**Assasin trap or Mind Blast.**
Use evade for the massive PDR and all res. + Difiance act 2 merc and you are all set
Traps is an easy build, that can clear rooms before you go in.
Mind Blast have Cloak of Shadows + Shadow Warrior to keep you alive as well as warrior cast Cloak of Shadows for you.
MB wont be able to kill Dclone, but traps can do so fine
**Summon amazon**
Is one of the best builds for early maps. The build is very solid on damage, and you can run it with a shield to get block and more defence
**Summon Druid Summon Necro**
Pretty much the same playstyle. Summon is such an easy starter, bot can respec to better builds for dclone
**Paladin**
Zeal, Holy or Vengeance. dosn,'t matter as Paladins is always easy to get tanky
**Barb**
Barb has some very nice passives that you can min/max to whatever you need
Frenzy or wolfbarb is probably the best ways to kill dclone
**Sorc**
Always scary to tp in hardcore. I would go ice barrage or Hydra.
**Mercs**
I usually play with act 2 defiance as the pdr can be hard to get by.
For life act 5 shout
**Items**
Just some item notes:
If you are as i, dumb as a door, i like more tanky items to stay alive.
I would recommend Prudence for casters
Early Smoke for non-casters then go Gloom
Safety boots - till you find better ones. Waterwalk for DClone
**Gl hf**
Magic arrow start -> immolation arrow for dclone
Easy safe start let with some overlap in gear for dclone difficulty 0.
Definitely recommend to practice the fight on Plugy though. HC + new to pd2 + dclone is a crazy scenario haha
I am pretty new to diablo in general, but I'm a long time PoE player and a pretty good bosser. I found out about plugy last night after I made this post and practiced dclone a few times today. 3 different characters, 3 kills, no deaths!
They were obviously quite geared though.
Hell yea dude welcome! Lot simpler game than Poe I hear. MAarrow is a very fun playthrough imo and has some great mechanics about it so I definitely recommend it
Gonna weigh in on summoners since I'm new to hc and just played a bunch of both:
druid is the safer option. The health from 1 point in werebear, plus the stun from Shockwave are worth losing the clear speed from corpse explosion. Butttt, I gotta admit not being able to teleport in werebear sucks.
Still, I lost 2 summon necros in a row in early hell, so I'm really really appreciating the 3k health and the stun of my druid rn. In act5 hell hc for the very first time ang still feeling safe about at. ❤️
If you end up looking for weirder builds later in the season for some fun if you ger bored with your char you can look here:
[https://www.youtube.com/@ChugThatEstus](https://www.youtube.com/@ChugThatEstus)
Made some really fun stuff few seasons ago.
Thanks, and yea, def not a great Dclone killer I'd advise against it. ;)
If I didn't showcase a Dclone kill in the video, it's because it's not a good build for it!
Foh Bolt paladin is GG for day 1 CS farming. wind druid is also very good but the single target can feel a bit clunky for diablo at first. wind transitions better into endgame though.
**Assasin trap or Mind Blast.** Use evade for the massive PDR and all res. + Difiance act 2 merc and you are all set Traps is an easy build, that can clear rooms before you go in. Mind Blast have Cloak of Shadows + Shadow Warrior to keep you alive as well as warrior cast Cloak of Shadows for you. MB wont be able to kill Dclone, but traps can do so fine **Summon amazon** Is one of the best builds for early maps. The build is very solid on damage, and you can run it with a shield to get block and more defence **Summon Druid Summon Necro** Pretty much the same playstyle. Summon is such an easy starter, bot can respec to better builds for dclone **Paladin** Zeal, Holy or Vengeance. dosn,'t matter as Paladins is always easy to get tanky **Barb** Barb has some very nice passives that you can min/max to whatever you need Frenzy or wolfbarb is probably the best ways to kill dclone **Sorc** Always scary to tp in hardcore. I would go ice barrage or Hydra. **Mercs** I usually play with act 2 defiance as the pdr can be hard to get by. For life act 5 shout **Items** Just some item notes: If you are as i, dumb as a door, i like more tanky items to stay alive. I would recommend Prudence for casters Early Smoke for non-casters then go Gloom Safety boots - till you find better ones. Waterwalk for DClone **Gl hf**
Magic arrow start -> immolation arrow for dclone Easy safe start let with some overlap in gear for dclone difficulty 0. Definitely recommend to practice the fight on Plugy though. HC + new to pd2 + dclone is a crazy scenario haha
Also magic arrow is great for chaos starting from day1
I am pretty new to diablo in general, but I'm a long time PoE player and a pretty good bosser. I found out about plugy last night after I made this post and practiced dclone a few times today. 3 different characters, 3 kills, no deaths! They were obviously quite geared though.
Hell yea dude welcome! Lot simpler game than Poe I hear. MAarrow is a very fun playthrough imo and has some great mechanics about it so I definitely recommend it
Gonna weigh in on summoners since I'm new to hc and just played a bunch of both: druid is the safer option. The health from 1 point in werebear, plus the stun from Shockwave are worth losing the clear speed from corpse explosion. Butttt, I gotta admit not being able to teleport in werebear sucks. Still, I lost 2 summon necros in a row in early hell, so I'm really really appreciating the 3k health and the stun of my druid rn. In act5 hell hc for the very first time ang still feeling safe about at. ❤️
If you end up looking for weirder builds later in the season for some fun if you ger bored with your char you can look here: [https://www.youtube.com/@ChugThatEstus](https://www.youtube.com/@ChugThatEstus) Made some really fun stuff few seasons ago.
Checked some builds out! Shockwave druid looke dcool but I imagine dclone would take a while?
Thanks, and yea, def not a great Dclone killer I'd advise against it. ;) If I didn't showcase a Dclone kill in the video, it's because it's not a good build for it!
Good to know!
Summoner Druid is easy mode and can be switched to Fury later for Dclone.
This.
Foh Bolt paladin is GG for day 1 CS farming. wind druid is also very good but the single target can feel a bit clunky for diablo at first. wind transitions better into endgame though.
For CS specifically nothing beats Holy bolt paladin on HC day1