Now I know common “budget” builds that can clear hell solo without any items and it’s fine, but just play at your own pace and gain items, skills, and knowledge as you go.

As a kid I could get through NM pretty easy but always struggled with hell. The difficulty curve ramps up slowly but by hell it is often pretty hard to get through solid if you don’t know what you are doing. that means you need to grind and find items or adjust your strategy or something to progress. So you’ll reach parts where you can’t progress because the mobs are too strong or difficult etc. Bosses have drop tables and difficulty that doesn’t change. Like cows on normal are always the same level, and have static drop tables that don’t change. One major difference is the game has a set difficulty. Really liking it so far, and hope to enjoy it even more! For instance during my play-through of act 1 i found a “Crystal sword” stuck it in my cache cause i thought it look cool, and didnt even realize it could be used for a pretty rad item. I also appreciate the links and recommendations to informative guides. However also keeping a leveling guide to the side JUST incase. Im trying to keep everything completely blind as to not take away from the experience. UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who responded with the helpful advice.

I am pretty much set on playing druid but open to class recommendations.Still want to try to be as blind as possible, just do not want to be totally lost. I know that diablo 2 is different from 3 in many ways and was hoping i could get some advice on important things to make the starting process smoother. Loved Diablo 3 and due to the excitement that was leftover from the D4 beta decided to try out another Diablo game, and decided to try 2 based on all the great reviews.

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