Diablo 2 Resurrected - Trading

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Ok you have now beaten D2R and are looking for better gear. Trading is THE best way to get rid of stuff you don't want and replace it with stuff you need. Here's how this works best...

1) Understand the Market. Know what does or doesn't have value

• Any time something drops and you're unsure if it's worthwhile to trade just look up its value in a number of spots
• Watch youtube guides, utilize sites such as traderie, arreats summit, diablo2.io, purediablo, or join the sanctuary trading discord 
• Look at trade games: this gives you a feel for what values people are placing on items at any given moment, albeit what people are selling vs what people are actually spending is not always the same
• Never buy something for a high price or sell something too low. 
• You'll notice 90% of people are offering things outside of their price ranges because they aren't doing their research. Chances are these people aren't selling anything.
• You can use your understanding of the market to undercut everyone to make a quick sell
• Ex: you see 90% of people are offering your item for a Lem so you list it for a Ko

2) Host or Join Trade Games

• This is the easiest way in game to find gear you want or to get rid of gear. Do not be intimidated by demanding people. If you know the market then these games are very quick and easy to get what you want and get rid of what you don't want
• Items for pgems or pgems for items are great starter games for trading as you can get rid of or get your hands on low value items very easily and cheaply. 
• XYZ for scr or script or desc usually means to read the game's description because game titles are character limited

3) Discord: Join Sanctuary (trading) - Diablo 2 Resurrected discord

• NOTE: Since I made this guide the Discord imploded due to a greedy admin who wanted to sell out the discord users to ads for real money transactions (which are against the game's ToS). As a result a lot of people have jumped ship to d2jsp where you use "forum gold (fg)" to trade for items.
• I am not a d2jsp fan because you can use other games and real money to buy FG which you can then flip for D2R items so I consider it p2w. However, this is the most active trade scene now.
• Old school D2 everything trading was in game which was annoying but now in discord you can post what you want to sell (WTS) or what you want to buy (WTB)
• You can do a search for item names and see what people are buying or selling them for to establish a grasp on the market
• Trading is super simple as you can simply message someone that you want their item, you're willing to pay with X, which region you're playing in (NA/EU/Asia), and then create a game for them to join

4) Track Items in a Spreadsheet

• I can't stress enough how important it is to know what items you have and which character they're stored on
• You can copy and paste from a spreadsheet to discord for quick WTS posts
• Note: you must cntrl+shift+v to paste as text into discord, otherwise you post a screenshot which isn't searchable
• I personally use this to track what I'm selling, what I've bought, and what I've sold so I can keep tabs on all my items but also gauge what items people want and what they're willing to pay for them.

5) Create a "Mule"

• Every pro trader has at least 1 Mule character that holds onto items you're trading. This helps reduce clutter on the characters you actually play the game with
• Mules can sit at lvl 1 and never be played. They're simply created for an extra storage tab. However, this means all trade games you create/join must be normal difficulty and trades must be done in Act 1 camp

6) USE THE IN-GAME TRADE FEATURE

• Simply click the other player's character in the game and it'll open up a trade prompt
• Do NOT trade by dropping items.
• Do NOT cntrl+click anything or you'll drop it accidentally
• Items must be dragged one at a time into the trade window which is annoying but safer
• Items can be previewed in trade window so do NOT click accept trade until you hover over the item being sent to you to ensure it's what you expect and has the stats you want

7) Do Not Hold Junk

• This is hard for me too but if you have items that simply have no value or take forever to trade then they are holding up inventory slots for potentially better gear. It's worth noticing what items are currently hot and which are not
• As a season or ladder progresses you'll notice starter gear becomes less and less valuable and end game gear and perfect rolls become the only things people look for
• Early season magic find (MF) gear also has tremendous value but tanks as soon as the MF folks get what they want

Diablo 2 Resurrected - Speed Leveling Guide

If you wish to listen along instead of reading, please go to my Youtube video instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOgOI5LYPAM

While D2R remains a buggy mess with huge server issues, the key to having alts will be in the ability to get rushed or find games to jump into to help get you through the Normal/Nightmare/Hell Acts. 

