D2 mod - Eastern Sun

[Flight]

I've just come across this and it looks very interesting. From what I've read, they've been working on this for years.

To be clear, this isn't a hack or a cheat. It just adds a lot to the game and changes the names and stats of lots of stuff. Its not for playing on BNet. You can play multi player games over LAN or TCP/IP though.


Get it here


It has a Wiki here


It has extensive forums here


Player Guide can be downloaded here


Potential character builds at the Wki (note PK means its linked from Phrozen Keep, it doesn't mean its a PvP build)

 

[Flight]

# General

The original LoD is automatically backup and restored.
# A smart launcher which runs ES on LoD 1.10, 1.11 and 1.11b, and launches 2 instances of ES correctly.
# A utility (ES 3.00 R preference) to choose Aura Graphics, Automap Setting, Life/Mana Orb Graphics and /nopickup setting.
# A utility (Gamble Filter) to limit the items on the gamble screen. (SP only)
# PlugY for the shared stash, skill/stat point reallocation, etc. (PlugY 5.06 is installed because any newer PlugY causes TCP/IP troubles.)
# D2Mod system MercMod plugin for fully equippable hirelings.
# D2Mod system GemFix plugin to fix the gem stats descriptions.
# D2Mod system Utility plugin to make /playersx command accept up to /players16.
# Cow Level Waypoint Plugin. Jail WP is replaced by Cow Level WP.
# Increased the maximum character level (slightly) to 100.
# Expanded inventory (11x9), stash (10x10) and Horadric Cube (10x8).
# Doubled the amount of gold in inventory, quadrupled in stash.
# Increased the resistance penalty in NM (-60%) and in Hell (-150%).
# New graphics for the title screen, etc.
# Tweaked the starting gears, character's stats and level/stat bonuses.
# Characters start with the Horadric Cube.
# Some maps of Act 2, Act 3 and Act 5 are altered. Map
# Some areas are renewed and filled with strong monsters for uber players. Map
# Amazon and Barbarian run faster. (They are the slowest class in LoD.)
# Amazon's slow block bug with 1H swing weapon is fixed.



# Items


46 new Runes based on Japanese Hiragana.
# A new gem type Obsidian.
# A new gem grade Blemished (between Flawless and Perfect).
# All gems have multiple and much improved stats.
# All gems are sold at vendors.
# 720+ new Unique Items besides all LoD Uniques.
# 240+ new Runewords and Gemwords besides all LoD Runewords.
# 75 new Item Sets (248 Pieces) including upgradable mercenary sets.
# Many new base items with cool graphics and nice stats (Assassin Katana, etc.).
# All base items are rebalanced and improved. All elite items are renamed.
# Gloves, Belts and Boots can be spawned with 1-2 sockets.
# Helms can be spawned with 1-4 sockets.
# Body Armor can be spawned with 1-6 sockets.
# Rings, Amulets, Charms and Quivers can have a socket by the cube recipes.
# Cheap unsocketing Recipes without destroying socketables.
# Many recipes like D-Stoning, Forging, Gem Melding and Tikering to enhance items in various ways (skill bonus, ED, leech, max hp/mana, and even an aura for some items).
# Recipes to reroll various items (ex. 7 magic rings -> a rare ring).
# Recipes to make Unique Items and Set Items (for normal and exceptional items).
# Recipes to make sockets on various items (normal/magic/rare/set/unique).
# New powerful craft recipes for each class.
# All LoD craft recipes are also available with doubled fixed mods and a socket.
# Rune upgrade recipes now requires only 2 runes. Added Rune downgrade recipes.
# Improved magic affixes. Now some affixes have powerful "per level" property.
# Added many new affixes including powerful auras, oskills and CtC skills.
# Magic, rare and unique quivers are spawnable.
# Rare charms are spawnable.
# A special normal charm with 1-3 sockets is cubable.
# All Gemwords and some Runewords work for quivers and the special charm.
# Carrying multiple Unique Charms of the same kind reduces character's life to 1.
# Equipping any piece of Mercenary Sets reduces character's life to 1.
# The buying price of NPC is halved, but the cap is raised by 10000G.
# You can remove unwanted RIP and Freeze effect from an item.
# You can cube a negative MF charm to find more normal items (for Runewords).




