For Baal you really want to keep your distance as a magic user, you'll know what I mean when you get there He doesn't have anything as deadly as that red lightning, IMO he's more tedious and annoying than difficult.
Well I got through the game without too much trouble. Act 5 is nowhere as bad as I thought it would be.
Baal is easier to beat than Mephisto was. In fact I had less trouble with him than Andariel . What a pathetic final boss.
Have just started a nightmare game and its ok so far. Blood Raven put up a bit of a struggle, but she just couldn't withstand the frozen orb in the end.
Yeah I agree actually, Act 5 is really easy on Normal.. and yes, Baal sucks I actually use Act 5 normal as a leveling field. You get very nice experience from the monsters there and they don't provide much of a challenge, so it's really easy to run around leveling a lot before going to Nightmare. I'm always level 45-48 before going on to Nightmare
See, i love this game, but to play you gotta be commited and play on a regular basis. Me however, ill start and new game and play for about a week then stop.
I play D2 in waves.. like, I'll play for 2-3 months or so, then take a couple months break, play for 2-3 months, take a couple months break, and so on. I don't lose my characters either, since I play offline
what you do is go onto the files at the beggining where you can get all the spells straight away for a new character you can also tell your cctr where to enter on the game.