Diablo 2 Items Explained

Diablo 2 Items Explained

Are you new to the game or not familiar with the Diablo 2 Items? Are you
looking for more info about the game’s items or want to know how to get
them? Then, you’ve come to the right place!
In Diablo 2, there is a wide variety of items that are often separated depending
on their rarity. For instance, there are normal items, exceptional items, magic
items, unique items and set items.
However, after you reach the final difficulty of the game, you will be most
interested in set items and unique items as they are harder to find and offer
more powerful bonuses.

Magic Items

Their names appear in blue letters and they can have 1 or 2 magical properties
attached to the basic version of the item.

Rare Items

These are less common in comparison to magic items, therefore they are
more powerful. A rare item appears in yellow letters and can have 2 to 6 magic
bonuses.

Crafted Items

Crafted Items appear in orange letters and you can only create them using the
right ingredients in the Horadric Cube. These kind of items have fixed
properties and also random Magic attributes.

Set Items

You can recognize set items by their names that appear in green letters. Set
Items have unique names and provide some magic abilities. When you equip
your character with all the items of a set, you will gain additional magic
bonuses.

Unique Items

Unique Items are the most difficult to find in the game and have unique names

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as well. Their names appear in gold letters and they offer some unique
powerful attributes.

Socketed Items

You can recognize Socketed items in-game as their names appear in grey
letters. It’s possible to find them in Superior or Normal Quality. After you have
completed the Act5’s 1st Quest, you can socket any item you want, as long as it
allows sockets. Further, there is a Horadric Cube Recipe that converts items to
Socketed items.

When you want to place a gem in a Socketed item, you may left-click the gem
and then left-click the item you want to socket. This way, you are able to
customize your pieces of armor and weapons with magical properties and
improved stats.

The only types of items that you can socket are Body Armors, Shields, Helmets
and Weapons (throwing weapons cannot be socketed though). As you advance
through difficulties, you will find items with more sockets. The maximum
number of sockets that an item can have is 4 for Armor and 6 for a Weapon.
Also, the rarity of items affects the number of sockets:

 Set and Unique Items: 1 socket. However, there are some unique and
set items that allow for one more socket as a magic ability.

 Rare Items: up to 2 sockets

 Magic Items: up to 4 sockets

There are three different kinds of items that you can use for socketing an item.
These are Gems, Jewels, and Runes.

Diablo 2 Gems

If you place a gem into a Socketed Item, it will be granted with powerful
magical properties, depending on the grade and the type of the gem. There are
7 different types of Gems:

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 Skulls
 Amethyst
 Sapphire
 Ruby
 Topaz
 Diamond
 Emerald

Each type of gem provides different bonuses depending on whether you insert
them in a weapon, a shield or a helm/armor.

In addition, there are 5 different grades of gems:

 Chipped gems
 Flawed gems
 Standard gems
 Flawless gems
 Perfect gems

The gems’ higher grades will grant stronger effects than the lower grades.
Note that once you insert the gem into an item, it isn’t possible to remove the
gem and take it back.

Upgrading Gems

In order to upgrade a gem to a higher grade, you have to touch a gem shrine or
use the Horadric Cube. If you combine 3 gems of the same type and grade you
can transmute them into a gem of a higher grade.

Diablo 2 Jewels

Jewels can provide up to 4 random magic properties. They differ from gems
and Runes because each Jewel grants random abilities and not predetermined
bonuses.
Among their best effects are the Magical and Physical Increased Damage,
Resistances and Increased Attack Speed. You can get many other bonuses
from a Jewel, but they are often worse than the same bonuses from runes
and gems.

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Also, Jewels do not change their properties regardless of what item you insert
them in. Thus, they are a popular choice for players that want to gain some
powerful item customizers.
Through your journey, you can find rare, magic and unique Jewels. There are 8
different kinds of Diablo 2 Unique Jewels but they all have the same name
(Rainbow Facet).

Some Horadric Cube recipes require a Jewel, so they can be useful even if you
don’t plan to socket them into an item

Diablo 2 Runes

Runes look like small magical stones and you can place them into a Socketed
Item to enchant it with powerful bonuses. Runes are useful for creating some
Crafted Items too.

Moreover, runes are very popular because if you insert some specific Rune
combinations (known as Runewords) into some specific items in the right
order, these items will provide much more powerful bonuses.

Diablo 2 Ladder Items

Also, some types of items are available only in Diablo 2 Ladder mode. These
are known as Diablo 2 Ladder items. For example, you can find some Runes
and especially the High Runes only on Ladder. As a result, you can create the
Runewords only in this mode. Some Rune combinations require some very
rare Runes that sometimes you can’t get them as loot from monsters, but you
have to use other rare Runes in order to craft them.
If you’re struggling to create your favorite Runeword, you can always take a
look at our Diablo 2 store.

Diablo 2 Charms

Charms are items that provide their bonuses just by keeping them in your
inventory. Note that they don’t grant their stats if you keep them in your
Horadric Cube or inside your stash.

There are only unique and magic Charms and you can find them in 3 sizes:

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 Grand Large Charms
 Large Charms
 Small Charms

The small Charms have the advantage of using less inventory space. However,
some magical properties are only available on the larger Charms.

In order to have some free space in your inventory, you can carry only the
most powerful Charms and store some resistances and life charms in your
stash for when you have to face difficult Bosses.

Diablo 2 Unique items

The unique items, especially the most popular and powerful ones are the most
difficult to find in-game. They provide much stronger bonuses than the
regular items and some of them are crucial for end-game and can skyrocket
the potential of most builds.
You may find this type of items with a Battle.net Ladder Character (Single
Player, TCP/IP, and Open Battle.net Characters). Therefore, it isn’t possible to
find them using a Normal Battle.net Realm Character.
Consider that the chance of finding powerful unique items is very low and you
maybe have no luck after countless runs. In this case, don’t hesitate to have a
look at our Diablo 2 store! There, you can find the items for your favorite builds
fast and easy through our Diablo 2 items sale.

Trading

In Diablo II, you can trade securely by left-clicking another player while in
town.
The trade is done only after both players have pressed the Accept button. A
player may cancel the trade anytime.
Warning: You should make sure the other player does not change the item you
want with another item that has the same appearance but is lesser quality.

Realm Trading

Trading is actually a great way to find some items for your character that
you’re struggling to find on your own. Some specific items can be really

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difficult (due to low chance) to loot from monsters. Therefore, Realm trading is
very popular as it often is much easier and faster.

There are many different ways to trade:

 Trade in your current game: You can ask the other players in your
current game if they have any items to trade or if they own an item that
you're searching for.

 Use Trading games: Join or create a game with “Trade” in the title. In
the case you're searching for something more specific, you can join or
create a game with the specific trade as the game title.

 Use the Realm Trading Channels: In the Battle.net’s Chat room, you can
click on the Channel button on the right. Then, you will see several
different trading channels. There, you can choose the channel which
describes best the items you want to trade.

 Use Trading Forums and Message Boards: You can post the items you
wish to trade on several message boards and trading forums.

 Use Auction Sites: There are also some fan sites that host Auctions for
Diablo 2 Items.

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