The Best Areas To Magic Find In Diablo 2

[@jillbluerei4806]

Thanks for the tip about the crypt/mausoleum - found an ist on, literaly, my first run.

[@MalteP96]

You said that if you kill nithlathak the portal to pindleskin will disappear, that is however not the case, the reason your portal to pindle disappears is because you pick up the waypoint for Halls of Pain.

[@smiteriuszryceriusz1258]

This guy knows shit

[@pbrstreetgang2467]

My ignorance has no bounds. I really had no clue. Always thought Pindle shut down after Nihlathak quest completed.

[@larrybrinker1664]

I thought it was once you turned in the quest

[@jillbluerei4806]

Mistaken claim. I've killed Nihl many, many times and the portal continues to spawn in every new game. To prevent the portal from no longer appearing... don't ever talk to Anya after killing him. Oh, I also have the HoP waypoint.

[@senseivyra2465]

@@jillbluerei4806 Talking to Anya has nothing to do with it. Malte has it right. Don't grab the Halls of Pain WP. If you do, the portal disappears. You can still talk to Anya after doing the quest, that is irrelevant.

[@darthmahler4846]

Mausoleum, countess, pit, andariel, cow level, ancient tunnels, trav (hell, risky), mephisto (moat trick), chaos sanctuary!!!, frigid HL (frigid, shenk), pindleskin, worldstone keep (risky), throne room, Baal!!!

[@timmason7430]

Frigid highlands (for Shenk) is a Reference to the waypoint.

[@jacoblong9393]

my new go to place is Halls of the dead levels 1 through 3. mainly due to finding Tal'rasha's armor off the boss guarding the Horadric Cube chest

[@bobfromwork]

15:16 Actually, you can kill Nihla as much as you want. The red portal disappears based on whether or not you grab the waypoint. Imagine killing Nihla without grabbing the waypoint, and the Portal closes, bummer :) In addition, Halls of pain/vaught each have a guaranteed golden chest. There are only 3 unique map layouts for each of the areas so they can be memorized. The way to Nihla is also shown by the "eye painting" on the wall. Great video, cool windy druid.

[@kyles8524]

i remember running through a cow level in a game when it was finished and most the players were gone for some random socketed armor and there was an ist rune laying on the ground.This was before the game started coloring the drops for runes

[@Vanderlay77]

Shako in Masoleum last night off a normal zombie, also in Act 4 Hephasto has a high loot table as well.

[@barberjr1742]

Nice content. I am back to playing d2 for the first time in at least 15 years. It's been so long, and I played d3 for a few years, so d2 is taking some getting used to. Can you please do some nightmare specific content for gearing up in prep for hell. It is quite the significant jump in difficulty. Thanks

[@joaoaraujo9629]

Like me second time i'm playing the game, the first time i was a child killed Diablo in normal with barbarian or crusader and it was the end of it xD never mess with the Cube etc... XD now the depth i can dive into is fucking insane xD btw i played D3 a few years to ... But i was bored and D2 is awesome

[@pennyfish89]

thank you, simple and easy to understand for a newbie like me

[@bmay81]

pennyfish89 it’s a great game!

[@MoneyandLifeTV]

Very thorough. Nice video :)

[@liperlupulus]

Got into D2 three days ago and you are the best!

[@roybatty-]

If you don't WSK on p7, you don't D2..... also, you should clear the entire throne room, not just the waves, its all level 85.... as a matter of fact, the unique monsters in the throne room probably have better drop odds than the Baal waves. The waves drop like champion packs.

[@J.J.Jameson_of_Daily_Bugle]

The Halls of Pain was and always will be my No#1 pick for anything. If you have good enough magic find and go through entire Halls of Pain level, there's a high chance you'll find anything you really need. It was also my no#1 place to level up, the huge size of that area and bunch of enemies add load of XP even when you're like lvl 90+

[@mikedell3187]

I am confused. I have never had red portal to nithalak close. If I got so, if I killed nithalak, it is always been open for me.

[@AndreMag89]

Ola . What class for starter ? For do this area finding

[@lucbouchard748]

Thanks!!! After all these years of playing i finally find a real magicfinder!!!!

