d3 The Pacifist Run: Player Finishes Diablo 3 Story Without Doing Anything (No Attacking, Abilities or Followers)

[Starym 3,801]

 

So, a pacifist run in a hack and slash Diablo game. Sounds extremely weird and even oxymoronic, right? Not only that, but considering the use of the Hellfire Amulet to facilitate the thorns legendary gem, it also seems pretty easy to do right? As it turns out, there are more limitations to this approach than just enemies, with the largest and most difficult being: DOORS. Basically, Chitor turned Diablo 3 into an old-school adventure game, where he had to scour the game for solutions to issues that came up, and just kept going deeper and deeper, as one solution creates another problem and so on.

If you have 10 minutes to spare, it's really worth a watch without any further spoilers, as there were constant issues surrounding that one problem, and the lengths that Chitor had to go through to get passed one in particular are truly funny and interesting, so just check out the video below. If not, there's a short run through of this particularly unique endeavour under the video.

Chitor took it upon himself to try finishing the story without ever attacking, using an ability or follower, starting from level 1 (but using Design: Hellfire Amulet and Boyarsky's Chip, as mentioned) and it really turned out to be a lot harder than expected, because of those pesky breakable doors. A whole lot of ingenuity was required to actually get passed them, from relatively simple solutions like using mobs that explode to push through, but then there was the main hindrance of the entire endeavour, the door in the blacksmith's basement, as it has no enemies around it. The solution to this absolute and unyielding obstacle took a ridiculous amount of time to surpass, as Chitor actually had to level to 70 in order to be able to get passed that door (as he needed a specific legendary from his stash which had a level req of 70). This meant optimizing all the low lever gear for life regen to survive some higher difficulty farming, or this little pacifist run would take a looong time. Finally when reaching 70 and being able to use that key legendary item to open the door (and many, many obstacles later in the game), the rest of the game went normally, although parts of it really become interestingly different, like running around trying to get hit by Belial's meteors in order to damage him.

This really turned out to be a very entertaining challenge, so thanks a lot to Chitor for sticking through it!

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*Header image chosen because of its relative thornyness.

[Calin 50]

You know a game is dead when the only news "worth" posting are challenges like this ?

[Krevantis 0]

Should be "past," not "passed" as passed is the past tense whereas past is an adverb or preposition that refers to beyond,. In both uses here he hasn't passed through the door, he's trying to GET past it.

http://www.enhancemywriting.com/passed-vs-past

[Starym 3,801]

25 minutes ago, Krevantis said:

Should be "past," not "passed" as passed is the past tense whereas past is an adverb or preposition that refers to beyond,. In both uses here he hasn't passed through the door, he's trying to GET past it.

http://www.enhancemywriting.com/passed-vs-past

This is correct! Just absent-minded typing, I am very much aware of the proper and correct grammar usage but thanks for the heads up!
I'll leave it in to reflect my shame.

[Starym 3,801]

3 hours ago, Calin said:

You know a game is dead when the only news "worth" posting are challenges like this ?

Funny story, I'm posting another news about it right now! Seriously though, the dead game memes are reeeally tired. It's an 8 year old game with no significant updates for a LONG time, so it's actually INCREDIBLY alive considering those factors.

[Calin 50]

38 minutes ago, Starym said:

Funny story, I'm posting another news about it right now! Seriously though, the dead game memes are reeeally tired. It's an 8 year old game with no significant updates for a LONG time, so it's actually INCREDIBLY alive considering those factors.

The game had potential and it did bring out some good ideas that other ARPG's have improved upon, but the whole game just failed to live up to it's expectations imo (and I've spent several hundred hours in it, even before Reaper of Souls launched).

But regardless there's no denying that the Diablo franchise is currently in a hold waiting for the next. Path of Diablo is what's keeping the name alive right now as far as I can tell.

[Yojiro 30]

1 hour ago, Krevantis said:

Should be "past," not "passed" as passed is the past tense whereas past is an adverb or preposition that refers to beyond,. In both uses here he hasn't passed through the door, he's trying to GET past it.

http://www.enhancemywriting.com/passed-vs-past

 

1 hour ago, Krevantis said:

beyond,.

 

1 hour ago, Krevantis said:

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[Venaliter 0]

This was actually rather cringy. Rather than the Firewalkers, which literally took me 2 seconds to figure out, there are several other items that would work. Thundergod's vigor works on dodge or being hit, which works fine with the pacifism motif.

  An even easier choice might have been the Ring of Hollow Whispers, which haunts nearby enemies and, I think, would break a door too. 

  Bul Kathos was possible as well, but wouldn't have solved his door problem. But none of these items were mutually exclusive. 

[Hotpants 5]

wait, why no anniversary red gem in the helm?

[Chitor 2]

I was just pointed to this post. Im "Chitor" and I just wanted to thank you so much for featuring me here. Thanks to everyone who has checked out the video and all the positive feedback as well. ❤️

[Starym 3,801]

18 hours ago, Chitor said:

I was just pointed to this post. Im "Chitor" and I just wanted to thank you so much for featuring me here. Thanks to everyone who has checked out the video and all the positive feedback as well. ❤️

Hey man, no problem! I really found it entertaining and interesting, so I'm glad we helped you reach more people!

[Starym 3,801]

On 8/24/2020 at 7:46 PM, Venaliter said:

This was actually rather cringy. Rather than the Firewalkers, which literally took me 2 seconds to figure out, there are several other items that would work. Thundergod's vigor works on dodge or being hit, which works fine with the pacifism motif.

  An even easier choice might have been the Ring of Hollow Whispers, which haunts nearby enemies and, I think, would break a door too. 

  Bul Kathos was possible as well, but wouldn't have solved his door problem. But none of these items were mutually exclusive. 

None of those 3 solves the door problem, which is basically what the entire video and run was about. Also, regardless of that, it's still a fun video of someone trying to solve a problem.

[Venaliter 0]

On 8/25/2020 at 2:03 PM, Starym said:

None of those 3 solves the door problem, which is basically what the entire video and run was about. Also, regardless of that, it's still a fun video of someone trying to solve a problem.

 True enough. I would have thought Hollow Whispers could break a door, though. I wonder if it uses a proc coefficient.