Here is a good strategy for any newbie to use to stop from being killed by more powerful players on battle.net: First, choose a Warrior for your class. DO NOT go to battle.net - not yet anyway. Instead, enter a single player game. With your starting gold, buy healing potions from Pepin. Then, get the Butcher quest from the wounded townsman. Clear the first 2 levels of the dungeon. Whenever you level up, at least for now, pile all of your attributes on strength. Then, beat the Butcher, and you should have a sufficient 7th level warrior that cannot be killed as easy in multiplayer mode.

You, too, can turn your warrior into a superman! How? PUMP MAGIC! Yes, it will stop growing at 50. SO? Wear some items of Stars (rings, armor, weapons, etc. -- gives you + to all stats) and keep an item of Brilliance or two around for when you need to learn a particularly difficult spell. Then, learn firewall or firewave -- a decent-level 'magical' warrior can get a couple of those off easily, and up until dungeon level 12 or so, a single firewall or firewave will tost almost anything. Great for the first 12 levels of the labyrinth! Shooting firewalls is great for when about 20 demons are attacking you at the same time -- a magicless warrior would be hard-pressed. P.S. This also applies to rogues.

Since a warrior's main abilities are in close combat, the first spells you should try to get the highest level of are flash and chain lightning. The reason for this is the fact that flash is a very powerful and damaging spell when you are surrounded, and chain lightning will usually wipe out everything before it can get to you.

The 'shift' key - Beware of this friendly key, it can be a great asset or your worst nightmare. I use it mostly when enemies are running near me, but not stopping to attack repeatedly. As soon as your surrounded your aim with the shift key goes out the window, you probably aren't gaining anything from using it anyhow. Think about it, your surrounded, so your not going anywhere until you kill some guys first. By releasing the shift key you can easily keep hitting the same enemy, rather than hitting enemy 'A' one time and enemy 'B' another, which is what tends to happen when it's held down. There's no point in beating an enemy down to 2 or 3 hp, and then attacking something else. This way you wipe em out faster and take less damage.

When u are about level 25 and you spend most of your time in hell, get something of blood!!! This way you get hps back from hitting monsters. Then u can kill whatever Succubi you want.

If you are fighting with a close combat weapon - use the shift key only at doorways. My experience is that if used in the open it reduces the chance to hit quite a lot. Several times when fighting mixed fiends I've been just hitting the fabric of space.

Rössberg  Get some range - ranged spells like fireball can whittle those large groups of monsters down to a manageable size before they get to you and helps take care of those pesky creatures that like to run away when you get close. For low level characters, some staffs can do as much hand-to-hand damage as some of the weapons you'll find and have the added bonus of range. Use terrain - note locations of doorways, alcoves, and any other nooks and crannies that you can retreat to if you end up facing a group of monsters in an open room. Even backing into a corner helps. Also, use pillars, sarcophagi, corners, etc. to creep up on those archers. While charging straight toward them maybe more warriorlike, why make yourself an easy target? Focus your attention on one creature at a time - generally the one that can do you the most damage. Also, bone gnashers and kin will ocasionally stop attacking you to eat dead bodies, so if you're facing a pack of them, make sure you're hip deep in carrion. Don't neglect your dexterity - strength is important, but it doesn't matter that you do 100 pts of damage if you can't hit anything. Get out of the way - when playing with other classes, it helps to work out who goes where before you go in to a level. When travelling with classes that use ranged attacks, decide in advance which side of room each person will be working. Remember to step to one side of a doorway to let your mates in or out of a room.

I suggest getting firebolt/fireball, and fire wall too. When these get into the high levels, they are powerful yet cheap in mana. When demons are coming at you, set up a firewall or two in front of them, then go nuts firing firebolt/ball and them untill they get closer, then fight. Try to get a sword of haste, one that attacks really fast. They can attack about 5 times as fast as the demons. So when they surround you, just hold shift, and swipe around your sword. But don't let yourself get surrounded. You may panic and die. Always have a way out. When I was attacked by many of those huge knight guys(at the time they were more powerful then me), I retreated, set a firewall up, retreated, set a firewall, retreated, set a firewall. Then shoot them till they get close. So it only takes a couple hits to kill them, instead of like 5 or more.