Diablo 2 TIER LIST - Best PvM Playthrough Characters (SSF)

[Syltibob]

When I was young I always specced for most light radius because my monitor was bad. No wonder I had hard time killing Diablo.

[anupregmi]

Hammerdin and summon necro is all fun and games until you reach maggot lair.

[KrunoslavSaho]

I put 20 skill points into Warmth and melee everything with my Sorceress and it takes over 60 hours to get to Hell.

[spenzo]

this is the video we've all been waiting for. also i played frozen orb first time through, good job younger me. 10 / 10 would recommend.

[erbe-robo]

Would be amazing if this was linked into the builds you put together in previous videos. Great stuff!
I actually got into Diablo 2 again after years of never sucesfully finishing hell and got all the characters through with your tips and knowledge share. It's amazing how much there is to know in order to finish the HELL. There is very little chance of success without learning a lot. You are doing a lot for us casual players! Thanks a lot!

[kiwidave]

Still undecided what build I'll play when D2R drops, but I know one thing... I'm playing all the way through, side quests, full(ish) clears, listening to all the NPC dialogue, like its the first time again...

[blackaspitch]

I've always done sorc for first play simply because teleport is priceless. mf is easier and can find gear for all your builds you want to make. and start bringing them up. also having a rusher to trade rushes for your new characters is great

[miks]

The best way to do a ssf playthrough with whirlwind barb is to play d2 classic instead.
Dont xfer to expansion until you find steeldriver. When you do, shael it and upgrade it.

[Nequamm]

Thank you Llama. I see you catch the feeling of your survey. Most players on D2 are aged and have small time to play, so SSF. Don't get me wrong, we still play sometimes MP but most SSF. Ill probably do a Holy Grail on single player at first to learn again old mechanics of D2 (very used to pd2 aka best mod).

[darushkii]

It's about time someone made a tier list for D2!

[mikowi]

Please do a MFing build tier list
I'd love to see what you think
Of course Blizz Sorc would be the go to build :D

[Blechfaust]

Whirlwind was so crazy in vanilla, where it didn't depend on the AS of the speer. xD

[ericlangevin]

This video is a very good idea to welcome more people into D2R when it launches! This will also help me to make recommendations if friends ask for advice on what character to pick at first.

I would love more tier lists like this so that we can benefit from your encyclopedic knowledge of D2! Best characters for: mf in lvl 85 areas, PvP duels, leveling (that could even be split into sub-categories like baal runs), finding keys, farming high runes, gold finding, farming bases for runewords, ladder reset, etc.

[LosN]

I really hate how the whirlwind barb was destroyed. He was so much fun in Classic. yes, his skill was broken for the time. 10xhits per target up to 10 targets? But they shold have reworked it in 1.13 imo. Even with a barb only armor.

[jpVari]

you obviously know this but damn perfect timing, really had no idea what is good in LoD since I've been playing pd2 lately but hadn't played d2 for like a decade before that. thanks for sharing the knowledge!

[mrpotato]

Mr Llama, My friend said he has played with you. He’s the one who turned me onto your channel. We both grew up in Tulsa in the 90s

[crusher]

Bowazon nearly C-Tier, was once easily S-Tier. Same for WW Barb, its sad what they did with 1.10 :(. Kicksin was also nice prior to 1.10, I always had fun with it in 1.09. Please make these builds great again Blizzard and bring back Hell Cows and cow channels in general ...

[Shadenuat]

D2 twenty years ago: Barb slaughters everything in a whirlwind of death armed with a Rare Pike. D2 today: I'd rather spam Concentration

[arekwisniewski]

I'm kinda mad you didn't put Holy Shock/Freeze Zealot here, he can be really strong and his clearing pace is so nice. But overall hard to disagree with your choices, great argumentation on why are they good/bad

[njmfff]

Disagree on Throwing Barb, later on (after lvl 40 I think) you get modifiers "replenish quantity) on throwing AXES, so you'll never really run out of "throws". Also Throwing axes count as both Throw and Axe weapon, so you get benefit from both masteries. Left click you put couple of points into Frenzy and swing couple of times to get damage\speed\AS boost, then you start nuking monsters. I forgot what Elite version of throwing axes are called, but they have very strong base damage as they are axes.

It's actually very fun build to play around, and I think it might even be better now, considering you can get some boost with runeword items that give different auras and perks.