Diablo II Ultimate Strategy Guide

 (1 customer review)

Brady Games's Ultimate Strategy Guide for Diablo 2 (and its expansion) does well enough. Some people complain that i's a bad guide, but that's not true--the fact is, Diablo 2 is an amazingly huge game with thousands of items, over a hundred skills, and several map variants for each area. Unless the book was nearly 500 pages long, there's no way Brady Games could fit in everything!

There is a brief introduction, followed by a chapter reviewing the characters. Specifically, the 30 skills that each of the 7 characters have. It gives a solid idea of what each skill does and what its pros and cons are, followed by tips of what some of the skills can be used for. The guide only once or twice tells what a character's skills should be, and instead motivates players to create their own combination and to try many character types.

After this, there are extremely brief views of the game's 5 acts and every quest in them. Sadly, there are no maps because each area has several...Read more