[@kushpaladin]

Nice man I just ran Hell ancient tunnels in D2 Resurrected my second run I got Tal's armor. Shame it was on my pally :(

[@AKS-74U]

Does this apply to just Hell or is this nightmare too? Trying to farm gear to take on hell with my pally

[@kushpaladin]

the item/area level impacts nightmare and hell. so anyone of those level 85 areas that he mentioned would be level 47 area level in nightmare

[@NomadOfTheWoods8]

tower also pick up some white off racks too. I admit blood raven is nice to be from time to time. helps keep some players from feeling burned out exploring everything too much. cow level and poison nova necro is the key for long lasting game play. only shys away from the potential a javazon does for job. can not have the full out best for everything. made my luck feel good enough they had nova necro in diablo 3 to help rebirth such vague type dreams of just 'keeping' it around.

[@GerdionXT]

Highest rune Countess can drop is LO from her monster table. Highest rune she can drop from her special rune drop table is ist.

[@davycornell8715]

Do you still gotta skip killing cow king to prevent from not being able to make portal?

[@Stormsong93]

Yeah, unfortunately you still can't kill the king. People have been request that get changed in D2R for QOL, so we'll see what happens then!

[@kushpaladin]

yeah. i tried on my lvl 87 but if you have the vanilla D2 save file you can go into hero editor and uncheck "Cow level completed". Then just import that save to a D2 R conversion website. Thats how i got my lvl 87 with all enigma hoto etc and hacked charms in hell mode

[@NomadOfTheWoods8]

nothing feels better then making or reinventing/ creating one of the secret builds in diablo 2. almost garentee it has already been made.

[@ivanvoloder8114]

Hey guys I have a question. Is Duriel viable for farming or should I avoid him completly?

[@Stormsong93]

Duriel isn't worth farming. Takes time to find out which tomb he's in every game, and on top of that his loot table is pretty bad. He's known for dropping only potions and scrolls.

[@bushibayushi]

are you doing this on nightmare or hell dificullty?

[@MoedorDeCarne]

Hell

[@tomtomasz9798]

lk with 8 players - each chest there has usualy 4 items. Found Lo , ist , mara in normal chest

[@ericchapman7648]

you can get tal rasha on nm meph ? i did myself

[@HakunaYoTata]

Hey, Im a bit late to the party, but does these places also work on Nightmare?

[@tomaskalinka5679]

Lately I´m doing like 1 cow run at players 3 a day as a stress relief, I really enjoy it, because it´s easy to clear with my shitty char and one day i dropped 2x 3-socket dusk shrouds and day before that Ohm as my first high rune ever, :) Even though I dropped only few mid runes ever...

[@SJNaka101]

Whoa, it's incredible how much a difference a mic makes. I just watched a video from 2017 and you sound like a completely different person between then and now.

[@Stormsong93]

Right? I'm not a fan of this new one because I basically have to eat the mic so it's not quiet, hence the big "P" sounds in my commentaries. I need to get a new one lol.

[@chaseleim4773]

I used to say to always farm your first 8 levels in den

[@bigmac8574]

How do I get tancreds boots and vidalas chest?

[@Stormsong93]

You probably have to farm a lower level area such as nightmare bosses to increase the odds of that dropping. Normal Diablo or nightmare mephisto are the best chances I believe. I'd probably go with nm mephisto since you can get other good items at the same time.

[@scottfuller5371]

How do you have 2 portraits? Online?

[@rileydinkleman1022]

I picked up 2x zod runes in my 12 year long D2 career. One from pindleskin and the other from a fallen pack in cold plains in a pvp room. Never farmed religiously like many youtubers, I always traded to gain wealth. Bought low and sold high every time.

[@pythonhighadder7982]

Great video. Thanks.

[@chaseleim4773]

I've always done this and den at low levels

[@stratdude83]

nice review, thanks for sharing

[@michelvanderlinden8363]

Sorry, beg to differ on the lower kurast comment. Lower Kurast is fantastic for getting mid runes and high runes. You get a fast character and you just open up all the chests and lootareas you can find (logs, corpses). Ive found more mid and high runes there than anywhere else in the game.

[@danilofaveroreketis2053]

Hi, how are u killing the cold immune creatures with cold skill? I'm lvl 75 Blizz Sorc and that is just impossible to me XD i'm new in this farming part of diablo 2 and i am farming like 5 to 8 hours a day, cow, mephisto, andariel, pit, colisseum and 0 runes, good set or good uniques so far. My mf is rly low but i cant do much about it is the basic stuff dont drop =/

[@Stormsong93]

You can't kill cold immunes with cold skills. You will have to skip them entirely, use a different element such as fire or lightning, or let your merc kill them (can static them to 50% if not immune to lightning).

