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Topic: Alas poor Leoric......................
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Incandescent One Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 272 From: Great Britain Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 01 December 2001 16:11
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 Forum Admin.
    
Posts: 4907 From: Portland, Maine, USA Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 01 December 2001 21:29
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. ------------------ - JEFF "A hero is no braver than anyone else. He is only brave five minutes longer." For my latest mod (for LoD/expansion), download at http://www.fileplanet.com/dl/dl.asp?/planetdiablo/phrozenkeep/mods/sic_beta.zip - Or for old stuff (for classic D2), visit my orignal mod site at www.planetdiablo.com/sanctuary

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Incandescent One Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 272 From: Great Britain Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 02 December 2001 02:36
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 WarLord
  
Posts: 196 From: Who cares anyway? Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 02 December 2001 06:01
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.Watcher ------------------ "See you in the next Hell, sucker!" --Al Stark in The Wonderland Gambit

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mandzo Moderator
   
Posts: 658 From: Bulgaria,Sofia Registered: Aug 2001 |
posted 02 December 2001 14:44
hey can you send the Leoric anim plsmandzo@hotmail.com Thank you ------------------ Read or DIE Muahahahaha the next beta is coming and its beter then ever

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Apocalypse Demon Moderator
   
Posts: 4023 From: Mississauga, Ontario Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 02 December 2001 16:21
Me too e_tchernev@hotmail.com I'm dying for his animations...------------------ God gave me a brain to use but I miserably failed to use it to my advantage

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jbouley Forum Admin.
    
Posts: 4907 From: Portland, Maine, USA Registered: Jan 2001 |
posted 02 December 2001 22:32
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.  ------------------ - JEFF "A hero is no braver than anyone else. He is only brave five minutes longer." For my latest mod (for LoD/expansion), download at http://www.fileplanet.com/dl/dl.asp?/planetdiablo/phrozenkeep/mods/sic_beta.zip - Or for old stuff (for classic D2), visit my orignal mod site at www.planetdiablo.com/sanctuary

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JelloBones Serf
Posts: 7 From: Registered: Oct 2001 |
posted 03 December 2001 22:13
Nihlathak perhaps?

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Juggernaught WarLord
  
Posts: 170 From: Florida Registered: Jul 2001 |
posted 03 December 2001 23:14
First off Nihlathak doesn't raise units he creates new ones out of nothing. Second, your Leoric would then have corpse explosion. ------------------ Softcore's for wussies. Grow some balls and play hardcore.

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Forsaken Honorary Warlord
   
Posts: 397 From: Dutch guy in France Registered: Sep 2001 |
posted 04 December 2001 05:22
quote: 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 Moderator
   
Posts: 970 From: San Diego, CA USA Registered: Feb 2001 |
posted 04 December 2001 12:23
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.------------------ -Mephansteras Don't take life to seriously -- you'll never get out of it alive! Download my mod: Tides Of War

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54x Moderator
   
Posts: 3080 From: Wellington, New Zealand Registered: Apr 2001 |
posted 04 December 2001 15:54
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  ------------------ 54x. "My computer has wheels on giant stilts that allow me to drive it over all the other, slower computers." "For great bandwidth!" http://www.planetdiablo.com/newdawn/ New Dawn Forum

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djc Serf
Posts: 16 From: Registered: Nov 2001 |
posted 04 December 2001 16:19
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...------------------ -djc

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