**Holy Shock Paladin** Skills: 20 Zeal 1 Holy Sheild 20 Holy Shock 20 Salvation 20 Resist Lightning Attributes: Strength: Enough to use Gear Dex: Enough to hit 75% Block Rate "With Holy Sheild casted" Vitality: Rest here Energy: None Gear: Weapon: Schafer's Hammer or Stormlash Armor: Fortitude Sheild: Exile or Phoenix. If you can't afford those I would use HoZ. Helmet: Gface Amulet: Angelic Rings: 1 Angelic Ring - 1 Ravenfrost Gloves: Dracs Boots: Gore Riders Belt: Nos Coil Skillcharms: Offensive Mercenary: Act 2 Nightmare Defense " Holy Freeze" Weapon: Infinity Armor: Treachery Helmet: Andy's **Poison Nova Necromnacer:** Attributes: Strength: Enough to use gear Dex: Enough to hit 50% to 75% max block Vitality: Rest here Energy: None Skills: Curses: 1 point into all Poison and Bonespells: 20 Poison Nova 20 Poison Explosion 20 Poison Dagger Extra Points: Do what you perfer best you could put points into summons but they will die fast. I put the rest of my points into Bone Prison and Bonewall because I like to trap monsters. :) Equipment: Helmet, Armor, Sheild, Belt, and Gloves: Trang-Oul Set Weapon: Death's Web, Spirit Sword or any decent caster/necro weapon. Boots: Aldur Boots Rings: Dwarfstar & Raven Frost. Note: I like ravenfrost for the extra dex and cold absorb to help hit the max block rate. Dwarf is also a very nice budget ring for life and fire absorb. Amulet: Cat's Eye. Note: I love the extra run walk speed combined with the set. The nice dex also helps hit the max block rate. Skillcharms: Poison and Bone Skills. Mercenary: Act 2 Nightmare "Defnese Holy Freeze" Weapon: Insight Armor: Treachery Helmet: Crown of Thieves, Andys, or Vampire Gaze **Fireclaw Druid:** Attributes: Strength: Enough to use gear Dex: Enough to hit 50% block Vitality: Rest here Energy: None Skills: Summoning: 1 Oak Sage or Heart of the Wolverine ShapeShifting: It's up to you wether you want to use Bear or Wolf form I personally don't think it will make or break the build I don't like the look of the wolf so I always go bear form. 1 Shockwave 20 Fireclaw 1 Werewolf 1 Feral Rage 1 Lycanthropy Elemental: 20 Firestorm 20 Molten Boulder 20 Fissure rest into Volcano Equipment: Helmet, Armor, Weapon, and Boots: Aldur Set Amulet: Angelic Rings: Ravenfrost and Angelic Ring Belt: String of Ears Gloves: Dracs SkillCharms: Shapeshift Mercenary: Act 2 Nightmare Defense "Holy Freeze" Weapon - Expensive: Infinity Cheap: Obedience Armor: treachery Helmet: Vampire Gaze, Andys, or Crown of Thieves **Bow and Javelin Hybrid.** Atrributes: Strength: Enough to use gear Dex: Enough to get 75% max block with Moser's Blessed Circle sheild equipped. Vitality: Rest Here Energy: none SKills: Javelin skills: 20 Lightning Fury Bow Skills: 20 Cold Arrow 20 Freezing Arrow Passive Skills: 1 Point into every skill. 20 Valkyrie Equipment: Helmet, Bow, Gloves, Belt, and Armor: Mavina's Set Amulet: Crescent Moon Note: Awesome for the duel leech. Rings: Ravenfrost. Second ring anyhting decent will do if you find a duel leech ring for mana and life that will work also. I perfer just a simple dwarf star ring. Boots: War travs Note: There are better options but I prefer the magic find since this build is lacking it. SWITCH WEAPON/SHEILD *IMPORTANT* Weapon: Titan's Revenge Note: You don't need an eth titans or a high enhanced damage titans just any titan's and you are good to go. Sheild: Moser's Blessed Circle: Socket with 2 lightning jewels or 2 Perfect diamonds. Mercenary: This is basically up to you it won't make or break the build. An infinity merc would be awesome but that would defeat the purpose of this being a cheap alternative. For good monster crowd control I would suggest an Act 5 Mercenary with Lawbringer runeword in a PhaseBlade along with Treachery Runeword as the armor and Vampire Gaze as the Helmet. **Zeal Energy Sheild Sorc:** Atrributes: This one is tricky this is based on a level 90 Sorceress. Strength: Enough to use gear. Dex: Enough to hit 50% Maxe block with a Dream Hyperion sheild. Vitality: 48 Points Energy: Rest goes into here. "210 points at level 90" Skills: Fire Spells: 20 Warmth 1 Enchant 1 Fire Mastery Cold Spells: 1 Shiver Amor Lightning Spells: 20 Lightning Mastery 20 Energy Sheild 20 Telekinesis Equipment: Weapon: Passion Runeword in a Phase Blade Sheild: Dream Runeword in a Hyperion Sheild. Note Very easy to find in chaos and baal runs even a white Hyperion sheild can give 3 sockets when using the socket quest. Helmet: Dream Runeword in a Diadem or whatever helmet look you like. Amulet: Highlords Rings: Ravenfrost/Stone of Jordan Boots: Sandstorm treks. Belt: Arachnid Mesh Gloves: Laying of Hands. Skillcharms: Lightning or Fire this isn't needed when this build is already deals huge damage without them. Mercenary: Act 2 Nightmare Defense Holy Freeze. Weapon: Infinity Armor: Treachery Helmet: Vampire Gaze.
