Andariel is not that hard for too reasons: Its the first boss, and first boss don`t has
to be very hard. And second one she has -50% fire resistance, it means she`ll get more
damage from fire than any other crature.
Below (and on next pages) I marked how hard is it to kill a certain monster for each character
class. (Scale 1-10) Of course it may vary (+/- 2), depending of which way are you building your
character.
Amazon
Normal Difficulty = 3, Nightmare(NM) = 4, Hell = 5
When you get to level 4 catacombs completely clear first two rooms. Make sure that
every monster is dead. Before you open Andariel`s room go to town fill up your belt with potions, and
take a hireling with fire arrow. When you`ll be bact to catacombs open a portal again, that if you die you can easily
come back. And keep it open.
Open the last room. Don`t go in! Let the Andariel come out and then close the door.
While fighting her use fire arrow and add as much fire damage as you can. Be careful!
Andariel uses poison attacks, so you`ll need some antidote potions.
Necromancer
Normal Difficulty = 7, NM = 3, Hell = 3
Its probably the most difficult boss for necro (except Diablo;) ).Because you don`t have any powerful
minions yet don`t have any fire spells, and necro is too weak for melee combat.
Hireling won`t help you much, because she stays away from melee combat too. The only resolution
is to use a golem and Iron Maiden. Skels are useless, because 1 poison nova will kill the mall.
But its easy to kill Andariel in NM and hell difficulty levels, because you have Fire Golem,
Bone Spear and high-level Iron Maiden. These 3 spells in combination will kill her less than in minute.
Of course, if you have them. And if you don`t have any of those... you probably won`t go any further
with this char.
Barbarian
Normal Difficulty = 3, NM = 4, Hell = 4
Well, its almost nothing nothing to say. Rise your damage as possible (use Bash, Leap attack, etc.
and go ahead.
Some more tips for NM and Hell: assign Leap attack to let action key, Leap to right. Don`t use
only Leap attack, because it takes muvh mana! Than go like this:
Leap attack, leap back, again
leap attack, leap back.
If your attack rating is high enough she won`t hit you at all! But if
its too low, its no big sense to use this tactic.
Paladin
Normal Difficulty = 2, NM = 4, Hell = 4
GENERAL HINT: Put more skill points in Thornsand more stat points in
vitality until you rise thorns to 600% damage back. And keep rising vitality even
after that. Paladin MUST have more vitality than barbarian of equal level, because sacrifice and thorns
require much HP.
Well, that`s in general, and now about Andariel: Use Sacrifice and keep Thorns active. When you`ll
hit her you`ll make 300% (or more)dam to her, and when she hits you, she gets more than 400% dam to herself.
Its no point to use holy fire, because it does not enough damage. (lvl 20 holy fire = 28-45 dam),
(lvl 20 thorns more than 750% dam to herself, so up to 180 on Normal difficulty, up to 550 on NM
and up to 1200 on Hell!)
Sorsceress
Did i spelled right? ;-) Normal Difficulty = 1, NM = 2, Hell = 2
Strategy is totally different, depending of difficulty level.
NORMAL: Turn on blaze and run from her. She`ll follow you and roast in your fire tail 8))
NIGHTMARE: Fill up room with fire walls and use meterors or fire balls.
HELL: Fill up room with hydras this time. If you don`t have enough mana to do this, use
NM strategy. It will be a little harder, but not much.
And one thing more: use energy shield if you have.
Click here to see some more about andariel.
Now, when you done with andariel, we can go on to next Boss - Duriel.
That`s one funny thing about him. It looks like big spiked corcroach. :)