5 Meta Diablo 2 builds that you always see being used and why 

Twitch: www.twitch.tv/dbrunski125 Discord: discord.gg/xy3EynP The 5 Meta Builds 01:43 The Smiter 04:45 The Hammerdin 07:13 The Pitzerker 10:05 The Javazon 12:22 The Blizzard Sorceress

I am so pumped for d2 resurrected. I have lost sleep just thinking about it.

it's been years, YEARS since i've touched D2, and I still understood everything on this video :D

Had this in my recommendations (praise the algorithm). I've been out of the loop for D2 for more than a decade. Totally hyped for D2 Ressurected, so this video is gold.

Lol. The advertisement before this video says "I can give you this 100,000 dollars or I can teach you how to make this every month." I'm like, "Give me the 100k. I already know about how pyramid schemes work." To the video author, I love the content. I subscribed.

I had a hybrid kicker/trapsin with a extra claw w/ dragon flight. I had enigma but with the teleport kick I could lock people up. So much fun! Can't wait for this game!!!

Love these vids dbrunski always so informative. Right when I thought I knew everything about d2

I have all these builds on sp PlugY, Blizz sorc and Javazon are my favorites, Pitzerker is kinda fun, and my Smiter is currently respeced to Hammerdin, which I still need to get the hang on! Great video Db, and thanks for the inspiration!

Just came back after ten years. My God I love it still

Came back to D2, this game is so much better and more challenging than D3

love this content wish the video was even longer!

Anyone else watching this to start planning D2:R characters

For less gear dependent, self found builds, I always liked Fury or Concentrate Barbs and Meteorb Sorcs. The Barb can do Ubers and the Sorc can mf anywhere.

Its so amazing that, after all these years, and all these builds and every item you found, that you still enjoy this game so much.

i was 10 or 11 when I played D2 with all my friends. all we cared about was trying to level up doing cow level runs over and over, day in and day out. i dont even remember what kind of gear i was getting or going for. after watching all these d2 videos and how in depth everything is/was, i cant say i want to get into it this way when Resurrected comes out. i just want to left click and hack and slash. :D

Hehe, the Summon necro really missing... Just full Raise Skeleton and Mastery, Corpse Explosion and Golem Mastery with the other basic skills, Eni+Infy merc+Insight Golem= fastest area cleaner hands done... I have all other builds, but man, necro is just the best! 😁

is that the background from the arcane sanctuary behind dbrunksi? cool stuff

I primaried a skellimancer for years. Best all around build IMO. You can stack some MF, rush other players very safely, lower res for all the javazons, trapsins and sorcs in party or amp damage if you are rolling with barbs/zealers, decrep + clay golem to slow bosses to a crawl or iron golem for some crushing blow. Revive Urdars and life tap for ubers, the list goes on and on...

Great video. I usually have all them built. I have not done javeazon.

Thanks for sharing, man!

Chain Lightning energy shield sorceress is my favourite build for OG D2, for LOD, I add a few points into meteor and glacial spike

I go Last Wish and Exile both on my zealer when doing ubers. Mainly because Hit Blinds Target interrupts your Life Tap so you need it to go often if using Last Wish.

My favorite build when I was a kid was hammerdin. Funny to see it listed, had no idea it was that good.

I was thinking Lightning sorc would make this list. Light Sorcs are in the top damage dealers in the game, and can clear massive areas with lightning and chain lightning. Granted very strong light sorcs are expensive, but they are one of the top damage dealers in game.

Did it all back in the day. That was a ton of fun

What about summon necromancer with enigma. It's the only character who can kill everything the fast way, plus ubers.

I found a battle chest Diablo 2 on eBay the other day pretty reasonable. I can't wait for it to get here.

Ok, I’m here for my resurrected future build

Nice. Im using the 2nd, 4th, and 5th build rn. Balance between damage and mf are grandeur

Wow last time I played, frozen orb Sorcs were the big thing, and the spread shot amazon thing. Lightning javazons were big too. And whirlwind barbs.

