Diablo II: Eastern Sun 2023 - Now with respecs and modern resolutions!

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Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

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!

Garfu fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Feb 23, 2021

# ¿ Feb 23, 2021 03:35

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# ¿ Apr 23, 2024 14:08

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

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.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2021 04:20

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

New patch:
https://garfu.dev/Step3.zip

*Skill books (very very rare drop). Drops from H Clones, with Nihl's domain Nihls being the best, Izual second best, the rest equal. They are white labeled and don't show up in pick by default, so keep an eye out
*Izuals can now drop up to scroll 50
*Respec token purchasable from Akara (deathrat)
*Stash/player gold limit increased by a lot

Respec token isn't working at the moment but a fix is coming soon.

Garfu fucked around with this message at 13:15 on Mar 19, 2021

# ¿ Mar 19, 2021 13:13

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Recent changes that should be deployed soon:

*Organ drop rate increased 3x to be more in line with the tinkering buff. Tinkering limit was removed a long time ago but there have never been enough organs to make a difference... hopefully this helps that.
*Skill book drop rate reduced. Should be an end game chase item. Monitoring rates and will adjust if needed
*Immolation available on left click

Respec still not working.

If you're crashing when talking to Akara you will need to download Step3, posted above

Garfu fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Mar 21, 2021

# ¿ Mar 20, 2021 21:44

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

They both are now

# ¿ Mar 21, 2021 20:20

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Flaming sword potentially on the way...

# ¿ Mar 22, 2021 02:32

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Yeah, for right now the token respecs are not working. Deathrat (not me) is going to take a look when he has time. It involves some setup server side that we can't test at the moment.

The alternative is setting the website back up... which I suppose we can do. We'll see

# ¿ Mar 22, 2021 14:10

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

You can still request a respec from DNFJ in the discord linked in the OP so you're not completely stuck. There just may be a waiting period

# ¿ Mar 22, 2021 16:01

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Nosthula posted:

Goontopia is back and its being updated? You son of a bitch, i'm in!

Edit: If I already have the last goontopia still installed, do I just need patch3 and the gateway edit?

Technically... But I'd do a full reinstall in a new directory. My old one broke somehow.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2021 17:25

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Nosthula posted:

Thanks, one final question Garfu. I also have an old copy of goontopia server i've had on my local computer since the last server. Do I need to install the patch on that as well. If so where does it go? I like to revisit d2es more often than we tend to have servers. ☺

Yeah. Overwriting what's in Step3.zip in D2GS should work. Not entirely sure as I'm not hosting the server this time

# ¿ Mar 22, 2021 18:06

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Consolidated new patch notes:

* Stash and inventory gold limit increased a lot
* Skill books drop from clones. Nihl's domain Nihl's have the highest chance
* Izuals drop up to scroll 50
* Organ's drop 4x as often
* New organ conversion recipes: 3x organ + Diamond = next organ | 3x organ + Skull = previous organ
* Teleport and Cold/Lit/Fire mastery oskills can now appear on boots

# ¿ Mar 25, 2021 00:48

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

I Love You! posted:

Farming brains in Harpy Nest for rare/unique amulets seems a tad absurd now

I don't get it. How is the Harpy's Nest any different than other areas? I just checked it out, nothing out of the ordinary. Harpies drop hearts, though.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2021 16:23

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Upcoming changes:

* Creeping Gold spawns adjusted
* Clone spawns adjusted
* Reporb and Reziarfg now give a large amount of exp
* Teleport and AC now available to use with left click

Basically for the above: more Creeping Golds spawn in Dead End, further reinforcing a gold find set being necessary for the end game, not just fake not farming until your eyes bleed. And I upped the clone spawns to max+1... for fun. I still get owned by Izuals and I liked the idea of there being more of them and more of a threat to farming.

