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Topic: Character questions...
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oni5115 WarLord
  
Posts: 194 From: Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 21 December 2001 22:28
I would normally not post this in here, but it is for my mod...What would be good skills to change to make a barbarian either better, or more balanced. The same for Sorceress, I fear I may have made her too powerful. Also what would help balance out the Druid? I know I have been making his summons a little better. But I need to weaken the Melee (I think) at least curve the HP he gets. 10,000 HP is a bit much. Of course I have't been all the way through hell with my Druid, so maybe he is more balanced than I thought. I also rarely duel, so I don't really know. I also need help with the Amazon. I want her to be a well balanced character too. I don't know if she needs anything bumped up or not. I want other peoples input. I know I like to play bowazon, and since I actually found the Buriza Do Kyanon... It's guided arrow all the way for me  But I'd like to know what others think of her other forms in LOD. Spearzon, Javazon. How are they. What could make them better/more popular. There are 300 hundred character levels in my mod. I don't want to limit people to 1 type of playstyle. I also want to balance out the many different playstyles that exist. I want to people to play through with one good character that they love and can do many different things. PLeas ehelp me make that possible in my mod. Really any information on any character class could be helpful. If you think something is way unbalanced let me know. If you think something could/should be bumped up to make gameplay more fun also let me know. I think that's everything.

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jbouley Forum Admin.
    
Posts: 4907 From: Portland, Maine, USA Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 22 December 2001 23:30
Well, for the barb, I set the initial mana cost for Whirlwind low but then gave it a per-level increase so that at higher levels it would start costing the barb something (currently it's a flat mana cost). You could also boost the warcry skills to make them more attractive as a concentration area for barbs. Also on the topic of Whirlwind, I made the skill interruptible so that if you are hit you stop whirling...which makes using the skill a bit deadly to yourself if you aren't careful.One thing you could do with the sorc is just to give her more variety...give her poison elemental damage as well as the other elements, for example. Also, nerf the hell out of Static Field to bring down her power. For amazons, you could make it so that some skills that currently use up arrows or javelins will no longer deplete the amazon's supply...and you could make some of her skills into auras. Just a few thoughts...most of which I have explored to some degree in my mods.  ------------------ - JEFF "A hero is no braver than anyone else. He is only brave five minutes longer." For my latest mod (for LoD/expansion), download Version 1.0 of Sanctuary in Chaos - Or for old stuff (for classic D2), visit my orignal mod site at www.planetdiablo.com/sanctuary

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oni5115 WarLord
  
Posts: 194 From: Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 23 December 2001 00:21
cool thanks. At least someone read this post  Well, read and is willing to help anyways. I actually made Static field more powerful... I never use it anyways. WEll I didn't make it more powerful, I just made the max life limit in MH/Hell lower.. eg. Maybe I'll reset that then. That may have been a bad choice. I like the idea of boosting warcries. Maybe work on some other skills too. I dunno If I;d may whirlwind stoppable. I'd rather get rid of the limit of defense on berserk (If that's even possible... Haven't looked into it.) Anyways. Thanks for some ideas.

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Brother Laz Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 1134 From: the place where angels watch... Registered: Dec 2001 |
posted 23 December 2001 12:28
sorry, wrong thread.[This message has been edited by Brother Laz (edited 23 December 2001).]

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oni5115 WarLord
  
Posts: 194 From: Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 23 December 2001 12:57
you can make poison nova sentries?hmmm... Does this mean I can change Lightning Sentry to a Chain Lightning Sentry? (Not sure if it already uses CL or if it uses Lightning...) Poison Nova Sentry would be sweet. I like that idea. Maybe a Frozen Orb one would be cool too. Alas, that all requires hex editing. A subject I am somewhat loathe to learn. I have trouble with hex coding for some reason it just doesn't click. I need to find a good way to understand hex info and how it works. I am sure there is a tutorial around here somewhere... The most Hex editing I did was toying with my save files to reset the cow level.  I always hated that 1 time only limit. Now I just got a mod idea. Thanks a ton  I'll go to the code editing forum and look through the 5 billion posts. See what kind of tutrials I can find there. Also take a look at the main page.

