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Pick up a Fighter Mage and you're good to go. Pick up a Fighter Mage and you're good to go. My merc is tanking. Avengers die really fast, but I just summon more. 
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In 1.9, at least the description is correct. , just patch to 1.9, then you can use Shadowform to resist that damage... [doesn't work in 1.7: Shadowform has a fixed 10 sec duration in 1.7 which is too low, and the listed percentages are off] 
Ok, but somehow I have never ever experiencied this is classic LoD (the door bug ok, but not the narrow path), and it looks like somehow it's very common in your mod. Or maybe I was just lucky til this time:)This is a bug from classic LoD
I was downloading the new patch while I was posting:) But found a good way for the frogs: summon an avenger from the coprse, then the chain of cold nova stops:)just patch to 1.9
an I don't think line and laz's mod share anything except some subtle stuff non related to maps. 
If not, twink it down to a barb or something. 
As I've said before, unless the staff gives me all the advantages of a shield, or most of them (that means at least 3 elemental resistances in the 20+ range), then I won't use it. Celestial Pole doesn't do that, so I won't use it.Brother Laz";p="239427" wrote:By the way, if you're looking to do runewords with your sorc, an undocumented fix in 1.9 F is that the runeword Celestial Pole now works properly.
Heh, you're telling -me-. I still remember that 20 min Baal battle with the 1-hit kill Spellbombs...Well, bosses have low hit points on purpose. It sucks to have to chip away at a boss for 20 minutes, and get killed over and over in the process. That's just tedious.
Well I -have- an slvl 10 bloodstorm by default, without activating Empower...This would make it way too powerful at low levels, and with ultimate skills. A level 1 spell, boosted to level 3 and then its damage increased to the equivalent of level 9, would be sort of uber. Level 9 Blood Storm anyone?
At least with the current version, you only get the equivalent of level 4.
Why do you think I said it was overpowered? I can -easily- kill an entire mob with it (Act 5 NM) before it runs out.Of course, the lightning spells gain the biggest advantage from Empower. Empower is only overpowered if you can kill the entire mob before it runs out.
You only need to lay 2 or 3 empowered mines, even if they're in the same spot, with a bunch of normal ones to support it, and you'll take down any fire-vulnerable group easily (just use your merc to hold them in the fire).This involves large area effect skills, such as LC and LW. Holy Trap comes close, but too much time is lost off those five seconds to positioning,
I looked at them. The only one that looks worth using, I am using. Robe of Steel. The others all had problems with them. Brimstone looked ok, but Robe of Steel was better. Madcap or whatever didn't have enough abilities to make it worthwhile.and Empowered Flash may kill Diablo in one hit but already does more than enough damage against normal critters without Empower. Two-hit kills to one-hit kills aren't a spectacular difference.]/quote]
Hmm, I need to get me Flash it seems
Eh? Try using players 8 and see how often you need to use empower just to kill anything in Act 1 NM... Answer: a lot. Hardly useless, more like essential. Unless you want to take an hour to clear 1 level.Also, in /players 2-3 or above, Empower becomes almost useless.
Extreme changes can do that.Meh. It's been underpowered for ages, and I increase the bonus from x2 to x4 and nerf duration from 10 to 5 seconds and it is suddenly overpowered.
No! That just ruins it completely. At the very most I'd do -25%, but I'm not a fan of it anyway. If you want to reduce the # of spells you can cast, just lower the duration.How about I add a -75% mana modifier?
If you LC you mean Lightning Cascade, it's not really that effective when it's empowered. Lightning Wall should be the one that gets the exception.This would effectively cause all spells to cost 4x as much mana in addition to their 4x damage. Also a duration nerf from 5 to 4 seconds would be needed, and perhaps it should make an exception for LC, the only spell aside from the timered Skarra Dawn that can hit an entire room. A +100% damage bonus to LC instead of +300% would be a lot better.
