Quote (DaRealPingu @ May 9 2024 01:13pm)
Recently started a solo campaign. Would like to know everyone’s thoughts on best character to play on solo and complete hell with
What do you want to do exactly?
The game has 3 difficulties: normal, nightmare and hell.
If you want to only beat the normal difficulty -> so up to around ~level 30, then probably fire aura paladin (relatively easy damage) or fire sorc (requires insight polearm to have unlimited mana -> gets great damage AND teleport; but it will take you time to farm the insight)
If you want to beat normal - nightmare, then probably sorc is best bet, since after you get an insight polearm, you can restat your fire sorc, to a frozen orb sorc, you teleport around and your mercenary kills stuff.
Other builds generally require gear - and you proably dont have gear.
I think u can make a skeleton summoner necromancer and take it VERY slowly up to nightmare, but im not sure if the bosses (Diablo / Baal) wont be 20 minute fights.
In hell - monsters can get 2 immune, so sorc starts to have a problem.
Characters like barb require a good weapon, which u wont have.
So the option here is hammerdin. Hammerdin does magic damage, so he can kill nearly all monsters in the game (apart from few in areas that you can mostly skip) + he gets damage from skill levels, so does not care much about gear + can get holy shield skill that boosts block for skill points, what is huge. The problem with hamemrdin (and basically any other char apart from sorc) is that it cannot teleport though.
Also going through act2 maggot lair will take time, since the tunnels block your hammers.
Also the game is designed around battle.net play, so most players start with a sorc, farm some items and then build a second character, of farm.
If you want a sorc: fireball sorc -> farm insight -> restat to some fire / frozen orb combo with merc.
If you want to go through the game a bit slower, but generally with a char that can kill everything - use hammerdin.