Although the process of leveling up in Diablo 2: Resurrected is conceptually much more straightforward than it is in more modern action role-playing games (ARPGs), the actual act of doing so can be described as being somewhat complicated. Because there are no Real Money Auction Houses or other types of microtransactions, the only way to get new items is to play the game itself. This is the primary means of acquiring new items. The gear that is dropped by the monsters that you kill is yours to keep, and depending on its quality, it may or may not be an upgrade. Simple.

You will, however, have the opportunity to select a significantly more difficult difficulty setting once you have attained a predetermined level of equipment in the game. The default expectation of the game is that you should now be prepared to start playing on the Nightmare difficulty, and that by the time you clear it on the Nightmare difficulty, you will be equipped enough to start playing on the Hell difficulty. Let's say you beat the game on the Normal difficulty setting and collected all of the available gear along the way. Nevertheless, in addition to this relatively simple progression, there are a number of other particulars and nuances that need to be taken into consideration. Before you switch to the Nightmare difficulty setting, for instance, you might want to get some farming experience under your belt in Normal mode first. Then there is Magic Find, which is a gear statistic that raises the chance that a player will find one of the numerous different magical items that have a chance to drop in Diablo 2.

Now that that's out of the way, let's talk about gearing up in Diablo 2: when you should do it, how you should do it, and why you should do it seriously.
Magic Find is a friend who has the potential to turn against you in the end.

- To get started, as soon as you are able to, you should get started putting together a Magic Find set; however, you shouldn't put it on right away

- It is in your best interest to wait until you have at least completed the game on Normal difficulty before moving on to higher difficulties

- This is due to the fact that you get better gear on each difficulty, and certain enemies and bosses have better gear they can potentially drop than others

- There is a thread from the old Diablo 2 forums that has been preserved online

- This thread goes into detail that we won't be able to match here, but the gist of it is straightforward enough for anyone to comprehend:In exchange for the ability to increase the percentage of green and higher quality gear that drops, Magic Find gear reduces certain stats, such as offensive power and various resistances

- These reductions can be significant

- This article will provide you with a detailed explanation of how Magic Find functions as well as the Treasure Class of various monsters

- If you are interested in reading it, click here

When you have reached 100% in Magic Find, your chances of discovering loot that has been magically improved during your travels have effectively been increased by a factor of two. It is possible to go up to 500% Magic Find, despite the fact that there are diminishing returns and tiers that each individual mob adheres to. This will both increase the chance of magical loot dropping and the maximum amount of magic find that can be attained. Let's say that killing a mob results in the drop of one magical item for every one hundred times it is killed. When you reach 100% MF, your score will improve to 2 out of 100, and when you reach 500% MF, you will have effectively reached a score of 5 out of 100. These are just a few examples; however, if you are truly interested in the nuts and bolts of everything that is going on here, including how the quality of gear that drops is affected by Magic Find, you can read up on that here. These are only a few examples among many.

It is important to keep in mind that the ability Magic Find has both positive and negative effects on your character. While it does increase the likelihood that higher-quality items will drop for you, it also reduces the amount of certain stats that you will need to survive at higher difficulty levels. If you start Nightmare mode Act 1 farming for loot while wearing your full MF set, Blood Raven's feet might find you splattered across the ground. However, if you start Hell in your full MF set, they might not.

You should try to vanquish those demons as frequently as you can.
In light of the aforementioned, the following is a list of recommendations concerning how to get ready:
You should make it a priority to finish the Normal and Nightmare difficulties as quickly as you can so that you can start farming bosses on those difficulties as soon as you can. Once you have completed the Normal difficulty, Nightmare will become available to you to play. You now have the ability to farm bosses on Normal difficulty, such as Mephisto, Diablo, or Baal, in order to increase your chances of obtaining gear that you will need for higher difficulties, such as Nightmare.

Farming refers to the process of repeatedly killing bosses in the expectation that they will eventually drop the items that the player requires in order to progress. This can be accomplished by starting a new game, navigating to the waypoint that is geographically closest to the boss, engaging in combat with the boss until you have defeated it, and then starting a new game if the desired item did not drop from the boss during the previous encounter.

Continue to use Magic Find in order to discover new pieces of equipment, especially as your character levels up and gains access to items of a higher quality. In Normal, it is important to build a MF set, and you may want to run Act 1 farming on minibosses like the Countess, who drop runes. You can get these runes from killing minibosses in the act. These runes are obtainable by defeating the minibosses in the game.

There are certain regions in which you should make repeated forays into the wilderness in order to maximize your farming potential. In Act 2, you'll find the tombs, and in Act 3, you'll find lower Kurast. Act 1 is where you'll start the game. After you have dealt with those, it is likely that you will concentrate your efforts on Mephisto, Diablo, and the Council before moving on to farming Baal. Because there is a lower chance of obtaining the gear that you require if you farm these on Normal difficulty, it is highly likely that you will farm all of these on Nightmare difficulty in order to get ready for Hell.

Additionally, you should make an effort to complete Normal and Nightmare as quickly as you can. This is due to the fact that you are required to complete a difficulty level before you can access the Secret Cow Level on that difficulty, and the Secret Cow Level is a good place to farm for drops and runes. It is best not to kill the Cow King while you are farming on the Secret Cow Level, just in case something goes wrong.