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Short description:
a few features of this include - changes to existing Character - improving various aspects of the game (gems, potions etc.) - New suffixes and prefixes
README.TXT for Diablo 2++
==========================
by Rana Loreus (ranaloreus@hotmailcom)
For the latest verisons of Diablo 2++, news and tutorials, go to:
http://www.crosswinds.net/~ranaloreus/theforge/index.html
Diablo 2++ Alpha 3.1 (31/8/2000)
================================
PREFACE
-------
Diablo 2++ is a MOD for Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo II. It extends
the gameplay of the original game by adding:
- changes to existing Character
- improving various aspects of the game (gems, potions etc.)
- New suffixes and prefixes
- New Uniques and Set Items
- Changes to skills to make it more life more interesting.
- changes to make more playing style possible.
- makes the skeletons-rasing Nercomancer possible to play in harder levels.
- Ability to buy rings, amulets and exceptional throwing weapons.
- Made the game less unreasonable (in terms of some bosses and the ARx4 bug)
IF YOU USE A PRE-EXISTING CHARACTER, YOUR EQUIPMENT WILL MORPH! (no serious
harm, for when you change back to the original Diablo 2, the items will
be restored to their original abilities).
This MOD is best suited for v1.03 and works only for the ENGLISH verison of the
game. See the FAQ before emailing me, thanks!
BTW, I adore feedbacks. I'm interested in how do you think of the new features and
whether the game is challenging (still or more?) in the MOD, or whether it is more
or less interesting.
This is the first ever alpha release of this Mod, and hence it is not
really test-played. Please do send in suggestions and feedbacks. Take note
that the Mod may make the game easier or harder (most likely it'll be easier
:-D) so please feedback to me as to what you like and do not like. I suspect the game
will be very easy on normal games, but will make Hell slightly more enjoyable (which
may not be desirable :-D ).
INSTALLATION
------------
Diablo 2++ now comes as a Diablo Mod Manage module (.d2m) file. Hence, the file size
of the mod has been reduced from 1 megabyte to about 200 kilobytes.
To run the mod, you'll need the Diablo II Mod Manager, avaliable at
http://www.darkarchangel.com, under the Diablo 2 MODs section. Unzip the Mod Manager
to a directory and copy d2plus.d2m to the same directory as the Manager.
An alternative site to get the Diablo II Mod Manger is http://diablo2.cheatlist.com/
mods.html
To run the MOD, just run the Manager and select Diablo 2++ Alpha 3.1 from the list
of mods.
No uninstallation is needed. Whenever you exit the mod, the mod will be uninstalled
automatically.
Please email any problems with Diablo 2 Mod Manager to webmaster@darkarchangel.com,
and not to me, thanks!
NOTES
-----
It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you play the MOD with a character created with this mod.
You can still play with your old characters, but PLEASE make a backup of your
character, as items tend to morph when you transfer characters between mods. Take
note that your existing characters may or may not be affected by the changes
made to the character. Do NOT attempt to play the original game with a character in the MOD,
you are doing it at your own risk.
FAQ
---
Please read the FAQ before sending me any email, thank you!
Q. Can I play the MOD on Battle Net?
A. Yes, only the open Battlenet, and all the players must have installed the MOD.
Q. How do I make my own MODs?
A. Check out my tutorials at www.crosswinds.net/~ranaloreus/theforge/tutorials.html
or look for help at diablo2.cheatlist.com. For a much more detailed answer,
check out the Diablo 2 Mod-Making FAQ --> http://www.crosswinds.net/~ranaloreus/theforge/
modfaq.txt
Q. I cannot download the Diablo 2 Mod Manager from the site you gave.
Where else can I find it?
A. You can find it mirrored at: http://diablo2.cheatlist.com/mods.html
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Credits to where it is due
--------------------------
Lurker Lounge Forum -- Thanks for the post on V&K's experiments on Moding.
www.lurkerlounge.com Which leads me to...
Varaya and Khan -- For creating the forum that discusses about Mod-making.
www.vkmods.de
Seorin, Jarulf, Ondo, -- For answering my questions.
Charile and many others
at the modmaking forum
Crymson -- For helping me with my buggy exceptional uniques,
and allowing me to use portions of his mod. Thanks!
This MOD is created with Excel 97, with the aid of the Spreadsheet Assistant and
Darkarchangel's Mod Manager and Mod-Maker.
