Characters Strategies

There are 3 characters in diablo, as well as three characters in hellfire.

There are different ways to pilot them.

First there are the raw abitlities of Diablo classes:

And now there are the main strategies with the different characters:

-Sorceror:

The Highcaster

Uses naj's light plate, thinking cap and an arch'angel staff.

you just need an obsidian ring more to have all resistances to their maximum.

all other rings must be dragon/wizardry.

The inconvenients of this technique are:

-When you get against soul burners, and you don't have a staff of many apocalyspes, you will take a lot of time while stonecursing/killing.

-In multiplayer games, as your armor is quite low, A ROGUE LEVEL ONE WITH THE NEEDLER will pk you without any problem...
Think twice before revealing this technique is the one you are using...

-Even if you don't play multiplayer, if you are outnumbered by blood knights, you are bound to a certain death...

The advantages of this technique are:

-You do not need too rare items.Uniques are the easiest magic items to find.

-Your fireball does a lot of damage(~1400 for a level 50.)
amazing.no ennemy will stand for a long time before you...

Raw characheristics:

Armor:Low

Damage:=>40

Spells:level 20

Life:Low(no more than 200)

Mana:High(=>1000 or even more)

The plate mage

You need:

Royal circlet

Dreamflange

Obsidian rings heavens/zodiac

stormshield

an amulet or a ring:dragon heavens/zodiac

awesome plate

The inconvenients are:

-Items are really hard to find.
I mean dreamflange, and the rings are very rare items, even if dreamflange is a unique.

-Against a highcaster, you no doubt will lose.you have no chance.
this is the prize to pay to be more polyvalent

-The problem with soul burners stays, even though you have more str and more dex... it will be simply less hard, but it won't become easy!

The advantages are:

-No more needler pking.

-you can stand longer versus mass blood knights.

-fireball quite high damage (~900)

Raw characteristics:

Armor:250=>300

(fast block)

Mana:750=>950

Life:=>200

Spells Level 16

Damage:~50

The fighter-mage

you need:

A good sword of haste

An awesome plate

Stormshield

resistance rings of strength /dex/life/heavens

Royal circlet/An awesome helm of the whale

Inconvenients:

-The less raw-powerful of the mages:no more than 800 damage...

-A rogue will beat you in hands-to-hands

-still low damage(no more than 100...)quite unsufficient versus lots of blood knights...

Advantages:

-Items not too hard to find.

-A fighter will have hard to hit you...

-good attack versus soul burners.

Raw characteristics:

Life:Medium(~300=>400 life)

damage:medium(~80=>100)

mana:high(650=>750)

Armor:250=>300

spells:level 15

-Warrior

YOU WILL ALWAYS NEED A GREAT FULL PLATE FOR A WARRIOR.

The swordman

you need:

a good sword of haste/grandfather

helms and rings of life+resistances

Stormshield

Inconvenients:

No more than normal fighters:Very hard against missile weapons(soul burners...)

Advantages:

-Good life

-Good hand damage

-Blood knight slayer

Raw characteristics:

Life:High(~500)

mana:low(~100)

damage:high(120 and more)

Armor:230=>280

Spells:low level

The Axeman

You need:

Messerchmidt's Reaver

An Awesome helm of the whale

An Awesome plate

rings of life/obsidian

Inconvenients:

-You lose 40 armor.Ennemies as well as pks will have easier to kill you.

-Messerchmidt's reaver makes you lose 50 life more...

-You lose the fast block ability.

-Same inconvenients as all the warriors:Very hard to kill succubus family.

Advantages:

-Lot of damage(more than 150)

Raw characteristics:

Damage:High(150=>200 or more)

armor:200=>250

Life:High(400=>500)

Mana:Low(~100)

spells:low level

Rogue:

The bowgirl:

You need: a good bow(Windforce,Eaglehorn,Needler or a strange bow)

An awesome plate

Rings of the titans/life/heavens +obsidian.

Inconvenients:

-As all the rogues, low life.

-Low ability if outnumbered

-A bow does anyway less damage than a fireball.

Advantages:

-Polyvalent character.

-Missile high damage.

-Soul Burner slayer.

Raw characteristics:

Mana:low(~200)

Life:medium(~300)

CTH:175=>300%

spells:medium level~10

Armor:220=>270

The Leech:

Can also be done with a fighter.

