Try a Poison Nova necro. I had one who did something like 50,000 damage with his Nova. Bramble Armor, Death's Web, facets, Annihilus, bunch of Poison&Bone charms. He was a monster.

I just have to remember not to do what my buddy did, but turning his grandfather blade into one of those iron demon things.

If anyone is still playing, I'd like to get a group together to play through, level a few characters, try a few builds, mule some crap, and item share. I've got a 76 WWS Strafazon, a 50 Rabid Wolf, a 50 chorbess, and a 56 freezealot. I've also got lower level characters if we need to start out slower.

PM me with and for account details so we can add to each other's lists.

My opinion:
New Player: start out on single player with an Amazon or Barbarian to get a feel for the controls.

Paladin and Druid are your next steps up the scale on difficulty to play followed by the Sorceress Necromancer and Assassin.

If playing online a Paladin will really kick ass.

Diablo 2 is w/o a doubt one of my favorite games of all time. My dad thought it was giving our computer viruses from playing online so i lost some AMAZING characters!