Which Class to Play?

[Jeutie]

 

[Xian]

Here are the Classes i have played in all Diablo Games
D1- Warrior
D2- Barbarian
D3 (I want to play barb) - Barbarian

 

[Jeutie]

I voted myself Barbarian, i always loved warrior and wear huge armors and things like that.

 

[Xian]

I voted myself Barbarian, i always loved warrior and wear huge armors and things like that.

My Ratings:
Barbarian - 100/100 -the most perfect class for me
Witch Doctor - 75/100 - Good Quality of Spells and AoE Damage per second
Wizard - 50/100 - Just Average, i dont like teleport users,it ruins the game just like in D2,when they have teleport,they own
Demon Hunter - 45/100 - Assasins,Lol dont like them because theres no hack and slash
Monk - 95/100 - Awesome Remake of The Paladin
Please Respect My Review Its Just my Opinion

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Necromancer and MASS SKELETONS!

 

[Jeutie]

The other classes looks boring, my opinion.

 

[Skycraft]

I'm gonna get one of each character probably, because tbh I can't choose.
In Diablo 2 I mainly used the Druid.

 

[Xian]

In Diablo 2 I mainly used the Druid.

Then What did you use before the expansion came out?

 

[Skycraft]

Before the expansion I used all characters, I had no favorites.

 

[Dr Super Good]

The most cool classes are wizzard, monk and demon hunter.
All 3 of them look epic in both male and female forms and all 3 of them are epic in what they do.

Witch doctor is sort of cool but his crap taste ruins him. So little style compared to the necromancer in D2. I would only ever play him if I have 1 of each class or if they permit a decent set of gear which loses the piercings.

Barbarian just looks... retarded... Sorry but the hoards of hell will not be shivering to someone who stands like a gorilla.

My first character will probably be a male wizzard. The vayne solidor look is my sort of style.

 

[Xian]

The most cool classes are wizzard, monk and demon hunter.
All 3 of them look epic in both male and female forms and all 3 of them are epic in what they do.

Witch doctor is sort of cool but his crap taste ruins him. So little style compared to the necromancer in D2. I would only ever play him if I have 1 of each class or if they permit a decent set of gear which loses the piercings.

Barbarian just looks... retarded... Sorry but the hoards of hell will not be shivering to someone who stands like a gorilla.

My first character will probably be a male wizzard. The vayne solidor look is my sort of style.

LOL me and jeutie are still the only ones who voted

Heres what D3 characters look like
Barbarian (Male)- An Albino Gorilla
Barbarian (Female)-Dunno
Wizard (Male) - Fire Lord Ozai FTW
Wizard (Female) - Dunno
Monk (Male) - Aang as an Adult?
Monk (Female) - P!nk (WTF)
Witch Doctor (Male) -Well duh
Witch Doctor (Female) -My Great Great Grandmother Wearing a mask
Demon Hunter - Well i cant say anything

 

[Adiktuz]

D2 - necro, druid, amazon

I only played as druid for a bit, then necro but It seems a bit weak solo for me, since it took me a while to finish the game using my necro but when I used amazon, it was a lot easier...

D3 - I like to try them all, but maybe with emphasis on Monk,WD and DH as they are new to the series... if ever, I'll probably play first using DH

 

[Xian]

Demon Hunter - 45/100 - Assasins,Lol dont like them because theres no hack and slash

I rated 45 because,yeah its cool but assasin,magic type classes are not the type of characters that i like, i like the brute epic Skull bashing gameplay!

 

[fladdermasken]

My best characters in Diablo II were auradin, zealadin/1p smiter, summoning necro and whirlwind barb. Character-wise I've always favored the necro as I like the narcissistic wiseguy-aspect with a man who can invoke and control dark magic.

So naturally I will play witch doctor in Diablo III. I was sold the second the narrator mentioned a wall of zombies.

 

[Adiktuz]

I would most probably play in this order

DH->Monk->WD->Wiz->Barb

I love playing with those ranged classes, and I really loved the DH's videos... ^_^

While Monk is a class which I really liked on games which has it...

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Is there somewhere some kind of ability list?

 

[Xian]

Poor Monk...

 

[Aeroblyctos]

And what about summons? Does any of those have summons? I love summons, especially when you have an army of summons.

