Diablo 2 Hex cheats: ----------- Submitted by: Nguyen Trung Hieu (hieudaica@vol.vnn.vn) To get many money. Open savegame; go to 00000265 add "9F86 0100". You will have 99999 Gold. Hex cheat: ---------- By: Mustafa E-mail: senglert@scs-net.org To cheat gold: * Open the *.d2s file that has the name of your character with a hex editor. * Go to 265 in hex and put the classical FF FF !! * You will get 65535 GOLD. Monster level cheat for Multi-Player: ------------------------------------- Email: rhin0@yahoo.com Submitted by: Rhin0 Here's a way to use a Multi-Player concept to get easy monsters. Supposing you and your X friends want to kill Diablo. Just before he will be created, everyone saves & exits. After you're in a one man game make sure Diablo comes after you, and then run away or something. Next, all players reconnect and fight Diablo. X players will fight a Diablo created for 1 player. Otherwise his HP would be multiplied by the number of players. Multi-Player Waypoint Sharing Tip: ---------------------------------- Email: rhin0@yahoo.com Submitted by: Rhin0 To save time and probably lives, ask another character to give you a waypoint. Tell him to go thru it and open a Town Portal aside it. Then you go thru the portal and activate the Waypoint for yourself. This is helpful for getting in hard to access place like Canyon of the Magi in Act II or Durance of Hate level 2 in Act III. Paladin Auras Tip (for Multi-Player): ------------------------------------- Email: rhin0@yahoo.com Submitted by: Rhin0 In a multi-player game remember that a number of paladins using the same aura at once will not amplify the effects of the aura by that number. It is better for each paladin to simply use different auras. This also stands for Barbarian's benefic howlers. Multi-Player Town Portal Tip: ----------------------------- Email: rhin0@yahoo.com Submitted by: Rhin0 Two players each open one portal and then go thru it. When returning to the battlefield, they use each other's portal, thus the portals will not close, so they can be reused. Other players other than the two owners of the portals can return to the battlefield thru any of the two portals (see note). Note*: Town Portals only close when the OWNER travels from town to the battlefield. Multi-Player Item Cheating Methods: ----------------------------------- Email: rhin0@yahoo.com Submitted by: Rhin0 Here's a very simple and useful way of getting some cool objects from a friend. Tell him to make a back up of his character files (copy thefiles from the ...save directory to a separate folder). Next you (or him, doesn't matter actually) host a game. He'll give you everything you want, and then you both save&exit. Now he has to replace the save-game files with the back up he previously created. Secret cow level: ----------------- Submitted by: Jeremy This cheat should work on the expansion as well.When you have the Horadaric Cube, Get Wert's Leg in Tristram (where you go to rescue Deckhard Cain). Go to the north west part of the town and search the boy's body. Place both Wert's leg and a Tome of Town Portal in the Horadaric Cube, and it will open a portal to a hidden level filled with axe carrying cows. You can not enter it until you become a slayer. You can use A programme to modify your character to a slayer with out defeating diablo. The web address is http://www.geocities.com/burtontsang/programs/d2editor.htm I recommend you have a look at it! Make sure you are a level 25+ to Manage with the cows. Gametip: -------- E-mail: Baalspawn1988@aol.com Submitted by: Joey Petersen If u die an easy way to get your items back is to turn your computers power off (this might mess your computer up) then start the computer up play diablo 2 then go to your stash your body will be there and you can get your wepaons armor etc. But you wont get your gold. HexCheat: --------- thang, Submitted the following Information: Email: conrethanchet@yahoo.com You play Diablo2, when your level move up, you save and exit game. Use Norton Comander,move to your save, press F4, move to line 587,delete piece and makeup is ~ Ex: w a d Ex: w a ~ Ex: w ~ ~ Ex: ~ ~ ~ After you makeup your save,please save it and out it, play Diablo with your save's maked up. This cheat will make you fell stronger when you play Diablo2. Hint: ----- Submitted by: Junyang Xiang E-mail: jxiang@ucdavis.edu In the first act, every time you speak with Akara, she refills your mana/life/ stamina. Here's how to dupe an item without any hacking: ----------------------------------------------- Submitted by: JetracerRP@aol.com Use Town portal. Set any item in front of the portal. Click with the mouse on the item and step through the portal. When you reach the town the item will be in your inventory. Go back through the portal and the item will be