Hell character

[Rice_Farmer]

Hell character

I'm about to try my first hell difficulty character. and i'll never get along with the way hammerdin attacks so that's not an option. what kinda char shoud i make? give me a short guide on that char, or tell me a place to look 4 good guides for them. and please don't say get an enigma/hoto "and the rest" unless you r gonna give me one. i'm poor :worship:

 

[masakerr]

I'm about to try my first hell difficulty character. and i'll never get along with the way hammerdin attacks so that's not an option. what kinda char shoud i make? give me a short guide on that char, or tell me a place to look 4 good guides for them. and please don't say get an enigma/hoto "and the rest" unless you r gonna give me one. i'm poor :worship:

I was having a bloody good time with my skellimancer in Hell. There was no where I was afraid to go. Gloams didn't scare me. Unfortunately, the 2,000 spears should have scared me.

You can do the Skellimancer pretty much naked. Go to the Necromancer forum and take a look. The only places I really have a tought time are the Maggot Lair and the Arcane.

Good Luck

Masa

 

[Rice_Farmer]

thanks man i'll try that. ne other suggestions ne1?

 

[Rice_Farmer]

i heard bonemancers were ok. is that right?
are bowazons ne good? if yes, wut type? GA? strafe?

 

[chrisng]

Pure Bonemancers CANNOT do hell. I'm quite sure even with Enigma and HoTO, you can't get through hell. Mana costs are just too high.

 

[krucker13]

Agreed Bonemancers will have MAJOR problems in hell specially without top gear. Any single element sorc will do alright but you wont be able to kill 1/4 of the monsters. My vote would go for skelemancer (fishymancer) as they kick **s but can cause some lag if you have a slow connection. Hmm guess i'm bout outta stuff to write. Hope it helps.

-krucker-

 

[Rice_Farmer]

i somehow have good gear for a bowazon. are they any good in Hell difficulty?
if yes, wut type/

 

[krucker13]

i somehow have good gear for a bowazon. are they any good in Hell difficulty?
if yes, wut type/

For this i would check zon forum. There are lots of guides that are hell viable there, most of which have a cheap option for them.

 

[spartacvs]

i somehow have good gear for a bowazon. are they any good in Hell difficulty?
if yes, wut type/

IMO, javazons are the way to go. You need a good backup skill, like freezing arrows for lightning immunes.

But the summoner is a better option. Be carefull, you need to built it correctly. One of the best character out there.

As for the hammerdin, I strongly suggest you give him a second taugh. I made a hammerdin in NL. Hated him. Gave him a second try much later in L. He's my mf character now. Hammerdin can be painfull to trigger but you'll be better with experience. My tactic is to rush into the frontline, cast hammers like crazy and let my merc kill the monsters my hammers didn't get. When it's over, I cast redemption to regain lost life and mana while I check dead bodies drops. The strongest point of hammerdins is that nothing is immune to their hammers (even magic immunes) and they kill fast. Summoner can kill pretty much everything but you're gonna have a hard time with physical immunes souls if you plan to do countess runs (amp dmg is not enaugh).

I have writen a mini-guide of a summoexploder (that's the way I call my summoner ). If you want it or if you need advices for the hammerdin, feel free to contact me at: [email protected]

 

[cotton]

Yes, bowazons are very viable in hell, even with affordable gear. An exceptional bow (Lyc, GSA, even WWS,) a steelskull, duriels shell, and a good build (check the zon forum or amazon basin) and you can do hell. My other suggestions would be summon necro or one of a multitude of sorc builds. Some general guidelines: melee characters need top end stuff; odd variants, with characters doing stuff they aren't supposed to do (think bow wielding druids and such,) take very specialized, usually expensive gear. Just my 2 cents......