SnEj-Mod

Contents

Introduction:

• Contents
• What does this version change?
• Install & Uninstall - Single Player
• Playing on Realms

Modlog:

• General Modifications
• Characters
• Mercenaries
• Monsters
• Items
• Map Changes
• Other Game Balance

Other:
• Unknown Skull
• Links
• Credits and Thanks

What does this version change?

Mainfeatures:

• Several Bugs fixed
• Balancing changed
• Rebalanced most uniques
• Rebalanced / Replaced runewords

Also Added:

• Battlegoves (onehand claw-class-weapons everyone can use)
• Sweatbands (as shields with a high block but a low defense)

Changed:

• Adjusted the number of monsters
• Ancients give full exp again (no more limited to 1 level max)
• Adjusted moster-immunities to keep it enjoyable

Fixed:

• Fixed the Mystic cubes (reactivated now)
• Fixed the killcounter-bug (counts all kills to your thank now)

Install & Unistall - Single Player

1. Install Diablo II, Lord of Destruction and Patch 1.10
2. Backup the following files:
   
   • D2Client.dll
   • D2Common.dll
   • D2Game.dll
   • D2gfx.dll
   • d2net.dll
   • d2win.dll
   • Patch_D2.mpq
3. It isn't necessary to uninstall an older version of my mod, just overwrite the old files.
4. If you've played an older version of my mod, you have to delete the shared stash (the files '_LOD_SharedStashSave.sss' and '_LOD_HC_SharedStashSave.sss'). You won't be able to enter the game, if this files are still in your save folder.
5. The zip archive consists of 9 DLLs, one MPQ archive and two readmes (English/German).
   Copy all files into your D2 folder. You can play my mod in single player mode now!
6. Characters created with Lord of Destruction, another mod or an older SnEj Mod version can't be used with version 5.0 of my mod!
7. To uninstall my mod, delete all the files you've copied and copy back the files you saved in step 2 to their original location.

Playing on Realms

General Modifications

• Added ChaosEnergy's Anti Cheat System>
• All text displayed in D2 is English - the language of your original version doesn't matter!
• The intros usually played at the start of D2 will be skipped
• D2 has undergone a complete facelifting [Thanks to SamusAran]
• Changed Start Menu Buttons
• Added own credits (!)
• Instead of "Expansion" "SnEj Mod" is displayed in game
• Bigger Stash, Horadric Cube and Inventory
• 100 pages private stash and 250 pages shared stash, which can be used by every character
• The character stats have a second and thirs page, where some additional stats are displayed (MF, dmg-reduce...)
• You can start a single player character on higher level if you want to by using the -act x parameter
• Added new char titles

Characters

• Maximum Char Level is 500
• Maximum Skill Level is 60
• Start attributes (Strength...) modified (altogether always 100)
• Life/Mana/Stamina bonuses through Vitality/Energy/Levelups changed
• All characters start with the same Attack Rating
• All chars go/run a bit faster
• Startitems changed to horadric cube, 3 identify scrolls, 2 town portal scrolls, a countercuber, a setcuber and 2 torches
• There's much more room for gold in stash & inventory
• More than 90% of the skills are changed. Here are some examples:
• A lot of synergies added or modified
• Physical bonus of skills usually modified
• Lightning Skills don't have a min damage of 1 anymore
• Static field reduces the life of monsters to 17/34/51% in Norm/NM/Hell
• Teleport works in town
• Shout, Battle Orders and Battle Command work in town, but with a radius of 0
• Multiple Shot and Charged Bolt have a maximum of 72 missiles now
• Changed count of summons (more Valkyries, less Skeletons...)
• Battle Command gives an additional skillbonus of 1 every 15 levels (+ 5 to all at lvl 60)
• Of course dmg, manacosts, range, length... of most skills have been modified
• All characters have an additional skill without any effect - they'll work with one of the next patches (!)

Mercenaries

• Can reach level 499
• The mercs need less exp to level than in LoD (less than 1% at the beginning! - increases on higher levels of course), but always 64 or more, this can not be changed!
• Does 50/40/30% damge to bosses in Norm/NM/Hell (in LoD 50/35/25)
• There are Elemental an Physical Rogues in act 1 now
• The Elemental Rogue uses immolation arrow and frost arrow
• The Physical Rogue uses guided arrow and multiple shot
• The act 2 mercs have new auras
• In act 3 there are Fire Mercs, Wind & Chill Mercs and Poison & Bone Mercs
• The Fire Merc uses Hydra and Fire Ball
• The Wind & Chill Merc uses Frozen Orb and Hurricane
• The Poison & Bone Merc uses Bone Spirit and Poison Nova
• The act 5 merc has shape-shifting skills and can cry
• The defensive one can take the form of werbear and uses Battle Cry
• The offensive one can take the form of werewolf and uses War Cry
• Mercs don't look like characters anymore, because this caused errors

