• Re-allocate your skill points and stat points at any time, without penalty, from our [url=easterngoons.dyndns.org/forum[/url]
  
• All item modifications, such as inserting runes, can be reversed with the Horadric cube. You can then reuse the same runes for your new superior ethereal 5 socket hellfire sword you just found!
  
• No decisions are permanent. It's not possible to permanently gently caress your character.
  
• Eastern Sun expands the player's inventory. Even the most loot-hungry whores can vacuum to their heart's content without having to leave their buddies for inventory organization.
  

• The multiple stash pages and shared stash found in single player ES do not appear on Eastern Gents, but the stockers and tokenizer allow you to hoard a shitload of stuff into simple 1x1 spaces
  

• Mercenaries have been rebalanced. No longer is the Act II Mercenary the de-facto tag-along simply because of his Aura. Mercenaries vary in their utility skills, damage output and survivability, but all are useful.
  
• Mercenaries have the same equipment slots as players.
  
• Mercenary-exclusive equipment Sets provide an easy means to get a competent sidekick.
  

• Skills have received a massive overhaul.
  
• Most skills are more powerful than their Diablo II equivalents or have added effects.
  
• Each class has received several new skills, some allowing classes to excel in fields they could never previously touch.
  
• Tired of a dull meteororb sorc? Buff up enchant, aerial guard, and fanatic swing and bash corpsefire's face in while meteors rain down nearby. Or, you can just build the best sorceress of all, the lightning barbarian! He has a knack for decimating baal's minions while simultaneously burning out your allies' retinas.
  

• Hack and slash through seventeen new, multi-level dungeons. There are even challenges for those with enough Strength to cleave God's skull in twain with their pinky.
  
• Monsters from other action RPGs bolster the Diablo roster. Try not to get shanked by one of Planescape: Torment's Dusties when you're delving into the depths of the final optional dungeon.
  

• Eastern Sun adds a bevy of new Unique and Set items.
  
• Set items in Eastern Sun are exceptionally powerful. Collect full sets of equipment for stellar multi-faceted boosts. Many builds will use sets as endgame equipment.
  
• A new set of runes based on the Japanese alphabet go alongside Lord of Destruction's runes. The new rune set has its own set of runewords.
  
• For early-game boons, combine like gems for gemwords, similar to runewords.
  

• Eastern Sun allows you to customise your equipment to an absurd degree.
  
• Forge an extra bonus of your choice, from an impressive list, to all equipment of Magic rank or above.
  
• Using the still-beating hearts of your fallen enemies, add up to thirty small bonuses to any piece of equipment, from extra base life to extra fast cast rate.
  
• Collect Dragon Stones, dropped regularly throughout the game. These coveted items will allow you to add extra modifiers to most items at a cost of increasing their level requirement.
  
• A quick video showing how to take a blue item and turn it into a runeword, using various items and item stockers, can be seen here. You can horde all the junk you want and have them ready to use, without cluttering up your inventory
  

• http://easterngoons.dyndns.org/forum/index.php Eastern Goons, the New Goontopia! I imagine with a solid playerbase the trading forums could become very useful. If people from Gents Gaming join in on the action we can mingle with them there as well. It would be cool to see some people write up some short guides about anything from character/item builds to how and why to use brahmins different plugins.
  
  
• http://miyoshino.la.coocan.jp/eswiki/ The Eastern Sun Wiki. This place has ALL of the info you need for character skills, merc skills, breakpoints, monster stats, whatever. On the left hand side there are also links to some useful starting tips. While most of the guides aren't all that great, you can check out the character builds and Hall of Glory sections to get some ideas possible items for character builds. There's also a section on cube recipes, but I prefer to use the one found in this next link...
  
  
• http://homepage3.nifty.com/miyoshino/es/es3top.htm The Eastern Sun Database. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, LEARN TO USE CTRL-F ON THIS WEBSITE. This place is THE site to find out anything and everything about items. Sets, Uniques, Runewords...it's all here. Anytime you want to figure out how to build something or gear your character for this or that, you should come to this website and use ctrl-f on the various pages to find items with those mods. Also, make sure you check out the recipes section. This is crucial to equipping yourself with midgame and endgame gear. Need a 4 socket armor to make a shiny runeword? Look up sockets. Don't have all the ingredients to socket something? Look up the ingredients and see if there is a way to make them. Item customization is huge in this game, and rather daunting at first, but try to just focus on one thing at a time first and remember to use ctrl-f. As you start looking around for ingredients you will learn different ways to make items, its pretty easy to get a hang of but hard to remember everything, so do one thing at a time. NOTE: we are running a special patch made by IDDQD that changes a few items, as well as adding a bunch more. All of this stuff only effects the 'endgame', and the new additions can be found here
  
• http://madbrahmin.googlepages.com/d2es :science: Our very own wizard, brahmin, has set up this collection of hacks to run on our private ES server. These area life-saver once you learn how to use the different containers and recipes. We used to have some short guides on them but they seem to be gone, maybe somebody could post these on the new forums? NOTE: many people seem to have difficulty using brahmins maphack. Personally I like the one posted by garfu. All you have to do is drop the file in diablo ii/plugin and then hit f1 in game to activate.
  

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• Don't be afraid to find the weakest monsters (fallen) and gain a couple levels from them at first.
  