_______________________________________________________________________________________
HOPES FOR NEXT RELEASE
---------------------
I believe Alpha 3 concludes the changes that I wish to include in Diablo 2++
(at least the major ones) and what is left are tweaking and balancing. But that
does not mean Alpha 4 will be a boring release. Take a look at what is planned:
o Change some of the existing normal uniques.
o Balance the character/monster changes.
o Introducing a new challenge...The Abyss...
DISCLAIMER
----------
I, the author of this MOD, will not be responsible for any losses that you incur
when using this MOD. Nor will I be responsible for any damage that is caused by
the usage of this MOD. I am also not responsible for any acts of Heaven or deeds
of Fortune, nor for the death of anyone, loss of any object, crash of any computer
and the like.
This MOD is the creation of Rana Loreus (aka C.K.X), ranaloreus@hotmail.com.
____________________________________________________________________________________
MOD CHANGES AND HISTORY
[Alpha 3]
This release heralds the Exceptional Uniques...and boosted the power of existing
set and unique items. The other major changes are in the gameplay -- character
skills and monster changes.
UNIQUES
-------
- Include new Uniques based on exceptional items! Laugh gleefully whenever you come
across these powerful artifacts: Tyreal's Might, The Backstabber, Dance of the Serpent,
Bow of the Faerie Queen, Windforce, the Girdle of Might and more.
- Improved many of the existing set items and uniques (to make them worth looking for).
PREFIXES/SUFFIXES
-----------------
- Nullify all but one of the "cursed" prefixes/suffixes. (worry not, no item morph).
- Added the new prefix group: Oracle's, Seer's, Prophet's and Destiny's.
(appear on weapons, bows, staves, wands and scepters)
Orcale's - Maximum Life +5%, Maximum Mana +5%, +5% AR
Seer's - Maximum Life +8%, Maximum mana +8%, +10% AR
Prophet's - Maximum Life +10%, Maximum Mana +10%, +15% AR
Destiny's - Maximum Life +12%, Maximum Mana +12%, +20% AR
- Added the suffix "of Immunity" - reduce magic damage by 10 to 15, increase all
resistance by 5% to 25%, reduce Defend Rating by -76 to -100.
- The prefix "Angel's", "Summoner's", "Fletcher's", "Monk's" and "Slayer's" now also appears
on weapons and bows.
- The Archangel prefix now is: +2 to All Sorceress' Skill Levels, +50% Regenerate Mana, 25% damage taken goes to Mana.
- The Necromancer prefix now is: +2 to All Nercomancer's Skill Levels, +2-6 to Mana after each kill, +5% Maximum Life
- The Priest's prefix now is: +2 to all Paladin's Skill Levels, Replenish Life 4, All Resistance +10%
- The Berserker's prefix now is: +2 to all Barbarain's Skill Levels, +10-25 Maximum Damage, +25 Strength
- The Archer's prefix now is: +2 to all Amazon's Skill Levels, +25 Dexterity, +25% Attack Rating
- Improved many of the existing suffixes/prefixes. Also added more
prefixes/suffixes to the existing list.
- Added many new suffixes/prefixes
o Improve Mana Regeneration: of Silence, of Peace
o Reduce damage taken : of Belief, of Faith, of Courage, of Virtue
o Increase Maximum Mana : of Insight, of Wisdom
o Curses (life drain) : Hexed, Cursed, Vile, of Hex, of Curse, of Pain
o Increase Dex and Str : of the Swallow, of the Eagle, of the Roc, of the Phoenix
o Increase Mana and Life : of the Ages, of Fables, of Myth, of Lore, of Yore
- The "best" prefix/suffix has a "disadvantage" now. The disadvantage is either
life drain (don't you all hate them?), reduced resistances, reduced damage or
increased light radius. (Not all prefixes/suffixes have this)
- Weapon which does fire damage (of the Flame, Burning, etc.) now
does extra damage to undead as well. (Er, dried bones and embalmed corpses
burn well, don't they? :>D ). Not appliable to socketed weapons.
- Weapons which does lightning damage (Shocking, of Thunder etc.) now
has a higher chance to hit monsters. (Does not apply to socketed weapons).
- The prefix series which increase Mana (Lizard's, Forceful, Seperent's) now only
appear on weapons, staves, scepters and wands. The suffix series which increase
Mana (of Magery, of Wizardy etc.) now only appears on rings and amulets.
