10-10-2005, 01:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-10-2005, 01:24 PM by Little Faith.)
Hmm, it's nice you are not hell-bent on making a Paladin since I think a Barbarian is more suited to the play style you like.
See, barbarians have the Warcry skilltab, which is almost completely made up of what I would call "support magic". We have the awesome Battle Orders that increases your and your party members' life and mana by a significant degree. We have Shout that increases defense in the same manner. We have Howl and Taunt which can be used to attract or scare away enemies. We have Battlecry that weakens the enemies, Battle Command that increases peoples' skill points (by one) and finally Warcry which stuns enemies for a short period.
Barbarians even has a sort of pseudo-teleport in form of Leap and Leap Attack.
There are a lot of viable barbarian builds these days. Berserkers, Whirlwinders, Frenzybarbs throwbarbs and Concentraters are all viable and popular.
Regarding good Diablo 2 strategy forums I would recommend these two:
DiabloII.net forums
While there are a quite a bit of Bnet kids here and the admins got some strange policies it is one of the most active Diablo 2 forums in existence and has a lot of of really talented and helpful members. Poke around in the character subforums and you should be sure to find several good character guides and other information.
The Amazon Basin Diablo 2 forums
These are not quite as active and popular but are really good and really friendly. The Lurker Lounge and Amazon Basin have a quite friendly relationship to each other.
See, barbarians have the Warcry skilltab, which is almost completely made up of what I would call "support magic". We have the awesome Battle Orders that increases your and your party members' life and mana by a significant degree. We have Shout that increases defense in the same manner. We have Howl and Taunt which can be used to attract or scare away enemies. We have Battlecry that weakens the enemies, Battle Command that increases peoples' skill points (by one) and finally Warcry which stuns enemies for a short period.
Barbarians even has a sort of pseudo-teleport in form of Leap and Leap Attack.
There are a lot of viable barbarian builds these days. Berserkers, Whirlwinders, Frenzybarbs throwbarbs and Concentraters are all viable and popular.
Regarding good Diablo 2 strategy forums I would recommend these two:
DiabloII.net forums
While there are a quite a bit of Bnet kids here and the admins got some strange policies it is one of the most active Diablo 2 forums in existence and has a lot of of really talented and helpful members. Poke around in the character subforums and you should be sure to find several good character guides and other information.
The Amazon Basin Diablo 2 forums
These are not quite as active and popular but are really good and really friendly. The Lurker Lounge and Amazon Basin have a quite friendly relationship to each other.