In holy shock paladín, why you did not put more points to holy shield? It is his most powerful tool to Survive I think man, and i'm worried about putting only one point
One really cool build is a harmony bow enchantress that revives monsters that shoot explosive or fire arrows. Im planning on making 1. if u dont want to use revives just keep a brand or demon machine crossbow. Or even use ur cta/ orb on switch to become a powerful fire sorc whenever
Also, a little note about passion/melee sorceress, is that it's not just energy shield and warmth that is important for its survival, but also the telekinesis synergy that goes into energy shield which divides the amount of mana taken per point of all taken damage. However this is a nice video X, keep it up with the content.
Yo guys I’ll have the build information posted today for my style of the builds. I’ll pin the information here in the comment section also on my Twitter @xtimus2
That's funny. At different times there's different popular builds. I just started playing again. It looks like hammerdin is out. I see mostly cold sorcs.
I wonder if Blizzard ever anticipated that no one would ever go healer pally. I've always thought about making one. Also I think he has a role in fighting Ubers
I remember when I pretty much had all of the main builds down, I started to branch out into the more obscure ones. Poison wolf druid, frenzy/throw barb, ice arrow zon, poison necro....I wanted to do an auradin but never got around to it
Poison necros - very fun class. While leveling, you may want to be a summon necro until you get enough skill points, then reset via Akara (Act 1 purple bitch in town) around level 40ish. Poison dagger just doesn't cut the mustard in the early goings if you ask me. You'll also want to invest skill points in skeleton and skeleton mastery after you get your poison nova damage up. These are your meat shields and can last in Hell surprisingly well. I avoid the skele mages. They get lost alot and aren't very effective. You'll also want a Clay golem, golem mastery, and summon resist. Fire golems are nice if you can spare the skill points as is Revive. For high level usage, don't use Trang's full set. The casting rate is bugged (still.) Use the gloves, shield, and belt only. You'll still get the bonus fire spells with only 3 items. The fireball spell is handy for poison immunes. For the armor, you're going to want to sub in a Bramble runeword (Ral + Ohm + Sur + Eth). Bramble has +25-50% To Poison Skill Damage. Plus you get a thorns aura for your minions. For the helm you'll want to sub in a HC Shako or a rare/crafted Necro circlet. +2 Necro/FCR/Resist all/2OS would be top tier, but this might be one of the top 2 or 3 most expensive items I can think of to trade for. I like Mara's for the amulet or a rare/crafted amulet. You're looking for +skills, faster cast rate, resists. Rings, use SOJs. Speaking of resists, this build lacks some of them, so be on the lookout for resist charms, particularly lightning. You can always put an Um rune in your Shako to help as well. In hell this build has some inability to deal with poison immunes ie Venom Lords in Act4/4th Baal Minion. The skeleton minions help but don't do a lot of damage. That's where your merc comes in. A might merc (Nightmare Act 2 offensive) with good equipment can really help you out here. Obviously the end game is an Eth Infinity (Ber + Mal + Ber + Ist) polearm. I like an Infinity Threster, but again, this item is very expensive. Other good choices are Kelpie Snare, Hone Sundan, Steel Pillar/any elite level unique polearm/spear. There's some good rares out there too. I always pick up and ID rares, even normal level items because you can upgrade them via the Cube later. Some come with crazy mods like +300% Enhanced damage, +60ish to max damage, Increased attack speed, Life leech, etc. But I digress. For the merc helm, can't get much better than Vampire Gaze. Andariel's Visage/Guillaume's Face (Orphan's Call set helm)/Tal Rasha mask are also very good. For armor, Shaftstop is a good cheap item. Stone runeword (Shael + Um + Pul + Lum) or a Kraken are a good choice. High end would be a Fortitude runeword (El + Sol + Dol + Lo). High end poison necros can do 10k+ poison damage, 1k+ damage with skeletons (each), 500ish damage with fireball, plus your golem, merc, etc. Lots of different damage types. Not horrible at dueling most classes either but you'll need Enigma for that.
One of the most OP builds. Expensive and very reliable version of Zealer. Dream shield and helmet. Conviction as an active aura, Zeal, Sacrifice (for synergy) and Lightning Resist are maxed (lightning resist WILL synergize with level 30 Holy Shock aura from your equipment). Ideal merc is the act 1 merc with Faith bow equipped, for a Fanaticism aura). This build will steamroll through p8 hell easily, as the already bullshittery high damage of fully synergized Holy Shock aura is amplified by level 20+ Conviction aura emanating from the character, removing more immunities regular Infinity ever could. Jah runes are a problem to find, though.
Also ran a frenzy barb with a last wish and botd and dracs...could roll through torch runs with him too provided I made sure fanaticism procced before I went in
One of my personal Favorites for an Alt build would have to be a Variant of PvM Fire Casting Druid... A go everywhere Druid with Max Oak Sage, Max Grizzly Bear, Max Volcano, Max Fissue, Max Firestorm, Helm was a Delerium runeword with a +3 Oak Sage, And Enigma Armor with Max level 20 Battle Orders on switch. 2 Bul Kathos Rings for Life. and 20 life Res/Mana small charms with a Point in Lycanthropy and Shapeshift Bear. He would have over 7,000 Life IIRC... the point in Bear form was to cancel out the Delerium transforming proc.
Glad to see there are still people loving this game. I personally have a high interest for oldschool games like diablo, though newer ones have so many better features. These reminds me of my childhood so much!
Playing es chantress at the end of season one d2r. Melts things very quickly, 50k in screen damage and 15k attack rating after buffing. Love the build, unfortunately it takes a long time to build up too.
I've built once the holly fire Paladin. It's very strong but also extremely expensive. I've also built a chain lighting sorc with max points on energy, full mana shield and it's synergy + warmith. The damage wasn't that great but apart of mana burn monsters, she could stay in the middle of any group and still alive. I've done the bear druid either, but his defense is very strange. The life falls down when you don't expect. It looks like very random damage. Unfortunately, I never built the throwing axe Barbarian. I guess I just missed this, between builds that I was curious.
