Multiple Questions from a new player

[Alamara]

1) Some of the posts on this forum and elsewhere on the site talk about level 35 or higher warriors. How do you get that high? I am stuck just starting dungeon level 13 (more on that in another question below) and am a level 20 in both games. I can't believe that I am going to get a whole lot more levels in trying to finish the game.

As someone else said, multiplayer mode enables Nightmare and Hell difficulties. It's basically the same game, but it becomes much more challenging, especially for a warrior. What you play in single player is called "Normal" difficulty. Be wary, though, because there's no save game feature, and when you die all of your items just fall to the ground for you to recover. It's a process, sometimes. Basically you lure them away from your stuff and die again on purpose until it's clear. That's what I do with a warrior, anyway. -.-

2)What can I do about the Snow Witches? I just started on dungeon level 13 and these pale babes with blue thongs and wings are shooting blue balls of something at me that just kill me. I am getting drubbed time after time. Is there some strategy or whatever? There are way too many to just wade in and club while using healing scrolls, spells, and potions...I think.

Basic strategy is simple exploitation of the witches AI. As I'm sure you've noticed, they tend to follow you once you "activate" them. Simply run around a corner, get a few to shoot at you, and run back to the other side. You can stand immediately around the corner and simply use shift+attack to kill the monsters.

3) Does anyone else use the ground near the Town Portal location as a storage dump? I've got that area littered with stuff I want to keep but don't want to carry...extra armor with various special properties, scrolls, potions, magic rings, staffs, books I can't read yet, weapons, gold, etc.

In single player, yes. Be careful to pick up anything you might want before killing Diablo, however. If you don't do so, the items on the ground will be lost when you want to play another game. There are ways to use a bug to allow you to play single player in Nightmare and Hell difficulty, but you will need a level 20 or level 30 in multiplayer, respective to the difficulty, to do so.