Nezeramontias mod by fecesfaerie<br />

Version 1.08a<br />

New inventory graphics by meamkimchi, yukoahso, Riparious, Shadowtalon, Joel, Jbouley, Om, Stargazer, Kraj, Kyrene, taarna23,<br />

Volf, Jack Nipper, Fishynsmelly, Untamed & Fusman<br />

New Skill Pics by meamkimchi, yukoahso & Makachor<br />

Converted Diablo 1 inventory graphics by Digibo<br />

Grapics for new inventory, cube, and stash by Phalzyr<br />

Additional set submissions by Mandzo<br />

New monster animations by onyx (Grave Digger, Feltwin), Incandescent One (Acid beasts, Black Knight, Defiler, D1 Diablo,<br />

Lazarus, Leoric, Viper, Psych Orb), Har'lea'quinn (Bone Golem), Joel (Amelyssan, Dijin, Drow Magus),<br />

Alkalund (Earth Elemental, Chimera, Mind Flayer), Kingpin (Trocopotaca), Mouse (Trent, Pit Fiend),<br />

unknown (Ice Elemental), I_Burner (Carrion Crawler), Sardius (Female Drider), Haujobb (Shadow-PST Version),<br />

Darque & Haujobb (Goblin with axe), Reiyo_oki (White Dragon, True Shadow)<br />

Phrozenheart (Cyplops, Fall From Grace, Fire Giant, Frost Giant, Goblin Shaman, Na-Krul, Panther),<br />

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Tomb Viper Level 2 plug-in and Andariel's Lair plug-in by Onyx<br />

Graveyard plug-in by Joel<br />

Duriel's Lair plug-in by Lord Drekas<br />

Additional Uniques by Phrozenheart<br />

Mac OSX install for mod by Emperor Oberon<br />

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This is my new mod for Diablo 2.  It's my first for the expansion.  This mod works<br />

only with version 1.10 of the expansion.<br />

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Language: Nezeramontias is written for the English version of Diablo 2.  If you're running<br />

Diablo 2 in a different language and install this mod, your game will play in English.<br />

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<br />

Note about installing Nezeramontias: The files I included for installing the mod assume two things:<br />

1) You don't have any other mods installed<br />

2) You're not using any kind of 'mod manager' programs for installing/uninstalling or keeping track of mods.<br />

<br />

If you're using a mod manager, you should follow the instructions included with that application for adding<br />

and later removing Nezeramontias.  In such a case, you probably won't need the install and uninstall files<br />

included with this download, so you can skip the 'Mod Installation' section below.  The file nez108.mpq<br />

contains all the additions/changes made in Nezeramontias.<br />

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Install Note:  If you currently have a previous version of Nezeramontias installed, it's best to<br />

uninstall that version before installing the new one.<br />

<br />

For Window's users, I included a file called winnezuninstall107.bat.  If you have version 1.07<br />

or 1.07a of the mod currently installed, this batch file will uninstall it.  Run it before<br />

you run the install file for the current version.  The file winuninstall.bat is for uninstalling<br />

this new version (1.08).<br />

<br />

For Mac users, if you have version 1.07 or 1.07a currently installed, you can run NezOff107.app<br />

to uninstall the old version before running the included update files.<br />

<br />

Windows Usage: Unzip all the files into your Diablo 2 directory.  Then run the file winnezinstall.bat<br />

by double clicking on it.  This installs the mod and backs up the files that this mod replaces.<br />

When you're done with this mod, run the file winnezuninstall.bat to revert everything to normal.<br />

Know that in order to play this mod, you must start a new character.Regular characters from D2 and<br />

characters from previous versions of Nezeramontias will NOT load.<br />

<br />

Mac OSXUsage: Unzip the files in nez107mac.zip into your Diablo 2 directory.<br />

