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NemesisOne
26-08-2007, 08:40
I've only played through Diablo 2 once, that was in two player coop with an Amazon together with a Sorceress... Not on hardcore and only through the Normal difficulty... But for some reason I got inspired by reading about the game, so I decided to design my own team of characters for a four player coop run through the game on hardcore... Let's see if you experienced players think it would work! =)

The theme of the party is that each character should be a summoner, who relies on his/her conjurations while skirmishing the enemies from a distance:

-The Necromancer is the one who is using the corpses of enemies the most, relying on his skeletons' killing power
-The Amazon, on the other hand, uses her decoy and valkyrie for tanking
-The Druid will probalby use the grizzly the most of the time, as its lack of crowd control is balanced by that of the other summonings and because it doesn't eat up corpses
-The Assassin, having summoing that has only a mere shadow (pun intended) of the other creations' strength acts as a support by also summoning traps

I think these are the pros of my team setup:

-You don't only get one (or more) summoning per player, the summonings also have their hitpoints multiplied by the number of players
-The four characters are very safe behind their summonings and should therefore be able to offer support and take out monsters with physical immunities without really risking their own lives
-Each player won't only get summonings, but also mercenaries which can give the summoned force four different auras!
-Should work pretty good untwinked, I think
-An additional grizzly summoning druid would give even better stunning crowd control while a paladin could strenghten the auras further

So what do you think?? Any improvements that you suggest?? Is there any big weakness I am overlooking?? Please tell!

EDIT:

DAMN! I put the thread in the trading forum, could you please move it to the normal hardcore forum??

EDIT 2:

I designed this team build for friends to play on LAN or private internet games, the summoners can easily fall prey to player killers, I think

inanefedaykin
26-08-2007, 13:27
I've seen all these builds make it through hell in hardcore.

Darken Wolf
26-08-2007, 16:54
they can make it through the game, but like you said they would easily be pk'd any time even if they were together. Good luck to you though it will take some time and a lot of patience.

waflob
27-08-2007, 10:16
A summoner necro is one of the safest chars available. A summoner druid can make it all the way through to the end of NM without any major problems. In hell, there are more physical immunes, but your necro will be able to break most of these with amplify damage.

A trapper only has problems with lite immunes, but with your skeletons, no worries there. A zon will provide a great tank and can add ranged damage as well.

You should be able to manage and finish hell with this team.

DelBoy