And for the record, the Sorrow Imps in the Harpy's Nest had the same chance to drop organs as everything else I buffed, however I liked the idea of there being a place to farm brains, so I specifically buffed brain drops in the Harpy's Nest even more for next patch.

Garfu fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Mar 28, 2021

# ¿ Mar 28, 2021 03:44

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

nunsexmonkrock posted:

Is anyone here playing PD2? I just like the widescreen and finally enjoy a MA Assassin,

Odd thing is I started off stretching my screen, wanting a higher resolution, and now I just use the 800x600 windowed mode as I've gotten used to it. I don't even launch my larger window shortcut anymore. You kinda get used to it

# ¿ Mar 28, 2021 18:41

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Latest:

* Increased Nihl's Domain rewards greatly
* Removed nodrop on creeping gold

# ¿ Mar 30, 2021 03:46

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Small note, you don't need your inventory or cube open!

# ¿ Mar 30, 2021 06:41

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Upcoming patch: RADIANCE IS BACK!

* Radiance reintroduced by popular demand as an end game cube recipe. Enjoy
* Wirt's Other Leg vendor cost reduction now 35%
* Cow drops adjusted, slightly more ores and Sa runes
* Nihl's Domain Guardian drops adjusted, less dstones more ores

Download the new patch if you want to attempt to craft radiance any time soon. You may crash if you craft the aura stone or radiance without having the new files. Also a good idea if you haven't pulled it down in a while.

https://garfu.dev/Step3.zip

# ¿ Apr 1, 2021 03:49

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

FYI, unfortunately the gold limit the game can handle is 33,554,431 and not the 400,069,420 we have it set at. I'll have to re-edit the DLL but for now be careful as you can deposit more than the limit but it will disappear upon leaving the game

I found out the hard way.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2021 05:34

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

The fixed dll is in Step3. Now's probably a good time to redownload it all anyway with the upcoming new patch: https://garfu.dev/Step3.zip

# ¿ Apr 2, 2021 17:19

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Made some adjustments to dstone/rune drops since dstone drops were way overtuned... as some of you with thousands of extra dstones noticed

code:

-all clones have a very small dedicated high tier rune drop (this doesn't guarantee a drop if the roll hits, since the rune category has it's own tiered drop rate)
-all clones' dstone drops have been slightly reduced
-DMC still best for dstones
-bloodraven's second best for runes
-MoP best for runes 
-Nihl's pack in ND best best for runes and skillbooks
-Nihl's guardians given rune drop
-Izuals/cows still best for Sa runes

Other notes for patch:
* all skills tinker now 240 points from 150
* Added steak conversion to brains and souls

I'll update newstuff with those

# ¿ Apr 4, 2021 15:54

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

post pics of your inv

# ¿ Apr 14, 2021 03:23

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Holy fuuuuuukkkkkkk

# ¿ Apr 27, 2021 00:25

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

This installation is made for the realm, it does not include the necessary plugy files for a shared Stash.

Gambling/extracting

.filter

# ¿ Apr 28, 2021 11:05

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Ya, Akara still has the token of absolution. If you don't have Step3 it will crash you. I should probably remove that since it doesn't work.

# ¿ May 9, 2021 01:24

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Grundulum posted:

Doesn�t work? I�ve used it on my character this go-around. What doesn�t work about it?

You aren't playing on the realm

# ¿ May 9, 2021 04:02

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

They're playing single player

# ¿ May 15, 2021 18:59

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Yep that happens sometimes, and a restart will almost always fix it.

# ¿ May 20, 2021 19:08

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Grundulum posted:

PM sent. Offer stands if anyone else discovers this thread and has the itch.

Mind sending over Step1/2 to me as well? I'd like to rehost and archive them. Thanks!