NezOn will make sure nezeromontias is on; NezOff makes sure it's off, and NezSwitch toggles whether<br />

it's on or off. Double clicking the programs will launch an application that will make the appropriate<br />

changes.<br />

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Install Note:  If you currently have a previous version of Nezeramontias installed, it's best to<br />

uninstall that version before installing the new one.<br />

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If you don't want to bother with the included install files, or if they aren't working (some people<br />

have trouble with them sometimes), you can also install the mod easily yourself.  Simply unzip the file<br />

nez108.mpq into your Diablo 2 game folder.  Next, find the file Patch_D2.mpq.  Rename it or move it to<br />

a backup folder.  Then rename nez108.mpq to Patch_D2.mpq.  And you're good to go :)<br />

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The file new uniques.txt contains a list of all the added uniques in the mod.  It's a semi-spoiler,<br />

so don't look at it if you don't want to know about them.  It lists the name of the unique,<br />

what type of item it is, its item level and the level required to equip it.<br />

If the name and the type are the same, the item is unique only and is created with the cube.<br />

<br />

There is also a new sets.txt which lists all set items.<br />

<br />

Hirelingskills.txt lists the skills of each hireling and what level they aquire their skills<br />

<br />

Note about additional mod files:  The other files that come with this mod (newuniques.txt,<br />

cube recipes.txt, etc.) are easier to read if you open them in a spreadsheet editor such as<br />

MS Works Spreadsheet, Excel, or the D2Excel editor.<br />

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Changes/Additions to the Basic Game<br />

<br />

Difficulties:<br />

<br />

-Removed the experience penalties for dying in Nightmare and Hell.<br />

<br />

-Increased the resistance penalty for Normal, Nightmare and Hell to -10%, -125% and -250%.<br />

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Monsters:<br />

<br />

-All monsters are at higher levels at each difficulty.<br />

<br />

-All monsters have higher damage, hit points, armor class, and attack ratings.<br />

<br />

-Monsters now move nearly twice as fast as before.<br />

<br />

-Monsters that normally do elemental damage with their attacks now do more.  Most monsters that did not now do.<br />

<br />

-Some of the Succubi now fire their magic missiles faster.<br />

<br />

-Succubus Bolts now do magic damage rather than fire damage.<br />

<br />

-Oblivion Knights now shoot faster Bone Spirits.<br />

<br />

-Increased the damage of Succubus Bolts at higher levels.<br />

<br />

-Enabled most of the unused monsters and moved around some of the others to different areas (Succubi will now appear<br />

late in Act 4)<br />

<br />

-Added over 80 new monsters.<br />

<br />

-Nearly all monsters now have special enchantments to make them tougher.  For example, the various dark rogues do more damage at<br />

night while some archer enemies have a chance to get a piercing attack.  Some monsters now possess auras, while some monsters that<br />

were immune to certain elemental attacks will now absorb them.<br />

<br />

-Greatly increased the stats of the Hell Bovines to make them tougher.  They also get several new enchantments.<br />

<br />

-Andariel can now cast Decrepify and Poison Nova along with her other skills.<br />

<br />

-Champion and Unique monsters get greater hit points, armor, damage, and attack rating bonuses<br />

(especially at higher difficulties).<br />

<br />

-Added some extra names for Unique Monsters to spawn with.<br />

<br />

-All monsters that possess skills now have higher skill levels.<br />

<br />

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<br />

Base Items:<br />

-Improved all the gems.  They now get extra enchantments beginning at the normal level.<br />

<br />

-Creating a flawless skull in the cube now requires 6 normal skulls instead of three.  All other gem<br />

recipes are the same.<br />

<br />

-Decreased the drop rate of gems, and decreased the chances of getting high grade gems from monsters.<br />

<br />

-Increased the level required to use all gems.<br />

<br />

-Improved the drop rate of runes.<br />

<br />

-Added a divine level to all the gems.  There are also cube recipes for upgrading gems to the divine level, and you may also<br />

obtain them from shrines if you possess a perfect level gem.<br />

<br />

-Added special gems for each of the seven classes.  The new class gems come in four levels: Chipped, Flawed, Normal, and Perfect.<br />

Cube recipes and gem shrines will work on the new class gems.<br />

<br />

-Added 12 new runes.<br />

<br />

-All gems and runes (except the 12 new ones) can now be bought in shops.<br />

<br />

-Added 17 new runewords.<br />

<br />

-Added the 23 new runewords implemented on battle.net (thanks to Nefarious for this plug-in).<br />