I miss my old frenzy barb build from when I played. I used blood pupils, shouts, and filled my inventory with sm 5% faster run walk charms. I think those don't exist anymore. I was owning white ring amazons all day long ;) Soooooooo fast.
We use to do a warcry barb with dual hoto's and dual warcry sticks and wear enigma - go for high fcr/fhr. Teleport to player and warcry/stun them to death. Rinse and repeat.
None of these builds would hold a candle to a proper built kicksin, wolf barb or aura necro. Back in the day I spent a lot of time playing legit PvP on open bnet
IMHO bone necros are much more rares than poison necros... I wonder why bone necro is not more popular? Was pretty popular on past and now, i din't saw a single bone necro on ladder, except myself...
PH03NIX, when you cast "bone spirit" technically you are creating and controlling a spirit. Also, i was playing as pure bone but decided to respec into some points on revive due the battle net lag... Revived minions are the best as distraction
summoning necros were far more rare then any other simply cause it was viewed as the least optimal tree,so very few people played it.especially when it got to late 90 plus toons. so your all smoking crack.
Watching your videos made me want to get back into diablo 2 again. I think i would choose the fire claw druid since i've always loved to play with the druid.
You built the tesladin wrong. Use a runemaster ettin axe with full light facets, a good jewelers armor with 4 light facets 2x dream runeword. Don't put any points into holy shock, use conviction as your main aura and let the dual dreams give you the 30 Holy shock. The Runemaster will give you the cannot be frozen mod so you can use something better than ravens like a 3 piece angelics set.
Better setup for psn necro is trang gloves belt and shield, enigma, death web with 5/5 psn facet, mara, shako with 5/5 psn facet or gg circ, rings can be slotted for preference same with boots. Shits the most gg setup for psnmancers
Pre-watching: Looking forward to seeing how many of these I've played in my thousands of hours. Ohhhhh Fire Claw. That 6x Shael Phase Blade was the real deal. Gotta get that ethereal 15% enhanced damage superior. The sorc build was fun. I hated necro, but the Nova build was pretty good, PvM. Too bad cows were obsolete in favor of Baal runs as of 1.10, when the Nova build became a thing. Moo moo. I know it's specific, but v1.09 trapper and bone necro were insanely rare in the pvp scene, but also very effective when done right.
Im doing a crossbow enchant sorc right now with probably a zeal switch! Pure fire for now cuse i cant afford dream🙄🤷♂️ bored to play with hammerdin.. this is pretty fun to play! With fire piercing exploding arrows!
A specific team up that I did with a friend that completely carried us through hell hardcore with crap gear. I used throwing Barb with many points in grim ward. He was a bone spear/spirit necromancer with many points in dim vision. Sounds dumb, but dim vision plus grim ward made all acts a cakewalk.
Shocker pala is common. Maybe not the high-end net pone, but in single player. Energy shield is not viable option becaiuse of the Manaburn Bug. Btw, try Bow Enchantress for fun. Or if you want a massively rare build, try melee necro.
I´m sorry, but rare? Yeah maybe the amazon, but the Hybrid with amazon is regular type of playing this character... but I don´t know, I don´t play amazon so much. The Holy Shock paladin is classic Tesladin and the only reason why many people don´t play it so often is that he need good gear, but I think, that everybody know this build. Poison Nova Necro... when you want to play some necro without summons, there are two classic options: 1. Bonemancer 2. Poisonmancer I think that Poisonmancer is more common choice, maybe only reason why your build can be named "rare" is that most of players use skeletons with poison nova. And fireclaw druid? It´s classic shapeshift build. One of most powerful and most played shapeshifted druid. And for me only build for full aldur set. (More rare build is Fire Elemental -good fire elemental- druid or hybrid Ele. Anyway, when somebody know how to play hybrid it is the best view in game, I think. Your sorc is there only rare build for me. I think that there should be builds like WereBear sorc with Beast, or WolfHowl Barb, or WhirlWind Assassin... These builds are really unique and rare.
fire claw and zeal sorc may actually be forgotten (most melee sorcs i know of prefer werebear, especially for übers), but poisonmancer and shock paladins are just ridiculous. there's ppl running around every (second) ladder. m'avina's itself is seldom sought after but still in use. your hybrid build i never heard of. well, it depends how long you play during a ladder. i for one stick around the whole six months. may differ for the realms too. i play on europe.
I loved this game in the early 2000s. I spent many, many nights leveling up my barb, but that was a long time ago. Do people still play this game? Is there really still an active community for this game?
I love Poison Nova Necros. I used to have one when Bnet was still halfway decent and not a bot infested dung heap. I forget when items I used...Bramble armor I think? Never heard of a Zeal Dorc but it sounds badass
the last ladder was cleared of bots and d2jsp it was pretty good for 3 months but i believe it is still relatively clean and players started crying because of prices going up lol
Rigaldo good. I was hardcore addicted to D2 for a good decade but it got to the point where actual human players were basically nonexistent in hell mode. I may actually get back into it whenever ladder resets.
Well im from Europe and the ladder was dope if you are from the USA its even better theres more people more communities and actually there are few active streamers that create groups for ladder resets and some more groups to actually farm gear/xp.I didnt play much this ladder but it was funny when half of the sorcs were so bad because they couldnt even create/farm baseline gear hope the next ladder reset is also clean for some more fun.
Holy crap I haven't played regular LOD since 2008. It's been 100% Median mod since then - Median XL which then became Median Ultimative and now Median 2017. It is a total Diablo II revamp with its core feature being a total skill tree replacement, as well as over 30 endgame "uber" quests.