# ¿ Nov 5, 2021 15:55

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Perhaps in a few years. People are already working on it. The big missing content would be the additional models. Everything else is doable right now. Deathrat would have more insight.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2021 01:13

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

http://garfu.dev/Step1.zip
http://garfu.dev/Step2.zip
http://garfu.dev/Step3.zip

# ¿ May 26, 2022 04:07

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Can't ping it, but it works just fine via the d2es client.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2022 22:02

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

I made it easier to download and install everything: <see next post>

Instructions and cnc-ddraw included

Also besides the discord in the OP, the original goontopia discord is located here and has people actively talking about the new realm: :siren:

https://discord.gg/aMus7Rx This is the only discord with active discussion at the moment, join up!

Starting guide for new people: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3960054&userid=39712. A note: I can do respecs, you don't need the perfect plan for your build. We also have skillbook and stat potion drops so with enough time spent you can max every skill!

Plugin guide: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3960054&userid=39712#post514016494

Garfu fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Aug 22, 2022

# ¿ Aug 6, 2022 23:09

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

INSTALLATION
NEW LADDER: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=setseen&threadid=3960054&index=457

Garfu fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Jul 9, 2023

# ¿ Aug 9, 2022 18:53

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

A new patch!

code:

- +1 all amu/ring tinker = He + Burning Sulphur
    +all limit is 15 per item. Adding/removing a forge or jewel when at the limit will permanently remove the tinker. Be careful!
-Rares can now roll with more than one oskill
-All magic find dstoning has been replaced with gold find dstoning (armor, helm, belts, shield, etc)
-Stat potions added. Drop from cows at a rate less then that of skillbooks from clones
    -Skillbooks can be converted to Stat Potions via cubing itself
    -There will be a d2hackit error when interacting with a stat potion unless you add 'srj 1 1' to ItemSizes.txt in the new /plugin/ folder
** Requires new patch download to see stat potion name and description

New patch download and plugin folder is in the discord

Garfu fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Aug 20, 2022

# ¿ Aug 20, 2022 02:25

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Gdrive Download link is public now my bad.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2022 12:20

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

This is the best install iteration we've had. The included cnc-ddraw makes the window stretchable by default. I'm playing on 1440p 27" with it stretched to a decent size and it looks pretty good. So if the previous d2vidtest glide 3dfx crap was stopping you from playing, all of that is gone.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2022 19:19

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

For this iteration, I've enabled double dstoning (dstoning a runeword twice, once before applying the runeword and once after) for goldfind and elemental damage, and can do it for other properties as well if desired. In the past it was only available for enhanced damage.

It lets you create this kinda stuff... 1.2k GF on one item. I'm pretty maxed out at 6.5k GF on just me. My merc has a whole lot as well. You can probably get up closer to 8k with a gold focused char but this is my main clearer at the moment as well.

Garfu fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Aug 22, 2022

# ¿ Aug 22, 2022 20:11

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

Vadun posted:

The full install method works pretty smoothly, but I can't figure out how to get ddraw.ini or cnc-ddraw to change the games resolution. It just launches in an 800x600 window, alt-enter does nothing.

You can stretch the window by hovering over one of the corners. I think for me the stretch icon doesn't show up but it still works.

You should be able to set it to full screen here:

You can't actually change the resolution in the proper sense, just via stretching.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2022 00:27

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

VBS install script?

Oh, yeah, don't run that. I should remove it.

It's all ready to go out of the box. Remove the -w the install script added to the shortcut. Everything you want to do should work from there. It's forcing windowed mode and pretty much overwriting all of the cnc-ddraw settings. Woops

edit: actually don't use the created shortcut at all, just create a new one, or run it directly from Diablo II.exe

# ¿ Aug 23, 2022 02:46

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# ¿ Apr 23, 2024 14:08

Garfu: Mar 6, 2008; Much like buttholes, families are meant to be tight.

I've updated the install file to just be one zip of everything you need. Unzip it and play.

If you are returning and still have an old install, just join the discord and grab the latest patch from #install-and-general-info

Garfu fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Aug 23, 2022

# ¿ Aug 23, 2022 21:47

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