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You glossed over corpse explosion being one of the best skills in game. Poison nova necro w lower resist is god tier in pvp. Necros are the most versatile and IMO best class.
Sorry I know it's late but,So what's the difference between pre expansion and lod character, will I get locked out of anything by choosing like a necromancer, or should I just go for druid or assassin.
Be careful, it’s addictive. It is a time vampire. You can plays for hours & when you’re at school, work or elsewhere you’ll be thinking about it & dying to get back to your keyboard/mouse or controller. 🙂 I played the original a bit but never finished. I probably only got 20% into it. Experiencing the different quests & acts the first time is amazing but it’s inherently playable over & over. Doing farming or progression runs is even enjoyable. It’s just such a great game. It’s best when you play at night with the lights off & the sound cranked. The different locals get so immersive. You can hear the rain & crickets of the forest in Act 1, the sand & wind in desert of Lut Gholein & all the crazy souns like monkeys in Kurast. Everything sounds creept too from the hissing spiders, to the slimy maggots, etc Watch out for those little Pygmy like jungle bastards in the Kurast jungle. There are different variants of them: Fetish, Shaman, etc They attack in packs, are fast & relentless. Some have soears & some have daggers or blow darts. There’s one that rides another’s shoulders with a flame spraying blow gun that is nasty. The sorceress, druid & necromancer deal with them best as it is best to do ranged attacks. It’s so satisfying to off those little bastards. Let us know how you’ve fared & how you like it. Maybe you’re one of those rare individuals that doesn’t like it. Hope you’re enjoying it. I am gonna get back into right now.🙂
As an 8 plus years Diablo 2 player. For beginners tips: start with the Sorceress and teleport yourself into victory. The Frost/Blizzard Sorceress is the strongest class IMHO and will cover almost every facet of the game like loot hunting, rune hunting, stage hunting, etc. The other two strong classes equal to the Sorcereress is the Hammer build Paladin and the Summon type Necromancer. Start with those 3 but pick the Sorceress first.
@@djaken Yes you can. Prioritize items that boosts your damage, resistances, hit recovery, cast rate early in the game. Luck items are also good for finding better gear. And always teleport to spots where you can get a free shot and/or escape from getting sorrounded. Focusing on just 1 source of damage is risky as there will be enemies that will be immune to that particular attack. Cold damage spells are the best and should be maxed first but you still need to pair them with at least 2 maxed lightning or 2 maxed fire damage spell in the end. Putting 1 skill point to the supp skills like warmth, frozen shield, teleport, etc is more than enough. Also turn your mercenary into a tank (you will rely on him/her a lot). And most important of all, is fill your inventory with potions specially in the early game.
@Cthulhu that would ruin the game. you are only meant to pick up certain items and store them in your cube. the rest of your invo should be charms. the only potions you chould have or need should be the 16 on your belt!!!!!!!!!! GOLD IS FOUND ON GROUND OR FROM SeLLING RARE/UNIQUES. If you think stacking would be a QOL improvement you havnt playd enough d2 to give an proper opinion. Go play WOW. lol that lsat part was a joke wouldnt wish that on my worst enemy.
@@MorlogMorningDigest Dude if ur playing a sorc, you NEED a huge ammount of mana pots at all times. You have to chug constantly....All the way until much later into the game. Now that ruined the game for me and i now cant play the class i want to. Terrible design and should of been fixed for the remaster. Stacking potions would of been a good start. Im aware this issue isn't only for the sorc either. Absolutely lame.
Understanding skill synergies, class items and runewords are probably the biggest hurdles for early game sucess. For example spirit wolf is considered terrible but with oak sage and one point in dire wolf they will have plus 100% life...not so terrible now.
@@Nobody-zq8blwhat did they change in the remaster to change endgame? I haven’t played much Diablo 2. From my knowledge I thought they didn’t change any mechanics or balancing just added new rune words and items (which can be turned off I think) But yeah lmk how they ruined it because I don’t know lol
"...which class you will be playing..." - My answer: Yes! All of them! Seriously, I have played Diablo 2 for a long time in the early 2000s (after a friend gave me both D2 and Lord of Destruction! He didn't like the games, so he simply gave them to me and I was hooked!) and I had every class at least once, I had a WW-Barb, an Orb-Fireball-Sorc, a Hurricane-Druid, a Summoner-Necromancer, a Bow-Amazon, a Hammerdin, a Fanadin, a Trap-Assassin...so yeah, I was pretty busy and frankly I want them all back! It'll take a while, but I will get there eventually :) ps: And I want to try builds I didn't have back then, like a Lighting-Javazon :)
Avenger Paladin. Good damage through the acts, anyone doing ele damage loves you because your Conviction aura removes immunities on hell difficulty, And you're basically unkillable
I haven't played Diablo 2 in a while, I do remember playing a sorceress. What I do remember is using Glacial spike and Frozen orb. Act two is much easier when you shatter everything. I ran into the need to have a lot of skills in all three trees so that on Hell difficulty there was something available to hurt the monster with 1-2 elemental immunities.
Look at guides to understand the mechanics of the game, but play around with your own builds. I find some of the less optimized builds more fun. For example, Assassins focusing on martial arts aren't as powerful as ones focusing on traps, and it's harder to find the best equipment for martial arts Assassins. But I find martial arts Assassins to be more fun to play despite its weaknesses.
I used to play the "Ninja" martial arts build by maxing crushing blow, dragon tail and fade using throwing stars. Super fun but I dont know if its viable in the new game.
That's great until you hit an absolute wall and have no way to pass a certain challenge whatsoever. Nova sorceress? Recommended to beat Mephisto around level 20. I can't do it at lvl 25 even with the recommended runeword equipment. Not everything is viable.
I played a Martial Arts Assassin through Normal and well into Nightmare. The lifesteal and damage are insane as well as the movement speed. I tore my way through the difficulty without much challenge. I had a mixture of Cathans and Siagons gear on (synergises quite well) and wrecked everything. Moving towards hell I have re-specced as a Trapsin but it's not as fun and speed punching everything and stealing all of the life.
Great build guide, currently following it through normal mode and it's working great. Hoping to see some advanced builds for the sorc by you too at some point.
After many year of playing Diablo 2, I found the easiest character to play was the Assassin and focus on the lightning traps. Outfit your assassin with decent armor, a decent weapon, don't forget to equip your companion and focus everything on lightning traps. You'll win every time.
@@mikrobyo1790 No. Because you don't start off with a high-powered lightning trap. It can be difficult while you are increasing the power of the lightning traps. Besides, it doesn't mean that you can't use other skills, if desired.
@@henrybrennan yeah but you said it yourself that you only use one skill cuz that might be the best way. It is not hard to get the skill. You can also reset the skill and just focus on that one.
@@danielgerrits6850 depends on what you wanna be, wolf is pretty fast and bear hits like a truck. both are very squishy tho, since no shiled and unfortunately have you to overcome the diablo2 melee curse - getting the ATTACK RATING inline. i like rabies wolf very much and fireclaw bear rocks - but shockwaves man very cool too :-D
The game gives you a free respec as mentioned, and technically infinite craftable respecs later on. Your first character is very likely to be trash in the endgame/higher difficulties no matter what you do, and in fact you'll probably voluntarily abandon it before then and start over with valuable lessons learned anyway. So don't sweat all these choices, just pick a character, jump in, and have fun. Put points in multiple trees, experiment and worry about optimization later
I definitely played Necro in a different way: I focused on Bone Arrows and Golems. That way, I can fire spells at bosses or packs of monsters while my Golem takes the hits. I also tried Sorceress using lightning spells only, but ran into problems when dealing with Lightning Resistance creatures. Sorceress need to have a backup plan for those situations.
That's how I played my necro too, up to lever 90 something when I managed to get the whole top set that turns you into a Lich, at which point I realized two things - 1, Lich form breaks spell casting speed so it's slow and 2, despite the slow casting the Lich forms sort spells, fireball and firewall was the best spells I now had, necro spells were garbage compared to them. So I realized I had wasted my time and should just have made a sorc to begin with and quit playing.