# New Items


Ancient Scrolls 1-50: Let you use the secret cube recipes.
# Ancient Decipherers: Cube with an Ancient Scroll to identify.
# Dragon Stones: Used in cube recipes. Transmutable into other forms cyclically.
# Ancient Coupons: 3 Coupons make a LoD unique, which never drops in ES.
# Ancient Decals: Transmute an ES rune to a LoD rune, which never drops in ES.
# Monster's Organs: Used for Tinkering and some other recipes.
# GemGem Can and other Stockers: Saves the storage space mainly for Mac users.
# Tokenizer: Tokenize any weapons and armor to save the storage space.




# Gambling


30% chance for Rares, 5% chance for Sets and 5% chance for Uniques.
# Greatly reduced the gamble cost of expensive items (heavy armor, etc.).
# Greatly increased the chance for Exceptionals and Elites.
# *Important* Exceptional items can be gambled only in Nightmare.
# *Important* Elite items can be gambled only in Hell.




# Quest Rewards

Akara gives 2 skill points for Den and a magic/rare SC for rescuing Cain.
# The Horadric Cube chest in the Halls of Dead drops a Decipherer per player.
# Ormus gives a Rare Jewel for Gidbinn.
# Mephisto drops Decipherers instead of Soulstones. (Cain gives a Soulstone.)
# Hellforge quest drops better runes. Up to r28 (Norm), r35 (NM), r42 (Hell).
# Qual-Kehk gives a kit of materials for Class Craft for rescuing Barbs.
# Anya gives an cubing material which makes a Unique Item for rescuing her.



# Hirelings

Hirelings can equip gloves, a belt, boots, rings and an amulet.
# Hirelings use more various skills, including BO, Fanaticism and Conviction. Hirelings Skills



Monsters (General)


# Increased all monsters' level, life, defense, damage, AR and experience.
# Monsters are reallocated and new monsters are added, including Black Knight, Goatman Lord, Beholder, D1 Succubus, King Leoric, Belhifeit and Cyclops.
# Monster's Iron Maiden is almost harmless (reflects only 20% damage).
# Changed some demons and undead into animals.
# Increased Magic Immune monsters in Hell.
# FE monster's death explosion damage on its death is generally reduced.
# Act Bosses aren't spawned with multiple shot, to avoid the heavy graphic lag.
# Act Bosses, Ancient Barbs and Lister aren't spawned with FE.
# Diablo Clone can be spawned in single and TCP/IP games.
# Zakarum Zealots never flee even after you smashed the Compelling Orb.


# Monsters (Drop)

All drops, especially the drops of high runes are improved.
# The first kill drop of Act Bosses is much improved.
# Cow King drops 8 Dragon Stones at the first kill.
# The panther woman nearby the Horadric Cube chest drops a Forging Hammer.
(50% chance in Normal, 75% chance in NM and 100% chance in Hell)
# The Ancients at the Arreat Summit drop a Decipherer.
(20% chance in Normal, 40% chance in NM and 60% chance in Hell)
# Countess drops better runes. Up to r12 (Norm), r27 (NM), r42 (Hell).
# Izual has a slightly increased chance to drop Ancient Scrolls.
# Belhifets and Cyclops have a slightly increased chance to drop Runes.
# Sand Raiders and its family have a slightly increased chance to drop Coupons.
# Unique monsters have a slim chance to drop all pieces of a set. (Set Jackpot)
# Unique monsters have a slim chance to drop a bunch of Runes. (Rune Jackpot)
# Unique monsters have a slim chance to drop a bunch of Coupons. (Coupon Jackpot)
# Increased the amount of dropped gold and reduced the chance.
# Reduced the chance of annoying junks (pots, quivers, etc.) to drop.
# Diablo Clone drops a Magic, Rare or Unique Charm, or a Maple Leaf.

