Best Character Classes in Diablo 2: Resurrected

Rating of each Diablo 2 Resurrected class

Want to know everything about Diablo 2 Resurrected classes? This updated version is meant to be a faithful adaptation of the classic RPG with a nice coat of paint and new quality of life improvements. One thing that doesn't change is how stats and skills work for all seven available classes.

From the melee-oriented barbarian to the magic-wielding sorceress, you can choose from a variety of playstyles, even if you've chosen your class. So while you can specialize in throwing spears like an amazon, you can instead imbue arrows with magical effects. Or maybe you want an army of skeletons as a Necromancer? Don't worry, just raise the corpses of your enemies to fight alongside you.

Regardless of which one you've used before, these classes should be familiar to you at a basic level. However, over time, it may happen that you may have forgotten some things. So here's a reminder of the best Diablo 2: Resurrected classes with all the skills and attributes explained.

Here are the best Diablo 2 Resurrected classes:

• Paladin
• Enchantress
• Necromancer
• Barbarian
• Druid
• Amazon
• Assassin

PALADIN

A paladin can either be a very offensive class that can buff an entire team, or a defensive class that uses auras to give the team resistance to various types of attacks. He also uses magical attacks to damage opponents or heal and buff friends. It has one of the highest health and strength stats and is great for those who want to lean towards a support/tank build.

However, where does he really shine, especially with his the best assembly of Hammerdin. Using a deadly combination of auras, the Paladin's Blessed Hammer skill can strike demons with ease, and his teammates gain all the benefits of auras for their attacks. If Hammerdin isn't to your liking, there are several viable options available, making him the most versatile class in the game.

Paladin Starting Attributes

• Health points - 55
• Endurance - 89
• Mana Points - 15
• Durability - 25
• Agility - 20
• Vitality - 25
• Energy - 15

Paladin level stats

• Health Points: +2
• Endurance: +1
• Mana: +1,5

Point Attribute Effects

• 1x survivability point = +3 health points and +1 stamina
• 1x energy point = +1,5 mana points

Paladin's defensive auras

• Prayer - slowly restores your health and the health of your group.
• Fire resistance - Reduces fire damage for all party members.
• Вызов - Increases the defense of all party members.
• Resistance to cold - Increases frost resistance for all party members.
• Purification - Reduces the duration of poison and curse for all party members.
• Lightning resistance - increases lightning resistance for all party members
• Resistance - increases stamina recovery rate, maximum stamina for all party members.
• Meditation - Increases mana regeneration rate for all party members
• Redemption - tries to free the souls of defeated enemies, which gives health and mana to the whole group.
• Salvation - Reduces fire, cold, and lightning damage for all party members.

Paladin Attack Auras

• powerb - increases the damage of the paladin and his allies.
• holy fire - Hits nearby enemies with celestial fire.
• Thorns - Enemies take damage when they attack you.
• Good intentions - Increases the attack level for the entire group.
• holy cold - Periodically deals cold damage to nearby enemies
• Concentration - Increases damage dealt and reduces the chance of being interrupted during an attack.
• Holy Cold- The aura freezes nearby monsters.
• holy shock - Creates ripples of electricity that hit nearby enemies and add lightning damage to your attacks.
• Sanctuary - Damages undead and knocks them back from you.
• Fanaticism - increases damage, attack speed, attack level of the entire group.
• Condemnation - Decreases the defense and resistance of the enemy.

Paladin Combat Skills

• Victim - Increases accuracy and damage at the expense of health.
• Slap - Temporarily stuns an enemy with a shield strike.
• holy arrow - A bolt of energy that hits undead or heals allies.
• Zeal - Attacks multiple nearby enemies quickly.
• Head - A frenzied attack on the enemy.
• Revenge - Adds elemental damage to all melee attacks (fire, lightning and cold).
• holy hammer - Summons a magical hammer that spins around you, dealing damage to enemies.
• Treatment - turns the monster, forcing him to fight against other impure demons and monsters.
• holy shield - Strengthens your shield with divine power.
• Fist of Heaven - Lightning from heaven strikes the target, and holy arrows spread to the enemies closest to the target.
  

