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if you die it says press escape to continue.your back at the
town you were last at.
go to main menu and save and exit game then go to single player
and start your game back up
and look at your map and you will see your dead body click on it
and you will get your stuff back
When you go to deafeat diablo go in to
his sancuchary (i dont spell very good)
go to the left and open a portal go to
deckerd cain and he should say
"go to lut golane ." go and deafeat the boss
and a unichie (told you i dont spell very good) sword called
"Blacktounge basterd
sword. PS:(only works on v.1.01)
Recipes for the Horadric Cube
Ingredients: Wirts Leg, Tome of Town Portal
Result: Red Portal to Secret Cow Level
Special Note: Must finish the game first and be in the Rogue
encampment on the same level as when you finished
Ingredients: Amulet, 1 Perfect Gem of each type except Skull
Result: Prismatic Amulet - 18-24% Resist All
Special Note: -
Ingredients: 3 Perfect Gems: same type, 1 Magical Item
Result: 1 Random Magical Item
Special Note: Works with Magical Armor, Weapons or Jewelry
Ingredients: 3 Gems: same type and quality
Result: 1 Gem of next higher quality
Special Note: 3 Perfect Gems will not transmute
Ingredients: 1 Ring, 2 Topaz gems
Result: 1 Coral Ring
Special Note: Ring gives +21-30 lightning resistance; quality of
gems and ring properties do not matter
Ingredients: 1 Ring, 1 Sapphire, 4 Thawing potions
Result: 1 Cobalt Ring
Special Note: Ring gives +21-30 Cold resistance; Quality of gem
and ring properties do not matter
Ingredients: 1 Ring, 1 Ruby, 4 Exploding potions
Result: 1 Garnet Ring
Special Note: Ring gives +21-30 Fire resistance; Quality of gem
and ring do not matter
Ingredients: 1 Ring, 1 Emerald, 4 Antidote potions
Result: 1 Viridian Ring
Special Note: Ring gives +21-30 Poison resistance; Quality of gem
and ring do not matter
Ingredients: 3 Rings
Result: 1 Amulet
Special Note: -
Ingredients: 3 Amulets
Result: 1 Ring
Special Note: -
Ingredients: 3 Healing Potions, 3 Mana Potions, 1 Gem
Result: 1 Full Rejuvenation Potion
Special Note: Gem quality does not matter; quality of potions
does not matter
Ingredients: 6 Gems: any type or quality, 1 Sword
Result: 1 Socketed Longsword
Special Note: -
Ingredients: 3 Healing Potions, 3 Mana Potions
Result: 1 Rejuvenation Potion
Special Note: Quality of potions does not matter
Ingredients: 1 Healing Potion, 1 Strangling Gas Potion
Result: 1 Antidote Potion
Special Note: Quality of Healing Potion does not matter
Ingredients: 1 Quiver of arrows, 1 Spear
Result: 1 Set of Javelins
Special Note: -
Ingredients: 2 Quivers of Arrows
Result: 1 Quiver of Bolts
Special Note: -
Ingredients: 2 Quivers of Bolts
Result: 1 Quiver of Arrows
Special Note: -
Ingredients: 1 Dagger, 1 Axe, 1 Stack of Throwing Knives
Result: 1 Stack of Throwing Axes
Special Note: Axe/Dagger class and properties do not matter
Ingredients: 1 Axe, 2 Daggers
Result: Throwing Axe
Special Note: -
Ingredients: 3 Perfect Skulls, 1 Amulet
Result: 80% chance of getting +1 or +2 char skills ring
Special Note: -
Secret Cow Level
In order to find the secret cow level you are going to need a few
things.
1.Wirts Leg
2.Beaten the Game
3.Tome of Town Portal (with scrolls)
4.The Horadric Cube
Once you have beaten the game go to the Rogue Encampment in Act I,
then put Wirts Leg and a Tome of Town Portal (This has worked
with random ammounts of scrolls in the tome) into The Horadric
Cube. Once you hit transmute they should disappear, but once you
close your inventory window there is a red portal that will lead
you to the Secret Cow Level. This ONLY works in the Rogue
Encampment in Act I.
Retrieving Items from Dead Corpse
If you die and cannot make it back to retrieve the items from
your dead body, simply save, exit, and return to the game. Your
corpse will appear in town and you may retrieve your items easily.
Diablo 2 in a Window
Although not documented, you may run Diablo 2 in a Window instead
of full-screen. Simply add "-w" to your Diablo 2
shortcut.
(ie: "C:\Diablo 2\Diablo II.exe" -w)
Hex Cheat
WARNING: Always make a backup of your savegame before edititng!
To modify the amount of gold contained in your "Stash",
do the following:
1) Try to put at least 1000 gold in your stash. This cheat will
work with smaller amounts, but you may be limited on how much you
can add.
2) Load your game. Record the amount of gold in your stash. Exit
from game.
3) Load a Hex Editor and convert your gold to HEX. Open the file
savegame.d2s (savegame will be the name of your character) in
your Diablo 2 save folder.
