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.