For anyone who is curious we entered Chaos at 3 mins 57 seconds and killed Diablo at 9 mins 19 seconds. The goal isn't to be the fastest clear in this video, but i thought idmention it since there's been some talk on other platforms about this chaos run taking 10 mins, which is the length of the full video, not the chaos run itself. Thanks
@noknownthrone2487
7 ай бұрын
This is excellent. Your Diablo kill was remarkably fast! They really do need to take your suggestion with four different summon mage options to easily select the element you'd like.
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
that's an EASY update for a dev to implement. i don't care if the game is in maintenance mode. i'm gonna keep asking for it!
@beefnacos6258
7 ай бұрын
Necros have it rough to begin with when it comes to efficiency. They should absolutely implement this.
@zacharyshort384
7 ай бұрын
Another QoL for Necro would be summons persisting through games and/or no longer requiring corpses. It's such a pain having to resummon a massive army when doing multiplayer runs.
@the-gamer-doctor
7 ай бұрын
@@zacharyshort384exactly what I was thinking too
@deaDParrot88
7 ай бұрын
I really wish they made summons permanent or “casted when you join” like the iron golem is
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
id only want that IF the prebuff gear snapshots and saves it between games. not sure if it does even for iron golem.
@deaDParrot88
7 ай бұрын
@@off-meta-michael what gear you have on when you leave is what gets buffed when you join so if you have your arm of king leoric swapped to when you leave the game, it’ll resummon them with that gear when you join back. That’s how it works for iron golem, he’s actually being resummoned when you join.
@2listen2u
7 ай бұрын
I really wish they make it possible to summon all golems at the same time like they did with druid zoo. Would be so cool to have a golem army, fully synergized.
@jakerichards1988
7 ай бұрын
Can't trust anyone that clears Chaos counterclockwise /s Cool build, and fun to watch!
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
Hahaha that made me laugh dude
@oceusMMXII
7 ай бұрын
I'm obsessed with the "Curse Shotgun" effect with holding the Infinity lol.. Your content makes me less sad about D2R being in maintenance mode while the D4 tire-fire consumes all resources.
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
thanks man, yea there are actually a TON of builds to play if you are okay with P1 difficulty and just having fun using skills and gear combos that no one else does. that being said, im still pulling for patches and updates. that one D2R dev whose holding the fort down will become my friend one day and you'll SEE!! ha
@oceusMMXII
7 ай бұрын
Right now I'm trying to build a viable-ish poison dagger necro. Wish me luck lol@@off-meta-michael
@leejordan001
7 ай бұрын
Excellent build! I am looking forward to all the elements!
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
I have cold and fire up on the channel already
@leejordan001
7 ай бұрын
@@off-meta-michael Yes I remember now! LOL!
@stephenblack8698
3 ай бұрын
Another AWESOMEA VIDEO I never considered focusing a specific element with mages since I was a newb and chose different ones because "Green is my favorite color." I ALWAYS run full mages with my skeletons on my summoners, and forego the corpse explosion, because "thats not summoning" in my OCD head. I've been wanting to try the Infinity A2 merc with summoner because ive never done it. Maybe a Crescent Moon, phoenix shield, that new fire helm, etc Plus normal skeletons as a meat shield could be a cool way to pop off. Of course your singular focus is likely putting out more dmage
@tavernwench2383
7 ай бұрын
Love Necro, but god leveling is brutal
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
i play off meta so im used to slow leveling and medium clear speed in end game haha
@zacharyshort384
7 ай бұрын
Really? I find leveling necro or druid summoner to be easy cruising.
@jerberus5563
Ай бұрын
One of my necros slays in P8: Playing as a Summon Necro in P8 is actually super easy (with maxed skeleton warriors/mastery, maxed Clay Golem for slow or Blood Golem for damage). Sure, my necro himself is weak AF, but his summons are powerhouses.
