsedre]

@@Coooley "O Orgset N xx"

[@xPremo_]

Great Vid! Historical Vids are always the best.

[@Coooley]

Been a while since we dropped a "History" vid! Felt good.

[@xPremo_]

@@Coooley Well Done brotha!

[@daniellassander]

My first character that league was a light sorc because i really wanted to try out infy. I am good at trading and finding things that are worth something to other players so i also got rich very very fast that league. My second character was my first attempt into uber trist, a double swing barb because i have always hated paladins in all its forms due to how boring they are to play. Now i had no clue what i was really facing but everyone said "no spellcaster" so a barb it is, and since its bosses double swing is a lot better then whirlwind. On my first attempt i got three portals up, but lillith was really fucking rough killing my merc in like 2-3 hit and me in like 2-4, that was when i realized that res was very important, so i stocked up on psn immunity potions for lillith and the battle was easily won. My first attempt in uber tristram ended in disaster, i ran into meph first (when they had random spawn points) the conviction aura just killed me and with no other resources to go for at the time it was a failure. But i also knew what was actually killing me, the convition aura, so the next day i sold some stuff and changed the enigma on my barb to a Chains of Honor and swapped the rare jewel out of my arreats for an um rune. Second attempt was straight forward and easy, all in all maybe 10 minutes but i never cared about how fast i could do it. My choice of weapons were also suboptimal, i was playing with botd ba and beast ba. Even though a lot of players said that grief was better then botd. By then a metric ton of smiters where offering uber trist services on the condition that if it was a pala torch it went to them. Personally i never bothered about it just setting an easy price of 2 ists for a guaranteed torch if they had the keys. So all of a sudden i had a long cue of people wanting me to do uber tristram leaving all the paladins in the dust. Now it wasnt the fastest, my only source of cb was gore riders, and with the still random spawns of the uber bosses and finding the organ holders my average time was roughly 5-7 minutes. But getting on average 20 ists an hour and a cue to last me for weeks, it made me from very rich to insanely rich. First order of the day were changing my 2 +3 bo spears to 2 cta 3 because lillith hits like she has been working out every day with a very very hefty dose of growth hormones, and mephisto were still dealing a lot of damage. Second order of business lowering the time, so the first thing was changing gore riders for goblin toe and arreats for the set item helm with cb. Swapped botd for a good 39x grief, swapped coh for the assassin runeword armor that could proc fade. Still doing the organ bosses with enigma of course and i got the time down to like 3-5 minutes. But never any lower then that.

[@Mynmeisjeff]

The way you integrate that 80's music into your videos hits another level. So good man.

[@psychotic4560]

You make top tier videos when you try, Coooley. I wish you produced more, brother. You're a natural story teller.

[@joestewart4444]

If only Mrllama could make content like this........ Cooley is criminally underrated

[@TheTuttle99]

Mwah! *puke*

[@KH-zo8zm]

Llama has made it pretty clear he doesn't really care about the KZbin game, he's just a twitch streamer. You can just enjoy both for what they provide lol

[@4acrehome168]

Probably because he doesn’t take sponsors who buy game keys from stolen credit cards

[@user-xe8vi8ud4n]

because that's not his goal. he speed runs...

[@oriondx72]

@@user-xe8vi8ud4n yup he hes very good at it. he's my favorite d2 streamer.

[@Jay16872]

Uber trist leveling was my jam, used to self-run it. 3 d2 loaders, 2 hammerdins with left mouse skill holding shift generating hammers and 1 bonewall necro manually casting the wall. Did this crap in hardcore too...Good times. Made a lot of forum gold on d2jsp back in the day

[@junkequation]

I haven't played d2 in a while and still consistently enjoy watching your vids. Really good job on this stuff.

[@Gabimaru_HoIIow]

I love these kinds of videos.

[@videozoom12]

Anything Uber content related is amazing! Keep the Uber content coming! I do wish the standard of heroes thing did something or was useful in ANY way

[@DustinFette]

I spent so much time in Uber tristram when it first came out. I lived there. I remember falling asleep one night and when I woke up my friends were still going at it.

[@akindel6590]

I actually played D2R after retiring from D2 in 2011 after my son was born just to try Mosaic when it came out. That shit was so fun

[@lefter700]

Thanks for the video! Even though I occasionally play this game nowadays, It's nice to check in with the community I lived my childhood with. Cheers!

[@SlimFarmer2023]

Tristrun-01, some of the best games of my fucking life.

[@bendoubleu7516]

The mystery of everyone figuring it out was awesome. I wish they would do something like this again

[@Odinoian]

Excellent video, Cool. You are fantastic commentator and you shine right here. This is very high quality content! I hope creators like Summoning Salt etc see this and perhaps share it. That would be awesome. Keep up the good work!