As a decade long player of d2Legacy, the best class is what suits you. Each classes and builds have their strengths and weaknesses, but choose the one you like. My least fave is amazon, i just dont like its skills and game play. My most favorite is bone+summon necro hybrid, i like the idea of having a "gang" that will attack for me while i attack with bone spear from behind. My second favorite is barbarian cuz of dual wielding and very fast move speed with frenzy. Again, choose the one that suits your gamestyle
Remember you only have 3 re-spec chits through the entire game. Very different from D3, WoW and ESO where you respec in the morning after shaving. (Back in the old days, there was zero respec. I have erased a character and started from scratch because I was unhappy with one accidental skill point.) Having said that: try out all kinds of skills early game, assuming that at some point you’ll wipe the slate clean for your first real build. There is no viable jack-of-all-trades playstyle. Skill points are a critical resource and you’ll need to dump most of them in a limited number of skills. (Another reason to fool around with multiple skills before your first reset.) Some builds depend on skills that you can’t even access until lvl 30 and won’t max out until lvl 50. That means the first time you complete the game on normal you’ll probably be facing Diablo with your fooling-around-build. That can be hard. The official end-boss Baal is generally not as difficult. Some characters are easy and intuitive, especially early on. (Sorceress and barbarian in my opinion.) Paladin is more of a late bloomer. Skellymancers who max out skeleton mastery early have very OP minions in early game, but you might have to hang back and wait while they mill around a bit before they find and make mincemeat of the mobs and bosses. I think it’s hilarious, but your mileage may vary. The other alternative is to dump all your points in bone magic direct dmg skills. In that case your skellies will be almost pointless, but you might still use a golem as a distraction and mini-tank. Curses, in my opinion, don’t scale up as well with more skill points, and you might finish the whole game with only 1-3 pt versions of one or two curses that you get from items. Finally, are you going to play with friends or solo? A co-op sorc might be more of a glass cannon, while a solo one might need much more life and defensive spells. Paladins and barbarians have auras and shouts that are very beneficial to partners (and their minions). Hirelings are another important choice. Rogues from act 1 add a significant but not gamechanging damage boost. They are kinda fragile. The act 2 mercenaries have a paladin aura that might be gamechanging. The three auras on offer change between normal and hard difficulty. If you’re a bit of a glass cannon yourself they will tank for you, if you are the tank you can get a significant damage boost instead. The act 3 spellcaster gives a quality of life aoe, especially against swarms of distant enemies, but I don’t think their damage output is significant against tougher foes. And they die a lot. Barbarian hireling from act 5 is another tank minion, but way inferior to the act 2 one. Again, in my opinion. Edit: after beeing back in the game for a week or two, and a bit of online nerdery, I need to revise. First, maxing skeleton mastery before summon skeleton is still my personal preference, but it is a minority opinion. Conventional wisdom is to max out summon first and only put a couple of points in mastery, ignoring skeleton mages altogether, and depending heavily on corpse explosion for damage. I like my way better, but I do struggle with Diablo and Baal. Second, without really good gear it will be much harder to beat the game as a melee than beating it as a caster. This means that for classes where you have a choice between caster playstyle and melee playstyle, go with the magic. For assassin: traps, for druid: elemental, for paladin: blessed hammer, for amazon: something with javelins. I think that the reason I never realized was probably that I ran a lot of characters and by the time I got around to levelling a barbarian or werewolf, I had loads of nice item to put on them.
Right now the followers and revives are all but useless. Your followers lag behind now instead of staying with the player, and they no longer rush forward to engage (Act 2 merc) like they used to, but instead just waffle back and forth behind you. If you move basically anywhere besides a straight path, the follower gets lost in less than ten seconds, gets stuck and remains absent until you teleport or move into a different area. A Sorceress can "fix" the problem by teleporting into enemies, but you really shouldn't have to be risking yourself like that, when that's the followers damn job in the first place. In the original game, the followers were faster, more aggressive and would always warp to the player after a short period if they were stuck. They are absolute trash in this version. Necromancer Revives are suffering the exact same problem right now too, even though their skeletons warp like they should.
Thanks for the video! My two main characters back in the day were a werewolf druid (With a few points in summoning and elemental) and a mage. (mostly ice)
I remember maining a summoner necro back when this game dropped in the early 2000s. I must’ve been 10? Had a soft spot for summoner classes ever since.
For fast farming sors is kinda the best becouse the teleport, for a little bit more advenced player hammerdin is the best choice and for new players assassin is really strong and safe bet !
I remember almost finishing the OG using amazon. Focusing on 1 triple stab skill. Poking everyone through the whole game. I didnt researched any rpg stuff since i was 12 at the time
too many people ask about what class will i choosw at first than this is an answer. the farming class. you can see the socceres, assasin is the fastest farmer, so why dont just skip normal and nightmare as fast as pissible, than farm on hell. you may say blizzard counter us by immunity monster, but why dont you just ignore that and farm onther place, like pit in act 1 for blizzard socceres, it have at least 6 champion wait for you. after you have gear than just change late class like hamerdin, javazon etc, it will be better
first and foremost. play the class you like/enjoy the most by your pers. preference! even if you picked the "worst" starter, you will mostlikely stick to it till the endgame - as any other class will lose you at any given point that may be hard/frustrating to you. if one has a dedicated plan and goal - sorcress and or assassin will shine as both have high mobility and strong builds that feature dual elements by default. sorc might be superior but less safe overall. paladin as hammer is also viable to carry you into hell, but might get very hard in certain areas too. overall every character can farm hell, since there are different lvl 85 areas available. in the end it comes down on what you want to do in the game. chill and play,hyper farm, utrist, trade or even lvl 99 grind.
I started a necro and was having a blast. Then I got to Duriel and couldn’t get past. So I looked up a build, and respecced to bone spear. Awful decision: now I’m constantly out of mana, and can’t get a handle on how to use the character.
Im disapointed in the game for the mana issues. Went to make a sorc to find out you must carry tonnes of potions and spam them constantly. Why didn't they fix this for the remaster...smh.
If your paladin, dump ALL your points into Thorns. Unless they capped it, it basically doesn't, and your weapon starts being useless. I'm surprised it wasn't caught in this video
@@suisiders7181 truth be told it's been a long time since I played, and I won't be picking the remaster up anytime soon for multiple reasons. I believe most of the auras, if not all are for the whole party though.
@@dadbodfitness9704 yeah I just started one, idk which ones cause the talents all seem cool. I’m at level 17. It’s fun and shit but to bad they didn’t leave the skill sets the same. Even tho it’s still good I wanted to see an Army of like 10 skeletons man
First of all, be honest and say that you must invest A LOT of time to get to farm hell and survive. About the class, I've tried a blizz sorc this time. Starting from zero, it's useless in normal, good in nightmare, useless in hell unless you have a mercenary with conviction runeword, which is extremely expensive. Next time I'll go with a hammerdin, an avenger paladin or a necro.
Ehh, it really doesnt take long to farm hell with a group of 3 people, esp if you get rushed. Honestly the game can be as fast or as slow as you want honestly 🤷♂️ and an infinity is really only needed for lightning imo, insight does good enough for blizz
I started with Summon Necro but got bored around Act 2/3. It sounded good in theory but I felt like an extra in my own crew. I'm gonna try playing D2R again and try for a different class.
My favourite class is the druid. You basically can complete normal naked with this guy. So its best suited for those who can't grind for 12 hours a day for that perfect gear. Just put every skill point you have on fissure and its synergies. Everything melts on normal to fissure. I also think its really a fun way to play the game. You have to rely on your micro and spell casting rather than on items. So when you kill diablo or baal in normal you will feel like you did it and not your items. Unfortunately in in nightmare and hell many monsters are fire resistant so there it wont be as viable.
Been playing this game since 2002 yet i have never scratched the surface of the game even though ive played and beat this multiple times ive never actually had a strategy other than praying for good rolls and socketing. Now that im almost 30 i feel like I'm playing the game for the first time and its harder when i try and implement strategies or runs. Ive only exclusively used barbarian, necromancer, and amazon. Now i have the sorceress and I'm hoping to get magic find items and socketed items.
Question ...if me and my buddy start an online session together and we log off for the night. The next night can we start where we left off? Or do we have to start again?
Story progression where you left off, game wise start again, using th way point you hopefully picked up to get to where you were, you don't log out of the game and come back in at the same spot
Working on an elemental summoning druid ATM and it's pretty op. Just have to decide if u wanna be an ice/wind or fire cause both don't do a justice unless your solely elemental I found
I veered into wind at 24 and never looked back lol. Of course I upgraded my wind armor. But that tornado is intense with the upgrades it gets from cyclone armor and what not. I've always been a fire druid in the past but def glad I went wind. I just hit act 4 cause I work 6 days a week lol feel like a noob cause on 3 I'm paragon 857 😆 and on 2 I'm a measley 25 lol
So just got this game, don't give the mage no energy? Dex & vitality or Strength & Vitality? I haven't played this game, well D2 in ages. Thanks, goodness I finally subscribed, my apologies thought I already was.
