http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36303857/Hell_U ... b_D2SE.exe
http://files.arimyth.com/HU/Hell_Unleas ... b_D2SE.exe

This is a stand alone D2SE plug in for the D2SE users. It has bats to swap around d2mod.ini files so that the D2SE install can switch between norm and high res. 2HR on the language setting in D2SE is high res mode while mod is Norm res.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36303857/Hell_U ... b_Core.exe
http://files.arimyth.com/HU/Hell_Unleas ... b_Core.exe

For people who haven't installed the beta already and are doing a fresh install will need these core files. Also if you are getting a new server hosted these would be all the non mpq/ini files needed.

Norm Res:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36303857/HU1.3b ... s_Beta.exe
http://files.arimyth.com/HU/HU1.3b_NormRes_Beta.exe

High Res:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36303857/HU1.3b ... s_Beta.exe
http://files.arimyth.com/HU/HU1.3b_HighRes_Beta.exe

The other two links contain the non shared files of a normal res install and a high res install. I figured might as well create a core download thing since the plug ins don't seem to change much between patches.

Either the norm res beta download or the high res beta download (with and without the high res plug in require different UI files so each mode gets its own mpq).

The core download is only for if you haven't already installed the first beta and are doing a fresh install of the 1.3b patch. If you are doing a fresh install of HU in general you'll definitely need the core download as well.

If you use D2SE the top link that mentions D2SE is full blown D2SE plug in.

before the final patch goes live I'll upload an edited d2win.dll that allows you to open multiple windows with game.exe for the non d2se version so the whole loader thing can be put to bed finally.

I miss the mercenary info on blues site, do any of the act 2 mercs give blessid aim?

what about allowing bo in town(with missiles)?
it takes like 1minute to do the changes to allow it...
(add inside the missiles.txt a "1" in town coloumn,
and add a "1" in town coloum´n inside skills.txt. for the barbs buffs)
and I think it will be pretty neat for people with bo barbs^^, specially in hc. just bo in town and not first wp for bo....

any chance that poison dmg given by gems on weapons add to psn dmg from skills? was trying a poisonmancer and I feel like that it sould be added to my psn cloud.

Actually poison skills act that way with venom. Venom's almost the same sort of poison damage as from emeralds. It's just emeralds do not have a very high DPS so it may not make much of a impact on your skill damage.

So you're saying that the +80 dmg from the emerald I added to my wand is aplying allready to poison imapct. But not shown on char screen?

Or since it's not a melee strike(like the other nec skills) it wont apply?

the 80 dmg added is added to the damage of your poison strike and is factored in on your character screen. poison strike adds poison damage to your attack. say it adds 1000 dmg, and your base dmg is 50, you are now at 1050 dmg. well with that emerald you are at 1130 dmg.

where it does not add is in missile attacks like your poison nova and poison explosion or bone spear, bone spear will never do poison damage

Soul shard need size fixed to 1x2 currently 1x1.

Bladesins use to be op yes as far as mentioning my name in all of this Ohhh Delta. You should have brought this up a long time ago. Rehauling the bladesin sounds like it'd be difficult considering it use to be OP before. It could be something done for next patch. I'm not sure how many people actually play them but for the current patch it obviously can't happen. We are too close to the reset process to do any more major changes unless its for bugs/testing sake.

Also as a side note, could we look at adding more speed to valor and geddon, or making a new zod runeword that has more ias so that fire claw and frost biters have an alternative to griz caddy to get higher weap ias and AR. It could help chant sorcs or dagger necs too. I'd be curious to know others thoughts on this?

There is something very wrong there imo. In my way of thinking there are a lot of gear choices. One should not look to a runeword and expect to hit the break points. To me Vengance will be the OP weapon of choice if it got it's ias upped so it would hit last break and has the level 20 concentration aura on it. I feel if you want max dmg make the rw, want max speed use rare or unique. My 2 cents here.

But I guess no one cared because I'm not Lee, Zac, Pious, Ben, Baerk...

It didn't make everyone happy, (I still don't get the point of the decrep proposal for hard points since the spell has never (nor will) be used as more than a 1 pt skill). Melee may be a bit too amp centric for some, but feral wasn't overnerfed for wolf builds imo (they took my input on not making it a 1pt wonder btw). It made bears lives a bit harder in some regards, but it was pretty reasonably argued why it is probably more viable to use damage reduction sources for those builds anyway.

There is something very wrong there imo. In my way of thinking there are a lot of gear choices. One should not look to runewords and expect to hit all the break points. To me Vengance will be the OP weapon of choice if it got it's ias upped so it would hit last break and has the level 20 concentration aura on it. I feel if you want max dmg make the rw, want max speed use rare or unique. If anything Hatred needs its ias lowered a tad to say 70 to be just below that last break. My 2 cents here.