ENCHANTRESS

With power over ice, lightning, and fire, the Sorceress casts spells that can severely damage opponents, inflict status ailments, and protect against enemy attacks. However, she is the most fragile of all the classes and quite terrible in melee combat, but she makes up for it with her massive mana pool.

The only thing that puts the Paladin above the Sorceress is that the Paladin has abilities that help everyone. On the other hand, the Sorceress does not buff her teammates, but killing monsters is still useful. So if you want to focus on pure DPS, Sorceress is for you (the best build for a sorceress is here).

Sorceress Starting Attributes

• Health points - 40
• Endurance - 74
• Mana Points - 35
• Durability - 10
• Agility - 25
• Vitality - 10
• Energy - 35

Level stats

• Health Points: +1
• Endurance: +1
• Mana: +2

Source Attributes

• 1x survivability point = +2 health points and +1 stamina
• 1x energy point = +2 mana points

Fire Spells

• Fiery shot  - Creates an arrow of fire.
• Heat - Increases mana regeneration.
• Inferno - Creates a continuous stream of fire that burns enemies.
• Fire ball - Creates a fireball that explodes on impact.
• Flame - leaves a wall of fire in your footsteps.
• fire wall - creates a wall of fire.
• enchantment - enchants a weapon, adds fire damage to the weapon.
• meteor - Summons a meteor from the sky to hit enemies.
• Fire Mastery - Increases the damage dealt by all fire spells.
• Hydra - Creates a multi-headed beast that attacks enemies with fire arrows.

Lightning Spells

• charged shot - Creates several arrows of electrical energy flying in random directions.
• Telekinesis - allows you to pick up items, attack and launch objects from a distance.
• Static field - Each enemy in a radius around you loses 25% of their current health.
• Lightning - Fires a powerful electric blast that devastates enemy ranks.
• supernova - creates an expanding ring of electricity
• chain lightning - a powerful electric shot that is transmitted to several targets.
• Teleport - instantly moves you between two points.
• Storm - Summons a deadly thunderstorm that strikes enemies with bolts of lightning.
• Energy Shield - Absorbs mana instead of health on hits.
• Mastery lightning - Increases the damage of all lightning spells.

Cold Spells

• ice shot - Shoots ice lightning that damages and slows your victim.
• Frost Armor- Gives a bonus to defense and freezes any melee attacker that hits you.
• Frost Shot - Creates a magical spherulda that strikes and freezes enemies.
• frost star - Creates an expanding ring of ice that hits and freezes all nearby enemies.
• Shiver Armor- increases your defense level, freezes and hits attacking enemies.
• ice spear - Creates a magical ice comet that freezes or kills nearby enemies.
• blizzard - Summons massive ice shards that hit your enemies.
• Dread Armor - Increases defense and fires ice arrows in response to ranged attacks.
• Cold Mastery Increases the damage of your cold attacks by overcoming enemy cold resistance.
• Frost Orb- Creates a magical ball that shoots out streams of ice arrows at your enemies.

NECROMANCER

The Necromancer is great at using creepy magic to raise an army of skeletons and other minions to fight for you. But while he may be better known for his many pets, the Necromancer has other spells as well. He can use poison to drain an opponent's life, use bones as ingredients for magic, and even curse enemies with status ailments. He is somewhat weak, but not the weakest of all.

Our selection recommendation best build for Necromancer heavily focused on summoning his army of monsters. 

The ability of the Necromancer to distract the enemy is very valuable. The only problem with this strategy is that it can be difficult for your allies in multiplayer to tell enemies from your monsters.