<br />

-Keys can now stack to 18.  The two book items may now hold up to 100 scrolls.<br />

<br />

-Added potions that grant temporary resistance bonuses to fire, lightning, and magic.<br />

<br />

-Added several elixers that will permanently raise a stat when consumed.  There are elixers for improving strength, dexterity,<br />

max life, max stamina, max mana, and for all the resistances (including magic).  Elixers can be dropped by certain monsters.  They<br />

can also be bought, but they are quite expensive.<br />

<br />

-Added a new book of skill that will grant the user an additional skill point when used.  These may also be bought (and are very<br />

expensive).<br />

<br />

-Added several new stones that may be used in the cube to add various bonuses to enchanted items (including charms).  For those familiar<br />

with previous versions of Nezeramontias, the new stone items have replaced what were formerly the salves.<br />

<br />

-Added "socket screw" items that can be put in the cube along with an enchanted item to add one socket to it.<br />

<br />

-Added a "Blacksmith's Hammer" and "Anvil" item.  These two items may be put into the cube along with a damaged piece of equipment<br />

to repair it.  You may buy these items from black smiths in the various acts or occasionally obtain them from defeated monsters.<br />

<br />

-Added a new item called a Crowbar.  When inserted into the cube with a socketed item (that currently has<br />

gems or runes inserted), the Crowbar removes all gems/runes from that item so that you may use them again.<br />

<br />

-Added "Goddess Tears" which will fully restore mana when used.<br />

<br />

-Added "Meat" which will fully restore health and stamina when eaten.<br />

<br />

-Added the "Rip" potion which will grant the user the "Rest in Peace" ability (killed monsters can't be revived) for 30 seconds.<br />

<br />

-Added seven fruit items that are rare drops from monsters.  If you manage to collect all seven of them, put them in the cube to create<br />

a special unique charm.  The seven fruits are a banana, cherry, grape, orange, pear, pineapple and radish.<br />

<br />

-Added 18 "doll" items.  Occasionally when you kill an act boss or some of the sub bosses, that monster will drop a doll of itself.<br />

The exception is the Tyrael doll which can be bought in an Act 4.  The dolls are used in a special cube recipe.<br />

Collect the six boss dolls (Andariel, Duriel, Mephisto, Diablo, Baal, and Tyrael) to create a unique amulet.  Collect the six early support<br />

dolls (Blood Raven, Griswold, The Countess, Radament, Coldworm, Chimera) and use them in the cube to create a unique ring.<br />

Collect the six late support dolls (The Summoner, Damien, Izual, Hephasto, Lazarus and Nihlathak) to create another unique ring.  Put<br />

the created rings and amulet into the cube to create the most powerful charm in the game.<br />

<br />

-Added two special "key" items: the Key to the Sets and the Key to the Uniques.  These items may be bought in shops.  When placed<br />

in the cube with a magic item, the Key to the Sets will produce a set item version of that piece of equipment.  If one doesn't exist,<br />

it will spawn a new magic item.  The Key to the Uniques will produce a unique version of the item placed into the cube.  If one doesn't<br />

exist, the Unique has already spawned in a given play session, or your character is not at a high enough level, a rare is spawned.<br />

These recipes work on any item that can spawn as magical (including jewels and charms).<br />

<br />

-Added a new "spirit energy" item for use in recipes. Spirit energy may be bought in shops or occasionally dropped by monsters.<br />

<br />

-Added "space fragments" for use in advanced recipes.  Space fragments cannot be bought and are only spawned by certain powerful monsters.<br />

<br />

-Rings and amulets can now be socketed.  Rings gain the attributes of weapons while amulets gain the attribues of armor and helmets.<br />

