In this article, I’ll show you how to get rich in D2R Ladder Season 3 and this is my preferred method. And I’ll tell you how I collect High Runes and get a lot of wealth solo.
Now, there are many ways to get rich in this game by farming Terror Zones. The first thing I do with a new season is to make a Blizzard Sorceress and then I farm Hell Mephisto. The reason I farm Hell Mephisto so much is that he’s an act boss that is very easy to get to and quick to kill.
Mephisto helps me save a lot of time and he basically drops almost every superb unique item and set items in the game that you need, such as Shako and many other Bul-Kathos’ Wedding Band Rings, basically any unique item that you would need for your build. You cannot get those really high-end items, such as Griffins or something like that from Mephisto.
I just farm Mephisto over and over at the very beginning to really get my gear up and get some good D2R Ladder Items. And then what I do is to farm for Keys. After that, I farm Nihlathak, collect a bunch of keys and I trade the Keys of Destruction for the Terror Keys and Keys of Hate (1 Key of Destruction= 2 Hate/Terror Keys).
I do not farm The Countess, and I do not farm The Summoner. That’s usually because I can get two keys at least for a Destruction Key and this just makes the process a lot faster.
Once I really get some keys going and get some good D2R Ladder Items from Mephisto, then I make a Smiter Paladin. I level him up and then once I get the keys, I start to do Über Tristram.
Über Tristram is where you’re going to find most of your wealth when building your characters in the new ladder reset season. This is because the Hellfire Torches are in outrageous demand. Every single character needs a Hellfire Torch. What I do is to keep farming this repeatedly. I just do my Mephisto runs and I kill Nihlathak and I do Über Tristram.
Now, what I do with the Hellfire Torches is to identify all of them. I do not keep any unidentified and sell them. Usually, what I do is to keep doing these runs repeatedly until I get Sorceress Torches and Paladin Torches and these are the two torches that are really going to get you some really nice high D2R Ladder Runes.
Killing Mephisto is very easy and you just get a ton of unique items and set items and you really just get a lot of wealth quickly where if you’re doing something like Terror Zones or something like that.
When you’re killing Mephisto, it’s random and based more on luck. It’s almost every time you kill him, you’re going to get a unique, or a set item if you have some decent Magic Find also this manipulates the laws of the random number generator in the game.
So, when playing, obviously the itemizations and the loot that you get from the game are very random. When you’re farming Nihlathak over and over, he’s always eventually going to drop a Destruction Key, for example. It’s not like he always has a chance to drop a Jah Rune, so this basically just gives you a way to manipulate that system in Diablo 2.
Another thing that I do is to find all the extra items along my journey of killing Mephisto and Nihlathak and basically, I trade everything for keys. I might trade for D2R Ladder Runes if I need them.
However, the focus here is trying to get as many keys as possible, because eventually all these keys are going to lead you to getting a Sorceress Torch or a Paladin Torch, which in exchange, you’re getting high D2R Ladder Runes for all the items that I get from a Fisto.
I can eventually use and keep and use those items to create my Smiter Paladin and you can do this very cheap. You don’t need any crazy gear. This also manipulates the trading system to some extent. You’re not spending as much time trying to negotiate with people to find someone that needs an item that you found. This is because every single build needs a Hellfire Torch.
So, the system is is really well designed here to just make everything much smoother and straightforward when getting your wealth. Basically, I just farm helmet Fisto and then once I get the Hellfire Torches, I trade those for high D2R Ladder Runes I need.
This is just the best way in my opinion to get rich in D2R Ladder Season 3.
