First time Diablo 2 LoD 1.14D player with upgrade questions

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I came across all my old PC games and am having a go at the originals before connecting to Bnet for updates. I upgraded to as far as possible without, which for D2 LoD is 1.14D

I am starting Act V normal and looking at socketing, upgrading base items, and crafting.

For socketing, I want a crystal sword with 4 sockets. Are any normal items dropped level 26 or above before cow/NM?

Upgrading base items, does this just increase attack/defense stat or does it also change any affixes like +dmg or the like?

Crafting items, is it worth it? What level will the items be and will they ever be socketed?

Thanks in advance.

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Hi,

You should ask those questions on the Diablo II Classic General Discussion; it’s buried in the D2R forums on the America region – there is no equivalent forum in Europe:

This forum here is for technical support — installation / updates and connection issues, and crashes — on old games such as Diablo II and the games in the Blizzard Arcade Collection.

I’m not going to answer your questions… I don’t consider myself an expert in the game and would not want to mislead you with bad or incomplete answers. I will provide one link however… and that’s to Arreat Summit… just in case you don’t already have it:

Welcome back to Diablo II Classic and best of luck in your games !

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