Can You Beat Diablo 3 Without Weapons? 

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I just heard that and was about to comment, I burst out laughing

I haven’t been following D3 the entire journey, but the game is very different now compared to what it was at launch. I enjoyed the release version too, but I think I might have some selective memories because I know there were some really bad stuff in the game.

As someone who's been playing since day 1 I can say you missed out on 11 great years that you'll never get to experience now. Kind of dumb to not play through it at least once before deciding.

@@JohnDoe-ld8nr I'm glad you enjoyed it, but I think it's "dumb" to force yourself to play a game you don't enjoy. I don't regret stepping away or else I'd have missed out on playing many games I liked instead.

Thanks! Glad you like the videos!

Thank you, I’m glad you liked it! I really want to do another D3 video soon because I’ve got the itch to play it again

Did not know that, thanks for the info. That explains why it felt like he drops it so often, haha

A legend, RIP

Yeah you are right. I never faced Diablo with a crusader before so it was a total surprise when it happened!

@@zarfen The fact that you increased the difficulty to Torment 1 probably didn't help matters lol

@Linkforlife199 haha true

I haven’t beaten GR150 at all 😅

I want to do more challenges in D3 in the future.

@@zarfen Very cool!

I didn’t research too carefully but isn’t that just for looks? He still uses weapon damage for everything right? Or maybe you mean for the flavor and in that case I totally agree :)

I agree with your comment. I think D3 is a fun game, but it’s more of a “hack n’ slash” action game than an rpg. I enjoy playing it from time to time, but it couldn’t keep me hooked like D2 does. In addition to what you said about skills, gearing also ends up being pretty shallow in the end game, since all the best gear shoehorns you into a specific build. Like the sets that grants a skill +10,000% damage if you use it in a specific way

@@zarfen yep. The itemization in D3 is quite bad. If you want to be optimal you have to use one of those 1000 percent damage builds. Also crit chance and crit damage percent was king. Really pigeon holed the gear hunt to main damage stat and crit stuff. Just kind of boring to me. Guess I didn't want to just make a here's all the things I dislike about D3 comment. Tried to rein myself in. The story was minimal in D2. Some act cinematics and basic quests, but that worked a lot better to me than D3 and 4s story(azmodan greatest general of hell telling you his next plan every step of the way, etc). (admittedly didn't finish D4, but don't like the follow x npc to y spot so you can then talk to them). I know some people love D3 though. And I got to watch a cool video thanks to you. Never thought of a no weapon challenge since everything is tied to it. Some of the initial controversy was funny to me. A rainbow!? Over a stream of water during the day?! This isn't diablo. D2 had plenty of color in it. It's the tone of the story and the lack of rpg mechanics like skill points and building a character that I didn't like about it. D4 went dark with the world and story but the skill tree thing is pretty shallow and more importantly the items are boring. Anyways. Rambling too much. Back to reading my book.

I need to play more of D1. I never really played it much. I had a friend who had it on the PlayStation but I didn’t “get it”, and didn’t get into Diablo until Diablo 2 came out

@@zarfenIt's a very good game. Doesn't have the depth that D2 has but is a lot of fun & still holds up today

Any suggestions about some kind of interesting challenge you could do in D1? I’d like to play it more but currently I don’t feel I have the time to game outside of when I make videos for the channel.

@@zarfenOne that fits into the spirit of this challenge and the D2 no gear run you did is to beat all 3 difficulties using only cursed items on a Sorceror You start naked, have to pick up and identify everything, and if you find an item that gives negative stats you have to use it. You can use spells as you normally would Not sure how it would go from scratch, since cursed items are only found on the first few levels for the most part. back in the day we used to twink these chars with the worst cursed items we had for an extra challenge😆

@Nisi1 thanks for the input. I didn’t even know about cursed items 😅

Thank you! I really appreciate it

:D thanks!

That explains it

@zarfen yeah once the difficulties got reworked from inferno to torment they kind of made torment 1 the new "hard" and master, expert and normal into normal, easy and "here for the story" difficulty

Naked? Without any gear? I didn’t even think that would be possible

@@zarfen After some Research i think i Mixed something… my fault Buddy

Wait, I didn’t know about that! I guess this challenge won’t make it to D4 😜

I checked it 6 months ago. Things could have changed.

@mihata-gaming I want to do some kind of stupid challenge in D4 eventually so I’ll have to look into it.