- "of the Bear" now has 15% chance of Crushing Blow and does +50% damage to undead.
- The prefix "White" now appears on belts and rings.
- "of Parrying" suffix is now changed to "Reduce Damage by 10%" and appears on
staves, wands, scepters and weapons. An encouragement to use two-handed
weapons :-D. The "of Belief" suffix too now appears on two-handed weapons.
- "of Warding", "of the Sentienl", "Cunning", "Devious" etc. now provides a slight boost
to all resistances. (Very slight).
ITEMS
-----
- It is now possible to gamble for exceptional items. Think of it as a way to buy
exceptional items. (unique, rare, magical or socketed...:-D) Now here's a use
for your gold!
- Price for Exceptional items reduced. (But it is still more expensive than normal
items).
- Make a stack of keys to hold up to 100 keys. (Wow, such a gigantic key ring!!).
- Reduce the strength requirement for the beginning armor. Boosted the strength requirement
of the medium armor.
- Made the Grim Helm droppable.
- Boosted the Defend Rating for exceptional armour.
- Make items which have "+x defense" costs cheaper. (Before this, a simple +25 Defense
item can be sold for a fortune!)
- Two new base items type -- Necklaces (amulets) and Bands (rings). Those are just
amulets and rings, but are only sold at shops (You cannot find them or gamble for them).
Incidentally, rings and amulets are not longer sold at shops and they are restored to
their former prices, so they now cost the same to gamble, unlike the 450K to 500K that
many of you have been telling me about. If you want to use your MOD character in an
original game, remove all bands and necklaces!
- You now can buy unlimited rejunvation potions.
- The blocking percentage of shields have been lowered. (You don't need that much
blocking now...)
- In Nightmare and Hell mode, you can buy superior weapons (including exceptional
throwing weapons).
- Throwing weapons (Spears, Javelins etc.) are increased in numbers and can
be stacked up to 150 per stack.
- Some wands' name have been changed. "Yew Wand" has became "Rod" whereas
"Bone Wand" becomes "Major Wand". This is to prevent the Wood series prefixes
from making werid wands like "Oak Yew Wand".
- Made the Lance and Holy Water Sprinkler droppable.
- Slightly increase the chance of dropping unique/set items.
- Throwing potions can be stacked up to 50 in a stack.
MONSTERS
--------
NB: The monster changes only applied to Nightmare and Hell mode, excpet for those marked
with an asterisk (*)
- Reduce the life of "spawnable" monsters (Vile Dogs, those maggots and etc.) by about 50%
in Nightmare and Hell. If you gain no experience for them, at least make them easier to kill...
* Monster's Attack Rating has been reduced by 1/3. (Thanks, Crymson!)
* Usual critters gain a 15% regeneration health, major critters get a 25% regeneration health.
- Made Mephisto meaner. Those who find Hatred something easy to deal with shall try Mephisto again...:-D
- Reduce Duriel's resistance, damage and attack rating, but increased his defend rating, life and
regeneration.
- Reduce the damage done by the Armorer.
- Boost the experience for most monsters by about 50%.
- Reduce the Defend Rating of immboile enemies (Lightning Spire, Garnet Tower, for example)
to zero, hits points and resistance.
SKILLS
------
NB: Skill changes are by far the most "dangerous". If you happen not to like
the skill changes, there exist a verison of Diablo 2++ Alpha 3 WITHOUT the skill changes.
(Diablo 2++ Alpha 3 verison 3.0)
SORCERESS
- Enchant's mana cost is now stablised at 25 Mana.
o Level 1: 8-10 damage
Per Level: +5 damage
- Hydra's mana cost has been reduced a base mana cost of 15.
o Level 1: 6-12 damage
Per Level: +4
- Teleport's mana cost has been reduced to 15.
- Energy shield asborbs 30% of all damage at level 1 and can asorbs up to
100% of all damage. Keep it at level 1 if you don't want your mana to be
drained too fast.
- Improve the duration of thunderstorm.
- Chilling Armor now adds +10% Defend Rating per level, from a base of 50%
Not all sorceress now needs high strength to have a decent defend rating.
- Nova's damage and radius changed.
o Base Damage: 1-15
Per Level : +10
- Lightning's mana cost cut down.
o Base Damage: 1-20
Per Level : +15
- Chain Lightning's damage increased:
o Base Damage: 1-40
Per Level : +12
Radius : 10
No. of Hits: 8
- Glacial Spike
o Base Damage: 16-24
Per Level : +8
Radius : +1 per level
- Meteor's radius now improves by 1 per Spell Level.