where you left it. To duplicate an item in multiplayer: Fill up your belt with healing or mana potions. Drop any item on the ground. Walk some distance away. Click back on the item. Your character will start walking toward the item. Just before the character picks it back up, click on a potion that you should have on your belt. If the item is picked up, you can then drop the potion. When the potion hits the ground it will change into the item that you pick up. If the potion doesn't change when it hits the ground, you clicked on it to late. Repeat 1 through 6, but try walking farther away from the item. It might take a few tries to get your timing down, but it will happen. Also, you can not have more than one of the same item on the ground at any one time. If you try, the screen will say "duped item detected," and it will remove one of them. 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 2Diablo II.exe" -w) Retreiving Items from Dead Corpse: ---------------------------------- (Tested with version 1.01) When you die and are transported back into town, shutdown the game incorrectly (example: [Alt] + [Tab] back to Windows, press [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Delete] and shutdown the Diablo 2 task). When you load the game back up again, your dead corpse will appear in town and you may collect your items/gold. Savings & Load: --------------- Unlike in Diablo I, you cannot save the game in the middle of a dungeon, and reload 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! Hex Cheat (Stash) ----------------- 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! Gain money and items quickly: ----------------------------- Travel past the Blood Moor and look for a cave. The cave has two levels, with a golden chest somewhere at the second level. Inside are usually health potions, mana potions, scrolls of town portal or identify, unidentified weapons and armor, and sometimes even a rare item that can be sold for a great deal of money. If you identify the item and it is something that you do not want, sell it. Save and exit the game. The next time the game is loaded, the chest will still be there with different items. This can be done as many times as needed. Cow level: ---------- When you have the Horadaric Cube, obtain "Wert's Leg" in Tristram (where you go to rescue Deckhard Cain). Go to the northwest part of the town and search the boy's body. Place both Wert's leg and a Tome of Town Portal in the Horadaric Cube, and it will open a portal to a hidden level filled with axe carrying cows. Do not go through the portal until you are over level 35 because the cows are quite numerous and strong. Duplicating items: ------------------ Note: This only works on Open Battlenet, as the characters need to be saved on your computer. This trick also requires two computers with two copies of Diablo 2. Get the items to be duplicated. Copy the "Save" folder from the Diablo 2 folder of that computer and paste it on your desktop. Go online with both computers and meet in a game. Give the items to be duplicated to the second computer, then save and exit. Press [Alt] + Tab] on the first computer to switch to Windows and copy the "Save" folder from your desktop back to its original location, overwriting its current contents. Return and join the other computer in the game. You will now have all your original items and the other computer will have a copy of them. Note: This does not work with the +1 Skill book from Act 2, as you are only allowed to do it once. Note: This trick also only works in an Open Battlenet game. Take the item to be duplicated and place it in your inventory. Then, save and exit the game. Next, come back to the game or join a different one. Drop the item you want to duplicate. Make a note of the game name and password, then sign off of your ISP - do not save and quit the game. Have another person in the game keep it open while you are logged off. Sign back on to your ISP, go back into the game, and pick the item that you dropped. It is also still in your inventory, so you now have two copies of that item. Use the following trick to duplicate potions. You must be out in the Blood Moor. Buy enough potions to fill about half your inventory. While in the Blood Moor, drop potions until they completely surround you. When you are surrounded by potions, continue to drop them and they will just keep adding up in your inventory instead of dropping. Can't get your Dead body?: -------------------------- Just save, exit and go back to the game. Your body will be in the town. Avoid no-win situation: ----------------------- Press [Esc] when facing imminent death, then save and exit the game. Load the game again to start in town, where you can buy weapons, life etc. Change enemies: --------------- If enemies in