You need:

A good sword of blood/vampires(+mana shield)

An awesome plate

Stormshield

Rings of heavens/zodiac+obsidian

Inconvenients:

-You are not anymore able to fight witches.

-You get too much trust in this technique:you don't use potions anymore, then you die outnumbered because of your pride.

-Still not much life

Advantages:

-You will need far less potions.

-Armor class higher than other types of rogues/fighters.

Raw characteristics:

Armor:300 and more(rogue);240=>270(warrior)

Cth:100=>250%

Life:300(rogue), 500(warrior)

Damage:70=>90(rogue),120=>140(warrior)

spells:low to medium

mana:100 to 300.

Hellfire characters:

Hellfire strategies:

---The matter with hellfire is that I cannot get to the dedicated server.Anyway I will try to imagin the multiplayer possibilities---

Bard

The double-sword-girl.

This is the main characteristic of the bard, using two swords.So try to use good ones.

There are some techniques to use them:

You will always need an awesome plate and royal circlet to keep a fair armor.

Different strategies:

-Two king's swords, one haste and other heavens.

This is a very common choice.It is the most polyvalent one, but you must be able to find good resistance rings.

-One emerald sword and a king's sword, one haste and one heavens.

This one is an alternate solution to the first, involving less difficulties to find rings.But your damage will be lowered.

-Two king's swords, two heavens.

The aim of this strategy is to max out your abilities.Could be a good way to get high damage, more life and more mana at the same time.

-Two king's sword, two slaughter.

You are surely wanting to make the most possible damage if you are reading these lines.Calculated, it makes:73-122 total plus your arms strength(total=~140-189).Deadly.

-Grandfather and a king's sword

This is an alternate solution for the ones who don't find two king's swords, grandfather is quite cool.

-Two Schaefer's Hammers:

+100 life, 2-100 light hit damage.No more comment:you want to be heavily armoured.

-Two strange swords one of haste, the other of bashing.

Surely you are one of those damned Pk craps:

This is the most vilain choice, as you hit anybody with any -even hacked- plate(You have more than 400% to hit), and when you have hit him, he cannot recover fast enough(you have haste) between two hits, and you are sure to make him each time have a hit recovery(because of the bashing).There is no technique against this, except keep away from you.

-Two dreamflanges

You wan have +2 level to your spells and +60 magic, and +100 mana at the same time.great isn't it?

This is only a part of the list of what you can make with the bards.I am sure you can find your own strategy in choosing your swords.

Raw:120 to str,120 to mag,120 to dex, 100 to vit.Okay with swords and maces, fast with bows, slow with any other type of weapons

Monk

The monk's favorites weapons are staves and hand-to-hand, without any weapon.There is a different way to choose your staff, and two kinds of hand-to-hand.

-Staffs.

Standard:King's staff of haste.

This could be the only solution, but there are other ones.

I came across a king's staff of haste, and I prefered to keep my lightning staff of speed, as lightning causes multiple hits, and does not allow the target to flee.

You can also use the protector, so you will need nearly no potions, as you have healing charges, and you get back armor you would have with a shield(40).The only minus is that your damage is lower(2-4).
But it is sure that you can do it with only your arms strength(Level 36:
92-94 damage with all chars maxed out).

The monk is a good defensive char, but still gets problem with soul burners(the only one to have no problem with these is the rogue.)and has a good staff damage.Also you are not obliged to use a high armor if you are high level(projected to be 130 base AC for a level 50):
so use a holy armor of the mammoth or something like that.Royal circlet must be used.

If you don't use a staff, you can choose the hand-to-hand or the hand-to-hand with a shield.

The last option will make you lose some(like 10%)damage, earning it back in your armor class.This is a choice of circumstances.I still think the staff is the best solution as the monk can hit up to three ennemies at a time with it(as does the rogue with two swords).

Raw:

140 str, 80 mag, 140 dex, 80 vit.Fast with staffs, medium speed with hth, slow with any other type of weapon.

The barbarian

I heard that the barbarian can use a two-handed sword or a great sword in one hand, but neither the axes nor the staves can be one-handed.Also you get 1% resist all each level you get, which greatly helps you while looking for rings:Only need +25 % resist all when level 50, only need +50% when level 25.helps you put some gold or drake/dragon in your rings.Also I always wanted to use the grizzly in one hand.But I won't be able to jump to the ceiling:I won't be able to use messerchmidt's Reaver in one hand:(

Raw:255 str, 0 mag, 55 dex, 150 vit.fast with axes and swords.no more info