Diablo II: Resurrected

Something to note: you can have the best gear in the game, the best techniques, the best builds, and the best teammates and still die and fail at getting this achievement. Because even with all that, luck is still required. The game can crash and you can be disconnected from your match but your character will still remain there for about a minute and can die. Or you could be magic finding by yourself in between runs and go to a hot waypoint while using an old xbox one with terrible load times and die before your screen can even show you what happened. Or you can be rolling with your favorite squad and all doing Baal runs and your BO Barb does a Stun shout on Lister and wipes the entire party when Lister dies because of some stupid glitch thats new that hasnt been fixed that you may or may not even know about. So keep all that in mind when going for this and know that my information was current at the time but I cant keep track of all the new glitches or updates.

I'm all about min/maxing my builds and excellent items are so important to have, but in the rush that comes with cool rare items, please remember your squad and your teammates and share the loot, as THEY are rarer than any item that is gonna drop.

This can be done a bunch of ways, I went with likely the simplest and easiest build. I've played since launch day on xbox one and like many I upgraded to a Series X for faster load times or if you dont have a launch edition Xbox One you can get whats called and SSD (i think) and decrease your load times massively, its kinda necesarry. I will list my specific build items when I get back home tomorrow as I'm at a comic con in Tampa right now. I use a Hammer Pally.

I had countless close calls. Some of the more dangerous areas id avoid were Countess and Pit, as good treasure can be had there but in archer city with Fantacism and Might auras can be toasty quick.

Build: you dont need all this fancy stuff but it sure does help. This was my build by the time I finished, min max upgraded constantly along the way. Gave tons and tons of items to friends as they are the real treasures.

Equipment: Crown of Ages (perfect 2 sok, except defense) 352 def with 2 Ber runes, all res 30% DR 31%.
Enigma (Dusk Shroud) 1184 def, 5 off perfect defense roll.
Mara's Kaleidoscope 2/5/29 (1 off perfect)
HoZ (Umed) 187% ED.
Wizardspike (Isted)
Venom Grip gloves (upped 174 def)
Hot Spur boots (upped) 67 def
Verdungo belt (157 def/ 139%ED/39 Vit/DR 15%)
SoJ
Wisp Projector (19% lightning absorb/12% mf)

Off Hand:

CtA (Crystal Sword) 6/5/3
Spirit (Zakarum Shield) fire res 42%/ 77% rest of resistances.

Inventory:
Tome of Town Portal
Hellfire Torch 17 att/ 19 all res
Annihilus 20/18/10
5 all res small charms with extra stuff on them,
7 faster hit recovery small charms with extra stuff on them,
5 nice perfect combo small charms with various stuff,
1 7% faster run walk/15 all res GC
3 Offensive GC skillers with extra perfect or near perfect stats (mostly life),
2 Combat GC skillers with extra perfect or near perfect stats (mostly life).

Merc: Mercenaries cap out at 98 FYI, also your merc is your lifeline, give him only the best.
Act 2 merc, Holy Freeze skill.
(Ethereal) Fortitude [Sacred Armor base that was near perfect: 2835 defense with a perfect roll/ 148 life, 30 all res].
(Ethereal) Insight [Giant Thresher- 17 meditation, 221% ED, 234% bonus AR, 5 to Critical Strike].
Ansariel's Visage (Umed) 367 def 9% life steal.
Resistances=
Fire bonus 180%
Cold bonus 210%
Lightning bonus 210%
Poison bonus 280%


Skill Tree: 1 hard point into Prayer (13), Cleansing (13), Defiance (13), Might (16), Fantacism (16), Smite (17), Charge (17).
2 hard points into Holy Bolt (18) this one is useless beyond 1 point since the last update that I played.
8 hard points into Resist Lightning (20) this has a synergy to bring up your max lightning resist 1% for every 2 hard points you invest in it passively.
13 hard points into Holy Shield (29).
20 hard points into Vigor (32), Blessed Aim (35), Concentration (35), Blessed Hammer (36)

Stats: Strength base value =75 (213)
Dexterity base value =114 (156)
Vitality base value = 386 (487)
Energy base value =15 (57).

54% Damage Reduction ( it caps at 50% but doom knight like to curse you n bring it down so any over is great [remember this DR only pertains to physical resistance, so ranged attacks you still take full damage]. Also remember Succubus' ranged attacks actually count as physical attacks. Be aware of the Soul Killer dolls that explode- they are the most dangerous enemy in the game. Also Black souls are bad especially if you are fighting 3 uniques at once and dont have a Tgods, or Wisp Ring.

Resistances on Hell mode: Fire 90% (bonus +373%)
Cold 75% (bonus +330%)
Lightning 79% (bonus +311%)
Poison 80% (bonus +341%).

I played with a focus on Magic Finding until I was level 94, then I hardly did any Magic Finding till I got level 99. I'll list my techniques as some of them L8fty shared with me and my squad after he hit #1 to maximize effeciency. The more players in the game the more XP that can be earned. I think Diablo caps out at 7 players, and Baal at 3 or 4. I was killing Diablo solo in many games starting out as I would TP through Worldstone/Throneroom for my squad while they did the waves while I was doing Diablo, then I would TP in and me and another high level would kill Baal by ourselves. The more people at the kill area the more ways the XP is split. Thats why Baal should be shared with no more than 2 people for max XP. I also did me and another sharing XP on Diablo but in the later levels it really helps if you can get his XP alone. At level 98 no elite enemy in the game will give you even 1,000 xp. Lister even gives just under that. So at that point you are only gonna gain real XP from Baal and Diablo kills. Some people say Nithalak also but hes too risky for my liking with glitches in the past n corpse explosion stuff so I just stay away from him to play it safe. When I did Diablo I would seal pop but i would not search for runes or items after as time was XP n meaned more to me than any item I could find. I would share my loot with anyone in town or waves as they are the reason we would be getting so much XP. And me and my buddy would be doing the TPing making it fast for the matches to get done. I would do big damage but not as big as could be because damage wasnt my builds main goal, safety n defense was without sacrificing too much speed.