a certain area, such as Hell, are too tough restart the game. Enemies such as Flesh Spawners, Stygian Hags, and the Hell beetles can spawn dozens of creatures in seconds. After restarting, check the area and repeat if needed. The Hell beetles are usually replaced by Doom Knights and Venom Lords, and the Hags are usually replaced by the same. This may also work with other areas. Imbue without worry: -------------------- When you get an item and want to imbue and are worried about the outcome, copy the "Save" folder from the Diablo 2 folder to the desktop or any other location. Start your game and imbue. If you do not like what happened, save the game and exit. You will now be in main menu again. Press [Alt] + [Tab] and copy the save folder back to its original location. Then click "Single Player Game" and start. You have another chance to imbue the item. Repeat this until you get the desired effect. Unlimited one way portal: ------------------------- Cast a Town Portal from a safe location, then take the portal into town. Use the waypoint system and run to get back to your last location. This allows you to use the portal to go back into town an unlimited number of times as long as you do not use it from town to return to where you were previously. Using items in Act 1 for Necromancers: -------------------------------------- Because gems in the beginning of the game are usually more precious than any unique/rare item you may find, get a socketed bardiche and fill it with chipped or flawed rubies or sapphires. For boots and gloves, try to go for + to gold from enemies because gold in Act 1 will allow you to buy useful items in Act 2. For rings and amulets, lean towards + to life Mana or Attack ratings. For armor and helm, try to get the best defense. However if you find something that has kicking abilities, do not hesitate to sacrifice the few defense points in difference. For belts, the more slots the better. In skills, + to strength. In abilities, +2 raise skeleton, +1 to amp damage, +2 to clay golem, + 1-2 to bone armor. Unlimited imbued items: ----------------------- * After installing v1.00, play until Charsi offers to imbue something for you. Save and exit the game. Then download patch v1.03 and install it. Join a TCP/IP or open Battle.net game with the same character. Imbue something, then give it to a trusted player. After exiting, return as the same character, and you will be able to imbue again. Note: v1.00 save files cannot be overwritten by v1.03. * You can have unlimited amount of an imbued item. This trick requires two computers or a one with two copies of the game running simutaneously, two different characters (for example, a Paladin and an Amazon). For example, if the Paladin has been granted an imbue award, but he wants two objects to be imbued (e.g. a shield and a scepter), make a copy of the Paladin and save the game. Then, go to Charsi and imbue the shield. Trade this shield to the Amazon for safe keeping. Exit, then copy the backup saved game you made earlier over the current one. Trade back your shield, and you can now have the scepter imbued and keep it. You now have unlimited imbues. The same can be done for socketed equipment. You can even make copies of your equipment to get more runes or life (the golden bird in Act 3 can be duplicated). Hints: ------ Before selling an item, repair it. This will increase its value. Always have several Town of Portal spells ready. These portals can provide a quick escape if the dung hits the fan and there's no other way out. You can use the waypoints to move between the different acts. This is helpful if you want to go back and buy an item or get something repaired. Horadric Cube formulas: ----------------------- NOTE: These formulas will not work with patch 1.02 installed. The Horadric Cube, found in Act 2, works as a kind of magical catalyst. If you put certain items into the Cube, it will transform them into another item. Here are a few formulas that work: 2 quivers of Arrows = 1 quiver of Bolts 2 quivers of Bolts = 1 quiver of Arrows 1 quiver of Arrows + 1 Spear = 1 bundle of Javelins 3 Perfect Gems + Magical Item (armor, weapon, jewelry) = random high level item 2 Topaz + 1 Ring = 1 Coral Ring (lightning resistance) 3 Mana Potions + 3 Heal Potions = 1 Rejuvenation Potion 3 Gems of same grade and type = 1 higher-graded Gem of same type 3 Rings = 1 Amulet 3 Amulets = 1 Ring 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 Defeating diablo using Amazon: ------------------------------ Submitted by: d.shankarnarayana E-mail:shankar_annauniv@yahoo.com Since Amazon is one of the weakest characters in diablo2 it is very difficult to kill the Diablo himself. However, you may kill him easily by following this technique. Learn the "STRAFE" spell and level it up