D’uh, I just figured it out.
You’re a level 48 character in Act 5/NM. 80% (don’t quote me on that) of to-hit is attributed to your character level vs. the monster’s level.
Do some leveling up, and you’ll be fine.
My barbs, zons, and sorceresses are usually halfway through Hell by the time they hit 48. Hell, my Beariza Druid was in Act3 of hell by this point. I know it’s like comparing apples to bugs, comparing barbs and zons to necros, but I’m impatient… 
Wait you have barbs, zons in hell at lvl48? woah…
I play any and all chars to a minimum of lvl65 till they go and beat baal in NM. lvl70 is usually what I end up doing tho. I think you should play longer in NM, it’s a lot more fun when you can actually kill things there than in hell difficulty.
And for a melee necro, are you adamant on keeping with the Polearm? and have you placed all your skill points to not make a Dagger Necro using Poison Dagger skill? That adds AR and poison damage but only works with a Dagger class weapon.
And for AR, if you need some AR, why not hire a blessed aim merc in ACT2 offensive norm/hell? Oh wait, i remember talking to you about mercs and how you didn’t really think you needed them. Well this merc can actually help, or even a might merc to up your dmg (not AR) which is found in ACT2 offensive NM.
My DaggerNecro uses a cruel legend spike with 9%LL on it, and socketed with 2 shael runes or a blackbog’s sharp.
Gloves: venomgrip or frostburns
Belt: string of ears
boots: infernostride
shield: Homunculus or a 1.08 viscertuant
armor: LIONHEART wirefleece (def 515)
a rare dual leech ring: 7%ML, 4%LL, and 33 Lightning Resist.
a rare mana leech ring: 7%ML, ColdRes 36, LightRes 40, PoisonRes 46
a crafted amulet: +1necroskills, 10%r/w,4%LL, +20life, all res +14
a rare circlet: +2 necroskills, 8%LL, 42Life, all res +12 but Lightres is more at 51.
skillswise, i maxed poison nova, Lower Resist Curse, poison dagger. and points in some summoning skills for a meat shield or two to go with my might merc.
Stats wise, i think i have about 120ish str, 100ish dex, and the rest in vitality. none in energy. He’s currently lvl67 and just got into hell difficulty. And man have I not played him in a long time. His killing prowess is considerably bad in Hell, sometimes i need my merc to do the job, and boy do i hate just standing there watching my merc do a slow job hehe.
Once again, I need to tell you that mercs can do a lot of help. They have bad AI but, hey what harm is one more meat shield ? Act1 mercs have the best AI, and can do decent dmg. Act2 mercs are ideal since they can actually help with auras. Act3 mercs are great for elemental dmg backup. Act5 mercs are great tanks to take sh!tloads of dmg…
ah well, i can’t tell you to use mercs, you just need to find out their usefulness on your own.
More like apples to apple-flavored candy! The thing with barbs and zons is their huge AR bonuses in Penetrate, Mastery bugs, high dex for zons, giant AR on barb skills. Sorcs have mostly autohit skills, so that’s not a problem, either.
Madawc, would it ease your heart to hear that I had my 1.07 zon and barb in Hell by level 50?
Ok, I’ll give a merc a shot Madawc
Getting my guys in hell early is a fault, one that I learned is fatal in Hardcore. They die, but in softcore you get to come on back and try again. And admittedly, I mule good stuff to my chars so they can usually kill things even though they’re a bit low level for the act. My necro can hold his own against the normal guys in act 5 of nm, even in games with 4 or 5 other players. But a low hit % will undoubtedly be quite fatal in battles against bosses.
My javazon is up to lvl 67 now and can kill things in Hell quite easily now, and when I bring her into a NM game, never even needs a potion normally. Of course have a Titan’s helps a lot. I’ve found I love Fend now. I think I have her up to lvl 18 in Fend, so I don’t go nuts when I hit a Lightning immune boss.
Munch whatever gets you going is fine. I used to allow chars go to hell early too, but that was in the classic days for the imbue quest hehe.
in 1.07 single player, you don’t have the Players X option so that’s quite reasonable too. I’m pretty sure you had a tough time going thru hell tho. well, not quite as easy as normal, or nightmare. But Nightmare is still hard too. Isn’t there some sort of bugged physical resistance in NM? If i remember playin on 1.08 on closed realm, some monsters are stoneskin or physically immune even when they didn’t list it as a resistance. Like those mages in act3 durance3. 1.07 is really quite buggy so I’d rather not revert back to that patch. those killer crafts are nice, overpowered charms, bugged number of sockets, and the cool 1.07/1.08 items like vampgaze are all not worth me reverting back to the past.
Well, I think you guys got me drooling to play some d2 a bit again. I’ll be on right now hehe.
GFrazier on the Bnet forums gave some actual information on the 1.10 patch. There are going to be 100 new unique items. Still no word on when it’ll be out.
http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.aspx?ForumName=d2-general&ThreadID=92370&PageNo=1
Long thread…
There was another thread where he spoke about a Tiara for barbarians too…
(guess: unique?)
Forgive me but I cant find it and too lazy to keep looking…
All I have to say is that Easter Sun is the shit. It’s totaly reenergised my playing DII, hell, Kwejibo and I have been possesed lately. I hope the 1.10 patch can do the same.
hehe I’m glad it’s got you revitalized.