I remember always playing barb back in the time before resurrected. I never really beat the hell back at that time. Hell was pain on Barbarian. So, Suddenly i decided to make a paladin, jesus.. its so overpowered compared to barbarian its not even close. Paladin is ridiculous, you don’t have to be active at all, its so easy on every difficulty.
I played the crap out of the original. Like obsessive amounts of time. I would say just pick what class is appealing. Any class and basically any horrible build can make it through normal with minimal problems. It's only in nightmare and hell difficulty that you gotta get stuff on point and by then you can respec and maybe start really gearing up. Just don't stress about it, enjoy the game and the class based on interest, and go from there.
I always thought Barbarian was the easiest class in the game. Interesting that this video said it was the hardest. At least for me Barbarian is the easiest and requires the least amount of grinding.
@@jeffreyramsaur796 yeah same, and maybe I just am rusty but I never saw sorceress as that easy. She's crazy powerful yeah but you gotta manage that character way more than barbarian or paladin
My favourite: 1) Amazon /Long range builds 2) Necromancer/ supporting characters 3)Sorceress/ she's okay, her power hitters come around lvl 30 which is why she's at the bottom for me. I want to feel I'm unstoppable as I progress in lvls, not rely on and struggle to get to a certain late stage lvl to become badass. If I don't feel like making a long range character and I want to get up and personal 1)Paladin. It's really hard to not like his Hammer attack and Rush attack 2) Barb: his frenzy attack at a higher lvl is unstoppable 3) Druid: Druid has always been my maybe character. I've played as him once and that's because I already got my other character to lvl 80+ and wanted a new challenge. Druid however just doesn't do it for me. I won't list Assassin because I refuse to play as her I think she's garbage character
i went with summoner druid, and it is fricking op. I always have 5 ravens, 3 wolves, a worm that feeds on corpses to heal me (How does that even work?) and a spirit that buffs my hp and def
I've played this game for over 20 year's. The strongest class is the holy class think about it and you will get it. Thorns is a powerful way to defend max it out and see the power send you're attacker running away and give you time too hit back just make sure you have health to keep you're health up
hey, since youre a veteran, could you answer this?... i just bought the diablo 3 + diablo 2 resurrected combo on nintendo switch, i started with diablo 3, with a barbarian, now, today i started diablo 2 for the first time and picked a barbarian bc tbh i like barbarian characters in general, but everyone seems to say barbarians are not good more if youre a new player, should i keep my character or do a new one?
@@juanpchoo1516 I played almost all barbarian characters growing up because I remember my game would crash on like 2-3 of the other characters so I could only do barbarian , sorceress, of amazon (this was before druid and assassin) barbarians are fine just very reliant on their equipment but they can do a bunch of damage
The first time I beat the game at all, it was this a summon necro without corpse explosion because I wanted to let my minions do all the work besides me casting curses because I did use curses and I beat the game on normal without dying once. But this time I'm trying to figure out which class to beat the game with next because I kind of want to do it with every class but I'm not sure I entirely like playing the barbarian with this build because I'm thinking about switching to a different class and trying to beat the game with the barbarian later especially because I'm not used to close ranged classes as much because I only beat only version of the game once.
Just switched over to hammerdin on nm mode but I’m having trouble finding any socketed gear to use runewords on and also having trouble with survivability. Any tips?
You can buy open socket white shields from act 1 and 2 normal. Other than that make sure you have little to no magic find so drops in the world have a better chance of being white and not rare
@@LEK oh my bad, that’s what I’ve been hearing. I’m new and started off as a Necro. 🤷♂️ played and beat Diablo 3 and the dlc, of course I knows they’re totally different games.
Start out with sorceress (blizzard ideally) for farming since she can teleport. Then build an ultimate farming/rusher in Hammer Paladin. After that you can build any class you want.
on par with that is assassin farming the pits. lvl 85 area with sprint gets the job done. but i do agree on the soso, as she can easily do the more desireable stuff to like farming keys for easy money
I tried. But im out of mana constantly(even worse then my sorc in D4). So i google it, to find thats just the way it is. You must carry a shit ton of mana pots at all times, and constantly drink em. No thanks.
@@donnienguyen2294 I read about that, but that requires me to get quiet far into the game first. Drinking mana pots constantly ruins the fun for me. I made a druid who seems to be destroying nicely with a bow.
Im tempted just to do barbarian again, something straight forward. But at the same time, I'd like a different experience from what Ive had in diablo in the past. I hate picking classes in games lol. I really prefer the sandbox nature of like RuneScape. Where you can, with enough time, master everything but can only use one style at a time. Like with RuneScape, if you could max out both magic and melee, but you'd only be effective with melee if you're wearing melee gear, and effective with magic if you're wearing magic gear. So no one ends up as a jack of all trades at all times, but when gearing up, you can decide what to use and switch to other styles if you get a cool weapon or ability you want to try.
Which build would be overall better for supporting your team mates? Like increasing their damage output for example. Would it be Paladin, or Barbarian? After watching this, it seems that both characters seem like they're good for supporting your teammates like that, but which do you guys think is better?
I have four characters: paladin, necromancer, barbarian, and druid. Got the paladin to 6th and it is ok. I have the necro at 3rd and am having fun with it.
Unfortunately, later game builds are so vastly different, it's almost like playing a different class. Very unsatisfying and frustrating if you don't know where they head. "Hammerdin" teleporting and spellcasting paladin, for example
Here's my tip: Don't put too many points into summoned creatures (as a necromancer) that require corpses to cast. Or corpse explosion for that matter. Unless they've made changes since. My experience (potential spoiler): I played a skeleton master necro (OG Diablo 2). 'Cause, hey, who wouldn't want an army of skeletons fighting for them. It did pretty good all the way 'til I fought Diablo... Diablo charged in and my skeletons rushed in to face him. Diablo does a flame wave that shoots outward 360 degrees from him. His flame wave killed EVERY LAST ONE of my skeletons in ONE OR TWO SHOTS. If I remember right (it was 20 years ago) There might have been minions in the Diablo chamber, can't remember, but once those were gone you couldn't use any skills that required corpses. Haha! Skeleton army attacks! Whoosh... dead army. I'd put most of my points into skeletons... which got one-shotted. It was a VERY LONG battle. I portaled back to town and bought a staff that gave me 3 levels in bone spear and a ton of potions. I had to kill Diablo with a low level bone spear spell. So yeah, don't waste more than a point on anything requiring corpses.
skeletons and corpse explosion is very good, but to face Diablo you need a couple points in summon resists, a clay golem and a curse like decrepify or iron maiden
@@whitefox25 I played OG back in the day If you’re interested in full end game, Pala, Sorc and Barb Druid, Necro and Amazon mid tier And Assassin was always lacking a bit But if you don’t enjoy playing a class you don’t have to stick to a specific one Edit: Levelling up my main Druid, but rolling as Fury Werewolf this time instead of Bear Tank/Armageddon build
That is NOT how D&D works. There are VERY, VERY clearly superior classes in every single edition. So clearly superior that playing anything else leaves you at an extreme disadvantage.
The video didn’t help me based on the title. What is the best class 🤔 My self I’m playing a Blizzard Sorceress with 300+ MF. If you have an Enigma A Hammerdin is the most OP in the game.
honestly you don't even need that great of gear to do it. It is by far the most powerful class in the game, always has been. A close second could be considered a bear druid with a massive 2h hammer to one-shot/two-shot bosses.
@@dizzlethedevil6845 its cool just dont get your hopes up of joining a game with players in it or joining you. To pair up with ppl you have to exit and research for a game. It was fun the first month but gets repetitive , im on the 4th world out of 5. I will eventually finish it but may never replay it. However get a switch, classic games like , Doom Ethernal, Links Awakening, Smash Bros, Metroid Dread, Pokemon Diamond. Alll types of games.
If you need any advice about d2, lemme know. I know pretty much everything about this game. I grew up playing it religiously since I was like 9 and I'm 33 now.
sooo playing a flame sorc.. (leaf is OP and easy to get early on) and first time through act 5 norm and i find immortal king's soul... like WTF.. I had found like a few act 1 uniques up to that point then THAT drops... fml... I made a barb instantly. Also much love to the javazon... one of the first "real" builds I did when they finally rebalanced everything with the expac.