If you're shooting around a corner (at stationary caster types, for example the undead lawyers) then you can do that with DI and never get touched by the enemies attacks at all.The difference is that Slayer can attack moving enemies, around corners, and doesn't need to be refreshed as often. It is more of a third party trap skill, whereas DI is a direct damage skill with a duration.
Why is slayer useful in this case? It's not like the slayer acts as a target for the enemies, they just run past it. Better to cast a few DI as you run away, because their bolts do almost as much damage as slayers, but they fire heaps more of them and they all pierce. And since you're running away, it doesn't matter if the duration is only 2.8 seconds anyway.Disco Inferno, once it stops stunlocking, becomes only useful if you stack them hard on a frozen or stationary target or drop them in front of a large incoming pack. Otoh, Slayer is useful when you're running from a pack or to spam suppressive fire while you're doing something else, like spam DI or LC.
Well if you're standing still then you deserve to get shot at. Also with the shamens in Act 5, that hasn't been my experience. Most of them will stand completely still (vampire types, goat priests, lawyers wander a little) and just become victims to the DI.Against massive advocate packs and the like, I'd rather use Slayer or even Avatar [another underrated B-skill] to deal damage without having to stand there and get shot at; and the energy beam shooting shamans in Act 5 tend to walk right out of a DI and ignore most of the damage.
Don't know, haven't used it. I'll give ago next time I play and tell you how it fares.Btw: Magic Missiles now adds extra missiles per character level. Is it now finally useful? [and is it not too powerful now on Arcane Toads?]
As for the arcane toads, I ran into them in Act 4 and they were actually kind of scary this time around. Good. I think in hell diff they might be a bit overpowered though.
I hope so, 'cause that'll give my barb merc enough str to use a nice 305-340 damage sword I found >:)Hmmm. In CLoD, do items with +hp% work on mercs? If they do, it is a fixable bug, so hang on to that armor.
Well the runes are already pointless in armor anyway (why use a rare rune in armor when you could use a common gem if it gives you the same benefits). The whole idea was to give you a choice: use a rare rune in an armor and get big benefits, or because you can't find a rare rune just use a common gem (and then curse Laz's name when you find the rune you wanted and it's too late...).No, because it would make one or the other pointless.Lanthanide";p="239367" wrote:- Also, with the change in effects for gems in armor, you might want to boost the corresponding runes up
Also, runes are used in runewords [though I suspect nobody will actually make them, or tell me why they don't make them, beh].
Ah, so what it needs to do is give resistances. Good, that'll be for the next batch of runewords in 1.10.Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:As I've said before, unless the staff gives me all the advantages of a shield, or most of them (that means at least 3 elemental resistances in the 20+ range), then I won't use it. Celestial Pole doesn't do that, so I won't use it.
You'll be happy to hear that Spellbomb in Normal now only has 25% chance to cast each of its six spells, 50% in NM and 75% in Hell, his 500% attack rating is down to 100%/150%/200%, and Spellbomb is now level 1 instead of level 6.Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:Heh, you're telling -me-. I still remember that 20 min Baal battle with the 1-hit kill Spellbombs...
Uh... how did you do that? +2 from staff, +2 from rings, +2 at most from amulets, where did the other 3 come from?Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:Well I -have- an slvl 10 bloodstorm by default, without activating Empower...
Uh-oh. Overpowered indeed.Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:Why do you think I said it was overpowered? I can -easily- kill an entire mob with it (Act 5 NM) before it runs out.
What I usually do is when I know there are enemies on the next screen, I precast a dozen or so, then run over and lead the enemies into the stack. This usually kills them in one hit. With Empower it would only take 4 precast mines instead of 10-12, but the procedure is the same.Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:You only need to lay 2 or 3 empowered mines, even if they're in the same spot, with a bunch of normal ones to support it, and you'll take down any fire-vulnerable group easily (just use your merc to hold them in the fire).
