gambling strategy

[davidoux]

EDIT : just realized i posted in the wrong sub-forum, can a moderator move this thread ? sorry and thks

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Hello,

I am new to D2 and have recently started a necro, I am just reaching clvl 14 and playing with /players 8;

I spend most of my time going from-back base camp to sell valuable item in orderr to try to gamble for 60K+ items,
I was wondering if this was a sound strategy enough, are there any tips about gambling ( a friend of em told me for example that it was more optimal to gamble at lvl 9 rather than, say lvl 11 because of proba linked to clvl )

I have a life regen amulet and somewhat powerful wand, would it make sense to sell everything just in order to gamble for an expensive item or should i instead buy that identified 50K necro staff giving +4 necro skills and other bonuses ?

I am also using 2 gold % increase ring, is it something rly useful ?

Thanks

[snowieken]

Moved.

For starters, gold is easy to find, so easy that equipping gear specifically with extra gold find is in fact a waste of an item mod.

I presume the wand you are talking about does not give +4 to all skills? That would be a little overkill at your level. It depends on which skill the wand increases: if it's a skill you are using a lot, that's always a good wand.

About gambling: I usually only gamble if I want to have a specific item or if I can't seem to find anything good for a certain slot. For instance, usually whenever I get my rogue mercenary, I gamble for a long bow (because long bows tend to get the most damage output at the lowest level). I don't go out of my way to gamble, but if you have a steady gold supply, then sure, who knows what you will find? There's some good rares to be found with gambling. I wouldn't sell everything to gamble for items, what if you end up with worse gear than you had and no money to get new?

[FredOfErik]

Life regen and goldfind rings/ammies are good for one thing early game: selling.

You should really be aiming to get resists/magic find/whatevs from these slots early on.

http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/s...-Magic-Finding

Read this. It's aimed towards single pass play, so it's a bit extreme but has a lot of info - also about gambling.