My "Oops! No Armor" Run might get me my Golden Dice
I've been playing this game for a while (~750 hours), but never got my Golden Dice, and I think this one might be the run.
Technically, I've never even beating the game, but I don't consider that entirely my fault. my first run I quit due to missing too much act 1 content, I've had 3 multiplayer runs fizzle out in act 3 due to a variety of reasons, and after that happened around patch 5, I had decided that I wanted my first time beating the game to be in honor mode. Life hit me shortly after that, but I've spent the last few months grinding it out and after a ~8 failed runs (the last one dying to a corrupted save, which particularly hurt), I figured I'd do a mental reset and do a fun run with no pressue just to have fun and not care if it lost. I was in a VC with friends and I pitched them a few ideas for "meme runs", and after pitching a few ideas, they voted for "Oop! No Armor". That run ended up beating Myrkul and is now decently far into act 3. The party is as follows:
- 11/1 Fire Sorlock
- 6/4/2 4e TB Monk (fire snake)
- 12 GWM Tiger Barbarian
- 12 TB Moon Druid
My logic for this run was "ok, let's find all the classes that don't need armor", so monk and barbarian were obvious, and so was draconic sorcerer. I ended up settling on Moon Druid because their AC while wildshaped can be pretty decently balanced, and I'd take the debuff when in human form (using shadowheart so they could at least use sheilds). And while by no means is this a "bad comp" or anything like that (IK some of these builds are quite meta after reading this reddit), This team ended up working way better than I ever hoped with some of my restrictions I place on myself (5 fights per rest minimum, no camp casters, things like that), despite being a "mental reset" run.
I think a run like this taught me just how critical "gear overlap" issues can be on a run, and how freeing it can be to not have to worry about it.
To turn this back towards the community, do any of you have builds/runs you went into with little expectations that you ended up enjoying? Or do you have any advice for someone in my shoes (or similar shoes) who enjoys novelty runs like this?