@przemysawbaca2449
7 ай бұрын
Its crazy how you are still able to produce top tier content after so many off-meta builds. Also Im so happy your channel is growing. It would be awesome If the devs implemented the changes you suggest. Necro is my favorite character and ability to choose what type of mage you summon would be awesome.
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
Thank you so much. I really appreciate you sharing and saying that. I posted this video on reddit as well and have been getting insulted and blasted by trolls and keyboard warriors. So its really nice to read anybody who has a nice thing to say, an encouraging word, or fair criticism to contribute. Thank you!
@HatchetSwinginDrumma
7 ай бұрын
I'm all for these vids and off meta builds but you always lose me at pre-buff and even moreso at summoning mages to get one specific type
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
Yea thats fine. When i play a build that uses prebuff i always run several areas and if i have to recast anything i dont grab all the prebuff gear again in most cases. But im not sure why using one type of mage would lose you? Its the main point for this build and only videos like mine would ever generate am actual update to make it so that we could choose. Thanks for checking it out
@PedroJPedro
Ай бұрын
100% agree with being able to choose the type of skeletal mage. Having to spin the roulette wheel and unsummon and re summon is way to tedious
@off-meta-michael
27 күн бұрын
This would be such as easy thing to punch in for any game dev. i bet they could do it in a couple hours.
@beefnacos6258
7 ай бұрын
I could be wrong, but I believe the only reason this is working is BECAUSE of the Infinity . Infinity is simply an amazing item. I believe it works for your mages, that's why they're doing fairly well.
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
No you are not wrong. That's exactly what im showing in the video. But stacking it with lower res is huge and makes the merc a lot better too
@SpectralNebulah
7 ай бұрын
Perhaps this is your most powerful off-meta build! Congrats
@matthewgill2695
4 ай бұрын
Hello Mr Off-Meta. I like, alot of effort though to get the 15 lightning mages, pain in the butt without dear D2R dev making life easier. Id still want my iron golem to be made of an insight, I've grown attached to this play style, but love the concept. on to the next build!
@abrasivepartyc5416
7 ай бұрын
Bro that was great. Love it.
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
Thanks dude
@swampasssapper3643
7 ай бұрын
I like that your using the iron wolf merc. kinda cool. Do you have a griffons you could try on him? I think that had fcr too.
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
I literally just traded for one an hour ago
@bobnewkirk7003
7 ай бұрын
Had to pop on for the mages content. Great build and I hope the devs...dev?...future dev? are watching. Lots of room for this game to grow and people testing the limits are where the best insights are from.
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
Thanks man, means a lot. And you nailed it. Thats exactly part of the reason why i showcase my off-meta builds.
@bobnewkirk7003
7 ай бұрын
@@off-meta-michael Great shout out on the - rez gear. from my read mages don't benefit from it directly, but its spaghetti code and who knows what else VV did while they were under the hood. That being said, it would be a great place to manipulate mages further as things like Crescent Moon could create a midgame potential for a light-centric mage build. Though the idea of another class competing for Griffons isn't great.
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
@@bobnewkirk7003 yea, i would have to test this by equipping crescent moon and getting rid of the merc and see if the clear speed increases or not.
@_MrSnrub
7 ай бұрын
Catching those men!
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
Infinite amount of men being caught with the Infinity Mancatcher
@berkdiggler5299
7 ай бұрын
I enjoyed this video bloke, thanks! :)
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
Cheers!
@jerberus5563
Ай бұрын
According to the amazonbasin, A sunder charm "Works for the player and its pets." I don't see why your "minus elemental res" gear wouldn't also affect your mages' damage.
@off-meta-michael
Ай бұрын
If you build up a character on maxroll the -enemy resistance doesn't increase the damage of spirit wolves or skeletal mages. Maxroll isn't infallible but it does have the update for assassin traps which are considered "pets" I also tried it with a Cresent moon runeword and then nothing equipped and i could not tell the difference for the lightning mages. One problem though when trying to test lightning mages is that their damage is 1-X, so they could be doing low damage at times and making it hard to tell. -enemy res for mages and the ability to choose which element you want to summon would be really nice. I hope the d2r dev sees this! Overall though, conviction and lower res combined nukes most resistances.