Theres a lot too this game and I cant possibly cover it all here but you kinda need to know almost everything to get this achievement. It can get boring so I like to keep the party chat going. I would divide it up and set daily XP goals. I started playing in October and unlocked this whenever it said I unlocked it (I cant recall) anyways less than a year. Lifty187um was able to get this achievement in about 2.5 weeks on ladder and has been a great friend and shared a lot of his strategies with me and my squad. Please let me know if you have any questions, thanks! And really, best of luck!

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I know there is a good guide from MegaManSurvives but i think with the "new" added terror zones i can do better.

IMHO this is absolutely doable and this CAN BE very easy to achieve. But you have to play Offline (for Players set XP boost) or a fixed group of absolute minimum of 4 players+ (this game is dearly dead with randoms on Xbox)

First off all i recommend one of these builds

1. FoH/Hammerdin Hybrid Paladin https://www.icy-veins.com/d2/paladin-skill-calculator#1--*-1...
2. Cold Sorceress https://www.icy-veins.com/d2/sorceress-skill-calculator#-20-...
3. Concentrate Barbarian https://diablo-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Concentrate_Barbarian...
4. Wirlwind Barbarian (one handed) https://www.icy-veins.com/d2/barbarian-skill-calculator#1--*...
5. Winddruid https://www.icy-veins.com/d2/druid-skill-calculator#--*--1*-...
6. Summon Necro (only for Singleplayer) https://www.icy-veins.com/d2/necromancer-skill-calculator#20...
7. Poison Necro https://www.icy-veins.com/d2/necromancer-skill-calculator#1-...
8. Smiter Paladin https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/jj010638#1

Second: you need a lot of preparation or Ebay.

Third: for gods sake DO NOT run Akt 5 Terror zones.

Fourth: DO NOT BECOME GREEDY. This is an 100% patients an preparations game mode. If you get Cursed have a baddy with Might + Fanaticism aura you can die with the wrong preparations in 1 second.

Fifth: To make this even easier you need:

A minimum of 175% all res do achieve the 75% all res cap (Hell mode have an all res malus of -100%), best will be 265% because of Conviction aura.
IMHO a Minimum of 10-50% Physical resistance. 50% is a must for the sorceress.
a block chance of 50% sorceress or 75% for the other classes.
You also have to reach some important breakpoints for Faster Cast Rate, Faster Hit Recovery, Defense and Life.
Your Mercenary have to be alive all the time and need decent gear.

Sixt: NEVER NEVER EVER BECOME GREEDY

Seventh: Play Offline. Yes, it is hard to get some decent runewords, but this is not impossible.

I choose the sorceress as my class. I used this leveling guide https://maxroll.gg/d2/guides/sorceress-leveling. After reaching level 30+ you can choose. If you are not well enough geared you can play Terror zones in Normal Mode or Chaos/Baalruns in Normal mode it is up to you. At level 35+ you should be well enough geared for farming Andariel in Nightmare and the Countess for runes and Gear (like Magefist). You should be res capped before entering act 2 in nightmare. And also have a Smoke for your merk and yourself. At act 4 you can farm Diablo for decent gear or just run Baalruns up to level 60+. I highly recommend that you enter Hell mode only with very decent, nearly endgame, gear. A minimum of 75 all res (175 all res cause of -100 hell mode all res) And +5 in all skills. With dual Spirit an Vipern mage armor and ore Lore helmet. Maybe you did found other good stuff too. In offline mode do not plan with Annihilus and Torch. You deffinetly would not get those.

This isn’t really a guide, but there are two things you REALLY should know before attempting this.

1. If you’re using a last-Gen console, loading times are absolutely terrible. Buy an external SSD and cut like 90 % of them. I recommend Kingston XS2000 or whatever it’s called. You’ll be shaving off basically minutes of loading every time you start a new game, and given how you constantly start new games to replay the TZ, the difference in efficiency is HUGE!

2. If you insist on using last gen without external SSD, don’t EVER teleport between acts into a non-town zone unless it’s 100 % enemy free (River of flame WP is the only safe one I can think of). Sooner or later you will die during loading screen. I learned this the hard way, wielding my brand new near perfect Grief.

You get xp penalized when enemies are five levels above or below your level, so once you are around level 93 or so, Terror Zones are pretty much the only way to get decent XP as other places are max lvl 85 on regular enemies.

All TZs are not created equal. Tal Rasha’s tombs, Chaos and Worldstone are the best. Rocky Waste and Crystalline Passage are also decent. Most others, I just ignore and wait until a better one comes along. You can use Terror Zone tracker push notifications via discord for updates on current TZ.

Good luck!

Play Terror Zones with with other players or better in a group to level up faster.


TerrorZones

Standard Monsters: +2 player level up to 96
Champion: +4 player level up to 98
Unique: +5 player level up to 99

To summarize: if you encounter a monster inside the Terror Zone,
it will get +2 levels depending on your own character level.
If it is a champion monster, it will get +4,
and if it is a unique monster it will be +5 levels higher.

You need to kill Baal on the difficult.

I still need players for Hardcore on Hell,
so please add me on Xbox.