as higher as possible. The higher the level of "STRAFE" the easier is to kill Diablo and his companions (Mephisto, Duriel and Andariel). If more doubts persists, Mail me. Defeating Diablo using Necromancer: ----------------------------------- Submitted by: d.shankarnarayana E-mail:shankar_annauniv@yahoo.com Necromancer is a summoner of undead & minions. You can kill Diablo by this method. First, send a fire golem to make Diablo somewhat busier at that time sneak nearer to Diablo. The Fire golem absorbs all the fire damage and when it is struck by chain lightning spell of Diablo. Diablo emits this spell every 10 seconds so beware!. Attack Diablo from backside and cast the Blood Golem spell. Now the Golem too joins with you and attacks Diablo. Diablo won't attack the golem instead he attacks you. The Main asset of the blood golem is that he re-vitalizes your health orb when you hit the enemy and even if he hits the enemy. This requires a quite patience so ...If more doubts persists, Mail me. If u want to dupe items, follow dis: ------------------------------------ Submitted by: gateguardian first, select yr character files(my comp/c/program files/diablo 2/save directory), right click on them and select properties. then, click on the box b side read-only. a check should appear.ur frnd should not do this second, open a multiplayer game(doesn't matter wich) with a friend. give him da item u want to be duped. then, both of u exit. then both of u press alt+tab and un- read only ur files. ur frnd should read-only them. then continue ur multiplayer game, and u should still have ur item but yr frnd also has 1. now ur frnd gives u da item. an then repeat step 2 Hint: ----- Submitted by: Jonathan In the 2nd act you said that coldworm doesnt hurt you in maggot lair. That is wrong because I fought him and he starts the battle by shooting out poison goop everywhere (the poison is reeaaalllyy powerful). But, he doesnt attack you directly. Hint: ----- Submitted by: adam if you are necromancer you can somen monesters to fight for you when you get to level 30+ you can somen any monster you have killed the best thing to do is somen a boss .thay very powerfull and very usefull. Paladin's Auras Tip: -------------------- Submitted by: Hamzeh Ghanbari Nehbandani When you play with class "PALADIN" choose this skills to be a real powerful character: 1- Don't select any "Defensive Aura" skill. 2- Just select Might & Enemy weaker Auras. 3- In combat skills choose offensive perks. Nehbandani's Cheating Technique: -------------------------------- Submitted by: Hamzeh Ghanbari Nehbandani If you want to cheating but also want avoid game crashes & unknown bugs. When you use a Save-File Editor just edit number of your skill point for skill tree & number of your state points.don't edit anyother things. If you want more flexible with game better you don't use cheats. Beat Diablo with Sorceress: --------------------------- Submitted by: mac Upgrade thunder storm and Blizzard as much as possible. then when he gets near hit him with blizzard it will slow him down then use thunder storm and lightning will hit him and hes to slow to move to much so he will eventually go down I used this and when he died I got the Frost burn Gauntlets now I have so much mana I barely run out. Hint: ----- Submitted by: Baal's Son Hi there i noticed someone said level 30 necros can use the skill 'revive' on booss'es like(andariel, duriel, mephy, diablo ,and baal),Well you cant you can Revive anymosters except the ancients in act 5,izual in act 4, Coldworm in act3,and i think Radament im not sure about him though anyway thats all i wanted to say :-) please get your cheats right subitters!!!! Hint: ----- Submitted by: Daniel a.k.a. The Ewok There is a little trick I accidentally uncovered that you can do in Diablo II (I think it works for the expansion, too), as long as you have access to your characters save files (so it doesnt work with closed Battle.net). You simply explore your hard drive, find the [Diablo II] folder, and go into [saves]. Then, go into the properties of all the files of whatever character you want to use, and make them [read-only]. Then when you enter a game, you can do whatever you want, even give everything you own away to your friends, and when you join a new game with your character, it will be the exact same as before! Because you made it [read-only], the game cannot save over your old file, so it will be locked in whatever state it was in your save file. I found this very useful in multiplayer with my friends. I do the trick, and give away all my awesome equipment. Then I load and it is all still there! Hint: ----- Submitted by: rodrick warnick when you are low on mana simply go in to your invetory grab a weapon or potion then start switching them back and fourth tell mana doesnt fill if that happens grab a diffrent weapon or potion and switch them back and fourth tellmana fills Hint: ----- Submitted by: Kaits If u play Diablo 2 then u should buy all the best things u can see,because u can add money for the next thing u want to buy. Hex cheat for DIABLO 2: ----------------------- Submitted by: js 1.)open your character save file (file with extension .d2s) in a hex editor. 