[@mihata-gaming]

Great support for the whole community!

[@FoolingAroundMyPlace]

4:10 showing the updated version of the torch... the old ones had 25% chance to cast lvl 10 firestorm

[@ImTheImmortalGod]

I love this type of video. So glad it was documented so well.

[@WhyFacetattoos]

I remember when d2r launched i was so bummed there was no guber leveling

[@Rvscariot]

Awesomeeee video bro ! Congrats

[@Hmongboi228]

As usual, great editing and commentary. 🤝👍👌 Your videos NEVER disappoint even though I'm a D2 Classic (non remastered) player..

[@rah-rah]

Great video, good memories from back in the day and got quite rich selling keys, torches were such a hustle to sell. You should make a video about that :D How ppl would cheat in every way with torch dropping trading in public games. GL HF!

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

I do not know how you KEEP doing it. Another amazing video!!!!!!

[@kevonn5622]

thank you for this video Coooley! I quit during 1.10 and came back for D2R so I had no idea about the story

[@Micloren]

Is the "Standard of Heros" verifiably useless? Or is it actually still an unsolved mystery?

[@TruthGatherer2013]

D2 Lod literally took over 10 years of my life. That's a lot. I wish I would have been born earlier to play D2R instead.

[@Stratocaster42]

Excellent video, Coooley! Summoning Salt vibes ❤

[@Garrett8817]

uber t added 19 years ago.. crazy. feels like yesterday we were trying to figure out where the keys dropped. trading them for godly items

[@TheSilv3r]

Nice video!

[@DeuceOnFace]

i cried watching this video, thank you cooley.... thank you

[@Coooley]

Me too, man. Me too.

[@GilgameshGDLK]

Surprised they haven't made runewords for other classes like they did with Mosaic... it's so overpowered.

[@richarizardthomas493]

Awesome video Cooley. Your content is great bro. Keep up the good work!

[@DAILYSMAK]

Definitely miss the 98-04 era from kid to teenager all on d2

[@Guigzibit]

Absolutly amazing video, thanks Coooley ! Love your content

[@drewg2403]

Uber lvling, can confirm. We used to jam a nickel between CTRL and SHIFT and spin away.

[@alexandermilne7460]

i hope 1 day we find out what standard of heroes does, or they make it used for something. maybe transmuting it with something else to create another portal? or item? etc

[@joshmartelli3094]

man makes me wanna play d2r again just dont feel like the initial farming haha wud take like 3-4 days to get fully geared having not played in a while

[@Daemoknife]

You're the bible of this game bro. I have no idea if that was your intentions to begin with or if you just went along with it by doing videos but to my very eyes, you became the actual GPT of Diablo 2 😂❤️

[@barial1]

Damn, the summoning salt homage thumbnail was dope

[@ChaosFonja]

i love these vids. learnig about the orgins of the shit i never figured out as a kid is so cool

[@toumoua6596]

What was the song at the end?

[@allanturmaine5496]

This historical content is amazing.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Excellent video ❤

[@romanlevit3847]

The 1 to uber speedruns are to die for.

[@mr.patrick3855]

Any chance you could share the song at 2:42

[@eternalgamingforum7562]

I was there all those years ago. (I am one of the crazy german guys that did the naked ironman hc + first ueber naked ironman hc)

[@celoot33]

Ahh good times leveling in ubers

[@ItsARCHIEftw]

This video makes we want to discover the mistery behind the standart of heroes.

[@drewg2403]

So what does the standard of heroes do?

[@geritreutner9798]

really enjoyable video my man❤ keep it up

[@jonathan9128]

What's the song at 11:11

[@nitemarebear1037]

Standard of Heroes in your inventory prevents you from losing experience on death. You're welcome.

[@MikeyStreet314]

Another great upload !

[@walidd4]

Brilliant video what a grate pice of history thanks Coooley you rock bro

[@AverageD2rPlayer5835]

skibidi

[@Coooley]

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[@CaptEvidence]

The new record is something is almost 20 seconds faster than 46seconds

[@CaptEvidence]

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[@phucnguyen0110]

Thank you for the history lesson!

[@dino6080]

❤❤❤

[@Coooley]

My guy!! You're always such a SAVAGE! Thanks, brother

[@dino6080]

@@Coooley 😌✌

[@gg-gn3re]

we used summoner necros back in 2005-2010, definitely not pioneered in d2r lol Poison dagger definitely a new one though

[@sladebrannon6917]

You’re the best. Love all of your vids bub

[@Serpher1]

We need to know what's with that banner.

