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Myhrginoc
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posted 11 January 2002 19:35     Click Here to See the Profile for Myhrginoc   Click Here to Email Myhrginoc        Reply w/Quote   
I have had mixed luck modding this file. I made some hireling sets a la Eastern Sun, and added some drop definitions in TreasureClassEx. Those worked fine. Then I decided it would be nice if Duriel and Diablo were a bit more generous with runes, but I have been unable to get anywhere with this. I have been using D2Excel for editing

I see that Duriel was made to always drop town portal scrolls by adding new Duriel drop lines and renaming the old ones. The new lines refer back to the renamed old ones and add a scroll (-2 first column, 1 to each entry's probability). I expanded that by changing the -2 to -3, and adding a runedrop with probability 1. For Diablo I followed the new Duriel method, and put -3 up front with two rune drops and one old-Diablo drop for probabilities.

From all that I have read here, that should mean both Duriel and Diablo are guaranteed to drop at least three items/treasure groups. Not even a lowly El for my efforts!

Later on, I read that TreasureClassEx, Monstats and SuperUniques have some sequential relationship when compiling, so I played with compiling order using a clean MPQ. That didn't help either, but I am not surprised, it won't work with -direct -txt either. I even used a hâkk to reset quests in case I was running afoul of unexpected uberdrop.

My test character is a heavily "enhanced" L98 Zon, running in Normal testing low-level rewards (a lot faster that way ). What am I missing?

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KieferHub
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From: Germany
Registered: Nov 2001

posted 13 January 2002 08:21     Click Here to See the Profile for KieferHub   Click Here to Email KieferHub        Reply w/Quote   
Well it sound correct what you have done...

- Make sure that your moded txt files are within the folder "data\global\excel\" in your diablo 2 folder (c:\program\diablo ii\data\global\excel\*.txt for example)

- Make sure that you have written "Runes 17" with the exact spelling "runes 17" wouldn't work you must have the exact value of small and big letters.

- Also make sure that the "prop" column has been set to 1

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FoxBat
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posted 13 January 2002 11:52     Click Here to See the Profile for FoxBat   Click Here to Email FoxBat        Reply w/Quote   
Any treasureclasses that a treasure class refers to must appear above that treasure class in a file (huh?) So if duriel's TC is on row 50, and has a TC NewRunes as a drop, if NewRunes is on row 60 then duriel won't give you your NewRunes. If NewRunes is on row 40 then he should. Maybe this is giving you trouble.

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Myhrginoc
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posted 13 January 2002 16:06     Click Here to See the Profile for Myhrginoc   Click Here to Email Myhrginoc        Reply w/Quote   
Thanks for the reminders. Unfortunately I have already checked capitalization and spelling...they match. And my new boss lines are at the end of the file, so they should not be forward references. In Duriel's case, I modded >Blizzard's< lines...changed their -2 to -3 in picks and added the runes to Item3 and 1 to Prob3 (Kiefer, is that the "prop" column you mentioned?). All of my text files go into ...\diablo II\data\global\excel for testing---I do get my new .bins there.

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