- Eye of Ettlich: +1 skills amulet and 3%-life-steal, +4 light radius and some more. Not bad, but don╢t give too much for it unless you really need that +1skill / life-steal combination.

Don╢t forget: This list is not complete and other players may see the value of these items differently, it╢s just to give you some idea about this subject! - Crystal Swords: these interesting sounding items are quite worthless in Diablo II, no good attack and even the unique crystal-sword is not really interesting. - Money has NOT that much trading-worth in this game, only for gambling (rares and uniques) and repairing, so don╢t sell a good item (some bad players try to rip-off others with just buying good items). Some good items are even sold online for real money.

- Gems: You will find different sorts of gems when killing monsters or solving quests. They are in different degree of perfection: chipped, flawed, normal, flawless and perfect. You can place three gems (same sort and quality) into the Horadric Cube to transform them to the next higher level. Many beginners are seeking and trading for gems, but it is a waste of time. If you advance fast you will get better gems easily. For example for a perfect diamond you need 81 chipped diamonds! And if you collected and traded and transformed and finally have some perfect gems you are on an advanced level where gems don╢t have any trade value. The only good worth of them is sometimes place them into socketed weapons to increase AC, mana or so. And you can use them to transform magical potions into greater rejuvenation potions. (see Horadric Cube section)

- The "real currency" in BattleNet in higher levels are good rare (commonly used items like) armors (AC 400+, str 100-), swords, helmets, belts and good unique items (see list). So I recommend if you find nice stuff try to get good uniques for it. Even if you get "only" Magefists and Nightsmoke, you can trade several of them for more valuable stuff like Wormskull or Frostburn. With some of those really searched for items you have the "money" you can get easily good stuff when needed. (imagine you loose a good staff and need a new one...)

- Don╢t forget to repair your valuable items you have in use like armor and helmet if it╢s a good one, it╢s worth the money.

- Item-Magic you will need: fastest hit recovery, (Sorceress: fastest cast rate), resistances (look that all your resistances are balanced (equal), prismatic rings or amus are nice, those help you surviving Hell more then +1 skill items), +life, +mana. Some weapons with 7%+ life / mana steal are nice, but it depends on the character. - A good trade can have equal worth like playing half a day! Trading is a nice part of this online-gaming (as long you don╢t meet rip-offs or beggars ...). Give it a try!

- Last tip for trading: learn by doing.

- Gambling: a good way to get rares and uniques (even if you aren╢t so advanced in game) You can gamble in every act (e.g. at Gheed or Elxix): they╢ll offer items for high prices, when buying them they will be identified and the result can be magical (mostly useless), SET (mostly useless), rare or unique (better). If you seek a special unique and don╢t have the stuff for trading it, find out how it looks like. (the Frostburn looks like plate gauntlets, Tarnhelm like simple iron helmet and Nightsmoke like a small leather belt). I recommend always gamble Nightsmoke and Tarnhelm, they are cheap (less then 10000), and even if you don╢t use them they are good trading items. Anyway there are many useless object offered (useless even as rare or unique) so just spend your money on worthy items like Frostburn or Stone of Jordan (ring). When you don╢t find good stuff offered for gambling go to another map (waypoint) and back to town and see what the new offers are.

- The Stone of Jordan: there is a "trick" to getting it: if you can trade (or gamble) the unique NagelRing and Manald Heal Ring (don╢t give too much) and have them with your char, you have a better chance to get that most valuable item. It is because when gambling you can╢t get a unique item you already possess (with that char).

- Levelling up in closed BNet: it sounds funny but don╢t advance too fast! There are players with level 24 in Nightmare and wonder why it is so difficult. Don╢t go to Nighmare until level 30, better 33. (use that time to go over and over into Act-4 collecting nice items...) If you have found a level which is easy to play and brings lots of exp-points then play that level many times with 5-8 players (with no ally = no sharing of experience-points)! That╢s the warp ticket to fast level advance. With more players the monsters get their hitpoints multiplied (for example four times with four players), but NOT their attack damage, they are harder to kill but not more dangerous. Easy level-up-locations I can recommend are Act-2: Sewers, Oasis and Palace, Act-3: Under-Kurast and Bazaar. Don╢t combine levelling up with playing (difficult) quests. In some quests you encounter hard fights you might loose and loose experience points (Nightmare and Hell). So start your quest when you just have reached a new level.

- Necromancer Basic Tips: there is no "only good" way of playing the Necromancer, you can play a summon-only Nec or a Poisonmancer etc. But the basic rule here is (like in all other characters): specialize in the most effective spells!! Find out which spells will serve you in long term (mostly NOT the first spells of any char) and put lots of skill points into them. That can help surviving in Hell mode. Good Necromancer spells are: Amplified Damage (even in later modes) and Iron Maiden. These are the best from "curse" tree, a kind of "must have" for every Necromancer. The higher curse spells arent soo good. A good spell from Bone Magic is: Corpse Explosion (yummy...). It is very effective even against high level monsters (when 1-2 are dead you cast it and get more monsters down and cast again...). There is no resistance against Bone Magic, but it does not get too many points. (Bone Spirit on high level could work for duels, but I recommend not to put many points into that skill tree). Summoning.... ahhh that╢s the thing I like about the Necromancer. It looks funny to walk through town with spellbound monsters walking behind you like little doggies... ;-) Don╢t invest more points than necessary into Summon Skeleton and Clay Golem (and zero to Skeleton Mage), but lots of points into Skeleton Mastery (for it╢s good for Revive, too), and quite some into Golem Mastery. Now the big question arises which Golem is better: Iron Golem (you need a metal object like dagger to cast, and the Iron Golem will take combat-related magical abilities from that object) or Fire Golem? Well, many succesful Necromancer players say in most times the Fire Golem is better because of more hit-points. The Blood Golem: use only one skill-point, it is not useful to play with it in late Nightmare or Hell. Until version 1.03 you can use that trick: Blood Golem and Iron Maiden (cast on monsters) combination: you will be healed greatly. And Revive (resurrect dead monsters which fight for you) pays off with high Skeleton Mastery, even if time length of the spell is quite short. In the beginning when you don╢t have too many skeletons (again: not more then ONE piont to Summon Skeleton, keep the points for better spells): buy a staff with Summoning Skeletons+3 and Summoning Skeleton-Mages+3 and so you╢ll get some... And important: get the Bone Shield (1-2) points, it will help you even in later levels. Necromancer Stats: don╢t waste any point into dexerity. In the beginning increase mostly strength (better armor) and energy (you╢ll need mana for lots of curses) and later on in vitality and energy. The Necromancer does not have the Warmth ability like the Sorceress, his mana regenerating ability goes directly with the maximum amount of mana.


Wizzard╢s Guide for Sorceresses:

It is said that the way of the Sorceress is the most challenging in the realms of Diablo II. I can agree it is not easy. But with good skill planning and some strategies you can develop a powerful character. And skill planning is important. (so many players started their character all over because of wrong skill planning) A nice skill planning utility you can download right here: ( DOWNLOAD LINK D2planner.zip ) Skill tips: MOST successful sorceress player say Ice-Magic rules. Very true! (some people suggest fire-magic: nice graphics and a good fire sorceress can be OK but Ice is the best!)

I recommend Glacier Spike, Blizzard and Frozen Orb. Put lots of points into these. Other magic you need is Shiver Armor, Warmth, Static Field.

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