Agreed. Just because "your build" is suffering in areas does not mean it needs looked at. All chars ARE NOT created equal nor will they ever be. If we start tweaking SPECIFIC builds to be perfect end game with gear/setup like other builds then we have failed at adjusting the balance. My 2 cents here. Thats 4 cents for anyone counting

The fun chars to build as melee like bladesins, Bone/dagger necros, zons, and chant sorcs are just getting neglected. I understand the changes are harder. But we are just remaking certain classes to appease some people's traditional char preferences for melee while neglecting some of the more outside the box phys characters that are fun and different to play.

that I expressed the concern over a bunch of different melee classes.

Agreed. Just because "your build" is suffering in areas does not mean it needs looked at. All chars ARE NOT created equal nor will they ever be. If we start tweaking SPECIFIC builds to be perfect end game with gear/setup like other builds then we have failed at adjusting the balance. My 2 cents here. Thats 4 cents for anyone counting

and saying that 'this build sux, fix it' isn't going to get much fixed.

Yes, I agree, but I dont believe I said its sucks and left it at that. I tried to throw out some options. And I never said just fix it. I asked what other people thought. No need to "go to guns" everytime someone suggests something and you dont like it. Dont want to turn this into argument thread, remember I was trying to test things in the patch to help out, this and the AR bug for zons and blade fury is what I came up with. I added things that I thought could help the build because It is the only perspective I have of a phys ranged attacker. The options I threw out were to try to make a comparison to the zon. She has multi a wide area attack and then guided for specific. Blade fury is the attack similar to guided because strafe attacks all monsters. Making sentinel a similar attack multiple targets would help put the build more on par with a phys bowa. They were suggestions and I asked the community for others. I didnt say "this must be done". Try to take suggestions as suggestions. Not as an attack if you dont agree.

@Malivarious I really hope this isn't an issue that's been overlooked till now. Has any body else been having trouble with the trade window?

@ blade fury & zons While I may have done a ranged AR fix for double throw barbs you guys need to keep something in mind. There was a side effect for the barbs in that their normal throw AR ended up abnormally high. It was only due to the convenient mastery/attack set up the barb had that allowed me to fix their AR problem without too many side effects.

The problem with doing AR fixes for bowazons and blade fury assassins is that the fix will affect the AR of a lot more than 2 attacks like it did for barbs. Giving physical bowazons properly functioning AR would mean their elemental skills would gain meaningful leech as well as well as potentially greatly boosting their melee AR.

It's the same deal with assassins. Any attempts to fix blade fury AR will mean buffing the AR of a whole lot more than just blade fury. Also there's a possibility that venom could turn blade sins overpowered due to the venom damage bug (which applies a melee hit every frame the enemy is poisoned potentially 13x'ing melee damage against an enemy without any more counters).

In any case here are my suggestions for people suffering AR problems on blade sins and physical bowazons. The hard coded AR bug plaguing your builds treats % AR from the ranged weapon attack skill as flat AR. This means you have to get %AR either from a non attack skill such as a mastery/aura or from gear. For Blade sins this means maxing claw mastery and using a claw so that you have some serious %AR not coming from blade fury alone. For physical bowazons this means maxing strategy for it's %AR to all attacks.

In the very least at least give my mastery/strategy maxing suggestions a try to see if that at least alleviates the AR problems before complaining further.

Your build idea is actually misguided Delta... an awful lot of weapon damage skills have a horrible tendency of being one point wonders... the assassin blade skills are no exceptions. Blade Fury is definitely a one point wonder. As for the added damage for all the blade skills pales when compared to your actual melee damage with mastery and venom (and venom boost's mastery's AR even more). You might pump sentinal and barrier of the blade skills for duration but that's about as much as you'd pump the blade skills. Even with all 3 blade skills maxed we are talking about 1.3k added physical non weapon damage even all skilled out endgame. A normal attack with venom tacked on WAY out damages that even without the venom damage bug.

Sentinel and Barrier get half of your normal attack damage tacked on in addition to that token amount of added damage it lists. Blade fury gets your full one hand weapon normal attack damage. Maxing the blade skills themselves for extra damage per hit is genuinely a waste of points actually.

The more appropriate blade fury build would be max venom and claw mastery for maximum possible AR. 1 pt blade fury and points in sentinel and barrier to suit tastes for duration. Toss in your max fade and you still got over 40 skill points to play around with (whether they be for boosting sentinel duration or something else such as claw block is your choice).

--Double Post--
Just noticed Blade Shield actually has 8x the added damage potencial of the other blade skills (meaning it could actually hope to break 10k). The point of a blade sin never has been really close combat, however. As a result it would be questionable to max all 3 blade skills just to get mediocre extra physical out of blade shield in the first place.

--Triple Post--
Just looked at the skills further still and realized Blade Sentinel has became a 1 point wonder as well (fixed duration and max summon count regardless of level).