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is the hardest part of the game. The guys swarm you and you can run, but the waypoint is in a central location and the paths are small. Try to clean out as much as possible. If you can, clean out everything. You will at least gain some levels. The summoner is somewhere in the level. Find him and kill him. He is EASY. The guys in the level are harder than him.
All he does is curse you. Kill him and read the diary. The Canyon of the
Magi portal appears. Go in when you are ready. This is easier than the
Arcane Sanctuary. Go in all the tombs for max items, gold, and experience. Don't forget to clear out the Canyon of the Magi first. In
Tal Rasha's true Tomb, put the Horadric Staff in the glowing altar thingy and it blows the wall open. If you were using the Horadric Staff, get a new (GOOD) weapon because the boss is on the other side of the wall. Make sure you cleaned out the Tomb and enter the wall. Duriel slows you down after a few seconds with a freeze aura but you can still move. He is strong and fast if you are slowed. He is still not that hard. Hack him up and enter the next room. THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS ROOM except Tyrael.
Talk to him. Go to town and talk to everyone. Do your stuff and talk to
Meshif. He will take you to....
ACT 3:
Waypoints: Kurast Docks, Spider forest, Great Marsh, Flayer Jungle, Lower
Kurast, Kurast Bazaar, Upper Kurast, Travincal, and The Durance of Hate
Level 2.
Welcome to glorious (joke) Kurast. Well, you still get the docks right?
RIGHT? No. OK. Talk to everyone and buy new stuff. You should not have any quests yet so don't worry. Hratli is the blacksmith, Cain is back,
Ormus sells scrolls, potions, and staves, Alkor sells potions only and gambles, and Asheara lets you hire people who are good and sells stuff.
First off I recommend hiring a person who casts cold magic from Asheara.
The wildernesses in this area are huge so don't get killed too much. Kill off the short guys first and take out the shaman second because the shaman doesn't really resurrect them too much. Now leave town. The "Dark
Wanderer" will walk a little and disappear. Kill the demons. Now explore the Spider forest. Along your way, you should find a statuette off a guy you killed. Pick it up and go back to Cain. Give it to Meshif and give
Alkor the Golden bird. Talk to Alkor again and you get 20 permanent life points. Now talk to Cain and Hratli. You should get two more quests. Do your business in town and finish exploring the Spider forest. Explore the dungeons. One will have Khalim's eye in it. Get it and finish exploring the Spider forest. Don't forget the waypoint. Next, Clear out the Great
Marsh. Explore any dungeons and go to the Flayer Jungle. Clear it out and explore the dungeons. Somewhere along the way, you should find the Blade for your second quest. In one of the dungeons, there is Khalim's brain.
Don't forget that as well. Next, go to the Lower Kurast. Clear it out.
Explore ALL the temples. If you don't find the book, don't worry. Go to the Kurast Bazaar. Clear it out and explore ALL the temples. You should find the black book. If not look in the Lower Kurast and the Kurast
Bazaar temples harder. If you still didn't find it, get it later and explore the sewers. Get Khalim's heart and leave. Explore Upper Kurast.
Look in ALL the temples. If you still didn't find the black book, look in
Lower Kurast and the Bazaar again. If you did not find the black book, I can't help you. Next, go to the Travincal. Kill off the council members and get the flail. Destroy the Compelling Orb with the Transmuted Flail.
Go through the Durance of Hate killing everything. On the third level,
Mephisto waits. I actually thought he was harder than Diablo. Look out for Mephisto's white sphere thing. It hurts BAD. Sometimes it kills you in one shot. The trick is to stay at hand to hand combat because that is where Mephisto is weak. He will poison you yes. Don't worry. Keep slicing. If you run out of potions go to town and get more. Come back down and keep slicing. He will die eventually and you will get his soulstone and a bunch of other stuff. Go to town and do your business.
Talk to everyone. Go back down and clear out the rest of the place. Go through the Portal to Hell to get to....
ACT 4:
Waypoints: The Pandemonium Fortress, City of the Damned, and the River of
Flame
OK. This is the last Act. Small. Buy your stuff and talk to Cain and
Tyrael. First 2 quests. Leave and explore the place. Kill off everything and move on the Plains of Despair. Kill everything and fight Izual. Talk to him when he dies. Next, go to the City of the Damned. Kill everything and go to the River of Flame. Kill everything. Good luck on the Smith.
His strength is really high. He killed my guy in two hits!!! Get the hammer off him and go to town. Identify it and get Mephisto's soulstone.
