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The complete overview guide to shopping in Diablo 2 by Hastmannen

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The complete overview guide to shopping in Diablo 2 by Hastmannen
Compiled by Fellowship

What this guide contains

Introduction

What this guide contains

Basic facts about Shopping

How do I shop?

End-Game Items Worth shopping

Ladder-Reset Items Worth shopping

Help me develop this guide

Thanks and Credits - contact me

Basic Facts about Shopping

Terms to know about

ilvl = itemlevel

clvl= characterlevel

alvl= affixlevel

qlvl= quality lvl

- You cannot shop Ethereal (
Eth
) items.

- The ilvl (itemlevel) of items presented is clvl (characterlevel) + 5. This means that if you are characterlevel 10, items will be itemlvl 15, if you are characterlevel 15, itemlvl will be 20 and so on. Nothing weird.

- This isn't always true though, in normal difficulty there is a
Cap
of ilvls being shopped for all separate acts.

Act 1 normal has an ilvl
Cap
of 12

Act 2 normal has an ilvl
Cap
of 20

Act 3 normal has an ilvl
Cap
of 25

Act 4 normal has an ilvl
Cap
of 36

Act 5 normal has an ilvl
Cap
of 45

- Furthermore, vendors sell normal and socketed items up until ilvl 25+ (clvl 20+). This means that A1 and A2 normal always only sell normal / socketed items. After ilvl 25 vendors only sell magic items and no longer normal or socketed quality.

- If another player is in town, the shopping window won't update, even though you are exiting in and out of town.

- Different item types have different ilvl-requirements for the same affixes. What differs is the qlvl. For exampel, a regular
Sash
requires ilvl 51 to reach alvl 50, while a
Vampirefang Belt
requires ilvl 75 to reach the alvl 50. This however can easily be counted out by using: https://diablo3.ingame.de/diablodb/affi ... &patch=111

- Items sold by vendors are generally of normal quality, but beginning from Nightmare and ilvl 25 there is a chance they will be sold as exceptional quality, and from hell and on there is a small chance they will be sold with elite quality. Note though, that this rule doesn't apply to all vendors always. For example,
Charsi
in hell cannot sell any items of exceptional quality nor of elite quality, and no Elite Items can be shopped in A1 / A2 hell. Elite items can first spawn in A3 Hell. In order to determine what vendor can sell what quality and at what chance, use shopping calculator at http://members.iinet.net.au/~dcarson/shopcalc.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20170503170 ... pcalc.html

- Too complicate matters further, each vendor has specific normal quality items with tags called "nightmare upgrade" in nightmare, and in hell, "hell upgrade". These normal quality items with "nightmare upgrade" tag or "hell upgrade" tag will replace other normal quality items in that respective difficult. Items with "hell upgrade" tag are not eligible to exist with as exceptional or elite quality, which makes a lot of items never appear in the shop as their exceptional or elite quality version.

- A further rule to consider is that items will only appear when the qlvl of the item type is less than or equal to the ilvl of the shopped items (which is your character level + 5). So, for instance,
Charsi
in Normal difficulty can sell
Ring Mail
. But since the qlvl of
Ring Mail
is 11, you won't see any in her trade window until your character hits level 6.
How do I shop?

Depending on which npc you need to shop at, you can use several different strategies. For every npc in A1 you can use the
Portal to the Secret Cow Level
for quicker and easier entry in and out of town. Simply open the portal as near your preferred NPC as possible and go in and out of the portal. This same strategy can be used in A5, while using the portal to mini-ubers. Open the portal wherever you want to the npc you will shop from.

Otherwise, you simply have to determine which is fastest - running in and out of town opening or using the waypoint back and forth, or open a Town Portal and run in and out and open a new portal. For A2 and A1 , the design of the entry to town changes, and you can restart your game to get the preferred opening. For a1 though, cow portal is always faster.
End-Game Items worth shopping

This part of the guide will not include items good for LLD as that is a completely separate post, as well as items to buy for speedrunning, and other related ventures. This guide is both for PoD and Diablo 2, which means some items will be more or less useless in PoD, However, I will write that up. Remember, all chars can shop all items, so don't think you can't shop items just because they are class-specific.


** = Lowest possible lvl for to get affix(es)

*** = Recommended lvl of shopping

**** = Highest possible lvl breakpoint for highest possible affix

(Bad at shopping)= I added the (bad at shopping) to just show you shouldn't hunt these items actively, but lets say you are boosting a friend and need repair / pots whatever at said NPCS. Check if they have any of the items listen here, then move in. Usually its only 1-2 of those items in shopping window with pretty rare affixes, making it non-time efficient to hunt for them actively.

