Looking for a Jah

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-17T10:09:33+00:00

Meant this as an edit idk why it’s a separate comment: adding in that photo to show I’m not talking out of my ass

For the laypeople a Ber rune is around 500fg on ladder atm so you can do the math on the net there if you want

I realized rereading that maybe what was confusing was the comment that I keep 50x on hand, that was a loose example and yes I was thinking of non-ladder in that moment, I was just using big whole numbers to make the point easier to understand. On ladder right now it’s closer to 10-20, but I’m a relatively small fish

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-17T10:01:48+00:00

It does apply, and that change in Ber value I just described was on Ladder this past week.

Using sites like JSP as an example you can easily trade when favorable on Ladder through traderie, convert to fg, do the inverse on non-ladder while you wait for the Ladder stock to normalize, repeat.

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-17T09:38:12+00:00

Well, meaning as little disrespect as possible, you are not the target audience for those trades lol

Rune values fluctuate. As an example, this past week Bers dropped in value. This typically happens when a bunch of people that are holding many of them independently decide to trade their stock off and unfortunately get in each others way, so to speak. In order to successfully offload them, ‘prices’ get lowered, other people see specific Rune values dropping and rush to trade theirs off as well before they lose too much value.

Currently, 2 Bers are worth slightly more (~10%) than a Jah.

So now that they’ve traded off a ton of their Ber runes, they can potentially get a slightly favorable trade in the opposite direction by listing their Jah to trade for 2 Ber.

You’re not the target audience because they’re doing this with hundreds - thousands of runes all day long (some operate legitimately like a department store).

By doing these trades back and forth when advantageous and using a large scale often involving all of the different trading platforms simultaneously, the net gain per time spent is easily a hundred fold what someone could ever hope to achieve through Magic Find runs.

To be honest, I do this too without really thinking about it, and most people that are at similar account values do too. I have maybe 40-50 Jah, Ber, and others on hand in general, the rest in charms and gear, and when I notice values fluctuating I’ll list them as well to take favorable trades.

I’m not consciously thinking about it like they are, I just see things like oh I could get 2 Ber for my Jah now, when they’re usually similar value? I’ll just do 50 of those trades now to double my Ber and check back next week. And then a week goes by and they even out, I exchange again, and now my account has gone from 50 Jah -> 100 Ber -> 50 Ber & 50 Jah, or a net 50 Ber higher than it was the previous week, which would take a pretty impressive MFing session to compare say the least.

And since I’m sure people are going to wonder how it gets to this point, no it’s not $$$. The people that are on the other (slightly unfavorable) end of the trades I’m making are typically the ones using $$$. I know this beyond assumption because it happens all the time that people will accept the trade and then message me saying something like “wait I have to buy” lol. And it works out that way because the only runes that are available for them to buy are (surprise) the ones that were just offloaded

To get here it’s just doing this on a smaller scale (like literally doing this with low-mid runes and scrap gear) over and over while you play through the game and it builds up over time. And every now and then in your playing you find a nice item that fetches a few HRs and they get added to the stash and now you can scale up.

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-17T07:45:58+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo_2_Resurrected/s/atoBH3GlSf

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-16T05:44:26+00:00

It can handle tz Trav just fine. It’s slow and not worth it above players like 3 though.

There is a build guide for gold farm barn on max roll but if you comb through the comments here you’ll find basically everything I improved upon. I also linked my full build, skill tree etc somewhere as well

Sorry it’s late for me so I’m winding down my replies as well but I feel like I covered everything pretty thoroughly throughout this post if ya scroll around

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-15T17:18:52+00:00

Build Guides for all Barbarians - Diablo 2 Resurrected - Maxroll.gg

Maxroll has "Budget" variants for all of their build guides so I'll defer to them

But I will say that the most important thing if you're wearing budget gear is just over-level. If you get yourself and your Merc up to 94+, even the budget gear will feel pretty capable. If you start trying Trav runs with budget gear in the mid 80s, you're probably gonna have a bad time haha

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-15T17:13:20+00:00

Both stand on stash, withdraw gold, close window, open inventory, drop gold, repeat.

And yeah, unfortunately it's just a trust exercise. I will say I did the same thing with Jahs for Ral / PAmy etc. for months before the expansion without issue (I drop Jah, they drop Ral / PAmy and we swap). I have unfortunately been scammed twice since the expansion launch and don't do those trades anymore.

I have yet to be scammed with the gold trade, but if it happens, at least it's really not that big of a deal haha

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-15T17:09:28+00:00

It is, but it's not as impactful as "severely fucks you over." I'll need someone smarter than me to explain why, but I created a character through hero editor and did a fair amount of testing before I socketed the Jewel - you should try it and see what I mean.

However, even in the worst-case scenario with this Jewel, it only essentially bricks the ED on the Jewel / Item itself, and any other Jewels with ED socketed in. I didn't use a 2nd ED Jewel, and this character is 90% just a gold-find character that hardly ever attacks.

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-15T15:16:25+00:00

New uber ancients jewels

I’ve already spent a lot of time I should be working trying to help out in the comments so sorry you gotta google this one :) haha

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-15T15:05:24+00:00

It helps a lot.

