For most builds a decent amount of defense is around 300.000-500.000, but some builds can get higher.Ī little hint: If you struggle with defense, you can always go to Gheed and buy some mystic orbs for Enhanced Defense (in short ED) and cube them with your armor items in order to get the base defense of your items higher. Defense is mainly used to avoid this, because it causes the enemy to miss which means the hit recovery animation won't be triggered. Throughout the game there are mobs that quickly run at you, swarm you and may or may not bring you into the hit recovery animation without you being able to fight back. But as a general guidelines let me give you the following hints:ġ) Enhanced Defense/Total Character Defenseĭefense is the main option to avoid damage. Please note that this is not 100% true for every single build, since there are builds like bowzon that don't need defense for example. I'll talk about the important offensive stats later on, too.

Just let me say that we should prioritize defensive stats, because you don't want to die often, do you? If you just focus on the defensive stats, you can manage to get to Nightmare Baal without many problems. After all, there are stats that are essential for every character, so that's something we should talk about first. There are several important stats your character needs, and here is the section where I'll talk about it explaining why it's so important. Please note that even I don't know everything about the game, so there might be questions I can't answer, so it's always best to use the previous mentioned sources for questions rather than this guide topic. Alternatively you can also ask your question in the short question thread. If you ever have a question, there are people willing to help you in the discord. I try getting to the point while explaining the core mechanics in detail.

This topic will give you hints on what to watch out for and give you tips and tricks for the early game (Gameplay until you can do your first ubers) as well as showing how to prepare for the midgame.

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