Hello!

As (I assume) we all here I love Diablo 2 and have decided to try my hand at speedrunning. I tried speedrunning the Paladin in the past but after 2-3 tries something else got my attention, and now I'm coming back to try out the Barbarian, I do have a couple of questions though:

1. The Paladin uses a Scimitar with Steel, where Barbarian uses Scepters (arguably a Paladin weapon?) and then Flails with Malice and TalTalTal. What is the reasoning behind this?

2. Again, the Paladin uses Javelins at very early game but none of the Barb speedruns I've watched utilised them. I've grown to like having Javs on W switch very early on and was wondering why are they considered good and used on Paladin but skipped on Barb.

3. What item should be imbued IF I get lucky enough to get Hsarus boots? Gloves? And can I imbue a white Jawbone Cap even if it has some Barb related bonuses? Would that be essentially "rerolling" it in hopes for getting Mace Mastery or some other useful stuff?

4. More of a general question, but my game stutters very much. Everything is fine then my FPS drops to 0 for a second then picks up, all at random, and it happens pretty often. Does anyone have an idea how to combat this? I am already using compatibility with XP Service Pack 3.

Edit: 5. From d2speedruns site mentioned in the Guides section I can read that the Malice Flail should go to the Right weapon slot. Why is that?

Thank you very much!

If you're interested in running, have any tips or ideas for various skips, write here :)

Currently the run will take above an hour to complete, but I'm sure we can think of more.

I heard (I think it was on Andyrockin's current #1 video) that there are some major skips but you can't execute them, because you die if you skip a checkpoint.

Do You mind sharing how to do some big skips so I can play around and try to make them work?

Thanks in advance

All window skip tutorials I saw were the glass boosting ones, and recently I watched Finath's video (kind of Outlast celeb huh? :D ) where he jumped up and kind of jumped back while crouching and skipped the whole rub on glass backwards jump timewasters.

I'm completely fresh to Outlast speedruns and I'm only actually interested in Any%s, so I'd love to hear how to do that no-glass window skip.

Cheers guys! :)