Gambling Guide - Diablo 2 Resurrected

D2R Gambling Guide

In each act, one NPC in town will allow you to Gamble. Once you have selected Gamble you will see an inventory of items. These items will not be identified, and they will be offered at different prices. Select an item of a type you want to buy. Buy it. The item will then be automatically identified and you will see the item’s statistics.

  1. You will mostly get Magic items which may or may not be worth anything to you (hence Gambling).
  2. You can Gamble Set or Unique Items and have the chance to Gamble Exceptional and Elite items as well. Gambling Items appear as Normal Items and can only be revealed as Exceptional or Elite Items after you buy them.
  3. The level of quality of the items will be from most common to, most rare: Normal, Exceptional, Elite.
  4. The quality of items is determined entirely by the level of the character (Clvl) gambling. It does not matter what difficulty level or act you gamble in, how many players are in the game, if you’re wearing magic find equipment, etc.
  5. Gambling gives you a place to spend your money on the higher difficulty levels (Nightmare, Hell), and gives you a better chance at getting good Rare and if you’re lucky, Set and Unique Exceptional and Elite items that you are looking for. You can also get rare rings and amulets from Gambling which can be more difficult to find from monsters.
  6. Buying all of the items on one screen doesn’t help to improve your chances any more than buying them one at a time per screen. There was a bug in early versions of Diablo II that made one item on every gambling page unique, but this was fixed in a patch long ago.
  7. Items are created when you hit the Gamble button on the NPC menu.
  8. You can reset the Gambling menu by exiting the screen, then by clicking on Gamble again. You can continue to do this rapidly until you get the specific type of item you’re looking for.
  9. Once you’ve unlocked all the item types at level 48, the items shown will be the same from then on. However, as you reach higher Character Levels, more Magic Prefixes and Suffixes will show up on items Gambled and you’ll have a better chance to get Exceptional and Elite items.
  10. Items offered on the gambling screen are randomly determined, with one exception. There is always one amulet and one ring.
  11. The price for Gambling each item goes up as your character level goes up, with one exception. Rings are always 50,000 and amulets are always 63,000.
  12. These conditions have no effect on the items you get from Gambling: the number of players in the game, the Act, or Difficulty Level.
  13. Magic Find in no way affects Gambling.

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Gambling Odds

Rarity Odds
Magic Items 1/~1.1 (89.85%)
Rares 1 in 10 (10%)
Sets 1 in 1,000 (0.10%)
Uniques 1 in 2,000 (0.05%)

Base Item Levels

The quality level of an item comes into play in gambling. You will not see these items on the Gambling screen until your character level is +5 levels/-4 levels of the item’s quality level requirement. This information is valuable to figure out when you’ll be able to gamble for certain items.

Here is a list of the base item levels. To figure out at what Character levels a base item type will be available for Gambling, subtract 4 from the item’s quality level, for having a chance to upgrade to Exceptional subtract 5, and for Elite subtract 7. Note: Item types that are not listed are not available for Gambling.

Level Base Item
1 Amulet, Ring, Club, Short Sword, Short Bow, Cap, Quilted Armor, Buckler, Javelin, Katar
2 Throwing Knife
3 Hand Axe, Dagger, Leather Armor, Leather Gloves, Boots, Sash
4 Spiked Club
5 Scimitar, Spear, Bardiche, Hunter’s Bow, Skull Cap, Hard Leather Armor, Small Shield
6 Large Axe, Light Crossbow
7 Axe, Throwing Axe, Heavy Gloves, Heavy Boots, Light Belt
8 Mace, Sabre, Long Bow, Studded Leather
9 Dirk, Trident, Wrist Blade
10 Pilum, Two-Handed Sword
11 Falchion, Crystal Sword, Voulge, Helm, Ring Mail, Large Shield, Spiked Shield
12 Broad Axe, Composite Bow, Chain Gloves, Chain Boots, Hatchet Hands, Belt
13 Balanced Knife, Claws, Double Axe, Morning Star, Scale Mail
15 Broad Sword, Scythe, Crossbow, Full Helm, Chain Mail, Kite Shield, Short Spear, Cestus
16 Balanced Axe, Brandistock
17 Battle Axe, Claymore, Kris
18 Short Battle Bow, Breast Plate
19 Military Pick, Flail, Mask, Bone Shield
20 Long Sword, Spetum, Splint Mail, Light Gauntlets, Light Plated Boots, Heavy Belt
21 Maul, Giant Sword, Poleaxe, Blade Talons
22 Tower Shield, Bone Helm
23 Great Axe, Blade, Long Battle Bow, Great Helm, Glaive
24 Bastard Sword, Pike, Heavy Crossbow, Plate Mail, Scissors Katar, Circlet
25 War Axe, War Hammer
27 Giant Axe, War Sword, Flamberge, Short War Bow, Gauntlets, Greaves, Plated Belt
28 Field Plate
29 Halberd, Crown, Throwing Spear
30 Gothic Shield
31 Long War Bow
32 Great Maul, Gothic Plate
33 Great Sword, Repeating Crossbow
34 War Scythe
35 Light Plate
37 Full Plate Mail
40 Ancient Armor
52 Coronet

The item types offered to gamble for are determined by your character’s level, but only in that higher level characters get more item types offered to them. This only matters to low and mid-level characters, and every type of item is available after Clvl 55.

Gamble NPCs

It does not matter which NPC you gamble with, or on which difficulty level you do your gambling. The odds are the same with all of them, and are determined entirely by your character’s level. Nothing else matters: not the number of players in the game, or the difficulty level, or your magic find, etc.

Act NPC
Act I Gheed
Act II Elzik
Act III Alkor
Act IV Jamella
Act V Nihlathak, who is replaced by Anya after rescuing her
D2R Gamble NPCs

When to Gamble?

There is no definite answer when you should gamble without knowing in advance what you are looking for. As the player’s character level increases, more types of items and modifiers become available.

If you want to search for a specific modifier, you need to compare the Area levels of these items. The area level is used to determine the types of items and modifiers that can be dropped from monsters and chests at all difficulty levels. In order for the item you are looking for to be available in the modifier pool, you must exceed its area level.

If you want a certain modifier available at item level 50. Before passing the item level of 60 or more modifiers added to the pool, it is best to try to gamble at that level to reduce the chance of obtaining the desired modifier.

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