And before reading, I need to let your know that I'm french so my english is a little bit bad! So if you don't understand something then just ask me.

So my bugs are theses:
- Knock Back doesn't "refresh" the hero's radius light (try to bet the butcher by holding Shift, you'll disapear in the dark after too much knock back)
- TownPortal create sometime all the map data (so it create a new dungeon but everything that have been beaten or find is there) and the hero can be stuck on wall...

And this is what I hate:
- Trapped chest on Cave lvl (and more) that kill instantaneously... (I hate this... put my life to 1 or what ever but don't kill me for this!)
- Room that doesn't contain monster (like a shrine room that contain zero monster... Diablo was cool for that
(But the randomize of monster must take all monsters in rooms and put them on the map I suppose...)
- Orange and Black for Life and Mana... I think Potions should have been like before... Red and Blue. (or Dark Red and dark blue) and they name too (Mana Potion/ Mana Tinctature)... Same for scroll and relic. Scroll should be for normal spell( like TownPortal,Healing,Identify,etc), Relic should be like the Rune but they explose instantaneously (like Rune on TH) and Rune should be a trap. (like Rune on Hellfire) (Rune could be more powerfull because you cannot choose where you want it)
- Take off the negative bonus on unique item. (Why put some negative bonus? It's enough hard to find one!)

What I would like in the game:
- Drop a little bit the butcher Difficulty (I'm lvl 26 and my friend too... We can go to lvl 12 but we cannot kill him... Good joke!)
- Give more gold at start (So we could buy some (like 1 or 2) weapons or armor to help us to begin... I've remake the church lvl 1 like 20 times before getting something good!)
- Put more trap
- Put less archer that run away... (It took me 30 minutes to kill all of them and they do no damage! It's only give frustration!)
- Put more monsters
- I've got like 700 000 gold and I don't know what to do with it... Griswold and the little boy don't sell anything good... It could be cool to buy unique Item for a exorbiting price.
- Put the start position on town near Griswold and others.
- Put area restriction on multiplayer (no catacomb, cave or what ever for the average of all hero level in the game for example, because I like to go on hell or crypt to see what awaits us! By the way, it there cannot have level rush)
- Put more choice of shrine (like creating monster in your face, or a boss monster; take a blue weapon in your inventory and put off/or down/or up is magical power; completely change the level, like the Townportal bug, that could be very cool! You'll need to restart the level :P; Put all item durability to 1)
- Put Leoric quest on Catacomb (I like King Leoric!!)
- Put more quest on Multiplayer (I've got only The Butcher for now!)
- Finaly to coolest thing could be to put all area in only one... Like Church/Catacomb/Cave/Hive/Crypt/Hell so every level Area could be just one.

I hope that you will find some good ideas on theses things!

2. level morph? you gotta be speaking 'bout Catacomb level freakout after going to TP and coming back? I don't know how to fix it and don't know what lies in the root of this. I have made several attempts to find the cause. But I failed.

3. You won't die if you have enough damage absorption and resistance on you.

4. I didn't understand this one

5. no, I like them as they are now

6. negatives help maintain balance and usually are found on items that grant powerful bonuses, thus compensating for boosts

7. he is extremely well balanced on all difficulty modes and will not be made less dangerous.

8. a lot of restarts? doesn't sound good to me. in my own experience I FOUND the best items, didn't BUY them. BTW, 20 restarts, it's abnormal. I didn't have to restart that much. well,m aybe 3 or 4 times. but no more. what's the class you're playing?

9. that is something that I will try to do in the nearest future

10. this must be the old problem of monsters with Goat Archer AI, especially ones that have high Intelligence factor causing them to start retreating before you even approach them. I might lower their IntF, but I'd need to know who you're talking about (what monster(s)..

11. the total amount of monsters in the game? ATM it's impossible. at least, for ME. BTW, why would you want more? what's the reason?

12. simple idea. simple and nice. worth being implemented. I'm also thinking about the amounts of gold found in dungeons and especially on higher difficulty modes. making money more scarce will improve the economical balance, I'm sure

13. I don't like this idea

14. don't know how to do it

15. I'll see what I can do.

16. You'll find the King in Crypt level one. It's a place for the strongest of Undead in the game and Leoric is their King, you'll find him even more challenging than the Butcher perhaps.