- Fireball's damage is improved
o Base Damage: 3-7
o Per Level : +12
AMAZON
Bloster the damage for many skills.
- Power Strike
o Base Damage: 1-4
o Per Level : +6
- Reduce the mana cost of Posion Javelin
- Exploding Arrow
o Base Damage: 2-4
o Per Level : +6
- Slow Missiles
o Slowed missiles' speed by 40%
o Boosted duration.
- Lightning Bolt
Base Damage: 1-20
Per Level : +15
- Ice Arrow
o Base Damage: 4-6
o Per Level: +8
- Charged Strike
o Base Damage: 1-15
o Per Level: +8
- Reduce mana cost for plauge javelin
- Immolation Arrow
o Base Damage: 3-6
o Per Level: +12
- Freezing Arrow
o Base Damage: 6-10
o Per Level: +8
- Improved the Valkryie
o 30% more hit points per level
o 15% increase in AC per level
o 5% damage increase per level
- Pierce improved
- Lightning Strike altered
o Base Damage: 3-15
o Per Level : +15 damage per level
- Lightnign Fury altered
o +2 bolts per level
o Base Damage: 1-40
o Per Level: +12
PALADIN
Improved many of the Defensive Auras
- Holy Bolt
o Base Healing: 5-10
o Per level: +4
(A level 6 holy bolt can thus heals 29 to 34 hit points)
- Holy Fire
o Base Radius: 2
o Per Level Radius: +3 per level
o Base Damage: 4-6
o Per Level Damage: +6
- Holy Shock
o Base Damage: 2-5
o Damage Per Level: +10
- Scantuary
o Base Damage: 8-16
o Damage Per Level: +8
- Meditation
o +100% Regenerate Mana
o +15% per level.
o Base Radius: 6
- Fist of Heavens
o Base No. of HB: 6
o Per Level HB: +2
o Base Damage: 1-50
o Damage per Level: +10
NECROMANCER
- Raise Skeleton
o 50% chance of having shield
- Skeleton Mastery
o +10 Hit Points per level
o 3 additional damage per level
- Bone Armor:
o Base Protection: 0
o Protection per level: +25
- Golem Mastery
o +45% hit points per level
- Corspe Explosion
o 40% to 100% of Corpse's original (1-player difficulty) hit points
o Radius improved.
- Posion Explosion
o Does 16 to 64 Posion damage
- Blood Golem steals more life and transfer more life to player
- Posion Nova
o 64-216 Posion damage
- Skeletal Minions changed
---------------------------------------
Skeleton Mage
---------------------------------------
Life 25/80/140 80/160/200
AC 10/20/30 25/50/75
To Block 5 3
Min. Damage 1/2/3 1
Max. Damage 2/4/8 2
To Hit 3/6/12 3
Damage Resist 10 25
----------------------------------------
Values are listed in A/B/C, where A is the value for Normal, B for Nightmare
and C for Hell.
A level 20 skeleton mastery can raise a skeleton with 360 hit points which
does 63 to 66 damage per hit. (In Hell). Coupled with the right curses,
a skeleton-rasing nercomancer shall have a much more easier time.
BARBARAIN
Not much changes (Masteries are already powerful enough, warcries are useful
in their own good and so on).
- Leap
o Base Distance: 3 yards
- Taunt
o -5% to hit and damage per level
- Natural Resistance and Warcry improved slightly
CHARACTER
---------
- Sorceress have become more "magically inclined". Her starting stats are:
Strength: 5 Life per Level: +1
Dexterity: 25 Mana per Level: +2
Vitality: 10 Life per Vitality: +3
Energy: 40 Life per Mana: +3
Best Mana Regeneration Rate
- Increase the speed for the Sorceress and Amazon.
- Nercomancer now gains 3 Life per Vitality and 3 Mana per Energy points.
- The Amazon gains a slight increase in mana regeneration and an 3 points of Mana for per Energy point.
- The Paladin and Barbarain gains more life per points in Vitality, but less 1 point when level up.
- The Paladin's blocking ability has been reduced.
GAMEPLAY
--------
- Increase the skill level of monsters (+4 for Nightmare, +8 for Hell).
- Decrease the Freeze/Curse/Chilled duration in Nightmare and Hell.
