The game is way too good, basicly same as the original one but with some fix and amazing graphic quality, just sad that i pick a trash caractere, barb is way too bad as main caractere dont pick it, whatever im going for sorc when the ladder start.
Yeah, generally the sorceress is the recommended character for the start of each ladder season for farming items from things like Hell Mephisto due to the speed with teleport, barb is good if you're playing with a group and can give them battle orders etc. but if playing mostly solo and its first character, not a good idea.
Well i choose barbarian cuz i played sorc for over 10 years on the real game, at some point it's not because the barbarian is bad, it's only because his lack of weapons, you cant have good weapons untill you are hell, wich make it very difficult. Only good weapons are Grandfather or some runewords, but you can only find grandfather in hell and runewords are also super high and hard to find.
Barbarian is ok on Normal, but when you get on nightmare and hell, it's really a nightmare and hell..
So hes a bad caractere as main, but way much better then sorc if you got the stuff to build it, wich mean you need a sorc to farms stuff for him lol.
Only barb i made in my life was alt from my sorc as main, so i dint really play a barb as main and dint know he has so much lack of weapons like that.