I absolutely love poisonmancer - it was my main build back 12-13 years ago and was always running it as my main in different mods I tried. Here is how my final version looked like (keep in mind that page is over 11 years old and I was playing 1.10 back then :) ) gjar-po.sk/~tovarnak3c/zkuste/nekro.html for merc equipment gjar-po.sk/~tovarnak3c/zkuste/merc.html
I am starting to feel i was the only one who realized and used Thorns Aura and Conversion Paladin... Really I could destroy everything just with those two alone.
Well the Holy Shock pally is really rare one for sure also it's the best melee build for pally (also it's better to use Archer with the runeword bot gives fanaticism). But Poison Necro as rare really? Well maybe cuz there not so much players but back then i've soo many of em also you can use summomning skills along with poison. The fireclaw build doesnt make sense just random useless build. Hybrid amazon, i just dont get why the Javazon is OP by itself, it can kill everything in a second and if something lighting immune infinity breaks it then takes maybe 3-4 secs. And in the end i've never seen that kind of melee sorc, it looks fun. I made a summon druid once the 5 spirit wolves were killing everything, really expensive build.
I usually played a poison necro/summoner hybrid if I played one. 20 Poison Dagger 20 Poison Explosion 20 Poison Nova 20 Raise Skeleton 20 Skeleton Mastery 1 Clay 1 Golem Mastery 1 Summon Resist And of course 1 in all curses for Amp, Dep and Lower Resist. Skeletons do up to 10-20k damage per second if character is twinked and they won't die as fast as most assume since they last awhile. Untwinked though yeah it doesn't do as great as other classes and they will die too fast to be worth it otherwise so unless twinked not worth doing in my opinion unless you like farming. Been a long time since I played though maybe 14+ years but got into it again recently so sucks having to start over.
I hardly see fohers or ww sins use to be everywhere also poison nova necro are pretty common along with fire claw and lightning zealer mainly pvp rarely ya see these builds pvm lol
**Holy Shock Paladin**
Skills:
20 Zeal
1 Holy Sheild
20 Holy Shock
20 Salvation
20 Resist Lightning
Attributes:
Strength: Enough to use Gear
Dex: Enough to hit 75% Block Rate "With Holy Sheild casted"
Vitality: Rest here
Energy: None
Gear:
Weapon: Schafer's Hammer or Stormlash
Armor: Fortitude
Sheild: Exile or Phoenix. If you can't afford those I would use HoZ.
Helmet: Gface
Amulet: Angelic
Rings: 1 Angelic Ring - 1 Ravenfrost
Gloves: Dracs
Boots: Gore Riders
Belt: Nos Coil
Skillcharms: Offensive
Mercenary: Act 2 Nightmare Defense " Holy Freeze"
Weapon: Infinity
Armor: Treachery
Helmet: Andy's
**Poison Nova Necromnacer:**
Attributes:
Strength: Enough to use gear
Dex: Enough to hit 50% to 75% max block
Vitality: Rest here
Energy: None
Skills:
Curses: 1 point into all
Poison and Bonespells:
20 Poison Nova
20 Poison Explosion
20 Poison Dagger
Extra Points: Do what you perfer best you could put points into summons but they will die fast. I put the rest of my points into Bone Prison and Bonewall because I like to trap monsters. :)
Equipment:
Helmet, Armor, Sheild, Belt, and Gloves: Trang-Oul Set
Weapon: Death's Web, Spirit Sword or any decent caster/necro weapon.
Boots: Aldur Boots
Rings: Dwarfstar & Raven Frost. Note: I like ravenfrost for the extra dex and cold absorb to help hit the max block rate. Dwarf is also a very nice budget ring for life and fire absorb.
Amulet: Cat's Eye. Note: I love the extra run walk speed combined with the set. The nice dex also helps hit the max block rate.
Skillcharms: Poison and Bone Skills.
Mercenary: Act 2 Nightmare "Defnese Holy Freeze"
Weapon: Insight
Armor: Treachery
Helmet: Crown of Thieves, Andys, or Vampire Gaze
**Fireclaw Druid:**
Attributes:
Strength: Enough to use gear
Dex: Enough to hit 50% block
Vitality: Rest here
Energy: None
Skills:
Summoning: 1 Oak Sage or Heart of the Wolverine
ShapeShifting: It's up to you wether you want to use Bear or Wolf form I personally don't think it will make or break the build I don't like the look of the wolf so I always go bear form.
1 Shockwave
20 Fireclaw
1 Werewolf
1 Feral Rage
1 Lycanthropy
Elemental:
20 Firestorm
20 Molten Boulder
20 Fissure
rest into Volcano
Equipment:
Helmet, Armor, Weapon, and Boots: Aldur Set
Amulet: Angelic
Rings: Ravenfrost and Angelic Ring
Belt: String of Ears
Gloves: Dracs
SkillCharms: Shapeshift
Mercenary: Act 2 Nightmare Defense "Holy Freeze"
Weapon -
Expensive: Infinity
Cheap: Obedience
Armor: treachery
Helmet: Vampire Gaze, Andys, or Crown of Thieves
**Bow and Javelin Hybrid.**
Atrributes:
Strength: Enough to use gear
Dex: Enough to get 75% max block with Moser's Blessed Circle sheild equipped.
Vitality: Rest Here
Energy: none
SKills:
Javelin skills:
20 Lightning Fury
Bow Skills:
20 Cold Arrow
20 Freezing Arrow
Passive Skills:
1 Point into every skill.
20 Valkyrie
Equipment:
Helmet, Bow, Gloves, Belt, and Armor: Mavina's Set
Amulet: Crescent Moon Note: Awesome for the duel leech.
Rings: Ravenfrost. Second ring anyhting decent will do if you find a duel leech ring for mana and life that will work also. I perfer just a simple dwarf star ring.
Boots: War travs Note: There are better options but I prefer the magic find since this build is lacking it.