4) Search for the HEX location (from converted amount of gold).
Modify the HEX location to FFFF (or any amount in HEX that you
wish - up to 65000). Save the file.
5) Re-load your Diablo 2 savegame and you will have 65000 in your
stash!
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Savings & Load
Unlike in Diablo I, you cannot save the game in the middle of a
dungeon, and re-load the game back to that point. That is, if you
pick up an unidentified magic item and want to save the game
before you identify it, so that you can reload the game and dump
the item if its actually cursed or useless, you cannot do it
directly through the main game menu like you could in Diablo I.
This is because your in-game menu options are various game
setting 'Options', 'Save and Quit', and 'Return to Game'. To do
this in Diablo I you would just: save, identify item, load game,
and then dump the item if you wanted. To do this in Diablo II,
you need to: save and quit, load game, identify item, Alt-Tab (to
bring up your Windows desktop), end task Diablo II (ctrl-alt-del,
select Diablo II, click on 'end task'), then relaunch the game,
and reload the game. Your item now returns to an unidentified
state, and you can unload (sell, drop) it if you want.
Money
This doesn't work for any class except the Barbarian. It
definitely takes patience. OK, first learn the find potion skill.
If u want to, after go to the skills shrine, then go around and
kill everything, in between use the find potion skill and with
the shrine enhancement u should be able to get light health and
mana, and maybe even a rejuvenation. when your full go to the
blacksmith and sell your potions. Presto, Mo money!
Dupe anything
Add a backup folder to the c:\program files\diablo II\save file.
Save the character that you wish to duplicate items/gold/whatever
with in there, basically everything that has their name on it.
Open Diablo II. Join a tcp-ip game that your friend...etc.. has
set up. Drop all your gear. Save and exit. Alt-tab to go to your
windows desktop and go into the folder that should be called
"backup". Copy all the files of the character back into
the save file. It will ask you if you wish to overwrite. Just hit
"A" for yes to all. Now join the game again, and your
gear will be on the ground, unless your friend took it all, and
you'll have all of it again. This works particularly well for
getting all perfect gems, as you can dupe all the cracked/flawed
whatever, then use the "Horadric Cube" to transmute
them into the better gems. I personally have a character that has
a full inventory of 4 of every type of gem/skull at a perfect
level, which makes NICE socketed eq.
HEX INFO (Experienced Hexers Only)HP, MP skill points stats etc...
please always backup yoursavegame before u edit it.
The manual stated that all values of your character are in the
save game and thus that is what i hacked
this is how.....
open your savegame(the file with XXXX.d2s,xxxx is your character
name) using a hex editor. i am not showing the offset for
different editors show it differently.
go in to your game. record all the values u want to edit eg.
please remove all items from your body first!!!
str xx
dex xx
vit xx
eng xx
gold piece xxx
stamina xxx
this is how u edit stats
ok....convert the values u recorded into hex
eg. strength of 30 converted to hex value is 1E
in hex it would look like this. 00 xx 00 00 xx
xx is the value of the strength the next xx would be dex followed
by vit and eng.
use the function find and type in xx 00 00 where xx is the
current value.replace it with a value u want eg xx 00 00 00 into
64 00 00 00 (100 converted to hex value is 64).
so with all stats 100 it would look like this
64 00 00 00 64 00 00 00 64 00 00 00 64
(remember only 4 stats,str,dex,vit,eng
)
for stamina
it would be xx 00 00 00 xx
the first is the current value and the second the max value
for hp and mp it is different.
the value of hp mp and gold is recorded backwards in the file.
eg hp of 1000 in hex is 03 E8
but the game record it as E8 03
the first value is current and the second max
it would liik like this E8 03 00 E8 03 00
Mana point is just right behind hp.
gold piece follows behind. put all your gold in your stash first.
then record and convert the value. eg gold of 99999 in hex is 01
86 9F
but instead record it as 9F 86 01.
a few bytes right after gold is the skill points.
it is a whole stretch of 00 00 00 00 00....if your character has
no skill at all.
i do not know the order of the skill.it would be easier to see if
you have 4-5 skill at level 1 so it would liik like this 01 01 01
00 00 01 etc... the skill u choose determines the slot.put in a
value u want eg 0A which is 10. there is total of 30 skills.
please dont edit the value too high eg 255,ff as the higher the
skill the more mana u will need. skills at level 255 will need
hundreds or thousnsds of mana for 1 spell.
well this is it.
Multiplayer Cheat
If you have a freind with a cool Weapon ex. (you must have tree
computers ) copy your save map and take it to the desk for exeple
and then the 3 computer host a game and the others joins it and
then put down all your stuf on the ground and then take "save
and exit". and quit diablo 2 and then you take your save map
on the desk and put it in the diablo 2 map and then join the 3
computers game and take the other players stuff in your inventory
and then take save and exit know you will have all the stuff that
your freind hade and your on stuff and your freind will have all
his stuff and your stuff.