I think barabarian is the second worst class and assassin the top of the worst, becase she has the same huge flaws barbarian does but she also lacks the tankiness of the barbarian and requires intuitiveness and setups for her abilities.
Is anyone having issues with FPS randomly dipping after a couple hours of gameplay? I kee experiencing it constantly like around 2 hours or so and am forced to quit and come back in for it to go away just to have it happen again after a couple hours. But during the first 2 hours the game plays absolutely flawless so I have no clue what’s up with that. And it’s literally always around after 2 hours or so. I play on PS4 Pro.
That sounds like it might be overheating? and then cooling down between sessions. If so, try some compressed air and blast it in the vents and clear out the dust! Could help! Cheers!
@@tj3495 There’s literally nothing wrong with my PS4 pro lol. It’s not the console. I play like 30 plus games on this thing and never experience this issue with any of them and most the other games are far superior with how the game runs and they all still run just fine. And my PS4 pro doesn’t overheat lol. It’s brand new, I got it like 2 months ago or so the fan and everything is new and there’s hardly dust on it. That’s not the problem. It’s definitely a issue on Blizzards end. Like I can play games like Path of Exile for over 6 hours straight without a single issue but can’t play Diablo 2 Res for barely 2 before problems occur? And this games graphics are way downgraded compared to most online games I play which all play fine. And I’m not even playing online, I’m playing on offline mode so like wtf. And why always exactly at like 2 hours? I time it and everything. It doesn’t make any sense.
@@shannonmichael4773 Path of Exile is literally, and was literally designed to clone Diablo II. That was it's entire reason for existence....and it specifically has low graphics to mimic those of the original Diablo II. A potato chip could run Path of Exile.
@@williameldridge9382 Despite Path of Exile being a copy of Diablo 2 in gameplay it’s actually a far better looking game, even Diablo 2 Resurrected is not as good looking as Path Of Exile especially for you play it on PS4 Pro or PS5. And no a stupid potato chip could not run Path of Exile lol. I owned a PS4 before upgrading to Pro and was unable to play Path of Exile on full graphic quality, it wasn’t even a option I could make, the game literally just auto plays on downgraded graphics for PS4 so the point where things always looked blurry but on PS4 Pro looks 10 times better. Noway in hell Diablo 2 or Resurrected looks better then Path of Exile lol. Anyway I should not be having issues with FPS on my Pro with this game. I play so many games it’s ridiculous and not one of them has this issue. Not even Fallout 76 and that game is buggy as hell but at least doesn’t run on low FPS most the time. And why with this game is it consistent? It’s always exactly at like around 2ish hours but the second you leave the game and come back after closing the app it’ll work fine again for about the same length of time. It’s extremely bizarre and if my system overheating was the problem then leaving the game and coming right back would not be a fix lol. Cause that wouldn’t fix the system from still overheating so I know that’s not the issue. It’s something wrong with the game itself, the launch of Diablo 2 Resurrected had some issues with other various problems like people’s characters even disappearing or people losing data on there character progression and such. For me I’m experiencing FPS drops randomly after a couple hours and I want to know why. This should be fixed by now. Noway in hell am I the only one experiencing this problem man. Like why would I have this issue with just one game of many that I play? And again I’m not even playing online, it’s offline mode so why would I be having sudden FPS drops after awhile? And it just gets worse and worse until I leave the game and come back in.
I just got the game and I want a charter that is just super tanky and does TON of damage but all melee and just running in the middle of the fight. Which class should I pick
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As a trophy hunter im hoping for a Stat breakdown on how to get to lvl 99 hardcore
Sorceress is a good one to start. Great on magic find and you can build up items on fast runs for your other characters.
whats a fextra?
You glossed over corpse explosion being one of the best skills in game. Poison nova necro w lower resist is god tier in pvp. Necros are the most versatile and IMO best class.
Sorry I know it's late but,So what's the difference between pre expansion and lod character, will I get locked out of anything by choosing like a necromancer, or should I just go for druid or assassin.
I just bought this game and I'm starting tomorrow. I never got to play the original but I've always heard so much about it.
Its sick
Same my guy, I see you wrote this 6 days ago, I just got mine today and never played the original. What system are you on?
@@michaellattimore3450 PS5
Be careful, it’s addictive. It is a time vampire. You can plays for hours & when you’re at school, work or elsewhere you’ll be thinking about it & dying to get back to your keyboard/mouse or controller. 🙂 I played the original a bit but never finished. I probably only got 20% into it. Experiencing the different quests & acts the first time is amazing but it’s inherently playable over & over. Doing farming or progression runs is even enjoyable. It’s just such a great game.
It’s best when you play at night with the lights off & the sound cranked. The different locals get so immersive. You can hear the rain & crickets of the forest in Act 1, the sand & wind in desert of Lut Gholein & all the crazy souns like monkeys in Kurast. Everything sounds creept too from the hissing spiders, to the slimy maggots, etc Watch out for those little Pygmy like jungle bastards in the Kurast jungle. There are different variants of them: Fetish, Shaman, etc They attack in packs, are fast & relentless. Some have soears & some have daggers or blow darts. There’s one that rides another’s shoulders with a flame spraying blow gun that is nasty. The sorceress, druid & necromancer deal with them best as it is best to do ranged attacks. It’s so satisfying to off those little bastards.
Let us know how you’ve fared & how you like it. Maybe you’re one of those rare individuals that doesn’t like it. Hope you’re enjoying it. I am gonna get back into right now.🙂
U still like? Been wondering how a noob feels bout a 20yo game. As a vet I’ll tell u that you can solo hell w any class so long as you know the game.
As an 8 plus years Diablo 2 player. For beginners tips: start with the Sorceress and teleport yourself into victory. The Frost/Blizzard Sorceress is the strongest class IMHO and will cover almost every facet of the game like loot hunting, rune hunting, stage hunting, etc. The other two strong classes equal to the Sorcereress is the Hammer build Paladin and the Summon type Necromancer. Start with those 3 but pick the Sorceress first.
Would you recommend sorc for a HC playthrough also then ? I'm kind of wanting to just go straight into a hardcore
@@djaken Yes you can. Prioritize items that boosts your damage, resistances, hit recovery, cast rate early in the game. Luck items are also good for finding better gear. And always teleport to spots where you can get a free shot and/or escape from getting sorrounded. Focusing on just 1 source of damage is risky as there will be enemies that will be immune to that particular attack. Cold damage spells are the best and should be maxed first but you still need to pair them with at least 2 maxed lightning or 2 maxed fire damage spell in the end. Putting 1 skill point to the supp skills like warmth, frozen shield, teleport, etc is more than enough. Also turn your mercenary into a tank (you will rely on him/her a lot). And most important of all, is fill your inventory with potions specially in the early game.
Relying on Frost/Blizzard only isn't all that good. Running into immunes later in game will be hard. It is impossible to do Solo hell then
@@AznVi3tx that's why he said to pair it with fire or lighting spell.
You are still just a baby in D2 time my friend. I've been playing D2 since 2000
You guys got me through Elden Ring. I'm glad I can turn to you guys again as I start my Diablo journeys
I totally forgot that potions don't stack on D2. Sucks cause my inventory always gets clogged with them.
Sell them 🤷🏼♂️
Welcome to d2, where modern convenients are only a thing of the future.
@Cthulhu that would ruin the game. you are only meant to pick up certain items and store them in your cube. the rest of your invo should be charms. the only potions you chould have or need should be the 16 on your belt!!!!!!!!!! GOLD IS FOUND ON GROUND OR FROM SeLLING RARE/UNIQUES. If you think stacking would be a QOL improvement you havnt playd enough d2 to give an proper opinion. Go play WOW. lol that lsat part was a joke wouldnt wish that on my worst enemy.
@@MorlogMorningDigest well said 👏💯
@@MorlogMorningDigest Dude if ur playing a sorc, you NEED a huge ammount of mana pots at all times. You have to chug constantly....All the way until much later into the game. Now that ruined the game for me and i now cant play the class i want to. Terrible design and should of been fixed for the remaster. Stacking potions would of been a good start. Im aware this issue isn't only for the sorc either. Absolutely lame.
Understanding skill synergies, class items and runewords are probably the biggest hurdles for early game sucess. For example spirit wolf is considered terrible but with oak sage and one point in dire wolf they will have plus 100% life...not so terrible now.
Yeah, they really ruined the endgame. It's like playing something completely different, like WoW trash.
