Duriel fight in Classic

[Bambi1775]

I'm preparing to fight duriel on normal hardcore classic as a barbarian. I have never really played a barb so I was hoping to get some advice to avoid going on a suicide mission.

Can duriel be stunned using stun?

I am level 18 and also have concentrate, is this a better skill to use?

Any general advice would be appreciated as well.

 

[fearedbliss]

Concentrate isn’t as good in prelod. There is no increase damage with it, just attack rating, and I believe it’s uninterruptible, which is good and bad because you won’t be able to do any other moves in the event of needing to escape during those frames. So I usually use regular attack instead.

You’ll definitely want to use a shield for most if not all characters since classic block = shield block. In classic by act 2 you should be able to get a shield with 42-50% block at least. Your ultimate goal for an end game mitigation shield is a 3os pdiamond tower shield. You’ll need 75 star but it has 49% block. 49% is a good general number since you want high block chance but not too high that your character gets into block lock.

Good luck!