Don't give up man. It does take a bit of work and perhaps some luck in finding gear for LS.

If you've played D2 before, just remember when you first started out online, you basically had crap gear and had to work your way up.
Then eventually you started finding things you could sell or trade, and slowly collected some wealth to buy new gear.

On LS is the same way, except it may be a lot slower than D2. Most of us who can afford gear already have some fg at our disposal.

For me, I restarted D2 back in Dec 2008, played online with nothing but stuff I could find for my sorc, and collected items to trade.
When I discovered d2jsp around March 2009, I ended up getting really "wealthy" in D2 and started selling a lot of stuff into something
I could measure... that was fg. Then I started getting into LS around mid-April and eventually liquidated about half of my D2 stuff for fg.
Now I hardly play D2 anymore and prefer to play LS because it's kind of simple and fun.

Just got this nice little treat from the arena:

Angelic mithril plate mail
Level Req: 25
Defense: 20 to 60

+35 Intelligence
+2% Experience Gained
+2% Life Steal
+1% Mind Numb

thats a keeper

I seem to have a knack for finding heavy caster gear. All of these are self-found (but I haven't used them yet ) :


Magical alloy axe
Level Req: 15
Damage: 37 to 45

+24 Intelligence


Mystical fine alloy axe
Level Req: 20
Damage: 43 to 52

+131 Max Mana
+1 to 1 Mana per Attack
+31% Heal Mastery


Rare mithril sword
Level Req: 25
Damage: 10 to 100

+21 Intelligence
+4% Critical Flux


Arcane bronze plate mail
Defense: 7 to 23

+10 Dexterity
+1 Mana Regen
+1 Critical Strike
+1% Physical Damage Reduction
+2% Magical Damage Reduction
+15% Heal Mastery


Rare iron plate mail
Level Req: 5
Defense: 10 to 31

+20% Heal Mastery
+2% Mana Skin


Mythical alloy plate mail
Level Req: 15
Defense: 15 to 46

+3 Extra Item Slots
+1 to 2 Life per Attack
+1 to 1 Mana per Kill
+5% Mind Numb
+23% Heal Mastery


And then with that last plate mail I just found it pretty much completes my set

@ NeVv...
Nice lot of INT/HM gear... and I have 2 charms that could be included towards that:
lvl10 25X mana / 24 Int
lvl30 3XX mana / 31 Int

I've had about 50 deaths in the past few weeks from my stupid internet dying on me for short periods of time at random intervals and there's nothing I can do about it, to my knowledge at least.

I don't think I'll ever gain any more proficiencies I've been stuck at rank 4 focused heal for so long - at it was at like 65% a while ago

slash now guys!!

lvl 5 here

nev, find me a 30+int / 400+ mana weapon/heavy armour, thanks



i worked up to 55% level 7 axe prof last season - then it reset and i ended up dong a climb on mage and 3 on sammy before i got to use axes again. and boy i die a lot on mages

went down to 20% before i hit paly again

This post was edited by Cloudfire on Nov 17 2009 10:44pm

lvl20 Mage
lvl41 Monk

Slashing on mage atm... but will change if need to

put those heavy int gear to use! make a rouge/fighter mage and stop the dying =)