Hi Db, really enjoy your content these days. I found out just recently about the diminishing return factor for +magic find with regards to finding uniques. According to the graph i saw, the curve flats out quite a bit just after around 200% MF. The way I see it now, in most cases at somewhere after 200-400% MF, gear that makes you kill faster is somewhat more viable in tems of overall farming. I'm curious about your opinion on this matter. Maybe it could even be the theme for a new video of yours, as this was quite new information for me after having loved the game for 20 years. All the best Adrian

Dbrunski is the best D2 contentmaker. You really feel the game.

My favorite build is the skellymancer, because it's so easy. Slow as all get-out if you don't have some kind of teleport, but it's easy.

I have played D2 since it's launch and as much as I'd love to make those builds, I have never had my hands on half of that gear...

I was always doing ubers with 2 chars. Open with barb IK equipped whirlwind build for Duriel and the lava one - good because i can jump around. After this i switch to pala zealer/smiter to kill Lil and ubers. No enigma on my smiter and no need tbh. (got separate char for hammerdin). Works great. I use salvation for Mephisto and its enough to kill him fast. No need for special gear.

Summon Necro doesn't get nearly enough love. Once you have an enigma and can telestomp it's goofy how quickly a fishymancer clears rooms. Leaving so many builds in the dust trying to keep up. Stacking 400% mf with 9frame cast rate makes telling and mfing a dream. No worry about basically and res on a Necro either. Can literally solo the game naked on hell with relative ease.

Some other builds which would make it into my top 10: - Summoner Necro with mega giant Skele Army, superfun to telebomb 40+ minions on a mob or boss. :) - (lightning / CE) Trapsin: great for quickly clearing open areas such as Cows I think a lot of people have a love/hate relationship with the Paladin, since it is the most overpowered class. As if being able to quickly kill almost any monster in the game isn't enough, it has super high survivability as well. When a character can solo 8 player Baal runs and doesn't need any other characters, you know something is wrong... With respect to gear: most characters benefit from having a Call to Arms (with Spirit for the skill boost) on switch. :)

Hi Dbrunski how are you doing? I was wondering if you have the time to make a classic D2 meta builds? I know classic is not as popular as the expansion but I do miss the old days lol.

Is the full tal rasha sorc still good for cold hybrid or light I want to use that set for my first character

Hey bud! Any chance you have that pitzerker build anywhere? If not its cool, and thanks for what you do!! Stay safe buddy!

Dude, your content is the best, cheers from Europe, Croatia

Loving these vids man!

Hey man great video, Was wondering about your SoJ count that keeps popping up. Where do you find the server stats these days? Its impossible to find diablo walks anymore. I know its a character video but some tips would help if you have a moment. Thanks :)

When I used to play in the glory days of the game it was lightning sorc for mf, javazon was pretty fun too.

More ideas for build videos. MA Amazon (max MA lvl), Physical Beardin (never seen that char that would be really cool for HC organ farming), Jab Amazon, Fire Amazon (+ max Valk)

Mosers shield is and always will be my fav shield for a Javazon. Paired with enigma.

Hi! Are you playing on official blizzard servers? What can you say about drop rate of runes or smth? How much runs do you need for farm zakarum for example?

Glad to see younger ppl on this game. I spent 15 yrs on it.

Haven't played D2 since 2005. Glad to see things haven't changed.

Life Tap from Last Wish also which some people use on a Smiter.

Hammerdin was one of my fav for doing pvp too

I've got a 96 hdin pally, a 93 frenzy Uber barb, a 92 blizz/frozen orb sorc and a 89 elemental druid on us.east. Took a little break to play Diablo 3.. I wouldn't say more challenging then Diablo 3. There actually both decent games. I haven't played d3 since season 3 and just started again a couple days ago season 21... Crazy all the changes . I wish they didn't get rid of the auction house on d3. I remember I used get board of playing and get addicted again buying/selling things in the auction house.

growing out his stay at home beard

You probably don’t play anymore, but your videos are still incredibly helpful. 😊

I did beat the Ubers with my Javazon, her charged strike always hits for every important purpose, my Valk tanked Meph, yep, she must have rolled immune to lightning, I did try to farm for that, and I had full resists and Tgods, and Wisp, so his Lightning was healing me. He did take longer than a smiter, but what took less time? Well, I didn't have a grief or exile, 40 CB and my Merc had 20, but killing all the other enemies on the way to farm the Organs and Nith and Arcane Sanctuary and such. She was really, really good at all that.

