How the fuck do people complete HELL diff in this game? Drops are so fucking horrendous that the best weapon I found in my Barbarian run was a unique NIGHTMARE level short sword. Was this fucking shit the archetype of pay to win?
How the fuck do people complete HELL diff in this game...
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get gud
It's simple OP, there's only one secret to it:
get gud
Depends on which patch you're playing. 1.10 and up and completely retarded and has fucked up balance. The best patches to play on are 1.08 and 1.09 or the later vanilla patches (1.06?).
Also, Barbarians are super gear dependent.
Also, you're supposed to farm act bosses for gold, upgrades and xp before moving on to the next act.
Also, Hell is meant to be hard and you're supposed to use a wide variety of skills in order to clear it. Howl, Taunt, Battle Cry and Grim Totem aren't fluff skills, they're meant to be used in conjunction with Shout, Battle Orders, Iron Skin and Natural Resistances in order to keep you alive. If you think you're meant to just hold down the WW button and breeze through Hell on a solo, untwinked Barb, you're not going to make it past the Blood Moor.
Some builds can do it naked, like the summoner as long as he has a teleport amu. Those drop reliably. Thats if youre going single player.
D2 had a well functioning economy the first 5 years, you were well enough equipped for at least 1 solid hell build after 1 or 2 months. And a practical group of 4 can run this game down easily with only merch equip, easily.
Here, let me give you a piece of advice. 11 years ago me and a bunch of guys started on a brand new pirate server. I was a barbarian, there were 20 sorceresses, 1 necro and something stupid, like a druid.
Everyone laughed at me for starting first character barbarian, because of how gear dependent he is. 5 hours in we had finished normal and I was struggling to do anything while the sorceresses were annihilating everything.
At nightmare I had to restart with an assassin just so I can be somewhat relevant.
By day 2 the army of sorceresses had completed hell and were beating the bosses for me, so I too got to hell incredibly fast.
Barbarian will be incredibly difficult solo. The idea in multiplayer is to farm gear with another character who levels faster with spells and then give the gear to your barbarian or whatever mele based so it can have a chance. Usually some weapon that gets stronger stats with levels. Had an axe like that at one point.
You will have a hard time playing hell with solo, especially with no allies and no trading.
Find some cookie cutter easy mode build with minimal initial equipment investment and respec.
Playing with /players 8 will fix your item drop issues, but you're gonna have a real bad time and I mean it
IIRC you're not supposed to do that in your first playthrough
Just kill countess a couple of times and made a runewords you fucktard. A simple Insight polearm can carry you through whole game from fucking act 2 normal.
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