In order to help all the returning players and to add to the content that D2 streamers have so far missed recently, this post is a guide for getting to Nihlathak quickly in order to farm Keys of Destruction.

Note that the portal no longer closes when you both get the waypoint to the Halls of Pain and kill Nihlathak in D2R. So there's no need to teleport from Pindle anymore.

In any case, getting to Nihlathak is really quite simple.

The Halls of Pain
There are three set maps with the following layouts. You'll get the hang of these quickly.







The Halls of Vaught
Now, to find Nihlathak you need to be familiar with the "eyes" graphic that looks like this:



Nihlathak is always located down the hall that has this graphic in one of these red locations on the map:




This information is also available elsewhere (like mephiztophelez's guide on Diablo Wiki), but nobody has yet put it in a single post with the updated graphics of D2R of which I am aware. I hope that you find this guide helpful.

This post was edited by Lifesong on Oct 10 2021 02:29am

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very nice guide , thank you

Was not aware of the eyes, thanks

Very cool! Ty

probably the best diablo 2 guide i've ever seen. so beautiful

Very useful. Thank you

they dont tell anyone cos this makes a tonne of fg this is better than mfing for anything

thanks for sharing.
this will help when explaining to others how to read the 3x map layout in halls of pain

I’m surprised how many people didn’t know about the eye trick.

Good guide. This will help many.