Diablo 2 PC cheats

Although not commonly known, you may run Diablo 2 in a Window instead of full-screen.
Simply add "-w" to your Diablo 2 shortcut. (ie: "C:\Diablo 2\Diablo II.exe" -w)

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To save time and probably lives, ask another character to give you a waypoint.
Tell him to go thru it and open a Town Portal aside it. Then you go thru the
portal and activate the Waypoint for yourself. This is helpful for getting in
hard to access place like Canyon of the Magi in Act II or Durance of Hate level
2 in Act III.

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Because gems in the beginning of the game are usually more precious than
any unique/rare item you may find, get a socketed bardiche and fill it with
chipped or flawed rubies or sapphires. For boots and gloves, try to go for
+ to gold from enemies because gold in Act 1 will allow you to buy useful
items in Act 2. For rings and amulets, lean towards + to life Mana or Attack
ratings. For armor and helm, try to get the best defense. However if you find
something that has awesome abilities, do not hesitate to sacrifice the few
defense points in difference. For belts, the more slots the better. In
skills, + to strength. In abilities, +2 raise skeleton, +1 to amp damage,
+2 to clay golem, + 1-2 to bone armor.

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Here's a way to use a Multi-Player concept to get easy monsters. Supposing you
and your X friends want to kill Diablo. Just before he will be created, everyone
saves & exits. After you're in a one man game make sure Diablo comes after you,
and then run away or something. Next, all players reconnect and fight Diablo. X
players will fight a Diablo created for 1 player. Otherwise his HP would be
multiplied by the number of players.

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Windowed game

Start the game with the "-w" command line parameter to run it in a window on the desktop.

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Cow level

Successfully complete the game to get the Horadaric Cube. Then, obtain "Wert's Leg" in Tristram (where you go to rescue Deckhard Cain). Go to the northwest part of the town and search the boy's body. Place both Wert's leg and a Tome of Town Portal in the Horadaric Cube, and it will open a portal to a hidden level filled with axe carrying cows. Do not go through the portal until you are over level 35 because the cows are quite numerous and strong.

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Imbue without worry

When you get an item and want to imbue and are worried about the outcome, copy the "Save" folder from the Diablo 2 folder to the desktop or any other location. Start your game and imbue. If you do not like what happened, save the game and exit. You will now be at the main menu again. Press [Alt] + [Tab] and copy the save folder back to its original location. Then click "Single Player Game" and start. You have another chance to imbue the item. Repeat this until you get the desired effect.

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Retrieve items after death

Save and exit the game after dying. Restart the game, and your corpse will be in town, allowing you to retrieve your possessions.

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Avoid no-win situation

Press [Esc] when facing imminent death, then save and exit the game. Load the game again to start in town, where you can buy weapons, life, etc.

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Gain money and items quickly

Travel past the Blood Moor and look for a cave. The cave has two levels, with a golden chest somewhere at the second level. Inside are usually health potions, mana potions, scrolls of town portal or identify, unidentified weapons and armor, and sometimes even a rare item that can be sold for a great deal of money. If you identify the item and it is something that you do not want, sell it. Save and exit the game. The next time the game is loaded, the chest will still be there with different items. This can be done as many times as needed.

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More money for items

Identify or repair items before selling them.

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Infinite one way portal

Cast a Town Portal from a safe location, then take the portal into town. Use the waypoint system and run to get back to your last location. This allows you to use the portal to go back into town an unlimited number of times as long as you do not use it from town to return to where you were previously.

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Duplicate items

Note: This trick only works in an Open Battlenet game, as the characters need to be saved on your computer. This trick also requires two computers with two copies of Diablo 2. Get the items to be duplicated. Copy the "Save" folder from the Diablo 2 folder of that computer and paste it on your desktop. Go online with both computers and meet in a game. Give the items to be duplicated to the second computer, then save and exit. Press [Alt] + Tab] on the first computer to switch to Windows and copy the "Save" folder from your desktop back to its original location, overwriting its current contents. Return and join the other computer in the game. You will now have all your original items and the other computer will have a copy of them. Note: This does not work with the +1 Skill book from Act 2, as you are only allowed to do it once.

Note: This trick also only works in an Open Battlenet game. Take the item to be duplicated and place it in your inventory. Then, save and exit the game. Next, come back to the game or join a different one. Drop the item you want to duplicate. Make a note of the game name and password, then sign off of your ISP -- do not save and quit the game. Have another person in the game keep it open while you are logged off. Sign back on to your ISP, go back into the game, and pick the item that you dropped. It will also still be in your inventory, so you now have two copies of that item.

