Let's Play Diablo 2 - Phoenix Strike Martial Arts Assassin [Hell]

Cold sunder charms will completely kill Diablo making it pointless to play.. Unless you're a cold sorceress..

Diablo 2 finally installed the green and red arrows... i still don't get why people are happy

Can't wait to see this

wow a stormshield from that diablo kill. lucky.

just starting to watch, and you're really missing out on meteors. Their damage over time is insanely good. Could have made short work of corpsefire.
i did a full HC SSF playthrough on the 2.4 phoenix strike sin a few months ago

this looks miserable...every monster is like killing Diablo...bout as much fun as a funeral...lol

trapsins and elemental melee assassins like this would have been great if the new 2.5 changes weren't presented. But yeah, why would we like to play good builds besides hammerdins and blizsorcs. Thanks to you llama - killer of diversity!

You ruined the new ladder before it even dropped.

Pretty sure he didnt change back to P1 at least by 22 mins in when someone asked

Notice how he brought up the point of Sunder Charms and then cut himself off. He was on last night, bragging about being the guy to ruin them. I want to ruin him. Find his games, jump him. Ruin his speed runs. Camp his body so he can't get his shit. Silent treatment on the forums. This clown needs to be deplatformed and to go get a real job. There are people who aren't wastes of skin, who work full time, and don't have an army of chuckleheads feeding them loot.

Missed opportunity to call these guided SLAYthroughs....tsk tsk

I like the video, proof martial arts Assassin sucks and needs to be revamp badly 😂 I love the Assassin early on but half thru NM gets horrible and never feels good again. Just want Assassin to be fun to play, so much potential.

Easy mode. Almost got rekt by andariel

The multiple deaths in a row in the beginning (even if played by a veteran player) and the low damage done is a perfect example that this game is still so unbalanced and that too much builds that should be fun to try are still a pain in the butt to play... Getting better, but sadly still a hammerdin or sorceress game.....

This is not a playthrough, it's a rushthrough with a lame build. No AR, no resistances, no minimal decent gear, insufficient leveling, almost dying to every single trash mob and struggling to kill a simple zombie. Took almost 1 hour to kill the Ancients. It's a showcase of how not to have fun with this game. A miserable experience from beginning to end.

Don't take me wrong Llama, a like a lot your content, but I strongly recommend you rethink the formula of these playthroughs. Maybe a much more slower approach, suspending your speedrunner mindset a bit and taking enough time to get stronger, kill monsters (the game is about that) and playing in a more meaningful way.

You can just read what Phoenix Strike does and tell it's gonna suck. It's a terrible build. Claws of Thunder build is a very good build tough. Using Dragon Claw as finisher for double procs of Claws of Thunder instead of Dragon Tail makes it so much faster for getting off max charges. Use dual-Plague +3 Claws of Thunder for weapons. And the corpse explosion from traps makes this build A tier.

The only problem with a MA sin is they require level 45+ skills and you need to level each elemental claw and use them all in conjunction. It is better to release tier 3 charges on repeat using an auto attack theb dumping the magazine with a kick. That way you can continously spam chaos lightning, ice and those METEORS

Continously releasing tier 3 elements is stronger than having to restack

Why don’t you do “let’s plays” with terror zones?? How this this gonna effect speed runs? Seems like it will completely shake it up imho.

I think most people would be ok with you using some low runes during the play through. It would be nice to see how the character plays with just a LEM rune added to the mix.

Can we get a Fury Druid let's play? I've been struggling on my offline SSF Fury Druid Lately. 😅

I now have the clap.
Thanks Llama

This is not a playthrough, it's a runthrough.
Watched for 10min only saw 1 monster get killed - Duriel.
MA Assassin sucks and it will continue to suck - thanks.

This isn't a build showcase; it's a challenge run. And it looks miserable to play as. Thanks - I'm convinced to never run this "build."

Hay mr llama, would you recommend shopping for an ignore target’s defense claw from Anya in nm?
Asides for bosses, it really helps out I felt.

Lake of using cloack of shadows. It makes play so much easier. When i hear "This is not bad character" it really hurts me, because she is really strong character, but should be used in the right way

Anyone else bothered that he didn't ID that small charm in his cube at the end? It could have been anything! There could have been a Jah stuck on the backside!

So painful to watch...

OMG…what a mission! I could never even get through Act 1. Well done.

this is my favorite build for the actual feel of playing it. every encounter feels higher stakes bc im not relying on setting traps

i like trying to make things work that aren't just "the best build"- i find that boring

however, i hit a wall trying to get my sin through the end of nm and beginning of hell

Um, bug your mercenary for the Durial fight

Really looking forward to the TigerTail playthrough and your oppinion on difficulty compared to this. Mainly looking forward to seeing the playthrough with that style of Ass.

I could swear i subbed to you years ago but i went to like the vid and saw i was unsubbed, fixed that. Love all your content man, please keep it up, it has helped me conquer a game that shit on me as a kid but still love xD

Feels like if he'd just farmed every spot like Countess, Andariel, Lower Kurast, Mephisto, and so on, for a few times each, he would end up beating Hell faster than spending half an hour on the Ancients then dying to a random hit because his resistances were still in the negatives / single digits

It is insane how easy you make playing this game look. Thank you

Llama on nightmare: 'the damage is good look at her she's not bad'. Llama on hell: kills 5 monsters total and rest just walks around because he can't kill anything.

I'll be honest i didn't like this playthrough in hell. A playthrough is supposed to showcase what a build can do and by skipping things like treachery, wisdom, etc. you just wind up walking and cheesing the game which you can do with any character.

lets do it now on hardcore :D:D:D

So clunky pre mosaic!!

Always skill a shadow clone for a quick meat shield that doesn't cost 50k gold.

She needs more dex. I't so hard to see.

Id like to remind everyone that this is a martial arts sin post buff. It was even more miserable than this.

I did a playthrough pre buff and it was extremely difficult to kill the ancients. She takes so much damage. Very very squishy in hell.

Kudos for using BOI instead of the cliched F/L synergies of FoF & CoT.

D2​ should separate charm inventory from item inventory .

hell is really difficult