50 Tips & Tricks for new players

Nice list, knew most of them but some where new. Fun read and good thread for both returning and new players. Awesome job!

Thx a lot for this.

Thanks everyone !

The

Warriv act 1 WP go to kinda shocked me...Can't believe I hadn't thought of that before....."slaps forehead" DOH!

51. Running = 0 defense (shown in LCS in D2R). Walk instead.

Fellowship wrote: 3 years ago

8. If you're using

Conviction and an enemy is using a higher level

Conviction aura, their aura will cancel out yours. If yours is higher, you'll cancel out theirs. Enemies will never have higher than level 11 (Infinity gives level 12) except

Uber Mephisto, who has level 20.

That's not exactly true. I play sorc and I have an Infinity. In the last three days I've had two cases where my

Conviction stopped working as soon as a unique monster with an

Conviction aura approached and its aura started working on me. Thats mean, that its

Conviction was higher than level 12.
However, I must admit that this is very rare case, usually my

Conviction is stronger.

I don't know if this has been listed, but there is a secret entrance to the monastery, prison, so before you get to the catacombs.

There are rooms where you can't get in at first sight, but if you touch the wall at a certain place, the wall opens and you can find chests and various objects in the rooms.

Perhaps someone knows this "secret trick" and perhaps this point could be included here.

41. Prevent Monster Heal cannot be inflicted by a Mercenary or

Iron Golem, only the player.

That was new info. Is it still the case in D2r?

Tbh I only knew a handful of these lol

thanks for the post b

13. Because

Diadem have such high quality and magic levels, you can imbue them at any character level and you'll have the same item generation as you would with even a level 99 character.

Is this true? I thought that you had to be level 80ish to get the +2 to all skills affix etc.

FitzChivalry wrote: 2 years ago

13. Because

Diadem have such high quality and magic levels, you can imbue them at any character level and you'll have the same item generation as you would with even a level 99 character.

Is this true? I thought that you had to be level 80ish to get the +2 to all skills affix etc.

iirc-
tiaras 73, coronets 78, circlets 83, diadems 9.

"6.

Smite and

Holy Shield don't normally appear on a

Scepter, but if the game attempts to select them multiple times during item generation, the game will eventually give up as a fail-safe and spawn the

Scepter with one of those skills. The chances of this is one in the tens of thousands."

I believe this was patched out of D2R somewhat recently, but was not noted. Source: MrLlama. I do not know how to confirm but I trust his word haha

justinman114 wrote: 3 weeks ago

"6.

Smite and

Holy Shield don't normally appear on a

Scepter, but if the game attempts to select them multiple times during item generation, the game will eventually give up as a fail-safe and spawn the

Scepter with one of those skills. The chances of this is one in the tens of thousands."

I believe this was patched out of D2R somewhat recently, but was not noted. Source: MrLlama. I do not know how to confirm but I trust his word haha

It's been fixed since launch, was one of many "Stealth fixes" along with ebugging and such.

On

Terror zones, monster's

Conviction will have L12 if TZ level is 93+ (so Unique level is 96) and

Conviction of the same level cancel each other (for the users)

https://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/m ... onus.shtml

Aura

Conviction (at monlvl/8)

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Errata: 2025-02-15 bug below was corrected on last patch
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Addendum: there is a bug, that sometimes after face a monsters with same

Conviction Level as you (or as your merc), the

Conviction character will "gain" the

Conviction's penalty until you restart the game or turn off the aura (unequip Infinity works)
This may happen with Infinity users (character or Merc) on TZ zones (L93+)...
So after face a

Conviction monster look at your resistances (or your Merc's resistances) to check

Pasadei wrote: 3 years ago

Fellowship wrote: 3 years ago

8. If you're using

Conviction and an enemy is using a higher level

Conviction aura, their aura will cancel out yours. If yours is higher, you'll cancel out theirs. Enemies will never have higher than level 11 (Infinity gives level 12) except

Uber Mephisto, who has level 20.

That's not exactly true. I play sorc and I have an Infinity. In the last three days I've had two cases where my

Conviction stopped working as soon as a unique monster with an

Conviction aura approached and its aura started working on me. Thats mean, that its

Conviction was higher than level 12.
However, I must admit that this is very rare case, usually my

Conviction is stronger.

fredkid wrote: 3 weeks ago

Addendum: there is a bug, that sometimes after face a monsters with same

Conviction Level as you (or as your merc), the

Conviction character will "gain" the

Conviction's penalty until you restart the game or turn off the aura (unequip Infinity works)
This may happen with Infinity users (character or Merc) on TZ zones (L93+)...
So after face a

Conviction monster look at your resistances (or your Merc's resistances) to check

Addendum to the addendum, this was fixed in the latest patch as a matter of fact. Not that Blizz communicated that very well in their patch notes.

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article ... 9-now-live

Blizzard wrote:

Gameplay
Fixed a bug that occurs when a monster and a player or mercenary have the same level of aura.

Actually min ilvl for alvl 90 (to be able to roll 2 to class skill prefix) are:

Circlet: 87 (mlvl 3 qlvl 24)

Coronet: 82 (mlvl 8 qlvl 52)

Tiara: 77 (mlvl 13 qlvl 70)

Diadem: 1 (mlvl 18 qlvl 85)

alvl = max(qlvl, ilvl) + mlvl

krathkor wrote: 2 years ago

FitzChivalry wrote: 2 years ago

13. Because

Diadem have such high quality and magic levels, you can imbue them at any character level and you'll have the same item generation as you would with even a level 99 character.

Is this true? I thought that you had to be level 80ish to get the +2 to all skills affix etc.

iirc-
tiaras 73, coronets 78, circlets 83, diadems 9.

You are right... Forget about that

DarkMaster wrote: 3 weeks ago

fredkid wrote: 3 weeks ago

Addendum: there is a bug, that sometimes after face a monsters with same

Conviction Level as you (or as your merc), the

Conviction character will "gain" the

Conviction's penalty until you restart the game or turn off the aura (unequip Infinity works)
This may happen with Infinity users (character or Merc) on TZ zones (L93+)...
So after face a

Conviction monster look at your resistances (or your Merc's resistances) to check

Addendum to the addendum, this was fixed in the latest patch as a matter of fact. Not that Blizz communicated that very well in their patch notes.

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article ... 9-now-live

Blizzard wrote:

Gameplay
Fixed a bug that occurs when a monster and a player or mercenary have the same level of aura.