Item Duplication (money)
Take a floppy disk and go into the diablo 2 directory. Go into
the save folder and copy all the files with your characters name
onto the disk. Now you have a copy of your character. You then
can go back into diablo and sell everything on your character,
give the money (or items) to a friend and have them hold it. When
you are finished go back to the save folder in the diablo 2
directory. Delete all the files with your name on them and
replace them with the ones you saved on disk. Now you have your
character back with all your stuff. Go back in the game and have
your friend give you everything back. Now you have either a lot
of money or duplicates of all your stuff (depending on what you
gave them).
Cow Level
When you have the Horadaric Cube, get "Wert's Leg" in
Tristram (where you go to rescue Deckhard Cain).then Go to the
northwest part of the town and search that persons body. Place
the Wert's leg and a Tome of Town Portal in the Horadaric Cube,
and it will open a portal to the hidden cow level filled with axe
carrying cows. you shouldent go through the portal until you are
over level 35 because there are alot of cows and there really
strong..
Getting Stuff Back Instantly From Corpse
If you die and can't get back to your body, simply save and exit
the game, then load your game and your body should be in the town.
All your gold may not appear ( this obviously depends on whether
you were carrying any ), it may still be lying near where you
died.
Good weapons
the code is about to how to get good weapons
Necromancers Weapon
To attain Necromancers ultimate weapon the STROKE OF DEATH please
do the following:
Summon one of each of the golems
Cast a bone spirit
Then die.
After you respawn, type in the phrase: THEDARKMUSTFEED Look in
your inventory and you will have the Stroke of Death
Paladin weapon
To attain Paladins ultimate weapon the HOLY AVENGER please do the
following:
Cast the following spells in this order: Meditation, Prayer,
Concentration, Prayer, Prayer, Meditation, Concentration,
Medidtation.
Then kill a monster using the spell, Hand Of God
Type: IHAVESERVEDYOU
Look in your inventory and you will have the Holy Avenger!
Secret Cow Level
After Beating the game on all the modes ( Normal,Hard,Hell)
Combine wirts leg with a tome of I dentity that is full in the
horidric cube and it will be empty. Then a portal will appear
next to you. Now you have to be in the Rouge Encampment.
Extra Soulstone
To get an extra "Mephisto's soulstone" do the following:
1.Kill Mephisto in act 3.
2.Pick up his soulstone.
3.Go to the river of flame in act 4.
4.Kill "Hephasto the armorer".
5.Pick up the hellforge hammer.
7.Place "Mephisto's soulstone" on the hellforge WITHOUT
HAVING IDENTIFIED THE HELLFORGE HAMMER!
8.Make a town portal.
9.Have Cain to identify the hellforge hammer.
10. You will now have an extra "Mephisto's soulstone"
in your inventory though the original one will still be on the
hellforge.
Play in a Window:
Although not documented, you may run Diablo 2 in a Window instead
of full-screen. Simply add "-w" to your Diablo 2
shortcut.
(ie: "C:\Diablo 2\Diablo II.exe" -w)
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Wizzardsīs POWER WORDs about DIABLO II
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One of the most-awaited computer-games ever is Diablo II. After
my Power-Words about Dungeon Keeper 1+2, Pax Imperia and Birth of
the Federation it is now time for good power tips for Diablo II.
General tips for gameplay
- First play Diablo II a bit without reading these Power-Words.
Explore this fantasy-world on your own and with level 7 you
should continue reading this. Remember, your first character wonīt
be your final character.
- Basic strategies - every character has a different way of
fighting: the Barbarian is the best fighter of DII and fights in
direct contact to the enemies. The Amazon has good potential in
long-range-fights with her bow, the Necromancer should combine
summoning with curses and is a very interesting character. The
Paladin should develop good fighting abilities combined with
strong resistances (protection auras). Finally, the sorceress is
a very interesting (and cute) character, but quite difficult to
play. She should avoid direct enemy contact and develop strong
specialized magic. More infos in the Sorceress Section.
- Skills: a very important aspect in DII is a well planned
character-development. You may play for the exploration a just-for
fun-character and then start a new one and plan a strong
character. Specialiazing is one of the keys to get a strong
character which can play even Act4 in Hell Mode. When you put too
many skill-points into different spells you wonīt have spells
which are really powerful. (I had to restart my Sorceress two
times until I found out about the best skill-planning)
- For finding the best skill-developments read the strategy-pages
of the DII-Sites. Or ask some high level players on the BattleNet.
I also recommend to download the DII-character planner at www.wizz.de.
For Sorceress- and Necromancer players I have some special tips
in these Power Words.
- Navigating: many maps have a waypoint which teleports you to
town and other places, you can use them also to warp to another
Act (if you entered that before). When searching a place for a
quest or a special plain remember that some plains have more then
two exits. Navigating though dungeons: (if you donīt want to
fight all monsters, but simply want to quickly solve the quest):
many times the exit to another level or an important location is
on the other side of the dungeon. So donīt search near the
entrance, but rush fast to the other end of the dungeon.