Feedback or suggestions? Send them to ranaloreus@hotmail.com
The Valley of Lore
www.crosswinds.net/~ranaloreus
README.TXT for Diablo 2++
==========================
by Rana Loreus (ranaloreus@hotmailcom)
For the latest verisons of Diablo 2++, news and tutorials, go to:
http://www.crosswinds.net/~ranaloreus/theforge/index.html
Diablo 2++ Alpha 3.1 (31/8/2000)
================================
PREFACE
-------
Diablo 2++ is a MOD for Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo II. It extends
the gameplay of the original game by adding:
- changes to existing Character
- improving various aspects of the game (gems, potions etc.)
- New suffixes and prefixes
- New Uniques and Set Items
- Changes to skills to make it more life more interesting.
- changes to make more playing style possible.
- makes the skeletons-rasing Nercomancer possible to play in harder levels.
- Ability to buy rings, amulets and exceptional throwing weapons.
- Made the game less unreasonable (in terms of some bosses and the ARx4 bug)
IF YOU USE A PRE-EXISTING CHARACTER, YOUR EQUIPMENT WILL MORPH! (no serious
harm, for when you change back to the original Diablo 2, the items will
be restored to their original abilities).
This MOD is best suited for v1.03 and works only for the ENGLISH verison of the
game. See the FAQ before emailing me, thanks!
BTW, I adore feedbacks. I'm interested in how do you think of the new features and
whether the game is challenging (still or more?) in the MOD, or whether it is more
or less interesting.
This is the first ever alpha release of this Mod, and hence it is not
really test-played. Please do send in suggestions and feedbacks. Take note
that the Mod may make the game easier or harder (most likely it'll be easier
:-D) so please feedback to me as to what you like and do not like. I suspect the game
will be very easy on normal games, but will make Hell slightly more enjoyable (which
may not be desirable :-D ).
INSTALLATION
------------
Diablo 2++ now comes as a Diablo Mod Manage module (.d2m) file. Hence, the file size
of the mod has been reduced from 1 megabyte to about 200 kilobytes.
To run the mod, you'll need the Diablo II Mod Manager, avaliable at
http://www.darkarchangel.com, under the Diablo 2 MODs section. Unzip the Mod Manager
to a directory and copy d2plus.d2m to the same directory as the Manager.
An alternative site to get the Diablo II Mod Manger is http://diablo2.cheatlist.com/
mods.html
To run the MOD, just run the Manager and select Diablo 2++ Alpha 3.1 from the list
of mods.
No uninstallation is needed. Whenever you exit the mod, the mod will be uninstalled
automatically.
Please email any problems with Diablo 2 Mod Manager to webmaster@darkarchangel.com,
and not to me, thanks!
NOTES
-----
It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you play the MOD with a character created with this mod.
You can still play with your old characters, but PLEASE make a backup of your
character, as items tend to morph when you transfer characters between mods. Take
note that your existing characters may or may not be affected by the changes
made to the character. Do NOT attempt to play the original game with a character in the MOD,
you are doing it at your own risk.
FAQ
---
Please read the FAQ before sending me any email, thank you!
Q. Can I play the MOD on Battle Net?
A. Yes, only the open Battlenet, and all the players must have installed the MOD.
Q. How do I make my own MODs?
A. Check out my tutorials at www.crosswinds.net/~ranaloreus/theforge/tutorials.html
or look for help at diablo2.cheatlist.com. For a much more detailed answer,
check out the Diablo 2 Mod-Making FAQ --> http://www.crosswinds.net/~ranaloreus/theforge/
modfaq.txt
Q. I cannot download the Diablo 2 Mod Manager from the site you gave.
Where else can I find it?
A. You can find it mirrored at: http://diablo2.cheatlist.com/mods.html
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Credits to where it is due
--------------------------
Lurker Lounge Forum -- Thanks for the post on V&K's experiments on Moding.
www.lurkerlounge.com Which leads me to...
Varaya and Khan -- For creating the forum that discusses about Mod-making.
www.vkmods.de
Seorin, Jarulf, Ondo, -- For answering my questions.
Charile and many others
at the modmaking forum
Crymson -- For helping me with my buggy exceptional uniques,
and allowing me to use portions of his mod. Thanks!
This MOD is created with Excel 97, with the aid of the Spreadsheet Assistant and
Darkarchangel's Mod Manager and Mod-Maker.
