Diablo 2 Resurrected Beginner Guide - Everything you Need to Know

Beginner guide for D2R, covering everything you need to know to get started. We cover what class to play, the best starting class, starter builds for all classes (Amazon, Assassin, Barbarian, Druid, Paladin, Necromancer, Sorceress) endgame content, early runewords, how to reset skills, gameplay tips, trading, make comparisons vs Diablo 3, how to open the cow level, hirelings like the rogue, farming unique items, tutorial on xp farm, where in the tier list to find summon necro, wind druid, hammerdin, etc. and what is the best build. Info on how to play for beginners.

Diablo 2 Resurrected release date: Sept 23.

Time stamps:
00:00 Intro
01:18 Skill Points
05:37 Attribute Points
10:33 Respec
13:56 Difficulty
17:45 Items
26:11 Runewords
32:19 The Horadric Cube
35:01 Mercenaries
38:05 Deạth
43:03 Builds
46:39 Options
48:07 Endgame

Executive producers: Kiskaloo, Zaeith

Special thanks: John Dwyer,
Joshua Dotson,
MaiaNashira,
Nazgren, Arcthorin,
Lamer of Sweden
, Neme5i5,
Nicholas Lautner
, Remiehneppo,
Toioiz,
Tony Duran,
Valentine Judnich,
zoomsp

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[baalrogg]

At 9:55 - you need 25 strength for the "Belt" not the "Heavy Belt" (which is correctly listed/pictured here as requiring an unnecessary 45 strength). The "Belt" is the first belt slot item in the game that gives you three potion rows which is a huge QoL increase over the earlier Sash/Light Belt and is very important. Just a small error in the video!

[AC-hjtv]

I've been incapacitated by depression for the past 2 years and I finally feel excited enough to get out of bed and relive some awesome nostalgia

[erevosmoonbeam]

Played D2 maniacally when it came 20 something years later i now learn that my defense drops to 0 when i run....no wonder my assassin had issues....ffs im dumb!

[Elias-xxff]

naruto quote "I haven't a clue whats going on here, but I'll act like I do!" watching this guide, I feel so overwhelmed heck lol

[genshinunleashed]

Just bought D2R... I put thousands of hours into D1 and original D2 but haven't played in over 20 years... This was by far the best video to catch me back up. It's amazing how much I remembered about the game but this got into details I have forgotten about. Thank you.

[mirryvius]

This is definately a great refresher course for any old timer to play Diablo Resurrected.. thank you very much Rhykker bro.

[SimonLarsson]

Why has no one complimented that excellent Deckard Cain impersonation yet? :P

[chrisdover]

Very nicely done. As a returning diablo 2 veteran excited for the remaster of this complexity we know and love, this is by far the best guide as far as the basics for diablo 2, you cover all the key points. This was a wonderful refresher course as I haven't played this game in over 10 years, and I actually learned 1 thing as well

[nothanks]

Man, this was exactly the type of video/info I was hoping to find before playing. I’ve forgotten so much since I last played, this was a perfect refresher. Thank you!!

[PJmichelle]

There's not a video game that I've played (or probably will ever play) as much as Diablo 2, but there's no way I would miss Rhykker's beginner guide. Excellent work, as always.

[JordanEstes]

I can't believe the day has come. It's a good time to be alive.

[Spigy]

Most people on the internet always talk about minmaxing/builds with D2, but I remember just playing the game just to advance as far as possible enjoying the story and the atmosphere :/ Sure getting new items was nice, but I don't explicitly remember farming bosses. My highest char was in the 70s so I was no way hardcore, but a part of my life was me playing D2 in the darkness of my room well into the night and it was good enough :)

My uncle played this game I was gonna ask him about it but after this video I'm feeling quite confident in these tips and did some live and learn plans for my first death on my first day and really intimately got to know what act 1 map has to offer. After a 5 hour session trying to locate my first body after dying through someone's portal just fresh from Diablo 3 I was solely determined to fetch my dead body after I've located it 😂 this taught me your progression is separated from D3 perspective where town ports and way shrines are completely based on what your personal progression is based on and not the hosts progression. This also taught me how to teach my cousin how to progress to act 2 and keep up with my self determination on D2R. This is both a learning experience and a great story to be able to share considering most games share progression all across the board and play a linear storyline when this game purely has that personal impact on free will in the game that teaches you how to retain knowledge and overcoming the unseemingly block in the storyline of a newbies perspective over a veteran player that can whizz through the map just raining blood left, right and center finishing the first act for you within the first session of your game causing you to not understand how you made it to act 2 without being able to explain to your cousin how you did it and just sitting there with a drink in my hand back tracking quests experiencing the level of awe and admiration for how well they won't hold your hand. I prefer to self theorize my own game play but once I saw that horadric cube and rune stones I knew I was gonna have to pull out the good ol' YouTube and find some amazing early game tips to making early sets and rune words to progress the game alot faster and overcome some of the slow aspects of not knowing what you're doing and becoming stumped on how to overcome the challenges of actually traveling to every corner of every cave and overland map to progress to the next objective 😀 overall though I'm gonna recommend this game to another cousin of mine so he can enjoy this process as much as I do and figure out how to build his character and plan his builds or to just simply get that DnD feel that he loves because of the unpredictability of the games non-linear map layout and random chance aspect that the DnD game holds.

