Hirelings are mercenaries that can be hired to aid the player during the course of the game. In Diablo II Classic they were temporary companions that could be hired to accompany the player throughout one act. The Rogue and Iron Wolf could also be obtained as quest rewards. However, hirelings did not follow the player outside the acts they were hired in.

In the Lord of Destruction expansion pack, Hirelings were improved with radical changes. They could level up along with the player and accompany them throughout all acts and difficulties. They also had a new stats screen and the player could equip them with items to further enhance their stats. All hirelings can equip body armor and helms, and different weapon types can be equipped depending on the hireling (listed below). Hirelings are not able to equip Class-specific Items, with the exception of the Barbarian who can equip Barbarian Helms and armor that has the Barbarian class requirement (such as the body armor with the 'Myth' runeword enchantment). No hireling can be equipped with rings, amulets, boots, gloves, or belts.

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To heal a hireling, click and drag a health potion onto your hireling's portrait in the upper left corner of the game screen or press Shift and right-click the potion to instantly give it to him/her. Hirelings are also healed if you talk to a healer in town.

Act I Rogue

The rogues of the Rogue Encampment belong to the Sisterhood of the Sightless Eye and can be hired from Kashya after completing the Sisters' Burial Grounds quest.

• Skills: Uses the Amazon skill Inner Sight and can shoot either Fire Arrows or Ice Arrows (Ice Arrows travel half the distance of Fire Arrows).
• Weapons: bows. They cannot equip crossbows or Amazon Weapons.

Act II Desert Mercenary

The Desert Mercenaries hail from the city of Lut Gholein and serve as the town's guards. They can be hired from their captain, Greiz.

• Skills: Uses Auras to enhance the battlefield and the Amazon skill Jab. The aura a mercenary has depends on which difficulty he is hired in. If a Combat Mercenary is hired in Normal, he will still use Prayer in Nightmare.
• Weapons: spears, polearms, and javelins.

Normal/Hell Auras:

• Combat: Prayer
• Offensive: Blessed Aim
• Defensive: Defiance

Nightmare Auras

• Combat: Thorns
• Offensive: Might
• Defensive: Holy Freeze

Act III Iron Wolf

The Iron Wolves from Kurast are Spellcasters, and the guards of the Kurast Docks. They can be hired from Asheara.

• Abilities: Spell-casting, dependent on type. They are also able to attack with their equipped sword, but do so infrequently. Iron Wolves are incapable of blocking, despite being able to equip a shield.
• Weapons: One-handed swords and shields.

Lightning mercenary spells:

Fire mercenary spells:

Cold mercenary spells:

Act IV Angel

There are no hirelings in this act, but Tyrael provides resurrection services.

Act V Barbarian

The Barbarians of Harrogath can be hired from Qual-Kehk after completing the Rescue on Mount Arreat quest.

• Skills: Uses Bash and Stun.
• Weapons: One-handed and two-handed swords. Can not dual-wield. Barbarian hirelings are able to equip class-specific Barbarian Helms.

Rumors

The lack of an Act IV Hireling led to rather ridiculous speculations related to a non-existent hidden Act IV Hireling: The Angel. The Angel was described to use Hadriel's base structure and did not walk, but levitated above the ground. They were said to use Cold and Lightning Spells. It was even said that the Angel was showcased by the presence of Hadriel. Because these rumors spread before the expansion, there are no details on what they could equip.

The rumors said that the Angel could be obtained by completing certain meaningless tasks, mostly on Hell difficulty. They included:

• Talking to Hadriel or Tyrael a certain number of times
• Defeating Diablo in Hell difficulty a certain number of times
• Defeating the The Cow King a certain number of times (requires another player's aid because the Secret Cow Level portal cannot be reopened by the character who killed the King)
• Giving the Jade Figurine/Golden Bird to Tyrael or Hadriel
• Not talking to Tyrael after freeing him in Tal Rasha's Chamber (you cannot complete Act II without talking to him)

Installation without Launcher
If you're having trouble with Launcher you can install MXL Sigma without its use.
However, you will be missing out on some Launcher configuration options and this is an unofficial method of patching D2.
Download and install Diablo II
Use 'Start with a fresh install' step of the guide for reference. viewtopic.php?t=4561
Download MXL Sigma files
Launcher downloads several archives from Median XL servers
http://get.median-xl.com/launcher/?get=dlls
download1.x.x.dll.update file
rename1.x.x.dll.update to 1.x.x.dll.7z file
extract1.x.x.dll.7z file
--->
Fog.dll
D2Sigma.dll
http://get.median-xl.com/launcher/?get=mod
download1.x.x.7z

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file
extract1.x.x.7z file
--->
MXL.mpq
Copy files into Diablo 2 installation folder
copyFog.dll, D2Sigma.dll, MXL.mpq files
paste and overwriteFog.dll, D2Sigma.dll, MXL.mpq files into your Diablo 2 folder
If you use Windows you should be able to run Diablo 2 normally.
Running on Mac (before 10.15 Catalina)
Install brew.sh and wine
You need to install brew and wine to run Diablo 2.
See respective guides brew.sh and Installing Wine on Mac
This guide assumes you have Diablo extracted into your home folder.
In this example it's ~/D2
Open Terminal.app
cd ~/D2
For windowed mode
wine Diablo 2.exe -w
For fullscreen
wine Diablo 2.exe -3dfx
It just works!
Common problems and solutions
I want to play fullscreen
MXL Sigma doesn't play nicely with fullscreen and DirecDraw or Direct3D. To play fullscreen you have to use 3dfx video driver.
cd ~/D2
wine Diablo 2.exe -3dfx
Diablo crashes with ACCESS VIOLATION (c0000005)
Make sure you're running in windowed mode (-w flag) or playing fullscreen (-3dfx flag)
Generic bad character file when creating singleplayer character
Easy way is to login to The Sin War once, create a character and log in once. After that you can create characters offline.
If that doesn't work you can create missing folder structure. $WINEPREFIX is ~/.wine by default:
cd $WINEPREFIX
cd drive_c/users/<your_Mac_username>
mkdir -p 'Application Data/MedianXL/save'
Diablo crashed and I can't close it
Use Activity Monitor.app, find and kill all wine and wineserver processes
Another option is to use CMD+OPTION+ESC combination for a force quit shortcut.
I have MacOS Catalina and nothing works
Thanks to Apple ruining 32-bit application support on MacOS Catalina it is no longer possible to run wine. There is a solution by another application named CrossOver, which is similar to wine and wineskin. You will require CrossOver version 20+ to make this work, the process is similar:
1. Create a 'bottle' - a virtual instance of a Windows machine wrapper.
2. Follow instructions above to install D2 LoD + MedianXL
3. Add a shortcut to Diablo II.exe file

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4. Run it with either window mode (-w) or (-3dfx)