 

[Xian]

And what about summons? Does any of those have summons? I love summons, especially when you have an army of summons.

theres a rumor that the witch doctor can summon a gargantuan
think thats real?
Gargantuan you know the beast?

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Ahh, pathetic.

 

[Skycraft]

Witch Doctor has summons.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Gargantuan you know the beast?

Too bad that is a D2 creature. D3 will probably have a lot more impressive creature for that.

The witch doctor has tons of summons, from ghosts to slime. I have a feeling every ability of the witch doctor can be made to summon creatures if you socket the right ruins.

Do keep in mind that the Blizzard studio developing D3 is nowhere near as retarded as Blizzard North who made D2. They will likly make individual summons a lot more powerful but not allow you to summon stupidly large numbers of them like D2.

We all know how in D2 8 necromancers all summoning their 60 odd units in 1 game instance would be instant game boot outside of LAN.

 

[Xian]

Too bad that is a D2 creature. D3 will probably have a lot more impressive creature for that.

The witch doctor has tons of summons, from ghosts to slime. I have a feeling every ability of the witch doctor can be made to summon creatures if you socket the right ruins.

Do keep in mind that the Blizzard studio developing D3 is nowhere near as retarded as Blizzard North who made D2. They will likly make individual summons a lot more powerful but not allow you to summon stupidly large numbers of them like D2.

We all know how in D2 8 necromancers all summoning their 60 odd units in 1 game instance would be instant game boot outside of LAN.

They can easily nerf creatures up!
I was saying gargantuan as tier 1 skill,if you use sorc. you easily get half life when you fight a gargantuan.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I was saying gargantuan as tier 1 skill,if you use sorc. you easily get half life when you fight a gargantuan.

tier 1 skill? Sorc? Umm if you are refering to D2 you must really play badly to let such a crap creature maul you to half life. On normal they are so lame that you can melee them while on nightmare and hell you can just blast them with your high damage abilities (immunities might effect some builds effectiveness but a decent merc can kill them in that case).

In D3, I think all abilities are useful all game, thus there are no ability tiers, only more or less improved abilties (or improved in a certain way).

 

[Edhel-dur]

Most likely Barb, but I always end up picking the assassin type character at the last moment.

 

[Xian]

tier 1 skill? Sorc? Umm if you are refering to D2 you must really play badly to let such a crap creature maul you to half life. On normal they are so lame that you can melee them while on nightmare and hell you can just blast them with your high damage abilities (immunities might effect some builds effectiveness but a decent merc can kill them in that case).

In D3, I think all abilities are useful all game, thus there are no ability tiers, only more or less improved abilties (or improved in a certain way).

You are right,i really suck at sorceress,but my friends use sorceress always
Anyway MONK... WTF

 

[Adiktuz]

I like the D2 sorc too, unless on the last difficulty as a lot of monsters have magic immunities... haha... That's one thing I like about amazon, she has both physical and magical attacks...

Can't wait to play as a DH...

 

[fladdermasken]

I like the D2 sorc too, unless on the last difficulty as a lot of monsters have magic immunities...

With conviction aura from infinity you can pierce at least lightning immunity, in case you're a light sorc.

But really, each class is affected by resitances and monsters with specific immunities. A merc with infinity should be able to pierce lightning, necro curses (lower resist and amplify damage) should be able to pierce fire, poison and physical and as for cold immunity; that resistance really is a bitch to pierce.

There are specific values for each type of resistance, but I don't really remember them.

 

[Gorb]

And what about summons? Does any of those have summons? I love summons, especially when you have an army of summons.

Me too, speaking of summons, I have like 13 or something summons when I use my Necro in DII.

My fave class

 

[Dr Super Good]

For the sorc in D2...
Lightning has the most immune breaks in D2 if paired with conviction or lower resistance.
Ice was the most powerful though. As long as the enemy was not immune to ice, it was garunteed to give them -100% resistance, including the few number of enemies which could be resistance broken. This means that no mater how strong the enemy is, a decent blizzard could near instantly destroy them where as even a really strong lightning could take many many hits (made worse by its near total damage spread).

The Hammerdin likewise deals stupid damage to most units it can hit (-magic res to undead). Luckilly now it no longer breaks immunities so can not hit every unit in the game but 2 and also I think does not deal extra to demons.

