Zarfen the No Loot Goblin

that Korlic fight was epic lmao

Let's goooo! You made me buy diablo 2, and it's so much better than diablo 4 it's unreal, currently about to finish up normal difficulty on a hardcore char, going for 99

42 minutes on Baal, I'm upset if it takes 42 seconds... Hats off to you!

Hell yeah dude! This was my suggestion in your recent poll :) Thanks for your dedication, I enjoyed it very much.

The fact Sigons dropped entirely is wild! Well done. Already looking forward to the next wild challenge like this. It makes me want to play like this to refresh the experience like you said.

One of the most insane challenges I have seen. Huge respect for completing this run.

Wow I didn't think I would watch through a 45mins video but this was epic. The ancient fight was truly legendary!

GREAT video! Can’t believe I sat through all 44:28! This challenge on Hardcore would be INSANE! (Maybe possible with a caster class??). I appreciate all of the effort you put into this!

I've been waiting so patiently for the next upload and we have been blessed!

Awesome video man, always looking forward to your challenges.

Well done mate! A huge grind and great to see something different. Also, respect for doing it with a Barb!

Man, that was a huge challenge, huge work put into it, amazing video, really enjoyed it!

That was fantastic! Good job bro 👍

Congrats on completing the challenge! Very cool and beautifully edited video. Highly entertaining :) this is the sort of content we need more of

Yooo finally another video! Great work my brother!

Great video and a nice challenge! I mostly play the modded version ( Path of Diablo ) from time to time when ladder fits my personal life etc, but i've always been a D2 fan, love your content! Keep it up, love from Sweden! :)

Now this is playing Diablo 2 like a boss. That's an epic challenge " well done and congrats"

Great video buddy. Really enjoyed it You are very well spoken. You kept me engaged the whole 40 minutes. Funny Sigon drops too 😀 Keep up the good work o7

So cool, Hope you are happy you did the challenge!

Very interesting and well-made video. You reignited my will to play the game! On a side note, incredible how cool the barb looked with vendor stuff. The 2-handed swords are fire.

didnt expect to enjoy a long video, but your content is really creative. Keep up mate

Thanks. This was actually a lot of fun to watch.

Thanks for the upload. Love the videos

Barbarians actually have a secret weapon when dealing with Lister and his pack. War Cry can stunlock them - though I'm not entirely sure if this would work given the strict gear limitations of the run. Usually it works best if you're playing with a partner or a Singing barbarian that has enough +Skills gear to make War Cry deal enough damage. Just some food-for-thought in future challenges. Amazing work!

Good job, really interesting to watch. Great editing too 👍🏼 D2 is just endless fun!

Your editing is really awesome, you always show what you are talking about and have some cool transitions.

Definitely earned my sub. *_To your continued success!_*

Great D2 content right here, keep the videos goin 👍

Great video, good content and nice to see a new way to beat the game

Yesss best thing to get to work in the morning to is a new zarfen vid

Some of the blue socketed stuff you found was really good for how long you seemed to be looking! Loved the video, cant wait for the next one!

More awesome content from you, this is great! I hope this was a lot of fun for you, as it's a lot of fun for us to watch your journey! Thank you!

What a badass video. Great effort and victory!

Dude it's so crazy challenge in start of video I can't believe it's possible for barbarian strike build, you are legend)

Your videos are so wonderful and entertaining. Thank you so much for making these ❤

I cant get enough D2 content. Love your stuff Zarfen!

Awesome video! Great idea!

Amazing project! It's just more fun to watch, than OP-geared chars, finding items! Keep up the great work! 🔥

Absolutely love your challenges, it gives me fresh ways to play

U are completely insane! (on different levels). I really enjoy ur videos. Thank you for ur content. I wouldnt have thought singe player D2 would be so fun to watch! (and educational as well)

Oh man, everytime you drop a vid I know it's gonna be epic xD What a journey! I love how you use the itemisation with magic items with sockets, gamble rares and focus on ONLY the essentials. It does show that this game is REALLY hard to solo and is meant to be played with others to complete comfortably. Korlic fight was insane, really know how that feels though, both losing and winning that fight...I know xD

what a salvation that Um in the sword must have been! congrats on another great video! subscribed.

It was fun to watch and even encouraged my to play. Thank you for the video and for the challenge.

