Belts play an important role in your character's survival. Most belts are designed for quick access to D2R items and contain multiple slots, loops, and cords to which potions and other important items can be attached. The larger a belt is, the more potions and scrolls it can hold. Wearing a sash or larger belt expands the initial four-slot capacity of your character's belt by adding one or more additional rows of four slots. While only four slots are normally displayed in the interface bar, you can access the additional slots by hovering over one of the visible slots or pressing the tilde key to open and close the belt.

You can drink a potion from your belt by right-clicking on the potion. Also, each occupied belt slot has a number from 1-4, so pressing one of these number buttons is a quick way to drink a potion without having to click on it.

Larger belts have other advantages. When you drink a potion or read a scroll, the item above it automatically slides down to replace the consumed Diablo II Resurrected ladder items. If you have a potion or scroll in a hotkey slot and pick up another of the same type, the new item will automatically stack above the first. This will continue until the column is full. If there is no more room in the belt, the item will be placed in your backpack.

Healing, mana, and regeneration potions are automatically placed in the belt when picked up. You can also place scrolls of identification and the town portal, as well as the other drinkable potions, in your belt. However, items such as scrolls will not automatically be placed in your belt unless there is already a matching item in one of the four hotkey slots and there is an empty slot above the one with the matching item.

Tips

When purchasing healing potions, hold down SHIFT and right-click to automatically fill up any empty slots in your belt. This also applies to the purchase of scrolls of identification and the city portal.

Hold down the SHIFT key and left-click on healing, mana, and regeneration potions in your inventory to automatically move them to the appropriate column in your belt.

Hold down the SHIFT key and a shortcut key (1-4) or right-click on healing, mana and regeneration potions or other potions in your belt to give the potion to the mercenary, if you have one.