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Diablo 2 Speedrun Act 1 Practice [Paladin] 1st Attempt

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Diablo 2 speedrun practice.

I'm going to complete the game 100% on normal difficulty, which means completing every quest in every act and killing the cow king in the cow level.
This will be done in Battle.net servers rather than offline and in a single segment, which means there is no way for me to manipulate the luck or to know the right way beforehand.

I will be uploading more videos once I make a noticeable improvements in the strategy.

On the background you will hear this awesome one-man-band called "Brad Sucks". If you enjoy it, you should show the man some love at http://www.bradsucks.net/ !

If you have any tips or if you are running the game aswell, please leave it in a comment in the section down below.

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The strategy I've come up with so far:

1st Go clear the Den of Evil.
2nd Go to the Burial Grounds to kill Blood Raven.
3rd Get Stony Fields waypoint and go through the Underground Passage.
4th Get the Scroll of Inifuss (kill Treehead Woodfist) and waypoint in Dark Wood.
5th Find Cairn Stones in Stony Fields (kill Rakanishu) and go through the portal to Tristram. Free Decard Cain and kill any rare or champion packs.
6th Find the waypoint in Black Marsh and go to Tower Cellar level 5 to kill the Countess.
7th Get to level 8 to be able to pick Horadric Malus and find it in the Barracks.
8th Walk my way to Catacombs level 4, go to this specific corner shown in the video to dodge most of the trash mobs and kill Andariel.

STATS:
All of the stat points will be spent in vitality because all the necessary items in Act 1 can be equipped with the starting strenght and the other stats are useless.

SKILLS:
The skill points will go towards Might lvl 5 and then 3 points to Holy Fire.
Andariel takes extra fire damage so Holy Fire will be handy there.

ITEMS:
A scepter and a sash should be picked up as early as possible either from Akara or from the ground with any stats.
The scepter has high damage compared to other one handed weapons available and has +50% damage to undead which is quite handy.
The sash allows you to have an extra row of potions on belt which is useful.
Keep looking for a scepter with +1-3 to Holy Fire when you visit Akara.

OTHER:
A Tome of Teleportation should always be bought from Akara after completing the Den of Evil quest and kept filled with enough scrolls.
Stamina potions should always be carried in your inventory for being able to run 100% of the time.
Everything that feels valuable should be picked up especially at the start to afford the scepters that have to be bought during the run.
Generally all the enemies should be skipped when it is not necessary to kill them.
The monsters that will need to be killed during the run are every monster in the Den of Evil and enough to get to level 8 before picking up Horadric Malus.
The best way to get experience is with the experience shrine buff and every monster seen should be slain while on one.
Every rare and champion pack found should also be slain because they give such massive amount of experience compared to normal monsters.

What went good on this run:
I was really lucky to get the gloves from Blood Raven that gave loads of poison damage reduction and made Andariel hit like a lady.
I completed the run !

Where can I improve:
I accidentally put a 6th point in Might instead of Holy Fire.
I accidentally hit the next split button twice at Cain.
I can always be more accurate with my mouse for faster looting and such.
I could look for more rare monsters to kill for faster leveling.

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