17. there's also Diablo, Defiler, Leoric and Uber Diablo (all the quests present in MP Diablo and Hellfire originally)

18. Not sure I really understood that but if I did then you're talking about making all the 24 levels in one location? That will boil ppl's brains out and become boring way too soon. Psychologically ppl need to change the environment from time to time and being always oresent in the same environment for a long period is making ppl feel depressed, or boring. Thus, it doesn't sound too good for me. I would gladly include new area of 4 levels in the game, but that is WAY beyond my capabilities (for now, at least).

8 - Give more gold at start (So we could buy some (like 1 or 2) weapons or armor to help us to begin... I've remake the church lvl 1 like 20 times before getting something good!) 10
10 - Put less archer that run away... (It took me 30 minutes to kill all of them and they do no damage! It's only give frustration!)
11 - Put more monsters

For the #4 (Room that doesn't contain monster) I mean, in Diablo, there was a lot of monster in a room with one door and it was completely full of monsters.
It could be cool because sometimes there's absolutly no monster into it.

For the #8 I was playing with a Gladiator and changed to Paladin

For the #10, the Goat Archer, Succubus and all other. (Put IntF same as Imp Rogue, they attack and run away but sometimes they turn back and attack and we can
kill them there.

For the #11, it should be increase with the #4 to balance monster outside rooms and inside.

By the way, your mod is really cool and I hope it's gonna be more with the new version!

now, i c someone has problems with to much cash, dood, did u c how much one book of e.g. lightning nova costs?
repair of shield i had on my paladin coasted around 20-25000

don't know bout you and your luck while playing church, but i found two unique rings, good armor (for start thou), and lots of good stuff.

now, the bugs i have found (v1.57j RC2):
* gorewhipper sword, chance to hit +65486%

* that's it as far i can rember

shouldn't this be called fiery blast, or whatever fireball is called

Concerning drop bug... I think I know how to dramatically increase randomness of the drop and also decrease the overall drop rate, making drop balance a lot nicer. Good thing you mentioned that.

well, not 100% sure it was dlvl 1, but it was at the very beginning

1) This effect doesn't happen when I use Fury. Instead of it, my character loses a lot of HP when the spell ends (like 1/4 or 1/3), but it only occurs if my character has been hit during this span of time. No HP lost if he hadn't receive heavy damages during Fury.
2) When using Fury, if the character leaves the current dungeon level (by a town portal or stairs) before the spell effect ends, then he sees his HP decreased in the new place (like in 1) ). Not important in town, but more grievous in dangerous levels.

2) Reapers have been met in level 12 of Purgatory mode with 16000+ HP ! I know minions in a pack have extra HP compared to the normal ones, but they should have about 7000/8000 HP. Maybe they gain them progressively because of their boss, but then, in this case, a limit should be exist to avoid this aberration.

3) Blood Knights : their walking speed is completely unbelievable. Were you under psychotropic substances when you modified this ? lol

2) I'll investigate. Sounds damn high.

3) I took this idea from Awake mod. I thought that Death Guardians move with usual speed (8). And Blood Knights are almost the same type. They have the same timings, damage. The only thing that makes them differ from Death Guardians is being Demons. I thought that level 3 melee monster type should be a bit more dangerous than level 1 meleers. So, I increased their walk speed from 8 to 5. It's only 15% faster than Guardian Prince type in The Dark. And even 25% slower than ravagers. So long as they don't become impossible and stay difficult, it's OK to me.

the results of testing is as expected so far:

If I missed something let me know. I thought maybe you played MP, but afaik you play Single only.

THE LIST

Visual bugs:

Adria's books appear white now only if a player can read them.
-Must be what Jolt76 reported. Don't know if it's present in TheDark.

Fixed the bug that caused shields to disappear when worn after
wielding two-handed weapons.
-never noticed. Perhaps sword+shield after unequipping axe??? Again, no idea about it.

The casting of a Nova spell is now visible to all nearby players.
-don't know. But I usually saw drx cast nova when we played together.

When in effect, the Mana Shield graphic appears to all players
- never came across this.
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Gameplay bugs:

Fixed the bug that froze Lazarus (and made him invulnerable to
arrows and spells) after player had entered his lair, then left
(or died), and finally returned.
-this bug is definetely there! From my experience, it only happens in MP mode and happens when you activate him, then go to town via portal and then come back. He becomes invulnerable and stays so until you approach him like if initiating a dialogue. Then he says his speech again and starts attacking like usual in MP. Never noticed this in TheDark because I never died to Lazarus and never went to town after activating him. Any info on this is welcome. Don't know about Hellfire though.