(Not for PoD)= Items that are good in vanilla, but bad in PoD.

Weapons for all Chars

Item (Weapon) Vendor Clvl req for shopping
Weapon of
Life Tap
(
Wand
/daggers)
Malah
Hell,
Drognan
Hell 19**, 78***, 91****
Weapon of
Lower Resist
(
Wand
/daggers)
Malah
Hell,
Drognan
Hell 30**, 71***, 94****
Weapon of
Poison Dagger
(
Dagger
)
Malah
Hell,
Drognan
Hell 7*, 78***, 89****
Weapon of
Weaken
(
Wand
/daggers)
Malah
Hell,
Drognan
Hell 7**, 78***, 89****
Weapon of Confusion (
Wand
/daggers)
Malah
Hell,
Drognan
Hell 19**, 78***, 91****
Weapon of
Telekinesis
(staff,
Scepter
)
Drognan
Hell 19**, 78***, 89****
Weapon of Teleportation (staff)
Drognan
Hell 19**, 78***, 91****
Edge Runeword Base (bow/
Crossbow
)
Charsi
Normal 1**
Black Runeword base (
Mace
,
Flail
)
Fara
Normal 1**
Leaf runeword Base (staves), +3 firebolt/+3
Fireball
/+3 enflame
Drognan
Normal,
Akara
Normal 1-13**
Crafting
Blood Weapon
, military picks
Gheed
Nm 54* 70** and craft at the same lvl (70 at least)

Armors for all chars

Item (Armor) Vendor clvlreq for shopping
Belt
(any
Belt
) - Serpents / cobalt/jade/garnet/coral
Belt
of the whale (+20mana or +30 to a resist +100 life) Elsix Nm 65**(***)
Crafting casterbelt base (
Light Belt
,
Sharkskin Belt
) Elsix Nm 20**, 72*** for lightbelt, 83*** for
Sharkskin Belt
(and craft at the same lvl)
Crafting Bloodgloves base (
Heavy Gloves
,
Sharkskin Gloves
)
Charsi
Nm (
Heavy Gloves
),
Gheed
Nm (
Sharkskin Gloves
) 20** 69-72*** for
Heavy Gloves
, 76-77*** for
Sharkskin Gloves
(and craft at the lvls)
Crafting Hitpower Gloves base (
Chain Gloves
,
Heavy Bracers
)
Gheed
Nm (
Chain Gloves
),
Fara
Nm (heavy bracer) 20**, 69-71*** for
Chain Gloves
, 77-78 for
Heavy Bracers
(and craft at the same lvl).

Class-specific Items


Assassin


Item (Assassin) Vendor Clvlreq for shopping
Cunning
Claws
of quickness (
Claws
) (+3 traps, +40 ias), (+3
Lightning Sentry
/ +3
Wake of Fire
/ +3
Blade Shield
/ +3
Blade
throw )
Anya
Hell, 75**, (Higher Equals better)


Amazon


Item (Amazon) Vendor Clvlreq for shopping
Lancer's
Javelin
of quickness (
Javelin
), (+3
Javelin
and
Spear
skills, +40 ias)
Malah
Nm/Hell 75**
Archers gloves of alacrity (gloves) (+3 bow and crossobow skills +20 ias)
Charsi
Hell,
Anya
Nm/Hell 55**, 68-74
Charsi
hell, 75+
Anya
Nm/Hell
Lancer's gloves of alacrity (gloves) (+3
Javelin
and
Spear
skills +20 ias)
Charsi
Hell
Anya
Nm/Hell 55**, 68-74
Charsi
Hell, 75+
Anya
Nm/Hell


Barb


Item (Barb) Vendor Clvlreq for shopping
Echoing Weapon (Bo-stick)
Charsi
Nm,
Malah
Nm,
Anya
Nm ,
Larzuk
Nm 55**, 75***


Druid


Item (Druid) Vendor Clvlreq for shopping
Gaean
Club
of xx (+3 elemental skills + xx) (Bad at shopping)
Gheed
Nm,
Charsi
Nm 55** 71***
Keepers
Club
of xx (+3 summoning skills + xx) (Bad at shopping)
Gheed
Nm,
Charsi
Nm 55** 71***

Necromancer


Item (Necromancer) Vendor Clvlreq for shopping
White runeword base, any non-magic
Wand
with +3
Bone Spear
/ +3 desecrate /
Corpse Explosion
(can only be item type
Bone Wand
or
Grim Wand
, neither
Wand
nor
Yew Wand
get 2 sockets from
Larzuk
).
Drognan
Normal 13**