Necromancer Starting Attributes

• Health points - 45
• Endurance - 79
• Mana Points - 25
• Durability - 15
• Agility - 25
• Vitality - 15
• Energy - 25

Level stats

• Health Points: +1,5
• Endurance: +1
• Mana: +2

Effects

• 1x survivability point = +2 health points and +1 stamina
• 1x energy point = +2 mana points

Summoning Spells

• Raising the Skeleton - Raise an undead warrior from a corpse to fight for you.
• Skeleton Mastery - improves the quality of raised skeletons, mages and revived.
• clay golem - Raises a golem from the ground that will fight for you.
• Golem Mastery - increases the speed and life of golems.
• Raise Skeleton Mage - raises an undead mage who will fight for you.
• Blood Golem - Summons a golem made from your blood.
• Resistance caused - Increases the resistance of your summoned minions.
• Iron Golem - summons a powerful golem at the expense of a metal object. The golem takes on the properties of the sacrificed item.
• fire golem - Summons a fire golem.
• Revitalization - resurrects a monster that will fight for you.

Poison and bone spells

• Teeth - Summons multiple projectiles to damage enemies.
• Bone armor - Creates a protective shield of bones that absorbs damage from physical attacks.
• Poison Dagger Coats your weapon with a layer of poison.
• Exploding corpses - fills the corpse with energy, causing it to explode violently
• bone wall - creates a bone barrier.
• poisonous explosion - releases a cloud of poisonous gas from the corpse.
• Bone Spear - Summons a bone missile that can damage multiple enemies and pass through them.
• bone prison Summons a ring of bone around the target.
• poison star - the ring of poison explodes from the necromancer.
• Bone Spirit - Summons a spirit that tracks the target and deals damage to it.

Curses

• Damage Boost - Increases damage taken by enemies.
• hazy vision - Decreases sight range for enemies
• easing - Reduces the damage dealt by enemies under the curse.
• Iron Maiden - reflects damage to attackers
• Terror - makes monsters run away in fear
• Confusion - Confuses monsters, causing them to attack randomly.
• siphoning life Curses an enemy, causing them to grant life to attackers.
• Attraction - makes other monsters target your enemy.
• Exhaustion - a crippling curse that doubles reduces speed, damage and physical resistance of enemy units.
• Reducing resistance - Elemental attacks deal more damage to the cursed monster.

BARBARIAN

If you prefer to get up close and personal, brandishing your sword or ax while screaming in the face of your enemies, then the Barbarian is for you. Item mastery, insane combat skills, and screaming at the top of your lungs are a big part of your arsenal, but the barbarian's main job is to soak up all the damage and heavily distract so your allies can attack without worrying about damage.

Speaking of the best build of Whirlwind Barbarian , Whirlwind skill combined with combat orders and shout makes this build more tanky in the game. As long as you use Whirlwind in short bursts, you will be able to deal the maximum possible damage. While the barbarian doesn't deal as much damage as a paladin or sorceress, it does provide enough distraction, which is vital for groups playing in multiplayer mode.

Starting Attributes

• Health points - 55
• Endurance - 92
• Mana Points - 10
• Durability - 30
• Agility - 20
• Vitality - 25
• Energy - 10

Level stats

• Health Points: +2
• Endurance: +1
• Mana: +1

Effects

• 1x survivability point = +4 health points and +1 stamina
• 1x energy point = +1 mana point

Combat skills

• Swipe - Deals increased damage and knocks back the enemy.
• P "RІRѕR№RЅRѕR№ SѓRґR ° SЂ - When two weapons are used, two targets are attacked at once or one target is attacked twice.
• Jump jump from danger or into a fight.
• double throw - Allows you to throw two different thrown weapons at once.
• stun - Stuns your target for a short time and increases your attack level.
• Jump attack - attack the enemy in a fast jump.
• Concentration - An uninterruptible attack increases the level of attack and defense.
• Rabies - allows you to strike with two weapons at a time, each successful attack increases your speed.
• The Circuit - A whirling dance of death that makes its way through the crowd of your enemies.
• Berserk - A powerful attack that increases damage and attack level, but reduces defense level.

