Might give this a whirl, a year or so ago I played D2 a lot and had my character sitting at a decent SHD level, using mule characters in the DZ to increase EXP and farm components for my main character. No idea if that's still a 'thing' but this new DLC has sparked my interest a little. I have to say though, I wasn't keen on the whole 'modifiers' thing they introduced and played with them off most of the time.
Is Strikers gear still one of the 'Go-to' gearsets, with the St Elmo's, or has that been nerfed?