Hirelings can now follow the player through all the Acts.

An alternate weapon/shield/spell setup that can be switched to via a hotkey in gameplay.

An expanded stash for storing items-two times the size of the original stash.

Additional unique and set items, including class-specific sets.

Class-specific items that can only be used by a certain character, e.g.

Charms that can be kept in the inventory and provide passive bonuses.

(There are different Ethereal items which have bonus stats that make them repair durability on their own) However, if equipped by an NPC companion they do not lose durability.

Ethereal items that are normally more powerful than their standard counterparts, but they have lowered durability and cannot be repaired.

Unique jewels are Rainbow Facets which have different bonuses to a certain element. They have the same effect no matter what the base item is.

Jewels gain the same random bonuses that items can.

They have 3-4 predetermined properties determined by the recipe and up to 4 additional randomly selected from the same pool as rare item properties. They can be created with the Horadric Cube and the right ingredients. Crafted items are very similar to rare quality items but they cannot be found in chests or dropped by monsters.Hundreds of additional Horadric Cube recipes.Runewords are specific sequences of runes which grant a specific set of additional bonuses (similar to the preselected bonuses of unique quality items) when socketed into an appropriate item.

33 different Runes, which can be placed into sockets and provide different bonuses from gems.Many new items, including new weapons and new pieces of armor:.A fifth act taking place in and around Mount Arreat in the northern Barbarian Highlands, with an additional act boss, Baal.Two new character classes: the Assassin and the Druid.Lord of Destruction adds a number of new features to the core gameplay of Diablo II. Placing the runes 'Jah', 'Ith' and 'Ber' (in that order) into an armour item with exactly three sockets produces the powerful Rune word 'Enigma'.

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