2.)go to line numbered 231 3.)go to the fifth box on that line 4.)over write the simultaneous numbers as "58 1B 00 00"(each number in one box ) 5.)continue this overwriting until the line numbered 253 and box 3 in that very line. 6.)save the overwrited file. 7.)open your character in the diablo2 8.)your life,mana,strength etc. will now be 7000 each. Note:perform the above cheat as soon as you create a new character to avoid complication as the number in your save file change Hint: ----- Submitted by: leonardo (barbarian only)go akara and do not talk with him beacause if you talk you cannot activate cheat first go to cave and kill one or more and save and exit and load it if you load it you are level 99!. How to get the strongest character with money more than 999999: --------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted by: Kunal Dubey First of all open your save game with a hex editor.Then go to the strings 265,245 & 249 respectively.Hex edit the following to 9F 86 01 01. Now go to the game and be amazed to find out the amount of skill,stats and gold points.Note:I think that the cheat works with the expansion as well.Special Note:After Completing a string, save, play the game, save and exit, and THEN go on to the next string RESPECTIVELY or it may crash your game.Enjoy!! Hint: ----- Submitted by: Im The Jay Man Take the leg you get from tristy.(tristom) andd add it with a town scroll in act 1 It will make a red Port (aka) cow lvl..this will not work If u dident kill diablo in that Diffalcatly lvl.......When you are in the cow lvl Ask a good buddy to Join if he is over lvl 55 You will leach all his exp and grow lvl's..(note:) U need to be lvl 20 to leach the exp. Defeating diablo and mephisto using necromancer: ------------------------------------------------ Submitted by: Rohit Sabharwal raise the skill "bone spear" to high level(about 6 or 7). bone spear at this level has great magical damage, and diablo& mephisto having low magical resistance, gets defeated easily. its a good idea to curse him with amplify damage to defeat them more quickly. remember to have lightning resistance don't take them in melle attacks at all. summoning minions won't work as they kill your minions in a single blow. Defeating duriel using necromancer: ----------------------------------- Submitted by: Rohit Sabharwal duriel has a great melle attack so its best to curse him with iron maiden, summon a blood golem and take him in melle. your blood golem will keep on converting the damage into life till you knock him down. Note:using blood golem against diablo and mephisto may not work as their fire and lightning attacks will kill your golem in seconds. also while fighting duriel its better to first engage him in melle attacks against you then summon a blood golem, so that he may attack only your character. Cheat: ------ Submitted by: myhay sev schela text: like every cheater you wanna have the best stuff in this game this is the way to do it : there are three ways to kepp getting magig and rarae items: - visit the local peoples again and again eventualy you will find a good item -keep fighting hard to kill enemies like menphisto or diablo or andariel etc... -and my personal faforite:))))): ------CHEAT!!!------- enter the cheatbook database hex editor open the file of the hero you`re playng with and go to the line 231 and chance it to 581b.0000 do this two times then go to the next line and do the same thing but onely once then enter the game and play that hero and you will gave a wonderfull surprize that the strenght increased to 2-3 maybe 4 milion :)) and the life to basicly you can kill any enemy with one blow enjoy !! :) this one i tried myself and it really works i still have trouble with finding strong items i onely ave a 670 armour, a 243 shield a 150 crown and a really fast sword that1s all if someone of you know how to get better items fast please tell me myhayyou@yahoo.com bye and enjoy!! Avoiding trapped chests: ------------------------ A normal chest will have a single squeak when you open it. A trapped chest will have a sound like two squeaks that are happening at the same time. If you listen closely, you will hear the normal squeak and a similar but different squeak. After the sound, you will have about one second to run away. You will not make it if you are walking and the trap is a projectile. Avoid