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Incandescent One
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posted 01 December 2001 16:11     Click Here to See the Profile for Incandescent One   Click Here to Email Incandescent One        Reply w/Quote   Visit Incandescent One's Homepage!
Ok, well i've been busy & have got a certain skeleton king in my game, but can't decide what to overwrite with him. For anyone that doesn't know, Leoric was undead and could raise skeletons. I've tried going over the greater mummy anims, it works but i don't want the poison attack or unholy bolt skills with it.
I also overwrote the pinhead anims but it wasn't the same without the raise dead skill I'd be grateful for any ideas on what i could use to get the best result, or any other input, i'm sure someone else has done this before, anyone?

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jbouley
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posted 01 December 2001 21:29     Click Here to See the Profile for jbouley   Click Here to Email jbouley        Reply w/Quote   Visit jbouley's Homepage!
Hmmmm...you could replace Blood Raven's gfx, maybe...she raises the dead.

You could also try replacing a Shaman (either "fallen" or "fetish" shaman) and then replace the appropriate fallen or fetish with something undead. However, even if the first change works...you'd have the problem of getting the "followers" to change...most undead have lots of Total Pieces. I think fallen and fetishes only have one or two...so the undead would be floating torsos with probably no arms or legs...possibly no head either.

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Incandescent One
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posted 02 December 2001 02:36     Click Here to See the Profile for Incandescent One   Click Here to Email Incandescent One        Reply w/Quote   Visit Incandescent One's Homepage!
I'll give blood raven a go, i think i simply overlooked her because she was quest related, but to have leoric as a quest monster too........ that's even better
Hehehehe i think sometimes you can spend too long looking at something that you don't realise its right in front of you, thanx jeff

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Watcher
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posted 02 December 2001 06:01     Click Here to See the Profile for Watcher   Click Here to Email Watcher        Reply w/Quote   
Well, Blood Raven doesn't raise the dead, she creates them out of nothing. You don't need to kill any monsters for her to make new ones. But it'll probably be much the same effect. Sounds cool, BTW.

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mandzo
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posted 02 December 2001 14:44     Click Here to See the Profile for mandzo   Click Here to Email mandzo        Reply w/Quote   Visit mandzo's Homepage!
hey can you send the Leoric anim pls

mandzo@hotmail.com

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 02 December 2001 16:21     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Me too e_tchernev@hotmail.com I'm dying for his animations...

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jbouley
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posted 02 December 2001 22:32     Click Here to See the Profile for jbouley   Click Here to Email jbouley        Reply w/Quote   Visit jbouley's Homepage!
quote:
Originally posted by Incandescent One:
i think sometimes you can spend too long looking at something that you don't realise its right in front of you, thanx jeff

LOL...I've been there dozens of times myself not able to see what later seems obvious. Just doing my part to help...I've spent most of my modding career trying to find creative ways around Blizzard's roadblocks, harcoding, etc.

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JelloBones
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posted 03 December 2001 22:13     Click Here to See the Profile for JelloBones   Click Here to Email JelloBones        Reply w/Quote   
Nihlathak perhaps?

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Juggernaught
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posted 03 December 2001 23:14     Click Here to See the Profile for Juggernaught   Click Here to Email Juggernaught        Reply w/Quote   
First off Nihlathak doesn't raise units he creates new ones out of nothing. Second, your Leoric would then have corpse explosion.

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Forsaken
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posted 04 December 2001 05:22     Click Here to See the Profile for Forsaken   Click Here to Email Forsaken        Reply w/Quote   
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Originally posted by Juggernaught:
First off Nihlathak doesn't raise units he creates new ones out of nothing. Second, your Leoric would then have corpse explosion.


Which is quite a nice challenge, assuming your mod doesn't give all monsters hp*10, as mine did. In that case you are either an amazon/sorceress or you're dead...

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Mephansteras
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posted 04 December 2001 12:23     Click Here to See the Profile for Mephansteras   Click Here to Email Mephansteras        Reply w/Quote   Visit Mephansteras's Homepage!
If I remember correctly, Leoric didn't raise minions either, he also created them out of nothing. So...both of those superuniques work. Although...neither one is much of a melee fighter, which isn't QUITE what he is like.

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54x
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posted 04 December 2001 15:54     Click Here to See the Profile for 54x   Click Here to Email 54x        Reply w/Quote   Visit 54x's Homepage!
Yeah, main problem there is that they're not Melee... You could replace one of the spawner rows, and use his attack anim as the special anim for spawning... and then replace that spawner's worm with a skeleton token

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djc
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posted 04 December 2001 16:19     Click Here to See the Profile for djc        Reply w/Quote   
Other issue with Leoric replacing Nihlathak is, well... nobody wants to kill Nihlathak if they're trying to keep Pindleskin (or his replacement) available for MF runs...

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