Yep, I use it on lightning vulnerable melee opponents. Usually kills them before they get more than one hit in.Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:Hmm, I need to get me Flash it seems
It doesn't have the range advantage of LC, but it's the most powerful spammable spell in the game. It hits multiple times and isn't useful for stunlock, but even if you get hit before it ends, it still continues to do damage. Kills Act 5 NM Balrogs in two casts, for example. Just don't use it on packs of lawyers. I meant that it evens out its added damage over time and becomes similar to Bloodlust or MotW.Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:Eh? Try using players 8 and see how often you need to use empower just to kill anything in Act 1 NM... Answer: a lot. Hardly useless, more like essential. Unless you want to take an hour to clear 1 level.
Ouch!Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:Extreme changes can do that.
I'll nerf it by reducing the damage from +300% to +295% in 1.10.Dark Power used to give -90% mana until 1.9, then it was changed to -75% mana, and I didn't hear anyone complain.Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:No! That just ruins it completely. At the very most I'd do -25%, but I'm not a fan of it anyway.How about I add a -75% mana modifier?
Of course, nobody plays necromancers... Death Coil hits like a Punisher now and Shadows actually survive one hit and still nobody plays them]Hmm, yep LC doesn't really get a lot of damage from its damage component, more from the added bolt length. I figured it would be overpowered due to its large area of effect. Good thing you can't cast Skarra Dawn with Empower. Hmm.Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:If you LC you mean Lightning Cascade, it's not really that effective when it's empowered. Lightning Wall should be the one that gets the exception.
I believe DI and BS, both missile-based instead of trap-based, wake up the monster and attract it towards the player like holy fire in CLoD - which is why a fire golem is such a good monster magnet.Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:If you're shooting around a corner (at stationary caster types, for example the undead lawyers) then you can do that with DI and never get touched by the enemies attacks at all.
Because it only takes five casts to make a field of Slayers, and they last a fairly long time [10 shots each - 10 seconds, usually]. While the Slayers are attacking, you can do something else, like freeze the enemies or cast DI. Never said I use Slayer exclusively.Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:Why is slayer useful in this case? It's not like the slayer acts as a target for the enemies, they just run past it. Better to cast a few DI as you run away, because their bolts do almost as much damage as slayers, but they fire heaps more of them and they all pierce.[...] Slayer is useful when you're running from a pack or to spam suppressive fire while you're doing something else, like spam DI or LC.
Not the 'shaman'-type monsters like goat and cat priests, but actual shamans, the ones that used to cast firewalls pre-1.8 and now cast Energy Beam.Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:Well if you're standing still then you deserve to get shot at. Also with the shamens in Act 5, that hasn't been my experience. Most of them will stand completely still (vampire types, goat priests, lawyers wander a little) and just become victims to the DI.
Off the top of my head:Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:Don't know, haven't used it. I'll give ago next time I play and tell you how it fares.
As for the arcane toads, I ran into them in Act 4 and they were actually kind of scary this time around. Good. I think in hell diff they might be a bit overpowered though.
Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:I hope so, 'cause that'll give my barb merc enough str to use a nice 305-340 damage sword I found >:)
I'll definitely look into it for the next patch, because this is one bug that could cause a lot of wasted skulls in the player base.Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:The whole idea was to give you a choice: use a rare rune in an armor and get big benefits, or because you can't find a rare rune just use a common gem (and then curse Laz's name when you find the rune you wanted and it's too late...).
Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:I looked at them. The only one that looks worth using, I am using. Robe of Steel. The others all had problems with them. Brimstone looked ok, but Robe of Steel was better. Madcap or whatever didn't have enough abilities to make it worthwhile.
Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:I am pretty sure the boss Vampiress at the entrance to the Crystalline Passage (Darkbow or something) is using the Hell-difficulty base monster type.
Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:She also has managed to almost 1 hit kill me (had about 60-70% HP) a couple of times in NM, and she killed me repeatedly in Normal diff.
Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:She seems to have far too many HP compared to other monsters in the area too (again this was the case in normal as well).
Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:I finally saw some more dirks with the display bug in the gambling window. I got it's dex req for you: 25.
Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:I blew over 450,000 gold (I'd just been saving it for no real reason) on gambling for rings and amulets, and then spent the next couple of hours specifically doing gold runs (have about +300% gold gear on me).
Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:I got quite a few nice rare amulets with +2 barb/amazon/druid/necro/paladin skills, and a couple of magical +2 sorc amulets, but no bloody rare +2 sorc amulets. Grrr.
Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:One of the +2 druid ones would have been perfect if it had just been +2 sorc instead.
Rune drop rates are weird. Are you still using the table-style of the rune drops from when they were first introduced? Like 2/9 it will drop rune 1, 1/9 it will drop rune 2, 6/9 it will go to the next level down?Ah, so what it needs to do is give resistances. Good, that'll be for the next batch of runewords in 1.10.
Btw, how are rune drop rates? What is the highest rune you found?
Oops, not thinking straight.Uh... how did you do that? +2 from staff, +2 from rings, +2 at most from amulets, where did the other 3 come from?Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:Well I -have- an slvl 10 bloodstorm by default, without activating Empower...
I don't even do that, I just get the enemies to follow me and cast them as I go. Works on everything but the really fast ones. Guess it helps having +38% faster run/walk though.What I usually do is when I know there are enemies on the next screen, I precast a dozen or so, then run over and lead the enemies into the stack. This usually kills them in one hit. With Empower it would only take 4 precast mines instead of 10-12, but the procedure is the same.
Yeah, well -if- you made that change, I'd probably never bother using it except against act bosses. So if you want to make it useless again...Dark Power used to give -90% mana until 1.9, then it was changed to -75% mana, and I didn't hear anyone complain.Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:No! That just ruins it completely. At the very most I'd do -25%, but I'm not a fan of it anyway.How about I add a -75% mana modifier?
Yeah, I think you might've. The mana cost is good for it's current damage though, so if you reduce the damage I think you should reduce the mana a little too.I believe I overbuffed LW and it is now too good even without Empower. The damage you mentioned from one Empowered LW is the same as the damage from four LWs placed next to each other, against moving monsters [you can't stack LWs, thankfully].
Yeah, but there are certain monster types that don't advance on you, such as lawyers, goat priests, vampires etcI believe DI and BS, both missile-based instead of trap-based, wake up the monster and attract it towards the player like holy fire in CLoD - which is why a fire golem is such a good monster magnet.
In the time that your 5 slayers have done 10 shots each -> 50 shots all together, I could have cast about 20 disco infernos, each of which would shoot about 30-40 bolts total, only 5 may hit from each one, but that's 5 x 20 = 100 hits, all doing roughly the same damage as slayer, but these bolts pierce as well, so they could potentially hit more monsters.Because it only takes five casts to make a field of Slayers, and they last a fairly long time [10 shots each - 10 seconds, usually].
The crux is that you changed it from physical to magical. The whole point of slayer is that it was the only spell that did magic damage. There are already several trap-type spells (eg DI and BS), the only thing that made Slayer essentially different was that it did Magic damage. I never used it as a primary spell, only in situations where is was required due to lightning/fire/phsyical immune monsters. But now that DI does magic damage, there's no reason to use slayer, ever, because DI is simply more efficient. Slayer may last a long time, but that doesn't help you kill things any quicker, whereas DI really pumps out the damage quick.DI didn't actually have its damage boosted, but I changed it to magic to prevent it being affected by the global physical resist and now it is suddenly overpowered? Plenty of monsters have magic immunity compared to physical immunity, and you aren't suddenly going to DI soul burners, I suppose?
Well currently no one uses the runes. So pick what case you'd rather happen?Then nobody would ever use gems and wait endlessly for runes.The whole idea was to give you a choice: use a rare rune in an armor and get big benefits, or because you can't find a rare rune just use a common gem (and then curse Laz's name when you find the rune you wanted and it's too late...).