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@@Nobody-zq8blwhat did they change in the remaster to change endgame? I haven’t played much Diablo 2. From my knowledge I thought they didn’t change any mechanics or balancing just added new rune words and items (which can be turned off I think) But yeah lmk how they ruined it because I don’t know lol
I already picked Paladin. Doing a Fire Pal until I hit NM, then changing to Hammerdin.
Lets see if I rated anywhere on this!
And another great vid!
Pally ftw
Im currently doing the same thing with my paladin.
Don't you like tesladin?
@@alanramirogarcia2886 Hammerdin is better.
Hammerdin has always been my favorite
"...which class you will be playing..." - My answer: Yes!
All of them! Seriously, I have played Diablo 2 for a long time in the early 2000s (after a friend gave me both D2 and Lord of Destruction! He didn't like the games, so he simply gave them to me and I was hooked!) and I had every class at least once, I had a WW-Barb, an Orb-Fireball-Sorc, a Hurricane-Druid, a Summoner-Necromancer, a Bow-Amazon, a Hammerdin, a Fanadin, a Trap-Assassin...so yeah, I was pretty busy and frankly I want them all back! It'll take a while, but I will get there eventually :)
ps: And I want to try builds I didn't have back then, like a Lighting-Javazon :)
Avenger Paladin. Good damage through the acts, anyone doing ele damage loves you because your Conviction aura removes immunities on hell difficulty, And you're basically unkillable
I loved this build back then, is it viable in endgame ?
@@mwsilva9193 1.10 really hurt this build for the end game. It was my favourite Pally build prior to the patch.
@@sebbie_gonzo sadness. I will keep it in my memory then lol
I haven't played Diablo 2 in a while, I do remember playing a sorceress. What I do remember is using Glacial spike and Frozen orb. Act two is much easier when you shatter everything. I ran into the need to have a lot of skills in all three trees so that on Hell difficulty there was something available to hurt the monster with 1-2 elemental immunities.
Does anyone know how man skeletons you can have with a necromancer? It taps out at 20 points but google said you can have 20 skeletons. Is this true?
@@joesmithsmith8579depends on your gear with +skills
Look at guides to understand the mechanics of the game, but play around with your own builds. I find some of the less optimized builds more fun. For example, Assassins focusing on martial arts aren't as powerful as ones focusing on traps, and it's harder to find the best equipment for martial arts Assassins. But I find martial arts Assassins to be more fun to play despite its weaknesses.
I used to play the "Ninja" martial arts build by maxing crushing blow, dragon tail and fade using throwing stars. Super fun but I dont know if its viable in the new game.
"Harder to find the best equipment?" What do you mean? You just need to find some good claw-class weapons.
That's great until you hit an absolute wall and have no way to pass a certain challenge whatsoever. Nova sorceress? Recommended to beat Mephisto around level 20. I can't do it at lvl 25 even with the recommended runeword equipment. Not everything is viable.
I played a Martial Arts Assassin through Normal and well into Nightmare. The lifesteal and damage are insane as well as the movement speed. I tore my way through the difficulty without much challenge. I had a mixture of Cathans and Siagons gear on (synergises quite well) and wrecked everything. Moving towards hell I have re-specced as a Trapsin but it's not as fun and speed punching everything and stealing all of the life.
Great build guide, currently following it through normal mode and it's working great. Hoping to see some advanced builds for the sorc by you too at some point.
Coming soon!
After many year of playing Diablo 2, I found the easiest character to play was the Assassin and focus on the lightning traps. Outfit your assassin with decent armor, a decent weapon, don't forget to equip your companion and focus everything on lightning traps. You'll win every time.
do you use just 1 skill?
@@mikrobyo1790 Yup.
@@henrybrennan isnt that boring?
@@mikrobyo1790 No. Because you don't start off with a high-powered lightning trap. It can be difficult while you are increasing the power of the lightning traps. Besides, it doesn't mean that you can't use other skills, if desired.
@@henrybrennan yeah but you said it yourself that you only use one skill cuz that might be the best way. It is not hard to get the skill. You can also reset the skill and just focus on that one.
I love the Necromancer and Amazon. Thanks for another great guide!
Lightning javazon ftw!
I’m inbetween Shapeshifter druid and bone and poison necromancer.
Druid all the way for me 🤙🏽 I’ll make a paladin too I’m sure
Poison nova is amazing later to respec into, use summons in the beginning until then
I made a Shape-Druid and still not sure if it’s boring or if it’s just boring at the beginning of its skill tree progression. Currently level 14
Yeah once you get RAGE it's badass
@@danielgerrits6850 depends on what you wanna be, wolf is pretty fast and bear hits like a truck. both are very squishy tho, since no shiled and unfortunately have you to overcome the diablo2 melee curse - getting the ATTACK RATING inline.
i like rabies wolf very much and fireclaw bear rocks - but shockwaves man very cool too :-D
The game gives you a free respec as mentioned, and technically infinite craftable respecs later on. Your first character is very likely to be trash in the endgame/higher difficulties no matter what you do, and in fact you'll probably voluntarily abandon it before then and start over with valuable lessons learned anyway. So don't sweat all these choices, just pick a character, jump in, and have fun. Put points in multiple trees, experiment and worry about optimization later
Great advice
Frozen orb + meteor ♥. Got me to 100 faster than any other class or build in in original game.
Wow, you are the first person ever, to reach level 100 😯😂
Blizz firewall better me thinks.
Lol lvl 100?
How to say you're full of BS without saying you are full of BS...
Nah, kinda trash if you have like any gear lol
I definitely played Necro in a different way: I focused on Bone Arrows and Golems. That way, I can fire spells at bosses or packs of monsters while my Golem takes the hits.
I also tried Sorceress using lightning spells only, but ran into problems when dealing with Lightning Resistance creatures. Sorceress need to have a backup plan for those situations.
That's how I played my necro too, up to lever 90 something when I managed to get the whole top set that turns you into a Lich, at which point I realized two things - 1, Lich form breaks spell casting speed so it's slow and 2, despite the slow casting the Lich forms sort spells, fireball and firewall was the best spells I now had, necro spells were garbage compared to them.
So I realized I had wasted my time and should just have made a sorc to begin with and quit playing.
@@informitas0117 if you enjoyed it then it's not wasted.
As a decade long player of d2Legacy, the best class is what suits you. Each classes and builds have their strengths and weaknesses, but choose the one you like. My least fave is amazon, i just dont like its skills and game play. My most favorite is bone+summon necro hybrid, i like the idea of having a "gang" that will attack for me while i attack with bone spear from behind. My second favorite is barbarian cuz of dual wielding and very fast move speed with frenzy. Again, choose the one that suits your gamestyle
Remember you only have 3 re-spec chits through the entire game. Very different from D3, WoW and ESO where you respec in the morning after shaving. (Back in the old days, there was zero respec. I have erased a character and started from scratch because I was unhappy with one accidental skill point.)
Having said that: try out all kinds of skills early game, assuming that at some point you’ll wipe the slate clean for your first real build.
There is no viable jack-of-all-trades playstyle. Skill points are a critical resource and you’ll need to dump most of them in a limited number of skills. (Another reason to fool around with multiple skills before your first reset.)
Some builds depend on skills that you can’t even access until lvl 30 and won’t max out until lvl 50. That means the first time you complete the game on normal you’ll probably be facing Diablo with your fooling-around-build. That can be hard. The official end-boss Baal is generally not as difficult.
Some characters are easy and intuitive, especially early on. (Sorceress and barbarian in my opinion.) Paladin is more of a late bloomer.
Skellymancers who max out skeleton mastery early have very OP minions in early game, but you might have to hang back and wait while they mill around a bit before they find and make mincemeat of the mobs and bosses. I think it’s hilarious, but your mileage may vary. The other alternative is to dump all your points in bone magic direct dmg skills. In that case your skellies will be almost pointless, but you might still use a golem as a distraction and mini-tank. Curses, in my opinion, don’t scale up as well with more skill points, and you might finish the whole game with only 1-3 pt versions of one or two curses that you get from items.
Finally, are you going to play with friends or solo? A co-op sorc might be more of a glass cannon, while a solo one might need much more life and defensive spells. Paladins and barbarians have auras and shouts that are very beneficial to partners (and their minions).
Hirelings are another important choice. Rogues from act 1 add a significant but not gamechanging damage boost. They are kinda fragile.
The act 2 mercenaries have a paladin aura that might be gamechanging. The three auras on offer change between normal and hard difficulty. If you’re a bit of a glass cannon yourself they will tank for you, if you are the tank you can get a significant damage boost instead.