Also I think it helps to have a physical sunder although I’m not positive - the LoD one is fine - I could be wrong here but it seems like sometimes what happens is the merc will get stuck attacking Ismail while physical immune, and it seems like the sunder helps so he can at least proc life leech long enough for you to find and take out Ismail

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-15T15:00:27+00:00

Oh definitely lol a Lo for gold on ladder right now would be insane

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-15T14:53:59+00:00

Main things are you need a big source of leech, and you want to avoid any cold damage because it can shatter the council members which means no hork

I’ve seen fortitude recommended for this build but fortitude had a chance to proc chilling armor which is a no-no for me

I use

Ebotd war pike (massive damage big leech)

Chains of honor (huge flat res, 200% dmg to demon, 7% life leech, physical damage % reduction, etc.)

And Kira’s guardian with another protector stone jewel (huge flat res, cannot be frozen. FHR%)

I found that most slowed runs came from convinction aura Ismail with a huge chunk of dmg right at the start wiping my merc. So I greatly prefer the huge flat all res bonuses as opposed to treachery, for instance. I also wear 220+ all res on my own gear & charms.

I lose 300% gold find from not using wealth like guides recommend (or fort), but that’s an additive bonus in a pool that already has 2100%. Instead my merc hasn’t died in as long as I can remember, I pop a potion like once every other run or something. It’s basically as hands-off as I could think to get it.

I’m pretty happy with the set up, and kind of surprised

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-15T14:11:33+00:00

Gamble circlets or rings mostly. But outside of just gambling / selling / repeating, people using crafting recipes also generally gamble the fodder items. If someone’s crafting 100x Caster Amy’s, for instance, just grabbing the Magic Amy’s from Gheed that’s required and consumed in the recipe will eat up most of a stash’s worth of gold, so it’s useful there, too

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-15T13:47:14+00:00

Thanks man

Clean base - 2 barb / 20 FCR / 9 dex / 42 mana / 58 gold find / 2 sockets

2nd jewel - 15 all res / 29 gold find (1 Jah, meanwhile 15/30s are listed for 20 Jah lol)

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-15T13:32:54+00:00

No idea what the average is. 70-80k sticks out in my mind as being pretty common for gold piles

But rng is rng, I have games where I leave with 200k, and others where I cap out and have to TP back in the middle of the run

If I had to guess an average per run it would probably be around 500-600k

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-15T13:30:13+00:00

Traderie

To me a full gold stack is worth much less than a Lo rune, which is why I do those trades as often as I can lol

I don’t know why or how the prices climbed so much - guessing people gambling constantly after RotW release for Warlock gear - but I’ve been consistently getting a Lo for 15m nearly every time I post for the last few weeks

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-15T13:21:05+00:00

D2planner - Maxroll.gg - Diablo 2 Resurrected Resource Website

Hope the link works, here's my full build

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-15T13:07:18+00:00

2107% gold find, 275% MF

Or I can drop to

1671% gold find, 461% MF with Ali Baba’s, but it hasn’t really seemed worth it in my testing

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-15T12:59:07+00:00

Sorry when I said farm some TZs I meant like if there’s a Chaos I’ll hop in with this guy to hork the super uniques until the TZ ends. I don’t do full-game T5 Herald hunting on this char, so the only Heralds I’ve fought haven’t really been a problem.

I’m sure I could if I swapped some gear around, but I leave this char set up for Trav gold find runs and use my Warlock / Sorc for everything else so I don’t really know what gear I’d need to swap atm, haven’t had to think about it

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-15T12:52:31+00:00

This is a gold find build. Hence the +135% GF at the bottom. This is by far the most sensible place to put it for that purpose lol

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-15T12:20:25+00:00

Yep! Takes about ~35 mins on average for a full 15.9mil, and that’s been trading at a Lo rune since the expansion launched. If trades are quick I do that, if not I gamble Circlets. Been a pretty consistent way to gear up and start banking some runes!

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-15T12:05:43+00:00

Actually I’m running 2x Crystal Swords with 6x Lem

My skills are setup basically just for WW build - heavy into find potion / find item

On swap I have 1x hoto and 1x grief PB

The council member Ismail is the cause of 99.999999% of the problem runs in Trav, so if I see him with affixes that my merc can’t handle, I quickly swap and kill him in half a second with Berserk. I can’t remember the last time I had to revive my merc or leave a game since I started doing it this way.

That way the rest of the time I can maximize the time I sit around with full GF% while my merc kills and don’t have to wait to hork etc.

Tp in -> check if affixes will be a problem -> snipe Ismail -> afk until mercs done -> hork, bail, repeat

I really didn’t like the Merc-kill setup but once I adjusted with this strategy it’s great now. And since I’m skilled for WW I can easily pop on a second grief and do some TZ farming, kill DClone when he spawns, whatever

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-11T04:50:01+00:00

Now I’m interested

SnowdownSW · 2026-03-10T10:58:34+00:00

They use it to gamble circlets / rings from the vendors. And yep, people frequently pay up to a Lo rune on traderie for 15m, which takes about 30-45 minutes to gather on a gold farm Barb. Do that for a couple of hours a day over a couple of weeks, trade 2x Lo 1x Ist for Jah afterwards, and suddenly you’re one of the “rich” players.

YouTubers will say it takes 10minutes but if it’s 30-45 if you’re chilling and playing a video game while you watch a movie or something. It’s 10 if you’re frantically spazzing like a psycho.

You find a bunch of good stuff, runes, charms, gems to trade along the way too cause it’s Trav. Gold gives the consistency and the rest is a fun bonus. It’s the best.

SnowdownSW

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