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Brother Laz Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 1134 From: the place where angels watch... Registered: Dec 2001 |
posted 23 December 2001 12:57
quote: Originally posted by oni5115: you can make poison nova sentries?hmmm... Does this mean I can change Lightning Sentry to a Chain Lightning Sentry? (Not sure if it already uses CL or if it uses Lightning...) Poison Nova Sentry would be sweet. I like that idea. Maybe a Frozen Orb one would be cool too. Alas, that all requires hex editing. A subject I am somewhat loathe to learn. I have trouble with hex coding for some reason it just doesn't click. I need to find a good way to understand hex info and how it works. I am sure there is a tutorial around here somewhere... The most Hex editing I did was toying with my save files to reset the cow level.  I always hated that 1 time only limit. Now I just got a mod idea. Thanks a ton  I'll go to the code editing forum and look through the 5 billion posts. See what kind of tutrials I can find there. Also take a look at the main page.
Stupid me! Deleted the wrong post!!!!!! ------------------ To practice the Arts of Modding is to be Damned. To master Them is to be Victorious. -D1 manual

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Brother Laz Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 1134 From: the place where angels watch... Registered: Dec 2001 |
posted 23 December 2001 13:05
Yes, you can change Lightning to CL, but Myokai has already done this and I try to avoid doing the same (had some email conversations, and it turned out that he had the idea of making elemental melee skills for the barb at exactly the same time as me. Grrrrr). Frozen Orb has been done by him as well; but poison nova works great, and blessed hammer and mindblast even better.BTW: this kind of stuff is rather hard to do - often things will crash for no apparent reason. Wake of fire looks different in the dlls than the other four traps - and some creative tricks are required to get many skills to work. Same with melee skills and elemental effects. Simple replacing results in the lack of a hitcheck, ie. the attack will always go off regardless of whether the melee swing hits, allowing for lots of cheesy tricks that involve the use of the Shift key. ------------------ To practice the Arts of Modding is to be Damned. To master Them is to be Victorious. -D1 manual

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oni5115 WarLord
  
Posts: 194 From: Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 23 December 2001 13:40
I've looked through one of the tutorials... I understand the hex part now. It really isn't that hard. The rest is just learning what to do and what not to do.  I don't know if I am going to change barb skillz to do elemental damage or not. At least not to cast elemtal spells. I don't know what I will do, probably something though.  I'll try not to steal anyone's idea's either. I just thought CL sentry would be a nice improvement over the dull LS. Make an trapassin more fun too. I am trying to make that an actual playable class. Well, a more fun playable class at least. I'll look into hex editing when it comes to skills that I never use or think could be made much better as something else.

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Brother Laz Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 1134 From: the place where angels watch... Registered: Dec 2001 |
posted 23 December 2001 14:19
I would say: don't worry about 'stealing' other people's ideas, unless you repeat the exact same things as them.I avoided repeating Myokai's changes, just because we had a lengthy email conversation, and after him explaining how he did the skills, doing the exact same skills myself would be a bit... rude to him. Go ahead, make that CL or poison nova sentry and don't worry. There is no secrecy here; no one wants to keep his achievements for himself. That's not what this forum is for, and that's not what this community is like. Hex editing is easy, but certain specific things are not. Like if you want to do anything with Wake of Fire, use the skills of the normal CD2 monsters (their entries are shorter...) or make melee skills cast spells without losing the hitcheck part of them. Just do a search on 'finishing function' and you will turn up the thread by FoxBat that will explain those things. Even with that knowledge, it's mostly trial and crash crash crash. If you have any questions, mail me at brotherlaz@yahoo.com but I'm a bit busy for the moment so don't expect your mail to be answered right away - usually after a few days. ------------------ To practice the Arts of Modding is to be Damned. To master Them is to be Victorious. -D1 manual

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oni5115 WarLord
  
Posts: 194 From: Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 23 December 2001 14:26
hey cool man. Thanks.I'll see what I can do. Mwah ha ha ha ha. I've a feeling I am going to be seing a lot GSOD (Grey Screen of Death) Basically any error report Diablo 2 gives you. Of course if you change your color scheme that would change too... but anyways.

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Brother Laz Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 1134 From: the place where angels watch... Registered: Dec 2001 |
posted 23 December 2001 14:30
Have fun  And if youi have any questions, mail me at brotherlaz@yahoo.com ------------------ To practice the Arts of Modding is to be Damned. To master Them is to be Victorious. -D1 manual [This message has been edited by Brother Laz (edited 23 December 2001).]

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