[@alexest2665]

the John Cena music was so spot on. POG

[@stupid_fix-wo4ve]

thought it was the portal to act 5 in classic (no cap)

[@tacos4078]

I wish I had my character's still..I would smash all of this lol..I had crazy crazy builds..I was even able to kill bots back in the day.

[@RickBomhof]

shout out to my boy @kano

[@goldmagicfind]

coooley so op damn

[@andy02q]

What about UberS from lvl1 SSF?

[@goatunnheim]

I suggest Kano's videos. He can beat Ubers in 4 hours.

[@stupid_fix-wo4ve]

also, ... question, how hard was it not to show the unid torch being id'd as a druid 12/12

[@lechtaczka1272]

Purpose of the Standard of Heroes haunts me to this day.

[@jordanlewis4308]

I remember hosting Uberlevels for easy fg

[@jasonhumphreys7110]

Great video

[@graemescott1140]

Oh how I remember people getting ripped off for standard of hero’s lol

[@kamildugosz7280]

didnt spear amazon did it in 20s?

[@romanlabin5833]

new ASSA dragon tail record 38,8s ))

[@mutant8273]

Due to lack of time, I only play offline and the biggest difficulty is killing Nihlathak and finding the keys. The rest is easy if you have... Smiter😂

[@lukeknopp4267]

WHAT IS THE STANDARD OF HEROES FOR AAAAAAA

[@Skulm]

Hey Coooley, thanks for mentioning my run in such a beautifully created video. Great work and much appreciated!

[@Mcbuggler]

Hey Skulm, you got me into running some uber speedruns on my summon necro. I came so close to beating you on my first ever try, and didn't come close after lol.

[@Tizniz]

It pained me to see that smiter in Uber trist without fucking life tapping once.

[@Coooley]

Yeah. That smiter was a NOOB

[@lordzhangfei7534]

I love Ubers and still think I'm the only one to ever beat it with no attacks, AFK. Never got into speed running but also think I hold the lowest life (121 hp) run all time. There are endless ways to beat it now!

[@Coooley]

That's insane!

[@jameshaulenbeek5931]

That was an absolutely sick run!

[@lordzhangfei7534]

​@jameshaulenbeek5931 hell yeah man, pre sunders too. Maybe another pacifist run will happen with the introduction of sunders using only one character. That would be crazy

[@redeyez444]

Yea ok keyboard warrior

[@lordzhangfei7534]

@@redeyez444 lol, huh?

[@jeffdavis9962]

Coooley: *uses Punch Out music* Summoning Salt: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@Coooley]

Salt = Legend of Suspenseful Story Telling

[@Tizniz]

The good ol days. The thousands of key runs. Such a great patch. Back when blizzard was good.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Now I’m gonna go bug goat 😂❤

[@Coooley]

I LOL'd hard at this

[@goatunnheim]

That's the video you were talking about 😎

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@goatunnheim absolutely

[@kristopherleslie8343]

I’ll know I made it when Cooley has me in a video lol 😂

[@Coooley]

You never know LOL

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@Coooley when I see you take a puff, drink and laughter and my name called! I’ve made it 🤠😂✅

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Now you gotta report on the LLDs that beat Ubers too! That’s a major accomplishment

[@Dragon-bl2qd]

This video was a cinematic masterpiece... I was always on the edge of my seat and it took my breath away. Keep it up Coooley!

[@Lotussta]

coool your videos just keep having mad production value, wildly well made sir thank you

[@kristopherleslie8343]

A new and mysterious

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Smiter and Dragon Tail could delete them lol 😂

[@Coooley]

On Players 2?! CB doesn't work as well :(

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@Coooley yea :) try that now. I needed to bug you about something anyways. Is there a limit or buffer in place to max damage being applied in 10 frames?

[@goatunnheim]

Dragon Tail has a bug of not doing damage every other kick (if not more). Until they fix it, DT is not as good as Mosaic Dragon Talon.

[@kristopherleslie8343]

@@goatunnheim dragon tail would be used with mosaic. Just like we were talking there is a way to trick the calculation.

[@xledgeandairyx]

If I could like a video a million times, this gave me goosebumps! Your videos are amazing from the content to the narration music everything you are a beast💪

[@owlpierce5171]

I remember back in early days, people ran public uber level games all over the place, i reached 99 on so many characters so fast, this was also a really efficient way to get perfect torches since you had 7 other players there and it dropped torches for all of them. Torches during those times were just a typical thing that even low levels would have and people would have multiple accounts with countless mules that just had torches. Good times and I really miss those days.

[@roguethemachine3928]

you forgot to show screenshots of original torches they used to be 25% firestorm

[@gamertyper6476]

its incredibly sad that they don't bring new content to the game. D2 has to be my all time favorite game. I know it's just an issue of monetization, but they aren't even interested in trying to figure it out to make it worth their company time.