What would be a good character/path to start Ladder Slasher?
I'm willing to put in fg for a good time.
What stats should I be aiming for?

i like playing the barbarian, i just started aswell.

its a good tank (str/vit you should look 4)

Depends on where you want to go arena or catacombs
from your fg you could make a fair weller mage what you can go fully solo with
your fg would come back fast
have a look at nevv s guide for softcore welling http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=30551054&f=74

This post was edited by peterqwer on Dec 30 2009 02:56pm

note that welling on a mage isn't nearly as easy as it was pre-1.18

i have a friend who was at 90% success before the patch, he now runs at 50-60%

Personally as feeder class I really enjoy either fighter or guardian. It depends what you want to do really. If you want to rely on catacombs and be doing damage I would say go with a fighter. If you want to be A healer and rely on catas then go with a guardian. I would say since you're new though go with q fighter. Another option is soloing and going with either a caster or a hybrid. But hybrids are not especiAlly new player friendly. So for soloing I would say go with a Mage. If you have any other guestiosn about different character builds and such feel free to pm me!