<br />

-Added a new ring and amulet.  These items may only spawn as normal items.  To add enchantments to these items, you must put them<br />

in the cube along with three of the same gem or rune and a certain number of space fragments.  Refer to Cuberecipes.txt for the<br />

exact recipes.<br />

<br />

-Added "Mystery Chests" to the game.  Those who have played Nezeramontias before may remember the Mystery Chest items, but they work a<br />

bit differently now.  Rather than being bought from the gamble screen, they are bought from Gheed's shop in Act 1 (all his other items<br />

have been removed).  To open a mystery chest, you must place it in the cube along with a new "chest key" to obtain the item within.  Some<br />

of the rarest items can be obtained from these chests.<br />

<br />

-Charms may now spawn as rare items.<br />

<br />

-Doubled the max stack size of arrows and bolts.<br />

<br />

-Arrows and bolts may now spawn as magic and rare items.<br />

<br />

-Added several "elemental orb" items.  When equipped in the shield slot, these orbs grant you elemental bonuses and sometimes grant<br />

you the ability to cast spells.<br />

<br />

-Added "Golem Gears" as a new base item.  Golem Gears cannot be equipped but spawn with several enchantments and are designed specifically<br />

for creating Iron Golems.  Some random enchantments only appear on Golem Gears.<br />

<br />

-Added "Monster Gates" which are occasionally dropped by monsters.  Monster gates are unique charms that come with charges to a skill<br />

that will summon random monsters for you to fight.<br />

<br />

-Added new items called "Portable Shrines."  Portable shrines are usable items that can be triggered at anytime<br />

from your inventory.  They will temporarily instill you with the same abilities as normal shrines, but there<br />

are a few differences.  Portable shrines don't last as long as regular shrines do, they're stackable (can have<br />

several in effect at once) and you can give them to hirelings.  There are five different shrines: armor<br />

combat, experience, mana, and skill.  Portable shrines will occasionally drop from Super Unique Monsters.<br />

<br />

-Added a new charm called a prize spawner.  Prize spawners occasionaly drop from super unique monsters.<br />

They contain charges to a skill that allows your character to sometimes draw gold from corpses.<br />

<br />

<br />

<br />

Armor and Weapons:<br />

-Increased the dexterity and strength requirements for most equipment.<br />

<br />

-Decreased the base worth of all armors.<br />

<br />

-All heavy armors now reduce damage taken from monsters but also increase your stamina drain when running.<br />

<br />

-Decreased the monatary value that equipment gets from enchantments.  In other words, enchanted stuff sells for less.<br />

<br />

-Nearly all two handed weapons now receive damage bonuses from dexterity.<br />

<br />

-Increased the strength and dexterity bonuses to the exceptional and elite versions of polearms, spears,<br />

two handed hammers and axes.<br />

<br />

-Increased the base two handed damage of exceptional and elite swords, polearms, spears, two handed hammers<br />

and axes.<br />

<br />

-All non-thrown daggers now spawn with bonuses to open wounds.<br />

<br />

-Added a new class for each of the six kinds of armor (helmet, armor, gloves, shield, belt and boots).<br />

<br />

-Added "Cloaks" as a new base item that grant bonuses to Assassin skills.<br />

<br />

-Added several new robes as base items.  The robes have low armor ratings, but always spawn with resistance bonuses.<br />

<br />

-Added throwing stars.  These items may be used by anyone, but they give bonuses to assassin skills.<br />

<br />

-Bone helmets and scythes now give bonuses to Necromancer skills.<br />

<br />

-All Assassin claws are now capable of spawning with skill bonuses.<br />

<br />

-Added a new base class for Assassin claws.<br />

<br />

-Added "spectral swords" that may only be equipped by the Sorceress.<br />

<br />

-Added "Jewel Swords" as a new base type that are always socketed and grant bonuses to finding gold.<br />

<br />

-Added a new group of Paladin Axes that grant extra bonuses to Paladin skills.<br />

<br />

-Added "guns" as new base items.  Guns also have their own type of ammo.  Most guns may also be equipped by Rogue hirelings.<br />

<br />

-Added "Energy Swords" as new base items.  These items are always indestructable, but my not spawn with more than one socket.<br />

To use them you must equip a battery (another new item) in the shield slot.  Like energy swords, batteries may also spawn<br />

as enchanted items and grant additional bonuses to the sword.<br />

<br />

-Added new Katana swords as base weapons.<br />

<br />

-Added Holy Water as a new throwing weapon.  They grant Paladin skill bonuses.<br />