​@zarfen there are companions so you could try a gearless build for druid, sorc or necro. New dlc comes out too and there will be mercs and a new class. Thorns would be funny but its also pretty strong on tiers 1-2 so it wouldnt be much of a challenge

Only thorns? From the very beginning to the end? How did you do it, any tips? I was researching such a run but it seemed like thorns was so rare to find, especially early on, and also very low damage for a long time.

Interesting! I didn’t know it worked that way. Seems very effective but a little bit cheesy

@@zarfen it is a bit cheesy, and it is more useful in season leveling when people only care about the time it takes to reach 70

@doctort2853 ok yeah I can understand that

100% I forgot how fun it is to play “casually”. If you don’t feel you need to use the best build to grind for highest GR, there so much variety in builds and playstyles too.

right now anyone can do 150s even without heavy grinding because of the seasonal bonuses. try it@@zarfen

I saw that a new season just started. Might have to give it a go even though I probably should make videos instead 😅

My main issue with D3 is that I beat it on my first run with zero deaths. I'm not a smart man, so I don't think it was skill. Just didn't really feel like a Diablo game :/

D3 doesn’t really have a real difficulty. You just set the difficulty slider to as high as you can still kill basic enemies very quickly and go. Before playing D2R and PoE I thought the difficulty slider was fine, but it’s really not that great. Makes it a good game for challenges like this because without being on torment 1 while doing the story everything just tickles you.

I don’t remember this item so I looked it up - and wow that would really enable a thorns build!

Not sure! Are there any skills that scale off something other than your weapon? Except for this video I haven’t played much d3 in a while so I’m not too knowledgeable about the classes at the moment.

not cool to see how ugly this game actually is XD Holy shit is it that hard to bring high quality texture patch to this game?

@@EnderElohimdoesn't look that bad if you play it. looks better than d2r

@3 Hell no i opened diablo 2 resurrected diablo 3 and diablo 4 back to back and diablo 3 seems bad than a mobile game. And i saw people even do reshade stuff for diablo 3 to make it looks infinitely better so what stop blizzard from making a texture patch. Textures are clearly way too low quality or and resolotion So basically playing diablo 3 again ruined my memories XD now i wonder how the fuck i ever played it.

Did you stop playing, or do you go straight to bounties and rifts at level 1 in free mode or whatever it’s called?

Hmm, interesting idea! I do like d3 a lot but it doesn’t scratch the Diablo itch the way d2r does.

How? Admittedly I don’t know the necro well at all

@@zarfen i used some legendary legs from act 5 bounties that turn 750-1000% of your health per second into a damaging aura around you as physical damage and used the general damage increasers in the game like focus+ restraint, the inarius armor and some other stuff

I found so little gear with decent thorns damage though. Am I missing some way to get thorns damage reliably on gear? All I can think of is to reroll stats at the enchanter but that seems expensive. Crafted gear often at blacksmith but rarely saw decent thorns IIRC

@@zarfen passive boost it it almost in coat,boot,leg

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Thorns is kind of rare and very low damage in the early game though. I mention it a bit later in the video. But it could be an interesting challenge to do only thorns and nothing else

yea definetly, thorns is just probs easiest way to beat the game without weapon IF you manage to find some gear/set pieces !@@zarfen

and you ''kinda'' use weapon on thorns build cuz u need topaz on weapon...@@zarfen

True, but maybe I will do a “thorns only” instead of “no weapon” in that case if I do something like that in the future.

@@zarfen looking forward!

Oof! I wonder if that is even possible given how much items boosts your defenses. Maybe if you’re a god gamer and can dodge everything (so this challenge isn’t for me! 😅)

@@zarfen I actually tried it some time ago, but I gave up at act 2😅 You have to intentionally skip monsters to avoid getting levels and making the monsters harder. It would be possible, but I think the last boss could take an hour or more and you have to dodge everything😆

@MankeyMite I’m impressed you beat Act 1! What character/build did you use?

@@zarfen necromancer, with skeletal mage as main damage source

What a drama queen crybaby

That's my issue with this challenge. It technically fits his goal because he states "doesn't apply to base damage". The shield does not apply to base damage, but there are skills it can scale with. There are probably other classes you could do it with, specifically a pet class or something similar. There are also a lot of skills you can't use without having a weapon equipped, so in a way it's creative. It's just bending his own rules in my opinion.

In the game and with the ruleset, it's more armor than weapon since theres no weapon damage butonly block n block chance along with other typical stats on them.

nostalgia over d3? ew

In hindsight it’s pretty crazy, and they worked so well together too! Thanks for the info, good to know!

thorns - LoD , LoN