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volf's 1.11 drop mod version 3.0.0

Author: volf

Introduction

Version 3.0.0 reashes out to a wider audience by adding a more traditional drop mod like difficulty, we call this difficulty training. Another new feature common in all difficulties is a magic find % passive skills, all characters have this and you choose how many skill points you invest in it. Check the feature lists for each difficulty for all changes.

This is a rather simple drop mod by volf for DiabloII expansion 1.11b patch. What makes this drop mod different from others is that the player gets to choose between 3 difficulty ranges on startup, easy, medium and hard. Each difficulty differs slightly, in the easies version you get wary powerful hirelings early in the game while in the hard version hirelings are as in the original game and monsters are stronger. Read more about the difficulties in the Features section. 

If you want a mod that is close to the Unmodified version with better drops, realm only runewords and wider variety in difficulty, then this is the mod for you. On the other hand, if you want a drop mod in order to have an unfair advantage over other players in multiplayer games then stop reading, to prevent abuse of this mod characters will not be compatible with normal 1.11 patch characters.

Features

Common In all difficulty levels:

-All characters have a mf skill(new in v3.0.0)
-More frequent rare, set and unique drops - this does not mean it will rain uniques and sets. In the beginning you will 
notice more rare drops but once you get some "better chance of finding magic items" gear then you will notice a huge 
difference.
-Better rune drops, this means quality of the rune drops not quantity.
-Realm only runewords are enabled.

Training:
Item drops are both increased in quantity and quality. Stay away from this difficulty is you liked the old mod.
Characters:
- Stamina drain is greatly reduced, meaning you can keep running around until your sick of it!
- Mana recovery is 5 times faster than normal!
- All Characters have Teleport skill!
-15 stat points per level
-All characters except barbarians can summon a Valkyrie
Hirelings:
-act1- Guided arrow and Freezing Arrow!

Requirements&Installation

Requirements

- Before installing the mod you need to have a clean version of diablo2 expansion with 1.11b patch. (clean version means no third party programs and a legal copy of the game).

- Windows xp or vista.

Installation

Step1 - Once you have unpacked the zip to your desktop, go to the files folder and copy the data folder and the DROPMOD_Start.bat file to your diablo2 directory (your diablo2 directory maeans the folder where you have the game installed, this is usually under C:\Program Files\Diablo II\). If there already is a data folder in there, then rename the old data folder to something else before you copy over the new one.

Step2 - Go back to your desktop and create a shortcut to the DROPMOD_Start.bat. 

How to make a shortcut- right click, choose create a new shortcut, the shortcut creation screen will pop up, now press the browse button and browse to the DROPMOD_Start.bat that is now in your Diablo II directory. When done press next and choose a name or use the default one and press finish. 

Your done. Now use the new shortcut to start the game, a dos window will open, se screenshot below.

Here you choose the difficulty by typing in number 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. Once you decided what difficulty to start press enter and the game will start. Enjoy! (5 is the new training difficulty, sorry for the old screenshot, rxuse = this was written on christmas even 2007)

Contact & Support

For support feedback and suggestions go to the project topic -> volf's 1.11 drop mod at volf mod boards. Please use this topic instead of emailing me. Note that I am not always online and I may not be in the same time zone as you are.

Download

Click here to download

When download is done extract the files using your favorite packing/unpacking program and check the doc folder for install instructions. If you do not have any zip supporting packing/unpacking program then get  a free program such as Zipgenius or a trial version of PowerArchiver