Diablo II: Resurrected
Diablo 2 has been one of my favourite games since it was released. 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 D2 was of course the release of Diablo II: Resurrected in 2021. I picked it up for Nintendo Switch—what could be better than portable DII!?—feeling excited to get back into it. A small part of me 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 builds that I enjoy playing the most 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