Allowed right-clicking (casting/drinking) belt items in positions
5 through 8, while the Spellbook is open.
- definetely there! Both in Hellfire, and in TheDark and in TheHell.

Prevented bows with fire-hit damage from interfering with the
behavior of Gargoyle class monsters.
- apart from knowing that elemental arrows are packed with bugs in Diablo, nothing to say. IIRC, it's fixed in TheDark. Not sure tho, cause I didnt find notes on this matter.

Fixed the bug that caused excessive damage when a Mana Shield
expired due to an attack.
-not keeping records of what you're doing is a dumb idea. I didn't keep track of the changes in the beginning and now I don't know if I did something with this. I never noticed such effect in the game though. IIRC, TD had it fixed.

Fixed the bug that caused Mana Shield to become less effective
with increasing spell level.
- present in HF. Fixed in TH and TD.

Fixed bugs that prevented items with the suffixes Thieves,
Speed/Haste, Balance/Stability/Harmony, and Piercing/Bashing/
Puncturing from working properly.
- not sure about this, but from my experience they work normal. All I can say is that speed bonuses of +1 didnt affect players speed. and +3 and 4 worked the same. In TH there are only +2 (speed) and +4 (haste) suffixes that give increased attack rate. From what I remember, JG noticed that Bards (Assassins in TH) gain extra speed from +_4 attack rate, but I cant relate on that. Never tested this. Balance/Stability/Harmony were fixed in Hellfire patch 1.01. Most likely, it all works as intended in TH.

Prevented repeated castings (128 or more) of Mana Shield from
disabling the casting of any more spells.
- never tested this. If anyone can relate on this, I'd listen.

Fixed bug that rarely transformed unique items (like the Optic
Amulet) into some other (usually mundane) item when saving the
game and then starting a new game.
- this thng is the curse of Unique items that come from accomplishing quests. It doesn't happen in Hellfire, but it does happen both in The Dark and in The Hell. By the way, this wasn't the result of copying things from TheDark because quest items would morph in TH versions before 1.00 and I started applying some things from TD only when TH was about 1.15 or so. A simple usage of modmaker program can lead to quest item morphings. All my attempts of fixing this did not succeed. The original Hellfire doesn't have this bug.

Fixed the bug that prevented Rogues from properly disarming traps
on levels 13 through 15.
- no idea about this.

Fixed the Mana Shield bugs that could make a player invulnerable
and/or invisible to other players.
- ditto, no idea.

Prevented players from becoming stuck inside a wall when Town
Portalling down into a dungeon.
- it's there I still remember playing with FreshMeat in Crypt levels with all of our items and gold dropped in town and then we both used the portal that led to stucking in the wall It happens in Hellfire, in TH, and I dont know about TheDark. The bug happens if there are more than one player in the game and someone sets TP north of the wall that has ground behind it. After returning from town you're there, in the ground And then imagine your wingman dropping down and a text hovers on the screen "OMFG!"

Fixed the freeze upon touching a Hidden Shrine while equipped
with only indestructible items.
- hidden shrine exists in SP mode of TH. And it is possible to have indestructible items on. But I guess it would be damn rare (and you can't overestimate the meaning of the word "rare" here). TheDark surely does NOT have this bug because there are no indestructible items there. Hellfire? I don't know really.

Fixed crashes associated with being attacked or killed by a
Black Death (Zombie class). This includes the crash upon
resurrecting after being killed by a Black Death.
- there are no black death-like maxLife stealing monsters in TheHell and there is no resurrecting in TheHell too So, there is no prerequisite for this bug to happen
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Pleeze pay attention when playing. If you come across something described here let me know.

Indeed, it took us a lot of time to kill bosses of the level 12 (unfortunately, they were near the entrance and the exit of the level). Maybe warcries should be limited to avoid these exaggerated situations.

A friend and me tested the 1.57s RC1 version in MP. His scout was able to regenerate but it didn't work with my Gladiator and my Paladin.

Strange, i tested regeneration with all character types and it works fine. It also stops after character's killed, too.

Check alone, without other ppl in your game. Maybe it depends on other players?

this bug comes from hellfire to russian part of this forum, from there to TD forum, and mostl ikely from TD forum > here))

i don't have scrolls of mana shield in TH, but praps, in Hellfire if scroll of MS is used twice or more and then rage is cast then game too won't crash when rage ends?... if true, then the key to solving problem can possibly be found in figuring out the difference between the SPELL of MS and SCROLL of MS.