 

[fladdermasken]

In essence, DSG's post pretty much emphasizes why hammerdins and sorcs are ideal intro-characters.
Plus sorcs has the splendid perk of being able to teleport without enigma if you're just starting out and can't afford one ^{[even though like every tutorial discourages this for some apparent reason]}

Start out with a lightning sorc, get your hands on a couple Tal'Rasha set-items and equip your merc with insight - you'll have a fine start, guaranteed.

Ice was the most powerful though. As long as the enemy was not immune to ice, it was garunteed to give them -100% resistance, including the few number of enemies which could be resistance broken.This means that no mater how strong the enemy is, a decent blizzard could near instantly destroy them where as even a really strong lightning could take many many hits (made worse by its near total damage spread).

Ice (assuming you generally speak of blizzard and frozen orb sorcs) had its perks, but cold immunity could really get my knickers in a twist. It was virtually impossible to pierce, even cold mastery + infinity wouldn't do the trick.

 

[Xian]

For the sorc in D2...
Lightning has the most immune breaks in D2 if paired with conviction or lower resistance.
Ice was the most powerful though. As long as the enemy was not immune to ice, it was garunteed to give them -100% resistance, including the few number of enemies which could be resistance broken. This means that no mater how strong the enemy is, a decent blizzard could near instantly destroy them where as even a really strong lightning could take many many hits (made worse by its near total damage spread).

The Hammerdin likewise deals stupid damage to most units it can hit (-magic res to undead). Luckilly now it no longer breaks immunities so can not hit every unit in the game but 2 and also I think does not deal extra to demons.

Thanks for some D2 Combos,i dont know these because i just hack and a=slash with my barb

 

[Dr Super Good]

I never could get a good barbarian in D2.

Poor resiliance to taking damage and low damage output made the barbarian feel prety usless. Against large mobs, even multi hit moves like whirlwind dealt poor damage compared to sorcs or hammerdins. Against single targets a smiter dealt seriously more damage (high CB and fast speed) and has much more resistance (shield with 2 frame block and high defense due to HS). The shout buffs were good to provide support, but that does not give you any kills. Additionally MFing that extra gear from courpses other people kill can make it a reasonable MFer but this is greatly reduced due to every killer class going holy frost A2 mercs or courpse destructive builds.

Ofcourse if you are talking a barbarian with stuff like grief phaseblades, BotD beserker axes or other stupidly strong ruin words like fortitude then obviously it will kill stuff. Infact with gear like that even a melee built necromancer would kill stuff well. Even still, sorcresses and palidins can hit that effectiveness without half that value in gear.

 

[Xian]

I never could get a good barbarian in D2.

Poor resiliance to taking damage and low damage output made the barbarian feel prety usless. Against large mobs, even multi hit moves like whirlwind dealt poor damage compared to sorcs or hammerdins. Against single targets a smiter dealt seriously more damage (high CB and fast speed) and has much more resistance (shield with 2 frame block and high defense due to HS). The shout buffs were good to provide support, but that does not give you any kills. Additionally MFing that extra gear from courpses other people kill can make it a reasonable MFer but this is greatly reduced due to every killer class going holy frost A2 mercs or courpse destructive builds.

Ofcourse if you are talking a barbarian with stuff like grief phaseblades, BotD beserker axes or other stupidly strong ruin words like fortitude then obviously it will kill stuff. Infact with gear like that even a melee built necromancer would kill stuff well. Even still, sorcresses and palidins can hit that effectiveness without half that value in gear.

Im more of a frenzy barb
Plus whirlwind is weak at first level
Frenzy is strong at first level
When i get stuck in a legion,i just click and click non-stop,using whirlwhind will get you in bigger trouble

 

[Dr Super Good]

When i get stuck in a legion,i just click and click non-stop

And how do you not die? I mean sure I can do that at nightmare level no problem but nightmare is lame. In hell, if I get surrounded I will be seeing the death screen in 1 - 2 seconds. I was using 2 lightsabers on a frenzy barb with torch and reasonable gear (no HR stuff as HRs only cheaters or bankers can afford). Past act 1 in hell everything became near impossible.

 

[Xian]

And how do you not die? I mean sure I can do that at nightmare level no problem but nightmare is lame. In hell, if I get surrounded I will be seeing the death screen in 1 - 2 seconds. I was using 2 lightsabers on a frenzy barb with torch and reasonable gear (no HR stuff as HRs only cheaters or bankers can afford). Past act 1 in hell everything became near impossible.