<br />

-Doubled the max stack size of all throwable weapons.<br />

<br />

-Two handed sorceress staffs always spawn with extra bonuses to energy and a new stat known as "magic-affinity."  See the skill<br />

section for a discussion of what magic-affinity is.<br />

<br />

-Added a new set of staff weapons that can only be dropped by the Summoner and Lazarus.<br />

<br />

-Added a new group of throwing axes that only the Barbarian can use.<br />

<br />

-Added a new group of shoes that only the Sorceress can equip.  They spawn with bonuses to Sorceress skills.<br />

<br />

<br />

Gambling:<br />

-Gambling rates for obtaining rare, set, unique, exceptional, and elite items have all been improved.<br />

<br />

-You may now gamble for all items that can be enchanted except ammos.<br />

<br />

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<br />

Characters:<br />

-All characters now gain six stat points per level.<br />

<br />

-Reduced the amount of experience needed to level, and raised the level cap to 750.<br />

<br />

-Increased the experience penalties at higher levels.  Characters start gaining less than normal exp at level 51.<br />

<br />

-All characters hive higher run/walk speeds.<br />

<br />

-All characters regain mana 50% slower and drain stamina four times faster than before.<br />

<br />

-Increased the level needed for most character skills.  Top skills are now obtained at level 45.<br />

<br />

-Increased the skill cap for all skills to 99.<br />

<br />

-Added six new skills to each character.<br />

<br />

-All characters have extra inventory space for the cube, chest, and their person.<br />

<br />

-All characters begin with the Horadric cube.<br />

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<br />

Skill Edits:<br />

-Gaining skill levels works differently than before.  For a level one skill, the first skill level costs one point, but<br />

every five levels the skill will cost an additional point (to a maximum of four).  Level 9 skills cost 2 points at level<br />

1 and increase every six levels (to a maximum of 6).  Level 18 skills cost 3 points at level 1 and increase every seven<br />

levels (to a maximum of 8).  Level 27 skills cost 4 points at level 1 and increase every eight levels (to a maximum of 10).<br />

Level 36 skills cost 5 points at level 1 and increase every nine levels (to a maximum of 12).  Level 45 skills cost 6 points<br />

at level 1 and increase every ten levels (to a maximum of 14).<br />

<br />

-Removed all prerequisites for skills.  Now level and skill points are the only requirements for obtaining a skill.<br />

<br />

-Many skills have higher mana costs and cost more mana to cast at higher levels.<br />

<br />

-The Strafe skill now fires twice as fast as before.<br />

<br />

-The Valkyrie summon now has a percent chance to cast charged bolt when hit by enemies.<br />

<br />

-Blaze and Fire Wall now grant synergy bonuses to each other.<br />

<br />

-The Thunderstorm skill now strikes enemies more often.<br />

<br />

-Reduced the bonuses to Warmth after the 7th skill level.<br />

<br />

-Reduced the freeze duration and energy bonuses to Frozen Orb.<br />

<br />

-All of the elemental masteries of the Sorceress now grant bonus damage and elemental piercing.<br />

<br />

-Improved the bonuses for all the Paladin resistance auras.<br />

<br />

-Conviction now gives smaller bonuses for each skill level, but there is no cap to how much it can drop enemy resistance.<br />

<br />

-The Paladin's Zeal skill and the Druid's Fury skill can no longer be interupted.  Both skills also attack faster than before.<br />

<br />

-The paladin resist auras now grant the ability to absorb an element as well as resist it.<br />

<br />

-Reduced the stamina bonuses Vigor receives per skill level.<br />

<br />

-Corpse Explosion now has a small casting delay and smaller growth in range at higher levels.<br />

<br />

-Bone Wall and Bone Prison cast a version of Teeth that stuns enemies when struck.<br />

<br />

-The Necromancer may now have one of each Golem summoned at once.<br />

<br />

-Golem Mastery now grants physical damage bonuses to all golems.<br />

<br />

-Bone Spirit now gets damage and ability bonuses from equipment.<br />

<br />

-The Druid may have the Bear and one of his wolf groups summoned at the same time.<br />