death: ------------ Press [Esc] when you are about to die, then save and exit the game. When you reload, your game you will be at the starting location. Spin: ----- Select the regular attack (resembles an arrow) for both of your action icons. Then, hold [Shift] + Left Mouse Button. With those held, move your cursor around the character and he or she will spin. The faster you circle your character, the faster they will spin. Moving hand: ------------ Press [Esc] during game play. Allow the game to idle at that screen and the hand will begin moving after a few seconds. Better restart: --------------- When you die, do not save and quit. This gives you the advantage of starting next to your body. However, if you died fighting a Boss, unique, or champion monster, you must face them with full health, rather than whatever you whittled down to before. Druid: Character development: ----------------------------- To develop a "tank" Druid, as your Druid levels up, put a skill point in Werewolf and put the rest into Lycanthropy. You may put one or two on pets such as Spirit Wolf. Also, alternate between assigning points to strength and vitality so that they are within 5 points of each other. Do not use any points on elemental skills when making a "tank" Druid. By the time you get to about level 20, you should need an increase in Dexterity. Make sure to invest 3 to 4 points in the Maul ability, as it helps against Bosses. Also, Druids perform best with a maul equipped. Try to make this the item Charsi imbues. If you follow this, you should end up with a Druid that has over 900 health by level 35. The tank Druid can be used in another way. You can also focus on Lycanthropy and Wearbear, but doing so only put one point on Werewolf. Always have high damage weapons. A maul is good because the Druid has a fast attack speed rating with it. Never put any skill points on elemental skills as this will ruin the tank. Put points into Heart Of Wolverine, and Maul and Hunger with Werebear. These are very good skills. You will be able to kill most monsters in one hit. This makes up for the Werebear's slow speed. Use Oak Sage until level 30, then you can learn Spirit Of Barbs. This skill gives you and your party members a skill similar to the Paladin's Thorns Aura if you have a lot of HP. Regardless of the strength of the monsters in Act V, they will be a lot less terrifying. Easy Way To Kill Andariel: -------------------------- This code only works if your a Sorceress. Before you open the doors to Andariel's big throne room, open a Scroll of Town Portal in a corner, Next you make sure you have a lot of health potions in your belt( I recommend putting scrolls of town portal in the 4th one). Make sure you have blaze selected as your skill and open the door. Then you just walk around the pool of blood and make sure she's following you and pretty soon the flames will kill her. 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. 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. More Experience Faster: ----------------------- In a game hit the ENTER button to go to the chat screen type /PLAYERS 8 you can do this from 1 to 8 Imbue without worry: -------------------- When you get an item and want to imbue and are worried about the outcome, copy the "Save" folder from the Diablo 2 folder to the desktop or any other location. Start your game and imbue. If you do not like what happened, save the game and exit. You will now be in main menu again. Press [Alt] + [Tab] and copy the save folder back to its original location. Then click "Single Player Game" and start. You have another chance to imbue the item. Repeat this until you get the desired effect. Avoid dying from poison: ------------------------ If you are about to die when poisoned, quickly make a town portal and go through. You cannot die in town. This also works with hirelings. Safe gamble: ------------ To get a gold item (rare) when you gamble, make sure you have at least 10,000 gold. Save and exit the game. Return to the same character and press [Alt] + [Tab] when in town. Once at the Windows Desktop, copy the game's save folder to the desktop or another location. Click on the minimized Diablo 2, go to Gheed and gamble. If you do not get a rare item, save and exit. Press [Alt] + [Tab], delete the current save folder, and copy the backup save folder from your desktop or other location back into the game folder. Click on the Diablo 2 game, return to the same character, and repeat. Diablo duplicate: ----------------- Submitted by: Skater-Boy you need to computers...ok this cheat really really works...actually its a glitch.... uhm..go to "C:programfilesdiablo2save"..then highlighten all the files there and right click ...left click to properties then click to "read-only"...after this... create a lan game..