The act 3 spellcaster gives a quality of life aoe, especially against swarms of distant enemies, but I don’t think their damage output is significant against tougher foes. And they die a lot.
Barbarian hireling from act 5 is another tank minion, but way inferior to the act 2 one. Again, in my opinion.
Edit: after beeing back in the game for a week or two, and a bit of online nerdery, I need to revise.
First, maxing skeleton mastery before summon skeleton is still my personal preference, but it is a minority opinion. Conventional wisdom is to max out summon first and only put a couple of points in mastery, ignoring skeleton mages altogether, and depending heavily on corpse explosion for damage. I like my way better, but I do struggle with Diablo and Baal.
Second, without really good gear it will be much harder to beat the game as a melee than beating it as a caster. This means that for classes where you have a choice between caster playstyle and melee playstyle, go with the magic. For assassin: traps, for druid: elemental, for paladin: blessed hammer, for amazon: something with javelins. I think that the reason I never realized was probably that I ran a lot of characters and by the time I got around to levelling a barbarian or werewolf, I had loads of nice item to put on them.
Great tips bro. Thanks
There are items you can craft to respec...
Barb has always been the Barb based on end game immunities. It used to piss me off when mobs would be be immune to every element i switched to.
Right now the followers and revives are all but useless. Your followers lag behind now instead of staying with the player, and they no longer rush forward to engage (Act 2 merc) like they used to, but instead just waffle back and forth behind you. If you move basically anywhere besides a straight path, the follower gets lost in less than ten seconds, gets stuck and remains absent until you teleport or move into a different area. A Sorceress can "fix" the problem by teleporting into enemies, but you really shouldn't have to be risking yourself like that, when that's the followers damn job in the first place. In the original game, the followers were faster, more aggressive and would always warp to the player after a short period if they were stuck. They are absolute trash in this version.
Necromancer Revives are suffering the exact same problem right now too, even though their skeletons warp like they should.
Blizz sorc, LF javazon, lit trapsin, hammerdin probably the strongest.
No lol
@@NeverQuit87 Yeah. You're clueless lol
Trying to decide between Trapsin and Hammerdin. I'll be playing with my friend who plays a Sorc. Which class would work better with a Sorc?
@@suisiders7181 I’d guess that it would be whichever is tankier.
@UC6cS56ac33st8l3G7OmEzXw tell me you're an idiot without telling me you're an idiot
Thanks for the video! My two main characters back in the day were a werewolf druid (With a few points in summoning and elemental) and a mage. (mostly ice)
I remember maining a summoner necro back when this game dropped in the early 2000s. I must’ve been 10? Had a soft spot for summoner classes ever since.
Started again on switch, thanks for the refresh!
For fast farming sors is kinda the best becouse the teleport, for a little bit more advenced player hammerdin is the best choice and for new players assassin is really strong and safe bet !
I remember almost finishing the OG using amazon. Focusing on 1 triple stab skill. Poking everyone through the whole game. I didnt researched any rpg stuff since i was 12 at the time
Playing Necromancer and did a summonmancer build is really fun.
Me too
too many people ask about what class will i choosw at first than this is an answer. the farming class.
you can see the socceres, assasin is the fastest farmer, so why dont just skip normal and nightmare as fast as pissible, than farm on hell.
you may say blizzard counter us by immunity monster, but why dont you just ignore that and farm onther place, like pit in act 1 for blizzard socceres, it have at least 6 champion wait for you. after you have gear than just change late class like hamerdin, javazon etc, it will be better
My top 5
1. Wind Druid
2. Javazon
3.Lightning sorc
4,. Smiter Paladin/ fury Druid
5. frozen orb/blizzard sorc
1 Barbarian
2 Barbarian
1000000000000000000 Barbarian
first and foremost. play the class you like/enjoy the most by your pers. preference!
even if you picked the "worst" starter, you will mostlikely stick to it till the endgame - as any other class will lose you at any given point that may be hard/frustrating to you.
if one has a dedicated plan and goal - sorcress and or assassin will shine as both have high mobility and strong builds that feature dual elements by default. sorc might be superior but less safe overall. paladin as hammer is also viable to carry you into hell, but might get very hard in certain areas too.
overall every character can farm hell, since there are different lvl 85 areas available. in the end it comes down on what you want to do in the game. chill and play,hyper farm, utrist, trade or even lvl 99 grind.
I started a necro and was having a blast. Then I got to Duriel and couldn’t get past. So I looked up a build, and respecced to bone spear. Awful decision: now I’m constantly out of mana, and can’t get a handle on how to use the character.
Build skeleton army get into fight open portal fight till no minions left leave build army come back it's how I did duriel mephisto and Diablo
@@brandonperkins36 this is how you play necro in diablo 2.
Im disapointed in the game for the mana issues. Went to make a sorc to find out you must carry tonnes of potions and spam them constantly. Why didn't they fix this for the remaster...smh.
If your paladin, dump ALL your points into Thorns. Unless they capped it, it basically doesn't, and your weapon starts being useless. I'm surprised it wasn't caught in this video
Thats my plan
What if your playing with a friend? Since they will have agroe as well is thorns still good?
@@suisiders7181 truth be told it's been a long time since I played, and I won't be picking the remaster up anytime soon for multiple reasons.
I believe most of the auras, if not all are for the whole party though.
Thank you for this video, have to wait till im done work today to play later but im still undecided which class to start with
Go Amazon you won't regret her speed .. and so many ways to ...
@@tonyawillams9442 ok awesome I'll give it try thank you for the recommendation
Necro is good for first timers
Sorceress is best class to start in ladder and for new players imo . Because free tele, enigma is so hard to get
Exactly, sorceress is the best for this reason
You can find staffs with teleport skill on vendors
I like the Rick Sanchez 2 crows Druid build
I love the hell out of the switch version...
Everyone hate the barbarian but thats what I beat the game with and when u have whirlwind with a teleporting ring u turn into a demon blender
Why have teleport ring when Enigma exists?
I am using barbarian, he looks like Kratos from God of War😊
I have a barbarian but I might do Druid cause that kind of cool to
@@Icuucm I like the druids as well changing into a wolf and bear is fun
@@dadbodfitness9704 yeah I just started one, idk which ones cause the talents all seem cool. I’m at level 17. It’s fun and shit but to bad they didn’t leave the skill sets the same. Even tho it’s still good I wanted to see an Army of like 10 skeletons man
First of all, be honest and say that you must invest A LOT of time to get to farm hell and survive. About the class, I've tried a blizz sorc this time. Starting from zero, it's useless in normal, good in nightmare, useless in hell unless you have a mercenary with conviction runeword, which is extremely expensive. Next time I'll go with a hammerdin, an avenger paladin or a necro.
Ehh, it really doesnt take long to farm hell with a group of 3 people, esp if you get rushed. Honestly the game can be as fast or as slow as you want honestly 🤷♂️ and an infinity is really only needed for lightning imo, insight does good enough for blizz
Oh I just bought resurrection, been so long since I played. Loved the frenzy barbarian with duo throwing axes
I started with Summon Necro but got bored around Act 2/3. It sounded good in theory but I felt like an extra in my own crew. I'm gonna try playing D2R again and try for a different class.
I barely know what I'm doing but I made a Stealth today for my schizophrenic coldsorc and it's going great now.
My favourite class is the druid. You basically can complete normal naked with this guy. So its best suited for those who can't grind for 12 hours a day for that perfect gear.
Just put every skill point you have on fissure and its synergies. Everything melts on normal to fissure.
I also think its really a fun way to play the game. You have to rely on your micro and spell casting rather than on items. So when you kill diablo or baal in normal you will feel like you did it and not your items.
Unfortunately in in nightmare and hell many monsters are fire resistant so there it wont be as viable.
Very fun character. Had to respec into a wind build for hell but
Been playing this game since 2002 yet i have never scratched the surface of the game even though ive played and beat this multiple times ive never actually had a strategy other than praying for good rolls and socketing. Now that im almost 30 i feel like I'm playing the game for the first time and its harder when i try and implement strategies or runs. Ive only exclusively used barbarian, necromancer, and amazon. Now i have the sorceress and I'm hoping to get magic find items and socketed items.
Question ...if me and my buddy start an online session together and we log off for the night. The next night can we start where we left off? Or do we have to start again?
Where you left off 👍
Story progression where you left off, game wise start again, using th way point you hopefully picked up to get to where you were, you don't log out of the game and come back in at the same spot
I'm newbie in this game and started as Amazon with bow. I'm enjoying a lot!