You're treading a fine line between making the runewords useful and making them mandatory for use. I already consider Robe of Steel a bit overpowered (but at the same time it's neccesary, I think, the extra +1 skills has helped me a lot).And what was wrong with the other ones? I'll make the more useful once I know what the problem is. Also not all of them are Hell-viable, I believe Madcap can be assembled around Act 4 Normal.
No wonder it took me forever to kill snotspill in Players 8 NM, or Fata Morgana in Normal diff.All of these 'special' bosses have 400%-600% hit points. Of course, Snotspill is still a fallen and only dangerous in Normal, Kermit is hidden away in a false tomb where nobody sees him, and most people roll over Blightfire and Fatal Morgana without even noticing them, so I guess this is the first 'tough' special boss hmm?Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:She seems to have far too many HP compared to other monsters in the area too (again this was the case in normal as well).
/me contemplates bringing back Woescream from DT2...
If no one uses them, why not remove them from the game altogether and leave us with better drops, rather than with useless daggers and blades we just have to sell, or curse at because they have amazing mods but crappy base item.That'll be enough to track down which one is giving the problem, even though I still have no idea why it bugs. Worst comes to worst, I'll just disable it. Turning off one never used dirk out of six dirks and 24 daggers which nobody uses won't hurt anyone.Lanthanide";p="239444" wrote:I finally saw some more dirks with the display bug in the gambling window. I got it's dex req for you: 25.
What'd you do anyway? All I noticed is that gems and such now sell for non-1 amounts. And also that repairing is basically free now, but I suspect that may be a bug (more later).I take it the 1.8 vendor price rebalancing worked?
Caster druid anyone?
I am using the table-style, but adjusted for an increased chance to find higher runes. Getting more higher runes than lower ones was not entirely intended either, but I suspect the random number generator.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Rune drop rates are weird. Are you still using the table-style of the rune drops from when they were first introduced? Like 2/9 it will drop rune 1, 1/9 it will drop rune 2, 6/9 it will go to the next level down?
Good! New runewords coming in next patch.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:As for the highest rune I've found: I've gotten a Dol, Hel and a Fal from regular monsters, I think they're probably the highest. Otherwise I've gotten an Um and an Io from forge/countess.
The RNG in D2 frequently favours one of the slots in tcex.txt over the others. I got burned on this with the book system in early M_1, where I had level 12 firebolt before my first static spike book dropped despite both having the same rarity.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:I think rune drop rates could be tweaked up just a little, and given a more flat dropping rate (so El's are only slightly more common than Sols, for example, so you get a more even spread of the lower level runes dropping).
Phew!Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Oops, not thinking straight.
Still, all those +skills are getting out of control. Luckily there is the first breakpoint at skill level 8, so I can decrease the returns after skill level 8. And to think of the fact that originally +2 skills was supposed to be precious.Damage nerf needed?Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:I don't even do that, I just get the enemies to follow me and cast them as I go. Works on everything but the really fast ones. Guess it helps having +38% faster run/walk though.
I'll just reduce the percentage on it.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Yeah, well -if- you made that change, I'd probably never bother using it except against act bosses. So if you want to make it useless again...
That, or give it like a 60 second timer so it is a one-in-a-lifetime instant annihilation in a particularly dangerous situation [stair trap, Snotspill, Kermit, Destructus]. Don't worry. Okay.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Yeah, I think you might've. The mana cost is good for it's current damage though, so if you reduce the damage I think you should reduce the mana a little too.I believe I overbuffed LW [...].
Easy, just give them a client-side function, but this would probably quickly get out of hand, as the critter that runs into the lightning wall would eat 10 bolts instantly.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Do those charged bolts that spit out do any damage? Be nice if they did.
Okay, I get it. Back to physical damage we go.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:In the time that your 5 slayers have done 10 shots each -> 50 shots all together, I could have cast about 20 disco infernos, each of which would shoot about 30-40 bolts total, only 5 may hit from each one, but that's 5 x 20 = 100 hits, all doing roughly the same damage as slayer, but these bolts pierce as well, so they could potentially hit more monsters.