SWITCH WEAPON/SHEILD *IMPORTANT*
Weapon: Titan's Revenge Note: You don't need an eth titans or a high enhanced damage titans just any titan's and you are good to go.
Sheild: Moser's Blessed Circle: Socket with 2 lightning jewels or 2 Perfect diamonds.
Mercenary: This is basically up to you it won't make or break the build. An infinity merc would be awesome but that would defeat the purpose of this being a cheap alternative.
For good monster crowd control I would suggest an Act 5 Mercenary with Lawbringer runeword in a PhaseBlade along with Treachery Runeword as the armor and Vampire Gaze as the Helmet.
**Zeal Energy Sheild Sorc:**
Atrributes: This one is tricky this is based on a level 90 Sorceress.
Strength: Enough to use gear.
Dex: Enough to hit 50% Maxe block with a Dream Hyperion sheild.
Vitality: 48 Points
Energy: Rest goes into here. "210 points at level 90"
Skills:
Fire Spells:
20 Warmth
1 Enchant
1 Fire Mastery
Cold Spells:
1 Shiver Amor
Lightning Spells:
20 Lightning Mastery
20 Energy Sheild
20 Telekinesis
Equipment:
Weapon:
Passion Runeword in a Phase Blade
Sheild:
Dream Runeword in a Hyperion Sheild. Note Very easy to find in chaos and baal runs even a white Hyperion sheild can give 3 sockets when using the socket quest.
Helmet: Dream Runeword in a Diadem or whatever helmet look you like.
Amulet: Highlords
Rings: Ravenfrost/Stone of Jordan
Boots: Sandstorm treks.
Belt: Arachnid Mesh
Gloves: Laying of Hands.
Skillcharms: Lightning or Fire this isn't needed when this build is already deals huge damage without them.
Mercenary: Act 2 Nightmare Defense Holy Freeze.
Weapon: Infinity
Armor: Treachery
Helmet: Vampire Gaze.
Xtimus you forgot to add the shield for the pally. Is it exile or Pheonix?
Brotimus, you need to look into a Bear Dreamdin using dual dream, dragon armor, grief pb and conviction aura
Sorry about that i was using Exile. Phoenix and HoZ are other good choices. Thank you for pointing that out.
Sounds awesome lol will do.
In holy shock paladín, why you did not put more points to holy shield? It is his most powerful tool to Survive I think man, and i'm worried about putting only one point
One really cool build is a harmony bow enchantress that revives monsters that shoot explosive or fire arrows. Im planning on making 1. if u dont want to use revives just keep a brand or demon machine crossbow. Or even use ur cta/ orb on switch to become a powerful fire sorc whenever
Also, a little note about passion/melee sorceress, is that it's not just energy shield and warmth that is important for its survival, but also the telekinesis synergy that goes into energy shield which divides the amount of mana taken per point of all taken damage.
However this is a nice video X, keep it up with the content.
Yo guys I’ll have the build information posted today for my style of the builds. I’ll pin the information here in the comment section also on my Twitter @xtimus2
Xtimus sweeet
Imagine this being the april fools video. Top 5 rare builds. Starting with Number 5: the Hammerdin
GeneralBlue that would've been comedy.
Get fucked
#4 cold sorc
#3 lightning java
#2 hammerdin
#1 hammerdin
That's funny. At different times there's different popular builds. I just started playing again. It looks like hammerdin is out. I see mostly cold sorcs.
@@SJNaka101 to void repetition, just put light sorc and trap sin in there somewhere and boooom, done.
Damn, that Zeal Sorc looks fun
I had a lvl 96 back in the times. She is kinda skilled like the Bearsorc so you just have to switch your eq to play one or the other.
Zeal sorcs can be fun but mannn theyre super expenssive.
Honorable mentions: Screamer barb, thrower barb, wold barb, Insane life bear druid, bow enchantress, low resist necro, bear necro.
Healer Pally. Amazing for 2v2 PvP and okish in PvE areas with lots of undead. It was extremely rare to see one back in the day.
cleric paladin? that's my build XD
I wonder if Blizzard ever anticipated that no one would ever go healer pally. I've always thought about making one. Also I think he has a role in fighting Ubers
I remember when I pretty much had all of the main builds down, I started to branch out into the more obscure ones. Poison wolf druid, frenzy/throw barb, ice arrow zon, poison necro....I wanted to do an auradin but never got around to it
Poison necros - very fun class. While leveling, you may want to be a summon necro until you get enough skill points, then reset via Akara (Act 1 purple bitch in town) around level 40ish. Poison dagger just doesn't cut the mustard in the early goings if you ask me. You'll also want to invest skill points in skeleton and skeleton mastery after you get your poison nova damage up. These are your meat shields and can last in Hell surprisingly well. I avoid the skele mages. They get lost alot and aren't very effective. You'll also want a Clay golem, golem mastery, and summon resist. Fire golems are nice if you can spare the skill points as is Revive.
For high level usage, don't use Trang's full set. The casting rate is bugged (still.) Use the gloves, shield, and belt only. You'll still get the bonus fire spells with only 3 items. The fireball spell is handy for poison immunes. For the armor, you're going to want to sub in a Bramble runeword (Ral + Ohm + Sur + Eth). Bramble has +25-50% To Poison Skill Damage. Plus you get a thorns aura for your minions.
For the helm you'll want to sub in a HC Shako or a rare/crafted Necro circlet. +2 Necro/FCR/Resist all/2OS would be top tier, but this might be one of the top 2 or 3 most expensive items I can think of to trade for.
I like Mara's for the amulet or a rare/crafted amulet. You're looking for +skills, faster cast rate, resists. Rings, use SOJs.
Speaking of resists, this build lacks some of them, so be on the lookout for resist charms, particularly lightning. You can always put an Um rune in your Shako to help as well.
