This game is lopsided. I found the difficulty Nightmare too easy, I just go in there and mass murder all the demons like nothing, but the difficulty Hell is mostly impossible to play. the demons would smarm me and kill me and my merc with no way to advance. So, how do you play after NM? Believe me, I have tried every way to tweak my available resources to go forward but failed to find the way out. I just hate to call for help but this is getting very tiring. Do you have to play in a group to advance in HEll? I just want to play single until I get good equipment to play with others.
what build are you running? what level are you?
if you smash through nm, farm nm baal and you’ll get some good drops to take hell
make a spirit sword, make stealth rw, make lore rw, plenty of things that can carry you through hell
edit: ancients pledge rw as well plenty of resists. you can even get the runes from act 5 q2
Try hardcore if that is tiring for you 
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Hell is a pretty big jump from NM. Try to add resistances from whatever gear you can get. And when you go through Hell, you kind of need to carve your way through some areas carefully. The last resort would be using a respec. Every class has at least one build that can get through Hell on minimal gear, but some of them aren’t fun.
Try to farm act 1 hell
yeah no one is going to be able to help you unless we know your build.
beyond that all we can say is “try to raise your resists” and HP to survive better…
without knowing your build we don’t really have enough info to provide much more advise than that
Hell is soloable.
Be smart. Dont let them swarm you. If the mobs are massively together, they could overwhelm you. But if you kill them one by one or in few numbers, it could become manageable.
This is my Mephisto Hell Solo. Let me know if you want Baal Hell Solo.
I am a fire-orb sorceress at level 76. Despise loosing most of my runic equipments while respecting at the start of Hell lvl, ( I put them on the ground, and they disappeared in thin air). I went back to NM to farm for a week and got a few good items like:
1- Gnarl staff of Lazarus
2- Ancient pledge tower shield - ral ort tal
3- Rockstopper sallet helm
4- leaf walking stick - tir ral
5- Insight battle staff - ral tir tal sol
6- Skull eye amulet (lev 31)
Those are my best equipments. They are not so great, but I just could not farm anything better at this low level Hell. I could not pass Act 1 at Stony field. Always dying in swarms of demons if I try to go beyond. Trying to go back in NM to farm but there were no better equipments there at all. So I am stuck, that’s it. 
Try getting a spirit sword. Ancients pledge is alright. You can also try Rhyme which has less resists but it adds “cannot be frozen” and some MF. You might also get better advice in the Sorceress subforum
Act like its hardcore and kite kite kite
a few suggestions:
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make a spirit sword asap. can farm a broad sword or a crystal sword from normal cows as a base. use larzuk socket quest if need be. just make sure you found the crystal or broad sword from cows. tal + thul + ort + amn can be farmed from countess
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depending on your body armor, if it isn’t better than stealth, make one asap. same for lore.
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bug your merc to deal with immunes. easiest place to do this is inner cloister, but basically get him stuck somewhere where he can’t follow you, walk far enough away that he teleports to you. then, physical attacks will not touch him (but arrows and spells still will). he will be able to take out most immunes for you that way
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respec if you need to. as a sorc, make sure you only have enough str for gear, rest into vit (or energy if you are es, however, that is not fully recommend because of mana burn bugged monsters)
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farm nm baal, you can find some decent items that way to help along the way, and also gain some levels for more points into vit. if you are struggling, you should be able to level to 70 easy in nm baal. that should help with hell
edit: nvm saw you were level 76. nvm rest still stands
Yes, that’s gp. My sorceress is still very weak. It’s fireball- frozen orb hybrid to deal with demons’ immunity of cold or fire. I respect from Frozen orb alone when I found the low life demons of Hell have immunity to cold, lol. The problem is some of them can have im to cold or fire and they like to swarm and move really fast, so you don’t have time to react. My poor merc kept dying, I wasted most of my gold trying to keep her alive. Going back to NM for farming too often has becoming a joke in itself. LOl
Get a nightmare act 2 defensive merc with holy freeze aura. Farm nightmare countess for runes. Make a spirit crystal or broad sword. Lore helm. Stealth armor in breast plate. Rhyme in a bone shield. Both armor and shield base can be shopped in act 2 normal. Find a 4 socket polearm and make insight for your merc.
You’re right. That’s what I am doing now. Thanks for the advice. 
My Hammerdin’s immune mobs (magic immune) are on Act 2 and 3 of Hell… of course Act 5 before Baal. I was able to farm on Act 1.
My issue with Act 1 and starting level of Hell is Resistance stats. Nef Lum solved my Resistance problems.
Against Immunes, not much I can do with my toon. I upgraded my Merc to kill my immune mobs for me. There was a whole map of Zombies immune to magic. I just bypassed them all. Then went to a cave… also full of magic immune Zombies with packs of Magic Immune Unravelers in the end. I was suppose to be frustrated but I got challenged so it ended up with me having fun. It was fun to try out numerous strategies.
Here’s me against the immunes on Baal Hell. People advise me to use Holy Bolt. Nope, I prefer Smite as it prevents Unraveler to cast a spell or summon a skelly. I just use a single point on Smite… but I carry a Spirit Shield and Spirit Weapon that has +2 to skill each… So I had +5 Smite on the video.
