Strategy Informer  

Author: tohuwabohu

Some of the differences to vanilla Diablo2:
-max lvl is 500 instead of 99
-max skilllevel is 60
-complete new frontend with new look and feel
-new and fresh user interface
-resolution switchable between 1024*768 and 800*600
-display of mf, gold, exp, ias, run, fastercast, magic resis, phyresis
inside statscreen
-individual new skillpanes for each char and preparation for
4. skilltab for craftskills
-big inventory
-big stash
-new levelentrysigns
-fixed gambleprices
-true random gamble no preset ring and amu
-20 items in gamblescreen
-blocking while running
-barb has classic WW reactivated
-dropcap of 6 items is removed
-ancients cap of 1 lvl reward is removed
-cowking kan be killed as often as someone likes
-4/4/6 skillpointquests
-potion of life gives 40 life reward
-Lam Esams gives 20 statpoints
-gold in stash and inv greatly increased
-many new Uniques
-many new Sets
-new magic and rare stats
-new runes
-new gems and gemclasses
-some new and modified levels

-new dungeons
UD
HD
Hellfire

-new monsters
-guestmonster akt1 to 4
-monster random resistances

-all text displayed is english independend of your original language
-the intros usually played at the start of D2 will be skipped
-modified start attributes
-diffrerent startitems / beginning of a new storyline
-more than 90% of the skills are changed.
including of course dmg, manacosts, range, length

-Vanilla Fixes
-major boost for loading and joining games
-random transform bug fixed
-montype display bug fixed
-classbelt displaybug fixed
-item description bug fixed for items with quantity
-allow player gfx state on non summons
-uniques not randomly dropping if unwanted