In hell this build has some inability to deal with poison immunes ie Venom Lords in Act4/4th Baal Minion. The skeleton minions help but don't do a lot of damage. That's where your merc comes in. A might merc (Nightmare Act 2 offensive) with good equipment can really help you out here. Obviously the end game is an Eth Infinity (Ber + Mal + Ber + Ist) polearm. I like an Infinity Threster, but again, this item is very expensive. Other good choices are Kelpie Snare, Hone Sundan, Steel Pillar/any elite level unique polearm/spear. There's some good rares out there too. I always pick up and ID rares, even normal level items because you can upgrade them via the Cube later. Some come with crazy mods like +300% Enhanced damage, +60ish to max damage, Increased attack speed, Life leech, etc. But I digress.
For the merc helm, can't get much better than Vampire Gaze. Andariel's Visage/Guillaume's Face (Orphan's Call set helm)/Tal Rasha mask are also very good.
For armor, Shaftstop is a good cheap item. Stone runeword (Shael + Um + Pul + Lum) or a Kraken are a good choice. High end would be a Fortitude runeword (El + Sol + Dol + Lo).
High end poison necros can do 10k+ poison damage, 1k+ damage with skeletons (each), 500ish damage with fireball, plus your golem, merc, etc. Lots of different damage types. Not horrible at dueling most classes either but you'll need Enigma for that.
Thank you guys for 10k views in under 15 hours :) awesomeness!
I'm always surprised to see people still playing this great game. Thank you for breathing new life into a classic for me.
Every time I come back to D2 my first build is a holyshock Pal
One of the most OP builds. Expensive and very reliable version of Zealer.
Dream shield and helmet. Conviction as an active aura, Zeal, Sacrifice (for synergy) and Lightning Resist are maxed (lightning resist WILL synergize with level 30 Holy Shock aura from your equipment). Ideal merc is the act 1 merc with Faith bow equipped, for a Fanaticism aura).
This build will steamroll through p8 hell easily, as the already bullshittery high damage of fully synergized Holy Shock aura is amplified by level 20+ Conviction aura emanating from the character, removing more immunities regular Infinity ever could.
Jah runes are a problem to find, though.
I had a zealadin id break out just for torch runs...meph with his lightening damage was a mofo for most,but not a zealadin lol
Also ran a frenzy barb with a last wish and botd and dracs...could roll through torch runs with him too provided I made sure fanaticism procced before I went in
Way back in the day, I made a melee sorc, completely decked out with highend gear and an Act 2 merc. She was a monster! Very fun build.
I had a fire Sorc that used Hellslayer because you could do cool stuff like that. Lizzie Borden was her name, of course 😁
One of my personal Favorites for an Alt build would have to be a Variant of PvM Fire Casting Druid... A go everywhere Druid with Max Oak Sage, Max Grizzly Bear, Max Volcano, Max Fissue, Max Firestorm, Helm was a Delerium runeword with a +3 Oak Sage, And Enigma Armor with Max level 20 Battle Orders on switch. 2 Bul Kathos Rings for Life. and 20 life Res/Mana small charms with a Point in Lycanthropy and Shapeshift Bear. He would have over 7,000 Life IIRC... the point in Bear form was to cancel out the Delerium transforming proc.
Glad to see there are still people loving this game. I personally have a high interest for oldschool games like diablo, though newer ones have so many better features. These reminds me of my childhood so much!
Zeal/Energy Sorc actually can be built into a crazy DPS character if you actually gear toward Fire Spell Enchant. Used this as a Torch farming build
Playing es chantress at the end of season one d2r. Melts things very quickly, 50k in screen damage and 15k attack rating after buffing. Love the build, unfortunately it takes a long time to build up too.
No Throw Barb ? I do a weird Summon/ Fire Claw Druid and thanks to you I do the Hybrid Bow/ Lightning Javazon .
Do you use the Heart of wolverine for extra damage ? Should i Max it?
Would have loved a bit more détails on each build but overall very nice video thank you !
This channel was one of the biggest influences in getting d2
I knew someone that had a zeal sorc and every time we did chaos runs he’d die from the damage reflect haha
Since 1.13 there is not such curse.
My friend and I use to play pvp duo's he would rock the zeal sorc and I would roll with a warcry barb. Broken and fun as hell
I've built once the holly fire Paladin. It's very strong but also extremely expensive.
I've also built a chain lighting sorc with max points on energy, full mana shield and it's synergy + warmith. The damage wasn't that great but apart of mana burn monsters, she could stay in the middle of any group and still alive.
I've done the bear druid either, but his defense is very strange. The life falls down when you don't expect. It looks like very random damage.
Unfortunately, I never built the throwing axe Barbarian. I guess I just missed this, between builds that I was curious.
I used to have a poison nova bow and java amazon it was so good on 1v1 even necros barely stood a chance
so glad this game is still getting love keep it up man
Wolfhowl barb, shout barb, corpse explosion support druid. Actually there's a couple cool support builds in d2
I used to play alot with the poison nova necro back in The day
I miss my old frenzy barb build from when I played. I used blood pupils, shouts, and filled my inventory with sm 5% faster run walk charms. I think those don't exist anymore. I was owning white ring amazons all day long ;) Soooooooo fast.
Thanks for the builds man, been looking for something new to try out.
We use to do a warcry barb with dual hoto's and dual warcry sticks and wear enigma - go for high fcr/fhr. Teleport to player and warcry/stun them to death. Rinse and repeat.
None of these builds would hold a candle to a proper built kicksin, wolf barb or aura necro.