 

[Flight]

# Skills (General) Improved and modified most skills. 5 additional skills for each class.
# Improved skill descriptions. Many hidden skill effects are now displayed.
# Some utility skills like warcries and Teleport are castable in town.


# Amazon Skills

Inner Sight reduces enemy's defense and physical resistance by percentage.
# Multiple Shot triggers CtC effect more often. (trigger arrows 2 -> 3)
# Fend attacks much faster.
# Fend, Fire Strike, Shadow Strike, Lightning Strike and Dance of Death can be used with any melee weapon.
# Jab and Viper Bite can be used with any thrust weapon.
# Javelin skills can be used with any throwing weapon.
# D/A/E also gives Defense vs. Melee, Defense vs. Missile and Defense Bonus.
# D/A/E takes only 1 frame with 2H melee weapons and 4 frames with 1H weapons.
# Oskill D/A/E grants only 2/3 D/A/E chance.
# [Changed] Fire Arrow -> Poison Arrow (poison damage)
# [Changed] Ice Arrow -> Lightning Arrow (lightning damage)
# [Changed] Power Strike -> Fire Strike (fire damage)
# [Changed] Charged Strike -> Shadow Strike (magic damage)
# [Changed] Impale -> Viper Bite (slow attack, huge poison damage)
# [Changed] Poison Javelin -> Pyre Javelin (exploding fire damage)
# [Changed] Lightning Bolt -> Frost Javelin (freezing cold damage)
# [New] Eagle Eye (BoS like skill, slow attack, greatly increased damage and CB)
# [New] Legendary Arrow (piercing Guided Arrow in 1.09 with some penalty)
# [New] Dance of Death (Spearazon's Whirlwind, less damage, stun)
# [New] Fire Wall (formerly a Sorceress skill)
# [New] Frost Nova (formerly a Sorceress skill)
*Whirlwind isn't affected by off-weapon IAS, so Eagle Eye works fine with DoD.


# Assassin Skills

Cloak of Shadows darkens the screen no longer.
# Reduced the chance and length of conversion of Mind Blast.
# Shadow Master doesn't cast Mind Blast and Cloak of Shadows.
# Traps are correctly boosted by elemental pierce and elemental damage bonus.
# [Changed] Claw Mastery -> Melee Mastery (works with any melee weapon)
# [Changed] Psychic Hammer -> Psychic Slash (increased damage)
# [Changed] Fire Blast -> Cold Blast (cold damage trap)
# [Changed] Blade Fury -> Poison Stream (poison damage missile)
# [Changed] Inferno Sentry -> Steam Sentry (magic damage trap)
# [New] Shade Armor (Fade like skill, good DR% and Def bonus, no resist bonus)
# [New] Iaigiri (2H Weapons only, uninterruptible attack, finishing move)
# [New] Shuriken (Strafe like skill, throws Throwing Knives to multiple targets)



# Barbarian Skills

The skill trees are rearranged. Combat Skills and Warcries are rearranged into Highland Skills and Tribal Skills.
# Each melee mastery boosts another weapon mastery as much as itself by synergy, for more flexible dual wielding and weapon swapping.
# Sword Mastery boosts Axe Mastery.
# Axe Mastery boosts Mace Mastery.
# Mace Mastery boosts Sword Mastery. (These 3 cover most dual wielding combo.)
# Pole Arm Mastery boosts Spear Mastery.
# Spear Mastery boosts Axe Mastery. (for Javelin and Throwing Axe combo)
# [Changed] Increase Stamina -> Strength of the Ancients (passive, Str and CB)
# [Changed] Increase Speed -> Vigor of the Ancients (passive, Vit and FRW)
# [Changed] Find Potion -> Luck of the Ancients (passive, MF and Gold)
# [Changed] Find Item -> Find Treasure (improved chance to find magic items)
# [Changed] Grim Ward -> Magic Throw (throwing version of Magic Arrow)
# [New] Ancients' Call (warcry, reduces enemys' resistance)
# [New] Phantom Hatchets (throwing version of Multiple Shot)
# [New] Berserk Fury (magic damage version of Lightning Fury)


