Use the Shift and belt keys to feed your Mercenary Potions while it is tanking for you or sustaining heavy damage, poisoned or cursed. Mercenaries can use Thawing Potions and Antidote Potions. Mercenaries bought in Normal Difficulty have better initial Stats than those from Nightmare and Hell Difficulty. If the level between you and your Mercenary grows beyond ten levels buy a new one. Watch for Unique items that give you large Strength bonuses. Helms and armors are common at all levels.Д®quip yourself with high Defense Ethereal items and discard or equip them onto your Mercenary before they break. Use items with chance to cast Frost Nova on your Mercenary. When fighting Duriel or Cold spell casting Monsters put a row of thawing potions in your belt.Д«uy an Act 1 Cold Arrow Mercenary and equip her with a rare bow that has both Amplify Damage and Hit Causes Monster To Flee. When fighting poison damage dealing Monsters or Bosses like Andariel put a row of antidote potions in your belt. Use Resistance Jewels and runes in socketed items to gain large Resistance bonuses with low Level Requirements.

Save all Jewels that have a Resistance bonus over 20% to a specific element. Gamble often at low levels while items are cheap to do so. Play in areas that are suitable to your Character level. Use armors made with leather to avoid stamina drain and Run/Walk speed reduction and Movement Speed penalties.Д¬ollect all gems and store the ones not immediately used on a mule with a Horadric Cube. Save Jewelry that you find early and transmute it with a Horadric Cube to make new Jewelry. Watch for Jewelry and sell the items that are not immediately useful to you or a teammate. Watch for valuable items like Wands, Staves, Druid helms and Barbarian helms and Necromancer shields. They will give you both good Ranged and Melee damage at a fast speed. Sell items that are not immediately useful by you or a teammate.Д¬ollect throw-able pots and knives and sell them to gain some gold rapidly.Д®xploding Shrines and Poison Shrines contain many sell-able and stackable pots that fetch a good price.ДЄs soon as you can afford to buy a Tome of Town Portal and a Tome of Identify.ДЄcquire Stamina potions and keep at least twelve of them in your Inventory.ДЄcquire Javelins and use them as your primary attack. Walk the edges of the Map and use either the edge or stationary objects to prevent monsters from flanking. Watch for good items for you and your team mates. Enjoy!ДЄlways enable Loot with your teammates and encourage them to do the same. There is also some helpful information at the bottom of this article. These are a few tips that I came up with for Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction Battlenet Ladder resets.

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