Nice video. Came back to diablo after 10 years. I'm running a hammerdin now and I'm having such a hard time with the snakes on Nithilak. Any way to avoid the multiple hits from them? I don't have max block but I'm not sure if that will even help with those missiles.

gear ''choice'' in diablo 2 builds, Enigma, spirit and hoto

You mentioned the minimum cold res you can reduce monsters to is -100. Is there a cap for minimizing cold res in pvp?

For Top 5 specifically I can't argue with any of those choices, if you had to choose a 6th and 7th what would you go for? Ele Druid/Trapsin/Light or Fire Sorc/Bonemancer? 6th and 7th are a bit more difficult to choose imo, what you think @DB?

The best smiter item is the armor (forget the name)(guardian angel?) that boosts your max resists and max block to 90%. That is OP as hell, especially in hardcore. Back in the day it was cheap too, that and guilluimes and you were set for a budget smiter. I just took a 4 socket paladin shield and put 4 perfect diamonds in it, lol. Super budget. That was important because the torches sold for a lot more early in the leagues on sites like d2jsp. You could get 30 times the normal price early in the league. The other trick is you wear the runeword that procs fade and stand in the fire until it procs and then wear your normal armor :) It lasts for quite a while. There is a convenient fire in the SE corner of Ubers out of aggro range. One season i sold the first 3 torches on USWest hardcore and the first Id'd sorc torch. It's not really inconvenient either because it's awesome Merc armor. My merc would live through Ubers :)

*After watched Diablo II resurrected videos. And this video pop up on my recommendation page!*

what realm are you on, and how in tristram is diablo clone countdown happening so often in this video in 2020? i played 2 ladders in the last 1.5 years and have seen SOJ sold to merchants 2 times in game on US WEST

Just followed your Twitch. Excited to see you stream some D2!

Great vid buddy 👌🏻

Keep up the great work bro

Open wounds helps counter Monster Regen. (I believe poison does too, but I wouldn't use poison on a smiter obviously).

I missed the Summoner Necromancer... I mean, it can do ANYTHING, from clearing all bosses, to killing ubers, and it doesn't even need to attack (only teleport and use some curses). It's also the safest character to use in hardcore mode. Regards.

hey man, great vids. just curious how you know mephisto's cold res is 75? What's the source of your info? thanks.

I always loved ice orb specs myself.

I had the Armageddon slippers and fletch on the cold sorc

This guy is Steven WonderBoy Tompson, if he never did karate

Man I love the Javazon but you are right they are expensive especially because the merc needs to be setup also to make it really viable in Hell mode. I rarely ever played the sorceress back in the day do may in Ressurected it may be her time to shine. I just hope seasons are the same length at least in resurrected. I hate this talk about having them be shorter!

whats a good alternate weapoin other than grief? Like just starting we wont get that lmao Malice any good in a phase bladE?

I miss the glory days of PKing where runewords didnt exist yet. Every class had a counter. Only sorcs could tele unless someone had a charged item. Necros could bone trap melees and iron maiden them to death. zons sniped people. assassins could trap casters. Druids would fissure spam from town. Man it was fun! Shaftstop and vampgaze were god tier. Some great times

Hey buddy, have you actually collected all the sets on your plugy. While I am playing on d2 again I have made it one of my missions to collect all the sets. And is there any of the sets that you would say is a good set to use instead of runewords?

I have a summonmancer named The_Boiz and he is doing very well, I have 20 in SM, 20 in RS, I'm working on amp dam, I have a wand that has +3 to RS and RSM and a Head that adds +3 to SM

Do you play with 1.13c plugy in window mode?