1) Getting rushed: For this I do NOT recommend a G-rush aka glitched rush. Simply have a friend rush you or join a discord (such as sanctuary) or reddit asking to be rushed. Most people will ask you for your forge and you can safely give away your normal/nightmare forges as the drops are no better than Countess. 

In Hell I only recommend a friend rushing you or not being so desperate to rush for forge because you'll want the rune that drops from it for trade bait later.

2) Join or Host Public Games: This is self explanatory but you're essentially looking to host or join games where the quests you need aren't completed yet. 

The key to playing through mandatory quests are as follows... 

• Act 1: Andariel
• Act 2: Staff of Kings (get cube too if you didn't yet), Summoner, and Duriel (this is by far the worst act to try and do publicly but sometimes you get lucky) 
• Note: get cube in halls of dead, get staff in maggott lair, get viper amulet in viper temple, kill summoner in arcane sanctuary, kill duriel in the correct tomb once you or someone in your party have the staff. 
• Other Note: you cannot enter the arcane sanctuary, canyon of magi, or the tomb if you weren't present when the staff quests were completed and summoner was killed. However, you can still get Duriel quest credit if you're in town when he's killed. 
• Another Note: Sometimes Jehryn gets glitched in town but if you stand near his door he will eventually walk close enough to talk to.
• Act 3: Travinical Council & Mephisto (easy if you or someone has the Trav waypoint)
• Act 4: Diablo (easy if you have river of flame WP)
• Act 5: Ancients & Baal
• Note: Ancients can't be done on normal until level 20, on nightmare until level 40, on hell until level 60. 

The key here is to rush to Ancients in each difficulty then grind out your levels in specific ways, mostly Baal runs. Here's my typical rush guide...

Normal: Rush to Ancients 

• Kill Andariel
• Get Horadric Cube (Halls of Dead 2 in Dry Hills, Get Staff (Maggot Lair 3 in Far Oasis), Get Viper amulet (Claw Viper Templte 2 outside of Lost City), Kill Summoner, Kill Duriel
• Note: you can get A2 credit simply by being partied in town during quest completions but you won't be able to enter the Arcane Sanctuary and talking to Jehryn is difficult if you don't smash the tainted altar and build the staff yourself
• Kill Trav Council, Kill Meph
• Note: you need Khalim's to enter Durance. If someone else has it you have to enter Durance through Trav and walk to Meph yourself as TP's from other players in Durance won't work until you complete the Khalim's Will quest line.
• Khalim's pieces are Spider Cavern in Spider Forest, Flayer Dungeon in Flayer Jungle, and Sewers in Upper Kurast.
• Exploit: if you have Trav WP then enter a game that already completed Meph. You should be able to enter Durance and get to level 2 and find the WP there. Start a fresh game to kill Meph and you can run from Durance WP to Meph. This is the fastest way to bypass A3 if you can get trav WP and a game that already killed Meph.
• Kill Diablo (aka big D)
• Get Ancients WP

Level 1-15 Tristram runs (trist, tristy, etc...)

Level 15-20 Tomb runs (Tal rasha's tomb in Act 2) 

Do Normal Ancients once level 20.

Level 20-25 Normal cows (some people stay in tombs until 25 but cows is faster if you find a game) 

Nightmare: Rush to Ancients but you can skip cube, trist, tomb runs, and cows. 

Level 25-40 doing Normal Baal runs 

• Note: This is hard given current server status but otherwise easy once you get into a normal cadence of games. Simply cntrl+a and cntrl+c the game you're in. When the next game is up just cntrl+v and replace the previous numbered game with the new number and cntrl+a cntrl+c again so you have it ready for the next one. 

Do Ancients & Baal for quest once level 40.

Hell: Rush to Ancients exactly the same as Nightmare. 

This is a much harder rush if you want to save your forge. A good rusher will take your forge and get you through to ancients. I prefer using friends or public groups and grinding it out myself so I can save my forge.

Level 40-60 doing Nightmare Baal runs

Kill Ancients & Baal for quest

Congratulations Hero of Sanctuary you have now beat the game and are ready for the end game. Note that Baal runs are the best source for XP in the game but leveling above 80 gets slower and slower.