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 Spiritual successor to GOONTOPIA (while we all wait for the D2 remaster) Previous thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3797978&pagenumber=1&perpage=40 New Stuff: https://d2es.github.io/item-db/items/newstuff.htm Patch Notes: http://d2es.urcraft.com/viewtopic.php?id=6 Welcome back to Eastern Sun (for a fifth? time). A heads up for anyone who played with us before but is hesitant to do so again: The old patches from Garfu are in this version. Which means we have all of the new items, drops rates, ore buffs, etc. EXCEPT FOR RADIANCE (why the gently caress do they never add RADIANCE?  ) These changes as well as many QoL improvements shorten the end-game grind and make building god characters fun again, even if you've already done it 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 times on previous servers.PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE SECTION ON INSTALLATION FURTHER DOWN IN THE POST BEFORE ASKING QUESTIONS #d2es on goonscx. https://discord.gg/goonscx Eastern Sun is a free, multiplayer-capable modification for Diablo II that does not overwrite the base game. It makes standard Diablo II look like the handiwork of dribbling baby-men. If you have never played Diablo II... ...I don't believe you. Either way, The Goon community that Eastern Sun has attracted is friendly and charitable to a fault. Players will unload Set and Unique items on you until your puny 20 Strength spine snaps like a twig, so hop in and see what this game is all about. If you liked Diablo II... ...you will play Eastern Sun until your keyboard starts to bleed. Eastern Sun adds many features that improve Diablo II a thousandfold, some of which should have been part of the game in the first place, some of which you would never have thought possible. Some things you might need to know about ES
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 our server, but the stockers and tokenizer allow you to hoard a shitload of stuff into simple 1x1 spaces. 
Mercenaries have the same equipment slots as players. Mercenary-exclusive equipment Sets provide an easy means to get a competent sidekick. 
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. 
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. Ghost cows! 
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. 
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 Garfu added even more item customization options! See the new recipes for details. Examples of some of my sorceress' builds from prior servers:     ------------>IMPORTANT INSTALL INFORMATION<----------- https://sites.google.com/view/goontopia/goontopia quote:Things to note: [/QUOTE] Please check out ALL of the following links if you are just starting, there is a ton of useful info smashed into these websites: https://discord.gg/goonscx 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... https://d2es.github.io/item-db/items/es3cube_n.htm MOST IMPORTANT WEBSITE FOR D2ES. 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. Any time 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 mid game 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. http://d2es.urcraft.com/D2ESClient/allplugins.zip Here’s another link to our plugin pack. You did download it before, right? These are a life-saver once you learn how to use the different containers and recipes. The important one to note is to press F1 in game to load the maphack. We used to have some short guides on them but they seem to be gone. Do Not Fear Jazz fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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 READ THIS BEFORE YOU KEEP GOING Please note, the old goontopia IP no longer works. You need to make sure your gateway is set as the following: quote:From the Utilities folder, run BNGatewayEditor and create the Gateway for Diablo to see my server I have no intention of ever taking the server down, sans maintenance. We may do ladder resets though. Do Not Fear Jazz fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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Here's MOST of the patch notes. I think there's some missing stuff that was in before I started writing notes: OTHER NOTES: ** Revamped tinkering making it actually useful now * there is no longer a limit to how many times you can tinker an item * +hp and mana only take 1 heart/soul instead of 3 * 3x Frozen Soul + 3x Shadow quartz = Griswold's Hand (tinkering item) * 3x Bleeding Stone + 3x Burning Sulphur = Treehead Woodfist's Arm (tinkering item) * 2x Dark Azurite + 2x Bitter Peridot + 2x Pulsing Opal + 2x Enigmatic Cinnibar = Radament's Head (tinkering item) * 2x Tomb Jade + 2x Solid Mercury + 2x Storm Amber + 2x Tainted Tourmaline = Hephasto's Hand (tinkering item) * 1x Frozen Soul + 1x Shadow Quartz = Heart * Griswold's hand + item = +1 min/max damage * Treehead Woodfist's Arm + item = +9% Demon/Undead damage * Radament's Head + item = +3 hp +1 life after kill * Hephasto's Hand + item = +3 mana +1 mana after kill * Quivers are now socketable ** Loot table adjustments * Buffed ore drops from Cows and Clones (Izual, Duriel, Andy, etc.) * Significantly buffed ore drops from Treant King, Reporb, Reziarfg, and Nihl * All mobs mentioned above have a very small chance top drop a dragon stone (on top of the chance already) * Guardians (in Nihl's) have a much higher chance of dropping