Back in the day I spent a lot of time playing legit PvP on open bnet
thanks for the video! made me dig out my old copies of d2 and start playing again
The top build of the game is bear summoner Druid. All skill runes/+max skills = a bear that one shots all bosses
IMHO bone necros are much more rares than poison necros... I wonder why bone necro is not more popular? Was pretty popular on past and now, i din't saw a single bone necro on ladder, except myself...
Victor Mf bone necros we're mostly used for pvp but I only ever see summoners. Poisons are rare too
I used to play one ages ago and people started to complain about the sound of the skill lol
Because you cant be a necromancer unless you command the dead. Necromancy 101 my young one.
PH03NIX, when you cast "bone spirit" technically you are creating and controlling a spirit. Also, i was playing as pure bone but decided to respec into some points on revive due the battle net lag... Revived minions are the best as distraction
summoning necros were far more rare then any other simply cause it was viewed as the least optimal tree,so very few people played it.especially when it got to late 90 plus toons. so your all smoking crack.
don't stop making videos about diablo 2 bro you got a sub right here :D
Watching your videos made me want to get back into diablo 2 again.
I think i would choose the fire claw druid since i've always loved to play with the druid.
fireclaw is super powerfull with full ias bp.
Big problem is req so pretty low life for a meta dudu
I made a fire ele druid once, never saw anyone else in my baal runs up to 98.
Most fun ive ever had
Surprised not to see the Singer Barb up there, especially over a Holy Shockadin and PSN necro
I remember in 1.09 using an amazon with windforce bow and a full inventory of 290pdsc just spamming guided arrow and wrecking shop in pvp.
Love making rare/interesting builds in D2!
You built the tesladin wrong. Use a runemaster ettin axe with full light facets, a good jewelers armor with 4 light facets 2x dream runeword. Don't put any points into holy shock, use conviction as your main aura and let the dual dreams give you the 30 Holy shock. The Runemaster will give you the cannot be frozen mod so you can use something better than ravens like a 3 piece angelics set.
You can get 20k damage and 20k attack rating this way.
Better setup for psn necro is trang gloves belt and shield, enigma, death web with 5/5 psn facet, mara, shako with 5/5 psn facet or gg circ, rings can be slotted for preference same with boots. Shits the most gg setup for psnmancers
Pre-watching: Looking forward to seeing how many of these I've played in my thousands of hours.
Ohhhhh Fire Claw. That 6x Shael Phase Blade was the real deal. Gotta get that ethereal 15% enhanced damage superior.
The sorc build was fun.
I hated necro, but the Nova build was pretty good, PvM. Too bad cows were obsolete in favor of Baal runs as of 1.10, when the Nova build became a thing. Moo moo.
I know it's specific, but v1.09 trapper and bone necro were insanely rare in the pvp scene, but also very effective when done right.
Im doing a crossbow enchant sorc right now with probably a zeal switch! Pure fire for now cuse i cant afford dream🙄🤷♂️ bored to play with hammerdin.. this is pretty fun to play! With fire piercing exploding arrows!
A specific team up that I did with a friend that completely carried us through hell hardcore with crap gear. I used throwing Barb with many points in grim ward. He was a bone spear/spirit necromancer with many points in dim vision. Sounds dumb, but dim vision plus grim ward made all acts a cakewalk.
The Fire Claw Druid looks like an interesting build. I haven't played Druid, but I may have to try a Fire Claw build.
Shocker pala is common. Maybe not the high-end net pone, but in single player.
Energy shield is not viable option becaiuse of the Manaburn Bug.
Btw, try Bow Enchantress for fun.
Or if you want a massively rare build, try melee necro.
Posion necro was just fun to play in pvp, but i used poison necro with poison fagger skill, it does around 66k poison damage. So its almost insta kill
One of my favorite builds was the Lightning Nova sorceress with an Ethereal Infinity Scythe for PvP.
noone remembers the Bo-barb? That had a 41 Bo and dealed the most dmg in aoe? :)
Is there a link to the build or video. I remember now Barb's running around back in the day
I´m sorry, but rare?
Yeah maybe the amazon, but the Hybrid with amazon is regular type of playing this character... but I don´t know, I don´t play amazon so much.
The Holy Shock paladin is classic Tesladin and the only reason why many people don´t play it so often is that he need good gear, but I think, that everybody know this build.
Poison Nova Necro... when you want to play some necro without summons, there are two classic options: 1. Bonemancer 2. Poisonmancer
I think that Poisonmancer is more common choice, maybe only reason why your build can be named "rare" is that most of players use skeletons with poison nova.
And fireclaw druid? It´s classic shapeshift build. One of most powerful and most played shapeshifted druid. And for me only build for full aldur set.
(More rare build is Fire Elemental -good fire elemental- druid or hybrid Ele. Anyway, when somebody know how to play hybrid it is the best view in game, I think.
Your sorc is there only rare build for me. I think that there should be builds like WereBear sorc with Beast, or WolfHowl Barb, or WhirlWind Assassin... These builds are really unique and rare.
Are maul druids still around? Phase blade with 6 40/15 jewels made for a hilarious slap fight in pvp
The bow and jav amazon hybrid just feels really good to play
Poison nova necro is rare? Damn. Back in my days (around 2004-2005) poison nova was pretty much the most common build for them
Probably second to Summancer but yeah it was pretty common.
fire claw and zeal sorc may actually be forgotten (most melee sorcs i know of prefer werebear, especially for übers), but poisonmancer and shock paladins are just ridiculous. there's ppl running around every (second) ladder.
m'avina's itself is seldom sought after but still in use. your hybrid build i never heard of.
well, it depends how long you play during a ladder. i for one stick around the whole six months. may differ for the realms too. i play on europe.
The daggerzon, blade fury Assassin and bow Assassin are rare too, maybe you can test this builds
Rare as in "hard to build" or rare as in "they struggle on hell, just build hammerdin"?
