(01-13-2016, 11:29 AM)Nystul Wrote: Even shows how to kill the Butcher using one of the techniques from Pete's old guide. But then *cough cough* of course "Butcher is literally a joke" when you dupe 70k gold to get supplies before killing him.I was just into D1 when D2 appeared. So, I never got that far into D1. It seemed the speed run is actually antithetical to "game play" in that the bulk of the time "played" was exploiting a dupe bug, exploiting the low health no stun lock on energy shield, avoiding most of the mobs to get to the end of game. The equivalent Chess game would be a checkmate 2 moves. It may be interesting one time, it too requires certain conditions (exploits), and not very fun for either player to repeat.
I like the 100% rules (all quests incl. Cow King in all difficulties) for DII speed runs, done in as little as an hour now by certain classes.