gear for low leveling

[HegemonKhan]

BEST: ravenclaw+chant+IAS gear

1. ravenclaw+chant+IAS gear (20% IAS twitch, 30% IAS sig/death gloves or 20% IAS iratha gloves, 10% IAS goldwrap) (but clvl 15 req).

2. if u do NOT have access to chant and/or ravenclaw, than for melee, use: CC (civerb cudgel. clvl 9 req) and use gnasher/rixot keen (clvl 2 req) until clvl 9 for CC or use blood cresent (? clvl req, though) until clvl 9 for CC, full hsarus, sig hat + sig gloves, angelic rings + angelic amulet.

this set up gives some really nice bonuses.

CC gives +dmg/clvl. sig hat gives +AR/clvl. sig gloves give u 30% IAS, 10% LL, and +10 str. twitch gives 20% IAS, 20% IBC, 20% FHR, +10 str, and +10 dex. full hsarus gives CBF and other minor stuff. hsarus belt gives +def/clvl. hsarus shield gives +AR/clvl. hasurs boots give 20% FR and 20% FWR. angelic amulet and rings give +AR/clvl PER ring and +75 life and +10 dex.

3. full sigs is nice for defense in normal difficulty (but has high str req!! NOT an option for non/low str characters/builds) + CC (civerb cudgel) + angelic rings and angelic amulet. use gnasher/rixot keen (clvl 2 req) until clvl 9 for CC or use blood cresent (? clvl req, though) until clvl 9 for CC

4. full isenhart (warlock contribution)

5. full berserker (warlock contribution)

6. full angelic

7. full iratha

8. full cleglaws

9. cathan rings and armor and/or hat. gives 12% LL total, +20 str total, and decent fire damage.

10. full arctic is good for ranged characters/builds (but has high str and dex req). (clvl 2 req only). (fledgling contribution)

11. full vidala is good for ranged characters/builds. (clvl 14 req).
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weapons:

1. CC (civerb cudgel) (mace) (+dmg/clvl) (9 clvl req and 37 ? str req)

2. gnasher (axe) (20% CB and 50% OW) (2 clvl req)

3. rixot keen (sword) (25% CB) (2 clvl req)

4. blood cresent (sword) (33% ? OW) (? clvl req)

5. cleg sword (sword gives +dmg/clvl WITH cleg gloves)

5. khalims flail (transmuted one) (mace) (good mods, very fast, NO clvl req!! u can use at clvl 1!!) (lorg contribution)

6. hellforge hammer (axe? or mace?) (no clvl req! can use at clvl 1) (lorg contribution)

7. any fast and many socketed weapon with correct quality gems in it for your clvl since gem quality changes its clvl req. (traderscope contribution)
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see post #7 (deichsela's) good contribution !!

[WarlockCC]

Strangely enough, full Isenharts is rather smashing from level 8 to 25-ish.
And Bezerkers is rather nice too, starting from level 3 (you'll need some str from somewhere though).

[Lorg]

Hmz one could also assemple the khalims flail. very kicky ias + hefty light dmg and dual leech. Just transfer it to mule before you do act 3 ...

And hellforge hammer ofcourse as it too is usable @ lv 1 with no reqs...

[TraderScope]

How about a club (no reqs. very fast Attack Speed) equipped with 2 perf rubies (+18 fire dmg) for lemental damage? =)

[HegemonKhan]

ah good suggestions, forgot about some of the weapons u mentioned, and ya any full set probably works well for low lvls.

but the ones i mentioned are really powerful/useful. only problem with the full hsarus or full sigs is the shield block speed.

[Lorg]

ah good suggestions, forgot about some of the weapons u mentioned, and ya any full set probably works well for low lvls.

but the ones i mentioned are really powerful/useful. only problem with the full hsarus or full sigs is the shield block speed.

You cannot get better weapon for lvl 1 than assempled khalims flail...

