Alright, monster post here.
@ Joel
OK some more test :
* no crash cause I myself added a use file to the mpq
Will add it myself one I have more than 30 minutes to fix bugs... so next release it'll be.
* try a sorc. Everything is nice, Blood Flash IS expensive in term of life that sure, but I can handle it pretty well.
Ehhm, yep but Flash does more damage for spellcaster types.
* I've started with a quilted armor of req str 13 ... so I can't wear it.
On purpose. You want to wear armor, you gotta put some points into str.
* Fallen Shaman firewall is almost instant death. I go down to DoE at lvl 4 and get whipped.
Don't
stand in them...?
Didn't have any problems with it. What are your HP? Do you use MS? What level MS?
* Drop are nice IMHO
Actually, there's an unbalance in the Miss tc's. Needs fixing, but it's low priority because it only affects drops after level 50 or so.
* Golden Youth runewords works
Good.
Where did you get the 2-socketed armor from at level 4, btw?
@ Kingpin
* Jihad: I miss the max number of Jihad that you currently can have. If you can add a description for that it would be nice.
I
did, but then it also displays an annoying 'Skill Level: 1' in the description. Well, IIRC it's +1 per 2 levels for Jihad, +1 per 5 or 10 levels for Crusade.
* Fallen Shaman in Den of Evil deals a bit to much damage (firewall). Othervise the damage seems good in general so far.
Hmmm... is it because you
stand in it, went down at character level 2, or is it because it's the only thing that isn't based on a to/hit check and always hits? I didn't have many problems with it [but I used a barb with 4 points into Increased Vit].
@ Azmodan
- I think maybe its better if u change the number of jihad we can summon from 1 jihad per 2clvl to 1 jihad every 4 or 5 per clvl , but in return beef up their hp . As of now im at lvl 18 and i can summmon 10 jihad at once ,well its looks funny watching pally with a bunch of army , but the bad thing is .. they kinda useless cause 1 single shot from that cat who throw you with javelin in act 2 (forgot the name ,sorry..) is enough to kill me jihad and its getting annnoying cause i have to recast them 1000x time.
Actually, the intention was to use them to distract the enemies while you run at them and stun them with Holy Thunder to allow the minions to attack... but with the HT nerf in v2 [soon to be added to the filecenter by Phrozen] that won't work anymore, so I guess you really have a point now.
But they hit a lot [should be at least 90% as long as your own level isn't too low], and for about 150 damage apiece at high levels, so I guess you could just stone everyone and send in the zealots.
-Perharps do something with act 2 dex , cause their preferred weapon (spear class) require high dex while act 2 merc is base on str and this make them cant use better weapon .
Mercs are still under construction - made them too weak on purpose so people would
play, notice the balance problems and tell me, instead of hide behind a merc for all of Normal. This is a beta test after all.
Q: If my char (pally) is lvling , does jihad and crusade stats/aura lvl also increase ?
Yep, don't have my files here, but IIRC both of them gain at +1/+2 damage per character level, the aura level increases by 1 per 20 character levels, and they gain some HP too. Crusade is supposed to inherit your resistances as well, but I'm not sure if it's working.
You may want to check out the runeword
Brimstone, see runes.txt for details, but it increases the # of minions you can summon, and gives them some nice buffs, including a boost to aura levels [IIRC].
@ HashCasper
1. I hope you arn't going to leave the inventory/stash/cube as they are currently. Its just a standard now to have bigger inventory in mods now.
Ever had to unload a 10x6 cube to make Khalim's flail?
2. The skills are very nicely done. I havn't had any crashes at all. Although, with 0% hit recovery, you get stunlocked pretty easily. If there are even two or three zombies/skels/quills around me, 50% of the time I will not be able to recover fast enough to run/hit or anything. I have died numerous times due to this. I don't know if you you intended it to be like that.
You know that stat no one cares about on armor, called 'defense rating'? I have 21% chance to get hit by act 5 minotaurs... try getting some good armor, it really makes a difference.
3. The class specific skills arn't very well thought out in my opinion. Some of them are VERY powerful, yet free to use (i.e. use very little to no mana)
e.g. Necrophilia for one.
That's 'racial identity'.
But it's useless if you can't kill the enemies quickly enough. It's there to compensate for the necro's lower mana pool [which means less vitual hitpoints via Mana Shield!]. Hmmm... how about I reduce it somewhat at lower character levels, so you won't be able to spam Bloodstar all day at character level 2?
4. There arn't many class specific skills. I enjoy playing the necromancer and the druid, as they are themed very well. Except for the bloody mary skill, there arn't any other summoning skills, unless I missed something, in which case I am a moron All classes share the same three skill trees, with a few starting skills which are specific to that class only. Somehow it just doens't seem quite right.
Actually, you'd pick different skills depending on your class. Using a spell that's based on your mana is a bad idea when you're a barb, so you'd pick something with fixed damage such as Static Spike. You do end up with different skills.
Something is amiss. The theme of the class is not there anymore. When playing a sorc, or a necro, or a druid, or even a barbarian, it doens't seem too well fitted. I mean, a barbarian shouldn't be a spell caster, except for minor spells.
Well, that's what's happening... try using Lemures effectively as a barb. Leave that to the actual casters...
I put a few spells in for the dumb characters, such as Immolation and the lower spells such as Firebolt and Static Spike, so they'd have a way to deal with immunes.
Or would you prefer the CLoD Berserk fix, aka 'it's a freaking normal attack at level 30, but we were completely out of ideas... so we made it do magic damage, didn't bother to explain how, and made it the only solution against PIs'...
There is a reason why there are different classes. I hope you take this into consideration and maybe modify the skills a little bit.
Like what? 210 unique skills? If you manage to do
that, I'll quit this modding game.