Combat abilities

• Sword Mastery - Improves sword skill.
• Ax Mastery - Increases skill with axes (applies to throwing axes if used as a melee weapon).
• Mace Mastery - Improves mace skill.
• Mastery of the Halberd - Increases the skill of wielding halberds.
• Throwing skill - Increases the skill of throwing weapons (Benefits throwing axes and spears).
• Spear Mastery - Increases spear skill (helps throw spears when used as a melee weapon).
• Increased endurance - increases your stamina.
• iron skin - increases the level of protection (not with Shout, Defiance, Berserk or Conviction debuff)
• Increased speed - Increases walking and running speed  (stacks with speed boost from items).
• natural resistance - Increases natural resistance to elemental damage and poison.

War cries

• Roar Nearby monsters scatter in fear.
• Potion Search - the corpse of the killed monster is searched in search of a potion (potion type depends on action).
• Shout - warns of imminent danger and increases the level of protection for you and your allies.
• Taunt - throws the monster into a furious attack.
• Item search - Killed monsters are searched for hidden treasures.
• Battle cry - A terrible scream that reduces the defense of enemies and the damage they deal.
• Battle Orders - Increases the health, mana, and stamina of nearby allies.
• Grim ward - use the corpse of a killed monster to create a frightening totem, which makes nearby monsters flee.
• cry of war - Hurts and stuns nearby enemies.
• Combat Command - Increases the damage of all skills for you and your allies.

DRUID

One of two classes first introduced in the Lord of Destruction expansion pack, the Druid specializes in using nature and body modification skills to cut through demons in his path. He can summon the elements to deal damage, transform into a werewolf or werebear to which he can give unique abilities, or simply summon creatures to fight at his side, such as ravens or oak sages. This is a good option for those who want to combine magical melee and ranged combat with medium stats.

We think that best druid build is his DPS-focused Rage Druid build. By channeling his inner beast, he can transform into a monster with many buffs while he is in beast mode. It's also a relatively versatile build with the ability to summon a grizzly bear to help manage swarms of enemies. If you have a sorceress to cast spells or a paladin to keep you healthy, this class can be just as good as a barbarian.

Starting Attributes

• Health points - 55
• Endurance - 84
• Mana Points - 20
• Durability - 15
• Agility - 20
• Vitality - 25
• Energy - 20

Level stats

• Health Points: +1,5
• Endurance: +1
• Mana: +2

Druid Effects

• 1x survivability point = +2 health points and +1 stamina
• 1x energy point = +2 mana points

elements

• Fire storm - unleash a fiery chaos that incinerates your enemies.
• Molten ball - Launches a ball of hot magma that knocks back your enemies.
• arctic wave - a wave of continuous flow of cold that burns your enemies.
• Cyclone armor - protection from damage caused by fire, cold and lightning.
• Fault - volcano vents open under your enemies, burning them to dust.
• Tornado - several small whirlwinds that make their way through your enemies.
• Vulcan - summon a volcano that sows death and destruction among your enemies.
• Tornado - A funnel of wind and debris that hits your enemies.
• Armageddon - A meteor shower rains fire on nearby enemies.
• Urahan - A powerful storm of wind and debris that blows enemies to pieces.

Wall Mold

• Man - Wolf - Turns a druid into a wolf.
• Lycanthropy - Increases health and time spent in the form of a Wolf or Bear.
• Man - Bear - Turns a druid into a Bear.
• Hammer - Thrashing strikes in Bear form that deal increasing amounts of damage to enemies on successful hits.
• wild fury - A frenzied rage in the form of a wolf that drains an increasing amount of health from enemies on successful hits.
• Rabies - Biting your enemies in Wolf form causes them to become infected, which spreads to other monsters.
• fiery claws - In the form of a Wolf or Bear, the strongest blow to enemies with a furious claw attack.
• Shock wave - A Bear-shaped stomp that unleashes a shockwave that stuns nearby enemies.
• Hunger - in the form of a Wolf or a Bear, when biting enemies, health and mana are stolen.
• Fury - While in Wolf Form, multiple nearby targets are attacked or the same target is attacked multiple times.

