Oh that sounds like a barrel of laughs. I only ever completed Hell once on D2 and that was with a Fire/Ice Sorceress. I tried and failed with all of the others if I'm honest as I could get through Nightmare on pretty much all them but Hell was just 1 step too far
.
Will certainly look at playing co-op a lot more than on D2, as I was a bit late to the D2 party so only really played single player, co-op on occasion however was always difficult to find a time when all my friends were around to continue the game - playing with randomers could be a bit hit and miss.
Minion Master Necro could trivialise Hell more or less. Skeletons can take a ridiculous amount of damage from most sources (sometimes they die en masse though but theres always corpses around for more) and once you get Corpse Explosion too most mobs just die the moment 1 of them falls. As for bosses, Decripify (sp?) plus Clay Golem would make them unable to do just about anything. Its kinda silly watching Hell Baal die to 12 Skeletons, a Clay Golem, a Might Henchman and lots of Decripify spam.
Though I agree. Hell was one step too far I thought. I never found any sort of melee character even remotely fun to play once you hit hell, things just had too much health and elemental damage would kill you instantly.