- The Automap is activated with the TAB-key, run with CRTL. With
the numeric keypad (num lock on) you can say something to your
fellow players: 0 = "Help"", 1 = "Follow me.",
2 = "For you.", 3 = "Thanks.", 4 = "Sorry.",
5 = "Bye.", 6 = "Die!". With the PrintScreen-Key
you get screenshots saved in the Diablo 2 directory.
- ESCaping very dangerous situations (it sounds simple but saves
a lot of money & exp): learn to FAST hit ESC and "save
game". The ALT key shows you all items on the floor with
names; that definitely helps to find good items fast.
- Selling items: if you have found more expensive items you want
to sell (good armors, rares, etc.) first repair then sell them -
you get more money.
- Difficulties: in Diablo 2 you can play the whole game with all
quests in three difficulty-levels: Normal, Nightmare and Hell -
mode. When dying in Normal mode you will loose all money you
carry (it lies next to the corpse) and a part of the money from
your stash. In Nightmare and Hell you will also loose experience
points. So be extra careful if you have a character which will
get a new level soon. Especially in Hell you NEED lots of
resistance (best go for prismatic amus / rings), because there is
a high negative restistance bonus.
- When dead, your character rematerializes in town, but does not
have the equipped items. The corpse of your character lies at the
place where it was killed. You can go back to that place,
hopefully kill the monsters and get back your items with clicking
the corpse. Be careful with equipping new stuff. Many players
lost items that way. If you get killed several times (and had re-equipped)
you will loose items! I would never equip my char with any new
stuff after it has just been been killed.(in BattleNet a
disconnect sometimes deletes your items in corpses when youīve
equipped new items...) After dying and game-restart the corpse
will be in the town.
- Surviving: Rejuvenation-Potions ("life+magic"-potions)
help in difficult fights / duels because they instantly
regenerate life + mana points (normal potions let you regenerate
slowly).
- Bosses: there are some monsters with blue name (stronger then
normal) and be careful about the monsters with brown name (very
strong monsters with special magical abilities). These monsters
strengthen other normal monsters of the same type, try to kill
the bosses first, then the others wonīt be so strong anymore.
When fighting a tough boss (or a quest opponent like Mephisto)
you should open a town portal. Concentrate your attacks or spells
on one monster until it goes down, then attack another monster to
its end.
- Traps: you will be warned that a trap is activated when you
hear this creaking noise. Run fast then!
- Getting rare items: when you are not in "levelling up"-
or "quest"-mode you can just fight for getting nice
items: equip magical items for additional-chance% of finding
magical items like ring-of-luck or Tarnhelm. Especially in Act-4
you will find a lot of rare stuff - exploit it first (fight many
monster bosses and get their rare items) and trade with that
stuff to get what you need. And then continue on in next mode (Nightmare
or Hell) - you will see that good items are needed because every
advance in mode makes the monsters much more powerful.
- Retrieving items: when the monsters get you and it is too
difficult to kill them to get back the stuff from your dead body,
better leave game and enter another game, the body is back in
town.
- In one quest Charsi offers to magical transform a basic item.
Donīt use it too early, better wait until Act-3 (better until
another mode like Nightmare Act-2) or when you find better basic
items. The best is to "imbue" an armor because a (good)
rare armor has great worth for use and trading in BattleNet. You
can only transform basic items (white name).
- The Horadric Cube (to be found in Act-2, halls of the dead) is
a special magical item you will need in Act-2 and Act-3. With
this cube you can transform segments of quest items to the final
quest item. And you can do some other magical transformations
with the Horadric Cube: here are not all, but some interesting
combinations:
- 3 gems (same type and grade) = 1 higher grade gem (same type)
- 3 Health-Potions + 3 Mana-Potions = 1 Rejuvenation-Potion
- 3 Health-Potions + 3 Mana-Potions + 1 gem = 1 full Rejuvenation-Potion
- 3 perfect gems (of any type) + 1 magical item = 1 new random
magical item ( same type)
- 3 Amulets = 1 Random Ring
- 3 Rings = 1 Random Amulet
- 6 Gems and 1 sword = 1 socketed Long-Sword
- The secret cow level: in Tristam you will find Wirtīs leg (search
his corpse). After defeating Diablo on this mode (Normal,
Nightmare or Hell) you can open a portal to this sectret map:
place wirtīs leg and a town-portal-book in the horadric cube and
transform them. Enjoy the funny cows. :-)
- Diablo II has more and more modifications with every new patch.
Especially the power of some spells will be changed. These Power
Words are written in Oct-2000, and in future some details about
DII might be changed.
- Open BattleNet: "doesnīt exist" for me (you can
easily cheat and duplicate items) many cheaters / playerkillers
are out there. So the more fair and real challenge is the closed
Battle-Net, because up to date there is no cheat in closed BN.
- Playing in Battle-Net: In closed BattleNet the char is saved on
one of Blizzards (free, but slow) servers and until now cheating
is impossible. Letīs hope it stays this way - because creating a
good char here and finding / trading good items takes quite some
effort.
- Parties: you can play alone like in single-player mode, but the
fun is being in a party with different chars. (press "P"
for party screen). When you are in a party you share the
experience and taken gold with all members if you are on the same
map. So donīt do the fights alone while others search only gold
and items.
