#Diablo 2 hell difficulty plus#
#Diablo 2 hell difficulty crack#

True in MP games, but in solo/SP games he probably won't have any problem. Hell is, IMO, designed for the party, rather than the individual adventurer. Generally speaking, practically every class will have a problem in Hell unless teamed up with other classes. IIRC one of the patches (1.08?) added the 50% phys immune, and the next one (1.09?) removed it again because the players got all whiny. Whether that is the case in the regular game without expansion I'm not sure. Of course they qualify that by saying in D2:LOD that is the case. My mistake, you are correct in that all monsters in Hell are 50% resistant to physical attacks. In late Hell a MF-heavy barb will find more cool stuff, without dying, than anything else except a MF-heavy sorc.

Plus, due to their high natural defense and resists, barbs make one of the two arguably best magic-finding classes, since they can choose their armor, weapons, and shields with an eye towards MF and not worry too much about whether their resists are high enough.

#Diablo 2 hell difficulty plus#

Mostly it's particular kinds of monsters - gnat swarms, ghosts, etc - that will be phys immune, plus the occasional unique monster (which you can almost always just avoid if you prefer). If it's a boss, or I don't have that option, then I switch to my 'phys immune killer' skill - Phoenix Strike, which I got up to about level 8 IIRC (and am pumping pretty hard since I hit Hell) - and rain meteors (or ice bolts, or lightning) on em.Д«asically you need a skill that will deal with the phys immunes, but they're not so common that other skills won't be useful too. But her defense and life are high enough that if there's a sorc around, or if her merc (the Act 1 merc, about 63rd level with a nice bow and armor) is alive, then she can just stand there and sip a potion now and again while the sorc/merc kills the monster.

As long as you have at least one skill, weapon, or attack that does magic or a couple of kinds of elemental damage (berserk is a good one), then you can use that skill/weapon for phys immunes, and use whatever you want (frenzy, bash, whatever) for everything else.ДЇor instance, when my assassin goes after a phys immune with TS/DT, which is my main skill combo, she basically does no damage. In solo MP or SP games, esp as a barb, your defense/life should be high enough that you can take quite a beating. In a MP game you can always find a sorc to party with - they'll be glad for the tank to take the heat off, while you'll be glad for the elemental damage vs phys resists. Physical immunes are annoying, but there are a number of ways to deal with them. she's a melee'er) into Act 3 Hell, and she's doing fine. I've got a lvl 65 Martial Arts (Tiger Strike/Dragon Tail) Assassin (i.e.

#Diablo 2 hell difficulty crack#

Anyone who says a melee character is useless in Hell is either smoking crack or has never had one there. Once you do get to Hell, you may have more difficulty, but he'll still be a viable character. I am about to beat Normal, but I don't want to continue to move up the difficulty (single playa) if I am gonna get my ass handed to me because every little POS creature has 100000% resistance to melee the same token, any hints on which high level skills are most worthwhile? I don't have any warcries so far.Thanks for reading.ДЇirst off, you'll move to Nightmare, not Hell, and very few monsters in Nightmare are resistant to physical. We just had to watch out for that 'curse' that would deal damage back to the player inflicting was a sure death for the barb.ДЄgain.this strategy is probably not very useful now that Blizzard has made so many updates to D2. Barbs with whirlwind and twitchthroe (or whatever that freezing armor was called) used to be the best combo in Hell (I haven't played since the fourth D2 update.I have no idea how much harder they made the Hell level in D2.although I hear there are monsters almost immune to certain types of magic and even some to physical damage).ДЄnyways whirlwind barbs with twitchthroe and life+mana lance used to be the easiest way to clear Hell.you'd whirlwind into a pack of monsters.they'd all freeze from twitchroe for a few seconds (what better defence than freezing a monster so it can't hit you back) and you'd gain life and mana back for more whirlwinds.so you'd just whirlwind through a bunch Hell monsters all day.it was quite boring but very effective.