# Druid Skills


The caps of summoned minions can be increased by the synergies.
# Elemental skills, especially Arctic Blast and Molten Boulder are much improved.
# Volcano, Molten Boulder, Fire Storm and Arctic Blast are castable in wereform.
# Warcries, Assassin Auras, armor spells, Teleport, Inner Sight, Slow Missiles, Summons and other utility spells of other classes are castable in wereform.
# [Changed] Werebear -> Elemental Form (graphics change, Fire Elemental)
# [Changed] Summon Grizzly -> Summon Water Elemental (graphics change)
# [Changed] Lycanthropy -> Shape Shifting Mastery (name change)
# [Changed] Twister -> Creeping Doom (physical and magic damage, many missiles)
# [Changed] Fissure -> Earth Spike (physical and magic damage)
# [Changed] Armageddon -> Acid Rain (poison and magic damage)
# [New] Iron Claws (wereform skill, ignores and damages target's defense)
# [New] Sand Storm (Nova like wind skill)
# [New] Cow Balloon (spammable rubber moo moo decoy)


# Necromancer Skills


Iron Maiden reduces the physical resistance of targets by 50%.
# Amplify Damage reduces the physical resistance of targets by 100-150%.
# Decrepify reduces the physical resistance of targets by 50-100%.
# Lower Resist only reduces enemy's Fire, Cold, and Lightning resistance by itself, but reduces enemy's Poison and Magic resistance by synergy. .
# Added physical damage to Poison Explosion and Poison Nova.
# One of each golem type can be summoned at once.
# [Changed] Iron Golem -> Metal Golem (graphics change)
# [Changed] Raise Skeletal Mage -> Raise Vampire (casts improved spells)
# [Changed] Poison Dagger -> Poison Slash (can be used with any melee weapon)
# [Changed] Bone Spear -> Frozen Spear (cold damage)
# [Changed] Teeth -> Bone Wave (launches a bone wall, magic damage, knockback)
# [New] Pierce Flesh & Bone (curse, reduces enemy's poison and magic resistance)
# [New] Killer Scythe (pole arm version Fend)
# [New] Hell's Gate (Nova like skill, magic damage)



# Paladin Skills


Vigor also increases the maximum life of the party.
# Cleansing also regenerate the life of the party.
# Thorns also grants Open Wounds and Prevent Monster Heal to the party.
# Conversion also deals Poison Damage over the conversion length.
# [Changed] Sanctuary -> Protection From Evil (knockback, vs undead/demons bonus)
# [Changed] Blessed Aim -> Annihilation (crushing blow, IAS, PMH)
# [Changed] Resist Fire -> Protection From Fire (fire absorb, max fire res, DR%)
# [Changed] Resist Cold -> Protection From Cold (cold absorb, max cold res, DR%, CNB)
# [Changed] Resist Ltng -> Protection From Lightning (lightning absorb, max lightning res, DR%)
# [New] Aura of Divinity (skill bonus, exp bonus)
# [New] Arrow of Confession (bow skill, RIP, magic damage)
# [New] Sacred Piercer (bow skill, pierce, vs undead/demons bonus)


# Sorceress Skills

Cold Mastery increases the cold damage instead of reducing enemy's resistance.
# [Changed] Frozen Armor -> Shock Armor (lightning spell)
# [New] Aerial Guard (BoS like skill, fast block, fast recovery, slow cast rate)
# [Changed] Fire Wall -> Flame Wave (moving fire wall)
# [Changed] Shiver Armor -> Fire Shield (fire damage, higher Def bonus)
# [Changed] Nova -> Immolation (fire damage)
# [Changed] Thunder Storm -> Meteor Shower (fire damage)
# [Changed] Hydra -> Lightning Hydra (lightning damage)
# [Changed] Warmth -> Soul Shiver (name change, moved to cold tree)
# [Changed] Frost Nova -> Ice Nova (improved cold damage)
# [New] Time Stop (freezes all non-boss monsters in the screen)
# [New] Fanatic Swing (Zeal like skill, less damage, faster swing)
# [New] Aerial Guard (BoS like skill, fast block, fast recovery, slow cast rate)