I'll have to test that in the nearest future

This is still present, though in my case I touched the shrine naked and caused a crash.

Great mod, though. I'm just wondering if traps are really supposed to be this souped up. I mean, my L12 mage was killed instantly from full HP by an arrow trap in the first level and I was wearing the -50% ranged damage bonus to boot. Also, many arrow traps take out my entire mana shield (150+ mana) in one hit even in the first few levels. Even the barrel bombs used to instantly kill me all the time until I was able to learn Mana Shield.

Also, I'm wondering if Leoric is supposed to be so much harder than his lair. I go in, massacre his buddies and then he runs up to me like a sprinter on steroids and I disintegrate as soon as he touches me. Unless he instantly dies to Inferno like his clones in L4, I don't see how I could ever beat him.

And finally a suggestion to include in your guide: Perhaps you should give some advice to starting mage players, namely the fact that Holy Bolt does not cut it in L4 anymore and that Arcane Star, Inferno and Lightning deal insane damage and players should seek to find those despite everything being at the very least resistant to all of those spells.

Trap damage used to be neglectible (apart from Lite Nova trap) before I boosted their damage. That was a quickfix. I still think that it's better than no damage, but it would be wiser to connect trap damage to DLVL and difficulty. The same thing that I did to burning crosses.

Hidden shrine: I'll test it. Will fix if the problem is there.

Leoric IS supposed to be hard. In fact, he's harder to beat than the butcher. Plan on challenging him when you can cleanse hell levels or abyss. He can be killed with fire pretty easily. But A wisely put firewalls + inferno will do the trick

I don't play as a caster class. I prefer scouts or paladins. So, my knowledge of what a Mage should do is sort of limited. But I'll see what can be done.

Yeah, well as you probably have noticed if you looked at spell damage formulas, Holy Bolt barely scales up at all. The only way to increase its damage is by leveling up your character and it's only +1 to min and max damage per level. Inferno seems to deal damage incredibly fast, making it one of the strongest spells in the game (so far at least) and it pretty much insta-gibs most things that aren't immune. Arcane Star is also amazing. Lighting is clearly the weakness for teen and early 20s mages unless Chain Lightning is a lot better than vanilla Lightning, which is starting to feel very weak. I just keep forgetting to buy the book for CL so I haven't tried it out yet.

Also, if you're going to write something for new mages, make sure to mention the importance of a Staff of Mana. I completely relied on it until I found this totally sweet unique staff with mana charges on it, which I completely rely on now. Making any money was incredibly difficult until I got it as everything I made was spent on staff recharges and repairs.

In L12 (or it might have been L11) there was a Rogue (invisible blue fallen ones) boss named Shadow(something) right next to the entrance. I killed his minions but he himself seems to be immune to all magic, making him somewhat impossible to beat for a mage. This should probably be changed.

Also, since you mentioned that Leoric is vulnerable to fire, I think I'll try trapping him withing fire walls and roasting him with Inferno. It should work unless he runs through them walls as I have practically unlimited mana. :P

you must be talking about shadowcrow, there are two variations of him: one with f/m/l immunity and SC-vulnerable, and another one with SC immunity and triple resists

I was in MP mode, DLVL-4, Assassin, touched a shrine and game crashed with following report:
Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Fault address: 004257C6 01:000247C6

Please, when you play, pay attention to what are the names of the shrine you are touching. I gotta find the one that causes gamecrash. Looking forward to reports on this matter...

Oh and thanks for the tip about Shadowcrow. I faced him (and another triple immune boss) again and beat him with SC. I also killed Leoric and the Butcher, though I wonder why I should keep killing them as they seem to drop random magic items just like any boss. I did get a unique shield off Leoric but I guess I was just lucky as next time he dropped a blue.

By the way, are there any magic based armour past Wizard's Robe in the game? I keep seeing different types of chain and plate with extreme strength and dexterity requirements but no equipment suitable for mages. Helmets seem to all be either strength or dexterity based as well. Is this an intended way to further differentiate mage AC from other classes? I don't really mind as I think mages can manage with crappy armour but that would mean no medium or heavy armour class graphics for mages.

how do you know if the game crashed? i tested murphy's and hidden shrines today, they didnt cause crash

btw, did that happen in Multiplayer game?