Im currently nightmare lvl 35 sorc. Planning to go blizzard build. Can you tell me the stats and skill build?thanks

I wonder what your top 10 would be. Probably something like: 10. WW Barb 9. Trapsin 8. Windy dru 7. Light sorc 6. Summon necro at least that's what I would assume. Summon necro would honestly be higher imo if it weren't for tele, since they can run anything pretty easily, even ubers with trash gear. Just the fact they're so reliant on tele for positioning summons it kinda kills it for a lot of people. Plus it's pretty damn slow starting out

Top for pvp when i was playing would have been hdin, smiter, blizz sorc, wind druid, bone nec

Can't wait to play a Javazon in D2R !! It will be amazing to kill cows in 4K haha

Smiter most basic item is GRIEF runeword (Eth + Tir + Lo + Mal + Ral) in Phase blade(1 range, more Attack Speed PVE), or Berserker axe(2 range, Slower PVP), second, he need Gore Rider in boots, and mostly ENIGMA in Mage or Archon plate for preventing to put any point in STR instead of Vitality (In PVP you can use STONE runeword in etheral Sacred Armor). He needs Crown of Ages with BER rune and Verdungo 15% to have a maximum 50% damage reduced.

Regardless of how you love D2, the class "balance" is it's weakest side by far. Some classes have huge range AOE, some have uninterruptible powerful melee attacks, and then you have an elemental assassin that has to successfully hit a target twice to then cast a melee fireball with laughable damage, or make two successful attacks to cast a 1 dmg lightning Nova. And so on with numerous classes and skills. I just can't imagine the design/ballance process back in the day with how superior one skills are compared to others.

Have no idea what this guy is talking about but I'm stoked for D2:R

Is the frozen orb sorceress not just as good as the blizzard? Love your vids mate, been playing for years but I have learned so much from you.

I remember Hammerdin being so broken because he has no problems with immunes. If an enemy monster is magic immune but undead, it can still get damaged by blessed hammer. There are hardly any monster that are both magic immune AND not undead.

My favorite endgame build was the kicksin. Broke the kicking framerates, so fast and uber life steal.

Awesome tutorial for those who play d2 and plan to play d2r

I started out with a blizz sorc, but ended up respec'ing, because I felt like the blizzard wasn't hitting enough enemies in packs half the time or more. Also, it will be a while until I can afford an infinity, if ever! :') so I ended up opting for a fireball/orb build, which playstylewise I find more fun, but obviously in places like chaos sanctuary, is too slow to be viable, however still doable.

A summoner necro wearing enigma crushes all content. Not that I have played this game in the last 10+ years but that was my go to. Also lightning trap assassin wearing enigma. I only ever used a javazon to farm cows. Again this was from well over a decade ago. Strange to see people still playing and still putting out build content for D2. I would imagine every possible build has already been done 100 times over.

Frost Orb Sorc is a viable option? I know it was nerfed after LoD

If I were you, I'd make videos like this a lot more in depth build guides. There's a lot of people that'll play D3 that haven't played in MANY years and dont know the acronyms and level req stuff like you mention, and they're also not going to necessarily go searching for old videos they want to see something new

is grief it's the name of a lightsaber weapon? I was playing that but it's so far I can't remember perfectly?

Do you play us east or west? And ladder or non ladder?

Yeah I always used Tals with meteor.. so much damage, oculus wand

Dude, always love the videos... been playing since 2000 or so. This is off topic, my apologies. I am sure i'm not the only one. I was trying to download plugy and in the process of that and unzipping the files its asked me to burn version 1.12 to a CD. How do I avoid that? Or what is your experience with downloading plugy? Its my first time trying and after a ton of research im a bit lost. any feedback will help!

blizzard should open a school, and hire Dbrunski as a Diablo teacher.

I played diablo 2 when i was 9 years old and i just put stats and level up skills on what feels good at the moment 😂

So which one should one go for , for most fun

having issues finding a viable summoner build for necromancers endgame, should i just give up the dream or do any of ya'all have any tips?