 

[Flight]

One of the over 700 Unique items they've added :


Quiver of Prince Ashitaka
Required level 36
1 to all skills
1 to bow and crossbow skills(Amazon Only)
100% Damage to Demons
10% chance of Crushing Blow
Slain Monsters Rest in Peace
2 to Evade(Amazon Only)
10 to Dexterity
Replenishes Quantity



Something that replaces arrow quantity is a nice idea; hate having to carry extra stacks of arrows around.

 

[UKJett]

Is the Amazon class your favourite then Flight?

Oddly I prefer the Paladin in D2, can't stand them otherwise.

 

[Flight]

Is the Amazon class your favourite then Flight?

Oddly I prefer the Paladin in D2, can't stand them otherwise.

No mate I usually play Sorcs (lightning), mess about with a Summon Necro and have a Hammerdin for Worldstone Keep.



Been reading a lot more about this Eastern Sun mod and am very impressed with it. Its almost a D3.


And.... theres a One Ring \o/ ( it doesnt drop like that btw, one of the features in ES seems to be that you can keep on improving and improving items and that one has taken weeks and months of work)


Looks like they run lots of tournies etc. Whyever didn't Blizzard carry on supporting the game to this extent?

 

[Flight]

The work they have done on Mercs is impressive; they've made them all useful and enabled a lot more skills on them :




Act 1 Rogue Scout

� Can't equip Amazon specific items.
� +X To All Skill Levels works.
� +X To Amazon Skills/Tabs doesn't work.
� +X To Each Skill (Magic Arrow, etc.) works.
� Oskill bonuses of their inherent skills are capped at +3 per character.
� Their inherent skills work as a synergy for an aura item.

Fire Rogue

� Uses Inner Sight, Magic Arrow, Slow Missiles, Immolation Arrow, Exploding Arrow, Poison Arrow and Strafe.
� No aura or warcries, but Inner Sight now reduces monster's Defense by percent,and also reduces monster's Physical Resist (works on top of the curse Amplify Damage,
etc.).
� Slow Missile also helps a lot, especially in Act 5 and Andariel's Dressing Room.
� Strafe is also good for triggering CtC Skills.


Cold Rogue

� Uses Inner Sight, Magic Arrow, Slow Missiles, Ice Arrow, Freezing Arrow, Lightning
Arrow and Legendary Arrow.
� No aura or warcries, but Inner Sight now reduces monster's Defense by percent,
and also reduces monster's Physical Resist (works on top of the curse Amplify Damage,
etc.).
� Slow Missiles also helps a lot, especially in Act 5 and Andariel's Dressing Room.
� Ice Arrow chills and Freezing Arrow freezes non CI monsters.
� Once she gets a good amount of Pierce, Lightning Arrow and Legendary Arrow exert an awesome effect.
� Legendary Arrow with a good amount of Pierce is also good for triggering CtC Skills.


Act 2 Desert Mercenary

� Can't equip Paladin specific items.
� +X To All Skill Levels works.
� +X To Paladin Skills/Tabs doesn't work.
� +X To Each Skill (Might, etc.) works.
� Oskill bonuses of their inherent skills are capped at +3 per character.
� Their inherent skills work as a synergy for an aura item.
All Mercenaries
� Uses Jab, Lightning Strike, Vengeance and an Aura.
� Vengence and Lightnin Strike can kill some PIs and still can leech if the target isn't
PI.
� Have less life regeneration than Barbarian hirelings. To make up for this, they need
better equipment (more Max Life, Life Leech and DR%).
Auras
� Sometimes it takes several minutes before they activate the Aura.
� I don't say Act 2 Mercenaries are weak, but their aura level is generally nerfed in ES.
This is because the aura made them better than the other hirelings in LoD. Auras are
not so strong when they are naked, but you can boost the aura level with +Skill items.
� Might and Fanaticism are good for physical attacking characters.
� Conviction is of course the best aura for the casters. Offensive Barbarian is
another good option for casters, especially when you can use Conviction by an item.