Go to the Hellforge and put the stone and the altar. Smash it with the hammer. Now get all the gems. Go to the Angel guarding the single path that says that this is the way to Diablo. Go through the path. Kill
EVERYTHING on the path. Get to the end and you should be in the Chaos
Sanctuary. The mages are a big pain. Try to kill them first. When you get to a big Star, go left and kill everything. Open the seal(s) and go right. Kill everything and open the seal(s). Finally, go up and kill everything. Open the seal(s). When you open a seal, there should be more guys. Only 3 seals do this. The reason you want to open the top one last is because the guys up there are harder than the others. If you did the other seals first, then all you have to do is kill the aura enchanted, thief, ect. mage. After killing the guys, Diablo will appear in the center. Don't get scared. He's kinda easy. Just look out for his red lightning. After killing him, you have 70 seconds to do whatever. Do your level up if you have one first. Then, get the stuff and go to town.
Identify everything and sell if you still have time. On to Nightmare
Difficulty. (I died 10 times on Duriel in nightmare)! The difficulties don't change the quests or my walkthru above. Advice: DON'T DIE. I'm serious! It's NOT healthy...
(.5.)Character Help:
Having problems with your character? Dying too much? Can't find out what to get for your guy? Look no farther. The section of the FAQ will help you begin your game. The best type of armor (Ornate Armor) requires 170 strength. You can't get it until nightmare difficulty or level 25 so build strength early on. My level 16 Barbarian has strength up to 100.
Good luck...
Amazon: One of the easiest classes. She's best with spears and bows. I think bows are better but it's your choice. You should get armor that is pretty strong as well since you will be using two-handed weapons a lot.
You can do pretty much whatever you want on skills. Dodge and avoid are very good and I recommend raising those as high as possible. You have to build your skills depending on what you are using. With spears, Jab is my favorite skill. It will speed up attacks with pikes and lances. With bows, it depends on what the enemies' magical resistances are. You should work on multiple shot as well. Guided arrow is probably my favorite bow spell. Build that up too. A good amazon will kill guys in PvP (player vs. player) that are 20 levels higher or maybe even better. The deadliest class in dueling.
Barbarian: I think this one is the easiest. Just get a weapon and possibly a shield and go kill things. Armor is not immediate, but it will help. Two-handed weapons are good and two weapons are even better if they are both good. Skills are your choice mostly. Some good ones are whirlwind, the masteries, double swing, find potion, find item, and howl.
Whirlwind is THE best skill a barbarian gets. Upgrade it to 20 ASAP. Howl will keep the enemies away if you are surrounded. Great spell. The masteries are great if you build them up high enough. Double swing will make your attacks very strong with two weapons. Bash is OK if you build it up high enough as well but leap attack is better in my opinion. You will not usually use skills with him but they are there when you need them. Barbarians are the third best PvP class. Whirlwind annihilates many players at once and it takes them out in one hit. He isn't too great against an amazon or a sorceress because they use long range attacks.
Necromancer: The hardest to make effectively. With this guy, don't get two-handed weapons until way later. Defense is what you need. Work mainly on defense. Get a good one-handed weapon. On your skills, DON'T BUILD UP
TEETH. Build up corpse explosion, golem and golem mastery, bone spear, bone armor, bone spirit, and poison nova. Corpse explosion will clear out crowds. Kill a guy and use the spell on his corpse. It damages nearby enemies with 60 - 100 percent of the corpse's life. Use it on advanced guys for the max damage. Golems will save you a lot. Build these up until you can get iron golem. Then fire golem. Bone spear is great. It passes through your target and hits another behind it and it passes through him and so on. Good for making corpses for corpse explosion. Bone armor will save your life time and time again. Upgrade it a lot. Bone spirit is great on bosses but it only attacks single enemies. Use bone spear on enemies in groups and bone spirit on single guys. Poison nova is good for getting rid of the guys around you. Upgrade that a lot also. I did this guy without curses but its your choice. Curses are OK. Decrepify will slow enemies so you can run. Amplify Damage is pretty good and so is Iron
Maiden. Use them a lot. Necromancers are the worst duelers. They die from pretty much any class. The only spell good in dueling is bone spirit, but an amazon will make that useless with her ability to slow projectiles.
Paladin: If you can't do this guy right, you need help. He is very easy to do and a good help for multiplayer games. Just get a good weapon and good armor and you are set. He is even good with a bow. Skills are pretty easy also. Try to build up on the resistances, might, blessed aim, prayer, zeal, and fanaticism. The resistances will help the enemies' fire, lightning, or cold damage stay low. However, you should just wait until you can get Salvation. Might raises your damage dealt. Blessed aim allows you to hit guys easier. Prayer will help you if you have time to regenerate your life. Zeal kills a lot of guys with one "swing."
Fanaticism increases attack speed. Need I see more? Couple zeal and fanaticism and you are one really bad guy. Your partners will also like you better while you are using fanaticism or concentration. I will let you decide what to do with your skills. It won't make too much of a difference except in multiplayer. In PvP, a paladin is forth best in my book. He can be third and take out barbarians, but when they leap, thorns doesn't work. Using concentration and blessed hammer is the best combination of skills for a paladin. He can take out anyone close enough to him. Long range is where they perish. Anything that shoots at you will kill you in PvP.
