I was getting my ass kicked on NM until I found the secret to godliness...
1: Hydras. God damn hydras. Their damage sounds absolutely pathetic in the description, but damn do they dish out the damage...and most of all they let you kite around while they do all the work, that and I can send them through doors and shit. Then I just disintegrate anything my hydra misses, which isn't much.
2: Trying to make myself less squishy...bad. Pure DPS, aside from energy shield anyway, which rocks. Wizards are going to get 2-3 shot always...if you make 'em less squishy, you bump to about 4-5...and then can't kill anything. Pure DPS + hydra = everything dead before it can even think to react.
Good times, now I don't have to roll a barb like I planned to after dying 5 times in 5 minutes before finding a godly skill build.
Just wait till you get to the Lazorz!
We've died SO many times cause of them, thank god for resistance gear