Introducing Diablo II: Merciless

[1eyedking]

By the way, v1.1 "Agnostic Magic" is currently being cooked up with the following changes:

• Magic Items are now affix-agnostic: Prefix and Suffix pools for Magics now include all possible modifiers from both affix types. What this means is that an affix that could previously only roll as a Prefix can now roll as a Suffix as well—including the probability of it rolling twice. In theory—and if incredibly lucky—you could end up with items such as +570-600% Enhanced Damage Weapons, +70-80% FRW Boots, +90-96% to Cold Resist Rings, +200-240 Life Amulets, +2-4 to All Skill Helms, +3-6 to Amazon Skills Javelins, etc.
• Javelins can once again use Spear skills (Jab, Charged Strike, etc.).
• Costs for Magic modifiers have been decreased severely, making repairing and restocking items much cheaper.
• The buy/sell value of Dust has been increased.

If you want to access developer versions let me know.

 

[1eyedking]

Update 1.1 "The Jagged Patch of Jaggedness" is out.

• Magic Items are now affix-agnostic: Prefix and Suffix pools for Magics now include all possible modifiers from both affix types. What this means is that an affix that could previously only roll as a Prefix can now roll as a Suffix as well—including the probability of it rolling twice. In theory—and if incredibly lucky—you could end up with items such as +570-600% Enhanced Damage Weapons, +70-80% FRW Boots, +90-96% to Cold Resist Rings, +200-240 Life Amulets, +2 to Cold Skils Jewels, +2-4 to All Skills Helms, +3-6 to Amazon Skills Javelins, etc.
• Keeping true to the spirit of traditional Roguelikes, some very unusual prefix and suffix string combinations can now happen.
• Amazon items now roll "+1-2 to Amazon Skill Tabs" as their automod, and can roll "+1-3 to Amazon Skill Tabs" on Magic and Rare items.
• Javelins can once again use their Spear-class skills (Jab, Charged Strike, etc.).
• Costs for Magic modifiers have been severely decreased, making repairing and restocking items much cheaper.
• The buy/sell value of Dust has been increased dramatically to prevent an exploit.
• Fixed a bug where Farah and Lysander were selling items.

 

[1eyedking]

Update 1.2 "Master of Melee" is fresh off the oven.

• The Barbarian's passive Weapon masteries have been reworked into six different categories:

• 1H Edged Melee Weapons
• 1H Blunt Melee Weapons
• 2H Edged Melee Weapons
• 2H Blunt Melee Weapons
• Throwing Weapons
• Shield Mastery, which increases Block Rate.

• Edged Melee Weapons: Swords, Axes, Daggers, Spears, Polearms.
• Blunt Melee Weapons: Clubs, Hammers, Maces, Flails, Mauls.

• As a reminder, Blunt Melee Weapons have higher chances of rolling physical modifiers (ie., ED%, Flat Added Damage).
• Staves no longer deal Area Damage. This change will apply to new Staves dropping.
• Elixirs now last for 60s and cost 4000 Gold (previously 45s and 5000 respectively). This amounts to a 40% discount of their Gold/second performance.
• The passive stats penalty in the Modder's Cut Edition has been removed. For these changes to apply on existing characters, you need to reset your stats/skills with Akara, or use a Token of Absolution.
• Bugfix related to some Set items not granting their multiplicative MF bonus.
• Bugfix related to some Magic affixes applying an incorrect bonus.
• QoL change granting all Throwing Weapons a small innate replenish quantity modifier.