Diablo 2
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References
- Gamepedia - Diablo Wiki
- Diablo Wiki, lot of information.
- Diablo Fandom
- The Arreat Summit, official information on D2 LoD (craft recipe, charms...)
- Game mechanics
- Get as much as item drop as possible. MF doesn't change rune drop. Only kill as much high-level monster as possible, or open as many special chests as possible (ie. chests with much more drops like those in Lower Kurast). Kill Countess (but mid runes only) because she has special drop pattern. Kill monsters that cant' drop armor or weapons (like Wraiths, Finger Mages, Vulture Demons, Willowisps, and the Swarm...)
| category | gamepedia | diablowiki | other | comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Items | gamepedia | diablowiki | ||
| Magic Items | gamepedia | In BLUE. Item with ONE or TWO magical attributes (prefix / suffix). | ||
| Rare Items | gamepedia | In YELLOW. Item with TWO to SIX magical attributes. | ||
| Crafted Items | gamepedia | battle.net | Items created with horadric cube. | |
| Charms | gamepedia | diablowiki | battle.net | |
| Runewords | gamepedia | Fandom wiki | PoD mod, Rune list | |
| Monsters | gamepedia | diablowiki | ||
| Cube recipes | gamepedia | diablowiki | Fandom wiki | |
| Area Level | Fandom Wiki |
- Best Charms Stats
| Size | Dex | Str | Life | Mana | F. Res | C. Res | L. Res | P. Res | A. Res | MF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand | 6 | 6 | 35(61) 45(91) |
59 | 30% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 15% | 12% |
| Large | 5 | 5 | 25(42) 35(74) |
34 | 15% | 15% | 15% | 15% | 8% | 6% |
| Small | 2 | 2 | 20(40) | 17 | 11% | 11% | 11% | 11% | 5% | 7% |
- Val(Lvl), best ratio
Guides
- Guide from Path of Diablo, how to find your ways in all levels to rush run them.
- Max area level, no much immunes, easy and fast kill, can drop best objects in game.
- Enigma +45% (Armor RW), Circlet of speed +30% (helmet), Mavina's Belt 20%, Cat's Eye 30% (amulet), Infinity +35% (Weapon RW) or dual-wield Wind RW +40% or dual-wield Crainte Vomir +40%, various boots +40%, 40x small charms of inertia +120%, Harmony RW on act I merc (bow).
Sorceress build guides
- The detailed guide I'm currently following. Maxing Frozen Orb then Meteor.
- Some problems with Cold / Fire immune in Hell Act I already...
- Another guide suggested by players on PoD Discord, better than MeteOrb
- Several builds, hints and tips. Worth reading.
- Some tips about sorceress stats distribution. Worth reading.
- More detailed guide on an hybrid sorceress. Not tried yet.
- Video showing several builds, but no explanation on how to build them...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofdiablo/comments/7xuabx/general_sorceress_guide_every_sorc_build_cold/
- Not read yet.
Mercenary guides
- Merc gets the most XP if they kill the monster themselves. To keep in mind if merc is lagging behind.
- Equip: Life Steal, to keep him alive in fight (for melee merc only).
- Equip: Increased Attack Speed. Allow merc to leech even more.
- Equip: Crushing blow, a good boss killer.
- Equip: Slow target item, nearly as good as damage reduction items.
- Equip: Mana leech *useless*.
- Merc MF stacks with player MF, but only if merc does the kill. Important when dealing with boss.
- Use Full Rejuvenation (rather than Healing), heals faster. Use cube recipes to make such potions.
- Thaw / Anti potion time stacks up. Feed your merc before a killing session.
- *...and much more information to read again later...*
Loot filters (POD)
- Intro page.
- Reference page will alll supported codes.
- The filter I'm trying.
- List of filters made by community.
Quests
- Pandemonium event (patch 1.11)
- This event requires first collecting keys from the Countess, the Summoner and Nihlathak (hell difficulty). Then to collect three organs by opening three portals, each requiring the three keys (so 9 keys needed in total). Then open a red portal to Uber Tristram by transmuting the organs in the cube, and fight Uber Baal, Uber Diablo and Uber Mephisto. Reward is the Hellfire torch unique large charm.
- Diablo Clone
- Diablo Clone drops the Annihilus unique small charm. It is triggered by selling Stone of Jordan unique rings.
- Diablo Clone (Path of Diablo)
- Can be triggered manually
- Ancient Temple Maps (Path of Diablo)
- An alternate set of maps that can be accessed from the Ancient Temple using Relics. First relic (Tier 1) is obtained from Hephasto the Armorer in Act 4 on Hell difficulty (about a 10% chance).
Miscellaneous
- 3000 super chest openings in River of Flame
- maggot lair speedrun tips (speedrun spreadsheet, llama's video).
Acronyms
| MF | Magic Find |
| TC | Treasury Class |
| FCR | Faster Cast Rate |
| HR | High-Runes (common trade unit on PoD) |
| IAS | Increased Attack Speed |
| OOC | Orb of Corruption (PoD) |
| OS | Open socket |
| POD | Path of Diablo |
Battle.net servers and Mods
Blizzard Battle.net
The official battle.net servers.
Path of Diablo (PoD)
- Light modding, but great improvement on Gameplay (widescreen support, doubled inventory and stash, improved rune drops...)
- Support for Loot filters (I use an own variant of Simplicity, but the best is apparently Anirmls).
