Hello,
Can you please explain the reason? If you truly want to follow the D2 items and characteristics, this change to the ZOD rune is pretty awkward. IT is the most sought off rune in the entire D2, some people spend years and not finding it. The change doesn’t add anything to the builds, more, it makes them weaker. The change in esthetics and naming for the “soulstone” material was a nice touch, but the ZOD nerf, not at all.
Again, thanks for the work, but will be nice to have the revert to the old ZOD rune.
All the best.
The stats Zod currently provide are still strong (except for pet builds). Zod wasn’t sought after in D2 at all as it was pretty useless outside of one Runeword, which wasn’t that great for many builds anyway (Grief over BoTD anyday, regarding d2). So that reasoning doesn’t really hold. (I’m aware anyone would still be happy to find a zod, but ber and jah runes were worth more than a zod or cham, despite either of the latter being more rare).
Either way, the change was made as a broader nerf to +skills availability everywhere, as the generous +to all skills provided too much damage and meant other items without +skills were simply ignored. Making builds weaker was exactly the point.
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I never could play long enough even to get to Zod.
A bit of drama on this page.
Thanks for the update. I’m about to look at the change log, you know, to see if cosmetics were added. 
LOL. Just kidding entirely.
Half Life, Half Life 2, Rage, then TBS with Heroes 3, and Age of Wonders 2: The Wizard’s Throne campaign for the first time ever. TBS was a thing 15 years ago and more for me. Turns out I absolutely love it, but more the new AoW experience (feels more like an RPG) than Heroes which gets tedious as hell even though technically it is the better game of the two.
Played zero of this mod for months and zero in this genre for awhile now. I think the delay in the GD expansion feels like this mod was delayed a bit too, but I may be wrong.
Mostly concerned with taking care of my super senior mother. And also realizing I’ve played top down ARPG so many years expanding is a good idea, but only because a friend kept pushing me. And turned out I do love other game genres still. FPS are reallly hard for me to get into, linear story progression is something I haven’t cared about many years realizing gameplay options matter more than visceral immersiveness of a shooter. Diablo generally has neither as you play the same campaign 50-500 times and skip all dialogue. LOL.
For me playing a game for the story means you have enough money to get a good amount of games each year and actually try a large portion of what is out there. 30 years ago I tried that and I realized gaming is not meant to be consumed as a whole by most people. You find what you like and you stick to it. But trying new stuff can also be the spice of life!
So my main question about this mod would be, did the delay of the GD expansion dampen recent progress? Or it is kind of same old?
EDIT: Heroes 4 some as well, parallels to AoW mentioned above.
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There’s a few very minor issues I’m noticing now in regards to the new GD expension and RoT, which has had some impact. But also there’s more intesting stuff possible to do in the future with new templates. Sorc overhaul is already done looking forward to this.
But it hasn’t really had a significant impact on recent progress, 97% of progress is impacted by my own personal situation(s) 
Awesome answer. Thank you.
I keep forgetting I also played the original Halo for the first time recently as well. Remaster that switches to original graphics on the fly. It was quite good, just like HL2, but different. LOL.
EDIT2: I wanted to point out for those who are bored but absolutely must play D2, that D2:R mods are beginning to mature and aren’t a complete pile of garbage. LOL.
D2:R Reimagined was the only good one after Vanilla ++ died, but now also Eastern Sun has made a glorious return to the D2:R side if you guys want to check it out. I’ve only played Reimagined from last year’s update and I’ve not tried Eastern Sun at all. Each a work in progress, but Eastern Sun, the newer mod, already has several major patches under its belt.
I’m using retreat with my amazon but i don’t understand how lightning damage is dealt.Does it work with strafe ?
It works the same way Vindictive Flame or Counter strike from demolitionist and soldier work. You get some bonus stats which always apply, but when you get hit, you deal some AoE damage, which is the lightning bit.
hello create master maybe can i have a full version ROT 0.7.8.4?
Nope but it’s still largely up to date, if not fully up to date still
in trial of ancients it is very disturbing not to have the number of waves or number of tributes displayed.
Talk to one of th NPC barbarians, he can tell you your tribute count.
Displaying the wave unfortunately isn’t possible. You can sort of learn the waves as most of them, except for the last 3 or so, come with the same boss as the final wave.
ok thanks i will try that
Where can i use diablo’s soulstone ?
Hello,
Does Toxic Storm from the Palashia’s set scale with casting speed or attack speed?
Attack speed.
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It’s a little easter egg at this point. Doesn’t have any use (yet).
I noticed there are Folders with the same name as some of the arc files and is folders that don’t seem to be needed like mod extra files can they folders be deleted or they essential to play
In the Black Marsh, when you enter Hole level 2, there is a corpse blocking the entrance, preventing you from getting further. It is solved if you click on it but it is quite hard to see. It should probably be moved a bit further