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Ingredients: Wirts Leg, Tome of Town Portal
Result: Red Portal to Secret Cow Level
Special Note: Must finish the game first and be in the
Rogue encampment on the same level as when you finished

Ingredients: Amulet, 1 Perfect Gem of each type except Skull
Result: Prismatic Amulet - 18-24% Resist All
Special Note: -

Ingredients: 3 Perfect Gems: same type, 1 Magical Item
Result: 1 Random Magical Item
Special Note: Works with Magical Armor, Weapons or Jewelry

Ingredients: 3 Gems: same type and quality
Result: 1 Gem of next higher quality
Special Note: 3 Perfect Gems will not transmute

Ingredients: 1 Ring, 2 Topaz gems
Result: 1 Coral Ring
Special Note: Ring gives +21-30 lightning resistance
quality of gems and ring properties do not matter

Ingredients: 1 Ring, 1 Sapphire, 4 Thawing potions
Result: 1 Cobalt Ring
Special Note: Ring gives +21-30 Cold resistance Quality
of gem and ring properties do not matter

Ingredients: 1 Ring, 1 Ruby, 4 Exploding potions
Result: 1 Garnet Ring
Special Note: Ring gives +21-30 Fire resistance Quality
of gem and ring do not matter

Ingredients: 1 Ring, 1 Emerald, 4 Antidote potions
Result: 1 Viridian Ring
Special Note: Ring gives +21-30 Poison resistance Quality
of gem and ring do not matter

Ingredients: 3 Rings
Result: 1 Amulet
Special Note: -

Ingredients: 3 Amulets
Result: 1 Ring
Special Note: -

Ingredients: 3 Healing Potions, 3 Mana Potions, 1 Gem
Result: 1 Full Rejuvenation Potion
Special Note: Gem quality does not matter quality of
potions does not matter

Ingredients: 6 Gems: any type or quality, 1 Sword
Result: 1 Socketed Longsword
Special Note: -

Ingredients: 3 Healing Potions, 3 Mana Potions
Result: 1 Rejuvenation Potion
Special Note: Quality of potions does not matter

Ingredients: 1 Healing Potion, 1 Strangling Gas Potion
Result: 1 Antidote Potion
Special Note: Quality of Healing Potion does not matter

Ingredients: 1 Quiver of arrows, 1 Spear
Result: 1 Set of Javelins
Special Note: -

Ingredients: 2 Quivers of Arrows
Result: 1 Quiver of Bolts
Special Note: -

Ingredients: 2 Quivers of Bolts
Result: 1 Quiver of Arrows
Special Note: -

Ingredients: 1 Dagger, 1 Axe, 1 Stack of Throwing Knives
Result: 1 Stack of Throwing Axes
Special Note: Axe/Dagger class and properties do not matter

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To cheat gold:
-open the *.d2s file that has the name of your character with a hex editor.
-Go to 265 in hex and put the classical FF FF !
-you will get 65535 GOLD.

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After installing v1.00, play until Charsi offers to imbue something for you.
Save and exit the game. Then download patch v1.03 and install it. Join a
TCP/IP or open Battle.net game with the same character. Imbue something,
then give it to a trusted player. After exiting, return as the same character,
and you will be able to imbue again.
Note: v1.00 save files cannot be overwritten by v1.03.

You can have unlimited amount of an imbued item. This trick requires two
computers or a one with two copies of the game running simutaneously, two
different characters (for example, a Paladin and an Amazon). For example,
if the Paladin has been granted an imbue award, but he wants two objects
to be imbued (e.g. a shield and a scepter), make a copy of the Paladin and
save the game. Then, go to Charsi and imbue the shield. Trade this shield
to the Amazon for safe keeping. Exit, then copy the backup saved game you
made earlier over the current one. Trade back your shield, and you can now
have the scepter imbued and keep it. You now have unlimited imbues. The
same can be done for socketed equipment. You can even make copies of your
equipment to get more runes or life (the golden bird in Act 3 can be
duplicated).

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You play Diablo2, when your level move up, you save and exit
game. Use Norton Comander,move to your save, press F4, move
to line 587,delete piece and makeup is ~
Ex: w a d
Ex: w a ~
Ex: w ~ ~
Ex: ~ ~ ~
After you makeup your save,please save it and out it,
play Diablo with your save\'s maked up.
This cheat will make you feel stronger when you play Diablo2.