- Trading: be careful about your trades when you are a beginner.
Some advanced players like ripping off newbies (giving much less
worthy stuff for good uniques). Read the offers and postings in
the trade channel and the reactions of the other players. If you
have special wishes or special items for sale leaving messages in
the trade channel is faster then just randomly meeting other
players in trading games. "Spamming" / "Flooding"
(= repeating long messages very fast) wonīt bring you much
friends in trade channels - a constant, but changing slow flow of
messages is much better. My way of getting good deals is having a
text-file (in Windows) with my offers like:
"offers rare amu 6%-life-steal + fast cast rate + some Res"
"offers Tarnhelm or Nightsmoke for Culwens Point"
"seeks FROSTBURN offers WORMSKULL"
"trades Rare+2Staff-Sorc(20-45 dmg) / BONESNAP nice Unique
Hammer
"trades MILAGREBAS-Scepter(+1Pala) / IRON JANG BONG (good +1Sorc
Staff)"
"offers SILKS / SIGONS Shield / MAGEFISTS / Rare +2-Staff-Sorc
(20-45dmg) / Pala+nec+1Amu-with-4%Mana-steal"
"seeks rare MagePlate AC300+"
"needs 1h-sword dmg 50+"
(and bring them *not too often* with copy (CRTL-C in textfile in
Windows) and paste (CRTL-X) into the trade channel screen)
- Item Trading guide: - forget trading Basic Items (white): -
Magical Items (blue): donīt have much worth (maybe some good
items from Hell mode, like armor and helmets with high AC =
ArmorClass).
- SET-items (green): most beginners are after them. Wizzard just
says: waste of energy! Some SETs are maybe useful with level 16-24
or so. If you play well you will fast advance and donīt need
them. Good rares are in many cases better then any SET. Even most
complete SETs donīt have much worth.
- The only SET-items I can recommend (up to 20s Levels) are: +1-Weapons
like Arcannas Staff, Infernal Torch, Milagrebas Scepter and
Sigons Shield (the only SET-item with some worth even for higher
players) (If you have a SET complete, it will add a special bonus,
for example more armor).
- Rare Items (yellow): a good rare crown/armor/weapon is often
more worth then the a uique crown/armor/weapon!
- Unique items (gold = dark yellow): it may sound strange, but
many uniques are worthless for trade and use! Most weapons have
too low damage or shield have too low AC. So donīt think in
trading that every offered unique has value. But there are some
very good unique items.
- This Unique-List tells about some useful and valuable items:
- Stone of Jordan (+1Skill / +mana-ring): one of the most
valuable unique items - many players want it but the value
decreased since there is a "trick" how to get it (see
below)
- FrostBurn: gloves/gauntlets with good AC and giving +40% more
Mana! One of the most-searched Items in BattleNet! Try to get it
when offered cheap, it has great trading value. (my Sorceress
Beldandy has got five Frostburns just because of its trading
value)
- Silks of the Victor: nice armor with +1skill, high trading
value.
- GoldSkin: another Armor with high trading and good using value.
- Wormskull: maybe the most searched for item for low/midlevel-players.
You canīt be five minutes in the trade channel without reading
"... seeks Wormskull.".Itīs a Necromancer-skill +1
helmet with 4% life steal. I don't think itīs soo worthy to be
crazy about it. But give it only away for *good* stuff!
- Tarnhelm: it increases the chance from 20% to 50% to find a
magical item and gives +1 to all skills, but has a low AC. Itīs
worthy to have and good to use up to the 20s level (or equip it
only when fighting for good items in Act-4). With higher % it has
nice trading value.
- Nightsmoke: a belt that gives you mana for damage (but does NOT
prevent damage!) - okay for Sorceresses and Necromancers under 30.
- Magefists: give +1 to all fire-skills
- Culwens-Point: a sword which gives +1 to all skills, many mid-level
sorceresses wear it.
- Spectral Shard: a nice weapon for Sorceresses with +10
Resistances, +50 Mana, fastest cast-rate, fast attack and +55 to
attack.
- Eye of Ettlich: +1 skills amulet and 3%-life-steal, +4 light
radius and some more. Not bad, but donīt give too much for it
unless you really need that +1skill / life-steal combination.
Donīt forget: This list is not complete and other players may
see the value of these items differently, itīs just to give you
some idea about this subject! - Crystal Swords: these interesting
sounding items are quite worthless in Diablo II, no good attack
and even the unique crystal-sword is not really interesting. -
Money has NOT that much trading-worth in this game, only for
gambling (rares and uniques) and repairing, so donīt sell a good
item (some bad players try to rip-off others with just buying
good items). Some good items are even sold online for real money.