5. Also, the skill trees description on the right hand side, SKILL TABS, is blank. Was it meant to be like that?
Well, there's nothing else I could put in there...
And finally, I think this all maybe because I fail to understand the concept behind this mod. Is there any information on this mod besides this thread?
You haven't noticed the 20 ft billboards? Shame on you.
j/k
EDIT 1: npc.txt has a problem. buy value is 1024 while sell value is 68, as well as max sell for n/nm/h is 500gp. I think you forgot to scale down the buy value.
Not really... the
items themselves go for less. I didn't scale it down in npc.txt because I did in weapons/armor.txt. Ran out of gold yet halfway through act 1?
I don't know what horcubeex.txt does, but it has all the CLoD recepies in it.
I didn't even know this file existed...!
Also some very cool runewords. I havn't tried all of them yet, but whatever I have tried seem pretty good.[/code]
Where the hell do all you people get 5-socketed shields in act 2 Normal??...
@ Voodoo
Please don't change this!! I like the strong firewall. I did the DoE at level 2 or 3 with a pally and it was pretty easy. With a Druid I had to wait till level 4 I think. I just did the blood moor first. same with a barb. I like the challenge. And besides the DoE is a quest. quests should be a challenge! :-)
That's what I meant... it only gets harder.
Ya a bigger stash and stuff is nice, but not a big deal. I think that you are trying for a more challenging mod and not a copy of what else is out there. Keep it however you want! :-)
Bigger stash = [more junk to sort through + annoying to unload cube to make quest items] = bad voodoo.
Keep the stunlock!!! lol well I'm only in act one still but I do like it. makesit a bit more challenging. Sides with immolation and a multihit or a stun attack to back it up it is still easy to take out big groups. Besides, if you are surrounded by a group of enemies they would whoop you!
Someone who realized the wonders of IMMOLATION.
Was my solution to annoying skeletal archers too.
And now.... after shooting down all these folks asking for easier things or more things ( lol just poking fun) I gotta ask.... is there any way to beef up weapons and eq besides gems?? Like a toned down fury gem concept or something??
I don't have any idea what fury gems are, and neither am I interested. I am not going to copy anyone else's work...
I realize you scrapped the idea of eq gaining power when you level up because you would have quilted armor that endedup better then full plate.. but is there any replacement for that idea??
Huh? It
does work like that... see weapons.txt and armor.txt.
Unless you mean items that improve when you wear them and level-up, which I never intended in the first place.
@ Malachai
found an issue with the necro ice ball type spell thing....it dont aim half the time...if I aim north at a monster, it will shoot some other direction....really an annoyance! Otherwise, from what I have played so far, nice job! Glad to see you will fix the lvl2 weapon on teh necro!
That's on purpose... it targets the
nearest monster. It doesn't matter where you aim at.
@ HashCasper
Bloody mary skill: The countess you summon seems to make every monster teleport as soon as it hits it. Does the attack have chance that monster will use teleport when hit or something? If i don't summon the countess and/or use other classes, monsters stay put, but with this skill they seem to randomly teleport all over the place.
That's a feature of the skill.
The raider types in act 5 also do this to you when they hit you.
@ Voodoo
ok got as far as the jail level 1. yup its been slow going. lol for the msot part I like it. A few baddies are REALLY hard. ice mages and archers can be a pain.
As for the ice mages [you mean the skeleton ones, right?]: run away from them. They will follow you. Then turn around and hit them while they're still walking towards you. Always works.
I really like the stunlock in melee combat but not so much with ranged weapons. Would be great if that was possible.
No.
Try Immolation, or Stone if you have it.
I love those assassins and ghosts that dissapear and reappear. Very sweet. You're all just wakling along and it looks safe and BLAM an assassin appears and stabs you over and over locking you in place. It's great
The assassins are silent, but you can hear the ghosts coming... should help. Homing spells such as Frozen Soul/Hunting Banshee/Bone Spirit/Lemures can also hit them.
Hirelings are a wonder.. sorta. They are very helpful in killing icemages and archers but they are still as dumb as ever and walk right into melee comabt even if they are rogues. Can you use an AI that will make them run from melee foes and shoot for a distance?? or would swapping thier AI make them attack us??
No but it would make them not use their skills. Hirelings are still very unfinished because I want people to play for real first so I'd learn about the unbalances and other problems, which won't happen if everyone just surfs along with a hireling that kills everything.
*** oh ya... a bug (maybe) I can target and swing at my hireling. Not sure if I can hurt them or kill them because I didn't want to risk killing her. lol
Did you happen to have Heal selected? You can select hirelings and minions with Heal because you can... well, Heal them.
The butcher and blood raven still kill me in one hit pretty much. (I am a druid with about 200 hp, using mainly tornado claw, immolation, heal, and stigmata.) But they both died... just took a while. lol
Stigmata?! Of all the spells...
Just curious, why did you pick Stigmata? One point is very handy for all classes to chill things down, but why did you put
more than one point into it? The residual cold length barely increases if you're a druid [or any character except nec and asn], and the damage is low unless you use all the runewords with +to unholiness in the game.
Anyway, they are
supposed to be hard. The smith has been made like the Butcher in D1 on purpose.
All classes share the same three skill trees, with a few starting skills which are specific to that class only. Somehow it just doens't seem quite right. Something is amiss. The theme of the class is not there anymore. When playing a sorc, or a necro, or a druid, or even a barbarian, it doens't seem too well fitted. I mean, a barbarian shouldn't be a spell caster, except for minor spells. There is a reason why there are different classes. I hope you take this into consideration and maybe modify the skills a little bit.
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with a necro but i think i have enough exp and skills to get enough money for a nice repair weapon or 2.