Back to physical for sure.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:The crux is that you changed it from physical to magical. The whole point of slayer is that it was the only spell that did magic damage.
I don't want to make Slayer overpowered, but would a small splash of about 2-3 yards be enough? I don't want to increase the maximum # you can summon, or else people will drop 100 of them and lead a mob into them and kill it instantly.People using runes in runewords, perhaps?Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Well currently no one uses the runes. So pick what case you'd rather happen?
I'll consider it.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:If you changed the Gems (or runes) to be +stat instead of +%stat that'd be a way around it. Particularly if you can't fix the problem with mercs not working with +%str or +%dex properly.
If it were the gems that worked like this, it'd open up an avenue of just making a junky stat-booster item you could use until you leveled up enough to put points in to str to use some other nice item you'd found, for example.
Eek. Yes, but if they're never used...Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:You're treading a fine line between making the runewords useful and making them mandatory for use.
The idea was that it has some very low runes and can be assembled early, but apparently it doesn't give enough in return...Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Golden Youth:
Could use some higher defense on it as the other two armor runewords have the same amount, so there's no real draw to use this one.
It is the attack used by balrogs, the fire patch on striking. I'll consider adding some max fire resist, but I generally dislike this modifier because it could make a char quite nearly immune to an element. +5% enough?Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Brimstone:
[...] What spell is Immolation anyway?
The question is: would you ever switch, or just look for a 2K defense tier-6 ancient armor to socket it into?Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Robe of Steel:
[...]
What if I remove the DI, and add a % chance to cast Frog Prince when you kill an enemy?Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Madcap:
[...]
Hmm, more CtC LC?Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Blitzen:
Looks ok, but I don't use weapons so don't really know how feasible it is. It doesn't have any sort of %enhanced damage or +min/max, so I wouldn't be surprised if no one actually uses it.
Okay, good suggestion.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Vorpal Dog:
Looks ok. Might want to bump the low end of the enhanced damage up to 30-35% to help prevent people wasting runes on crappy items they can't use.
You don't like procs, do you?Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Craveheart:
[...] The other weapons had +% cold/lightning damage going for them, but this one only has procs.
So I'll leave it for now.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Woescream:
This is really only useful as a caster weapon because of the chacne to flee. The procs are interesting but don't look particularly useful. [...] The main attraction here is the punisher though.
In general this looks like it could be an interesting niche weapon, but you'd need to hear from someone who players a melee char about whether they might use it or not.
It does have stun attack, which is very powerful with things like Cleaving Strike.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Groundswell:
The one uses some highish runes but doesn't really deliver on the damage front. Possibly give it a small % of crushing blow or deadly strike to spice things up a bit.
Yep, but +1-3 sorc spells can already spawn on magic and rare staves anyway. If you want to <quote> give up the defenses and resistances of a shield </quote>, you otta get something in return.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:General comment on wands/staves/scepters:
Remember that +1-2 [class] spells is an automod on the respective item. This means someone could get +2 to spells on a staff and make Celestial Pole and get themselves a tastey +5 to sorc spells.
Hmm, okay, but won't that cause people to ignore it entirely?Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Devil's cry:
I'd use it if I was a necro. Probably want to drop +spells down to 1 though.
Hmph, there I thought randomness was good...Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Shadowsinger:
Too much variation on the individual spell buffs. Should be +2-3 (remember automod).
Actually, those names are from M_1 times, so 3 years ago.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Flower Sprinkler:
Why'd you pink such a gay name?
When I make another mod, I'll use more decent names. You're entirely right, Flower Sprinkler is more suited to a unique than a runeword. Not as if you can't keep Rejuv or even potions running constantly without this item... and once your own Rejuv level gets higher than this one, it'd constantly overwrite it.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:This looks overpowered, they'll constantly be healing. Sure, they can't use other spells that cancel with the healing, but they probably don't even need to.
