I put 2 emerald chips and a skull chip into the bow and handed it over to my hireling.

After gaining a few levels, I ended up with some chips and gems, along with a 3 socketed longbow. My character was a Paladin.Īt first, I just leveled up normally, killing the little critters and taking few risks. I like playing Single player and discovered something that works VERY well with the archer you can get in the 1st chapter. I had not played D2 for many years, and so was really jacked by the way LOD changed the hireling set up. Submitted by Shawnpm810 (shawnpm810) Hint - Hireling Exploitation Beware that hardcore duels are meant to be with friends only since you risk losing items to the winner. Believe me when I say this, using the 6 socket crystal sword in a duel can litterally earn you respect.especially in hardcore duels. Use Rainbow Facet jewels of different death properties.ĭo not use level up jewels. Runeswords! But heres my suggestion for those of you who are player-killers.

Non-etheral crystal swords with 6 open sockets are the BEST sword for those of you who are item hunters and use the sorceress. Ral(fire) Ort(lightning) Tal(poison) Thul(cold) and amn(7% life steal) can make this an easy to use, combat efficiant weapon in Normal difficulty and the early stages of Nightmare difficulty. Using runes in this crystal sword(5), can prove dangerous. Not to mention some easy Runewords as well.Ĭrystal swords that are plain text, and non-etheral, are best for the runeword 'Call to Arms'. Four perfect gems of elemental types: Ruby, Saphire, Emerald, and Topaz. For starters - a 4 open socket plain (grey text) crystal sword, etheral or non, can make a nasty elemental sword. Submitted by: Runo360 Hint - Socketed Crystal SwordsĮver find a 4-6 socketed crystal sword through out the game? Keep them! Runewords will be of good use with these low level, low requirement weapons. If you head back to Act 1, you can find equipment but then you will need to play through any subsequent acts to return to the one you selected using your code. You'll start with no equipment or gold, but you will have all stat and skill points appropriate for your level. You'll start in the act noted above, at the character level indicated. Once you enter the code, click on Apply, launch the game, and begin playing using a new character of any class. Add a space after the last quotation sign, then enter one of the following codes for the corresponding effects (be sure to include the '-' as part of the code or it won't work. In the box labeled 'Target', you should see a code in quotation marks. Then, select Properties and click on the Shortcut tab. On the desktop, right-click the Diablo 2:LoD icon.

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