A good 2/2, 3/1 wand, or better, is not hard to come by.Ĭhipped gems - I love chipped gems for no twink chars. You can find these by shopping, adria sells some really nice stuff right from the get-go (although money will be hard in the early stages). You don't need any +skills through normal and nightmare, this helps as it gives you plenty of time to have fun both learning your build, and enjoying some fo the coolest and oft-overlooked item creation avenues you have: The horadric cube, crafts, gambling and plain old shopping. Your emphasis will be on +skills and +resistfe gear and, perhaps surprisingly, you can get a reasonably high level on these without having to twink. The summoner is definitely a good first character, a good defensive character with very impressive killing power. There are also alot of gaps here, as I've tried to gloss over areas on which I could write a thesis (mainly on good utilisation of bowazon skills in various battlefield scenarios), I suggest you read around - but also just play, alot of these things will start to come naturally and also strike you as even more obvious than they have already :) I shall concentrate on the characters you asked about for now though, as this is bound to be long-winded as-is.Īpologies in advance if alot of this is obvious to you, though if at least one person can take away something they hadn't considered before then I consider this post worthwhile. Let's not forget that some of the other classes have some potent skill-based attacks though, or have strengths outside the raw killing power of their weapon (or other equipment). Sorceresses and Necromancers being the main examples of this. So you are right to be thinking along the lines of characters which emphasise skill power over item power. You'll find items along the way, but not necessarily for the character you are playing of course. Most character builds can survive happily though normal, nightmare and the early parts of hell without any sort of twinking.
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I'd put this down, in part, to the 'uber item culture' and the decision made by most of to rush characters to the worldstone keep and sit doing baal runs for experience, thereby squandering the opportunity to learn how to use the skills which will be crucial to survival in hell.
People throw around the words 'suck' and 'viable' with reckless abandon these days I'm afraid.