Act 3 Eastern Sorcerer

� Can't equip Sorceress specific items.
� +X To All Skill Levels works.
� +X To Sorceress Skills/Tabs doesn't work.
� +X To Each Skill (Fire Ball, etc.) works.
� Oskill bonuses of their inherent skills are capped at +3 per character.
� Their inherent skills work as a synergy for an aura item.


Fire Sorcerer

� Uses Protection From Fire, Meteor Shower, Fire Ball, Flame Wave, Immolation and
Creeping Doom.
� Creeping Doom stuns monsters from time to time.
� Perhaps the least characteristic one, but deals the largest damage of the three.
Cold Sorcerer

� Uses Protection From Cold, Tornado, Glacial Spike, Ice Nova, Winter Fury and
Frozen Orb.
� Ice Nova, Winter Fury and Frozen Orb chills and Glacial Spike freezes non CI
monsters.
� Cannot Be Frozen from Protection From Cold incredibly benefits summoners, even
if some corpses are destroyed by Cold Spells.

Lightning Sorcerer

� Uses Protection From Lightning, Static Field, Lightning, Chain Lightning, Lightning
Hydra, Bone Spirit and Time Stop.
� Protection From Lightning is the most popular protection aura because of the
nasty Black Souls.
� They cast Time Stop only from time to time, but it reduces the threat of monsters
like Holy Freeze.
� They don't cast Static Field frequently either, but it's nice gravy.


Act 5 Barbarian


� Can equip Barbarian specipic items.
� +X To All Skill Levels works.
� +X To Barbarian Skills/Tabs doesn't work.
� +X To Each Skill (Shout, etc.) works.
� Oskill bonuses of their inherent skills are capped at +3 per character.
� Their inherent skills work as a synergy for an aura item.


Defensive Barbarian

� Uses Stun, Concentrate, Battle Orders, Shout and Battle Command
� Battle Orders and Shout combo is useful for all classes, especially melee
characters.
� Not only BO and Shout but also Stun and Concentrate make them the toughest
hirelings in the game. They can stay alive with relatively cheap gears.
� Battle Command gives not a single but a few skill boosts. This makes them also
good for casters.


Offensive Barbarian

� Uses Bash, Berserk, Waycry, Ancient's Call and Battle Command
� Has no life boost or def boost, but Warcry effectively stuns nearby monsters to
attack safely.
� Ancient's Call works like a curse, but it amazingly reduces all kinds of resistance,
including Poison and Magic.
� Bash has the highest damage bonus in the game, and Berserk's Magic damage is
boosted by Ancient's Call. The total damage can't be bad.
� Battle Command gives not a single but a few skill boosts. This makes them also
good for casters.

 

[Pit.Sweat]

Flight, stupid question from someone who tends to balls up his games and have to re-install...

This sounds like fun but will it replace my D2 installation in full or is it a bolt on that will allow me to play D2 or the mod? I'll have a read through the links you've posted but (as I've just tempted fate) it's guarenteed that as soon as I start looking I'll get side tracked elsewhere.

Pit.

 

[Flight]

Flight, stupid question from someone who tends to balls up his games and have to re-install...

This sounds like fun but will it replace my D2 installation in full or is it a bolt on that will allow me to play D2 or the mod? I'll have a read through the links you've posted but (as I've just tempted fate) it's guarenteed that as soon as I start looking I'll get side tracked elsewhere.

Pit.

The most impressive thing about this mod is that it doesn't overwrite or change any of your D2 installation.

