You won't find yourself too capable in Hell but built right, even in crummy gear, you can kill Andariel and Mephisto (though you might want to teleport around the council) in Nightmare. If you are starting online I always, whenever I feel like starting fresh, make my first character a Sorceress. I am partial to the Barbarian, when by myself, and the Paladin online. However, the easiest for a single-player game is definitely the Necromancer. The best thing to do is, if you plan to just play through normal, is pick the class you think you will enjoy - put points in what looks cool - go from there.

Not to mention its a solo play-through and he wouldn't be able to obtain a quarter of even the mediocre items you need to make either build viable - he would just run around gimped with half his stat points in abilities that won't have any pay off till the late (level) sixties. Smite Paladins are equally as expensive and one of the harder builds to play. Smite pal or Hammerdin are the best 2Who in gods name would suggest the two builds that require so much knowledge and investment, through money and trade, to a 'noob'? Hammers are just useless without at least some very basic +skill unique(s), such as a Peasant's Crown, and I personally would never bother making one unless I could make a perfect one or else they are just mediocre.

Diablo 2 easiest class to solo hell