The death effect of que-hegan type cantors, the rivers of yellow fire.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:What is Death of a God?
I've made my own Excel calculator, and I believe the first breakpoint is at 8%. Think CD2, Fast Cast on Magefist... lowest grade, either 8% or 10% and it helped.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Lorelay:
[...] 10% FCR by itself won't even get you to the first frame reduction (I don't think, see dii.net strat section for articles).
It was actually added just to stay in the Loreley theme. The fact that HB is useless isn't the fault of the runeword, and knowing my sense of balance, within a patch or two HB will annihilate everything and LC will totally suck.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:IMO Hunting Banshee is a rubbish spell so that mod is ignorable.
I'd rather focus more on the flee aspect of it than add ridiculous amounts of FCR. Sorry.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Even if you just left this staff as is, except made FCR something like 50-60%, that'd be enough to make this staff worth considering. But as it is now it needs and overhaul.
Whoever said items have the same number of sockets as in CLoD? You can't get 6 sockets until Hell difficulty.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Celestial Pole:
Potential for +5 sorc spells here, as noted at the top. 20-40% bonus to all stats is nice, but you can get a crystal sword or 1-handed axe with 6 sockets and stick Elds in it, giving you +36% to stats. No shield mods again, so not much point using it.
Hmm, they're special bosses and you probably didn't even notice that there was something special with Fatal Morgana until I told you.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:I reckon that's way too high on the HP.
If I decrease their HP, I'll have to add a nice conviction aura or similar to go with it. Wait for the next batch of runewords.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:If no one uses them, why not remove them from the game altogether and leave us with better drops, rather than with useless daggers and blades we just have to sell, or curse at because they have amazing mods but crappy base item.
Will add 15 more in the next patch, including dagger and *gasp* throwing weapon runewords.I just increased all sell prices and decreased all buy prices...Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:What'd you do anyway? All I noticed is that gems and such now sell for non-1 amounts. And also that repairing is basically free now, but I suspect that may be a bug (more later).
That was bitter.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Well I've been considering it. Because I've found quite a few nice melee weapons with +2 druid spells on them, and I know I'm -never- going to find any single-hand items with sorc spells on them, so why do I even bother playing the sorc when other caster types have an inherant and massive advantage over the sorcs.
I hope this doesn't mean I should implement only useless runeword staves.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Unless you make some nice runeword staves, but that just makes sorcs dependant on runewords which is something you generally didn't want in your mod anyway.
There aren't too many useful modifiers one would actually want to see on staves. There is +skills, FCR, +mana, +resistances and that's about it. This is not nearly enough for a full set of affixes, so I had to add some 'useless' affixes to extend the affix pool.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:I still haven't found any rare staves I'd even consider using btw, they're all junk.
Very odd bug. So the listed repair price is off? Never ever heard of that. Heck, I did a forum search and found nothing.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:Repairing items now seems to be almost free. It says that it'll cost like 1500 gold, but it only costs 2 or 3. I believe the cost is related to how many items need repairing; if 3 items are broken, it'll say heaps of gold, but only cost 3. If 4 items are broken, it'll say even more, but only cost 4. Dunno how this works with charged items, but they might be free to re-charge too.
Good suggestion, how about 1K in Act 1 and another +0.5K per Act up to 2.5K?Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:The sell cap in nightmare could be bumped up, to like 1000 or something.
Uh-oh. Worst typo ever.Lanthanide";p="239524" wrote:In my gambling spree I got an amulet with 100% chance to cast slvl 21 Plague Avatar when you kill an enemy
I'm assuming that's supposed to be 'when you die'.
I'll change it immediately in the next patch. Sadly, I can't directly change the affix because this would crash everyone with such an item in their inventory - and you can bet that whoever finds one of these will keep it. I'll have to disable the affix. Keep your amulet, you deserved it for the enormous amount of feedback you've given so far. 