Diablo was the first game I ever bought for my perfoma Mac when I was a kid. I have played out each game since. I played the betas. I have reached a point where I do not know what to do.
I have not finished the campaign. In fact I haven’t even finished act III. Both my barbarian and sorceress have appeared to have reached a plateau at around level 35.
At around level 30, in world tier II, I started getting really terrible drops. Magic only, legendary that was worse that what I had. Finally around 35 for my sorceress and 37 with my barb, I got fed up with the terrible drops and just took the first positive change I found and went back out to see if this would yield better loot.
The first bear I meet I use all my health potions on. My attacks seem to take less health away. I finally make it to a dungeon. Can’t make it to the boss because I keep dying.
I figured I sold my sweet gear, let me just jump back to world tier I and grind till better loot falls. Bears still three hit me, and I still get crap loot.
I changed my skill load outs, made best use of the loot I got and continued to try and grind to get better loot. I still only got magic and crap legendary.
What am I supposed to do at this point? I can’t make it to a dungeon to fight a dungeon boss without having to TP back to replenish my potions a half dozen times. Can’t move the campaign forward, simple crowd of minions melt me in a second. Monsters don’t even drop health globes. Am I just supposed to start a new character and hope I don’t repeat this same mistake again? How are you supposed to recover from a mistake like that?
Echoing what @LilBagOfBunnies said. Find a build guide that looks interesting and use it for a while.
When I started I just kinda picked whatever skills looked fun, only sorta paying attention to trying to synergize what I was picking. Hit a wall around where you did and used an Icy Veins build that carried me through the campaign into T3. It was shocking how much stronger I was with streamlined abilities. At that point I felt like I understood my class and skills much better and started successfully being creative with my build and tweaking things. Just cleared the capstone and moved to T4 using a build inspired by the cookie-cutter one but with my own pizaaz.
In every Diablo there has been a new game mechanic that has taken me awhile to master. I feel like these synergies is that mechanic in this one. Feel like I need to do some more reading.