a dragon stone * Countess rune drops fixed, now actually worth it (drops 2 runes of a value relative to the difficulty) * Perfect crystals now cost 120 points, up from 100. +%Summon damage tinker adjusted to reflect new point value. * Ores have been buffed again, crystals are more abundant to encourage tinkering * Can now tinker +1 To All Skills: 1 Perfect, 3 Flawed Enigmatic Cinnibar (150 points) * Cubing an empty ore by itself will now provide you with a few fake notes (!!) * Cows given additional ore rolls * Many skills adjusted to reduce their casting delay (not thunder wave) * Removed thief aura, melee Dead End 4lyfe (to clarify, this was the thing that made you get 0 gold drops in Dead End) * Giants, Belhifets, and Treants no longer take forever to kill. Treants give more XP * Jeweler's (6 Socket) on armor is now fixed. It spawns as code 760 or 102, both are active. * 'Of Aurora' Suffix now spawns with more balanced aura levels * Aura forging now gives higher aura levels (reforge to attain) * Most aura levels on Uniques and RWs have been adjusted, reroll to attain * Prayer aura was acting weird, so it now no longer drains mana * Transmuting a Kanji rune with a crystal can now returns the correct amount of crystals * Small chance I fixed the countess rune drops {12/27/2016} * Master of Fire works now * Tripled rate of scroll drops from Izuals {12/09/2016} * White aura stone now adds level 31 conviction aura (instead of cleansing) * Black aura stone now adds level 31 holy freeze aura (instead of thorns) * A2 merc conviction aura raised to level 20 to be more in line with other auras, actually giving you a reason to use him again * A3 merc resist auras raised to level 20 to give you an option if you don't want to use the A2 merc {12/02/2016} * You can now walk through Duriel's corpse * Duriel's corpse is now Corpse Explosionable * Added higher tier crystal conversion recipe: Maple + Can + TP = convert 120 points up, Maple + can + ID = convert 120 points down * Diabloclone has been buffed and his drops have been adjusted. Summon him by selling 20 devil's foods {11/28/2016} * Marsh of Pain spawns reorganized, more Duriels, less of everything else * Marsh of Pain mob density increased 50% * Duriels given an additional rune roll, max of Null(purple) in Hell, Mo(green) in Nightmare, O(yellow) in Normal * Added Skeleton Mastery and Raise Skeleton synergy to Necro Hydra, raised synergy value from 5% to 7% * You can now summon 1 more of each golem, you can now summon 5 more skeletons * Puppeteer's Hold summon damage raised from 80% to 400% * New runeword: 3 Socket Charm - Nerfobaba - Hi Ro Fu - +1 all skills, +15% FCR, +20% elemental damage, Level 20 Ancients Call oskill, +energy/level, +mana/level, resist all +2, CBF * Storm, Earth, and Fire runeword buffed to account for it being an endgame upgrade to the new AC runeword * Dead end gold drops increased 100% * Moonlight runeword re-added (it wasn't working before) * NPC gold limites increased to 2m {11/26/2016} * Necro buffs part 1 of many, this is just the groundwork, much more to come * Summon Damage % tinkering changed from 2/20/240 to 10/100 for chipped/normal Tainted Tourmaline, so that's 40 TT for max summon damage on an item. * Skeleton mastery damage per level increased from 2 to 5 (very noticeable will all of the +% damage and auras) * Skeleton damage % per level raised from 7% to 15% * Corpse explosion max damage raise from 60% to 80% max hp of mob * Corpse explosion base radius raised from 16 to 24, + 1/level * Golem mastery base damage per level raise from 3 to 10 (very noticeable will all of the +% damage and auras) * Blood golem life steal raised from 10% to 20%, damage from 10% to 20% per level, synergy damage from 3 to 5 * Clay golem damager % per level raised from 10% to 20%, synergy damage from 3 to 5 * Iron golem damager % per level raised from 10% to 20%, synergy damage from 3 to 5 * Fire golem damager % per level raised from 10% to 20%, synergy damage from 3 to 5 {11/23/2016} * New crystal conversion recipe: Any blemished gem, crystal can, TP scroll for up, ID scroll for down, converts 10 crystals\ * Conviction is fixed finally {11/17/2016} *+1 all tinker no longer works on white items {11/16/2016} *Buffed drops for all clones (Bosses in non-boss areas) and Cows *Cows now have the best droprate for Sa runes *Izual clones now have the best chance to drop Dragon Stones {11/07/2013} * Jeweler's on armor is now fixed. It spawns as code 760 or 102, both are active. * 'Of Aurora' Suffix now spawns with more balanced aura levels * Aura forging now gives higher aura levels (reforge to attain) * Most aura levels on Uniques and RWs have been adjusted, reroll to attain * Prayer aura was acting weird, so it now no longer drains mana * Transmuting a Kanji rune with a crystal can now returns the correct amount of crystals * Small chance I fixed the countess rune drops {11/04/2013} * Conviction Aura now works as intended (i.e. it actually works) * Fake note factory now drops fake notes and Sa runes more often {11/02/2013} * Fixed a bug that messed up a couple runewords * Cookbooks can now be made with ANY club, not just wirt's leg {10/29/2013} * Hotfixes * +all skills tinker fixed, only works on some items though * Amp damage and weaken are fixed, not sure what was wrong but they work now * Issue with crystals cubing into stocker fixed * Sorry  {10/28/2013} * Crystal point adjustments * Ore buffs * +1 All Skill Tinker added * Empty ore cube recipe * Cow drops buffed * Skill delay adjustments * Thief aura removed (WOOO) * Some minor monster HP/XP adjustments * See website and SA for more details as always! {10/20/2013} * Chipped crystals can now be converted * +% Summoning damage tinker added * Sa rune drops adjusted * See forums and newstuff.html for details! {09/12/2013} * Added new unique items (see stats page) * Added new runewords (see stats page) * Ore drops buffed, more crystals per ore * Crystals can now be converted to other types (see thread) * Revamped tinkering making it actually useful now (see thread) {08/27/2013} * Charsi now sells Maple Leaves * Ancient's Call range doubled * Item selling limit raised to 200k for all difficulties * Null runes can now be downgraded to Wo * All monster resists capped at 110 to give other resistance breaking skills a fighting chance {08/09/2013} * Moved Cain to the stash in Act 5 town. * Increased character and stash gold limit. * Fixed an issue with stat respecs not accounting for completing the Golden Bird quest in Act 3 (+20 max Life). {08/03/2013} Goontopia has gone live! 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Feb 23, 2021 02:35
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Maybe one day I can trick Garfu into helping me set up the respec server.
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Feb 23, 2021 02:38
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I shall try installing as soon as possible. I am a filthy casual though and may be overwhelmed by the new improvements.
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Feb 23, 2021 02:51
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Rytheric posted:I shall try installing as soon as possible. I am a filthy casual though and may be overwhelmed by the new improvements. They can be overwhelming at first but once you get the hang of it, they’re very enjoyable!
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Feb 23, 2021 03:15
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There's a lot of notes but it pretty much boils down to minor tweaks to shorten the thousand hour end game with a bunch of targeted farm areas instead of 100% randomness.
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Feb 23, 2021 03:20
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I'm still too young to play it seems. Gives me time to find an emulator so its good.
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Feb 23, 2021 04:12
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Oh neat, it's back! Gonna get so dstoned
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Feb 23, 2021 07:44
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quote:Set ‘Diablo II.exe’ to Compatibility mode I downloaded the files and followed the directions, but my compatibility window said:  Don't know if this changes anything, since there was no option for desktop composition or display scaling. Were these direction for Windows 7? Also tried to set up the gateway and got this error: quote:Attempt to connect Gateway d2es.goons.cx(d2es.goons.cx)...
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Feb 23, 2021 08:21
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Cobalt-60 posted:I downloaded the files and followed the directions, but my compatibility window said: Are you trying to launch this in windowed mode? If not try that first. Host name could be a DNS issue, if it still doesn’t work PM for the IP.
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Feb 23, 2021 21:49
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Does anyone remember what the fix was to not being able to equip mercenaries?
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Feb 23, 2021 21:52
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Tried launching in windowed mode, still getting this message: Are there up to date directions for Win10?
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Fixed the issue with mercenaries not being fully equitable. May post the patched mpq one of our lovely players made to allow immolation on left click where it was meant to be.
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Feb 27, 2021 05:01
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Do Not Fear Jazz posted:Maybe one day I can trick Garfu into helping me set up the respec server. I'll probably ask about this once a week. Whenever i feel like I've ruined a character and have buyer's remorse for my skill choice.
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Feb 28, 2021 08:27
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I once manually wrote a respec script trying to do my own d2 es battlenet like garfu, but before I totally finished garfu set up a new es server and I abandoned the project
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whocares8310 posted:I'll probably ask about this once a week. Whenever i feel like I've ruined a character and have buyer's remorse for my skill choice. In the mean time I can manually respec people if they ask. Although deathrat may give me a hand flipping everything from plainfile to SQL so we can have a web-based respec once again. We'll see. Been running NM nihl's on and off today, trying to gear up for Hell. If anyone gets a rumour of pain belt, I will trade almost anything for it.
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