@jamesg9468
7 ай бұрын
I wish there was a way you could choose which magic school your skelly mages are, instead of it being random. Poison and cold have always sucked (and they shatter corpses).
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
Yep would be nice
@orensGT
7 ай бұрын
I have 15 skeleton warriors as well as 15 skeleton mages. Nothing can touch you with so many minions around 😊
@Sonnyjbiskit
7 ай бұрын
Love how you talk about your gear lol
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
Thanks. Some people on reddit really did not like it and made sure i knew about it.
@stephenblack8698
3 ай бұрын
Uhhh... You know that whole "Is it Berenstein or Berenstain Bears, the past has been changed topic?" I am CERTAIN that the item at the end has always been Skewer of KrinITZ, not krinTIZ. I AM 100 PERCENT CERTAIN OF THIS.
@orensGT
7 ай бұрын
Also, CE is the most useful skill in the game aside from maybe teleport. Use it with pride
@MrTr4d3r
7 ай бұрын
Lightning mages are cool, but I'll w8 Ur Cold version. Underrated mages 😉
@Trash_Panda6219
7 ай бұрын
I had a HC seasonal baal bot summoner that never died with an a2 merc. Cleared it maybe 5-10 seconds slower than hammerdin.
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
Nice, but the bot is cheating bro! Thanks for checking the vid out. Ive never used a bot or tried. What do you think about them?
@Trash_Panda6219
7 ай бұрын
@judestongue this was back in the day and only done to say we did it. Back in early 2000's. The major point was having the summoner to do it.
@miquelsubira3076
7 ай бұрын
you always surprise us!
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
Im trying
@Alexander361cmongimmieahandle
7 ай бұрын
I liked to use skeletal mages with bone wall/prison. Lock everything down and let them shoot em like shooting fish in a barrel. Issue I ran into is in hell my bone prisons weren't strong enough and powerful enemies would break through them. Have you tried this?
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
No haven't tried that, sounds cool though
@Alexander361cmongimmieahandle
7 ай бұрын
Yeah it was. DPS goes up when the enemies can't move and get hit by everything. Running same curse/aura as you are as well of course. Also the walls soak up ranged attacks. They just break when you're fighting good stuff =*(@@off-meta-michael
@stephenblack8698
3 ай бұрын
One more curiosity Run Infinity on Merc and use Crescent moon with a Homunculus or something, plus Griffon's headpiece
@off-meta-michael
3 ай бұрын
The +skill and -enemy res don't work for skeletal mages. There was an update to make it work for traps, which are considered minions, which is why in the video i was wondering if it would work, but it doesnt. Same goes for the spirit wolves. You cannnot benefit from using voice of reason or wizendraw for those wolves. Also, with lower resist curse and infinity conviction aura you already are bringing down most enemies to -100 light res anyway, so even if it did work i dont think you'd be gaining that much extra power. This is basically as good as it gets for skeletal mages. Fanaticism on merc with Faith can increase their cast speed though. The animation is considered attack speed. So you could play around with different merc setups.
@stephenblack8698
3 ай бұрын
@@off-meta-michael That's good info. I Hoped/Assumed the additional drop in resist would apply because mage is a skill that you cast. So I guess Infinity on merc and use Arm of King Leoric with beast iron golem! Haha Faith/Bramble/Flickering Flame fire A1 merc with Infinity iron golem
@off-meta-michael
3 ай бұрын
@@stephenblack8698 yea, i wouldn't want to risk an infinity or beast iron golem, but it definitely could be a way to min/max this type of build.
@LosDoyerss
7 ай бұрын
Why mage fists when you can have curse skills with trangs gloves?