Great video man!

Dope video! More challenges with commentary!

This is insane dedication man, hella respect U got another subscriber in me, got me hooked on d2 once again hah

Glorious, bud! Kudos!

Great video, amazing challenge and fun to watch! D2 is so so so so good it's unreal. This game has infinite replayability

Awesome stuff, hats off to you - no way could I be arsed to do all that :)

Great video dude, best diablo 2 content i ever watched

New Zarfen video! What a great drop!

Oh boy. What a challange! Nicely done. 🤩

Love your videos. Great job❤

Man, a full Sigon? ;_; I *never* find matching greens. Also that buckler you found, what an amazing little thing. Lovely.

that Um rune really came in clutch, cool challenge

Great video to fall asleep to! Videos like this just put my brain into relax mode.

great video, had me watching the entire thing :D

Actually interesting and entertaining d2r content + a very pleasant bonus that you are funny.

Great job with this series, love watching keep it up also why no whirlwind

When hell Mephisto dropped green plate and helm i almost screamed NO WAY at the monitor, haha Insane run, really enjoyed it, thank you!

This is brilliant!!!!! Subscribed

Great vid! Very glad it was you not me attempting this challenge 🤣

Hello Mr. Zarfen, I'm a little late to the party in the comment section, but long story short you're an amazing creator and I can't put in words how much I enjoy and on repeat I watch so many of your videos. I can immediatly tell you enjoy what you do and that is reflected in your videos. As a Path of Exile Main Player your videos while doing some insane grinds are such joy. Thanks!

Wow - you come up with some truly difficult challenges

I wish you had more content, i love it so much

Watched the whole thing! ❤

I have a challenge idea for you, friend. You can call it whatever you want but I call it the "inheritance challenge". The idea is simple: take a high lvl character that's beaten all 3 modes and have him run 1 area of each act through each difficulty and in this area you can keep 1 of each armor slot (helm, chest, 2 rings, ammy, weapon/shield) and your challenge character can use those for that act and to use the ones on later acts it has to get to the later acts. Rules: 1. Can only use inherited gear, any drops can be sold but not used. 2. Any mercs allowed, but gear is also inherited from you. 3.Buying pots, scrolls etc is allowed. 4. You can pick up gems and runes. You can use runewords, but only if you happen to get a socketed item inherited. 5. For the inheritance runs, reminder that you're only allowed 1 run per act so make it count.

Short answer ! Yes you can! Cruel afixes and Of the Bear sufixes and you are ready to go

Super cool video. I really haven’t gave d2 resurrection a look but man o man the graphics are amazing compared to the old game. In which I’ve logged a lot of days into that one lol. Thanks again bro for the video!!

Just discovered this channel. Played the original version a lot and had fun with special builds like zeal sorc. Really amazing to see what options you have to play this game in other modes. :D Maybe give a skill tree update every 10 lvl?

My eyes were glued to the screen, great video

Great video! 🎉

I love your videos and sense of humor, they are very well done, been watching them all my friend, can't wait for the next. Very nice editing and that you take the time to do vids like this. Quality vs. quantity my friend I love it keep it up!

Great content, just finished binging all your recent content. Keep going with stuff like this and I suggest you expand into other games. You make good content and good challenge videos. I'd love to see some d2 runs with things like Martial Arts assassin, or to see how far you can push summons only necromancer, since all d2 players know that without corpse explosion summons become depressing in late hell. Other runs I'd suggest: Enchant Sorc (it makes a fun mechanic to push to its maximum extent, and would probably make good content just exploring the mechanic), Melee Zon (i'd be interested in the new changes to the mechanics more than anything, i never bothered to test it after the first season of d2r) and the almighty fire aura pally. You could have ran that shit to early hell with zero issues if you had the right levelling items. If you've never done it before I suggest you do it just for shits n' giggles, get all the best + to fire skill items and you can run a stupid high level aura that 1 hits everything in nightmare, see how far you can push it with a full inventory of charms too and the new sundering charms. I've pushed it to early hell with using nothing but the passive damage and zeal (ended up turning it into a framerate glitched zeal with 7 aps before break points were fixed). Eitherway, great fun and I reckon it'd be good content. Whether you take my suggestions or ignore me completely, looking forward to more runs!