Monsters

• You can discover 24 new/changed monster types in my mod, which use new animations
• Nearly 100 new monsters, which use old animations added
• The monsters can of course reach level 500, too (Baal 525 and the Uber Dungeon Boss even 550!)
• All monsters have more Life, Attack Rating and Defense, do more damage and give changed amount of experience
• Monster groups are about 1.5 times bigger than in LoD
• The Monsters move about 1.5 times faster
• Bossmonster are usually extremely dangerous

Items

• Armors have much more defense
• Str/Dex give slightly changed bonusses to your damage
• Weapons & Armors have higher requirements and more durability
• Bows do have durability, too
• Throwing Weapons and Throwing Pots have a doupled quantity
• Gloves, Belts and Shoes can be socketed now
• Generally the maximum amount of sockets an itemtype can have is usually increased highly
• There are more items in the gamble window and the gamble prices are not variable anymore
• Increased gamble chance, the chance in hell is better than in nm and in nm better than in norm
• More profit when selling your items
• Changed the items, which the vendors sell
• The affixes have been completely reworked of course
• There are about 50 new affixes
• The dropchances are slightly increased (but they are lower than in old versions) (!)
• The uniques are replaced by more than 700 new ones
• The sets are replaced by new ones, too. At the moment there are about 54 new sets
• There are more than 4200 recipes for the horadric cube
• The attributes of the existing gems are reworked
• There is the new gem quality level called 'Uber', which can only be cubed - in total there are 30 of these very powerful gems
• There are 3 new gem types, of course in all 6 quality levels
• The mod includes 33 completely new runes
• New runes require new runewords - there are about 105 at the moment + 165 special runewords!
• The 165 special runewords give bonuses, if you put only runes of one type in a socketed item (33 runes * 5 words = 165)
• There are about 60 new potions
• Added an item called 'Unknown Skull'
• Added an item called 'Boss Counter' (!)
• You can cube a kill counter with a start item
• You can cube your startset with another start item
• Healing and mana potions heal faster and better
• You can gamble charms
• You can gamble character specific items
• Tomes are smaller and have room for 99 scrolls, keys are stackable up to 99, too
• There's more room for arrows/bolts in a quiver
• There are magic and rare arrows and bolts, too
• You can find torches, which increase the light radius (useful in act 1 and 2 dungeons)
• There are 38 additional secret baseitems, which you can find or cube

Map Changes

• Act 1 Town, C
• Graveyard, R
• Tristram, R
• Inner Cloister, C
• Cathedral, C
• Catacombs Lvl 4, R
• Act 2 Town, C
• Claw Viper Temple Lvl 2, C
• Arcane Sanctuary, R
• Duriels Chamber, C
• Act 3 Town, C
• Durance of Hate Lvl 3, R
• Act 4 Town, C
• The Chaos Sanctuary, C
• Act 5 Town, C
• Throne of Destruction, R
• The Worldstone Chamber, R
• There are all four directions in Tower Cellar Lvl 5
• The act 1 caves do only have a treasure level, which are a bit larger than the original ones
• In act 1 there ist the Uber Dungeon, which has 4 levels. You should not enter it before you killed Baal! In this dungeon there are completely new monsters, which are much stronger than the ones you meet in the normal game and at the end there is a very strong new boss!
• You can find a dungeon called 'Hellfire' in act 2 with monsters adapted from Diablo I
• There's a new 11-level-dungeon in act 5 (replaces Nilathak's dungeon).
• Now you can enter Halls Dungeon level 11, so you can reach Nilathak. C (!)

Other Game Balance

• Quest Charges increased (7/7/11 Skills)
• New base resistances: Norm -30, NM -60, Hell -120 (instead of 0/-40/-100)
• Experience loss after dying 2/4/8% (instead of 0/5/10)
• The map is automatically regenerated when you enter a single player game, too - which can be good or bad of course
• Except the Portal Shrine all shrines can be used again after some minutes and the shrines, which refill in Lord of Destruction, too, refill faster now (Experience Shrine after 12 Min, Gem Shrine after 18 Min, all others after 2 - 4 Min)
• It's really dark in caves now, which may improve the game atmosphere and makes + light radius items more useful. You can compensate this effect by using torches and + light radius items

Unknown Skull

Links

Credits and Thanks

We also want to say thanks for help to these peoples:

Tohuwabohu (for the great motivation, the new forum, the SnEjPedia and the translation from german to english)
JEBs & Sunny (for hosting the SnEj Mod @ D2Maniacs)
UnserenToten (for the old forum)
Chaotica (for the Item-Engine, code editing and the Bug-Fixing)

The People of InDiablo.de-Modifications Forum for their fast help with problems and questions.

We also say thanks to all members of the new forum, the developers of great tools, we used and Yohann for his PlugY!

And of cause great thanks to Jens for the Mod, he entrust us for further development.

Nemesis, Destrution und SamusAran