Hi friends!

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I've been playing Diablo II since it was released back in 2000, I was 10 at the time and didn't know a single word of english. I played on Battle.net and I remember
asking my brother everytime someone wrote something to me. I also remember him being angry as hell because I was annoying asking a million questions during a 1hr
gaming window. I also remember learning that some "good" items such as Shako were more valuable then other items, such as random low level uniques. So I recall
joining trade games and offering like a inventory full of shit items and wanting a Shako. Obviously everyone thought I was retarded and I didn't get a Shako.

I've then continued on Bnet on and off (Haven't we all?) but I've never really learned the game. I've been reading a lot of the WT's here over the past weeks and simple
stuff like farming Countess, LK chests, Pits and Ancient tunnels for instance was not something I thought someone did. I thought MF runs were "more or less" Andy, Meph and Nihlathak.
Also how people use runewords at lower levels to progress a lot easier, farming bases for the runewords etc. And god, making Insight in Nightmare, or Harmony bow for run speed. Mind blown.


TOPIC QUESTION
I want to start SP, but this time I want to focus my "magic finding" on those places I haven't run before, mainly Pits in Act 1, Ancient Tunnels Act 2.
So my question is what SP character (since I'm noob and want to actually complete the game and farm gear for other SP characters) is the easiest to clear areas such as Pits and Ancient Tunnels?
It doesn't have to be both, and if I had to choose between the two, Pits look more fun in my opinion.

I've recently played a lot of Necromancer but I'm not entirely digging the playstyle as summoner (I have not tried Bonemancer though, not sure if they are viable without gear?). I know they are one, if not the easiest class to play on SP since you can pretty much clear the game naked.
I will be playing HC, P8 on progress and P1-P8 on reruns.

I'm willing to try Necromancer again but not as Summoner. Then again, more interested in the other classes.

Thanks in advance

Best regards, Erik

Blizz sorc is probably the easiest one to get to ancient tunnels, getting torch and anni with a sorc is quite a grind tho
You don't even need that much gear with sorc to be able to farm safely on tunnels

Bowazon is a safe pick as well, having tanky valk and decoy is a life saver, but requires a bit more gear than a sorc to be able to clear well
Is able to do both pits and AT

Hammerdin ... Quite safe, still risky if you don't have good gear and happen to face might/fana amp archers

Poison necro with corpse exp and merc + clay golem is quite good with clearing pits, not sure about AT with that one, but getting to hell is a grind since you'll take 15 mins to beat act bosses

Can consider lightning sorc but the grind to make infinity will be painful

Bowazon? I've always had the impression that they are terrible, both during progression and end game. Have I missed something?
I really think they are cool though, would love to play one!

I've never really played Paladin before, but Hammerdin seems kind of dull?



Was hoping for someone to clear pits before being able to have items such as Infinity I guess.

So if I make it to Hell, I won't be clearing further then Act 1 until I done a couple of thousands pit runs.

This post was edited by ErikJP on Jan 13 2020 05:57am

Only 2.3% of all who read the post had an opinion, thought there would be more input!

I guess it's up to me to decide At the moment it's leaning towards either a Bowazon, or Poison Nova Necro

This post was edited by ErikJP on Jan 13 2020 12:18pm

Light source can run pits on p3 all day quickly just skip archers, alternatively blizz sorc for ancient tunnels on p8 and p3 Meph

in order of mf efficiency (my opinion, everyone may disagree on order but these are the best):
psn necro (you need to be very good at it, i am not)
light sorc with infinity (not viable in sp for a long time, low mf)
wc barb (2wizspikes and the rest mf gear, doesnt perform as well on p8)
meteorber sorc (will do everything you want but switching between orb fb 15 times for one group ruins clear speed in pit)ev
pitzerker barb (will do everything you want, dies alot, only kills bosses, not sp viable)
java (low mf but the clear speed is unmatched, also frail)
windy (slow, low mf)
hammer (tight quarters in those places would make this char murder but if you can stomach it they do good dmg)
anything else

with p1-8 re runs go ele druid or blizz sorc.. with ele druid just farm pits on p8 for lvls then move on to lk p7-8 or boss farming p1 for gear

with blizz sorc you can farm tunnels until you have an elite base insight on your merc and then farm all areas on p1-3 quite easily with the merc killing the immunes.. Then go lighting when you get gg gear like griffons, maras, infinity and so on

I love ele druids so that’s why I recommend that lol.. I’m sure many hybrid builds can do much better clearing on p1-3 farming but yah just my preference

This post was edited by Creature19 on Jan 13 2020 06:28pm