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(Seperately posted to agd)
Finally got around to seriously playing some D2 last night after playing
around with a couple of characters off and on, and thought that I would ask
in here for some advice.
I am starting out with a barbarian, because it looks like, to my
inexperienced eye at least, that it offers the opportunity for going
through the game without managing toggles or anything like that. Only
walking and killing.
Here is the style that I am looking to play: The closest thing I could
cpompare it to is a "tank" from a MMORPG. Walks in, hits things and they
die.
I am up to L8 so far, and have been splitting my skill points between Bash
and Weapon Mastery (axe). I am debating getting the double weapon skill,
but am currently leaning away from that. From looking at the info that the
Skills screen gives me, I can see that there is a nice link (synergy is the
term I think) between Bash and Stun, so once I get to the right level, I
will be putting points in there. IIRC, Stun also gets duration from one of
the war cries. Is it worth putting more than one or two points in the war
cryto increase the duration of the stun?? What would be a useful length of
time for a stun??
Where should I be putting the 5 stat points I get every level?? I have been
focussing on Strength and Vitality, and every other level putting a couple
points into either Dexterity or Energy.
For those of you that have barbarians, and use a build something like this,
is Bash your only attack, and you use that every time, or do you use the
normal attack and save bash for nasty enemies?
Finally, and this is a stupid question, how do you set a hotkey? I have
looked, but I don't know if it is something that I missed, or if was just
brain-dead the day that I looked.
PS: Is there any etiquette for making agd (or agd2) games on the server? I
was the one that made themlast night between 8ish and 10ish (EST).
--
Marcel
(Seperately posted to agd)
Finally got around to seriously playing some D2 last night after playing
around with a couple of characters off and on, and thought that I would ask
in here for some advice.
I am starting out with a barbarian, because it looks like, to my
inexperienced eye at least, that it offers the opportunity for going
through the game without managing toggles or anything like that. Only
walking and killing.
Here is the style that I am looking to play: The closest thing I could
cpompare it to is a "tank" from a MMORPG. Walks in, hits things and they
die.
I am up to L8 so far, and have been splitting my skill points between Bash
and Weapon Mastery (axe). I am debating getting the double weapon skill,
but am currently leaning away from that. From looking at the info that the
Skills screen gives me, I can see that there is a nice link (synergy is the
term I think) between Bash and Stun, so once I get to the right level, I
will be putting points in there. IIRC, Stun also gets duration from one of
the war cries. Is it worth putting more than one or two points in the war
cryto increase the duration of the stun?? What would be a useful length of
time for a stun??
Where should I be putting the 5 stat points I get every level?? I have been
focussing on Strength and Vitality, and every other level putting a couple
points into either Dexterity or Energy.
For those of you that have barbarians, and use a build something like this,
is Bash your only attack, and you use that every time, or do you use the
normal attack and save bash for nasty enemies?
Finally, and this is a stupid question, how do you set a hotkey? I have
looked, but I don't know if it is something that I missed, or if was just
brain-dead the day that I looked.
PS: Is there any etiquette for making agd (or agd2) games on the server? I
was the one that made themlast night between 8ish and 10ish (EST).
--
Marcel
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