Hi, im looking for people to walk through the game with, and we can only be melee.
I have many ideas, but everyone needs to be satisfied, so please come with your ideas too if u got any.
The point with these melee walks is to use different builds than the usual, which means we need each other to survive with our strange equipment.
The team will be strong when we combine all our abilities, and it will be easy to survive and kill monsters together.
Most people give up because they are too weak alone. For example, if you make a Sanctuary aura Zeal pala, you will be kind of useless on your own, but interesting and fun in a team.

My first idea is NO SHIELD melee team, where we must be a team to survive. We can include bows if some1 really wants to play bow ama.

Another idea is that we only use crafted/rare/magic items, no runewords (except for maybe mercs)
Maybe set items only except jewelry (amus, rings...). NOT Tal/IK/Aldur and so on, boring...
Example ideas of characters and builds

Im also interested in making different Uber Trist team set-up. Non of the original boring stuff. But to try different builds in 8 player games in UT. I got a lot of orgsets ready for us (like 40)
I got an UT Bower for example. And the sanctuary pala would be cool here too etc... Or 8 x trappers/8x bowers/8x whatever, but not smite/java

* Holy Shock/Fire/Freeze Polearm/Spear/Mace zealer
Faith on merc, your desired offensive damage aura on you, perhaps infinity/doom/hoj as weapon

*The Sanctuary Zealer/healer, Gives magic damage to your zeal, and you will fight the undeads, and others will be demonslayers. This char has many different builds that might be fun IMO

* The barb has so many possibilities, enjoy ur fantasy here :-p

* Melee spear amazon. One cool item to aim for is eth 3 to javeline and spear skills Matriarchal Pike BOTD (not sure if it can be eth, but i think so?) and Jab as skill. This builds gives u a lot of skillpoints to play with. Wouldn't it be fun to actually use "Slower missiles" and get use for it?

* The druid has many options as well, like the barb. Go on!!!

* Widowmaker bow enchanter sorceress

Oki, I hope some people want to join my melee pvm party. I think it will be a fresh revival to d2 gameplay. I enjoy it a lot at least :)))!

This post was edited by ando92 on Jan 25 2022 01:18pm

when you say walkthrough, are you talking about self-found items only? or are you loading your chars with gear every step of the way? halfway through your post you mention uber trist, so i'm not sure if your item examples on the bottom are specific to uber trist or if it's specific to the walkthrough.

i'm up for walkthroughs. but i dont have any experience with melee past normal mode.

Hio My current idea is to use items u already got and do whatever you like. Imo it will be funnier to use good items on these otherwise weak builds.
Regarding uber trist, it was just another idea for something new to do. I have never done ut with 8 x same chars for example. Could be fun But thats a side thing to the melee walk

I'd be down if it was HC & for new ladder. If so, I'd pick the sanctuary zealot

I would join this for some preladder fun. i would happly play any silly build. but the type of build depends on if its self found or not.

This is cool

I would still have 1 sorc just for quality of life but dieharding without sorc is cool

Okay, let's theory craft this. Without question Paladin is the cornerstone of the build.

1 might
1 conc
1 fanat
1 salvation

So 4 paladins total. All Zeal.

1 barb is mandatory. (Frenzy probably)
1 druid is as well (oak and summon bear) (fury + Rabies .. Or Fireclaw)

The last 2 slots are your question marks.

My choice would be 2x Summon Necros for the lolz of having full screen summons buffed by Oak BO 3x Damage Auras and Salv (these will be immune to elemental damage too... because Salv isn't capped at 75 for summons and there is no difficulty resist penalty)

Other Combos..

Lightning Fury Zon + 1 More din running Conviction

Enchant Sorc + 1 More din running Conviction

1 more Fury Druid with max Heart of Wolverine + 1 more din running Vigor

about 10 years ago me and 7 other friends made 8 pallys.

1 fana
1 conv
1 fire
1 frost
1 shock
1 might
1 conc
1 salvation

in hc, self found only

no mercs allowed.

was fun and ez

All zeal?

yes