Beating Diablo 2 With Only Poison Dagger

Poison Dagger is a terrible skill, let's try to beat the game with it!
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[Arkta]

I spent some time min maxing the hell out of Poison Dagger a few years back: You need a Teachery Runeword for the Venom as well as a lot of Small Poison Charms. Venom normally caps Poison Duration at 0.4 seconds, but Poison from either Poison Dagger, Rabies, Poison Javelin or Plague Javelin will ignore this and add their durations normally. This means you can stack the Poison Damage of Venom + Poison Dagger + Poison Small Charms with zero downsides.

From there, you stack Crushing Blow to supplement the Poison and use the strongest damage daggers possible — in this case the best option would be the Fleshripper Fanged Knife which provides 25% Crushing Blow Chance on it's own. Then you combo this with Gore Rider War Boots for another 15% Crushing Blow Chance. To combat the issues with Hit Chance, the Angelic Halo Ring and Wings Amulets are taken for the massive amount of Attack Rating p/cLvL and the +1 to All Skills.

To deal with Monster Poison Resistances, we focus on leveling Lower Resist which can reduce Poison Resistance by 62% at level 20. To reduce Poison Resistance even further, we take the Trang-Oul's Wing Off-Hand socketed with Poison Facets, Trang-Oul's Claws Gloves, and Trang-Oul's Girth Belt for: minimum -25% Enemy Poison Resist, +2 to Poison, Bone, and Curse Skills, 25% Poison Skill Damage and Cannot Be Frozen.


By having 3 pieces of the Trang-Oul's set, we also gain a partial set bonus which grants Level 13 Fire Wall, which can do considerable damage. Curse your target with Lower Resist, place your Fire Wall Directly on top of them, and stab away with Poison Dagger repeatedly for Crushing Blow while the Poison works in the background to whittle away at their life bar. It is recommended that you also gain some Life and Mana on Hit as well. Early game Act 2 Merc with Blessed Aim is great, but after getting the 2 piece set bonus of the Angelic Raiment for the Attack Rating boost, you can more safely swap to another A2 Mercenary with auras such as Might or Holy Freeze.

[welcome_to_the_own_zone]

I was cruising youtube at 3am just hoping for something worth watching, and then you arrive, like Tyrael descending from the clouds with a video.

[kubiczer]

I love Mephisto's mischievous plan of baiting You with a unique ring. Great video as always!

[ActuallyEric]

"We can see why nobody uses Poison Dagger. It's just a terrible skill choice. Honestly, I can't think of any reason to..."

"HI, I'm Zarfen!"

Goddangit, that made me laugh out loud. GG

[MertBert]

0:58. As a video editor, this was my favorite cut in this fantastic video essay. Well done overall!

[simeontodorov]

"Left it in the dungeon for other necromancers to find" is such a cool idea that unpicked loot would get redistributed to other players. Such head canon makes the world feel slightly more lived in and global than it actually is.

[cognitiveresonance]

When I committed to use poison dagger, I happened to get unique splint mail called Iceblink, which freezes enemies with each melee hit. I stab, they freeze solid, and then pop a few seconds later. It was magnificent.

[aidanc]

I love my fortnightly Masochism simulator

[koutz]

Currently suffering from restlessness. Woke up at 2 am to find this video. It calmed me right down. Great content!

[evalaviniabucur]

I really think you are out of your mind for playing such challenges and builds... and I love it! ^_^ I used to play Diablo II in Internet Coffees around 20-22 years ago and I absolutely adored this game. I was never really good at it, but I still played it. Watching you play brings me back a certain thrill. Thank you!

[zmdeadelius]

"What's your strategy for hell difficulty?"
— Emilio.

Great content as always, dude!

[rainbowlemon]

I've been playing D2R again recently and it's been fun watching all your challenges! Even with all my hours played, there's still a lot of skills I completely overlooked in this game, and it's really interesting seeing these 'xyz skill only' runs.

[harleyfagan]

Never played a single Diablo in my life but I found your channel a week or two ago and I'm hooked. 👍

[pretoria]

Little stories about the chalenge are hilarous 😂
I love your content so much !
Thank you for that good time !

[kristopherleslie]

Years ago when I played this build a few things happened for me:

One I used open wounds which stacks with poison just well. Was absolutely worth getting the runes for the 2 early Runewords that provide it.

Two I had for extremely lucky with my runs and Goblin toe along with Rattle Cage dropped. I had eventually also used a dagger that actually had a 100% chance to make monsters flee.

I hit them, they ran away and they died.
😂❤

In today’s time I’d use hustle more.

[OrgusDin]

'What are you gonna do? Poison dagger me?' - quote from Prime Evil poison daggered.

[vivalavalley]

Dude, I love your content, and I would love to see a set items only run! Keep up the amazing work!

[Tharoffnik.]

You slowly became my favorite d2 channel, mr Goblin. Keep up the good work :D Great vid!

[ApuyaEucherius]

Man, your videos are absolutely amazing! I always watch them, and I can’t even imagine the difficulty you faced using a Necromancer with only a Poison Dagger to finish Diablo 2 on Hell difficulty. The patience, strategy, and dedication it must have taken are insane! How long did it take you to complete this challenge? Seriously, you’re incredible. Keep up the great work!

[thevm]

I remember my first build in PD2 being necro poison dagger thinking it's still a meme tier, but it turned out to be one of the top builds for him lmao, great vid!