- Diablo II: Lord of Destruction contains five acts. The first four are were part of the original Diablo II, and the fifth is added by the expansion. Normally, new characters start as a Level 1 character in Act 1. But editing the properties of the game's desktop shortcut can change that. In the shortcut's Properties window, add "-actx" at the end of the entry in the "Target" box. Replace the "x" with a number from 1 to 5 to set in which act new characters will start. A new character will start at a level appropriate for the act in which it starts--for example, at Level 33 in Act 5.
- Bosses are the most dangerous enemies in Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. Town portals can be used to cheat in boss fights and drastically reduce the difficulty. A boss will regain health only if it successfully kills your character. The health of the boss will remain the same if the player returns to town using a town portal. Open a town portal before starting to fight the boss. Go through the portal when your health starts to get low. You can heal your character and restock potions, ammunition and magic items before returning to the fight. The boss will have the same health level it had when you used the portal.
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The loot of enemies is dependent on the difficulty of the enemy. Normally, this is dependent on the difficulty level the player is on. Higher difficulty levels have the added drawback of giving enemies immunities to damage types--which can make the game difficult for some characters. You can increase the difficulty level of enemies so that they will drop better loot. These enemies will be more difficult than normal to kill but will not have the immunities they would get at higher difficulty levels.
Press "Enter" to bring up the command prompt. Type "/players x" to change the enemy difficulty, with "x" being a number from 1 to 8. The default value is 1, which can be entered to remove this cheat. Higher numbers result in more difficult enemies with better loot. In most cases, 3 to 5 is the best choice to get better loot without increasing difficulty too much.