Amazon is a great and fun char. Try javelin next I promise you it's fun
Working on an elemental summoning druid ATM and it's pretty op. Just have to decide if u wanna be an ice/wind or fire cause both don't do a justice unless your solely elemental I found
The wind is highly preferred as the wind skills deal a combination of cold and physical damage making immunity almost irrelevant.
I veered into wind at 24 and never looked back lol. Of course I upgraded my wind armor. But that tornado is intense with the upgrades it gets from cyclone armor and what not. I've always been a fire druid in the past but def glad I went wind. I just hit act 4 cause I work 6 days a week lol feel like a noob cause on 3 I'm paragon 857 😆 and on 2 I'm a measley 25 lol
My next will be a holy fire paladin I'm thinking
@@roberteldritch6285 thanks for the tip dude. I've never strayed into a pal before so I'm kind of excited
Screaming at mobs an seeing them drop as a barb is more satisfying that you might think.
Paladin because nothing feels more right than exploding demons with holy power
Exactly it's so fitting
So just got this game, don't give the mage no energy? Dex & vitality or Strength & Vitality? I haven't played this game, well D2 in ages. Thanks, goodness I finally subscribed, my apologies thought I already was.
I remember always playing barb back in the time before resurrected. I never really beat the hell back at that time. Hell was pain on Barbarian. So, Suddenly i decided to make a paladin, jesus.. its so overpowered compared to barbarian its not even close. Paladin is ridiculous, you don’t have to be active at all, its so easy on every difficulty.
I played the crap out of the original. Like obsessive amounts of time. I would say just pick what class is appealing. Any class and basically any horrible build can make it through normal with minimal problems. It's only in nightmare and hell difficulty that you gotta get stuff on point and by then you can respec and maybe start really gearing up. Just don't stress about it, enjoy the game and the class based on interest, and go from there.
Which is the most fun in terms of movement and crowd control during combat?
11:20 So martial arts have not been rebalanced to be more effective?
I always thought Barbarian was the easiest class in the game. Interesting that this video said it was the hardest. At least for me Barbarian is the easiest and requires the least amount of grinding.
Yeah same here lol but I never tried any other class so I have no idea
That's cuz barbarian is a good easy beginner class to use. IDK why this vid says it's the hardest bcuz it's not.
@@jeffreyramsaur796 yeah same, and maybe I just am rusty but I never saw sorceress as that easy. She's crazy powerful yeah but you gotta manage that character way more than barbarian or paladin
I just care about fun and variability...which class would be like that?
From what I read about builds in D2, Varied stats mostly result in a bad time, good builds require focus on a certain skill
Still waiting for an assassin guide, if it is to make one. I know there is a written version but would love to see a video for it!
Working on it just needed footage and now they have to render!
I was wondering about that too lol, played assassin 20yrs ago, can't wait to play it again
@@Fextralife great to hear it! Awesome work as always.
Best assassin guide right here: don’t play one, they’re garbage d tier at best. You’re welcome
@@buckfiden946 Trapsin is S tier.
I must be the only die-hard barbarian fan.
My favourite:
1) Amazon /Long range builds
2) Necromancer/ supporting characters
3)Sorceress/ she's okay, her power hitters come around lvl 30 which is why she's at the bottom for me. I want to feel I'm unstoppable as I progress in lvls, not rely on and struggle to get to a certain late stage lvl to become badass.
If I don't feel like making a long range character and I want to get up and personal
1)Paladin. It's really hard to not like his Hammer attack and Rush attack
2) Barb: his frenzy attack at a higher lvl is unstoppable
3) Druid: Druid has always been my maybe character. I've played as him once and that's because I already got my other character to lvl 80+ and wanted a new challenge. Druid however just doesn't do it for me.
I won't list Assassin because I refuse to play as her I think she's garbage character
Trapsin is worth the grind imo, just that it’s the only good build for the assassin which is boring.
Trapsin for the win...
i went with summoner druid, and it is fricking op. I always have 5 ravens, 3 wolves, a worm that feeds on corpses to heal me (How does that even work?) and a spirit that buffs my hp and def
Difficult to run through hell imo
he says 50 to 100 hours at the beginning not 52 hundred hours btw am i right?
"50 to 100 hours"
52 hundred is about right yes
Literally grew up in this game almost 6 years
I've played this game for over 20 year's. The strongest class is the holy class think about it and you will get it. Thorns is a powerful way to defend max it out and see the power send you're attacker running away and give you time too hit back just make sure you have health to keep you're health up
hey, since youre a veteran, could you answer this?... i just bought the diablo 3 + diablo 2 resurrected combo on nintendo switch, i started with diablo 3, with a barbarian, now, today i started diablo 2 for the first time and picked a barbarian bc tbh i like barbarian characters in general, but everyone seems to say barbarians are not good more if youre a new player, should i keep my character or do a new one?
@@juanpchoo1516 I played almost all barbarian characters growing up because I remember my game would crash on like 2-3 of the other characters so I could only do barbarian , sorceress, of amazon (this was before druid and assassin) barbarians are fine just very reliant on their equipment but they can do a bunch of damage
Never played any diablo game. So total noob and honestly don't know where to start, I'm getting it on Tues
Amazon is fun
Its my first time in D2 I picked druid, this game is amazing you will love it.
The first time I beat the game at all, it was this a summon necro without corpse explosion because I wanted to let my minions do all the work besides me casting curses because I did use curses and I beat the game on normal without dying once. But this time I'm trying to figure out which class to beat the game with next because I kind of want to do it with every class but I'm not sure I entirely like playing the barbarian with this build because I'm thinking about switching to a different class and trying to beat the game with the barbarian later especially because I'm not used to close ranged classes as much because I only beat only version of the game once.
Just switched over to hammerdin on nm mode but I’m having trouble finding any socketed gear to use runewords on and also having trouble with survivability. Any tips?
socket just use horadric cube to make it...
You can buy open socket white shields from act 1 and 2 normal. Other than that make sure you have little to no magic find so drops in the world have a better chance of being white and not rare
Lycanthrope Druid, with some summons for support
This video is also a great window to the game's remastered graphics.
Which build is the easiest for new players ?
Apparently it’s the sorceress
@@blobber51 Sorc is definetly not a new player class
@@LEK oh my bad, that’s what I’ve been hearing. I’m new and started off as a Necro. 🤷♂️ played and beat Diablo 3 and the dlc, of course I knows they’re totally different games.
Educational. Thanks!
Start out with sorceress (blizzard ideally) for farming since she can teleport. Then build an ultimate farming/rusher in Hammer Paladin. After that you can build any class you want.
on par with that is assassin farming the pits. lvl 85 area with sprint gets the job done. but i do agree on the soso, as she can easily do the more desireable stuff to like farming keys for easy money
I tried. But im out of mana constantly(even worse then my sorc in D4). So i google it, to find thats just the way it is. You must carry a shit ton of mana pots at all times, and constantly drink em. No thanks.
Throw an insight on Merc
@@donnienguyen2294 I read about that, but that requires me to get quiet far into the game first. Drinking mana pots constantly ruins the fun for me. I made a druid who seems to be destroying nicely with a bow.
Im tempted just to do barbarian again, something straight forward. But at the same time, I'd like a different experience from what Ive had in diablo in the past.
I hate picking classes in games lol. I really prefer the sandbox nature of like RuneScape. Where you can, with enough time, master everything but can only use one style at a time. Like with RuneScape, if you could max out both magic and melee, but you'd only be effective with melee if you're wearing melee gear, and effective with magic if you're wearing magic gear. So no one ends up as a jack of all trades at all times, but when gearing up, you can decide what to use and switch to other styles if you get a cool weapon or ability you want to try.
Which build would be overall better for supporting your team mates? Like increasing their damage output for example. Would it be Paladin, or Barbarian? After watching this, it seems that both characters seem like they're good for supporting your teammates like that, but which do you guys think is better?
This is a late reply, but Paladin.
@@kelme8095 Thank you very much!
I have four characters: paladin, necromancer, barbarian, and druid. Got the paladin to 6th and it is ok. I have the necro at 3rd and am having fun with it.
Iv been running a paladin but iv been mostly using the defensive auras and building my gear up
I prefer playing Necromancer because the troops I defeated always summon to help me in battles.
Sorc is great at ladder reset until you in a party of 7, in hell, and there all cold sorcs too.
How does one get around "Your connection has been interrupted" every 2 minutes?