• Use your throwing potions the game gives you to start with
  
• buy a javelin and shield asap, and pump points into dex so you can start hitting monsters more frequently - remember, you can always respec your stat points later
  
• put your adventurers pack in the horadric cube and hit the transmute button, you will get some useful items. Put the noobs odd charm in the cube and hit transmute until you get a lvl 1 skill you want. Don't throw any of these items away, they will always be useful
  
• ask a goon for help! IRC is probobly your best bet to get someone in that game. They can supply you with much needed gold and items.
  

• Remember, if you want to know what any of these weird items can do, it's best to just look them up with ctrl-f on the database. They almost always are involved in cube recipes, and so you should scan the recipes page for them.
  
• To take items out of your various stockers, cube the stocker with a stack of any amount of keys. You can buy keys at charsi.
  
• To select which item you want to extract, cube the desired stocker by itself until it shows the correct output.
  
• To remove gems, you need to cube the can opener with the gem can. You can cube the gem can by itself to determine gem type (ruby, emerald, etc) and the can opener by itself to determine gem quality (chipped, flawless, etc).
  
• The rerolling orb uses the recipes found on the database for rerolling rings, amulets, charms, and jewels. It keeps track of what kinds of items you put in there, and gives you credit towards your new items. For example, you could cube 7 blue rings into the rerolling orb as you find them, set the orb on magic -> magic (which uses 3 blue ring points, just like the recipes pages says) and then cube the orb with a key to get 2 new blue rings. Or, you could set the orb to magic -> rare rings, and then use up all 7 ring points to gain a yellow ring.
  
• You can cube any 2x1 item or bigger with the tolkenizer (found on charsi) to make a 1x1 replica of that item for storage. Remember to cube the "token" by itself bofore you try to equip it though!
  
• Figure out how to use the stockers without Brahmins program. Once you do, download it, install, restart d2, and never look back.
  

• Forging is the bread and butter for all people who want better items. Forging is usually applied to an item by using anvil stones. Each anvil stone is made by cubing 4 dragon stones with a perfect gem, and each item can only have 1 forging at a time. Forging can be removed by cubing the item with 3 thawing potions, which will then return your anvil stones and base item seperately. Because of this, you can start foring items right away, and then just re-apply the forging to newer items you find without wasting any components. Make sure you apply forging after any other recipes - if you want to socket the same item, or tinker or dstone it, you should take off the forging and do the other recipes first, then re-apply the forging. Forging can be applied to most sets/uniques/rares/magics, as well as jewels and some charms.
  
• d-stoning is a slightly more advanced way to customize your items. Usually the recipe involves a dstone, or some variant of dstones (right click the dstone while it's in your main inventory to change its form). Dstoning is a double edged sword: you can use it to add some impressive effects to your items in small increments, but it also adds a higher level requirement each time you do so. I recommend looking at forging first, even though it's slightly more expensive, as you cannot get ingredients back from dstoning. Note, endgame gear can be further buffed by removing the level requirement penalty and adding further dstone enhancements by using recipe 50 at a steep cost. Check out jumo's post below for tips on doing this correctly.
  
• tinkering is kinda cool I guess but really that poo poo is silly. It is similar to dstoning in that you can apply it to most items, but you can only tinker a few effects per item.
  
• You can also add a socket to almost any item with cube recipes, instead of having to level up new characters for the larzuk socket quest. Even jewelry can have a socket with proper items. Since you can use a key to unsocket items, feel free to do this asap and stick whatever sharp jewel of sharpness you find in there.
  

• Bowazons are really fun classes to play, I used one of these first last season. They are easily hell viable with proper equipment, and stafe/legendary arrow are fun to use. Get the Waves of Ascension generic set, and you will be breaking phys immunes in hell in no time flat, while the creeping doom proc stuns the poo poo out of everything. Act2 fanata merc is great until you can min/max all 3 damage auras. I used the level 60 zon set for a while - end game includes Tasslehoff's and a good duelmax (rare bow with Screaming and Fool's prefixs, at the minimum).
  
• Elemental Druid's are also a powerhouse, they can use the most basic goldfind gear and just forge everything for skills to get damage. Creeping doom is generally considered the best skill here because magic damage is almost never resisted, and when it is you can usually break it with oskill peice flesh and bone. You also stunlock everything and for a lagger like me it's a godsend. Get a ring that has PFnB with your rerolling orb, and act5 offensive mercs can use ancients call for the occasional enemy that you can't break immunity yourself
  
• Lightning Barbarians are big and annoying and fill your screen with big white things. Apparently they do a ton of damage, and they can use ancients call themselves to break any immunity. They can also use caster equipment, and since they can equip 2 "2h" swords, they have the best dstone/damage rate for their gluttony (and can use two of them!). oskill lightning mastery is a must, and act2 conviction mercs stack with ancients call.
  
• Durch or someone came up with some sweet enchant sorc last season, and Jumo and Effess are already using them this time around. You can level it up and play just like any elemental sorc, but then the key for goldfind lies in using respec and enchanting an act1 fire rouge. Since you get your mercs goldfind + your golfind, you can easily achieve 5000+ goldfind with just standard goldfind gear listed here. Give her a massive bow and tasslehoffs (or just goldarks), buff her up with maxed enchant, and travel to The Dead End. Spam static field and let her strafe do its dirty work; watch as your pickit program crashes trying to pick up all the gold at once.
  

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