Maozedong

Maozedong is my bowazon. She’s the first character of this install. I used to play with an assassin with my cousins on the last install. Anyway, this character started on D2 classic and I eventually moved her over to LoD. She’s the most advanced and she’s survived quite well, despite a few wasted skills and attribute points when I had no idea what I was doing. I don’t even know how she made it past Travincal in Nightmare.

Khan

Khan is my frenzy barbarian. He’s the first barbarian I’ve tried to play and he did quite well through normal. He’s pretty fast moving with frenzy, and with frenzied double-swing, his attack is lightning. He does some pretty decent damage and can mow through things in normal. On the other hand, he has some pathetic defence, something I’ve tried to remedy recently by switching to a defiant merc from Lut Gholein. Unfortunately, he gets hit like crazy in nightmare and dies too easily.

Telamon

Telamon is my defiant paladin. It’s a general misconception that paladins are boring to play. I know I believed that before. I guess it has something to do with the aura taking up the right-click skill. Anyway, Telamon is one of my favourite characters because he has such beefy defence and never gets hit. I’ve had an awesome time running him through all the way to Act IV so far. Basically, all of his points have gone into Defiance and Holy Shield, which now yields about a 500% increase in defence. His attack’s on the weak side, but that’s what the merc is for.

Exdetah

Exdetah is a bone and curse necromancer. I didn’t really want to play a summoning necro because it felt kinda boring. I wanted to try something new, and those curses were quite intriguing, so I went with bone and curses. The thing about curses is that they’re extremely useful with just one point in them. There really isn’t any reason at all to invest more than one point in each curse. So you can just have all of the curses and invest your points into other things.

I chose to invest my points into bone spells instead of summons. Because of the way bone spells synergize, you can have some very powerful bone spells at higher levels. In fact, for Bone Armor, it’s better to synergize than waste points in Bone Armor because the bonus is actually more. So when you put a point into, say, Bone Wall, it increases your Bone Armor and the damage on Bone Spear.

Now that my character has enough mana without running dry after a few casts, I can cast a curse (I like Confuse, it causes enemies to attack each other, diverting attacks away from your party), throw a few Bone Spears around, and Corpse Explode the rest. Yes, this character had a really hard time in Act I, but he’s survived quite niecly through Act II. He was able to go through the Claw Viper Temple without dying, something my melee characters couldn’t do.

The End

And so there you have it. I’m definitely installing D2 on my Macbook when I get it. Yes, I’ve settled on getting a Macbook.