[duskshadow]

Honestly, a general rule of thumb when it comes to stats is put enough into strength to wear your gear, then the rest into vitality. That's pretty much the same for all classes because you want vitality as much as you can to survive hell mode later on or you gonna die instantly, because everything hits like a truck in hell mode.

As for your skill points, it's generally better to dump your skills into one skill tree instead of all 3 skill trees. Think of this concept as mastering one skill tree instead of jack of all trade, because you'll just do low damage if you don't become master in one thing. So you want to pick one skill tree and dump all your skill points into that. For example, sorceress is broken into ice, lighting, fire. You want to choose one elemental skill tree and master that for maximum damage such as ice only. Then ice can be broken into blizzard sorceress or frozen orb sorceress. Skill points vary depending on what you want to build for ice. Blizzard does more damage than frozen orb in the long term, but the mana consumption is significantly way higher. Frozen orb cost less mana but it does less damage in exchange for more crowd control (freeze non-ice resistant enemies). Then you'll want to dump just one point into warmth (or extra leftover points into warmth for mana regen) and one point into teleport simply for utility.

Obviously, I'm just using sorceress as an example. Different classes all have their own builds. Barbarian is a bit different than sorceress because you want to dump points into buff bo (shout & battle orders & battle command) and whirlwind build, so it's more 2-3 skill trees.

The game is very in-depth because it goes into runes socketing later on and can turn that item with massive stats buff such as Call to Arms or Enigma. The specific rune of order matters when it comes to socketing too. You'll have to do more research on your own for those, but those aren't that important until later on.

From my personal experience from playing D2 back then, I usually just grab Sigon's Complete Steel Set and use that until I get better gear in nightmare to hell mode such as Shako (hat +2 all skills), The Oculus (wand +3 sorceress skills), Magefist (gloves +1 fire skill, 20% faster cast rate), Raven Frost (Can't be fronze)/Stone of Jordan (+1 all skill), etc. Shako (Harlequin Crest) is a very good hat that any class can wear, and I do know paladin, necro & sorceress generally all run this hat endgame too, especially hammer paladin & bonespear necro. Other classes varies depending on what you're building. But you can never go wrong with items such as Shako, SoJ/Raven Frost because these are applicable on all classes.

I highly recommend for any players out there to play this game with 8 people or maximum players in a lobby because more people won't increase the difficulty of the game since everything is static. In hell mode, you're going to need as many players as you can to help you survive since even a normal monster can kill you very fast, which is why you want to prioritize vitality in your stats as much as you can.

I used to play this game without really knowing what the hell I was doing as a kid, and I would die 1 hit from monster in hell mode, so it really sucked because I didn't know why I was dying even with full gear. Then I messed up skill points and had to remake a new character since you couldn't reset stats or skill points back then. I probably did that 100 times for every class before I figured out what was the proper build, since we were the first wave of people doing test builds with trials and errors before coming to conclusion what was the best build for each class.

[wreath]

Growing up playing D3 im so honored to be able to finally play D2 for the first time. Its absolutely S tier

[TkTronixYt]

I played D3 for quite some hours, but D2 overwhelmed me so hard. Never played it before. Glad I've found this video.

[randyudell]

I love they remastered this game. I was 8 years old when it released and has been a staple of my childhood. Great video Rykker! May RNGesus bless you all!

[Kimzao]

old time d2 player here, still watched through the whole thing, you covered pretty much everythig new players need to know, in as easy as possible way to understand

[PLYBiUS]

Insanely important note about death and corpses: If you don't have room in your inventory and item slots on your character, when you pick up your corpse, ALL the items on the corpse will drop on the ground for anyone to take!

This was a popular trick from scammers, who would try to steal peoples items this way.
The scammer would tell you that you get an extra copy of your items, if you run out of town, they kill you, then you fill your inventory and slots, and pick up your corpse again. But they will still be in hostile, and once you pick up your corpse, all your items drop to the ground. Then the scammer kills you gain, steals your items and leaves.

Be careful out there. Don't get scammed. If somethings too good to be true, then it probably is.

[eltonlevin]

Can I just say it’s so bizarre to watch a youtube guide on a game I addictively played almost 2 decades ago. I never had any help before other than watching and imitating how my young uncles played.