my favourite characters in Diablo II: Resurrected
Diablo 2 has been one of my favourite games since day one. You have no idea how many hours I put into Diablo II and Diablo II Lord of Destruction in high school and college! 😂
In the 2010's, I took an extended break from Diablo II... but this game always sucks me back in eventually.
The event that got me back into it was the release of Diablo II: Resurrected in 2021. I picked it up for Nintendo Switch—what could be better than portable DII!?—keen to get back into it. There was a part of me that wondered if it was a waste of money. Maybe I'd play a handful of hours and then forget about it? (That's all that ever happened the couple of times I tried to get into Diablo III, for example.) Fortunately—or unfortunately for my free time and other hobbies—that was not the case and I fell in love with the game all over again.
This page has a list of my favourite characters that I have slowly built up in DII:R. Here are a few notes to keep in mind about all of these characters:
- I only play offline single player. No online, no items acquired via trading, no help from other people while questing. It's all me.
- As I play on console, I'm not able to use muling tools or add-ons like GoMule.
- I mostly play softcore, not hardcore; however, I have been dipping my toes more and more into HC lately.
- I generally don't play single pass or untwinked characters. I'm at 24 Partriarchs/Matriarchs and counting in DII:R, and I've found so many good items that it would be a shame to not using them with new characters!
- I don't like and don't use 'Enigma'. I am also mostly anti-'Infinity', but I've made an exception for a certain character to use 'Infinity'.
- I love the addition of Terror Zones in DII:R and I play them a lot! I also make liberal use of the /playersX setting while questing and farming to tailer the difficulty level.
the characters
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- artemia the Multiple Shot / Guided Arrow Bowazon
- sonus the Plague Javelin / Lightning Fury Javazon
assassin
- dee the Bladesin
- twirlybird the 'Chaos' Whirlwind Assassin
barbarian
druid
- howlinwolf the Summoning Druid
necromancer
paladin
sorceress
- fira the Fire Ball / Meteor / Hydra Sorceress
- nova the Nova / Energy Shield Sorceress
- sparky the Demon Machine Enchantress
- tuyet the Blizzard Sorceress