I'm an untwinked Paladin level 60. I just beat Baal on Nightmare. I play Solo and have a lvl 60 act2 merc (freeze aura).
I have about 900 HP, 200 armor, 30% block chance and 75 all res in NM w/o aura.
My hammers deal about 1700 damage each with the damage aura and my merc hits for like 1400 max with the damage aura.
In Hell my resistances are about 10-25 each which is not enough. I can fix that by imbueing a paladin shield and putting 4 perfect gems in it i guess.
Leveling?
I can't run cowruns on Nightmare as I just lack a little damage and they kill me in 4-6 hits. I can't level in act 5 on bloodruns or throne runs because the creatures there are random and some of them are just WAY to nasty to safely level. Some extra strong spear cats for example can almost instant kill me. Where can I level?
I ain't gonna do Hell before I reach lvl 70-75.
MF-ing?
I need better gear. But running Andariel NM seems to be the only safe place to do some MF. I tried Pindle on NM but his minions sometimes hit me for 30% of my total hp. As if they crit me or something. Usually they almost do nothing very strange (he does not have the extra strong attribute then).
What is the recommended class to beat hardcore solo/untwinked?|||Build a fishymancer. Hands down the easiest character to get through hardcore. A little tough in the wormhole but elsewhere, like the ancients, he rules.|||Thanks gonna try that one|||I must say that this fishymancer is very very slow tough. Killing in Nightmare takes forever with skeletons. The corpse explo helps to speed things up a little. I recast amp damage all the time and use a might aura merc. Still soooo slow.|||Do you not have Holy Shield?
You should defiantly have 75% block with, what looks like, a hammerdin. Hardcore, untwinked, 75% block is achievable by a long shot.
Rhyme Runeword in a 2os bone shield from normal act 2 drogan provides a nice base block with (ithink) 25% res all.
You can actually run normal andy for some Nagal and Mandal rings. Try Normal Meph and Baal a few times if you do not feel comfortable running NM Andy or NM Meph. Lo, you will not get great items and no one recommends running them for MF purposes, but, running the normal bosses will yield you a few nice things that can and will help you on your journey.
You may be able to make Smoke Armor r/w. 40% res all I believe. guide to running Countess
You also might want to up your armor some. 200 is pretty low for a 'melee/caster.' <Since, you're pretty much in the frail of things being a hammerdin>
(Are you BNET?) If so, just join some baal games or w/e if you want, but you did say you play solo, so, you could just do some normal questing again through NM. Just do some act1-5ish runs or smthn like that. Run the caves and what nots for a change of scenery. Pop the magical chests for some *Hopefully* goodies.
Anyways, GLHF!
(Edit: Why is this in the Trade Forum?)
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What is the recommended class to beat hardcore solo/untwinked?
Any build! Hammerdin's can beat HC solo/untwinked quite easily. Any class can and will with some time and patients. I know this doesn't really answer your question, but there are some stickies in the HardCore forum (Strategy section) and the Single Player Forum that state some recommended builds for starting out and building wealth.
Here's one specifically for BNET. By Socialism: Hardcore Orb/TK Blind-Teleporting Budget MF Sorceress|||Well, running hardcore solo ain't that easy. The random mobs on Nightmare act5 and such can be very very nasty sometimes and those bone exploding dolls are the worst. They deal like 300-400 damage each? When a hammer accidentally hits 2 of those near me i could be screwed.
Yes I got holy shield.
I have to run through every act myself since i play solo so no act-skipping and such. I fear act 3 hell the most actually. Council, Gloams, Dolls, flamethrowers...argh
Countess seems like a good idea. Baal runs and andy runs in nightmare don't seem to drop anything useful. Maybe rune words are the way to go. Gonna try some nm countess runs
Sorc class is not gonna happen. She is way to weak.|||just found out that runewords like spirit do not work on singleplayer... So running countess is useless|||Quote:
just found out that runewords like spirit do not work on singleplayer... So running countess is useless
You just need the Rune Word Mod (RWM) - it's a forum accepted mod which allows you to make ladder only rune words in Single Player:
Link Stickied in the Single Player Forum. Check it out (RWM is in the Game Modifications section, about half way down the first post).
And if you want to level the hammeradin, I say do NM Meph runs, or NM Baal runs. NM Meph can drop OK items and offers OK experience for a bit (especially if you are playing single player and you can up the /players setting). And NM Baal can also drop decent items, plus his minions (and the walk to the throne room) can offer decent experience. Just watch out for dolls on the way to NM Meph, and watch out for dolls & gloams on the way to NM Baal.
The game is kind of designed to become more difficult as you progress... so by the time you reach Act 4/5 NM you won't find any "easy" experience (especially not with an untwinked character). You just have to improve your skill and play carefully.
-hps
P.s. Untwinked Hammeradins in solo play suck, imho. Proof.
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