<br />

-The Wearbear skill now offers damage reduction bonuses.<br />

<br />

-Whirlwind gets more attacks per frame.<br />

<br />

-Altered the Barbarian's natural resistance formula so he now gets a 6% bonus at the first level and a steady 4% bonus at all<br />

following levels.<br />

<br />

-Natural Resistance receives synergy bonuses from Iron Skin that grant a passive magic damage reduction.<br />

<br />

-Double Swing and Double Throw now get damage boosts for each skill level but also now gain extra mana cost per level.<br />

<br />

-Iron Skin receives synergy bonuses from Natural Resistance and Spirit of Stone (new skill) that grant a passive<br />

damage resistance.<br />

<br />

-Battle Command now gives an extra +1 bonus to all skills for every five skill levels.<br />

<br />

-War cry now does magic damage as well as physical damage and receives extra synergy bonuses.<br />

<br />

-Reduced the per-level bonuses to Increased Stamina.<br />

<br />

-Iron Skin receives synergy bonuses from Natural Resistance and the new Spirit of Stone skill.<br />

<br />

-Natural Resistance receives synergy bonuses from Iron Skin.<br />

<br />

-Molten Boulder now travels three times faster than before.  Bone Spirit travels twice as fast.<br />

<br />

-Twister and Tornado now do cold damage.<br />

<br />

-Twister starts with two missiles at level one and gains extra twisters every four skill levels.<br />

<br />

-Armageddon drops rocks nearly four times faster than before.<br />

<br />

-The Assassin's Blade Fury skill attacks faster than before and does more damage but requires throwing stars to use.<br />

<br />

-Wake of fire now only fires twice at level 1 but gains an additional attack every two levels.<br />

<br />

-Reduced the per level bonuses of Death Mastery and the Assassin's Kick skills.<br />

<br />

-The Dragon talon skill receives higher kick damage for the first level but lower bonuses<br />

for later levels.<br />

<br />

-Many skills now get bonuses from a character's Energy stat.  Direct elemental attack skills receive damage bonuses.  Curses<br />

receive duration and radius bonuses.  Defensive skills receive duration and defense bonuses.<br />

<br />

-Many skills also receive bonuses from the new "magic affinity" stat.  Magic affinity is a new property that spawns on some enchanted<br />

items and on the base versions of Sorceress staffs.  The magic affinity enchantment increases the attack power of projectile skills<br />

that do elemental damage.<br />

<br />

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Rare/Unique/Set Items:<br />

-Added over 400 hundred new unique items.  Some of the uniques (and sets) ported from old versions of Nezeramontias have been<br />

redesigned to take advantage of the new abilities of the 1.10 patch.<br />

<br />

-Added 39 new sets.<br />

<br />

-Some Set and Unique items contain exclusive skills.<br />

<br />

-Rares, uniques and sets spawn more frequently.<br />

<br />

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<br />

Souls:<br />

-Souls are a new kind of item in Nezeramontias.  Nearly every enemy in the game (even bosses) possesses a "soul" that can only be<br />

obtained as a rare drop from that specific monster.  Souls are unique items that may be equipped in the ring slot and contain<br />

enchantments that reflect the monster killed for it.  Some souls grant basic stat bonuses or enchantments the monster possesses.<br />

Others grant you the skills of that monster.  Some allow you to transform into that monster while others allow you to summon the<br />

monster to fight by your side.  Experiment to find which souls work best for you :-)<br />

<br />

-Added a recipe for creating a unique charm called the Soul Hunter Medallion.  To create this item, insert two medallion shards<br />

into the cube.  Throughout the game, you will collect monster souls, but it's very likely that you will not want to keep many of<br />

them.  Rather than selling them, you can insert them into the cube with the medallion to add to the "soul count" stat present<br />

on the medallion.  The Soul Hunter Medallion will grant several bonuses to the character that will increase as souls are added.  Some<br />

stats need more souls to boost than others, and you'll have to collect quite a few souls before any stats are boosted.<br />

