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Updated hireling fix - A3 mercs will cast blizzard and meteor more often, will cast ice bolt and firestorm less often. Go to mods -> HU -> data -> global -> excel and swap out the hireling.txt file and delete the .bin file.

Updated the data and webpage folder with a minor fix and balance changes. This will not cause any character crashes. Simply delete your old data folder and put this one in its place, along with the webpage maker for accurate changes.

Notable changes are:
-Hireling fix for Blizzard and Meteor
-Increased chance to gamble sets and uniques
-Removed Fire Enchanted from non-super uniques
-Reduced the dmg% bonuses from runes
-Increased power of some gems
-Increased power of Uber uniques
-Increased base durability of all weapons to 250
-Increased resist penalties for NM and Hell to -60 and -120
-Increased Battle Command duration to 5 minutes
-Slightly improved Immolation Arrow burn radius
-Improved Double Swing and Frenzy damage scaling. Doubles Swing does significantly higher damage than Frenzy due to not gaining the IAS/FRW that Frenzy does.

thx ensley for adding the hireling fix !!!

This is likely due to the change in the double swing animation in 1.5? If you put it back to default, it attacks faster than Frenzy, and it's minimum allowed fpa is better as well.

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Updated 2/12/18 small string error fix and now packed as a single folder again. Get it HERE!

Just replace the Save folder with your old version before you delete the old version.

Updated 4/29/18 for 1.9 solo version. If you have the previous 1.8 solo version, you can just swap out the data folders.

very nice !!! downloading now thx m8!

any1 interested in running a server to play this ? i find d2 boring solo but in duo it is cool! but i cant play on a daily basis so if its possible to have something that show who is playing atm on a server ( the only program i know my self is hamachi but i dont know how to host something and shit like that also there is tunngle that ppl use to play diablo tchernobog which show who is online ) so ppl who like to play this wit a friend or two could step in and see if there is ppl online ?? i dont know if this make any sens at all since my english is very poor !!!! well if any1 understood me and know how to do it let me know wat you are running and server info and shit and ill be there everytime i play 1.9 sp !

Updated final version for single player. You must use the whole new folder as it says up top.

I've extracted the content to C: and created few chars. They all lack weapon, gold, a skill and stats point, like we used to had. Is this how it is suppose to be or I'm doing something wrong?
I have to fist fight and I can't kill anybody.

well it is normal to start empty of everything but, you should have either 30 or 60 remaining stats point to add + 10k gold in your invenory to buy a few piece of gear to slain those fools out there !

am i the only 1??? when i use a plugy version of any sp version. when i lvl up my free stats to add are not RED colored . ( its not a big deal i just want to know if i am the only 1 having this issu or if its plugy that always does it ! )

Here is how it looks: https://imgur.com/a/nn0jDD7
Btw, on the last picture arrow and close button don't work.

Anybody know how to fix this?

I have 1.7 version in another folder also in C:. Could that be the problem?

The only thing I can think of for that is maybe your resolution is not right. It must be 1024x768.

I changed the resolution but it didn't help much. I still don't have skill and stats to spend, no money and char screen is missing most of text.

Why is it so hard to make it work out of the box, like it used to. Extract the files, run .bat file and play.

Redownload the complete folder up there
Have it as your only D2 folder in C:/
Change the patch_d2 to the 1.8 one if you're trying to play on the realm
Run some kind of registry cleaner like CCleaner
Run D2modsetup and make sure it says it's on
Run HU.reg if you're trying to play on realm

There's no way it can't work unless you did something wrong.

Thanks for putting this together.

Some questions for anyone here who can answer for hirelings.

A1 rogues for instance: From what I gather looking at the files in an excel viewer, there's 3 versions for normal (10, 55, 75), 2 NM (55, 75), and 1 hell (75).

Things which I hope someone can confirm:

1. They all gain 20 HP per level regardless of the difficulty.
2. They all use the same skills regardless of the difficulty. (N/NM/Hell all have same access to their skillset)

My main question then becomes, what's the main difference, I can only infer that the difference is in the skill cast frequency.

If the only difference is the rate in which certain skills are used, which are the best? Hell hirelings?

EDIT: Also, what is the difference between the 3 different versions in normal, and 2 different versions in NM? Is it just thresholds for the base level the hireling is hired at, or are there functional differences?

I am pretty confused, can someone dumb this down for me? Thanks.

You have to look at the ones that say version 100. Their chance to fire/cast specific things should be the same unless there's an error somewhere. They will use their skills as soon as it's available, like level 24 for immolation arrow.

HP always seems bloated like hell.

It's basically impossible to do anything in a new game, I dropped it too 100 and even then its fiesty.

I have no problem with the creatures doing a lot of damage but please remove the bloating which does nothing but slow your progress tremendously

HU isn't supposed to be like D3 or POE where you can just instantly melt hordes of monsters and boss fights end in 10-20 seconds. Their boss fights have cut scenes that last longer than the actual fights. This entire folder is open source and you are free to edit it as you please; but I fear you may get bored if you dumb down the monsters too much. The items here are better than what we have on the live realm; particularly in leech and resists.

Updated with some minor final fixes.

i dont seem to be able to adjust max resist.

I changed it in the ini but it still shows 50 ingame.

It's built into the states of the patch itself. You'd have to edit states and itemstatcost I believe, perhaps skills too for passivestat calcs, I forget. Then you'd have to recompile the new data into the mpq again.

I wouldn't recommend changing the resists much or at all though as it would significantly change game balance. Keep maths in mind, going from 50% to 75% would cut damage in half, as they'd be going from 50% to 25%. Anything more than a 5-10% increase would make the game super watered down.

hello guys,

Haven't played this mod in a long time; so glad to see it's still alive! A couple years ago I was playing the solo 1.21z version because I play too sporadically to play on the realms unfortunately.

I see the SP version has been updated (couple times since then?). What would be a decent build to just have fun playing through 1.9 SOLO, hardcore? I normally would search the forums but there's been so many patches and apparently big changes that I'm not sure where to start. Thank you!

Has anyone else run into an issue where gold is not on loot tables anymore?

Maybe I'm misremembering and it never was. I dunno.

Hi everyone. I would like to report that the download link for the filetree for 1.9 solo version does not seem to be working for me anymore. I do not know if this is just me or if this is happening to everyone. Has the link been removed?

Hi everyone. I would like to report that the download link for the filetree for 1.9 solo version does not seem to be working for me anymore. I do not know if this is just me or if this is happening to everyone. Has the link been removed?

Hey everyone!

I used to play with this mod about 10 years ago or so.
Is there any way to download this new solo version because the provided link in the OP is dead.

Hey people!

The link in the OP post is dead, someone can link a mirror for it?
Many thanks!

Any chance of re-uploading the 1.9 solo package? OrangeBox reports it missing.

I've been playing 1.6c for many moons, but I like the fact that saves should work moving forward, plus new areas and items.

Many thanks!