Appeal

• Raven - Summon Ravens to peck out the eyes of your enemies.
• poisonous vine Summons a poisonous vine that poisons everything it touches.
• Oak Sage - Summons a spirit that increases the health of your party.
• ghost wolf- Summons a wolf with the ability to teleport, which attacks your enemies.
• corpse vine - Summons a vine that eats corpses and restores your life.
• Wolverine Heart - Summons a wolverine spirit that increases damage and attack level for you and your group.
• Wild wolf - Summons a wolf that becomes enraged and eats the corpses of enemies to increase damage dealt.
• solar vine- Summons a vine that consumes corpses and restores your mana.
• Spirit of Thorns - Summons a spirit that reflects damage inflicted on you and your group back to the attackers.
• Grizzly - Summons a grizzly bear that will attack your enemies.

AMAZON

Amazons are a versatile class in Diablo 2. They both shoot arrows and either pierce enemies with spears or use them as javelins. In addition, she can imbue her arrows with fire or cold elements and summon potentially infinite arrows with other magical effects.

Because of her versatility, she's a bit harder to use for new players, but her best builds are competitive compared to other classes. If you feel like your next Diablo 2 campaign is going to be a bit of a challenge, then Amazon is a worthy class to try.

Starting Attributes

• Health points - 50
• Endurance - 84
• Mana Points - 15
• Durability - 20
• Agility - 25
• Vitality - 20
• Energy - 15

Level stats

• Health Points: +2
• Endurance: +1
• Mana: +1,5

Effects

• 1x survivability point = +3 health points and +1 stamina
• 1x energy point = +1,5 mana points

Bow and crossbow skills

• magic arrow - magical enhancement of your arrows or bolts, the shot always hits the target.
• Firebolt - strengthening arrows or bolts with fire, the shot always hits the target.
• cold arrow - strengthening arrows or bolts with cold, the shot always hits the target and slows down the enemy.
• Multiple Shot - splits one arrow or bolt into several projectiles.
• Exploding Arrow - Upgrading your arrows or bolts, projectiles explode on impact, hitting nearby enemies.
• Ice arrow - enchants arrows or bolts that always hit the target and freeze the enemy.
• homing arrow - the shells pursue the target, or find a new one if necessary, the shot always hits the target.
• shelling - splits your arrow or bolt into multiple homing projectiles.
• Sacrificial Arrow - Projectiles deal heavy fire damage and create a bonfire on impact.
• Frost Arrow - strengthening your arrows or bolts with frost, the shot always hits the target, freezing all monsters near the point of impact.

Passive and Magic Skills

• inner vision - Highlights enemies to make it easier for you and your group to hit them.
• Critical hit - Gives you a chance to deal double damage.
• Evasion - Gives a chance to dodge melee attacks while attacking or standing still.
• Shot slowdown - Highlights enemies and slows down their ranged attacks.
• Avoid - gives a chance to dodge enemy shots while attacking or standing still.
• Deep wound - Increases your attack level.
• Bait - Creates a copy of you that distracts enemy fire.
• escape - Gives you a chance to dodge any attack while moving.
• Valkyrie - Summons a fearsome Valkyrie to fight by your side.
• piercing - Your shots have a chance to pierce through the enemy.

Dart and spear skills

• Lunge - attack with a series of quick lunges with a spear or dart.
• Power strike - Adds lightning damage when attacking.
• Poison Dart - thrown darts leave a cloud of poison.
• penetrating blow - increases damage, but greatly wears out weapons.
• electric dart - Turns a dart into lightning.
• Charged Strike - Adds lightning damage to spears or darts and releases charges on hit.
• Plague Dart - When hit with a dart, a cloud of poison is released.
• Feint - attack all nearby targets.
• Lightning strike- Adds lightning damage to spears and darts and releases chain lightning on hit.
• Rage of Lightning - Turns a dart into a powerful lightning bolt that splits on impact.