<br />

-Added another recipe for the Soul Hunter Medallion.  If you like to duel with fellow players, you can collect the player ears they<br />

drop, put them in the cube with the medallion and add to the medallion's "Player Kill" count.  This stat has no effect in the actual<br />

game other than to act as bragging rights for master player killers.  No cheating on racking up kills :-)<br />

<br />

-Added hidden recipes for improving the Soul Hunter Medallion that can only be discovered by playing.<br />

<br />

-One of the stats created on the Soul Hunter Medallion is a kill counter that will increment throughout the game each time the player<br />

kills an enemy using either a melee or missile weapon (spell skills do not add to the counter).  The medallion itself does nothing<br />

with this stat except maintain the count, but you may come across a few items while playing it that use the stat for other purposes.<br />

<br />

<br />

Hirelings:<br />

-All hirelings have six skills. Most get at least one non-character skill.  See Hirelingskills.txt for details.<br />

<br />

-All hirelings now have improved stat bonuses when they level and gain levels quicker.<br />

<br />

-Hirelings no longer receive stat penalties (except for resistances) at higher difficulties.<br />

<br />

-Hirelings no longer receive damage penalties when fighting Prime Evils.<br />

<br />

<br />

<br />

Levels:<br />

-Levels have much higher monster populations than before.  There are also more unique and champian level monsters in each level.<br />

<br />

-Monsters now spawn in some levels where they did not previously appear.<br />

<br />

-Most underground levels are larger than before.<br />

<br />

-Redesigned and expanded the last cave in Act 1 and the 2nd sewer level in Act 3.<br />

<br />

-There is now a trap door linking the Act 1 town to the Secret Cow level, so you can enter the place as many times as you want<br />

(don't go before you're ready though :)<br />

<br />

-The Infernal Pit (last hell type area of Act 5) has had most of the monsters originally in it<br />

moved to different areas.  In their place are the Treasure Maggots, Treasure Horders (which give birth to Treasure Maggots),<br />

Treasurebus monsters (a version of the Succubus), Treasure Giants and Andariel clones.  Andariel Clones frequently drop set items<br />

while the others frequently drop uniques.<br />

<br />

-Rearranged some of the levels in Act 1 to create a side area called Kagero Dungeon.  Several of the underground Act 1 areas have<br />

been moved from their original position to a new area in order to form a large "side quest" dungeon.  This means some Act 1 areas<br />

(the jail and Countess' tower for example) do not contain as many levels as before.  The new challenge dungeon is 6 levels<br />

deep, contains no waypoints, and is populated by the strongest monsters in the game.  There are two superuniques to fight at<br />

the end.  Defeat them, and they may drop some hidden items.  You can access it through the graveyard.<br />

<br />

-Replaced the first side dungeon of Act Two (The Stony Tomb) with a new level refered to as The Gauntlet.  The Gauntlet is a<br />

different kind of level from the others in the game.  Rather than move through a dungeon and fight hordes of monsters for treasure,<br />

The Gauntlet is a large level filled with traps that the player must navigate through in order to reach the treasure at the end.<br />

Some of the rarest items in the mod can only be found in this area.  None of the monsters or pure traps in this area can be attacked<br />

or destroyed, so the only way to survive the area is to keep moving.  Beware, because there are several monsters who can damage<br />

your character's mana and stamina, stun the character, and knock back the character.  Also, there are various "Nerf Orbs" placed<br />

throughout the level that will drops various character stats such as mana recovery, max mana, and max stamina when the player<br />

enters their area of effect.<br />

<br />

-Added Joels plug-in for the Graveyard.<br />

<br />

-Added in Onyx's new map plug-in for Andariel's Lair.<br />

<br />

-Added in Onyx's new map plug-in for the Claw Viper Temple Level 2.<br />

<br />

-Added Lord Drekas's plug-in for Duriel's lair.<br />

<br />

-Created a series of monster generators that will constantly spawn random monsters from a given level until the generator is<br />

destroyed.  These monster generators will appear in a handful of areas (mostly boss levels) throughout the game.<br />

