What to Farm in Diablo 2 Resurrected Hell/Nightmare | 10 Best Budget Items for D2R Hell Survive

What to Farm in Diablo 2 Resurrected Hell/Nightmare | 10 Best Budget Items for D2R Hell Survive

12/7/2021 5:50:41 PM

There are three difficulty levels in Diablo 2 Resurrected, a lot of people can get through Normal easily, but it’s a little bit harder to get through Nightmare and Hell. If you are struggling to survive in Hell, what items to buy or farm? Here is a collection of the 10 best budget items in Diablo 2 Resurrected Hell, mainly covering runewords and uniques for D2R Hell survive.

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What to Farm in Diablo 2 Resurrected Hell/Nightmare | 10 Best Budget Items for D2R Hell Survive

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D2R Runeword to Farm

1. Ancient's Pledge

The first runeword in Diablo 2 that can help you survive in Hell is Ancient’s Pledge, you can actually make this in Normal, but maybe by the time you get to Hell or whatever, you wouldn't have necessarily a better option, so you could go ahead and just stick a Ral, an Ort and a Tal in any type of shield. All resistances on a shield can be amazing to help you out when you get into hell or any time before that.

Ancient's Pledge

+50% Enhanced Defense
Cold Resist +43%
Fire Resist +48%
Lightning Resist +48%
Poison Resist +48%
10% Damage Goes To Mana

2. Rhyme

It only takes two runes: Shael and Eth, they're all pretty low and you can actually get this cannot be frozen on a shield, which is awesome to get, just two sockets, requires level 29, not anything crazy, but increases the block rate, increases the block chance, adds 25 to all resistance. You don’t get any of that from any of the runes that are in the Diablo 2 runewords, and you get that cannot be frozen, which is absolutely crucial to get on a character. On top of that, you even get a 25% better chance of getting D2R magic items.

Rhyme

20% Increased Chance of Blocking
40% Faster Block Rate
All Resistances +25
Regenerate Mana 15%
Cannot Be Frozen
50% Extra Gold From Monsters
25% Better Chance Of Getting Magic Items

3. Smoke

If you want an item with a lower budget, we get Smoke runeword for body armor that takes two open sockets. It takes a Nef and a Lum rune, this body armor will give you +20% faster hit recovery, more importantly, +50 to all resistances. Early on resistances are going to be your biggest struggle and what's going to kill you the fastest when you get into hell, so making this Smoke runeword for your body armor can really help you out with that.

Smoke

+75% Enhanced Defense
+280 Defense Vs. Missile
All Resistances +50
20% Faster Hit Recovery
Level 6 Weaken (18 Charges)
+10 To Energy
-1 To Light Radius

4. Sanctuary

Sanctuary maybe not be a budget option for some people, but you can still consider it. It takes two Ko runes and a Mal rune. In a three open socket shield, you get +20% faster hit recovery, +20% faster block rate, 20% increased block chance, +130 to 160% enhanced defense, +20 dexterity is also helpful and this huge +50 to 70 to all resistances, a lot of people will make this in maybe a Grim shield.

Sanctuary

+20% Faster Hit Recovery
+20% Faster Block Rate
20% Increased Chance of Blocking
+130-160% Enhanced Defense (varies)
+250 Defense vs. Missile
+20 To Dexterity
All Resistances +50-70 (varies)
Magic Damage Reduced By 7
Level 12 Slow Missiles (60 Charges)

D2R Unique Items to Farm

Next are some unique items in Diablo 2 you can try to find or trade with others, most of them are budget.

5. String of Ears

It can help your survivability, magic or physical damage taken reduced by 10 to 15 percent, it exactly says it reduces the amount of physical damage that you take, but on top of that, this is even better if it's on a melee character because it also adds life leech, which will add to survivability for the melee characters, but even if it's on a caster and you haven't found anything better yet, that physical damage reduction can help your survivability out a lot.

String of Ears

Defense: 102-113 (varies)(Base Defense: 29-34)
Required Level: 29
Required Strength: 20
Durability: 22
16 Boxes
+150-180% Enhanced Defense (varies)
+15 Defense
6-8% Life Stolen Per Hit (varies)
Damage Reduced By 10-15% (varies)
Magic Damage Reduced 10-15 (varies)
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.09 or later)

6. Verdungo's Hearty Cord

This is another belt that can help your survivability, it is a little less common to find, it has a bunch more enhanced defense, 30 to 40 vitality, obviously, more life is going to help out any character's survivability, it also adds 10% faster hit recovery and it has the same 10 to 15% damage reduction on it, you also get replenish life down here. It's based on character level, all that vitality makes it another great option to when going into Hell.

Verdungo's Hearty Cord

Defense: 125-158 (varies)(Defense: 58-65)
Required Level: 63
Required Strength: 106
Durability: 16
16 Boxes
+90-140% Enhanced Defense (varies)
10% Faster Hit Recovery
+30-40 To Vitality (varies)
Replenish Life +10-13 (varies)
+100-120 Maximum Stamina (varies)
Damage Reduced By 10-15% (varies)
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.10 or later)

7. Shaftstop

This body armor has 30% physical damage reduction, it's one of the highest damage reductions that you can get in the game on a single item, but on top of that, it also has this 60 to life and a bunch of defense as well, and it's just a mid-level armor, you could actually upgrade this from a mesh armor to whatever.

d2r Shaftstop

8. Skin of the Vipermagi

It's mainly used on casters, but you could use it on melee characters too because it does help out your resistances. It comes up with 20 - 35 to all resistances, in addition, it's got a faster cast rate and +1 to all skills, which could help out any character, but don't sleep on the resistances.

Skin of the Vipermagi

Defense: 279 (Base Defense: 111-126)
Required Level: 29
Required Strength: 43
Durability: 24
+120% Enhanced Defense
+1 To All Skills
30% Faster Cast Rate
Magic Damage Reduced By 9-13 (varies)
All Resistances +20-35 (varies)
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.09 or later)

9. Thundergod's Vigor

This one doesn't have damage reduction anywhere on it, but this can definitely help out your survivability because of this 20% Lightning Absorb, which will essentially nullify lightning damage that you take not completely always but will help out your survivability against any lightning attacks. It also provides +20 to vitality and +20 to strength.

Thundergod's Vigor

Defense: 137-159 (varies)(Base Defense: 41-52)
Required Level: 47
Required Strength: 110
Durability: 24
16 Boxes
+160-200% Enhanced Defense (varies)
Adds 1-50 Lightning Damage
5% Chance To Cast Level 7 Fist Of The Heavens When Struck
+20 Lightning Absorb
10% To Maximum Lightning Resist
+20 To Strength
+20 To Vitality
+3 To Lightning Fury (Amazon Only)
+3 To Lightning Strike (Amazon Only)
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.09 or later)

10. Vampire Gaze

If you are going to look at a helmet to help survive in Hell in Diablo 2 Resurrected, Vampire Gaze is a good choice, this is mainly for melee characters, its price is in mid-tier. It has a life leech on it, +6-8%, which obviously helps survivability, it does have a mana leech on it too, physical damage is reduced by 15 to 20 percent, which will limit the damage and increase your survivability.

Vampire Gaze

Defense: 252 (Base Defense: 60-125)
Required Level: 41
Required Strength: 58
Durability: 40
+100% Enhanced Defense
Adds 6-22 Cold Damage - 4 Second Duration
15% Slower Stamina Drain
6-8% Life Stolen Per Hit (varies)
6-8% Mana Stolen Per Hit (varies)
Damage Reduced By 15-20% (varies)
Magic Damage Reduced By 10-15 (varies)
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.09 or later)

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