_______________________________________________________________________________________
HOPES FOR NEXT RELEASE
---------------------
I believe Alpha 3 concludes the changes that I wish to include in Diablo 2++
(at least the major ones) and what is left are tweaking and balancing. But that
does not mean Alpha 4 will be a boring release. Take a look at what is planned:
o Change some of the existing normal uniques.
o Balance the character/monster changes.
o Introducing a new challenge...The Abyss...
DISCLAIMER
----------
I, the author of this MOD, will not be responsible for any losses that you incur
when using this MOD. Nor will I be responsible for any damage that is caused by
the usage of this MOD. I am also not responsible for any acts of Heaven or deeds
of Fortune, nor for the death of anyone, loss of any object, crash of any computer
and the like.
This MOD is the creation of Rana Loreus (aka C.K.X), ranaloreus@hotmail.com.
____________________________________________________________________________________
MOD CHANGES AND HISTORY
[Alpha 3]
This release heralds the Exceptional Uniques...and boosted the power of existing
set and unique items. The other major changes are in the gameplay -- character
skills and monster changes.
UNIQUES
-------
- Include new Uniques based on exceptional items! Laugh gleefully whenever you come
across these powerful artifacts: Tyreal's Might, The Backstabber, Dance of the Serpent,
Bow of the Faerie Queen, Windforce, the Girdle of Might and more.
- Improved many of the existing set items and uniques (to make them worth looking for).
PREFIXES/SUFFIXES
-----------------
- Nullify all but one of the "cursed" prefixes/suffixes. (worry not, no item morph).
- Added the new prefix group: Oracle's, Seer's, Prophet's and Destiny's.
(appear on weapons, bows, staves, wands and scepters)
Orcale's - Maximum Life +5%, Maximum Mana +5%, +5% AR
Seer's - Maximum Life +8%, Maximum mana +8%, +10% AR
Prophet's - Maximum Life +10%, Maximum Mana +10%, +15% AR
Destiny's - Maximum Life +12%, Maximum Mana +12%, +20% AR
- Added the suffix "of Immunity" - reduce magic damage by 10 to 15, increase all
resistance by 5% to 25%, reduce Defend Rating by -76 to -100.
- The prefix "Angel's", "Summoner's", "Fletcher's", "Monk's" and "Slayer's" now also appears
on weapons and bows.
- The Archangel prefix now is: +2 to All Sorceress' Skill Levels, +50% Regenerate Mana, 25% damage taken goes to Mana.
- The Necromancer prefix now is: +2 to All Nercomancer's Skill Levels, +2-6 to Mana after each kill, +5% Maximum Life
- The Priest's prefix now is: +2 to all Paladin's Skill Levels, Replenish Life 4, All Resistance +10%
- The Berserker's prefix now is: +2 to all Barbarain's Skill Levels, +10-25 Maximum Damage, +25 Strength
- The Archer's prefix now is: +2 to all Amazon's Skill Levels, +25 Dexterity, +25% Attack Rating
- Improved many of the existing suffixes/prefixes. Also added more
prefixes/suffixes to the existing list.
- Added many new suffixes/prefixes
o Improve Mana Regeneration: of Silence, of Peace
o Reduce damage taken : of Belief, of Faith, of Courage, of Virtue
o Increase Maximum Mana : of Insight, of Wisdom
o Curses (life drain) : Hexed, Cursed, Vile, of Hex, of Curse, of Pain
o Increase Dex and Str : of the Swallow, of the Eagle, of the Roc, of the Phoenix
o Increase Mana and Life : of the Ages, of Fables, of Myth, of Lore, of Yore
- The "best" prefix/suffix has a "disadvantage" now. The disadvantage is either
life drain (don't you all hate them?), reduced resistances, reduced damage or
increased light radius. (Not all prefixes/suffixes have this)
- Weapon which does fire damage (of the Flame, Burning, etc.) now
does extra damage to undead as well. (Er, dried bones and embalmed corpses
burn well, don't they? :>D ). Not appliable to socketed weapons.
- Weapons which does lightning damage (Shocking, of Thunder etc.) now
has a higher chance to hit monsters. (Does not apply to socketed weapons).
- The prefix series which increase Mana (Lizard's, Forceful, Seperent's) now only
appear on weapons, staves, scepters and wands. The suffix series which increase
Mana (of Magery, of Wizardy etc.) now only appears on rings and amulets.