<br />

<br />

Misc:<br />

-All shop keepers give less money for sold equipment.<br />

<br />

-Reduced the repair cost of equipment.<br />

<br />

-Improved gold drops throughout the game.<br />

<br />

-Increased the duration of all shrines.  The Monster shrine and Experience shrine will recharge after a few minutes.<br />

<br />

-The experience shrine now grants an experience boost of 150%.<br />

<br />

-Enabled many unused prefixes and suffixes for magic items.<br />

<br />

-Added new prefixes and suffixes.<br />

<br />

-Added many new recipes not mentioned in this readme (see cube recipes.txt for details).<br />

<br />

-Added new enchantments that can appear on items.<br />

<br />

-Every act boss will drop one of the new skill books the first time you kill it.<br />

<br />

-Added a few secret items not listed in this readme whose purpose will be revealed while playing :-)<br />

<br />

<br />

<br />

Future Plans:<br />

-Add more uniques and sets.<br />

<br />

-Add some runewords.  Please send ideas; I'm not very good at coming up with good ones.<br />

<br />

-Add some more recipes.<br />

<br />

-Fix display errors for skills.  Counting new character skills, soul skills, and unique/set exclusive skills, there are over<br />

100 new skills in this mod, and there's no doubt there are still quite a few display errors in them.<br />

<br />

-Add skill pics for the new skills.<br />

<br />

-Implement some more of those animation plugins for new monsters.<br />

<br />

<br />

Thanks:	- meamkimchi and yukoahso for all the new exclusive inventory pics (and there are a lot of them :)<br />

-meamkimchi, yukoahso & Makachor for all the created/converted skill pics.<br />

-Fusman for making his inventory pics publicly available.<br />

-Digibo for converting all the Diablo 1 inventory pics for us.<br />

-Phalzyr for creating the new stash, cube, and inventory and making those publicly available<br />

-Mandzo for his new set suggestion<br />

-Nefarious for the runes.txt plug-in<br />

-Onyx for the plugin for The Claw viper Temple and Andariel's Lair.<br />

-Lord Drekas for the Duriel level plug-in.<br />

-the Diabolic Cartography site for new level plugins.<br />

-SVR for the discovery and post on removing gems with a cube recipe and on discovering the kill counter.<br />

-Riparious, Shadowtalon, Joel, Jbouley, Om, Stargazer, Kyrene, taarna23, Volf, Jack Nipper,<br />

Fishynsmelly, Kraj & Untamed for their inventory packs.<br />

-Paul Simary for an excellent map editor (graphic D2 map editor rocks!), and his anim_data tool<br />

-Iswelo for D2 modding's original map editor and his D2Excel editor.<br />

-Joel for the TXTDC6 editor, the Graveyard plugin, and that post of cube recipe op codes that makes the<br />

new mystery chests possible :)<br />

-JBouley for his "Naming Idea" list at Phrozenkeep<br />

-Aurelianus for his naming suggestions<br />

-mouse for the tutorial on spawning items from corpses<br />

-onyx, Incandescent One, Har'lea'quinn , Alkalund, Kingpin,  Mouse, Phrozenheart, Sardius, I_Burner<br />

Reiyo_oki, Haujobb, Darque, and Joel for those nice new monster animations<br />

-The Infinitum site for the converted monsters.<br />

-The Diabolic Cartography for their level replacement plug-ins.<br />

-Chaos|Depression, Bruder, SAor CRidhe, AOLSucks, freykin, MrPopoGod, LordOfTheWastes, Montreal, Malachai,<br />

cowsflying, retroboy, and Aurelianus for their new runeword suggestions.<br />

-ahteck and Dainbramaged for the names of the new Barbarian throwing axes.<br />

-Retroboy, Inkspot, Gonbow, and Emperor_oberon for the names of some of the new equipment.<br />

-Phrozenheart for all his submitted uniques.<br />

-Emperor Oberon for submitting an install for Mac OSX computers<br />

-erk for giving me a place to put a webpage for this mod.<br />

-Everyone who has played this mod and provided suggestions and bug reports.<br />

-And of course thanks to everyone at the Phrozenkeep forums for all their help,<br />

knowledge, and general ability to figure out cool stuff :)<br />

<br />

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