Sorceress: Hard off the start but it gets easier. She is great with staves and can use OK armor. Get a staff that raises your skill points or raises your resistances. Try to run a lot if you are having trouble.
Skill points should be put into teleport, frozen armor, shiver armor, chilling armor, glacial spike, fireball, hydra, the masteries, frozen orb, and fire spells. Teleport saves your butt plenty of times but you only need one skill point there. The cold armor spells freeze enemies that hit you. Great for melee and even ranged combat. Glacial spike freezes multiple enemies. Great for running. Fireball hurts if upgraded high enough but fire wall does massive damage when upgraded to level 28.
Hydra will help a lot but not as much as some of the other spells. The masteries help keep your damage up and the lightning spells help keep you away from danger. You should not build up on firebolt. Only put one point there so you can get fireball. Charged bolt isn't the best ether. Put no more than 3 points there. Frost nova and lightning nova aren't the best spells ether. Fire spells do the most damage anyways. Get them high on levels. Frozen orb is the spell of choice for cold sorceresses. It will kill fast and freeze everything in range. Try to focus on only one area of spells. I would prefer fire or ice. Lightning just doesn't do anything for damage. Fire does more damage but cold freezes enemies. Fire wall does up to 1000 damage per second on level 28 I think. When dueling, a good sorceress will be very good at killing other players at any level, but it fails to a good amazon unless you hit that amazon first.
All Characters: Don't try to level off your stats. Try to pour points in strength and dexterity. Once in a while, put points on vitality. Energy is almost never needed but put points there only if you are a sorceress or really REALLY need mana. Like I said before, you need 170 strength to use the best armor. You can't use it by leveling off your stats. Another hint is to gamble. It may be expensive but it pays off. If you are looking for a set, go on the internet and look for the items you need. If what you need is a sabre, gamble on sabres. It's almost the only way to get full sets in single player (not trading with other people). I think that a gambler has 1 or 2 unique, rare, or set items that he hides with all of his other worthless things on the gambling screen. Sometimes you will get lucky and find a unique item. It's well worth the gold when you get something you want. If you don't know what to gamble on, try amulets or rings. If you decide to gamble on rings, know that you probably will not get a Stone of Jordan without Nagelring and Manald Heal. BE VERY
CAREFUL ON YOUR STATS AND HOW MANY LEVELS YOU HAVE WHEN YOU ADVANCE
ACTS!!! I completely messed up a perfectly good necromancer because I sent him to act 4 nightmare on level 33 (he killed diablo in nightmare too!!!) and now I can't get him to make levels. Make as many levels as nesscessary before moving on. When playing multiplayer, don't leave your teammates alone or make weaklings play the front line with necromancers or sorceresses. That's poor management. The Barbarian (or Paladin) should be at the front line ahead of EVERYONE else. Paladin second. Then, spellcasters and Amazons. Another thing, when you have a necromancer in your party, try not to turn everything into ice cubes. The necro needs corpses. With a sorceress and a necro, try to make the sorceress use fire instead of cold. Fire does the most damage. Without a necro but you have a sorceress, let the sorceress use cold. It benefits everyone in the party except necros.
Monster's levels depending on difficulty:
Nightmare: +30 levels
Hell: +50 levels
Ex: level 1 monster in normal = level 31 monster in nightmare and level
51 monster in hell
Levels you should be around if you explored everything:
Normal: After Act 1: around level 15 (doesn't really matter)
After Act 2: around level 22 or 23 (again doesn't really matter)
After Act 3: around level 25 to 28 (kinda matters)
Nightmare: Before starting: level 30 (27 with good (GOOD) stuff (matters))
After Act 1: level 33 (matters)
After Act 2: level 36 to 38 (matters greatly)
After Act 3: level 41 to 43 (matters greatly)
Hell: Before starting: level 50 (matters greatly)
Through Hell, it doesn't matter much on levels since you will finish the game after killing diablo. You can kill him on level 50 and you've still completed the game. But, if you really need it, I'll give more average levels.
After Act 1: level 53
After Act 2: level 55 to 57
After Act 3: level 61 to 62
After Act 4: level 63 or higher
Note for above and below: This is single player. Not multiplayer.
Here is a little trick for you guys who die a lot (open characters only): copy the entire contents of the Diablo 2 save directory to a backup directory. When you die, you can reload the backup to your Diablo 2 save directory. Now, you will never lose experience in the harder difficulties. Be sure to backup your files after every successful game.
Be warned, if you found a keepable item(s) and you died before backing up your guy, don't restore the guy unless he dies a million more times or you will lose that item(s). This also works with Battle.net open characters. You can give away an item(s), leave, restore your guy, and then get the item(s) from the guy you were just trading with. Then,