Diablo 2 Miscellaneous Topics

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Various topics discussed in NightShiver's forums
Thanks to all the contributors!

Matafleur Tips

Mana Lock
Try 851900

Slow
yo put 29% slow on 1 sword and 31 % on anutha sword equip dem both (barb)

Seems liks 127% slow target doesnt work well
it will popup a dialogue saying the assingned skill should do no effect.
yes but slows target works very well try 35% to 40% my TeenNight can turn you to a slug in seconds ....lol
i have one on each claw or try 40% on a single weapon character

If someone slows u down try to slow him too and use decripify (for anyone) + slow missiles (if zon).

A very good slow is 1-2. Put 1% on one wep and 2% on the other.

Infinite Arrows
Shadow Hunter's steps to make infinite arrows(in Fuzzier's):
1-Select the arrows from item tree
2-Set quiver quantity to 511
3-Make the arrows Throwable (it's an attribute)
4-Enjoy
You can socket the arrows with 1 socket if you want
Nothing more

Unbeatable Barb
the hint i give out for the barb trick is 1 sassy skill, 1 barb skill, and 1 necro skill.

Using D2Loader
Thanks to Chill_Factor
This is for using loader for testing purposes.Loader can be used for a lot of things but I will give a basics for testing only.
*download d2 loader - 2 versions are on eric's page( both work)
*create a directory in the drive that diablo is in called i.e2 ( diablo is generally C:\program files\D2)so create a directory called i.e:C:\D2(I run diablo in my D:drive so it would be D:\D2 for me)
*create a directory called D2loader ( C:\D2loader)
*unzip loader.zip to the d2loader directory you just created
*now go to C:\program files\Diablo2 and move the diablo2.exe file to C:\D2( this keeps your original file safe and if you tire of loader you can move it back over to diablo2 and restore the original
*now go to the D2loader directory you just unzipped loader to and move the Diablo2.exe file(this is the loader diablo2.exe file) from loader to C:\program files\Diablo2 ( your LOD shortcut on desktop is now the shortcut for loader - play off of harddrive)go to control panel/c:/program files/diablo2 and create a shortcut to desktop from game.exe( or however you prefer to make shortcuts)this is your shortcut to play off of cd
*now copy the files D2xmusic.mpq and D2xvideo.mpq from your D2LOD cd to C:\program files\diablo2 on your harddrive(157megs) thats it , you can use either to play on b-net for real games but for testing purposes you HAVE to start the first game by cd for tcp/ip or you will get a cd error.And the we've got a big one here error is just loaders way of telling you the same as the exception errors it just doesn't say what errors ( no biggie)and the cd key in use error , just log totally off of b-net ,wait a few minutes then use the cd shortcut to log on again and it should clear up.(b-net is very slow on updating the servers) I use loader all the time and basically have never had a prob with it.Hope it helps.

