Nearly every encounter is the same, mindless boring bashing of endless hordes from which you don't get anything. Designed around boring grinding and endless combat that sucks ass. Also, I used no spells on my barb.ĭiablo 2 feels like an mmorpg lite. I'd argue it's the easiest or second easiest class to solo hell mode with. I had around 160% to hit on my barb and he never missed an attack in hell mode. For the weapon you want hit % increase, and attack speed, because barb needs hit %.

Getting 1% resist all per level makes them easier to gear as well, you only need 1 solid piece with resist all to hit cap. Leoric drops a helmet (guaranteed drop) that gives +15% life leech, as long as barb is landing hits, they pretty much can't die. The downside is succubi and wizards are annoying to rush down, but the truth is that engaging them is a choice, and usually not a requirement. I was around level 38 when I beat hell mode, and I think barb is probably one of the easier classes to do it, because they can hit for extreme damage with melee attacks due to the way the class scales up with weapon damage, and they can hit 3 tiles per swing. All I did was simply ignore/avoid anything that tried to kite me, and bulldozed anything that came at me. I recently beat Diablo Hellfire on Hell mode using a barb.

Diablo 2 gameplay vs diablo 3