Wow that looks hard. As a hardcore player, this is scary

@NataniMagi

3 ай бұрын

Indeed it is, but the gear I used is far from perfect and not exactly the kind of stuff you would use on a hardcore character.

good job, i saw you dying multiple times no way you beat this :D, impressive.

@NataniMagi

3 ай бұрын

Thanks! This is just the end result of ~30-40 hours of testing and mostly dying in phase 1. The first boss phase is the hardest part of it all imo, the crit poison + cold bolts from the towers are no joke.

Watch the druid fight at 2x, sounds like a drumming clip.

Cool but wondering why you use LoH on the druid?

@NataniMagi

22 күн бұрын

I don't exactly remember. Likely for the IAS and/or fire res. Fury Druid doesn't need crazy gear to do silly amounts of damage and loh is plenty good enough in most scenarios in my opinion.

Ty for vid, in your opinion which build do u think is the easiest to gear and fight rathma safely and speedily with overall?

@NataniMagi

Ай бұрын

Either fury druid, desecrate necro, or jab zon. Lightning sentry comes close too, but it took me a bit before i actually beat rathma with it (skill issue on my part) I was actually exceedingly drunk in the assassin part of this video when i beat him for the first time, so it can't be that hard right? Trap assassin requires good trap placement so they shoot the right thing. If you're good with traps, then i would include that.

@Christoff070

Ай бұрын

@@NataniMagi thanks for sharing, I never considered jab zon viable as an easy rathma killer but I'll take a look at it now.

I'm assuming these builds can easily handle normal uber bosses?

@NataniMagi

17 күн бұрын

Yes, minus the blizzard sorc and lightning assassin. I would swap those over to meteor for the sorc and blade fury for the assassin. (I do not recommend using a sorc for ubers unless your gear is crazy) The gear is definitely overkill for normal ubers, but most of what i used is fairly easy to obtain, even for sp players. When i was making this, I was also thinking about doing a video for tristram and diablo clone as well, but decided not to. Could revisit it however!

Can you tell me why some of the small charms are different colors?

@NataniMagi

3 ай бұрын

Those specific charms are color coded for their res. Theyre all 20 life, 11 res. I took only what I needed to overcap my res to ~120. They were made by BetweenWalls who updates a stash with every conceivable item you could want to test for stuff in pd2. I used that stash + some characters. Unfortunately with pd2 being in crafters league when I made this, I couldnt make runewords in more optimal bases

@NataniMagi

3 ай бұрын

I originally planned on going into detail of all the gear and strategy of the fight as a whole as well as including more than 1 build for each character, but the video would've been ~5 hours. In the future if Rathma gets changed/updated I might redo it and have a separate video for each class

@jasonray7906

3 ай бұрын

Oh I see, was just curious if it was like a loot filter thing or is that just how perf life rez small charms come

0:40, excuse me, "Death Hand" gloves? Why?

@NataniMagi

3 ай бұрын

75% poison length reduction. Mendeln's poison is one of the most dangerous things in this encounter. Ideally you'd want plr from corruptions on other pieces of gear, but I couldn't be bothered to spend hours corrupting gear to show it off. Venom Ward chest, Death's Hand gloves, and Snakecord belt give you minimum poison length as well as 85% poison res which is very good (I used those 3 items on Assassin, Necro (minus gloves for Trangs) and the Sorceress

@NataniMagi

3 ай бұрын

I know you could argue that using soul drainer or some other gloves that gives you more damage is better, and while that might be the case, the gear I chose for this video isn't about being completely optimal. I went with things that are relatively easy to acquire even for a ssf player (like myself) and could still complete the fight. The basic list of stuff you want for Rathma is: -85% - 90% Poison and Cold res -overcapped resistances (~120 to counter Mendeln's Lower Resist) -at least 50% plr -some MDR -at least 1800 life with BO -after that, it's all about damage (big ED weapons for Melee, + to skills for Casters)

@slowpnir

3 ай бұрын

@@NataniMagiOh, I didn't think Meldeln's poison is that potent. Makes sense now.

@NataniMagi

3 ай бұрын

@@slowpnir Yeah. If it crits you, it lasts forever (even with minimum duration) and does ~150-200 per tick. It's why I run antidotes in a belt slot for the 2 phases with him, to get rid of it if I get crit

@slowpnir

3 ай бұрын

@@NataniMagi Oh, yes, critical poison is a nuisance even in the base game. With 200 dmg/_tick_ it becomes a menace.

what is that blue charm

@NataniMagi

Ай бұрын

The colored charms are just 20 life, 11 res. The color corresponds to the resistance that it is. Blue is cold res

your character stats dont even make sense.. how can you have 499 vit and 174 st on a sorc and still have 50 dex and 90 energy. All your character stats seem boosted. And if thats the case how do these people do this boss within 1 week or less without GG gear?

@NataniMagi

2 ай бұрын

24 vitality is from gear, 20 strength is from marrowwalk. Not sure what torch and anni was giving, but that accounts for a bunch of stuff. Some of the char levels are also a bit high, like the Sorc is 96. I will admit the Sorc gear is a bit much compared to the other chars. I didn't try to make all the gear as cheap as possible, and some builds are just better at killing bosses on way worse gear (Amazon, Druid). The Sorc isn't great at it because of how squishy she is and I don't think most players doing this fight within 1 week of ladder start are doing it on a Sorc. That all being said, I'm not a Diablo 2 expert (nor a Project Diablo 2 expert) and this video was my first time even doing the Rathma fight. Yes, better players can do this fight with way worse gear. I just wanted to make a demonstration video of this fight that included all characters so none were left out. I don't remember the order of characters I did, but Sorc was probably one of the first ones I did when I was the worst at the fight. If I redid it now, the gear would look much more reasonable for the Sorc. Every other class I'm pretty okay with how the gear looks though, maybe a few changes for some of them but not much.

Is this couple a final boss of game?

@NataniMagi

3 ай бұрын

Sort of, yeah.