07-06-2012, 07:43 AM
As a manual player, I like blizzard/static-telekenisis and merc to farm early on. If you are smart, you can avoid death in hell. Sorc is a ranged character, with a merc and teleport. But the main reasons I used to use them early: Teleport, Quicker boss farming.
Why was it important? Because back then enigma was ultra hard to get. Bots were not common and high runes were even less common. You needed to get lucky, or trade for it.
Not now though. After bots became "it" and you could find bots running in norm/nm/hell, and people to rush you... You can have any character to lvl 90 in 3 days no problem. I have my Hdin (only character) at 85 in 2 days.
In addittion to bots flooding the market (making nm-level farmables worth northing in many cases), rune drops became more popular. Blizzard decided that to give normal players a fighting chance to keep up, they would make high runes drop more often. Enigma just isnt a terribly hard thing to get anymore. In my 2 days playing, I've already got a Hdin capable of running any boss with 150ish mf, a mercenary that dies maybe every 3rd boss fight, and Ist Mal Pul. Funny thing is that I still get better loot following a bot through hell then on my own. So my final statement is, it doesnt matter in today's diablo 2 community. Pick the character class you want to play, or the class you want to bot with. Either way, you can earn your riches fairly easily.
That being said, Hdin bots are the best, if you have time to play.
If you dont have much time to play personally, you might want to do a blizzard or fireball sorc and spam the *&%* out of hell meph as a bot. Spend play-time to trade up for enigma and switch over to a Hdin or another character class. Thats really the key peice to a successful bot. Teleport.
Why was it important? Because back then enigma was ultra hard to get. Bots were not common and high runes were even less common. You needed to get lucky, or trade for it.
Not now though. After bots became "it" and you could find bots running in norm/nm/hell, and people to rush you... You can have any character to lvl 90 in 3 days no problem. I have my Hdin (only character) at 85 in 2 days.
In addittion to bots flooding the market (making nm-level farmables worth northing in many cases), rune drops became more popular. Blizzard decided that to give normal players a fighting chance to keep up, they would make high runes drop more often. Enigma just isnt a terribly hard thing to get anymore. In my 2 days playing, I've already got a Hdin capable of running any boss with 150ish mf, a mercenary that dies maybe every 3rd boss fight, and Ist Mal Pul. Funny thing is that I still get better loot following a bot through hell then on my own. So my final statement is, it doesnt matter in today's diablo 2 community. Pick the character class you want to play, or the class you want to bot with. Either way, you can earn your riches fairly easily.
That being said, Hdin bots are the best, if you have time to play.
If you dont have much time to play personally, you might want to do a blizzard or fireball sorc and spam the *&%* out of hell meph as a bot. Spend play-time to trade up for enigma and switch over to a Hdin or another character class. Thats really the key peice to a successful bot. Teleport.