(your game host must not be read-only)then ...when you are in the current game,,drop the item u want 2 duplicate...(your game host must be near at you) then save and exit....and load game ...when you enter your game you will see the the item you dropeed is still there...and when you open your inventory .... YOU'LL SEE THE SURPRISE IN THERE.. ok then hope you try itt.....its 100% sure... 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 2Diablo II.exe" -w) Easy Way To Kill Andariel: -------------------------- This code only works if your a Sorceress. Before you open the doors to Andariel's big throne room, open a Scroll of Town Portal in a corner, Next you make sure you have a lot of health potions in your belt( I recommend putting scrolls of town portal in the 4th one). Make sure you have blaze selected as your skill and open the door. Then you just walk around the pool of blood and make sure she's following you and pretty soon the flames will kill her. Hint: ----- Submitted by: chris here are my favorite fast cash places in the game -act1 graveyard -act2 radaments lair -act3 arachnid lair Claim Your Items After Death: ----------------------------- Normally when you die, your corpse will remain where you croaked, surrounded by whatever killed you. To avoid this, after you die Save and Exit the game. Now your corpse and possessions can be picked up in the safety of the town. Tougher Enemies: ---------------- If you want to play against tougher enemies, press ENTER, type "players 8" and then press ENTER again. Now you'll play as if there are 8 players in the game, making the enemies tougher. Doing this can make things very hard at times, but it's a great way to quickly level up early on in the game. Cow level: ---------- If you create a portal to the secret Cow level, do not kill the Cow King. If you do not, the same character will be able to create a portal there again repeatedly. However, if you or anyone else kills the Cow King, and you created the portal, you will not be able to do it again. Note: You can get another leg from Wirt as long as you do not have one in your possession (including stash). Hint: ----- Submitted by: popl43 If you didn't already notice the countess (a boss on act 1) drops runes, usually El, Eth, Or Tir. and, if you save and exit you can kill her over and over. getting experience and stocking up on runes that you can put in socketed items. Best done with a lvl 11 paladin or amazon. Note: runes are random, sometimes you get some, sometimes you don't. Infinite one way portal: ------------------------ Cast a Town Portal from a safe location, then take the portal into town. Use the waypoint system and run to get back to your last location. This allows you to use the portal to go back into town an unlimited number of times as long as you do not use it from town to return to where you were previously. Necromancer strategies: ----------------------- Skeleton Mages are the most useful in open areas. They stay out of the way and can attack from a distance. Skeleton fighters are of limited use since they have very low defensive ability. The best use is to repeatedly summon them to tackle a tough monster. Blood Golems are slow and not the best fighters, but they contribute health to your player for any damage they take. The Iron Maiden curse is useful in weakening a group of enemies, softening them up for attack. Powerfull in some Steps: ------------------------ -Every time you level up only get summons. -Get skeleton mastery up to 15 or more. -Be able to summon 3 skeletons and 3 mages. -Only have wands (even though they are weak). -Make sure the wand has at least +2 skeleton mastery or more. -Try to equip a gem to your wand (Dont really need). -Be over level 15. -Get a blood golem with 5 golem mastery points. -Then summon all, let your minions attack only. Get a lvl 33 character easy: ---------------------------- Submitted by: D2Addict first you need to rightclick on the desktop shortcut for diablo 2. left click on properties. it will say target(box)c:/program files etc.at the end press spacebar then -act 5 go into diablo game and make a new character you will start in harrogath in act 5 but u only have rogue encampment waypoint. so u start the game from beginning. u will have 32 skill points and 160 stat points -act 1 (lvl 1 char) -act 2 (i cant remember the lvl) -act 3 (lvl 21 char) -act 4 (lvl 27 char) -act 5 (lvl 33 char) Super powerful character: ------------------------- Submitted by: Nisheeth Create a new character.kill at least 5 monsters to gain 100 exp,DONT LEVEL UP. Note your exp and your attributes. Save and exit the game. Open the folder where diablo 2 is installed. Open save folder. Backup the file [character].d2s,where [character] is the name of your character. Open it using