It kinda wore off on me, it numerous changes made there was too much for me. Too intense. I’m too used to playing D2 1.09d and Eastern Sun is way different.
If you guys want a nice mod that adds crafts, runewords, and all Elite Uniques (no class-specifics) try the Sanctuary Reborn Mod. It is the mod that i’m playing right now. It may actually be the closest to being 1.10 in my opinion. Well I hope it is, this mod is actually quite decent and doesn’t go to massive changes like Eastern Sun. Try it, you may be surprised with it, less is more.
oh, yea, i need to give a link for that mod…
http://students.washington.edu/akrinke/sanctuary/index.html
a full list of runewords, new uniques and craft recipe and cube recipes are located there too. Great mod in my opinion. the stash is still the same size tho lol.
Just got me a Windforce Bow. I can’t believe the difference between it and my buriza. I really hope it ain’t a dupe that gets deleted. (small hope if 1.10 deletes dupes)
how you get it? by trade?
Id’ed or Unid’ed?
there are a lot of questions I could ask, but I wouldn’t use it in a public game if you are afraid if it’s a dupe.
The dupe scanner will delete all but one of the exact same item that’s in the game. The first one out with a dupe copy gets to keep theirs.
I highly doubt that 1.10 will do any dupe cleaning at all. I’m thinking 60/40 that they keep the messed up closed realms as is. The only difference is the fact that they’ll add closed Ladder. This will be like playing on a totally clean and legit realm. If they hadn’t announced Ladder, I would think the dupes would be eliminated, but because they’re making a Ladder, the dupes are going to stay. Let’s just say that Blizzard found an easier way to deal with all the duped / hacked items than to pore through countless numbers of accounts and chars to delete dupes.
see you online…
Yeah, traded 3 7% and 8 6% mf charms. It was already id’d and socketed. I’m going to use it, if it’s a dupe, then it’s gone. but it’s senseless to have it and have it go to waste.
Help!
I’ve just had a system crash and my best Sorcy has become corrupt. Most of my items are backed up, luckily, but I forgot to back up my Peasant Crown and my Goldwrap. Is there anyone present who has these items - I don’t know if they have to be on an SP character - and would be willing to make and send the .d2i files to me so I can restore the character? (The Archangel’s Glowing Orb of Something and the Memory staff I’ll just have to do without. That’s life.)
This is a genuine request for backups, not for duping; I only play SP anyway, so have nothing to prove with my mighty stash.
(Pre-Baal) Hell Diablo was dead and buried by my necro by level 50, using items found along the way. It was actually kind of bad finishing it that quickly as i only got 1-2 levelups in hell itself.
skeleton mastery, bone spririt, fire golems and revive all the way! (+skeletons +mages +1-2 amp damage…)
All you need is run-fast boots and 1 kill.
(Post-Baal) Baal at 65 - damn physical immune crazythings.
Serious. Easiest class ever.
I still have the bow, no delete yet…
I’m hoping that the reason I got it so cheap was because whoever socketed it screwed up. I can see putting a lot of different things in a wf, but why would you want +15% mana regen???
Enhanced damage? Sure.
Faster Attack speed? Why not?
Hell, mana leech I can kind of see in a real bind, but what’s in there is ridiculous. Oh, well… still the best bow I have…
Evil Death, I can help out. I have v.07 of each of those - the Goldwrap is the same, I’m not sure about the PC. Just e-mail me your address, and I should have them to you by tomorrow.
Thanks, done. I can recreate most of the rest of the character with editing, though I’ll probably just start a new Sorc and build around the equipment.
On the up side, I was bumming through the Arcane Sanctuary on NM and found Ichorsting, AKA the Baby Buriza. It’s not as good as Endlesshail, which is my Bowazon’s primary weapon, but it’s so much fun for taking on individuals. I can’t wait to get my hands on a real Buriza.
Evil Death those items you are in need of are .07’s?
If not i can send you .09’s. Name an item and I’ll try to find it in my countless number of exports lol. I always thought Hellcast was the baby Buriza (they have the same graphics). I personally like using bows on a zon for the speed and look.
http://www.d2tradingpost.com/scripts/browse.asp
check there if they have what you need. It’s a list of .d2i’s. A large list in fact.
Who_me? I don’t think the modifier on it is 15%mana regen, it’s -25% target def no? That is if an ETH rune is in it. That rune is currently bugged and should help quite a bit when PvM’ing and PvP’ing. I would have never chucked an ETH rune in a WF but it’s better than a cruddy EL rune right? lol.
Yayayah I think we all can get chars thru hell quick, but ideally you want to try and lvl as much as you can in the other difficulties. When the monster out level you by a lot, you are penalized by a huge amount of exp per kill. And I’m pretty sure you wizzed through to hell baal by playing solo and set at “players 1”. Type “players 8” in a single player game in any 1.09 patched game and see the difference in the monsters’ health and exp given per kill. Oh and that’s typed without the quotation marks.
Hellcast uses the same graphics, but Ichorsting - with a similar Dex boost and lesser Pierce - is closer to the Buriza as a weapon.
Munch is laying me on to what I need, but if what he sends me doesn’t work I’ll get back to you.
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Thanks for the info, but I’d rather find the items myself. I may try to upgrade my Athena’s Wrath to a perfect (+3 skills) if they have one, but that’s about it.