- Active community.
| Path of Diablo | |
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| Servers (ping) |
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| Rune wizard | Handy to know which runeword can be built. |
| Character storage | Handy to inspect inventories of mule (eg. compare a new ring, a new charm with those in mule).
Also for trading. |
| Stats | |
| Discord | Online chat. Keep open while playing to get general info and tips... |
| Wiki | Lot of information, including all rule changes. In particular Cube Recipes, Mercenaries, Uniques, Runewords, Sets...
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| Quests | |
| Guides |
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| Trade |
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| Calculator | |
- Notes
- Enflame and Frigerate are passive spells now, and they stack. Handy to boost Merc damage.
Europe Battle
- A bit more modding. With an item shop, so might be suspect...
Runewords
- Tips
- So RW grants Probability of Casting with long term effect (like Fade on Treachery RW, lasting for 288s).
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/370600-diablo-ii-lord-of-destruction/75122003
| Name | Formula | Item | PoD mod? | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leaf | TirRal
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Polearms, staves | Yes | Suggested here to fix mana issues. In fact Leaf can still be used by high-level sorc, see this guide. |
| Insight | RalTirTalSol
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Polearms, staves | No | Suggested in this guide for Sorc, for fast mana recover. |
| Smoke (gamepedia) | NefLum
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? | No | Suggested in this guide. Seems a better alternative than Stealth proposed in the same guide. |
| Enigma | JahIthBer
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Armor | Yes | Offer +1 Teleport/Warp (2sec cooldown), and +2 Skills. But no resistance. |
| Ancient Pledge | RalOrtTal
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Armor | No | Suggested in early ladder PoD guide, as early ladder gear, for the early resists. |
| Spirit | TalThulOrtAmn
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Shield | No | Suggested in early ladder PoD guide. For the 35% FCR and 55% FHR. Also gives +2 all skills and lot of resistance. |
| Lore | OrtSol
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Helm | No | Suggested in early ladder PoD guide, for the +1 skills, Mana Per Kill and Lightning Resist. |
| Treachery | ShaelThulLem
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Armor | No | Suggested in early ladder PoD guide, for the Merc, for massive IAS and Fade Proc (Probability Casting). Better done on an Ethereal Elite armor. |
| Infinity | BerMalBerIst
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Polearm | Yes | Suggested on chat for lightning-only sorc build. Some also say that light sorc with infinity are the fastest to farm. |
| Memory | LumIoSolEth
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Staves | Yes | Suggested on chat for those that level up a lightning sorc, to change some lightning surge into phys damage. |
| Harmony | TirIthSolKo
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Missile weapons | No | Suggested on chat to get Vigor aura, to run much faster. |
Horadric Cube
| Crafted | Magic item | Rune (NEF-SOL) | PGem | Jewel | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hit Power items | Magic | Rune | PSapphire | jewel | |
| Blood items |
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PRuby | jewel |
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| Caster items |
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PAmethyst | jewel | |
| Safety items | Magic item | Rune | PEmeral | jewel |
- Frequently-used recipes
- 3 magic rings = 1 random magic amulet.
- 3 magic amulets = 1 random magic ring.
- 3 small rejuvenation = 1 full rejuvenation.
- 3 gems of same type = 1 better gem of same type
- Wirt's Leg + A Tome of Town Portal = Secret Cow Level.
- Recipes to use someday
- 3 gems of same type = 1 better gem of same type
- 3 perfect skulls + 1 Rare item + Stone of jordan = add 1 socket to rare item.
- 1 Perfect Skull + 1 Rare Item + Stone of Jordan = 1 High Quality New Rare Item of the same type.
- 3 Perfect Gems (of any type) + 1 Magic Item = 1 New Random Magic Item of the Same Type
- This produces an item with same ilvl. Very interesting to produce +2 skill amulets [1].
- 1 RAL + 1 AMN + 1 PAmethyst + Non-magic Weapon = Socketed Weapon of same type.
- Useful to get a socketed Broad sword / Long Sword / Crystal Sword for SPIRIT (note that Crystal Sword may have up to 6 sockets so may require more retries).
- 1 TAL + 1 AMN + 1 PRuby + Non-magic Shield = Socketed Shield of same type
- Useful to get a 4os Monarch for SPIRIT.
- Recipe to upgrade quality (normal to exceptional to elite) of unique weapons/armor.
- Recipe to upgrade quality (normal to exceptional to elite) of rare weapons/armor.
- Recipe to repair/recharge armor.
Tips
- Don't use heavy armors, they have speed and stamina penalties. See for instance Crow Caw Armor vs Twitch.
- Don't pick anything when recovering dead body, or that can lead to losing items (which occurs when having more than one non-empty body. Consider command
/nopickup[2].
Guides
PoD: Early Ladder Sorceress
See Early Ladder Fire / Cold / Light Sorceress Guide for Path of Diablo guide on Reddit for details (also linked from PoD site)
- Gears (Vitality build only)
- Purpose is to reach 37% FCR, followed by 63% and 105% breakpoints.
- Act 2 Combat Mercenary Setup
- Goal: reach 75% IAS
- Weapon: Ethereal Trescher or Giant Trescher.
| Item | Early Ladder | Optimized |
|---|---|---|
| Helmet | Blood helmet | Steelshade |
| Weapon | Insight (RW) | Insight (RW) |
| Chest | Treachery (RW) |
Shaftstop |