Unborn[HBI]'s Tips
Phys immune/asorb: Its all simple, get resist realy high(a inch before it drops in neg) so when you get physicaly hit it will add magic damages, now you only need the right absorb %.
Life Locks: There are many of them. You need at least 100% dr and 50% dgtm(damages goes to mana). Now get your life and mana to one of these values.
Locked on start: 890000, 840000, 790000, 740000, 690000, 640000, etc...
Lock at low life: 8300000, 7900000, 7300000, 6900000, 6300000, etc...
Leeching with smite/dragon talon: Cast charged level 31 life tap then attack (simple, wont work vs level over 50k duh).
Infinite skill charges(one of my fave): Get at least 8 times the same skill charged at 255/255, first charge down the list will get to 0/255, but then reselect your skill and there ya go! No more charges used and you get infinite of the skill.
1 hit killing(Works with chars of level 1mill and up): Simply get a total of at least 1bill% of crushing blow and open wounds.
Killing phys absorbers: Simple get negative elemental damages or use pure physical attacks (dragon talon, smyte without holy shield casted on, dragon flight). Neg elem damages will kill em in 1 shot for the simple reason that since they absorb the positive damages and render them neg to heal them. Then neg will get positive and hurt em bad.
How to hit with 2bills: Get + 1000 to attack rating and +400% bonus attack rating on rings, + 800 atatck rating and +300 bonus to attack rating on amu, use low dex, and make a charm of 1%td and -4 md(magic quality works bests).
How to get super defence on 99(non hexers can only do it on barbs): Simple, get iron skin to level 500k and more.
Masked stats: Yes there are Masked stats, but i can simple say they realy do what they should, but apears Masked on your status schreen(thats useless to know and who would use this since he is the only one to see his stats in game, but hey its a funny bug). Status can have 11 digits and not 10, note this one eric j! And this also works for levels in case you didn't know, levels are status after all. Ok when going over 2147 blah blah blah, you get neg dex or neg level or neg of blah blah blah. But carefully take a look at the neg number. If it is -12765341 then add +12765341 to your number to get out of neg values, and then add like 2147100000 and bingo, your status apears as 2147100000 but is way higher for real. Oh and if you want your stats not to be Masked then add the 127xxxxxxx what ever the neg value is and the 2147100000 on items as bonus and you'l get to see your true dex or str or all these stats values.
1 hit killing smyte: Thats one simple thing, holy shield spell is saw like a magic damaging skill by the game (such as bone spirit, same damage color as physical). This means cast a super high level holy shield and your smyte will get to neg damaging (magic damages), this will kill any one who got 100% or more % of any magic absorbing instantly and since smyte always hits(guided arrows can do 1 hit killing the same way since its also saw as magic damages). Then if you see some one not even losing a inch of life from your atatck, then simply use non elemental attack for the kill.
to annihilate the holy freeze effect on high levels. Simply activate aura Ressist Cold and your gona hit normaly without always missing.

Geglash Story -- Impossible to be hit
I guess Im not the first to noticed... but u know if u put +skill tabs in fuzziers on juwels, then put them in a armor, it appears a text in the attribs Is that cool or? Mega bugg I guess lol
i didnt even have skill tabs on my bow, and it made a story of geglash, just with based on time attributes.
Hmmmm! You see thats not a bug and it is indeed activated by the (by time) skills. It depends on the skill and when it activates. Normaly Geglashstory thing makes you hyper hard to hit and apears when you add defencive skill that increase near dawn or dusk. But i never got a cain story, maybe when its magic based attributes
But one time i had this sword with this story about Lazarus (well thats one odd thing, since this is the name of the guy on 1st diablo). It may be a bug, but it only apears when the time activates the attribute and normaly the efects of these only last for some times and then vanish away never to return. Its simply strange, i dont think its truly a bug! Maybe it has some thing to do with the Beta version of the game? WHo knows?
I had a story about Geglash also, and whenever that would come up (only in day) I couldn't be hit, not by anyone.... I even tested this with my supers, but I've never been able to duplicate the story and the character was later destroyed when I formatted my HD...

Over Socketing
there is still a way to add more sockets (up to 6) using coding with nutcraker and older patch of the game - I use D2 LOD 1.9b
(I have explained this many times on "old forum" and here I go for last time).
Socket an item with Jam (something that takes 6 sockets).
Make 6 Jewels for it. Open older patch game. Insert the jewels in the item.
Now open Nutty and then code socketed item to any other item of choice (Yes even rings and amulets).
Catch is: Items will revert to original number of sockets (4 for Armor for example) but the stats will stay as those for 6 sockets.
Thats the only *working* way I found to over-socket an item.
This will give you an 11 socketed bone helm with nothing in it and no stats (1012 armor)
4A4D 1008 8000 6464 082A 86D6 0602 C282 5BA3 B1E0 7F1E 9E10 A6FF 01

Invisible Shield
If you have a blade barrier shield say on a druid and put holy shield in a charm, use the charge and the shield should TURN INVISIBLE!
I think you can use a buckler and just put on holy shield and you should have an invisible shield.

