Archives: Strategies

This guide is not a “how to make a cookie cutter druid,” in the sense I won’t tell you how to plan out your druid, pick your gear for you, etc. Instead, I try to help you learn about how the different skills work, what to look for in gear, and other useful information in the hopes it will help you make good decisions in creating your own custom elemental druid.

A Druid Windmaster Diablo 2 guide by Borlag.

The Flaming Mauler Druid is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a bear that combines dangerous physical damage from Werebear and Maul with a devastating Fire Claws attack into one simultaneous paw swipe of death.

Diablo 2 guide to MagiBarbs (Magical Barbarians) with a focus on fire skills and poison skills to kill their enemies.

In the new Barbarian IK guide version I have included leveling strategies, some skill updates, leveling equipment ideas and various other small things. So now that we got some basics lets get started. First we will look at the IK set and what it ends up giving us.

A a barbarian we must reclaim what is ours, the dual-wielding glory that is FRENZY!

As the name implies, this BBN build is going to use the full Immortal King’s set. The reason why this barbarian build is very expensive is solely because of the one item in that set, and that is the Immortal King’s Soul Cage set Sacred Armor.

The Iron Man barbarian is the combination of everything that is used in the game to defend a character from death. This comes in a surprising amount of methods. Defence, Damage Reduction, Shield Blocking, Life, Hit Recovery, Leeches, Resistances and Absorbs.

Introduction Things have changed drastically in the world of Sanctuary over the past few months. With the coming of the 1.10 patch, virtually everything we previously knew about how to construct powerful characters has changed, and the developers have introduced us to many new challenges. As a result, there have been frequent requests in the … Read more

This guide is intended to teach all those who need to know the basics, workings, choices, tricks & how amazingly complex yet simple & effective a whirlwind barbarian is.

The Barbarian Berserk. The strongest melee attack available to any character. Make no mistake about that. Yet using this skill to slaughter monsters in this game is a task normally fraut with peril

Diablo 2 Guide: 1.10 HC Barbarian Berserker Guide.

Diablo 2 Guide: The C/C Natalya’s Phoenix Striker Assassin.

Diablo2 Guide: Assassin Kicking Basics with all the information you need to understand the Assassin’s kick.

Diablo 2 Guide: The ‘Shadow Walker’ (Pure Claw/Venom) Assassin.

Diablo 2 Guide: Ghost (Trapper) Assassin.

My Dragon Talon/Trapper Assassin is my 3rd Assassin character and also the character I’ve enjoyed most of all, hence this guide. I chose to do this build because it was quite unusual at the time. Dragon Talon had never really been a widely used skill and with the arrival of 1.10 it suddenly became a very interesting asset of the Assassin.

Welcome to another fishy guide. 🙂 This time it’s for a martial arts / traps assassin hybrid. The martial arts half of the build focuses on huge physical damage. The combination of tiger strike and a two-handed weapon is downright impressive.

There are two valid build ideas for the lightning Trapsin Assassin that I’m going to describe. One makes use of Charged Bolt Sentry (hereafter referred to as CBS) for boss killing rather than just as a synergy to Lightning Sentry (LS).

Diablo 2 Guide: The Tiger Strike/Dragon Tail Martial Artist Assassin

The following is an Assassin build concentrated around the use of the skill ‘Blade Fury’. It’s a loose guide on how you can make this build work in multi player games. It is however NOT viable in PvP

This Assassin build came out of a request for a build based around Natalya’s Odium Set that didn’t use chargeups. Essential it uses physical damage and venom from a 5FPA dual claw attack, backed up with a nice juicy Corpse Explosion from Death Sentry.

This detailed guide is a compilation of stuff that I have picked up from planning and playing PvP and PvM assassins.

The Assassin class is unlike any other character class for Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction. It is the only class that is a “hybrid” build by nature to be successful, frequently relying on skills from all three Skill trees for maximum effectiveness in both PvM play and PvP play. The most powerful minion of the … Read more

Diablo 2 Guide: WS K Amazon by Nightfish.