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I love Diablo 2. However, I was never patient enough to pass Hell level of difficulty myself. I think I was running mods after I discovered them. Do you play offline? Or do you play on-line? Are there many players online still?

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Hell was easier to beat in the original game, but later was patched to be much more unforgiving. If you want to beat it solo, and without access to items from other players, you need a really good build and be lucky when it comes to items. Some characters are less dependent on items, for example a necromancer can solo hell naked using skeletons, sorceress is also less dependent on items because most of the damage comes from spells. The worst characters are melee characters because you need very good weapons (crushing blow does wonders on Hell) and very good armor/shield to survive (high resistances are a must because all monsters deal extra elemental damage).

HAMMER PALADIN! ahaha.

Hammerdin isn't that good in singleplayer. Main strength of Hammerdin is that it skips most monster immunities and paired with Enigma runeword (gives teleport spell to non-sorceress classes) you can quickly skip to the boss and kill him with few hammers (very bottable too). But Enigma runeword is almost impossible to get in singleplayer, and while Hammerdin is great for killing bosses and all, it's not good for general gameplay because it struggles in tight corridors.

people play diablo2 sp?

there are people in battle.bet ladder. you can’t use mods there. you could play open but it’s all hackers. if you want to beat hell mode you have to go as a firewall / frozen orb mage or a necromancer that uses skeletons and corpse explode. you’ll need an act 2 merc as well. good luck lol. if you can get one friend to tank you can do it much easier.

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None of yours are. That's why you're dead.

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