im in spirit sword, ancient pledge, lore, smoke and i am kinda stuck there...

I can do P3 cow with blizzard or countess with nova (i play infinite free respect) and I can moat trick meph in P3 too but no MF

beside this what else can I do? also cant find a white monarch for the love of god.

but I usually play online and jsut farm D key to trade for all my gear and get S torch/annie/shakore/etc.

but first time offline without trade and I feel kinda stuck farming the samething and not progressing.

anyone has tips for early hell between first runeword and next steps?

i hate ancient tunnel and stony tomb with very low density too...

anything else I can farm? or do to get a bit unllocked?

This post was edited by num2007 on Mar 18 2026 04:57pm

Play meteorb build (for diablo 2 LOD), play Hydra + frozen orb if you're on d2r and don't expect super fast clear. I assume you have the ability to make ladder only runewords offline (because you have infinite respec) so make Strength for act 2 holy freeze Merc with lore + res body armor (you can just stick ort ral into an armor if that's all you have)

Make stealth body armor, gamble res ammy, gamble res boots, gamble res fcr rings, gamble res boots, gamble res belt. Just stack fire and lightning res. Cold and poison res are less needed. Be prepared for slow clear. Just teleport and skip everything and kill only what's necessary. You can slowly build up good stuff.

You need to skip as much stuff as you can via teleporting until you can unlock farming better areas later on + cows.

This post was edited by Emiliaaa on Mar 18 2026 08:03pm

i clear on ladder in hell with stealth, lore, spirit cs, anclients pledge, any non eth insight on merc using vita bliz up to hell baal solo. i do this by clearing cold areas like cows crypt ancient tunnels and act bosses. most of the time i dont even care about hell baal but focus on hell chaos as soon as physically possible. if i can find a viper with any lore and a spirit cs with a insight on merc im in business.

offline is the most stable enviroment compared to online and you can do as many meph runs as you want at the highest speed. so there is no reason to be stuck as you are.

how do you deal with immune?

merc dies in 2 hits even with gear

well the merc with a non eth insight is doing around 200-500 damage so ill static a monster that is completely immune to cold then use teleconese to fhr lock the monster while merc pounds on it. this is also how in trav when i only do 2k bliz i kill those little shits. static to get the hp down as much as possible then let merc pound for like 5 minutes the goal is just to complete the quest its NOT for mf.

sometimes when questing i do get a phy + cold immune and thats the game telling me i need to piss off because im just not going clear it, so i concede my loss and make a new game and hope the monster buffs are not immune to me. keep trying until you get past lol. im in a private game no one cares or is watching if i die a few hundred million times trying to clear hell speed running solo and keep rejoining....

Without an infinity that’s the neat part, you don’t.