Well done, as a hc only player i am waiting for your hc challenge , for example paladin from lvl 1 to uber. Hope to see this kind of gameplay

incredible vid mr zarf

marvelous. hardcore version of this challenge is next on the docket i presume 😉

42 minutes to beat world stone chamber, 44 minute video. Thankfully I was able to watch this video over a few hours. Solid video.

that korlic fight… wooow 🙌🏼

Yo man, I've seen your post and was awaiting the video. Appreciate your effort very much in advance, definitely will watch the video after work. You're doing great job! Hello from Ukraine, by the way 👋

18:00 berserk's interactions really are frustrating. you get all the negative sides of a melee char (i.e. having to rely on AR to hit stuff) but you don't get its benefits like lifesteal. Still your run inspired me to try it out one day, awesome video!❤

Thats the content i subbed to! :)

side note hearing the Act 2 music brought back so many memories of this masterpiece of a game

This is awesome. Here recently i have been playing D2R with no runewords allowed and it has honestly made the game much more fun at least for the time being. Gambling and crafting items is way more interesting.

Amazing video! 👍 I would have used act3 freeze merc, you lose enchant but having mobs frozen or greatly slowed when you fight them would be tactically better I think. Especially since most of the annoying mobs in hell are fire immune, a cold mage merc would be a massive improvement. He freezes fallen and you smash them into ice cubes lol

watching you pass up that sword with like 157 poison dmg at 17:29 made me scream. that is a MASSIVE dps upgrade my guy.

This was sick!

This seems like a really fun challenge. I just started the video, but I know how I would approach this. I'm guessing you will have the same idea. I'm looking forward to watching the rest. Cheers!

I like how this is borderline impossible yet you still make it harder than it needs to be haha real champion spirit 🔥🔥

I've completed Vendor Only Gear runs on every class except Barbarian, so this was actually pretty amusing to watch. The easiest classes by far are Necromancer and Sorceress, especially Necro since he's the least gear-dependent character in the game and gets summons who can clear the game for you with enough patience. But I think the most fun class to do this with was Assassin just because she's so incredibly even with minimalist gear, and Normal Mode is a playground for her once you get some decent +Mana gear for her from Act II onward.

finally the video i wanted to see

Fantastic! Watching your videos inspires me a lot when creating mine😀

This challenge captures my first playthrough of D2 as a kid. I could not figure out how to identify items for the first few days and so i struggle with almost anything on the way.

Sick run ggz

I can't believe you found all of Sigon's Steel in one run..

I got inspired by this run and did my vendor only hammerdin run. I'm in act 4 hell, act 2 is where the real challenge began. Having to run buy potions every few minutes and even running out of gold for potions at certain locations reminds me of the times when I was first playing Diablo2 original when it was released. You can say Hammerdin is easy but running without Spirit and other basic runewords made it challenging enough for me. Having to store some weak rare items for certain occasions, having to use antidote and thawing potions, having to use different auras like salvation, redemption, not just concentration makes me realise the game was intended to be played this way - we're so used to Meta that we don't see it. And it's fair - like when I'm around caster mobs, I use salvation which makes my damage lower, but they have lower health anyway so it feels really balanced. And I learned that there is a difference between mob's 95% chance to hit me and 83%. And feeling when gambling a +1 pal skills 20 all res amu was priceless. To bring more luck factor I changed a rule that vendor quest items are ok (like imbue, Anya's reward, and rings from Ormus and Akara)

Definitely agreed on the melee build, sorc, necro and druid summoning and spell builds would've made a joke of this, hammerdin, javazon, auradin and trapsasin would've definitely made it too easy too, barbarian was basically the only basic choice that would really test the gear rather than how much you could do without, with skills.

A couple of points: 1. Using runes and gems technically breaks your rule, as they cannot be acquired with vendors. But I understand the challenge would be three times as hard without them 2. Larzuk always gives the max amount of sockets on every item. Non elite items are really not that great with max sockets, so you need to research how many sockets every item can have before using the quest 3. Thawing potions dude Overall, this was really fun to watch, good job!

I don't normally do challenges but this is one of the ones that I actually did a long time ago. Funny thing is I did it because I was bored and couldn't figure out what to do/play so I just tried this and it was surprisingly fun.