- Gems: You will find different sorts of gems when killing
monsters or solving quests. They are in different degree of
perfection: chipped, flawed, normal, flawless and perfect. You
can place three gems (same sort and quality) into the Horadric
Cube to transform them to the next higher level. Many beginners
are seeking and trading for gems, but it is a waste of time. If
you advance fast you will get better gems easily. For example for
a perfect diamond you need 81 chipped diamonds! And if you
collected and traded and transformed and finally have some
perfect gems you are on an advanced level where gems donīt have
any trade value. The only good worth of them is sometimes place
them into socketed weapons to increase AC, mana or so. And you
can use them to transform magical potions into greater
rejuvenation potions. (see Horadric Cube section)
- The "real currency" in BattleNet in higher levels are
good rare (commonly used items like) armors (AC 400+, str 100-),
swords, helmets, belts and good unique items (see list). So I
recommend if you find nice stuff try to get good uniques for it.
Even if you get "only" Magefists and Nightsmoke, you
can trade several of them for more valuable stuff like Wormskull
or Frostburn. With some of those really searched for items you
have the "money" you can get easily good stuff when
needed. (imagine you loose a good staff and need a new one...)
- Donīt forget to repair your valuable items you have in use
like armor and helmet if itīs a good one, itīs worth the money.
- Item-Magic you will need: fastest hit recovery, (Sorceress:
fastest cast rate), resistances (look that all your resistances
are balanced (equal), prismatic rings or amus are nice, those
help you surviving Hell more then +1 skill items), +life, +mana.
Some weapons with 7%+ life / mana steal are nice, but it depends
on the character. - A good trade can have equal worth like
playing half a day! Trading is a nice part of this online-gaming
(as long you donīt meet rip-offs or beggars ...). Give it a try!
- Last tip for trading: learn by doing.
- Gambling: a good way to get rares and uniques (even if you arenīt
so advanced in game) You can gamble in every act (e.g. at Gheed
or Elxix): theyīll offer items for high prices, when buying them
they will be identified and the result can be magical (mostly
useless), SET (mostly useless), rare or unique (better). If you
seek a special unique and donīt have the stuff for trading it,
find out how it looks like. (the Frostburn looks like plate
gauntlets, Tarnhelm like simple iron helmet and Nightsmoke like a
small leather belt). I recommend always gamble Nightsmoke and
Tarnhelm, they are cheap (less then 10000), and even if you donīt
use them they are good trading items. Anyway there are many
useless object offered (useless even as rare or unique) so just
spend your money on worthy items like Frostburn or Stone of
Jordan (ring). When you donīt find good stuff offered for
gambling go to another map (waypoint) and back to town and see
what the new offers are.
- The Stone of Jordan: there is a "trick" to getting it:
if you can trade (or gamble) the unique NagelRing and Manald Heal
Ring (donīt give too much) and have them with your char, you
have a better chance to get that most valuable item. It is
because when gambling you canīt get a unique item you already
possess (with that char).
- Levelling up in closed BNet: it sounds funny but donīt advance
too fast! There are players with level 24 in Nightmare and wonder
why it is so difficult. Donīt go to Nighmare until level 30,
better 33. (use that time to go over and over into Act-4
collecting nice items...) If you have found a level which is easy
to play and brings lots of exp-points then play that level many
times with 5-8 players (with no ally = no sharing of experience-points)!
Thatīs the warp ticket to fast level advance. With more players
the monsters get their hitpoints multiplied (for example four
times with four players), but NOT their attack damage, they are
harder to kill but not more dangerous. Easy level-up-locations I
can recommend are Act-2: Sewers, Oasis and Palace, Act-3: Under-Kurast
and Bazaar. Donīt combine levelling up with playing (difficult)
quests. In some quests you encounter hard fights you might loose
and loose experience points (Nightmare and Hell). So start your
quest when you just have reached a new level.
- Necromancer Basic Tips: there is no "only good" way
of playing the Necromancer, you can play a summon-only Nec or a
Poisonmancer etc. But the basic rule here is (like in all other
characters): specialize in the most effective spells!! Find out
which spells will serve you in long term (mostly NOT the first
spells of any char) and put lots of skill points into them. That
can help surviving in Hell mode. Good Necromancer spells are:
Amplified Damage (even in later modes) and Iron Maiden. These are
the best from "curse" tree, a kind of "must have"
for every Necromancer. The higher curse spells arent soo good. A
good spell from Bone Magic is: Corpse Explosion (yummy...). It is
very effective even against high level monsters (when 1-2 are
dead you cast it and get more monsters down and cast again...).
There is no resistance against Bone Magic, but it does not get
too many points. (Bone Spirit on high level could work for duels,
but I recommend not to put many points into that skill tree).
Summoning.... ahhh thatīs the thing I like about the Necromancer.
It looks funny to walk through town with spellbound monsters
walking behind you like little doggies... ;-) Donīt invest more
points than necessary into Summon Skeleton and Clay Golem (and
zero to Skeleton Mage), but lots of points into Skeleton Mastery
(for itīs good for Revive, too), and quite some into Golem
Mastery. Now the big question arises which Golem is better: Iron
Golem (you need a metal object like dagger to cast, and the Iron
Golem will take combat-related magical abilities from that object)
or Fire Golem? Well, many succesful Necromancer players say in
most times the Fire Golem is better because of more hit-points.
