Most Powerful Diablo 2 Items You Never Use 

Half of these were so commonly used in my group of friends that I still remember the stats more than a decade later

Vipermaji is EXTENSIVELY used by sorcs and even hammerdins prior to getting Enigma.

Name should have been "best budget items literally everyone uses"

Alt.title: Items everyone uses until they get stacked.

All single player players know about these

Pretty much every non-runeword item here was a huge part of the pre-runeword (1.09) game.

angelic ring and ammy are one of my favorite examples of what D2 did well with set and unique items. even though they are really low level items i always kept them on my pvp barb for certain matchups. in d3 any item below level cap is 100% useless

So I’m gonna be honest here and say that most of these items are used, by a lot of people. Vipermagi can be used by endgame sorcs, or any caster for that matter, Tal rashas mask is used a lot by either melee characters or mercs, and especially treachery, sooo many people use treachery for themselves or their merc

When I was playing D2, I used a lot of those. This brought back good memories. I ended up giving law bringer and obedience to my mercs. Treachery was like one of the first descent runewords I made. I was building a hf bow paladin and the ias, fade and venom in that armor made my ranger shine... Until I swapped to a dragon armor, brand bow and dream helm 😁 haaa good times.

Its only this year when im stuck at home with nothing to do, that i truly realize just how important this game is

i would add to life tap wand, is useful vs bosses if you need sustain and don't have high life leech or draculs.

I love those items. Thank you for the validation and extra ideas

I love this game . From diablo to Diablo 2 expansion. I remember my childhood days. I still have the CD and the box of Diablo 2 expansion .

aldur's advance for 40-50% fire resist, 50 life and 40 rw. thats pretty huge, and definitely one of those items a lot of people pass over.

Good item list here, thanks. started an adventure with friends recently. Gonna get Lawbringer

Returning after 18 years, new sub as well. Big fan of these unused but still good items. Thnks bro

Treachery is possibly the best/most common merc armor out there. Better items for the list would be like Naj puzzler (tele staff) or maybe ondals,Death runeword, shaft stop, poison. (Need my plugy infront of me)

jokes on you, Skin of the vipermagi is my favorite gear in the game

Dang I've used all of these. Though I'll say cresent moons best use might actually its -35% lightning resist for any light char. And I agree with lawbringer at #1 but it's best use is on a merc to bypass physical immunes and increase phys damage especially for wind druid. I also agree with other posters this is more of a best budget list not a best but least used list. The best but least used items are probably an assortment of high end runewords that are great but extremely expensive and slightly edged out by items like grief botd faith and hoto. An actual list of least used powerful items would probably be more like this: Delerium Phoenix Stormlash Mang songs lesson Brand Ice Silence

If we ignore the quality of the video makin, its content is an offensive joke to any average Diablo2 player.

Vídeo editing: 9 Voice soothness: 8 Actual knowledge about these items being used or not: 0.01

1:37 actually never thought about upgrading my Vipermagi before. Great suggestion Xtimus!

Reminds me of my fire sorc back in the day. Used a Leaf Staff from act 1, all the way into hell. Unsure how the community thinks of it, but worked out pretty well.

Viper is probably one of the most used items in D2 LoD. Tal Rasha mask is HIGHLY used on Mercs until you get Andy's. Same goes to Prudence. Highly used on mercs. Angelic Ring+Amu is one of the most commonly used by every melee class when you do not have 100% ignore armor. Lower resist wand used by every single Uber farmer who does not use Dracs gloves. Lawbringer is the only decent weapon choice for A3 merc, and even sometimes used for A5 merc. Treachery is the 2nd most popular armor used in the Diablo 2 without nay doubts. (ESPECIALLY by Uber runners). It also very widely used on mercs. Obedience is GREAT weapon for every A2 merc whos class is not a spell caster. So, overall, half the items on this list are MOST used items in the game.