It creates a separate icon on your desktop which runs Eastern Sun as a new and separate game. Your D2LoD icon stays on your desktop. I've just tested this and logged into Battlenet with my existing characters after having a look around in Eastern Sun.

This was released 3 years ago, for info. Constantly updated, large community, with last revision released 21/09/07.

You just download it (78Mb) run it (select your D2 installation folder) and it installs in a sub folder within the D2 directory as a separate game.

Very impressive stuff.

 

[Pictelf]

Does sound interesting, am tempted even just to D/L it for later perusal

 

[Flight]

Does sound interesting, am tempted even just to D/L it for later perusal

Yes, its going to be nice to play with a useful Merc that isn't from act 2, quite apart from everything else.



An act 3 merc that casts Static Field / Meteor Shower / Frozen Orb, act 1 mercs that cast slow missiles/immolation arrow/strafe or act 5 mercs that use Battle Orders / Battle Command. Sweet.

 

[Pit.Sweat]

Am going to have a look this weekend. Will pop a post up as soon as I've had a go (though as those waiting for me to catch up will know, it might be a while ).

Pit.

 

[Pictelf]

LOL indeed
Am still a left hand only gal so having to resort to NWN for my gaming fix atm, getting there though. Especially with cats sneaking onto lap for attention from free hand, am sure its some sort of physio

 

[Pit.Sweat]

Oh, this mod is damn good, thank you sooo much for pointing this out Flight. Only problem is I'm going to have to talk my son into a lan game so I can create a amazon to use the ridiculous unique bow my level 5 sorc picked up
Also going to have to read the player guide to work out all the wierd drops. Gonna be fun though

Oh, Pictelf, you solo'ing NWN or multiplayer? I've never been online with it but have a couple of gig's worth of mod games for it. The Diablo one is well worth a look at.

Pit.

 

[Flight]

I played the mod to lvl 20 so far. Yes, its superb - I'd pay for it if it was a full priced game. Its a must play for anyone who likes Diablo.

 

[Pictelf]

Am just soloing the original NWN campaign I had done a few modules before with my fighter/thief but then stopped playing for a while and probably updated my version so the campaigns I had didn't work anymore *grins*.
I played through the original campaign with my other half which was fun and had a decent druid which I played a a few other modules too, seem to remember fighting some dragon as another dragon, high lvl shapechange ftw!
Anyway lost that druid and when we got the other official campaigns me and other half just didn't get into it. So am working my way through and if he doesn't want to try again I will play them through myself anyway

High praise indeed Flight! I am going to d/l is anyway even if I have no idea when I will find time to play it *grins* sounds worth the having!

 

[Flight]

High praise indeed Flight! I am going to d/l is anyway even if I have no idea when I will find time to play it *grins* sounds worth the having!

Its hard to express just how much work has gone into ES Picty. For a small taste of that look at some of the cube recipes they've added in this guide at the ES Wiki.


The skill trees have been totally reworked, skills moved and changed, with new skills added.


Its harder than D2, the mobs are tougher with more HPs, but you are given the tools to deal with that. The Mercs absolutely rock, for example. The Necro can have one of each golem out - but its not overpowered, they will be needed (plus Nec doesn't get skels until lvl 12 - no more skel mages either, skel vampires at lvl 30 instead).


Here's a write up of a gold find necro, with skills and equipment, to give a bit of an idea about how you can upgrade items indefinitely etc.


Even all this is barely scratching the surface.


Ultimately, its very polished and, most importantly, very balanced.

 

[McHoff H. McChrist]

I got fairly bored with with LoD revival (sorry guys ), but ES's nicely polished, and has enough new stuff to keep me interested for a while.

The main thing I'm loving is the ability to reset skills, and to unsocket items. Means i can piss about trying things, and don't have to worry about min/maxing, can test out new ideas as you go along.

Got to level 20 this morning on a barb if you fancy a tcp/ip game, Flight.

 

[McHoff H. McChrist]

This is just getting silly...

 

[Flight]

Yummy - Act 1 Jail waypoint is replaced by a portal to the Cow Level (once you can get to it).