If you want to muda muda muda the fck of diablo and baal go for fury feral rage werewolf druid. I recommend it, its fun to play.
Unfortunately, later game builds are so vastly different, it's almost like playing a different class. Very unsatisfying and frustrating if you don't know where they head. "Hammerdin" teleporting and spellcasting paladin, for example
Here's my tip: Don't put too many points into summoned creatures (as a necromancer) that require corpses to cast. Or corpse explosion for that matter. Unless they've made changes since.
My experience (potential spoiler): I played a skeleton master necro (OG Diablo 2). 'Cause, hey, who wouldn't want an army of skeletons fighting for them. It did pretty good all the way 'til I fought Diablo... Diablo charged in and my skeletons rushed in to face him. Diablo does a flame wave that shoots outward 360 degrees from him. His flame wave killed EVERY LAST ONE of my skeletons in ONE OR TWO SHOTS. If I remember right (it was 20 years ago) There might have been minions in the Diablo chamber, can't remember, but once those were gone you couldn't use any skills that required corpses.
Haha! Skeleton army attacks! Whoosh... dead army. I'd put most of my points into skeletons... which got one-shotted. It was a VERY LONG battle. I portaled back to town and bought a staff that gave me 3 levels in bone spear and a ton of potions. I had to kill Diablo with a low level bone spear spell.
So yeah, don't waste more than a point on anything requiring corpses.
skeletons and corpse explosion is very good, but to face Diablo you need a couple points in summon resists, a clay golem and a curse like decrepify or iron maiden
@@anhey2943 Yeah, I needed something I didn't have. 😛
Thanks for all these great guides🤙
Is holy fire paladin good in the early game and zealot paladin good in late game or when I have enough gear?
A Druid with a Bow is obviously the best
Best classes to play?
Just like D&D
whatever you think looks and plays the coolest 😎
@@whitefox25 I played OG back in the day
If you’re interested in full end game, Pala, Sorc and Barb
Druid, Necro and Amazon mid tier
And Assassin was always lacking a bit
But if you don’t enjoy playing a class you don’t have to stick to a specific one
Edit: Levelling up my main Druid, but rolling as Fury Werewolf this time instead of Bear Tank/Armageddon build
That is NOT how D&D works. There are VERY, VERY clearly superior classes in every single edition. So clearly superior that playing anything else leaves you at an extreme disadvantage.
The video didn’t help me based on the title. What is the best class 🤔
My self I’m playing a Blizzard Sorceress with 300+ MF. If you have an Enigma A Hammerdin is the most OP in the game.
Once you fully build and gear up a summon necro you basically become a god
honestly you don't even need that great of gear to do it. It is by far the most powerful class in the game, always has been. A close second could be considered a bear druid with a massive 2h hammer to one-shot/two-shot bosses.
@@williameldridge9382 that's the downfall of summon necro are bosses like Duriel. Unless you just clay golem/ iron maiden them.
Since idk if they’ll buff the crappier builds like werewolf it’s probably hammerdin for me.
Im killing it on the Switch with the sorceress!
How does it run on switch? I was going to buy one just to play d2.
@@dizzlethedevil6845 its cool just dont get your hopes up of joining a game with players in it or joining you. To pair up with ppl you have to exit and research for a game. It was fun the first month but gets repetitive , im on the 4th world out of 5. I will eventually finish it but may never replay it. However get a switch, classic games like , Doom Ethernal, Links Awakening, Smash Bros, Metroid Dread, Pokemon Diamond. Alll types of games.
If you need any advice about d2, lemme know. I know pretty much everything about this game. I grew up playing it religiously since I was like 9 and I'm 33 now.
I bought d2R the other day and my laptop can't run it so I'm running old school d2.
My favorite classes are Barbarian and Paladin. I just happen to enjoy melee characters and it's only by chance that Paladin is top tier.
Barbarian is master race
My favourite: sorceress and barbarian
Least favourite: druid
sooo playing a flame sorc.. (leaf is OP and easy to get early on) and first time through act 5 norm and i find immortal king's soul... like WTF.. I had found like a few act 1 uniques up to that point then THAT drops... fml... I made a barb instantly.
Also much love to the javazon... one of the first "real" builds I did when they finally rebalanced everything with the expac.
I always use barbarian on any type of game like this ever since diablo 2 lol
I’m literally brand new to the game and don’t know which one to pick still lol :( x
While everyone knows that the best class depends on your preference, Barbarian is without a doubt the worst class in the game. Not up for debate!
Yet it is my favorite lol.
Well, if people are so leet at the game they should be able to run the content with any character, not only the overly op ones 🤙🏽
come on man , werewolf barb was so swag
I think barabarian is the second worst class and assassin the top of the worst, becase she has the same huge flaws barbarian does but she also lacks the tankiness of the barbarian and requires intuitiveness and setups for her abilities.
I disagree. But it's not up for debate. I just wanted to throw that in there.
If you had to delete a class from Diablo 2,
which would you choose and why would it be Assassin?
Assassin is one of the strongest classes in the game lol.
Its obviously barb which is utter dogshit.
@@LEK Don't make me leap over there😆
Lmao I keep switching between barbarian and druid. Which one is better for pvp too?
Is anyone having issues with FPS randomly dipping after a couple hours of gameplay? I kee experiencing it constantly like around 2 hours or so and am forced to quit and come back in for it to go away just to have it happen again after a couple hours. But during the first 2 hours the game plays absolutely flawless so I have no clue what’s up with that. And it’s literally always around after 2 hours or so. I play on PS4 Pro.
That sounds like it might be overheating? and then cooling down between sessions. If so, try some compressed air and blast it in the vents and clear out the dust! Could help! Cheers!
@@tj3495 There’s literally nothing wrong with my PS4 pro lol. It’s not the console. I play like 30 plus games on this thing and never experience this issue with any of them and most the other games are far superior with how the game runs and they all still run just fine. And my PS4 pro doesn’t overheat lol. It’s brand new, I got it like 2 months ago or so the fan and everything is new and there’s hardly dust on it. That’s not the problem. It’s definitely a issue on Blizzards end. Like I can play games like Path of Exile for over 6 hours straight without a single issue but can’t play Diablo 2 Res for barely 2 before problems occur? And this games graphics are way downgraded compared to most online games I play which all play fine. And I’m not even playing online, I’m playing on offline mode so like wtf. And why always exactly at like 2 hours? I time it and everything. It doesn’t make any sense.
@@shannonmichael4773 Path of Exile is literally, and was literally designed to clone Diablo II. That was it's entire reason for existence....and it specifically has low graphics to mimic those of the original Diablo II. A potato chip could run Path of Exile.
@@williameldridge9382 Despite Path of Exile being a copy of Diablo 2 in gameplay it’s actually a far better looking game, even Diablo 2 Resurrected is not as good looking as Path Of Exile especially for you play it on PS4 Pro or PS5. And no a stupid potato chip could not run Path of Exile lol. I owned a PS4 before upgrading to Pro and was unable to play Path of Exile on full graphic quality, it wasn’t even a option I could make, the game literally just auto plays on downgraded graphics for PS4 so the point where things always looked blurry but on PS4 Pro looks 10 times better. Noway in hell Diablo 2 or Resurrected looks better then Path of Exile lol. Anyway I should not be having issues with FPS on my Pro with this game. I play so many games it’s ridiculous and not one of them has this issue. Not even Fallout 76 and that game is buggy as hell but at least doesn’t run on low FPS most the time. And why with this game is it consistent? It’s always exactly at like around 2ish hours but the second you leave the game and come back after closing the app it’ll work fine again for about the same length of time. It’s extremely bizarre and if my system overheating was the problem then leaving the game and coming right back would not be a fix lol. Cause that wouldn’t fix the system from still overheating so I know that’s not the issue. It’s something wrong with the game itself, the launch of Diablo 2 Resurrected had some issues with other various problems like people’s characters even disappearing or people losing data on there character progression and such. For me I’m experiencing FPS drops randomly after a couple hours and I want to know why. This should be fixed by now. Noway in hell am I the only one experiencing this problem man. Like why would I have this issue with just one game of many that I play? And again I’m not even playing online, it’s offline mode so why would I be having sudden FPS drops after awhile? And it just gets worse and worse until I leave the game and come back in.
Thanks for the video
Conclusion: Best class "unknown"
I just got the game and I want a charter that is just super tanky and does TON of damage but all melee and just running in the middle of the fight. Which class should I pick
Barbarian