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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
- 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
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