a hex editor. g0 to line 230 and search your strength attribute in hexadecimal number. Change it to A8610000 and repeat it 4 times. save the file and start the game. Your attributes must be 25000.save and exit. Open the same file again and go to the line 260. Search for your experience in hexadecimal. Change it to FF276BEE. Save the file. start the game and see your experience.it must be 399999999. If yes go out into the wilderness and kill one monster and you will be level 99 and have 98 skill points and 495 attributes to spend. NOTE: Dont spend attributer in strength for attack wont increase,neither in dexterity as you will have sufficient attack rating and defence but concentrete on energy and vitality. Easy experience: ---------------- Go to the wilderness and find a creature that has a shaman (Fallen, Carver, etc.) and can be ressurected. Do not kill the shaman first. Kill the creatures. The shaman will keep resurrecting them and you will have an never-ending source of easy monsters to kill. When you are done killing and have had your fill of experience, kill the shaman. Barbarian: Character development: --------------------------------- Use the following trick to get a very strong Barbarian. Add 1 to Leap (to help kill Diablo), 1 to Bash and 1 to Double Weapons. Next, put the rest of your skills into Ax Mastery. Keep doing this until you have a 1,000 rating. It also helps to put some points on Dexterity. Defeating Bosses: ----------------- This trick works well when playing as a Necromancer. Make sure you have a good amount of skeletons and a spell that reflects the damage back at the Boss. The spell will do damage to the Boss when he goes to attack you or your party member. If done correctly, he should almost literally kill himself. Unlimited gold: --------------- On Act 1, play through the game until you get to the Countess quest. In the Forgotten Tower on level 5 of the dungeon, you will find several rooms containing large masses of gold. After defeating the Countess and collecting all the treasure, save and exit the game. Reload and return to the Forgotten Tower on level 5. The gold should be there again. Note: If you defeat the Countess again the game will not give you the gold for killing her again. Repeat this as many times as needed. Unlimited one way portal: ------------------------- Cast a Town Portal from a safe location, then take the portal into town. Use the waypoint system and run to get back to your last location. This allows you to use the portal to go back into town an unlimited number of times as long as you do not use it from town to return to where you were previously. Killing diablo with no lightning inferno: ----------------------------------------- Submitted by: IrishFury Email: Halo3boy@hotmail.com Alright so i was bored of training for a battle with baal so i went to fight diablo, here two ways to keep him from useing the evil attack lightning inferno the first is easy when ever her launchs his attack run behind a torch in the area near the seal which can be a good area to rest up. Now for the killing fight you will have to position yourself just right near the edge of the torch he can use all of his attack exxcept lightning inferno and you can attack him back. So you should only have to work on fire resistance and stock up on potions any more questions email me (this tip works best with barbarians do to close combat). Horodic cube: ------------- Submitted by: fomo The horadic cube is not random at all, u just need to know the gems and jewels to use the book i got says: Magic weapon+any jewwel+eld rune+any ruby=hitpower weapon Effects1-5% lvl 8 frost nova when hit. 2attacker takes 5-10 damage. 3 +34-67% damage. Strongest character ever: ------------------------- Submitted by: dhd5r Go through the act1 minions make sure u kill them all then act2 then act3 then act4 then act5 try to make the secret cow lvl by the worldstone after killing baal and it will open a secret portal to tristram before diablo attacked stop diablo and talk to griswold then go to church and kill the butcher then the butcher will drop a secret book that give 10 to skills and 50 to stats beliebe me its worth it and if u get lucky u will get an armor with 20000 defense and add 5000k dmg and u will actually have the strongest char that could ever be imagined in diablo 2. Defeating Bosses: ----------------- This trick works well against Dariel, the monster you must fight before you find out that Diablo's brother is already freed. Automatically cast a Town Portal when you get in the room with him, or outside in the room where you have to put the staff in. Every time you come back, he will have the same amount of health as he had when you fought him before. Make sure you cast a Town Portal before you die or he will heal.