The Blood Golem: use only one skill-point, it is not useful to
play with it in late Nightmare or Hell. Until version 1.03 you
can use that trick: Blood Golem and Iron Maiden (cast on monsters)
combination: you will be healed greatly. And Revive (resurrect
dead monsters which fight for you) pays off with high Skeleton
Mastery, even if time length of the spell is quite short. In the
beginning when you donīt have too many skeletons (again: not
more then ONE piont to Summon Skeleton, keep the points for
better spells): buy a staff with Summoning Skeletons+3 and
Summoning Skeleton-Mages+3 and so youīll get some... And
important: get the Bone Shield (1-2) points, it will help you
even in later levels. Necromancer Stats: donīt waste any point
into dexerity. In the beginning increase mostly strength (better
armor) and energy (youīll need mana for lots of curses) and
later on in vitality and energy. The Necromancer does not have
the Warmth ability like the Sorceress, his mana regenerating
ability goes directly with the maximum amount of mana.
Wizzardīs Guide for Sorceresses:
It is said that the way of the Sorceress is the most challenging
in the realms of Diablo II. I can agree it is not easy. But with
good skill planning and some strategies you can develop a
powerful character. And skill planning is important. (so many
players started their character all over because of wrong skill
planning) A nice skill planning utility you can download right
here: ( DOWNLOAD LINK D2planner.zip ) Skill tips: MOST successful
sorceress player say Ice-Magic rules. Very true! (some people
suggest fire-magic: nice graphics and a good fire sorceress can
be OK but Ice is the best!)
I recommend Glacier Spike, Blizzard and Frozen Orb. Put lots of
points into these. Other magic you need is Shiver Armor, Warmth,
Static Field.
Shiver Armor gives you a bonus to armor. Beldandy, my level 60
sorceress, has over 1500 armor with that spell enhancing her
armor. (3-4 skill points are OK)
Chilling Armor: DONīT use that because it is too expensive and
ineffective. Warmth indicates the speed of regenerating mana: itīs
good to have lots of warmth, but donīt put too many skillpoints
into that. (The power of your spells is more important, you
should have lots of mana/rejuvenation-potions with you anyway).
Glacier Spike freezes the enemies (for a short time) and damages
them (not only the one you hit, but also the ones standing next
to them).
Blizzard reminds me of the Warcraft II spell of the same name: an
ice rain goes down damaging all enemies within that area.
Frozen Orb is a great attack spell in higher levels and for
player duels. Cold mastery is not too important in Nightmare, but
in Hell many monsters have a high (cold) resistance (well, they
like it hot in hell, isnīt it?). So put at least 3-4 skillpoints
into cold mastery to reduce their restistance to your Ice spells.
Tough enemies you can kill with Glacier Spike (freezes them),
some Blizzards (more Blizzards at the same place: damage will be
added!) and static field. The only disadvantage of Ice Magic is
that a Necromancer (there might be one in your party) canīt
revive cold-killed monsters.
Static Field is one of the most important spells to kill the
bosses: all enemies in range will loose 25% of their (actual!)
lifepoints. So weaken the boss with four Static Fields and then
give it some Glacier Spikes. More skillpoints in Static Field
will only make the range better, not the percentage, about 3-4
skillpoints in Static Field is enough.
Some players suggest teleportation: I didnīt like it. My tip is
get a wand with Teleportation and test it if you like it before
wasting skillpoints on it.
Manashield: a nice addition to shiver armor. Hereīs a nice trick
(c) by Christian Wizzard *smile* buy a staff with manashield (only
go for manashield-3!) at Ormus in Act-3. (go to him, and if he
hasnīt got any just use the waypoint and back to Kurast and ask
him again). Before going out of town for battles, equip this
staff, use Manashield (EnergieSchild in German) and equip your
normal staff again (should be a +1 staff or an +Glacier Spike / +Blizzard
/ +Frozen Orb staff). Now you have without wasting important
skillpoints a level3-manashield. (it gets stronger when you have
skill+1 items equipped.) Itīs worth the work and looks cool.
Donīt put any skillpoints into other spells and only one
spellpoint into those spells you need for getting the right ones
in cold spell path. Why do I tell you this? Well, most beginners
like fancy spells like Fireball or Charged Bolt (that one was
great in Diablo1). But in Nightmare and Hell you will encounter
lots of monsters with hundreds of hitpoints, and those spells wonīt
help you even on high levels. If you like to use a spell without
spending skillpoints, use staffs!
Stats: where to put my character-points for a sorceress? Yes,
energy is important but not the only thing. My first points go
into strength (then you can use some nice basic armors) and
vitality. In all playing Diablo2 I never invested into Dexerity (Sorceress)!
You just donīt need it, there are nice weapons you can get
without much dex (beginners should try and trade or somehow lend
the "Iron Jang Bong", a +1skill-staff with good damage).
After advancing some levels you should then upgrade your mana and
life.