[@DarthRane113]

Yup gotta skip em that's one of my least favorite things about D2 is there are packs that can completely negate your character entirely, not just be difficult but literally negate your character

[@henkarars]

since when did they spawn act 2 mobs in Frigid highlands? Didn't remember that from d2 in 14 year ago

[@MrOverHeels]

If I'm not mistaken, there's a level limit to it. If you exceed that level limit before you proceed to Act 5, monsters from previous act will spawn there (but much more powerful and annoying version of them).

[@MhuFox]

Hi. Umm i am a beginner of diablo 2. Can you pls teach me how you do that jumping from one place to another? I'm tired of running then walking as stamina recharges. Thanks! 😁

[@illogicalstuff6099]

You have to choose Sorcerer class character and put a point in Teleport skill

[@MhuFox]

@@illogicalstuff6099 yeah i figured while watching too much D2 videos. I'm using a paladin i thought he has it

[@illogicalstuff6099]

@@MhuFox For that you need to use I think Rune words or magical item that gives you 1 skill to teleport.

[@MhuFox]

@@illogicalstuff6099 now that's new to me lol ill be searching on how to do that. Thanks!

[@ryanramirez6279]

Look up the enigma runeword. Just so you know the rarity for ber rune, i've found only 2 of that in almost 17 years. Could be different for your luck

[@davepastern]

love the videos, been playing the early beta on ps4. Obviously limited to normal diff, acts 1/2. only have 20 mf, as had a horrid run with RNG on drops. Playing the sorc static field build from your other video. I did manage to get rarral helm; stealth body armour and ancient's pledge shield. Crappy weapon drops though. No uniques at all, but did get a berserker's helm set piece drop. Any advice on farming acts 1/2 from here with such limited MF? I presume for runes just farm the countess (which I have been doing), and for gear crypt/mausoleum and the pit. Andariel is a pita cos waypoint is on barracks lvl 2 and getting to barracks lvl 4 with a low level sorc with low mana with teleport is very expensive and inefficient with mana pots (perhaps 3 TP per mana pot). I don't know the maps, are they fixed or random in D2?

[@Stormsong93]

For act 1-2 only because of beta right? This is a great video idea I'll have to make before this weekend's open beta! Basically what I did this past weekend was get stealth from countess but skipped the ralral helm and pledge since that's only necessary for act 3+. My mf runs were: Cold Crow (guaranteed boss pack in cave by cold plains WP), Griswold (Tristram), Treehead Woodfist (Dark Wood), Andariel, Tombs, and occasionally Arcane Sanctuary for the ghosts and super chests at each path ending. As for maps, they are mostly random, but most maps have "tells". Unfortunately Catacombs doesn't have any tells, but lvl3 is often found to your character's right from the waypoint.

[@davepastern]

@@Stormsong93 Well, I went with ralral helm and pledge, cos why not! I didn't even realise that the beta was limited to acts 1/2 until I got to the end of act 2. I was sorely disappointed to say the least. Is the upcoming open beta going to be limited to acts 1/2 as well? If it is, it's not going to encourage a lot of play imho. I think I may have missed dark wood lol. I am very slow movement wise cos hey, no mana to TP around like I'd like to. It makes farming very inefficient. What MF did you end up with, and what gear did you end up finding from the early access beta? Also, wands for sorc with FCR - it's still limited to very low dmg range of 2-4 dmg for wands that drop from act 1/2 AFAIK. That compares very poorly to other weapons (non-wand) such as swords etc that do a lot more dmg. I stupidly held onto the rare wand that dropped for me at clvl 2 for the entirety of both acts, and didn't realise how low my dmg was until I cross-checked my dmg vs my mercs and realised hers was twice as much as me! I gambled for 1h swords and bingo, got a rare scimitar and dmg doubled. Game much easier. I'm quite liking the freez/nova/static sorc build. I've never played builds before in D2, or used rune worded gear and it really does make a difference to the game. I took down Duriel very easily, no deaths, under 30 seconds and I have NEVER done this before. Duriel has always been a bane and really difficult for me.

[@SuperFunkphenomenon]

hmmm... mob of countess dropped Sur to me, and she gave me the most is ohm

[@Metalmanicac94]

I got a Ber from literally the first monster in the tower cellar and it was a devilkin

[@Superschokokeks]

lucky bastard

[@iioo187]

what is your d2jsp account i got few questions to ask you. Please

[@NomadOfTheWoods8]

you would find a great archive of such things when Xfire.com was online database of older video games.