Sorceress


Item (Sorceress) Vendor Clvlreq for shopping

Paladin


Item (Paladin) Vendor Clvlreq for shopping
Rose branded
Scepter
of the apprentice (+3 combat skills + 10 fcr) +3
Holy Bolt
/ +3
Fist of the Heavens
Drognan
Nm/Hell,
Malah
Nm/Hell 55** 65*** for Hell
Drognan
, 75*** for Nm
Drognan
, and Nm and Hell
Malah

Marshal's
Scepter
of the (xx) (+3 Offensive auras, +3 Sanctuary)
Drognan
nm/Hell,
Malah
Nm/Hell 55** 65*** for Hell
Drognan
, 75*** for Nm
Drognan
, and Nm and Hell
Malah

Ladder Reset Items


Weapons
Leaf runeword Base (staves), +3 firebolt/+3
Fireball
/+3 enflame
Drognan
Normal,
Akara
Normal 1-13**
Steel runeword base (
Flail
)
Fara
Normal
Malice Runeword Base


Armors
Ancients pledge runeword base (
Large Shield
)
Fara
Normal
Stealth Runeword base (2os body armor)
2-3os
Great Helm

2-3os
Crown

2-3os
Mask

Plated Belt
+30 or more life
5

Can be used to make Runewords:

7

The complete overview guide to shopping in Diablo 2 by Hastmannen
Compiled by Fellowship

What this guide contains

Introduction

What this guide contains

Basic facts about Shopping

How do I shop?

End-Game Items Worth shopping

Ladder-Reset Items Worth shopping

Help me develop this guide

Thanks and Credits - contact me

Basic Facts about Shopping

Terms to know about

ilvl = itemlevel

clvl= characterlevel

alvl= affixlevel

qlvl= quality lvl

- You cannot shop Ethereal (
Eth
) items.

- The ilvl (itemlevel) of items presented is clvl (characterlevel) + 5. This means that if you are characterlevel 10, items will be itemlvl 15, if you are characterlevel 15, itemlvl will be 20 and so on. Nothing weird.

- This isn't always true though, in normal difficulty there is a
Cap
of ilvls being shopped for all separate acts.

Act 1 normal has an ilvl
Cap
of 12

Act 2 normal has an ilvl
Cap
of 20

Act 3 normal has an ilvl
Cap
of 25

Act 4 normal has an ilvl
Cap
of 36

Act 5 normal has an ilvl
Cap
of 45

- Furthermore, vendors sell normal and socketed items up until ilvl 25+ (clvl 20+). This means that A1 and A2 normal always only sell normal / socketed items. After ilvl 25 vendors only sell magic items and no longer normal or socketed quality.

- If another player is in town, the shopping window won't update, even though you are exiting in and out of town.

- Different item types have different ilvl-requirements for the same affixes. What differs is the qlvl. For exampel, a regular
Sash
requires ilvl 51 to reach alvl 50, while a
Vampirefang Belt
requires ilvl 75 to reach the alvl 50. This however can easily be counted out by using: https://diablo3.ingame.de/diablodb/affi ... &patch=111

- Items sold by vendors are generally of normal quality, but beginning from Nightmare and ilvl 25 there is a chance they will be sold as exceptional quality, and from hell and on there is a small chance they will be sold with elite quality. Note though, that this rule doesn't apply to all vendors always. For example,
Charsi
in hell cannot sell any items of exceptional quality nor of elite quality, and no Elite Items can be shopped in A1 / A2 hell. Elite items can first spawn in A3 Hell. In order to determine what vendor can sell what quality and at what chance, use shopping calculator at http://members.iinet.net.au/~dcarson/shopcalc.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20170503170 ... pcalc.html

- Too complicate matters further, each vendor has specific normal quality items with tags called "nightmare upgrade" in nightmare, and in hell, "hell upgrade". These normal quality items with "nightmare upgrade" tag or "hell upgrade" tag will replace other normal quality items in that respective difficult. Items with "hell upgrade" tag are not eligible to exist with as exceptional or elite quality, which makes a lot of items never appear in the shop as their exceptional or elite quality version.

- A further rule to consider is that items will only appear when the qlvl of the item type is less than or equal to the ilvl of the shopped items (which is your character level + 5). So, for instance,
Charsi
in Normal difficulty can sell
Ring Mail
. But since the qlvl of
Ring Mail
is 11, you won't see any in her trade window until your character hits level 6.
How do I shop?

