Lazarus BETA 7.41 by Alexander for Diablo II patch 1.05b

This is a sci-fi thriller themed verison of D2 that takes the player to a post apocalyptic world
with many new features and changes to the existing game

NEW Updates
	-The price of items that grant skill bonuses is greatly increased
	-Increased the value of ammo, scrolls, tomes, gems, and potions
	-Reduced the value of rings and amulets
	-You can no longer shop for rings and amulets
	-Gheed now carries health potions
	-Reduced the value of Superior items
	-Increased monster levels in all difficulties
	-Granted a small exp bonus per level for all monsters
	-Reduced the health of some bosses
	-Reduced the health of monsters by 1/2
	-Gave skeletal summons more life, damage, and defense
	-Improved Necromancer golems
	-Improved Necromancer summon resistances
	-Improved Amazon valkyrie and dopplezon
	-Increase Necromancer summon attack rating
	-Improved Barbarian whirlwind attack and reduced the mana cost
	-Increased the drop rate of items
	-Elite items can now drop from monsters
	-Fixed some mathematical errors with damage calculation on elite weapons
	-Fixed an error with some elite bows and crossbows
	-Added torches that act as a flag to help determine a player's expertise

Features
	-Hell monsters now grant an added extra 100% experience points and 50% bonus
	in Nightmare and 25% in Normal
	-Hell monsters are now stronger than before
	-You can now only gamble items that add skill bonuses to prevent flooding gold
	to players when selling loot
	-End of act bosses now have a lower amount of health points and grant more experience
	-No longer displays Trapped Souls on map
	-Weather enabled in acts 2 and 4
	-Displays all monsters on map
	-Brought back some items from Lord of Destruction to Classic
	-New warps to boss levels in act 1-3
	-Gheed now sells mana potions
	-Reduced the value of most items

Known Bugs
	-Multiple Shots enchantment will increase the amount of charged bolts released by lightning
	enchanted monsters
	-Knockback does not work on ranged weapons as intended
	-Lightning enchantment will carry cold and fire damage if monster has those enchantments
	-Minions will deal explosion damage if the associated unique monster has Fire enchantment
	-Monsters with Teleport enchantment will rapidly regenerate life when teleporting
	-Conviction aura does not display the correct resistance penalties that apply
	-Paladin Zeal and Amazon fend abilities do not correctly sync on multiplayer games

Torches
	Legitimate Torch signifies that your character follows the rules of the world, that
means no duping items or gold, altering or manipulating save files or any other form of cheating
like forcing drops by changing game data in the patch file, crashing the game, or using bots.

	Ironman Torch signifies that your character follows certain rules of conduct, such as,
no leaving the game unless you are in town, no muling items from or to your character from non
ironman players outside your party, no forming new parties after a party has been formed, no
leeching from or being helped with quests by higher level characters, and no skipping quests.

	Duelist Torch signifies that your character is intended for pro Player vs. Player combat.
There are certain guidelines to follow, such as, no using potions, no running from battle, no camping
corpses, no spoofing the loot button once the loot feature is engaged, no camping zone lines, waypoints,
or portals and no littering of items in the battle field.  These are just some basic rules you and your
friends can agree upon.


Files
	-Hellfire II.exe updates the save directory to current location of the application.
	-Game.exe allows for the game to be played without the CDs as long as the files are
	copied to the application folder. Credits to Fearedbliss for his singling package.
	-D2Client.dll updates the save extension from .d2s to .d2l.
	-D2Game.dll is the same as above.
	-D2Launch.dll is the same as above.
	-D2Win.dll grants the new titles for characters in this mod.
	-D2gfx.dll allows more than one client to be run, credits to Fearedbliss.
	-D2Music.mpq includes the game's music for this mod.
	-Patch_D2.mpq includes the game's files for this mod.


Installation
	-Install Diablo II from the either version 1.0 or 1.02 Cd sets.
	-Update the Diablo II client to 1.05b.
	-Copy the packaged files to the Diablo II directory.
	-Create a shortcut for Hellfire II.exe on the desktop. (optional for devs)
	-Right click and open the properties for the new shortcut.
	-On the target line, add "-direct -txt" after the app location.
	-Run Hellfire II as administrator and set the compatibility to Windows XP
	using the new shortcut.

	
Music
	Credits to White Bat Audio


Notes
	Because its hard to stash all your gold in classic, I added runes/collectables
that can be bought and traded for with other players to help you trade/stash your large
amounts of gold conveniently.  You can't use them like gems in Lord of Destruction,
they are just meant to be traded with other players.


Extra
	Thanks to Fearedbliss for making singling for classic Diablo II.  Its a
great mod for classic and it will give your CD/DVD drive a break.


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