Iīve read in many newsgroups that a Sorceress doesnīt need good
armors because she wonīt fight in melee combat. Sure, I wish
that too, but there are so many situations you wonīt be able to
avoid getting hit. (ever spared with Duriel? ;-) And I donīt
have to talk about that baaad lag in BattleNet (time-stops in
that the monsters keep hitting your poor cute Sorceress while you
sit in front of the monitor (frozen game), wait and say "please
let me do something!"). Good (not so expensive in trading)
beginners-armor are Viadlas-Armor, Arctic-Armor (many green SET-items).
If playing in closed BattleNet try to get that during your first
levels. (the uniques "Hands of Broc" and the Death-Set-Belt
are nice items for a beginner Sorceresses, too) I recommend not
to go over 70/80 in strength, for that you can trade armors up to
700 AC!! (additional trading tip: try to trade some worthy items
like nightsmoke, magefists or even wormskull and frostburn and
trade those for a GOOD armor). Nice mageplates should have AC
from 200 - 400 (not only AC is important but try to get a rare
armor with additional stats like +life and good resistances).
Stuff your Sorceress will need:
- boots of fastest going / running
- items which give fast(est) cast rate
- fastest hit recovery: do you notice that some monsters keep
hitting your Sorceress while she canīt do anything: she needs an
item with fastest hit recovery. I recommend a crown or helmet,
because the boots should have fastest going/running.
- +1 skill items: so many people are so after them. Well, if you
specialize in Ice-Magic this +1 wonīt bring as much as +life +AC
+resistance (especially prismatic rings which give you +xx in all
magic classes). So itīs Ok to have one or two +1 items, but
mostly protection is more important.
- +2 skill items: so many beginners search them: keep in mind
that +2-amulets can be used only with level 67 or higher.
- +2-skill staff: you should use one after level 30. Try to get a
+2-Sorceress-Skill-staff with additional abilities like +2-warmth
or +2 to your favourite spell. - If you really wanna fight with
sword try to get "Sigons Shield" (SET-item which gives
+1 to all skills) and Culwens Point (sword, see items section).
Here is an Ice Sorceress Skill Tree I recommend:
Beldandy the Ice Goddess
Class: Sorceress, Level: 50
Clvl 1 Slvl 0: Starting Level
Clvl 2 Slvl 1: Frozen Armor
Clvl 3 Slvl 1: Ice Bolt
Clvl 4 Slvl 1: Warmth
Clvl 5 Reserved For Later
Clvl 6 Slvl 1: Ice Blast
Reserved Slvl 1: Static Field
Clvl 7 Slvl 2: Warmth
Clvl 8 Slvl 2: Static Field
Clvl 9 Slvl 3: Static Field
Clvl 10 Slvl 4: Static Field
Clvl 11 Slvl 3: Warmth
Clvl 12 Slvl 1: Shiver Armor
Clvl 13 Slvl 2: Shiver Armor
Clvl 14 Slvl 3: Shiver Armor
Clvl 15 Slvl 4: Shiver Armor
Clvl 16 Slvl 1: Frost Nova
Clvl 17 Slvl 4: Warmth
Clvl 18 Slvl 1: Glacier Spike
Clvl 19 Slvl 5: Shiver Armor
Clvl 20 Slvl 5: Warmth
Clvl 21 Slvl 6: Warmth
Clvl 22 Slvl 7: Warmth
Clvl 23 Reserved For Later
Clvl 24 Slvl 1: Blizzard
Clvl 25 Slvl 2: Blizzard
Clvl 26 Slvl 3: Blizzard
Clvl 27 Slvl 4: Blizzard
Clvl 28 Slvl 5: Blizzard
Clvl 29 Slvl 6: Blizzard
Clvl 30 Slvl 1: Frozen Orb
Reserved Slvl 1: Cold Mastery
Clvl 31 Slvl 2: Frozen Orb
Clvl 32 Slvl 3: Frozen Orb
Clvl 33 Slvl 4: Frozen Orb
Clvl 34 Slvl 2: Cold Mastery
Clvl 35 Slvl 3: Cold Mastery
Clvl 36 Slvl 4: Cold Mastery
Clvl 37 Slvl 5: Frozen Orb
Clvl 38 Slvl 6: Frozen Orb
Clvl 39 Slvl 7: Frozen Orb
Clvl 40 Slvl 5: Cold Mastery
Clvl 41 Slvl 6: Cold Mastery
Clvl 42 Slvl 7: Cold Mastery
Clvl 43 Slvl 7: Blizzard
Clvl 44 Slvl 8: Frozen Orb
Clvl 45 Slvl 9: Frozen Orb
Clvl 46 Slvl 10: Frozen Orb
Clvl 47 Slvl 11: Frozen Orb
Clvl 48 Slvl 12: Frozen Orb
Clvl 49 Slvl 13: Frozen Orb
Clvl 50 Slvl 14: Frozen Orb
ALL Quest skill-points into Warmth, from Level 30 into Frozen Orb
Now enter the Realms of Diablo 2 and have fun exploring new lands,
fighting (lots) of new monsters and finding tons of new items!
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the
stars."