2:48 I had a level 98 or 99 frenzy barb build based solely on dual-wielding lightsabers. Getting lightning absorb 25% on each lightsaber totals to absorbs 50% lightning. In other words, I'd take x lightning damage and then regain the same x damage back. I got to run really fast and do boss runs really very well. For the heck of it, I added enigma to help teleport to bosses quicker. I was thrilled when I came across someone trying to trade a ring that had high dual leech and faster cast rate, which they thought was a bad roll for barbs that don't have much use for faster cast rate. I loved this mod since it meant I could teleport faster in runs like baal. But yeah, I actually PREFERRED lightsabers over grandfather on the build I used to use. Although, if I remember correctly, my switch was a grandfather, or possibly something to help with more edge cases.

Prudence was one not too many knew about. Sanctuary as well. Angelic rings were dope also. Great list of items keep em coming man

I would add the class specific runeword armours to the list (Rain, Peace etc). For two low runes and a highish mid rune you can get a chunk of resistance and +2 to class skills, along with other minor benefits. They make a great stop gap until you can find something better.

I always use vmage on my sorcs gotta have fcr and resistance, put a p topaz or ist in that good to go, I always use wizzes so resist is capped.

Talks about life and mana leech with Tal's Mask. Only hits undead skeletons and souls that you can't leech from.

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Hey Xtimus, how could you forget about the passion runeword? I use it on my assassin and since it gives +1 to zeal combined with the burst of speed skill it is prob the fastest attacking char.

Tried lawbringer phase blade on a kicker assa, it's was a blast. Or a frenzy barb on mace mastery ( 'shael' shaefers hammer and 'eth' stone crusher, wearing Leviathan with -15req rare jool to make enough str). Worked as a charm with zero points invested into dexterity or expensive gear.

Stone armor it's dirt cheep and turns your merc into a tank and a half (High Def)

Great vid, initially liked it just because it was on D2, but your content turned out to be excellent. Keep up the good work.

The angelic halo and wings was a standard used set for years for low lv pkrs/ duelers on HC not unknown at all. My lv 30-40 pallys always ran these with charge and cleglaws.

I rock a sanctuary troll nest and a moser circle as secondary. My merc had tals helm and crescent moon for a while too.

i thought this video was a fail, it is actualy a very good one , thanq Xtimus

Hi xtimus, is there a build with fortitude and doom runeword that could work on a char that stacks holy freeze ? Maybe use nightwings and cold mastery if as well if it’s for a sorc (frozen orb hybrid) or double doom on a barb. I don’t know if you have done this in previous content I have seen some other of your alternative builds and they are cool. I found a Cham and I really want to play around the doom rune word so if something like that works for end game that would bee awesome

I agree with what someone else said every item in this video is used regularly except maybe whistans and prudence and I guess doombringer...especially treachery and lawbringer, 2 of the best rws in the game lol

Wut ? I recall Oath, Crescent Moon and Treachery being super used for mid level or season characters. Even as a kid, I wear treachery then I will stand in a fire, after it procs I would then toss it back into the cube and use my regular armor for the extra pre buff before tackling harder content. Obedience is legit least used though since most people prefer dual aura mercs (insight / infinity / pride etc).

I still use lightsaber on my late game zealer (mostly because I'm very unlucky with rune drops).

I use all of these pretty consistently in single player or when i played non rush/jsp bnet

Treachery is pretty heavily used. I think the Angelics ring and Ammy combo also gets quite a bit of use for certain characters (zealers, frenzy barbs ect.) Great video man!

I like more lawbringer in scepters if you are playing like paladin, Oath is like a grief budget version very very nice for a zeal paladin, frenzy barb or fury druid

Obedience is one of the best items for a gold barb horker (on merc) early on in the ladder. You are viewing it on a merc, so maybe you could have mentioned/showcased that aspect since mercs are more commonly used for utility auras unless you are running a merc-specific build.