Assassin

As the second of two classes first introduced in the Lord of Destruction expansion pack, the Assassin uses a combination of martial arts and death traps to defeat targets. She is also a master of ninja techniques, including fast speed, which allows her to evade enemy detection. She has the most average stats, but she has an impressive stamina that helps her avoid danger.

Unfortunately, she is the hardest class in the game. It's not that best build Assassin Trap  not very good, but her skills require the player to follow many commands and set traps in advance for her to be effective. Even her best build doesn't quite meet the standards of the other classes, as they are simply more efficient. If that doesn't bother you, then you should at least try it for yourself.

Starting Attributes

• Health points - 50
• Endurance - 95
• Mana Points - 25
• Durability - 20
• Agility - 20
• Vitality - 20
• Energy - 25

Level stats

• Health Points: +2
• Endurance: +1.25
• Mana: +1,5

Effects

• 1x survivability point = +3 health points and +1,25 stamina
• 1x energy point = +1,75 mana points

Martial arts

• tiger strike - successive hits increase the damage of Finishing Blows, to release the charge, you need to use dragon Finishing Blows or a normal attack.
• dragon fang - A kick that knocks enemies out of your path, adding accumulated charges to the kick.
• Fists of Fire - Adds Fire Damage to Finishing Strikes (can only be used with claw class weapons).
• dragon claws - slash your enemies with two claw-class weapons, adding accumulated charges to both attacks.
• cobra toss - Adds mana and health drain to Finishing Blows.
• thunder claws - Adds Lightning Damage to Finishing Strikes.
• Dragon tail - knocks back your enemies with an explosive kick, adds accumulated charges to the blow.
• blades of ice- Adds cold damage to Finishing Strikes.
• flight of the dragon - teleports to the enemy and kicks, adds accumulated charges to the blow.
• Phoenix strike - Adds elemental explosions to Finishing Moves.

Shadow Disciplines

• Mastery of the claws - Increases claw skill.
• mental hammer - use the power of your mind to strike with a mental hammer that crushes your enemies and knocks them back.
• Explosion of speed - Temporarily increases attack and movement speed.
• Cloak of Shadows - Creates a shadow that blinds your enemies, lowering their defense for a while.
• Block with weapons - chance to block an attack when using two weapons of the Claw class.
• Tarnishing - raises all resistances and protection from curses for a while.
• Shadow - Warrior - Summons its own shadow that has your buffs and fights for you.
• Mind blow - Uses the power of your mind to stagger a group of enemies, converting the feeble-minded.
• Poison - Adds poison damage to weapons.
• Shadow - Lord - Summons a powerful shadow to fight by your side.

Traps

• fire explosion - A fire bomb that blows enemies to pieces.
• Lightning network - A network of lightning that shocks your enemies.
• Blade - Guardian - throw a blade flying in a circle from you to a healing point.
• Sentry Electric Arrows - A trap that fires Electric Arrows at passing enemies.
• fire awakening - A trap that emits waves of fire.
• Fury of Blades - spinning blades that cut your enemies.
• sentinel lightning - A trap that emits lightning bolts that fry enemies.
• Awakening Hell - A trap that spews flames at passing enemies.
• Death Clock - A trap that shoots lightning at enemies and explodes nearby corpses.
• Shield of Blades - Rotating blades cut enemies that get too close to you.

And that's everything you need to know about Diablo 2: Resurrected's best classes. If you're returning to Diablo 2 after a long hiatus, check out our guide to Diablo 2 Resurrected Beginners, to learn how to play. We also have a list of all Horadric Cube recipes to craft the best items in the game.