Replenish Life
I use replenish life on all my stuff not sure if it helps thuogh one benifite thuogh is i can tell if my life is good cuz it will stop when full, you probally know that thuogh.
if u want to put it on a charm make it magical and go into d2 ice
put it in the cube with a choking gas(the big green one)and a teleport transmute and voila u got replenish life +2 just keep doing it untell u got +33.
i got about +500 replenish on all my stuff combined and i dont lose to much but not sure if it helps.
Replenish Life does NOT seem to be working with Jam 9c,
I got Repl Life on all my items and very simply by just using Jam 9a.
Use Jam 9a, add +21 Replenish Life to ur items (multiply with Jewels).
Otherwise u can just Hex it. General CODE is 4AFE.

can be done to anything including charms and done in jamella
add +21 life replenish followed by +30 life =+33 life replenish

Damage Reduced by %
General code for it is 24FE.
Create a new charm by typing the following
4A4D 1000 8000 6400 2A32 D616 0302 07F5 80A8 C000 24FE FFFF
Make a regular item open, add to it in Jam Dam Red by ##, then open in Hex prog,
Replace the 4 values before the last two with 24FE, so u have ... 24FE##.
Then save and u got DAM RED%.
Or if u look carefully at Dam Red by ##, ull see it is 22FE,
u can just replace 22 with 24. after all Dam REd % is a rarely used property in D2 (its on a rune).

About dam red %. Just take a normal item (charm) from Jam's database,
make it superior add to it "damage reduced by 63", save file.
open hexworkshop, open saved file. ull see at the ends of the codes 22FE ####.
just change 22 to 24 and save. reopen file in Jam and ull have Dam red %.
Then add on top of the DR% watever properties u want.

Assassin u need like 255%-500% damage reduce good at 8.3mill or 830k hp.
Zon-u need a lot of rred damage like 3000-4000%(I use 3800% for bow zon only n 255% for java zon)
Paladin- u need more than 1000% damage reduce no more than 1500%.
To u need good life leech like 127 on each melee weapon.
barb- barb is melee dueler n u need 500% or more not exceding 1000% n good for 8.3mill hp(i dunno for 830k hp)
And u also need good life leech for 830k hp u could use 889% life leech per weapon n work well with 830k hp.
it steals about 2 letter per hit.....May not work for you but i work great for me...
I've dueled alot of people and all sorts of dmg reduce and it seems to do nothin i allways do the same amout of dmg the only thing i see that makes a it change is your life if u have a different life and u have the right amount of reduce for your life u can almost take no dmg its a combo of the 2 i think that the dmg reduce is reduced based on your life not on the attackers dmg. but this is just what i think no one has to belive me for all my testin is done on a necro and most wouldnt know anythin bout that.
Right...damage reduce works only with a good life....
I find that 510% Dmg Red works best for Barbs. And 127% leech seems to work best for me.. But It may be because I'm using a special life, that no one else uses. (Its not 800K, 830K, 8MIL, 8.3MIL, or 1.33MIL ) Let's just say, its under 6mil.
When dueling zons 510 dr is good. It is also good against some of the high dr assassins out there. If they are low then use lower dr. plus I use 107 life steal

Level Mask
use d2edit available from quest clan site
type in 983139 but hidden levl is bad you fool no one anymore better to put 999999
1310819 =20 * 65536 + 99
983139 =15 * 65536 + 99
655459 =10 * 65536 + 99
Pick a number, any number... multiply by 65536 and add 99, voila! masked 99!
Pick a number, any number... multiply by 65536 and add 13, voila! masked 13!
Pick a number, any number... multiply by 65536 and add 255, voila! masked 255!
First you have to decide what level you want to pretend you are (mask) That is the pick a number, any number part...
If you want to pretend you're a level 99, then Pick a number, any number... multiply by 65536 and add 99, voila! masked 99!
If you want to pretend you're a level 13, then Pick a number, any number... multiply by 65536 and add 13, voila! masked 13!
Let's say your favourite number is 7... then 7 * 65536 is 458752...
So if you want to mask as a 13 you could set your level at 458752 + 13 = 458765...
if you want to mask as a 99 you could set your level at 458752 + 99 = 458851...

