I tried my best to establish a pattern for cube recipes, here are the changes:
- Akara's Misc page has a lot of items for sale.
- Sell and buy values are drastically modified. Sell values are in the millions and buy values are close to 1.
- New characters start with a Cube in their inventory. If a brand new character does not start with a Cube, the mod is not installed correctly.
- Some vendors may sell different items than they usually do, I started work on changing what vendors sell a while back but didn't get too far and don't remember how much I've done.
- Made all item bases gamble-able.
- Added a bunch of cube recipes. All original cube recipes are untouched.
- Added 1 unique small charm with hacky stuff on it.
- You can teleport in town.
- Unique, set, runeword, and crafted (only the crafted modifiers) items all roll perfectly.
- Superior affixes all roll perfectly.
- Automods and affixes on magic, rare, and crafted (except for the crafted modifiers) items do not roll perfectly at the moment.
The unique small charm is obtained by cubing 1 stamina potion by itself. It gives three things:
- An Aura of Death. This Aura grants a massive amount of experience gained and instantly kills everything in a wide radius (a couple screens from you) every tick. It also makes you semi-immortal and grants a ton of movement speed and faster cast rate.
- Teleport. This is not the same Teleport that Sorceress has, though it functions the exact same way.
- Summon Diablo. This will literally summon Diablo on top of you. This is to streamline the rushing of a new character. This will be explained in more detail below.
The purpose of the charm is for rushing/quest completing. You must toss it on the ground if you plan to use the character outside of the mod. If you try to load a character that has the charm with the unmodded game or another mod, the game will crash on load (or it just won't let you load that character, don't remember which happens). You will hit level 99 by the time you finish Hell using the rushing method. Please note that "loading a character" means launching the game, as all characters are loaded when the game launches. So your game will crash on load if it tries to load the hacky charm without the mod. You won't get banned if you log into online with the mod, but several things won't work correctly and give you errors, such as vendoring.
This mod contains status effect indicators for the Assassin's charge-up skills. They were made by Bonesy, taken from his D2RLaunch application (which has some other cool stuff, check it out). I edited the textures slightly and changed the order of the icons for this mod. Full credits to him:
If you do not want the status effect indicators, delete the data/hd/overlays/ and data/hd/vfx/ directories and their contents. Note that the status effect indicators will also appear for Shadow Warrior/Master as well and follow her around beneath her.
- Download the ZIP.
- Navigate to your D2R install.
- Navigate to the mods folder. If you do not have one, just create one. Your path should be
{D2R base folder}\mods. - Extract the
ighefolder inside theighe-mainfolder from the ZIP file into the mods folder. If you've done it correctly, you should see a path similar to{D2R base folder}\mods\ighe\ighe.mpq\.... You do not need the rest of the files. - Go to Battle.net and click the Gear Icon next to Play for D2R, then click Game Settings.
- Tick the box that is labeled
Additional command line arguments. - Paste the following into the text box that shows up:
-mod ighe -txt -enablerespec. The-enablerespecoption grants free respecs by Alt + Left Clicking on the stat point allocation buttons in the character screen. If you don't want this, just remove it. There is no way provided by the mod to easily acquire a Token of Absolution.
Using an external hero editor makes this process much easier, but if you can't be bothered (some editors don't give you the proper stat values based on your character and level, so I just do it in-game), then there's a way to get to Hell and level 99 very quickly.
- Go to Akara and sell one of your scrolls you start with. Buy something worth 1 gold. Sell that. Now you have infinite gold. Buy a Stamina Potion and an El Rune.
- Cube the Stamina Potion by itself. This is the unique small charm. Read above for more information about it.
- Cube the El Rune by itself. This will open a portal to Andariel. Walk in, walk out, she will die from the portal location, you don't need to get close to her.
- Go to Act 2. Cube the Eld Rune by itself. Go in portal. Duriel is dead. Teleport to Tyrael. Go to town and talk to Jerhyn, Meshif, etc.
- Go to Act 3. Cube the Tir Rune by itself. Go in portal. Count to three. Teleport on the Hell Gate and go through it.
- Cube whatever rune is next by itself. Go in portal. Select the Summon Diablo skill. Cast it. Go back to town and talk to Tyrael.
- Cube whatever rune is next by itself. Go in portal. Exit the game. Go to Nightmare and start from Step 3 again.
Once you get into Hell, you should be level 99. If you wanted to be a lower level, sucks to suck, just use an external hero editor.
Now you use a combination of Gambling, Akara, and the Horadric Cube to get everything you need.
For anything that is numerical, counting is done with runes. El Rune is 1. Eld Rune is 2. etc
To add a socket to an unsocketed item, use the numerical equivalent rune for the number of sockets you want on the item. If the recipe doesn't work, that item can't have that many sockets. Check the item level if you think it should. Items that are already socketed cannot have their socket count modified.
- Item + El Rune = Item with 1 Socket
- Item + Eld Rune = Item with 2 Sockets
- ...etc
In the event you have an item whose item level is too low for sockets or a specific rarity:
- Item + Hel Rune = Item with
item level = 99
To change the rarity of an item, use the associated perfect gem color. Since there isn't a gold gem (Unique) and Normal and Superior items are both white:
- Item + Perfect Skull = Item with Normal Quality
- Item + Perfect Diamond = Item with Superior Quality
- Item + Perfect Sapphire = Item with Magic Quality
- ...etc
- Item + Perfect Amethyst = Item with Unique Quality
If you change an item quality to the same item quality it already has, this will effectively reroll the item.
To change the tier of an item, use a Perfect Ruby.
- Normal Item + Perfect Ruby = Exceptional Item
- Exceptional Item + Perfect Ruby = Elite Item
There is no way to downgrade, D2R doesn't seem to support this. If you need to go down a tier, you'll have to acquire that manually (I use Gambling).
To make an item ethereal:
- Item + Zod Rune = Ethereal Item
Cubing a Tome of Town Portal by itself will open the Cow Portal for convenience. The original recipe still exists.
The numerical order is based on the order of the skill tabs on the skill tree in-game. For example, Cold Spells is the first skill tab on the skill tree in-game for the Sorceress, so Cold Spells = 1. Lightning Spells = 2. etc
- Magic Grand Charm + numerical rune of the skill tree tab order = New Magic Grand Charm with Tab Skill.
Examples:
- As a Sorceress: Magic Grand Charm + El Rune = New Magic Grand Charm with +1 to Cold Skills
- As an Amazon: Magic Grand Charm + El Rune = New Magic Grand Charm with +1 to Javelin and Spear Skills
For Crafted items, the recipe is the same however you only need the rune. The gem and the jewel are no longer needed. The recipe will return the rune for you to craft again. Additionally, you can use crafted items to re-roll the craft, so you don't need to keep getting magic items. Lastly, the item level of the crafted item is always the item level of the original item. The item level will never change. Character level no longer matters.
There is no way to acquire specific Rare items or any other Magic items besides blindly rerolling. Consider using an external hero editor for this.