Depending on which npc you need to shop at, you can use several different strategies. For every npc in A1 you can use the
Portal to the Secret Cow Level
for quicker and easier entry in and out of town. Simply open the portal as near your preferred NPC as possible and go in and out of the portal. This same strategy can be used in A5, while using the portal to mini-ubers. Open the portal wherever you want to the npc you will shop from.

Otherwise, you simply have to determine which is fastest - running in and out of town opening or using the waypoint back and forth, or open a Town Portal and run in and out and open a new portal. For A2 and A1 , the design of the entry to town changes, and you can restart your game to get the preferred opening. For a1 though, cow portal is always faster.
End-Game Items worth shopping

This part of the guide will not include items good for LLD as that is a completely separate post, as well as items to buy for speedrunning, and other related ventures. This guide is both for PoD and Diablo 2, which means some items will be more or less useless in PoD, However, I will write that up. Remember, all chars can shop all items, so don't think you can't shop items just because they are class-specific.


** = Lowest possible lvl for to get affix(es)

*** = Recommended lvl of shopping

**** = Highest possible lvl breakpoint for highest possible affix

(Bad at shopping)= I added the (bad at shopping) to just show you shouldn't hunt these items actively, but lets say you are boosting a friend and need repair / pots whatever at said NPCS. Check if they have any of the items listen here, then move in. Usually its only 1-2 of those items in shopping window with pretty rare affixes, making it non-time efficient to hunt for them actively.

(Not for PoD)= Items that are good in vanilla, but bad in PoD.

Weapons for all Chars

Item (Weapon) Vendor Clvl req for shopping
Weapon of
Life Tap
(
Wand
/daggers)
Malah
Hell,
Drognan
Hell 19**, 78***, 91****
Weapon of
Lower Resist
(
Wand
/daggers)
Malah
Hell,
Drognan
Hell 30**, 71***, 94****
Weapon of
Poison Dagger
(
Dagger
)
Malah
Hell,
Drognan
Hell 7*, 78***, 89****
Weapon of
Weaken
(
Wand
/daggers)
Malah
Hell,
Drognan
Hell 7**, 78***, 89****
Weapon of Confusion (
Wand
/daggers)
Malah
Hell,
Drognan
Hell 19**, 78***, 91****
Weapon of
Telekinesis
(staff,
Scepter
)
Drognan
Hell 19**, 78***, 89****
Weapon of Teleportation (staff)
Drognan
Hell 19**, 78***, 91****
Edge Runeword Base (bow/
Crossbow
)
Charsi
Normal 1**
Black Runeword base (
Mace
,
Flail
)
Fara
Normal 1**
Leaf runeword Base (staves), +3 firebolt/+3
Fireball
/+3 enflame
Drognan
Normal,
Akara
Normal 1-13**
Crafting
Blood Weapon
, military picks
Gheed
Nm 54* 70** and craft at the same lvl (70 at least)

Armors for all chars

Item (Armor) Vendor clvlreq for shopping
Belt
(any
Belt
) - Serpents / cobalt/jade/garnet/coral
Belt
of the whale (+20mana or +30 to a resist +100 life) Elsix Nm 65**(***)
Crafting casterbelt base (
Light Belt
,
Sharkskin Belt
) Elsix Nm 20**, 72*** for lightbelt, 83*** for
Sharkskin Belt
(and craft at the same lvl)
Crafting Bloodgloves base (
Heavy Gloves
,
Sharkskin Gloves
)
Charsi
Nm (
Heavy Gloves
),
Gheed
Nm (
Sharkskin Gloves
) 20** 69-72*** for
Heavy Gloves
, 76-77*** for
Sharkskin Gloves
(and craft at the lvls)
Crafting Hitpower Gloves base (
Chain Gloves
,
Heavy Bracers
)
Gheed
Nm (
Chain Gloves
),
Fara
Nm (heavy bracer) 20**, 69-71*** for
Chain Gloves
, 77-78 for
Heavy Bracers
(and craft at the same lvl).

