Diablo 2 Endgame Options

1. The

Pandemonium Event: (Now Available in Single Player) [Source]
You gather keys to open portals to fight Uber

Andariel,

Über Duriel &

Über Izual to obtain the

Hellfire Torch. (Large Charm with x3 random class skills, +10-20 to All Resistances/Attributes and 5% ctc lvl 10

Firestorm on attack)

Important Notes:
-You gather the keys by killing 3 Unique monsters in Hell:

The Countess (A1),

The Summoner (A2) &

Nihlathak (A5). They will not be easy to kill, especially over and over because a

Key dropping isn't guaranteed.
-You need 3 sets of keys to open all 3 portals in the same game. Put 1 of each

Key in the

Horadric Cube and open the portal in A5.
-Once you kill the 3 Ubers they will drop

Diablo's Horn,

Baal's Eye &

Mephisto's Brain. Combine these in the cube to open

Uber Tristram, which you will need to kill all 3 to obtain the Torch.

WARNINGS:
-You must open all

Key portals in the same game otherwise you may re-open a previously completed portal and have to farm more keys.
-The Torch that drops is NOT guaranteed to be for your class. It is random.

Tips To Get A Torch:
-The easiest/fastest way to kill the Ubers is with a Smiter and get them the basic gear needed to beat them. Killing them solo with any other class or build will be next to impossible.
-You can also pay a Smiter to help you. Many people create Smiters specifically to run a business farming torches and getting paid to run for other people.
-If you can at least farm enough

Key sets or find some High Runes, you can trade those for a low-mid Torch or an unidentified torch.

2. Racing / Reaching level 99:
The level cap in this game is 99. But it takes hundreds of hours of farming experience in order to reach this level and many race for it at the start of each ladder to immortalize their player names on the boards. People also like to compete for 'world firsts' when it comes to killing

Baal or other act bosses in all 3 difficulties.
-Where you farm XP matters A LOT, Here is the Experience Percent Per-Level Chart: https://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Guide:Di ... uide_v1.10

3. Diablo Clone Hunting: (Now Available in Single Player!)
You sell

Stone of Jordan's (1 for SP and ~70-120 for Battlenet) to summon Uber Diablo who drops the

Annihilus small charm that has similar stats to the

Hellfire Torch but with x1 to all skills and a bonus to experience gained of 5-10%.
-Sell your Soj to

Malah in A5 and he should appear above the

Frigid Highlands Way point

4. Holy Grail Farming:
Simply finding every item in the game. This can literally take several years depending on your luck & frequency of play. Some items are so rare that its essentially winning the actual lottery when it drops for you. (tyraels might, mang-songs ext)
Manual tracking: https://d2-holy-grail.herokuapp.com/

You can separate your noble quest into 3 Grail-categories:
The Runeword Grail - Create 1 of every runeword
The Set Item Grail - find 1 of every set item
The Unique Item Grail - find 1 of every unique

The Holy Grail is obtaining all three

Separated Further:
The Runeword Weapon Grail
The Runeword Armor Grail

The Unique Weapon Grail
The Unique Armor Grail
Then Unique Jewelry Grail

5. Magic Finding: also referred to as "MFing". Its the process of running the same bosses or areas over and over in an attempt to find more powerful runes and rare/unique items. This game has hundreds of items that are akin to winning the lottery when they drop.

Magic Find (MF) dramatically increases the Magic, Rare, Unique & Set items that drop as you slay demons!

Important Magic Find Tips:
1. First 100 MF is worth as much as the next 200. (Every little bit helps a ton at first!)
2. MF starts significant diminishing returns after the first 300 for everything but Magic items. (See MF Curve Here)
3. When stacking MF, first consider if it will reduce killing speed and/or survivability by too much. If you can kill much faster (or spend less time dying), its not always the best thing to just add more Magic Find.
4. Keep extra MF gear in your other weapon slots and swap to them right before you kill a Boss. MF is only calculated on killing blow.
5. If your Mercenary gets the killing blow, their MF is added to yours.
6. MF does NOT help Rune drops.

Farming Uniques & Sets: (NM = Nightmare, H = Hell)
-

Andariel (NM-H)
-

Mephisto (NM-H)
-

Ancient Tunnels (H) /

Mausoleum (H) [NO Cold Immunes]
-Pindelskin (H) >

Eldritch the Rectifier (H) >

Shenk the Overseer (H)
-The Pit (H) (Cave in A1

Tamoe Highland)

Farming Runes, Uber Keys & Bases:
-

The Countess (NM-H,

Key of Terror)
-

Travincal (H, Runes)
-

Secret Cow Level (H, Elite Runeword Bases)
-

The Summoner (H,

Key of Hate) (Open chests at end of each platform for runes. You won't mind 4th-waying as much)
-

Lower Kurast (H) (open chests/logs/stashes)
-

Nihlathak (H,

Key of Destruction)

Refer to the Item Finder for specific loot drops and odds in each area

From: How to Hit 400 MF Fast & Cheap: (MF Guide)

6. Crafting & Gambling:
You can spend hundreds of hours crafting or gambling various rare items to use for hundreds of possible build combinations since in D2 the "best" items in the game for certain slots are actually random rares, not the uniques (or "legendaries" in D3). Even beating high level runewords in some cases.
-Start gambling Daggers at lvl 11 for a chance at the

Gull

Dagger! (1:2000 chance)
Crafting list: https://d2.maxroll.gg/items/crafted-items
Gambling Calculator: https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2-drop-calculator#gamble=amu

7. Player VS Player: Many players love to min/max their PVP gear and fight other players.
WARNING: It is open world PVP online in D2 so any player can hostile you and attack you outside of town.
-Many players deck out lower level characters for low lvl duels as well. look for public games with "duel" or "pvp" in the name.
Tips to Avoid PVP:
-Make password protected games
-Level restrict your games so high lvl players cannot join. (low level PKers still exist)
-Play Single Player Mode (Characters in SP cannot be used or transferred to multiplayer)

8. Start playing Hardcore mode and risk losing your character and gear upon Death!? *gasp* :O
-You will have to change up your tactics significantly when playing HC since Death is permanent.
-Keep Scrolls of Town Portal in your

Belt for quick 1-

Key escapes
-You can also press Esc to Save & Exit if about to die (*cluck*)
Havelox's HC Fury Druid Guide

9. Creating Fun Builds with Runewords. There's a lot of gear in D2 that gives classes access to skills they don't have, like the runeword Passion allows any character to use the Paladin skill

Zeal and the Barb skill

Berserk. Or the Beast runeword gives any class the ability to transform into the Druids

Werebear form. So the possibilities sky rocket for build diversity as you acquire these items.
Runewords & Runes Cheat Sheet