Hephaestus
Diabloii.Net Member
Another old player coming back. Some questions.
Hello all, I'm sure some of these questions have been asked before, but I didn't see any threads that jumped at me on the first couple pages.
Basically about 2-3 years ago I used to play D2 a lot on my roommate's computer. My highest level character was a level 89 lightning javazon, and I had a lot of fun with that. Then the 1.10 patch came out and basically made my build rather obsolete. I kinda lost motivation and moved onto other games.
Now I'm itching to come back, although I ashamedly admit I've forgotten a lot about the game. I bought my own copies of the game and expansion, and I've been reading a lot about the newer builds on the forums. A lot of them look very exciting to me. Although I'm not sure which direction I want to go.
1. Obviously my old characters are all gone by now, so my wealth is gone too. So I want to make an untwinked PvM character that could survive reasonably well in Hell. It seems like a lot of the builds I've read about are heavily item dependant, so I'm wondering what some of the good starter builds are now? Perhaps after I get up in level, I'll use that character to hunt items to fund newer characters.
2. How exactly do melee-oriented characters cope with Hell? Like barbarians and summoner druids and so forth. I know all baddies there take half damage at most from physical attacks if not totally immune. So does that make all physical damage skills pretty much useless for PvM? I never took a physically-oriented character into Hell back when I did play, so I don't know how viable it really is.
3. What items should I be saving up through the low and mid levels to trade later?
Also anything else I might need to know that I'm forgetting to ask about.
Thanks in advance.
Hello all, I'm sure some of these questions have been asked before, but I didn't see any threads that jumped at me on the first couple pages.
Basically about 2-3 years ago I used to play D2 a lot on my roommate's computer. My highest level character was a level 89 lightning javazon, and I had a lot of fun with that. Then the 1.10 patch came out and basically made my build rather obsolete. I kinda lost motivation and moved onto other games.
Now I'm itching to come back, although I ashamedly admit I've forgotten a lot about the game. I bought my own copies of the game and expansion, and I've been reading a lot about the newer builds on the forums. A lot of them look very exciting to me. Although I'm not sure which direction I want to go.
1. Obviously my old characters are all gone by now, so my wealth is gone too. So I want to make an untwinked PvM character that could survive reasonably well in Hell. It seems like a lot of the builds I've read about are heavily item dependant, so I'm wondering what some of the good starter builds are now? Perhaps after I get up in level, I'll use that character to hunt items to fund newer characters.
2. How exactly do melee-oriented characters cope with Hell? Like barbarians and summoner druids and so forth. I know all baddies there take half damage at most from physical attacks if not totally immune. So does that make all physical damage skills pretty much useless for PvM? I never took a physically-oriented character into Hell back when I did play, so I don't know how viable it really is.
3. What items should I be saving up through the low and mid levels to trade later?
Also anything else I might need to know that I'm forgetting to ask about.
Thanks in advance.