- "of the Bear" now has 15% chance of Crushing Blow and does +50% damage to undead.
- The prefix "White" now appears on belts and rings.
- "of Parrying" suffix is now changed to "Reduce Damage by 10%" and appears on
staves, wands, scepters and weapons. An encouragement to use two-handed
weapons :-D. The "of Belief" suffix too now appears on two-handed weapons.
- "of Warding", "of the Sentienl", "Cunning", "Devious" etc. now provides a slight boost
to all resistances. (Very slight).
ITEMS
-----
- It is now possible to gamble for exceptional items. Think of it as a way to buy
exceptional items. (unique, rare, magical or socketed...:-D) Now here's a use
for your gold!
- Price for Exceptional items reduced. (But it is still more expensive than normal
items).
- Make a stack of keys to hold up to 100 keys. (Wow, such a gigantic key ring!!).
- Reduce the strength requirement for the beginning armor. Boosted the strength requirement
of the medium armor.
- Made the Grim Helm droppable.
- Boosted the Defend Rating for exceptional armour.
- Make items which have "+x defense" costs cheaper. (Before this, a simple +25 Defense
item can be sold for a fortune!)
- Two new base items type -- Necklaces (amulets) and Bands (rings). Those are just
amulets and rings, but are only sold at shops (You cannot find them or gamble for them).
Incidentally, rings and amulets are not longer sold at shops and they are restored to
their former prices, so they now cost the same to gamble, unlike the 450K to 500K that
many of you have been telling me about. If you want to use your MOD character in an
original game, remove all bands and necklaces!
- You now can buy unlimited rejunvation potions.
- The blocking percentage of shields have been lowered. (You don't need that much
blocking now...)
- In Nightmare and Hell mode, you can buy superior weapons (including exceptional
throwing weapons).
- Throwing weapons (Spears, Javelins etc.) are increased in numbers and can
be stacked up to 150 per stack.
- Some wands' name have been changed. "Yew Wand" has became "Rod" whereas
"Bone Wand" becomes "Major Wand". This is to prevent the Wood series prefixes
from making werid wands like "Oak Yew Wand".
- Made the Lance and Holy Water Sprinkler droppable.
- Slightly increase the chance of dropping unique/set items.
- Throwing potions can be stacked up to 50 in a stack.
MONSTERS
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NB: The monster changes only applied to Nightmare and Hell mode, excpet for those marked
with an asterisk (*)
- Reduce the life of "spawnable" monsters (Vile Dogs, those maggots and etc.) by about 50%
in Nightmare and Hell. If you gain no experience for them, at least make them easier to kill...
* Monster's Attack Rating has been reduced by 1/3. (Thanks, Crymson!)
* Usual critters gain a 15% regeneration health, major critters get a 25% regeneration health.
- Made Mephisto meaner. Those who find Hatred something easy to deal with shall try Mephisto again...:-D
- Reduce Duriel's resistance, damage and attack rating, but increased his defend rating, life and
regeneration.
- Reduce the damage done by the Armorer.
- Boost the experience for most monsters by about 50%.
- Reduce the Defend Rating of immboile enemies (Lightning Spire, Garnet Tower, for example)
to zero, hits points and resistance.
SKILLS
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NB: Skill changes are by far the most "dangerous". If you happen not to like
the skill changes, there exist a verison of Diablo 2++ Alpha 3 WITHOUT the skill changes.
(Diablo 2++ Alpha 3 verison 3.0)
SORCERESS
- Enchant's mana cost is now stablised at 25 Mana.
o Level 1: 8-10 damage
Per Level: +5 damage
- Hydra's mana cost has been reduced a base mana cost of 15.
o Level 1: 6-12 damage
Per Level: +4
- Teleport's mana cost has been reduced to 15.
- Energy shield asborbs 30% of all damage at level 1 and can asorbs up to
100% of all damage. Keep it at level 1 if you don't want your mana to be
drained too fast.
- Improve the duration of thunderstorm.
- Chilling Armor now adds +10% Defend Rating per level, from a base of 50%
Not all sorceress now needs high strength to have a decent defend rating.
- Nova's damage and radius changed.
o Base Damage: 1-15
Per Level : +10
- Lightning's mana cost cut down.
o Base Damage: 1-20
Per Level : +15
- Chain Lightning's damage increased:
o Base Damage: 1-40
Per Level : +12
Radius : 10
No. of Hits: 8
- Glacial Spike
o Base Damage: 16-24
Per Level : +8
Radius : +1 per level
- Meteor's radius now improves by 1 per Spell Level.