Just a quick note on "defense" that many, many people don't understand well. That stat ONLY increases or decreases the chance to hit the enemy, it doesn't allow you to make more amount of damage per hit or anything. So basically items with "ignore enemy defense" it is just a way of saying "you will always hit the enemy". Your attacks won't deal more damage at all. That being said, if you character has plenty of Dex (such as an amazon) these items are useless, at least that "ignore target defense" stat is useless, won't help you achieve anything extra. It is far more beneficial to use an item with +dex that with ignore defense.

Great, that lawbring you choisen for #1. Because many players never use it, and dont understand his power, even on hardcore. For being honest you might add some info for slots and useibility characters: 1) Paladin hammerdin, lawbringer in scepter 3bh/3conc/1+zeal || 1+holy balt - for hardcore, very safety vz dooms, souls, dolls, pindle. 2) Paladin hammerdin, lawbringer in a3 cold merc - for hardcore. (in this case you can use hoto + zaka, or forty scepter + zaka/spirit st) 3) Any class, in merc or on urself hero when you are poor, and wanna survive in hell. (you also can use it on swap hand, if you havent cta, for tele or vz specifyc location mobs)

nice vid, thanks. and btw, one of the dopest rune words (way before hell and nightmare) i think would be 'black', with its 40% crushing blow chance. if you're a barbarian with a weapon in each hand, you already got 80% crushing blow, which is simply ridiculous. nothing can stand a chance before you :)

Thank you!

I got that diablo bug a couple of years ago, maybe like 6. I can’t remember. It was overrun with adds.

The Jade Tan Do with Barbarian. It's funny if you got sooo much time (mainly on nightmare or hell) :D :D

Oldschool upped magi was used heavily by sorcys for many many years. Angelic ring and ammy has always been used together with a rspiral or rfrost too.

I think Viper's might be the most sought after item for Sorc's at the start of the season because it's so good.

Regarding Tal Rasha: Back in the day you couldn't buy mana pots, so mana leech was very nice to have and with some life leech you could potentially tank your mana up. Maybe that was the thought process, and then they released mana pots in the shop and it was redundant. That's my guess to why it has those stats.

but almost every attack rating needed build goes for angelic combo so are they on the list? when they are used very often

Well, how to say this, i play hardcore and many items on this list i love to use, even as endgame gear. Sanctuary pala shield is great, though it it NOT the maximum resistances you can get (45 + 4*22=133), until i can find a Lo rune for grief, i certainly will use lightsaber on my uber killing conviction zealot, along with that shield and treachery armor, and merc wearing obediance + ebugged treachery (+kira) I also love having an oath sword on my berserk barb. Tal mask is a great choice too until i can find areat. I will certainly use viper + whitstan shield on a mid level sorc The only one i would not use is prudence, i will usually got for more resistances (smoke, gloom) , or more physical resistance (shaftstop, treachery)

Hasaans, 2 item set bonus, giving massive attack rating

Yeah when I made a pole barb the obedience runeword gave me my best damage and I even had a pride and doom and other high end ones and the obedience was the best overall and it made me feel like I wasted a bunch of high runes lol 😂

Perfect upped Vipermagi is super solid! Using it a lot! And you have 0%! MF. Perfect to farm whites/greys.

I’ve used every item on here lol even on ladder because I don’t often grind or play enough to get endgame items but I used a sanctuary sword for a kicksin and it worked REALLY well for some reason lol the aura is cool and rare so I liked it, as as for obedience I built a pole arm barb and got to lv84 and had all the best pole arms and even compared to Pride, Infinity, and all the others Obedience did the most damage and best for landing hits with that lv21 enchant and the 40% CB well... it crushes lol 😂

I play Perfect Drop Mod and Obedience on my now Nightmare ACT 2 Merc is useful. I used it on my Normal one too.

I'm a Zealot, I know all about LightSaber and Sanctuary my man

Feels good when u progess enough to see some of ur gear in the vid

What about Goldstrike Arch, Mavina's True Sight, Riphook and Kelpie Snare?

You forgot the -fire res on obedience as it helps fire druids and meteor sorcs a lot.

