Diablo 3

[TevashSzat]

It depends on whether you're playing on battle.net or not. I used to, but when I switdched ISPs, I suddenly got horrible pings and am mostly active on the Single Player community atm.

Anyways, any newcomer should start with a sorceress simply for MFing for better gear for your other characters. You can either go max blizzard and its synergies or make a meteorber which is 20 Frozen Orb, 9 cold mastery (try to get 17 after +skills), 20 meteore, 20 fireball, rest evenly split between firebolt and firemastery. Get all the prereqs and static field/teleport for misc use.

Always remember in Diablo II that you NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER put any stat point into energy. It is worthless unless you're building an ES sorc. For casters, have enough strength to equip your end game gear (which should be at most 80s unless you want to use a spirit monarch which would pump it up to 156), no dex unless you're going for max block(expect around a 150 investment to keep it at max around level 90), and always go for as much vitality as possible. For a weapons based damage char like a ww barb or a strafer, you should either go a balanced build or a titan which is essentially a glass cannon. Balanced, you try to have adequete life and still do decent damage (1 str gives +1% damage to most melee weapons, 1 dex the same for ranged weapons). Titan, you either max str or dex and depend on your insane damage to kill everything before they get a chance to attack

Highly useful forum with lots of guides, references. I go by the name Xdeathfire and am most active on the Single Player portions of Diablo 2