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
The +2 curses didn't increase the lower res and i run out of mana easily so the mana regen on magefist is more helpful. Also, + 1 fire skill does add a point to corspe explosion
@zacharyshort384
7 ай бұрын
Aye +1 CE definitely better than +2 Curses.
@K1LL4Cam
7 ай бұрын
I think the plus/minus on item only applies to the wielder, so you only get what you wield and same as merc. So merc with infinity doesnt give you the minus, just the aura.
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
Right, but this value applies to charms, spells, and recently traps as well. So does it apply to skeletal mages? Thats what in unclear about. I do not think it does but will have to test in hero editor by cutting it out as a modifier to see for sure.
@K1LL4Cam
7 ай бұрын
Yeah I would think no as well. But Im not 100 on it myself@@off-meta-michael
@glittersh4rt162
2 ай бұрын
I wish they had fixed mages a little more. Only fire and light are good. Maybe 1-2 ice n poison mages in the army. More than that is a waste. And they are so fragile. Without being able to choose the type your just gonna spend hours summoning and resummoning to get fire/light
@jerberus5563
Ай бұрын
It's sad about the criticisms, dude. I, too, prefer the off-meta build of a poison daggermancer. (maxed synergies, maxed LR, max CE). My build doesn't use but 1 point in Clay Golem and 1 in Bone Armor. I find your off-meta builds fascinating in their own right. I consider what you do as research into the "what ifs". It's cool.
@off-meta-michael
Ай бұрын
I literally quit reddit because of people giving me so much crap. I dont know what it is on that platform but it is populated with tons of elitist, gate keeping d2 players who treat the game like it's a hard science where they only like min/maxing gear worth 30 jah runes. Its annoying. The admin eventually banned youtube links anyway (not sure why...), so i cant even promote my channel anymore there even if i wanted to. So good riddance to reddit!
@theTurtleChiropractor
7 ай бұрын
lackluster considering all that gear
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
As far as skeletal mages go, this is about as good as it gets. so relatively speaking this is insanely good. If they could buff them a bit that'd be nice, but seems that wont happen anytime soon. If you're comparing to a nova sorc or hammerdin or javazon then fine i get why you can say it is lackluster. But when youve played the game as much as me and others have, then what do you do with all the gear besides try to make more builds? I haven't seen anyone try to make this build before and so to me that's what is exciting about it and id disagree that it is lackluster in that context. Thanks
@theTurtleChiropractor
7 ай бұрын
@@off-meta-michael i hear you. just saying if somethings good, it's good cause something else sucks.
@bump3r11
7 ай бұрын
how did u make 15 only lightning mages? :D
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
Unsummon the fire cold and poison with the unsummon command
@frankgallagur2045
7 ай бұрын
How are they all lightning ?
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
Unsummon the ones that are cold, fire, or poison as you go and keep raising and keeping the ones that are lightning.
@Doppe1ganger
2 ай бұрын
Does enchant work on skeletal mages
@off-meta-michael
2 ай бұрын
No it does not. But would work for the melee skellies.
@smegg9676
3 ай бұрын
omg plz use fire golem
@lukusridley
2 ай бұрын
idk how you can claim to be doing off meta builds when you use skills. it's a known fact that meta builds use skills. Please take this under advisement ps love skellie mages but fashion assessment was missing this time we need the catwalk
@off-meta-michael
2 ай бұрын
Haha, if the inspiration arises i talk about the drip. I did in my latest two videos
@lukusridley
2 ай бұрын
@@off-meta-michael what do you think diablo 2 catwalk music would be? I feel like most demons would be pretty stereotypical but diablo himself is definitely breaking it down to carly rae jepsen in the shower
@Sosaii666
7 ай бұрын
You Take merc 5 put 2 crescent
@off-meta-michael
7 ай бұрын
Would not help my mages at all. The -enemy res only applies to the character or merc wielding the item.
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