219ED 10 Magic Absorb Crescent Moon Phase Blade used since the beggining of Act 1 Hell and it still works great in Act 5

Lower resist wands can be up to lvl 3 and it also spawns on daggers. It's a great item for an early ladder lite sorc before the bots find enough bers to make infinities cheap.

angelic set! love that AR

Crescent moon is goto weapon for anyone with holy shock aura, due to the -enemy resist Didn't see the set winged helm mentioned, it too can rock pretty hard, especially when starting fresh.

These are all used frequently by most players. I'm pretty sure Viper is also BIS for UBer-Hammerdin to reach the FCR breakpoint.

I used viper on every sorc i created and angelic set on every mele char.

full trang set on a poision nec with frw skillers and max block its fun in pvp vs melee chars

What about Goblin Toe? I think it had a ton of Crushing Blow on it.

You should put Enigma in this list

Pretty much ALL my characters end up using Vipermagi and Tal's mask. Although not most of those runewords as they almost all end up using a Shael'd upgraded Lycander's Flank. LOL

Great vid xtimus keep it up man.

Hello ! Maybe someone already said it but the lower resist wand is affected by a malus in hell. So you don't get -37% on monsters (which could be awesome) but only -37%/5 = -7,4%. So it's not that OP and it's less effective than 7 Rbfs like you explain in your video. However, it can help to break immunity for monsters which have less than 107 resistance in one element where Rbfs can't break immunity at all. I would say that lower resist wand works well with some Rbf's.

I loved diablo 2 out of all diablos made it has a more deep system it rains enemies respawn after just walking into a town places were put together like morrowind instead of loading every time you entered town you can go loot your own body after being killed to pick up your loot gold can be stolen if you carry it on you night and day this game has it all I hope diablo 4 takes notes of what made the diablo series so good because this is a gem demons run away zombies are creepy and they actually say brains some times so cool

Personally, I think an eth up’d woestave is very nice and greatly ignored.

4:21 I guess a 4 socket pala shield with base 45 plus um runes adds up to 133...still great shield though

I heard "Classic" but you meant 'vanilla lod', anw nice list (especially whitstan's guard, i used that on a pvp nova sorc back in the day, worked like a charm) I would love to see a video on diablo 2 classic forgotten uniqs, like spectral shard and the ward or the ultimate mf classic combo gull and tarn helm ^^"

Worth mentioning that Crescent Moon is also best-in-slot for properly built lightning Sorcs.

2 and 3 piece Tal's bonus on a zealer is OP

almost 2022 and it's still an amazing video.

random question i know it was patched out a long time ago but did they bring back to lower resist lowers magic resist aslo cuz it says monsters take more damage from all magical attacks then it goes on to say elemental attacks

nice info thanks alot

hello bro! do u use kolbot¿? i have any question if u can help me :D

Angelic ring and amulet is pretty common... Even viperskin also with talrasha mask

Suprirsed you didn't bring up Andariel's Visage Demonhead t really is one of the best helmets for Mele characters lol

I really miss playing this game

This guy is good at posting videos no one will ever need.

Great work keep it up 🔥

I know on sc ladder nearly everyone doesn't use the items that they should they just follow bots around till they get some stuff to sell then get one item at a time. One of the worst things they did in my opinion was to add in reset tokens. And reset quests. Cause people used to get to max lvl and be like oh my char not as strong as his what did he do differently. Then decide whether or not to remake to become stronger. It Made the early and mid parts of the game feel alot fuller. And people traded allot more mid teir items to be strong at all parts of the game just incase they had to run their own ball or chaos run.

Thanks for the very informative video. But the title should be "Most powerful Diablo 2 items you use ALL THE TIME" =))

Tap Tasha’s helm & light saber. I remember them

I use a two handed staff with teleport charges if i dont have enigma yet

Tal mask has life and mana steal due to Melee fire sorcs lol it’s a rare build but fun one

1:28 "Vipermagi is comparable to Chains of Honor." --> lol

WE need D2 Lod Reforged !!! it will be Awesome.

I like your channel better than all other d2 RU-vidrs