best build for soloin hell?

[bruthor]

For myself, I've never even seen a SoJ despite playing for 5 years-but I play 100% legit on HC ladder. Heck, I haven't even seen a Manald Heal yet even with 2 chars near L80 on the current HC ladder. I have found a bunch of Nagelrings though! Ooooh! I'm rich now!

So of course, dual SoJs, CoH, and Hoz are only in my dreams ;-). Three questions for you:

Savvi

Man that sucks. Maybe there should be another stat in diablo called luck, effecting nothing but magic find? I have made doom and delerium, found some sojs, a guardian angel, bla bla. I actually found a zod, but I do'nt know what to do with it yet. PS. Normal baalrunning can get you some OK stuff

 

[nalchik]

There 2 options i like most : Necro Overlord and Hammerdin. These both can solo hell wihout problems with very cheap equip . Both are fun and both are good

 

[plasmo]

If you can get Enigma, Hammerdin by miles. If you can't, a Hammerdin can still kill basically anything and can move pretty quickly with charge.

The only other possible character I'd use would be a sorc, simply because of tele. And to not worry about immunities while still doing decent damage, meteorb is pretty much it.

Of course, these are the ones to use if you want to get somewhere fast. If you just want to sit back and play leisurely, then almost any character with a merc will work (the merc can usually kill anything that's immune to your attacks). I've always had fun playing necros with skeletons/mages/revives, but they just don't move quickly enough if you want to MF.

I actually found a zod, but I do'nt know what to do with it yet.

Well, I can only think of 3 options: trade, eBOTD, or put it in some godly ethereal rare.

 

[Quietus]

For myself, I've never even seen a SoJ despite playing for 5 years-but I play 100% legit on HC ladder. Heck, I haven't even seen a Manald Heal yet even with 2 chars near L80 on the current HC ladder. I have found a bunch of Nagelrings though! Ooooh! I'm rich now!

So of course, dual SoJs, CoH, and Hoz are only in my dreams ;-). Three questions for you:

(1) How viable, completely untwinked (by that I mean, only stuff your characters find themselves) do you think that build is?

(2) Do you think it's HC viable? (That's a very different and much more stringent question that (1))

(3) How viable do you think it is against the new ubers as a hard core character? Obviously if the chance of at least one death in the attempt is high, then it probably couldn't work...but you've got the experience here, I do not.

Thanks,

Savvi

Completely untwinked, I wouldn't try it hardcore. You pretty much NEED dracul's grasp. With a little twinking they're fairly simple; Play them like a hammerdin till you've maxed hammer, vigor, and conc, then do holy sheild. But to make this build viable you do need to have A) A decent speed weapon, preferrably with crushing blow (Though a strength phase might work, you'd be a little slower on the smite), B) Dracul's are highly, highly, highly recommended. The balance required for this sort of character is very fine indeed, unfortunately. It's a fairly good character in terms of living, just as survivable as a hammerdin in the early-mid stages, since you're playing as one until late game. Against the ubers... I wouldn't try them unless you had really, REALLY nice gear. Grief phase if you're on ladder, or kingslayer phase if you're not.. kingslayer is REALLY nice, mul um gul eth for 33% crushing blow, and 30% ias - gives 7 frame smite. Preferrably a chains of honor, hoz, guilla's face, gore riders.... When facing the ubers you're playing as a smiter, using hammers only to rid the field of minions from time to time. I do die on occasion, but I don't have the uber-amazing, top of the line gear. If you intend to do the ubers on hardcore, make SURE you have your resists stacked up to 75 after meph's conviction. If I'm up there smiting him, he can take me out with a single charged bolt wave.

 

[dogs best friend]

The most sucessful pvm character I have build are my Frost zealot and my wind druid. My friend has so far beaten normal and nightmare with a barb using frenzy and it looks promising I think it'll walk through hell. The frenzy barb and frost zealer aren't very gear dependant but the wind druid is.