- Fireball's damage is improved
o Base Damage: 3-7
o Per Level : +12
AMAZON
Bloster the damage for many skills.
- Power Strike
o Base Damage: 1-4
o Per Level : +6
- Reduce the mana cost of Posion Javelin
- Exploding Arrow
o Base Damage: 2-4
o Per Level : +6
- Slow Missiles
o Slowed missiles' speed by 40%
o Boosted duration.
- Lightning Bolt
Base Damage: 1-20
Per Level : +15
- Ice Arrow
o Base Damage: 4-6
o Per Level: +8
- Charged Strike
o Base Damage: 1-15
o Per Level: +8
- Reduce mana cost for plauge javelin
- Immolation Arrow
o Base Damage: 3-6
o Per Level: +12
- Freezing Arrow
o Base Damage: 6-10
o Per Level: +8
- Improved the Valkryie
o 30% more hit points per level
o 15% increase in AC per level
o 5% damage increase per level
- Pierce improved
- Lightning Strike altered
o Base Damage: 3-15
o Per Level : +15 damage per level
- Lightnign Fury altered
o +2 bolts per level
o Base Damage: 1-40
o Per Level: +12
PALADIN
Improved many of the Defensive Auras
- Holy Bolt
o Base Healing: 5-10
o Per level: +4
(A level 6 holy bolt can thus heals 29 to 34 hit points)
- Holy Fire
o Base Radius: 2
o Per Level Radius: +3 per level
o Base Damage: 4-6
o Per Level Damage: +6
- Holy Shock
o Base Damage: 2-5
o Damage Per Level: +10
- Scantuary
o Base Damage: 8-16
o Damage Per Level: +8
- Meditation
o +100% Regenerate Mana
o +15% per level.
o Base Radius: 6
- Fist of Heavens
o Base No. of HB: 6
o Per Level HB: +2
o Base Damage: 1-50
o Damage per Level: +10
NECROMANCER
- Raise Skeleton
o 50% chance of having shield
- Skeleton Mastery
o +10 Hit Points per level
o 3 additional damage per level
- Bone Armor:
o Base Protection: 0
o Protection per level: +25
- Golem Mastery
o +45% hit points per level
- Corspe Explosion
o 40% to 100% of Corpse's original (1-player difficulty) hit points
o Radius improved.
- Posion Explosion
o Does 16 to 64 Posion damage
- Blood Golem steals more life and transfer more life to player
- Posion Nova
o 64-216 Posion damage
- Skeletal Minions changed
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Skeleton Mage
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Life 25/80/140 80/160/200
AC 10/20/30 25/50/75
To Block 5 3
Min. Damage 1/2/3 1
Max. Damage 2/4/8 2
To Hit 3/6/12 3
Damage Resist 10 25
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Values are listed in A/B/C, where A is the value for Normal, B for Nightmare
and C for Hell.
A level 20 skeleton mastery can raise a skeleton with 360 hit points which
does 63 to 66 damage per hit. (In Hell). Coupled with the right curses,
a skeleton-rasing nercomancer shall have a much more easier time.
BARBARAIN
Not much changes (Masteries are already powerful enough, warcries are useful
in their own good and so on).
- Leap
o Base Distance: 3 yards
- Taunt
o -5% to hit and damage per level
- Natural Resistance and Warcry improved slightly
CHARACTER
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- Sorceress have become more "magically inclined". Her starting stats are:
Strength: 5 Life per Level: +1
Dexterity: 25 Mana per Level: +2
Vitality: 10 Life per Vitality: +3
Energy: 40 Life per Mana: +3
Best Mana Regeneration Rate
- Increase the speed for the Sorceress and Amazon.
- Nercomancer now gains 3 Life per Vitality and 3 Mana per Energy points.
- The Amazon gains a slight increase in mana regeneration and an 3 points of Mana for per Energy point.
- The Paladin and Barbarain gains more life per points in Vitality, but less 1 point when level up.
- The Paladin's blocking ability has been reduced.
GAMEPLAY
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- Increase the skill level of monsters (+4 for Nightmare, +8 for Hell).
- Decrease the Freeze/Curse/Chilled duration in Nightmare and Hell.
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