Once, long ago, in year 2007, I came across shrine crash when I was playing my Monk in Multiplayer, it happened on floor 6. The next time it happened to me, it was yesterday when I had assassin under my mouse, on floor 4, Multiplayer, too.

That makes me wonder if the bug only occurs in MP mode. I'll sieze my testing for now ('cause it's damn tedious) nad will come back to it later. But the shrines' names can be seen and if anyone runs into gamecrash when touching a shrine, report the bug in all details. I hope to figure out what is causing it.

btw, did that happen in Multiplayer game? "

I know because I saved before touching it and since I didn't like having my hat reduced to 1/1 durability, I reloaded and tried touching it naked. I later reproduced the bug with another shrine. This was in single player of course. Both were normal shrines, not goat shrines, though one was in L2 I believe and the other one in L5 or 6 (the one with Gharbad the Weak).

do you remember the onscreen message from this shrine? what was it:

that which can break will
or
new strength is forged through destruction

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I found a new bug concerning the Hydra spell. When I cast Hydra and then switch to my staff spell (in this case, Mana) and cast it once or more, the hydra shots star draining staff charges instead of mana. Switching to another spell fixes it until you cast a spell from your staff again.

Another point, I think lvl 30 as a limit to close access to Horror mode is a bit early. Maybe the limit should be increased (like Doom mode in the recent update) to lvl 35 ? lvl 30 comes quite quickly and Horror mode is forbidden before being able to enter/finish crypt levels.

you reached level 30 before finishing crypts???

Warcry can only increase HP for the monster that uses it. For other nearby monsters with the same attacktype only combat pausing is (temporary) changed.

"Thus, for instance, if an Assassin has Adkimanta's Edge in one hand (+1 speed) and Diamond Blade in another (+2), her speed bonus will be equal to +3"

Speed bonusses are not cumulative, unless you changed that.

Originally, the game had 4 (increasing) Speed modifiers. However, the last one never worked correctly (in Hellfire and early Diablo versions), and the first one did not have any noticable effect.

Any chance that the changes made to limit Normal Mode will be made public?

somewhere around there will be made a check on character's level. it can be easily identified (14h)

the code there goes somewhat like this:
cmp dif.mode, nightmare (it's 01, iirc)
if not, jmp to hellmode check
cmp clvl, 14h
jl....

if you change dif. mode from 01 to 00 and JL to JGE it will restrict nightmare mode to CLVL30+ players

Same thing for hellmode.

Furthermore, I doubt that a change to just the DLL will be sufficient. To avoid the limit, all that players need to do is not install the new DLL. For the Dark, we are considering to place the limits on the dungeon entrances too.

generally, these are the very same checkers that "guarded" nitemare (for clvl20+ only) and hellmode (for clvl30+)

Check is done twice. first for 2nd mode. second - for 3rd mode. purgatory and doom respectively. after checking on horror and if the current game (that character is trying to createe/join) is not horror, it jumps to check if the game is of purgatory mode. if not, it assumes that the difficulty = doom and is thus allowed for all.

that's my understanding of the process. I could be wrong though. (disclaimer )

Well yeah you're right. If the new dll wont be installed. the difficlulty checks will remain what they were before. but honestly, I don't feel like trying so hard to make cheating impossible. people who want to cheat will find a way to do so. people who want to have maximum emotions from playing dont tend to cheat from what I've noticed so far. the only downside of people continuing to hang out on low level of difficulty mode is that they will kind of steal their own pleasure in the future. they might get items powerful enough to make purgatory mode easier than it's supposed to be. but doom mode will never allow somebody to relax. no matter how powerful items they have. even church will be hard for many on doom mode. the most fun game is with sort of flawed or incomplete characters. this gives "something else to want" which is sooo human

oh yes, speaking of dungeon entrances. any plans on making restrictions on TP?

I wasn't really talking about cheaters. When upgrading to the new version, players could simply forget to copy the DLL and never know they missed it.

Btw, all this talk about Horror and Purgatory modes is very confusing. Did you have a reason not to use the original names?

well, I always attach modified DLL file to the mod bundle when I release a patch/new version. I didnt even think about it

could you maybe paste the code here? I found the part of the code, but I dont see double checks there really.

upd: yea, it sounds too much of *hell* when you say hell levels of TheHell on hell mode :))