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Here's a very simple and useful way of getting some cool objects from a friend.
Tell him to make a back up of his character files (copy the
files from the ...\save\ directory to a separate folder). Next you (or him,
doesn't matter actually) host a game. He'll give you everything you want, and
then you both save&exit. Now he has to replace the save-game files with the back
up he previously created.

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This doesn't work for any class except the Barbarian. It definitely takes
patience. OK, first learn the find potion skill. If you want to, after go to the
skills shrine, then go around and kill everything, in between use the find
potion skill and with the shrine enhancement you should be able to get light
health and mana, and maybe even a rejuvenation. when your full go to the
blacksmith and sell your potions. Presto, Mo money!

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Use Town portal. Set any item in front of the portal. Click with the mouse on
the item and step through the portal. When you reach the town the item will be
in your inventory. Go back through the portal and the item will be where you
left it. To duplicate an item in multiplayer:

Fill up your belt with healing or mana potions. Drop any item on the ground.
Walk some distance away. Click back on the item. Your character will start
walking toward the item. Just before the character picks it back up, click
on a potion that you should have on your belt. If the item is picked up, you
can then drop the potion. When the potion hits the ground it will change into
the item that you pick up. If the potion doesn't change when it hits the ground,
you clicked on it to late.

Repeat 1 through 6, but try walking farther away from the item. It might take
a few tries to get your timing down, but it will happen. Also, you can not have
more than one of the same item on the ground at any one time.
If you try, the screen will say "duped item detected," and it will remove one
of them.

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To get many money. Open savegame go to 00000265 add "9F86 0100". You will
have 99999 Gold.

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(Tested with version 1.01)
When you die and are transported back into town, shutdown the game incorrectly
(example: [Alt] + [Tab] back to Windows, press [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Delete] and
shutdown the Diablo 2 task). When you load the game back up again, your dead
corpse will appear in town and you may collect your items/gold.

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NOTE: These formulas will not work with patch 1.02 installed.

The Horadric Cube, found in Act 2, works as a kind of magical catalyst.
If you put certain items into the Cube, it will transform them into another
item. Here are a few formulas that work:

2 quivers of Arrows = 1 quiver of Bolts
2 quivers of Bolts = 1 quiver of Arrows
1 quiver of Arrows + 1 Spear = 1 bundle of Javelins
3 Perfect Gems + Magical Item (armor, weapon, jewelry) = random
high level item
2 Topaz + 1 Ring = 1 Coral Ring (lightning resistance)
3 Mana Potions + 3 Heal Potions = 1 Rejuvenation Potion
3 Gems of same grade and type = 1 higher-graded Gem of same type
3 Rings = 1 Amulet
3 Amulets = 1 Ring

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Unlike in Diablo I, you cannot save the game in the middle of a dungeon, and
reload the game back to that point. That is, if you pick up an unidentified
magic item and want to save the game before you identify it, so that you can
reload the game and dump the item if its actually cursed or useless, you
cannot do it directly through the main game menu like you could in Diablo I.
This is because your in-game menu options are various game setting 'Options',
'Save and Quit', and 'Return to Game'. To do this in Diablo I you would just:
save, identify item, load game, and then dump the item if you wanted. To do
this in Diablo II, you need to: save and quit, load game, identify item,
Alt-Tab (to bring up your Windows desktop), end task Diablo II (ctrl-alt-del,
select Diablo II, click on 'end task'), then relaunch the game, and reload the
game. Your item now returns to an unidentified state, and you can unload
(sell, drop) it if you want.

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Since Amazon is one of the weakest characters in diablo2 it is very difficult
to kill the Diablo himself. However, you may kill him easily by following this
technique. Learn the "STRAFE" spell and level it up as higher as possible.
The higher the level of "STRAFE" the easier is to kill Diablo and his companions
(Mephisto, Duriel and Andariel).

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Necromancer is a summoner of undead & minions. You can kill Diablo by this method.
First, send a fire golem to make Diablo somewhat busier at that time sneak nearer
to Diablo. The Fire golem absorbs all the fire damage and when it is struck by
chain lightning spell of Diablo. Diablo emits this spell every 10 seconds so beware!.
Attack Diablo from backside and cast the Blood Golem spell. Now the Golem too joins
with you and attacks Diablo. Diablo won't attack the golem instead he attacks you.
The Main asset of the blood golem is that he re-vitalizes your health orb when you
hit the enemy and even if he hits the enemy. This requires quite a bit of patience.

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