[@disgruntledtoons]

Duriel's drop tables really are stingier than the other bosses. I call him, "Duriel, Lord of Drops that Suck".

[@Stormsong93]

It would be nice if they reduced his change to drop scrolls and potions in the 2.4 patch.

[@Skullmonkeys44]

how your druid can teleport with a SKILL which is not a charge skill from item ??? it looks like it has no blue number. so it's infinite ? hows that possible ?

[@gastongiommi8216]

Enigma armor, JahIthBer i think :P

[@ProjectpvpProduction]

It's a rune word lol.

[@Anonymous-is1iv]

This is great thank you

[@jasonqualls4230]

hmm after the first kill on nightmare, both andariel and the countess drop legit trash. .at least that's how my luck always goes

[@ctrlaltdelj9082]

excellent video good job thanks!

[@ctrlaltdelj9082]

deserves way more views

[@jake69ers]

Does this apply for players1?

[@Stormsong93]

Yes.

[@jake69ers]

@@Stormsong93 are you playing this on players1?

[@judenelson2684]

Yes

[@manthing1467]

You need a thumbs up bro

[@stanandreev5988]

9:47 why the fuck did you not open the superchest?

[@Stormsong93]

Ran out of keys. It was locked.

[@andyyoung5797]

Very nice thank you

[@zach11241]

Nilathak is incredibly fun to run because of those totally not bugged Vipers! ☠️

[@mrmrsplinkegaming2426]

Awesome how d2r is out now and you don't have to worry about killing nith or getting the waypoint and the portal going bye bye!

[@Blueridgedog]

Thanks....would be great if this was written like on an old fashioned web page.

[@scurrburr2006]

Hammerdin+ highlands+ Travi+ CS= GG

[@AwoudeX]

crypt is not 85, mausoleum is, but both have low monster density, therefor few venture there. Also it's not straight forward to find

[@MrStensnask]

I literally can't tell you how many Andy and Meph runs I've done on NM and Hell over the past 20 years. Countless. In that span of time I've never - NEVER - found a SoJ. D2 is a lovable bitch. EDIT: I think it's worth mentioning that I never really cared about having a high MF. I guess that's where I went wrong. Nevertheless, I've still found awesome items, like Azurewrath and Herald of Zakarum.

[@kyles8524]

Ive found about 3 sojs and oddly I found a windofrce from a normal monster down on the way to baal in worldstone keep level 2, but the two items ive never found were a grandfather and a tyraels might,ive found the sacred armor 4 times but it always came out as the templars might or whatever it was called the green version of it for pallys.The best rare boot ive found was called Demon Shanks, there stats were almost identical to Imp Shanks but better defense cause they were a higher level boot and I sold them for 30 hr's when the game was actually populated.Regarding your low MF thats completely moot.I made a single player character edited the items so one had really high mf and the other just had some mf the items had.your talking like 1000 mf compared to around 100 and the item drops over 1000 runs I did in a week with all the bosses and the high level mf places...the drops were about the same.If you were to look at the drops from both players you wouldnt know which one had high mf or low mf. I did this because I wanted to test if having high mf actually made a difference and ..well honestly not really. when I play d2 its better to have high damage output and take down the bosses and unique monsters quicker then be twice as slow and have high mf.Doing thisI find a lot of stuff.I think killing bosses and enemies quicker alone just increases your chance for items despite low mf cause my sorc is geared for damage not mf

[@DingusKhan.]

I'd like to take your tips as gold, but that teleport...

[@luedaleitao]

Is he playing in a private server? IDK if the original battle.net servers are still on. But deem that efficiency

[@zehrudinhasanovic2041]

Any bot programs out that work?

[@zenmindgreenthumbful]

fuck off

[@philbengreg5060]

everything above 1.09d = Trash, too easy

[@StarSizzle]

Everything above D2 classic = Trash, too easy.

[@kosterix123]

show some cool gear stats instead of blabbering about.

[@jasonTL]

Just tell me the areas, man. I don't want to watch 18 minutes of "yeah basically.... And really... Yeah that's about it".

[@adeep187]

Thanks but time links would have been great. as well that shit at the end of your WoW char, the volume is massively disproportionate. its loud as fuck.

[@rayymondmorgan1697]

Yes.. but why do this? over and over?

[@alwaystheirtocomment]

Who is this guy? A nobody