EPTWith the announcement of the new Diablo expansion I feel like alot more people are going to get back into the game to get ready for the new content. Like most, when Diablo came out I was all about it and then the fun was gone. Now I want to get back into the game in hopes that the new content will be interesting and fun. I really prefer playing hardcore because it adds a lot of pressure and heart palpitating moments rather than the softcore everyone has the most popular build mind numbing farming (my opinion). I find myself wanting to challenge myself in the game to keep it interesting but I also love playing with friends and other players but its hard to get high level hardcore groups to challenge themselves. So here is what I have started doing and now I share with anyone who wants to try it out and maybe even tag along with me for fun. The goal is to force people out of their favorite builds and make the game play less farming and more amusing. By the way, its in softcore with a max level to have all spells unlocked.
Moden's Challenge
Basically, you will start the game Act 1 part 1 and play threw every single quest in the act then move onto the next with a completely randomized build! You can use any gear you have, find or buy on the auction house. To complete the challenge, you need to complete the entire act with this random build you got without dying (making this semi hardcore)! If you happen to die, you lose and get to jump to the next act and get a new build.
Optional
I really like doing this challenge as a group as sometimes you can get a really nice builds and other times it just really sucks but you pull threw it as a team finding how to play different styles. How I've been playing with my friends is that as long as one of the group members makes it to the end, everyone gets the win. However, there are ''revive points'' where a dead teammate could come back to life and continue with the same build. These revive points were after the kill of certain bosses.
Act I
Leoric, the Skeleton King
Araneae, the Shadow Weaver
The butcher (Team wins)
Act II
Maghda, Leader of the Coven
Gavin the Thief
Belial, Lord of Lies (Team wins)
Act III
Ghom, Lord of Gluttony
Siegebreaker Assault Beast
Azmodan, Lord of Sin (Team wins)
Act IV
Izual the Fallen
Rakanoth, Lord of Despair
Diablo, the Prime Evil (Team wins)
When we played, we found that mp3 gave a good pace yet also made elites challenging with some builds. All this is optional though. During your time in the acts you can do as you please by killing everything or only the necessary, getting the key wardens or not, as long as you don't die and started the act then downed the last boss without skipping ahead, you win.
Down below, I will link the battle.net skill calculator for the random build and a class randomizer if you want to randomize the monster power, your follower or your class. I find that this is a very enjoyable way to enjoy the game and still have exiting moments when you barely live. Its also a cool way to learn the different spells of the classes that you might not use as often than others. I hope you all enjoy as much as I do.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian - click on blue gem at bottom of page for random build
http://d3.shantalya.de/hc-challenge/ - random hero, mp and follower
I will be streaming a quite a bit of diablo for the next while playing this challenge and keeping track of my wins/loss. It would be awesome if you came to check it out and hangout for a bit! If you have time, talk in chat and we can group to do the challenge and share the heart palpitations.. Any feedback about the stream would also be appreciated as I want it to be the best it can so everyone can enjoy.
twitch.tv/xmoden
Hope you have fun! Good luck,
Moden