I made the first enchant bear sorc, joke build but fun to play
I loved this game in the early 2000s. I spent many, many nights leveling up my barb, but that was a long time ago. Do people still play this game? Is there really still an active community for this game?
They do , theres alot of people playing atm as the ladder has just been reset
anyone know how i can play again? i have lost all my cd keys unfortunately but would love to play this again
ok yeah i havent seen most of these builds, but they may be interesting enough to try
Xtimus your content has helped so much Thank You!!!
Nice. Holy shock zealot was my favorite build.
Where is the build guide for the sorcerer build??
I prefer the vine/crow Druid build but to each there own
very nice XD, can you make a guide for fury druid??
i think poison nova is most common of those.
I had a werebarb with an eth botd maul.hit for 19k.fun dude to play and I only saw another one once or twice
I love Poison Nova Necros. I used to have one when Bnet was still halfway decent and not a bot infested dung heap. I forget when items I used...Bramble armor I think? Never heard of a Zeal Dorc but it sounds badass
the last ladder was cleared of bots and d2jsp it was pretty good for 3 months but i believe it is still relatively clean and players started crying because of prices going up lol
Rigaldo good. I was hardcore addicted to D2 for a good decade but it got to the point where actual human players were basically nonexistent in hell mode. I may actually get back into it whenever ladder resets.
Well im from Europe and the ladder was dope if you are from the USA its even better theres more people more communities and actually there are few active streamers that create groups for ladder resets and some more groups to actually farm gear/xp.I didnt play much this ladder but it was funny when half of the sorcs were so bad because they couldnt even create/farm baseline gear hope the next ladder reset is also clean for some more fun.
wheres build sorc on bear?
or barb on wolf?
The menu music omg never gets old lol and where's Poison Dagger Necro lol and while maybe not as rare but hydra sorc
I used to have a elemental zealer and a pzn nova necro. Good times.
Rift Sins are awesome and never seen
I made a warewolf druid that could do 14k dmg. He had a ethereal zoded hellslayer as his weapon.
i havnt seen a firewall wizard for way too long nowadays
I wonder what ult will you preffer on Cain in HOTS . hmm
Is there a difference between the hybrid zon and a fishyzon or are they the same thing?
remember when people could glitch auradins
Chan hitting those stacks in the trade screen? Good times
Chan omg those were the best way to make a whole PvP lobby rage. The Fohdin is almost as fun.
What was the glitch? I don't remember.
you kept trading accepting with a full inventory so it rests your gear but didn't lose the affects of the runeword powered auras lol
Chan, could you stack the effects? :O
Holy Shock Paladin VS Smiter. Who wins? What is the better all around build?
not even a mention of the kick assassin... IMO one the most unique, undervalued, underplayed, funnest builds in D2. healer pally?...
Holy crap I haven't played regular LOD since 2008. It's been 100% Median mod since then - Median XL which then became Median Ultimative and now Median 2017. It is a total Diablo II revamp with its core feature being a total skill tree replacement, as well as over 30 endgame "uber" quests.
I gotta reinstall it...second person in the past week thats mentioned how much median has changed.
pnb necro was my uber toon
No war cry barb? Yea he uses a shit ton of mana but nothings better than stun locking enemies with a max fcr warcry
I absolutely love poisonmancer - it was my main build back 12-13 years ago and was always running it as my main in different mods I tried. Here is how my final version looked like (keep in mind that page is over 11 years old and I was playing 1.10 back then :) )
gjar-po.sk/~tovarnak3c/zkuste/nekro.html
for merc equipment
gjar-po.sk/~tovarnak3c/zkuste/merc.html
I love my healing paladin!
Nice builds bro u should try with trap/kick sin
Wait... no healer pali... thats my fav hc pali build atm
I am starting to feel i was the only one who realized and used Thorns Aura and Conversion Paladin... Really I could destroy everything just with those two alone.
It was pretty potent at one point. Then Blizzard said, "We don't want the Paladin played that way" and nuked the build.
You forgot the rarest of all, the CE mojomancer :P
Melee sorc was my favorite to mess with
Zeal spec looks amazing. Is it a good solo spec
Well the Holy Shock pally is really rare one for sure also it's the best melee build for pally (also it's better to use Archer with the runeword bot gives fanaticism). But Poison Necro as rare really? Well maybe cuz there not so much players but back then i've soo many of em also you can use summomning skills along with poison. The fireclaw build doesnt make sense just random useless build. Hybrid amazon, i just dont get why the Javazon is OP by itself, it can kill everything in a second and if something lighting immune infinity breaks it then takes maybe 3-4 secs.
And in the end i've never seen that kind of melee sorc, it looks fun.
I made a summon druid once the 5 spirit wolves were killing everything, really expensive build.
I expected Poison Dagger Necromancer. That dude can literally 1hit hell Baal.
Only if you're using hero editor. Lol
Yeah I remember the shoka beast... that was damn fun to play x)
I usually played a poison necro/summoner hybrid if I played one.
20 Poison Dagger
20 Poison Explosion
20 Poison Nova
20 Raise Skeleton
20 Skeleton Mastery
1 Clay
1 Golem Mastery
1 Summon Resist
And of course 1 in all curses for Amp, Dep and Lower Resist. Skeletons do up to 10-20k damage per second if character is twinked and they won't die as fast as most assume since they last awhile. Untwinked though yeah it doesn't do as great as other classes and they will die too fast to be worth it otherwise so unless twinked not worth doing in my opinion unless you like farming.
Been a long time since I played though maybe 14+ years but got into it again recently so sucks having to start over.
I hardly see fohers or ww sins use to be everywhere also poison nova necro are pretty common along with fire claw and lightning zealer mainly pvp rarely ya see these builds pvm lol
Hey I have the masta dexs hero editor and want to know how to get all items in game is there an item pack that I can down load?