A streamer took on the challenge of completing the story of Diablo 3 without dealing damage through abilities or weapon attacks. We show you how he achieved this.
What kind of challenge is this? The streamer Chitor completed the campaign of Diablo 3 in a “pacifistic” manner. In Blizzard’s hack and slash game, the goal is generally to decimate hordes of monsters with attacks and abilities. But Chitor had an unusual plan.
His rules were:
- Do not use attacks
- Do not use abilities
- Do not take companions (Scoundrel, Templar, Sorceress)
- Do not use pets
- Do not allocate Paragon points (except for movement speed)
The “trick” to this is that the player sets up their gear for Thorns damage. This means: damage dealt by enemies to him is reflected back, thus affecting the attacking enemies.
He used a legendary amulet into which he socketed a special gem. The gem is called Boyarsky’s Shard and increases the Thorns damage of the character wearing it. Additionally, there is a passive talent that increases the Thorns damage of the Barbarian class by 100%. So he chose a Barbarian for the adventure and aptly named him “AFK”.
A Door Was His Greatest Enemy in the Project
How did it go? Chitor positioned himself near enemies or intentionally walked into their attacks so that their damage would be reflected back onto them, meaning they effectively died from their own attacks. He did not actively use attacks or abilities but simply watched.
Accordingly, the boss fights were also quite “calm” for him. In the video, you see him with his arms behind his head simply watching as the bosses are slowly defeated without his active involvement.
That was a problem: Early on in his adventures, however, he encountered a problem. He was playing the campaign and had to destroy a door for a quest. Unlike other doors in the game that can be opened by clicking, this one had to be destroyed. As we all know, doors are not the most aggressive objects. And there were no enemies with area damage that could open the door for him.
So Chitor had to awkwardly obtain Flamewalkers boots. These automatically burn the ground beneath the character and can open such doors. However, this only became possible after he reached Max Level 70 in Nephalem Rifts, away from the campaign. This detour cost him about 20 hours of gameplay and was, by his own admission, extremely boring.
Elsewhere, players reach level 70 in Diablo 3 in under a second.
With his new boots, he could finally open the door and continue his campaign. From there, things went smoothly, and he even managed to defeat Diablo at the end. We embed the video of his adventure here:
For the streamer, the project doesn’t end here. He wants to complete Act 5, which belongs to the Reaper of Souls expansion, with his pacifistic playstyle. We are curious about what challenges await him in this act and whether there will be similar problems as with the door.
Would you take on such a challenge in Diablo 3, or is it too boring for you?
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