Currently using this build for my first full playthrough and it's working great. One thing I'm not clear on though is that it seems the community is pretty split on whether or not life leech is worth it. Right now I just have my sword socketed with life after each kill and orbed with life leech. See...

So, this early game build has gear with essentially no resists and doesn't gem for them. Does it survive ok without much resists?

ARPGs are my favorite genre of game. I played Diablo II for years, and then moved on eventually to Torchlight, Diablo III, and Path of exile but none of them ever captured me like Diablo II did. Like Diablo II still does. I haven't played Diablo II in maybe ten years and decided to revisit it and th...