Edit. No level req and flail base speed with 40 ias (IIRC). Lots elemental dmg (enough to kill until u can wield the civerb etc) Range 3 and due the leech you can use bash etc -> more ar dmg. Cant remember thought that did it need some stats or not :)
Atleast hellforge hammer does not tneed and it provides fire dmg + fire res and can be wielded on lv 1 ... Have to check the flail thought

Second edit: Khalim's Will Flail
No lvl req
1-15 Damage
150 Durability
Mace Class
1H 6% Mana stolen per hit
+1-40 Lightning Damage
+40 Attack Rating
Greatly increased attack speed (40 ias)
+150% Damage to Undead
There are the stats for assembled flail from wiki (bit old maybe chanced ?). Could not see wheter it needed stats as regular flail or not...

[deichsela]

Khalim's Will is an excellent low level weapon.
Sigon's requires so much strength. Points are better spent for life, IMO.
Gnasher is incredibly rare.
Blood Crescent Scimitar has almost no damage.


My chant gear by level:
1
Cap with two chipped Amethysts. For the aspiring sorc or necro.
2
Arctic Furs Quilted Armor and Binding Light Belt.
Pelta Lunata Buckler.
3
Felloak Club. For the res.
Hsaru's Iron Heel Chain Boots.
7
+75 Attack Rating Nagelrings.
10
Nokozan Relic Amulet.
13
Res rings (two 25+ fire or cold or light res rings depending on the location).
15
Death's Hand Leather Gloves and Guard Sash.
Cap with two Flawless Amethysts (sorc goes up to 30 str to use RC and Twitch).
Raven Claw Long Bow
16
Twitchthroe Studded Leather.


My non-chant gear by level doesn't change much. Soon as I can, switch to Civerb's Cudgel and Umbral Disk. Angelic Wings and Halo instead of Nokozan and res rings

[HegemonKhan]

despite low damage, if the weapon has CB or OW, it kills really fast/well for low leveling.

updated first post

[deichsela]

"xixot"
ahhhhh.... Rixot's Keen! Fix?

I prefer Skewer of Krintiz's ignore target defense over Blood Crescent's Open Wounds. Low level open woulds simply doesn't do much damage.

11 out of 16 sets mentioned. I'll mention the rest:
Arcanna's: Only useful part for leveling would be armor and it's not as good as Cathan's.
Infernal: Cap and belt gives a boost to res and def.
Milabrega's: Too high of str and lvl for low leveling.
Tancred's helm plus boots gives +10% dmg, +10 res, +10 dex, 30 frw
Vidala's armor is great for that extra dex to use Shard and the boots give 30 frw, plus the armor gives more fire res when another Vidala piece is worn.

Edit:
Given the choice to use any weapons, I would start with Khalim's Will and move to Civerb's Cudgel when possible. Regular monsters are easy enough to kill. Crushing Blow against bosses and uniques is 1/8...
Khalim's Will, 1-15 dmg, +1-40 light dmg, 50% IAS
Civerb's Cudgel 8-36+ damage
Rixot's Keen 9-14 damage, 3.125% CB (bosses and uniques)
Gnasher 5-10 damage, 2.5% CB (bosses and uniques), 50% OW (based on clvl) (if clvl=9, OW=10.9 dmg/sec)

Khalim's Will should be sufficient to kill anything up to getting Civerb's Cudgel.
The Cudgel does double the damage over Rixot. I have a hard time believing that Rixot's 3% CB against Andariel is going to make up the damage difference.
Civerb's Cudgel does nearly twice the damage over Gnasher even considering Open Wounds and has less CB.

[HegemonKhan]

not saying they are better, just that they do work.

tanc set is clvl 20 req

[fledgeling]

arctic set is pretty decent for an amazon, but it requires a lot of strenght and dex

[HegemonKhan]

the problem with ranged gear sets/other uniques (which is why i haven't mentioned them) is that ravenclaw+chant+IAS gear beats them easily.

though, i guess i should, since a ranged character can just as well NOT have access to ravenclaw+chant+IAS gear as melee characters .

[WarlockCC]

Yes and ravenclaw has a levelreq of 15, while arctic has level 2 req.

[HegemonKhan]

updated post #1.

[FireMarshal]

I always liked this combo:

Deaths Glove/Sash
Sigon Helm/Boots
Angelic Rings+Amulet

Oh, and hello! Long time no see =) Thinking about coming back to D2 Classic, and redoing my MF/GF barb. Starting from scratch should be fun lol.