As in stuck in a wall just click and click until you kill em all while using potions
youll get powerful enough when the battle is halfway done because frenzy stacks

 

[Dr Super Good]

Yes but "kill them all" takes minutes (especially against stone skined) due to low dps output. I was dealing about 2-3K each weapon swing. Each swing was reasonably fast due to frenzy and phaseblades. Remember the resistance to physical though so that is only 2000 damage odd a hit (some is elemental from gear).

Lets compare it to a blizzard sorc. Blizzard can be easilly made to deal 2-3K damage (with good gear it approaches above 10K). But any enemy it effects gets -100% frost rez so that already is 6K damage per shard from blizzard. Blizzards have AoE, stack and many shards hit per cast. On top of that you have range so can dump on them from safety (so no dolls or fire enhanced to concern yourself about).

A smiter on the other hand also does better. 2-3K base damage, maximum block of 75% with 2 frame block from HS. High resistance. Attacks 4-6 times a second garunteed (unlike barb which rolls attack). Huge crushing blow chance.

Maybe if you use dracul gloves to lifetap them constantly you can survive (I lacked those but in the presense of life tap I did have nearly no problem surviving) but that does not address the stupidly low DPS.

A amazon can deal 12K lightning damage to almost all units on screen 1-2 times a second at a range. She can also charge bolt bosses for >100K damage a hit, which basically kills even hell bosses on high players in a few hits.

Yes if you get a barb with grief phaseblades and fortitude main armor you are doing 12K damage a hit odd and max attack speed. But sorcresses, pallidins and amazons can all deal a lot higher DPS for that same gear and in the case of the pallidin survive much better as well.

As far as durability goes, I admit that barb is worthy of second. High health and good resistance abilities. But the pallidin is greatly ahead of it. Inorder to deal damage at a decent rate you need a 2H weapon which means no block at all (only defense to rely on absorbing hits). If you go concentration attack move and use a shield, you fix the defense problem and have max block but greatly comprimise your low killing power and the block takes a good part of a second. On the other hand a pallidins have the best shields in the game (huge +all res and defense) and the holy shield skill which not only boosts defense further but also gives a 2 frame block rate (free block equivently). They also boast a huge selection of damaging skills that only need 1H like smite (where holy shield is maxed for insane defense and a fast attack weapon used for insane smite speed) or blessed hammer which deals stupidly high magical damage in a reasonable area (magical has mostly 0 resistance to it).

Yes a barb for the most parts is doable, but it just is nowhere near as good as other builds. I have never heard of any sucess stories of someone only playing a barb and getting anywhere in D2 (unless friend gives them stuff which does not count).

 

[StormWarriors2]

Wizard the Wizard looks badass. and the Mercs look f---ing awesome

 

[Gausslander]

I love the monk, really.
I want to travel through deserts wearing nothing but a robe and fighting demons with my bare hands.

 

[lumine99]

I'll play Demon Hunter and Wizard... they look pretty awesome... played the WC3 version.. I love them..

 

[Jeutie]

I'll play Demon Hunter and Wizard... they look pretty awesome... played the WC3 version.. I love them..

Demon hunter is pretty awesome. But i prefer barbarian

 

[NearbyHermit]

Necromancer ... wait ?

Probably Demon Hunter or Monk, since they remind of the old Assassin .

 

[Gilles]

Definitely Monk and Witch Doctor. I'm disappointed with the Demon Hunters skills.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

I liked my assasins quik attack speed in D2 so i thought i was going Demon Hunter but as it turns out Monk is more of a melee guy and has those claw-weapon things so i will go with Monk.

No idea what i played before, i remember choosing the Amazon the first time i ever played. After that maybe Barbarian sometime and i also finished the game with a druid highly depending on wolf form and such.

 

[Direfury]

Depending on the playstyle, I'll probably play Barbarian or Monk. There's just something FUN about Diablo games and rushing into extremely large groups with no plans whatsoever.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Barbarian.

Because I'm a violent sociopath.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Male Wizard. He has such a relaxed attitude and used forbidden magic.

 

[MortAr]

Wizard, like a baws.

 

[Latecat]

Male demon hunter.

Because I am a white knight in a shinning armor.

Also, female wizard - though I dislike her massive ego.

 

[DESTROYER123]

I think that the Barbarian is the best because he is furious and destroys everything in his path.I got him level 43.