Thanks to devurandom, we have at hand the wonder that is BaseMod. And what if I bonuses in this system get adjusted in later patch ? Is your book wasted ? No, you can simply reset it. These points can be spent to pick one of the available bonuses. You’ll gain Wisdom and eventually Wisdom Points. Collect Wisdom Scrolls around the world and craft them with this book. Every character spawns with their own Book of Wisdom. This could be solved trough charmzone, yes, but what sense does that make, half of your bag does grant you charm bonuses, other half doesn’t ? Instead, in this mod, a different choice was picked. Diablo II is a loot-based game and yet nobody ever has space in inventory. WisdomĮvery time I look at players’ inventory, all I see is a bag full of charms. The usual healing and mana potions are still available from merchants and drops, as are the herbs used for alchemy. To balance this however, rejuvenation potions, antidote, thawing and stamina have been moved to alchemy only, meaning that you must craft them to have them. But that’s no longer the case here, a complete alchemy system of 7 herbs can provide you with a total of 28 new potions ! Classic healing, instant effect, buffs or long length over time. But the original game just offers so few of them. The items most used in Diablo II trough all this time are definitelly potions. It’s simple, grab a scroll quest from a merchant (costs 1 gold), collect desired items within given location, craft these items with the scroll quest to collect the desired amount (in amount of 1-5 at once) and receive the xp and some additional reward. To make the leveling faster, but also more interesting, this mod opted for providing tens of fetch scroll quests. But simply increasing experience gain doesn’t sound very enticing. We all played Diablo II thousand times over and nobody is really interested in lenghty leveling of yet another character. Obviously the higher difficulty, the better the reward. The endgame maps come in 3 difficulties that can be chosen from. This means you need to collect parts to open portals to new locations. The materials for Smithing are acquired in new endgame locations that you can enter trough the usage of Pandora’s Box. This includes usual attribute effects, but also party-shared effects, chance to cast skills and even non-character skills. Thanks to the new Smithing system, the potential of this diversification is infinite, as it allows players to customize their equipment to such lengths, that you can decide every single attribute. It was designed to significantly increase diversity of gameplay and builds.

This is a vanilla-styled mod built on version 1.13c.

Diablo 2 multires patch 1.13c