D2SE Darkness Weaves 2 addon - Diablo II: Lord of Destruction

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Darkness Weaves began as a simple “Ironman” mod to Diablo 2. When the Expansion Pack came out (Lord of Destruction), the move was made to that game type.
Ironman game play stems back to the days of Battle.net and Diablo I. Players who were tired of the madness of battlenet (Cheating, Duping, Town Killing, etc) began playing variations of Diablo. These included games like “Naked Mage” or “Garbage Run”, “Powersweep” etc… Of these, the “Ironman” version was probably the most popular. It leveled the playing field for all and made the game MUCH more challenging and fun to play. It DID require people to be totally honest and fair, and in doing so, promoted gaming groups, clans, guilds and the like. It was a good time for Battle.Net and Diablo. The first few builds of Darkness Weaves were simple modifications that changed interaction with NPC’s and characters starting equipment. Later, as the mod progressed, it became evident that players could not survive long (Especially in Hardcore) without a little help. New items and item types were added, leveling the playing field. The mod was good, people were happy. But it still lacked. When the LOD set came out, it got much better, as more modding choices were made available by Blizzard. DWX was born and surprisingly, in the 1.0 version (The NON beta version) there only existed one bug, and it was a tough one to chase down. (Thanks Chris for finally swatting that dreaded monster!) DWX2 is a new rebuild of DWX. It is D2:LOD specific only and a lot of issues were addressed, redressed and tested. In your hands is a pretty spiffy mod that will challenge your style of gameplay. It’s taken hours and hours of work to re-write DWX. I hope you enjoy it!