My favorite set ups were a barbarian with full immortal king and maxed whirlwind and the skills affiliated with it. When all was said and done and I got to be around level 94 then I had like level 38 whirlwind and it did like 50K damage.
Other fav would have to go to a maxed Hammerdin Paladin.. Ohhh hammers are so sweet when you do them right =)

I actually liked to play as a Paladin with Charge and Holy Freeze. My guy ran around extremely fast, while all the monsters stumbled slowly. It was fun to watch him bounce around from target to target like a pinball when I picked a different target for each attack.

Duck Sandwich:
I actually liked to play as a Paladin with Charge and Holy Freeze. My guy ran around extremely fast, while all the monsters stumbled slowly. It was fun to watch him bounce around from target to target like a pinball when I picked a different target for each attack.

Cheers on that! I loved watching those types of pallys when I played =)

Summon necromancer or blizzard sorcerer. Skeleton spam ftw?

Edit: Also, shouldn't this be moved to the Game Discussion forums?

PersianLlama:
Summon necromancer or blizzard sorcerer. Skeleton spam ftw?

Edit: Also, shouldn't this be moved to the Game Discussion forums?

Yeah that was my bad lol

PersianLlama:
Summon necromancer or blizzard sorcerer. Skeleton spam ftw?

Edit: Also, shouldn't this be moved to the Game Discussion forums?

have you ever played a high level summon necro as in lv 90+? because with a high level necro like that it's better to have only invested in fire golem, golem mastery, poison dagger, and anything that adds to poison dagger. with that combo you do ludicrous poison damage and you get a tank, if you combine that with a rough encampment bodyguard you can do diablo runs on nightmare by yourself with bad equipment.

My favorite charecter however had to be the highly underrated fire sorc, I had one at about lv 68 and loved it, then I went back to playing warcraft3 and sadly at this point the character is gone. if you invest in fireball and meteor and anything that adds to them and you can do 1.5k-2.5k with fireball at lv 22(I had some good set items) and 2.5k-4k with meteor at about lv 13. the only drawbacks are the complete inability to PvP, I tried and the best I could do was get the other guy to run around in circle, and a heavy reliance on other party members on hell.

black lincon:
the only drawbacks are the complete inability to PvP, I tried and the best I could do was get the other guy to run around in circle, .

You could always Shift + Click to lead your shots :p

I never really liked that Synergy patch, as it restricted character customization. If you made a Fireball Sorceress, you had to level up fireball and (I think) the otherwise useless firebolt.

I had a Whirlwind Barbarian, with very good gear; Two 380%ED Ebotdz, Perfect Fortitude, Very High Arreat's Face, and others (I can't really recall all the items :s). Anyway, he almost never died in PvM, but he wasn't as good at PvP.

Duck Sandwich:

black lincon:
the only drawbacks are the complete inability to PvP, I tried and the best I could do was get the other guy to run around in circle, .

You could always Shift + Click to lead your shots :p

I never really liked that Synergy patch, as it restricted character customization. If you made a Fireball Sorceress, you had to level up fireball and (I think) the otherwise useless firebolt.

you were supposed to but it really does have a use,you set fireball to left click and meteor to right if you have warmth at 22 like I did you never need potions and then with moves like firebolt and inferno you get passive bonuses to the moves, the only other move I invested in was teleport and its prerequisites. If your interested I had full sig and something else that I'd have to look up, I haven't played in a while.

Oh and like I said it was impossible to duel, nothing work I spent a few minutes shooting fireballs and meteors at the guy and all he did was run because I would have killed him in 1-2 hits, I don't know for sure because I never hit him bu I doubt many people, even if he was a barb meant for tanking, who could survive many 1.5k-2.5k hits.

for me its my either my Singing Frenzy Barb with Axes or my frozen orb/Meteor/fireball Sorceror
basically a Fire sorcerous with a back up cold spell for fire immunes.
I personally loved the Sinergy patch it added a whole new level to character building it nerfed Tri-elemental Sorcerous (Bad idea anyway) and made the barbarian a lot better when Shout gives me another 8% damage to my frenzy alongside the armour bonus (important when you have no shield)
and many added duration to other Warcries like battle commands/orders.
My Orb/Meteor loved it as well as spells became more powerfull but without costimg more mana good since I only place one point in warmth (+ skills do the rest) because orb/meteor are both on a timer.
Can't beat a good "LEAF" runeword either

I got a Paladin to level 70 odd with base of lvl 20 Sacrifice, Fanaticism and Holy Shield. I had on 40% worth of life steal equip (on Hell mode this bounces down to 10%, ouch, but still higher than the 8% drain). I could do thousands of damage points with a one handed weapon that moved like a blur.

Also helped I only had to have a pool of 35 mana to cast the one thing with a mana cost (Holy Shield).

Only problem was a a fair amount of deaths (not really a very smart build) but the pools of blood were hilarious.

Fanaticism:
Your damage: +373%
Attack speed: +35%
Attack rating: +135%

Sacrifice:
Damage: +465% (at least +100% from Fanaticism synergy and spare few points in Redemption)
Attack rating: +153%

So my total stacked damage bonus was around +940%. Which was quite amusing really when combined with almost +300% to Attack Rating. I was one-shotting badass monsters on hell mode!

Rossatdi Now that what i call a Ban hammer

jamesworkshop:
Rossatdi Now that what i call a Ban hammer

Yeah, I do remember using a six socketed war hammer variant most of the time! Then of course you'd swap to the two handed maul thing to take out a unique in one hit!

Soooooo the Assasin. With dual claws naturally

Bowazon.

Though the interface is really bad for it (well, this is Diablo we're talking about, it's RSI with graphics at the best of times), because you're constantly thrashing the mouse back and forth to keep distance and target.

First build I did was a Shocker. Fun, and good for a newbie. Second was a lightning sorc. Second deadliest of all (safe for javazon), but took skill to use right. Third one is a Concentrator I am playing sporadically now, and for the fourth I had to try the Hammerdin. Rules everything, and nothing can kill it. Ridiculous. He is lvl 89 now. Nothing poses a challenge anymore with the Hammerdin.
Next I am going to try variants of the Amazon, and later on Assassin. The necro and druid aren't appealing to me in any way really. Well, maybe the druid, but I would tire.

[Edit:] Whoops, this post was intended to point out for that other thread that it's already been done.