Baal, Lord of the Cheese?

[WarBlade]

Enyway, the real threat from diablo is the flame river in the first place, eny char........2 secs...........

Not really. For one thing the characters gear can top it. A couple of 15 MDR items will mostly cover your bet in Hell with the right shield to help catch the bleed through. Rising Sun can handle it alone.

If not, then meleeing allows you to exploit the givaway animation that D uses for that attack and one other - Just break off and zip around to the other side before the lethal hammer falls. The fire is deadly, but slow to commence and sticks to one direction for each shot.

The real problem with that attack is when you are stuck out in the middle of nowhere and invisible fire swats your character down from out of nowhere . . . :(