[rwhite2366]

So how did everyone end up acquiring all their 1337 uber items in D2   Did you MF for hours on end? Use bots to farm Meph? Buy on 3rd party sites?

I would have to say my claim to financial fame came from taking advantage of the D2 market.  I never bought things from 3rd party sites (I was in middle school and too young, and I just felt it was cheating a little), so I had to acquire all my items from the game.  The way I gained most of my wealth was by taking advantage of the D2 market.  At some point, probably around 1.10, there was a dual leech ring (I forget it's name) that was believed to be worth between 2 and 3 SoJ, depending on who was buying and who was selling.  I acquired a few, then I would sell them for 3 SoJ each.  I would go back to the market, buy up as many as I could for 2 SoJ each, then resell and $$$$$.

I made some pretty good money this way, but my greatest financial score was with my Ith bow.  This was at the height of their value in D2, when they were first hacked into the system.  I didn't have nearly enough SoJs to buy one (their market value was somewhere around 100 SoJ) but I desperately wanted one.  I happened to come across a wealthy D2 player who had become somewhat of a collector, and was willing to trade me one of his Ith bows for an old school Light Sabre.  I went off searching, and found one for about 15 SoJ.  Went back, made the deal, and boy was I happy.  I enjoyed it for quite a while, and then decided to sell.  I sold the Ith bow on the market for 120 SoJ, so I made a hefty profit


Lastly, a little brain teaser for you all.  If I have an Ith bow worth 120 SoJ, and I find someone who is willing to pay 120 SoJ, how do we go about trading it so that no one has the possibility of getting scammed?

[Gusher]

Wealth in d2? What wealth? lol i could never compete with bots, and never had the patience to do a d2 market thing that you had going on
p.s:why all the hate?

Edited by Gusher, 10 March 2012 - 08:29 PM.

[4321]

I used to farm Beal to get better equipment, but only played single game....

[Boci]

I was not really rich in D2, but i had good gear for my sorc and barb and also i hade like 24-25 sojs. I mostly gambled them and get a few through trading.

[DiabloGuilds]

Co-op play where the whole guild in the end had uber gear. A bit of Meph running as well.

[Bonghitter1]

Kinda think you're off topic here ... BUT it was through Thousands upon Thousands of Baal Runs that I acquired my wealth before I spent it on friggin repair.. anybody ever repair Fortitude after all those runs tankin for everybody else?

[tHice]

I became rich through trading and influential friends
Mostly I obtained orders coming from 3rd party sites, which some of my friends had.
Nice profit if you recieve a highrune for getting a shako

[8460]

A friend who quit gave me a load of stuff, which I then started trading. Also had some luck with item drops, but I pretty much traded for my fortune.

[dentarg]

I went about it the same as you, bought cheap and sold for more expensive
Over and over and over

[mitchellway]

got rich by trading via d2jsp.

[BerenKaneda]

I played D2 since the begining, so i became rich, with characters with full stacks of legits Stones of Jordan doing this :

First of all you needed a lot of money, that was very easy to do farming cows or inferno, or selling yellow crap from Mephitso ( I will speak about Mephisto later)  With all that money, Its time to gamble, for example with Gheed in Act 1. Then here comes the trick. Because the Nagelring and the Manald were unique rings and there cant drop 2 in the same, and the only unique rings in D2 vanilla were Nagelring and Manald, once you get the Manald and the Nagelring with a character (very easy because those were not so rare at all) the next unique ring was going to be a Stone of Jordan 100% guarantee.  

So you just needed to gamble all the rings you´ll see from the vendor. ¿Bad luck? Go out of town and reset the vendor, buy all the rings again, and repeat. Most of the rings were crap, but from time to time you always ended buying a Stone of Jordan. The average was about 6 Stone of Jordan at day, counting gold farming at all, wich was not bad i guess...

You could do this with every Unique item in gambling, so it was a very easy way to get all uniques, like Silks, Frostburn, Magefist, etc...


¿Farming Yellow?  As easy as having some % Magic Find, a nova sorc with teleport, and maphack... And you could do a full Mephisto run in less than a minute... Way faster than diablo.


Later things changed, and with the expansion things changed too much. But i was already very very rich so i didnt cared too much


And thats my full story

[Peitch]

well i had almost everything in D2, got it many ways, farming, JSPing, selling, buying (yes also botting some periods!) was nice to have a full perfect char acc when you played down at your internet cafè with 100 freaks saying DAMN GOZU ITEMS WTF ahah funny times

[weedranger]

I was one of the first people to use bots on hardcore so their was a nice lag of a few months that I made bank because i had about 4x bots running 24/7 killing pindy. Made bank$ off of ebay.

[iDIABL0]

It the same secret as everything. Buy low... Sell high, oups its not a secret anymore

[barcs]

You gotta hate bots, when suddenly no matter what dropped from baal there's instantly be nothing of worth on the ground...

[drzejkob]

Meph and cows

On cows i always find something good like 40ed/15ias jewel

[Abnell]

Mostly browsing all sorts of trading forums and joining random trading games. I've gotten some crazy deals from people who had no idea what they had.

[Grabaduro]

i say co op was the best way to get gear
if you had a group of 8 ppl with different builds, you could doe baalruns and make an mf kill at the end
thay way all the good grops will be of use
ofcource you need to start of with mefi to get some basic gear
but you could only get skillers from baal and nilathak i think

[mitx]

My way to have all i want in d2LoD and for even more fun playing it (and not to get rich) is to hunt Diablo clone and sell the annis i don't want

[Headcrusher]

Took all things i mean ALL drop i got,  i sold all.

Edited by Headcrusher, 07 March 2012 - 10:05 AM.