04-01-2003, 12:23 AM
Background:
I origionally started playing Diablo II a long while back, but I quit before Lord of Destruction ever came out. Recently my girlfriend has been dying for a game we could play side by side and we decided to crack open Diablo II again. The biggest problem with this is Battle.net play and the fact I play on a 56k dialup. Not pretty for Diablo. But I can get used to it, it just takes some forethought into character creation. So that's what I wanted to ask the boards about. Using your experiance of Lord of Destruction, what kind of character builds have you found to be extremely lag resistant?
A Lag Resistant Build:
20 Hurricane
20 Dire Wolves
20 Grizzly Bear
I was thinking of using at least +5-10 druid skill items, which would give me an average level of Oak Sage and Cyclone Armor. The Summons I hope will provide a meat shield against some of the lag and dish out damage in moments where I am hanging. I want my summons to be very strong, hence the high amount of Dire and Grizzly. The Hurricane I want to use as passive no attention damage that will keep getting dealt while I am lagging, and a support for my summoned minions in the chill to prolong their life and speed the kills along.
I have no idea what Merc to use, or gear, since I've not played LOD. I would love suggestions and critiques on the build!And I would love to hear about any builds you forum goes have that you think would resist lag! I would hate for my Battle.net experiance to come down to a single character =P Thankyou ahead of time!
I origionally started playing Diablo II a long while back, but I quit before Lord of Destruction ever came out. Recently my girlfriend has been dying for a game we could play side by side and we decided to crack open Diablo II again. The biggest problem with this is Battle.net play and the fact I play on a 56k dialup. Not pretty for Diablo. But I can get used to it, it just takes some forethought into character creation. So that's what I wanted to ask the boards about. Using your experiance of Lord of Destruction, what kind of character builds have you found to be extremely lag resistant?
A Lag Resistant Build:
20 Hurricane
20 Dire Wolves
20 Grizzly Bear
I was thinking of using at least +5-10 druid skill items, which would give me an average level of Oak Sage and Cyclone Armor. The Summons I hope will provide a meat shield against some of the lag and dish out damage in moments where I am hanging. I want my summons to be very strong, hence the high amount of Dire and Grizzly. The Hurricane I want to use as passive no attention damage that will keep getting dealt while I am lagging, and a support for my summoned minions in the chill to prolong their life and speed the kills along.
I have no idea what Merc to use, or gear, since I've not played LOD. I would love suggestions and critiques on the build!And I would love to hear about any builds you forum goes have that you think would resist lag! I would hate for my Battle.net experiance to come down to a single character =P Thankyou ahead of time!