Tera Levels
There are 4 numbers that work over 1 bill all the rest are junk. These are the breakcodes....
These you need to find out yourself....even having the numbers it is not simple to get pos attack rating 95%
this is not like normal hacking

Dexterity Level
2147100000 high dex assassin
2146000000 High dex barb
1074000000 Pally or Amazon

% Increased Attack Speed
43% doesnt work for assassin i use about 600% after that doesnt seem to improve much

Life Steal
there seems to be no fixed amount of life steal that works i have heard for melee it should be no more than 500% but for Bowzon i have seen very good lifesteal at 1800% to 2000%
Leech wraps like most attributes in the game so you may find 100 or 200 leech is as good as 2000 there is no standard leech setting it is adjusted to the character if you look at the two Nightsclones 99s then they both have different leech settings
for a 99 zon 2000% seems to work well
127% (split on 3 diff items) 2 rings at 42% each and one amulet at 43%
Try 156% Life steal on bow...
Try 127 on each melee weapon.
barb- barb is melee dueler n u need 500% or more not exceding 1000% n good for 8.3mill hp(i dunno for 830k hp) And u also need good life leech for 830k hp u could use 889% life leech per weapon n work well with 830k hp.
I use 107 life steal
For Zon Life steal-use life of 830k n 1500-2000% life steal work great!!!! For 8.3mill life leech is good in between 5000-6000%
I've put 1hp and 100% leech on a char while testing and hit another char. After 1 hit, I quit, opened him with jamella and he had 83k life.
Since Blizzard is saying that the % you leech is the %of your dmg, the max damage must be around 83k.
I increased the leech in 1% steps, but after 105% it started leeching less.
well 106% is great on a 3 item spread for meele
put 26% leech on both of your rings, your ammulet, both weapons, and armour. so 156% total. thats if u have a barb that uses 2 weapons

Prevent Life Steal
try chilling armour and bone shield/tornado armour + energy shield

Slows Target
Seems liks 127% slow target doesnt work well
it will popup a dialogue saying the assingned skill should do no effect.
yes but slows target works very well try 35% to 40% my TeenNight can turn you to a slug in seconds ....lol
i have one on each claw or try 40% on a single weapon character

Knockback and Slow
To couter KBK (knokbak), use a shield and the skill (concentrate from Barb or on charm) on the L-side attack.
U may also use the aura (concentration) from a Pally on the R-side attack.
To counter slowdown, use SS (super speed) with negative -180 speed to run/walk.
If someone slows u down try to slow him too and use decripify (for anyone) + slow missiles (if zon).
Use Burst of Speed (Sassy) and aura Vigor (Pally) on URSELF to gain more speed.
Also if ur slowed down u may get close to opponents using several skills (on charms if need be): Teleport (sorc), Leap, Leap Attack, WhirlWind (WW for Barb), Charge (pally)

Testing
A new command available for off-Realm play in v1.09 is "players X". This will simulate the number of players in the game that you say, with 2-64 valid options. Each additional player doubles monster base hit points, adds .67 to the exp they give, and causes them to drop more items. Just start a game, then [by pressing enter] have your player say, "players 8" (without the quotes) for example. Nothing will happen other than your character saying that, but you should notice the monster hit points are much improved as soon as you leave town.

We still get emails about this all the time. The valid options are 2-64, though past 8 the increased experience drops off very sharply. "Players 64" gives you about the same experience as 10 players would, if the ratio kept increasing at the same rate, so 8 is the optimum if you are going for the bigger experience and don't want monsters to have almost infinite hit points.

This is a very popular feature addition, since before this it was virtually impossible to level up past 50 or so single player, and very slow to there. It also adds some challenge to the game.