Class-specific Items


Assassin


Item (Assassin) Vendor Clvlreq for shopping
Cunning
Claws
of quickness (
Claws
) (+3 traps, +40 ias), (+3
Lightning Sentry
/ +3
Wake of Fire
/ +3
Blade Shield
/ +3
Blade
throw )
Anya
Hell, 75**, (Higher Equals better)


Amazon


Item (Amazon) Vendor Clvlreq for shopping
Lancer's
Javelin
of quickness (
Javelin
), (+3
Javelin
and
Spear
skills, +40 ias)
Malah
Nm/Hell 75**
Archers gloves of alacrity (gloves) (+3 bow and crossobow skills +20 ias)
Charsi
Hell,
Anya
Nm/Hell 55**, 68-74
Charsi
hell, 75+
Anya
Nm/Hell
Lancer's gloves of alacrity (gloves) (+3
Javelin
and
Spear
skills +20 ias)
Charsi
Hell
Anya
Nm/Hell 55**, 68-74
Charsi
Hell, 75+
Anya
Nm/Hell


Barb


Item (Barb) Vendor Clvlreq for shopping
Echoing Weapon (Bo-stick)
Charsi
Nm,
Malah
Nm,
Anya
Nm ,
Larzuk
Nm 55**, 75***


Druid


Item (Druid) Vendor Clvlreq for shopping
Gaean
Club
of xx (+3 elemental skills + xx) (Bad at shopping)
Gheed
Nm,
Charsi
Nm 55** 71***
Keepers
Club
of xx (+3 summoning skills + xx) (Bad at shopping)
Gheed
Nm,
Charsi
Nm 55** 71***

Necromancer


Item (Necromancer) Vendor Clvlreq for shopping
White runeword base, any non-magic
Wand
with +3
Bone Spear
/ +3 desecrate /
Corpse Explosion
(can only be item type
Bone Wand
or
Grim Wand
, neither
Wand
nor
Yew Wand
get 2 sockets from
Larzuk
).
Drognan
Normal 13**


Sorceress


Item (Sorceress) Vendor Clvlreq for shopping

Paladin


Item (Paladin) Vendor Clvlreq for shopping
Rose branded
Scepter
of the apprentice (+3 combat skills + 10 fcr) +3
Holy Bolt
/ +3
Fist of the Heavens
Drognan
Nm/Hell,
Malah
Nm/Hell 55** 65*** for Hell
Drognan
, 75*** for Nm
Drognan
, and Nm and Hell
Malah

Marshal's
Scepter
of the (xx) (+3 Offensive auras, +3 Sanctuary)
Drognan
nm/Hell,
Malah
Nm/Hell 55** 65*** for Hell
Drognan
, 75*** for Nm
Drognan
, and Nm and Hell
Malah

Ladder Reset Items


Weapons
Leaf runeword Base (staves), +3 firebolt/+3
Fireball
/+3 enflame
Drognan
Normal,
Akara
Normal 1-13**
Steel runeword base (
Flail
)
Fara
Normal
Malice Runeword Base


Armors
Ancients pledge runeword base (
Large Shield
)
Fara
Normal
Stealth Runeword base (2os body armor)
2-3os
Great Helm

2-3os
Crown

2-3os
Mask

Plated Belt
+30 or more life
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m00 9

Necromancer Americas PC
Is there a way to disable the automatic linking of things? For example, when talking about level cap, it keeps showing a
Cap
, which is distracting/hard to read.

Edit: Trying Teebling's method on the first word "
Cap
" above. It works!
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Teebling 6868Admin

Europe PC
m00 wrote: 3 years ago
Is there a way to disable the automatic linking of things? For example, when talking about level
Cap
, it keeps showing a
Cap
, which is distracting/hard to read.
Yes, use [nolink][/nolink] around words or sentences you don't want linked.

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BillyMaysed 2260Moderator

Sorceress Americas PC
Teebling wrote: 3 years ago
m00 wrote: 3 years ago
Is there a way to disable the automatic linking of things? For example, when talking about level
Cap
, it keeps showing a
Cap
, which is distracting/hard to read.
Yes, use [nolink][/nolink] around words or sentences you don't want linked.
Lol i was wondering this exact thing but didn't think it was possible. sweet.

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m00 9

Necromancer Americas PC
Teebling wrote: 3 years ago
m00 wrote: 3 years ago
Is there a way to disable the automatic linking of things? For example, when talking about level
Cap
, it keeps showing a
Cap
, which is distracting/hard to read.
Yes, use [nolink][/nolink] around words or sentences you don't want linked.
That worked, thank you!
I looked for this in the editor, even in the "advanced" section, and didn't see it. I am liking the linking by default though. Most of the time, it works great.
I also find it funny how many times might is linked. "I don't want to
Confuse
you, but I am feeling a
Hunger
, and might to go the pizza shop later."
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Teebling 6868Admin

Europe PC
m00 wrote: 3 years ago
I also find it funny how many times Might is linked. "I don't want to
Confuse
you, but I am feeling a
Hunger
, and Might to go the pizza shop later."
You've given me an idea...

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m00 9

Necromancer Americas PC
I have seen that idea manifested.
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