'Is Alive' is a modification for Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction. There are new recipes, new monsters, new monster abilities, new locations, new quests, end-game dungeon and the most important - the game is much more difficult. No new character skills, no new acts, no new characters, no new uniques, no new sets, no new runewords. 'Is Alive' isn't a total conversion mod, and it never will be. The mod can be downloaded as D2SE modplugin. Extract the file and the folder 'IsAlive' just copy into 'MODS' folder in your Diablo 2 folder :) Enjoy ;)

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New gems and gemwords are an interesting feature to the mod. How can you get them and what should you know?

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Gems

New Gems

As you can notice, there is a new gem look, but also there are new gem qualities: Radiant, Square, Star, and Marquise.

Marquise gems

These new gems can't be droped - only chipped - flawless qulities, rarely perfect. So how can you get them? Easy, just kill superbosses (Gremak, Nah-Gul, Troubleshooter, Dark Figher, Wirewind, Deathclaw, Hideous, Swampface, Darkblood, Treefoot, Graytongue, Spellfire, Arrowtwist and Sin Walkers) on hell difficulty. These bosses drop special scrolls (recipes) which you can use to create new gem qualities. Although, they are quite expensive. For cubing 1 Marquise gem, you'll need 81 Perfect gems! Besides all the special recipes (which you'll need to get droped).

Gemwords

Gemwords

Something like runewords, but with gems. Cheaper, but less powerful. In any case, something very useful when playing a new character. There are many gemwords you can create, but I won't make a list of them here. Explore the game, unlock Hint Scrolls, and you'll get the full list of them. Though I can unbosom, they are mostly casting skills on kill (helmets), striking (weapons) or getting hit (armors).

Gemwords

Gemword

Explore and reveal their bonuses. They will surely be very useful to you. Good luck finding all the combinations.

Have you got any questions? Any suggestions? Feel free to leave a coment below!

Next article will be about new bosses. Stay tuned!

Wish you all happy playing :)

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Guest
Guest - - 689,192 comments

I am fighting with some kind of "unused - tell ken" deamons often dropping "unused - tell ken" items. what I supposed to do with such items?

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ZOMB_ Author
ZOMB_ - - 198 comments

Where are the monsters exactly?

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Nastydude
Nastydude - - 4 comments

Awesome mod. I love how it respects the vanilla version of the game and doesn't change it drastically.

However, the game is very difficult, and I love that it is.

I'm trying to find a solution to the difficulty. I want to make gem words but I don't know any good ones. I can't unlock the hint scrolls because I have no hero's achievements. I understand I get Hero's achievements by doing optional quests, but are optional quests hard?

For example, I cannot complete the second level of a dungeon because of the difficulty/monster lvl of a monster pack, or special/unique mob. If the optional quests are the same I wont be able to unlock hint scrolls to get more powerful (Catch-22). I feel stuck in a cycle of being underpowered with no opportunity to get out of it.

Ill keep playing to hopefully find a good rare weapon, or take the essences' from rares to craft one. This may be my only option at this point.

Awesome mod by the way. Just had some questions about progression and difficulty.^^

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ZOMB_ Author
ZOMB_ - - 198 comments

The quests are not that difficult. Mostly it's about killing three or four superunique monsters ;)

Wish you happy plaing ;)

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Nastydude
Nastydude - - 4 comments

Awesome mod. I love how it respects the vanilla version of the game and doesn't change it drastically.

However, the game is very difficult, and I love that it is.

I'm trying to find a solution to the difficulty. I want to make gem words but I don't know any good ones. I can't unlock the hint scrolls because I have no hero's achievements. I understand I get Hero's achievements by doing optional quests, but are optional quests hard?

For example, I cannot complete the second level of a dungeon because of the difficulty/monster lvl of a monster pack, or special/unique mob. If the optional quests are the same I wont be able to unlock hint scrolls to get more powerful (Catch-22). I feel stuck in a cycle of being underpowered with no opportunity to get out of it.

Ill keep playing to hopefully find a good rare weapon, or take the essences' from rares to craft one. This may be my only option at this point.

Awesome mod by the way. Just had some questions about progression and difficulty.^^

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Letschooserandomly
Letschooserandomly - - 3 comments

So, just downloaded the mod and i like it for now, but i was wondering if there is a list of gemwords somewhere? I just don't have the time to try out all combinations

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ZOMB_ Author
ZOMB_ - - 198 comments

The basic gemwords are 2x the same gem (chipper, flawed or standard quality) and 3x the same gem for flawless and perfect. The gems must be the same (same quality, same type), and the gemwords work for weapons, shields, chest armors and helmets. There are some more, which you can discover by unlocking hint scrolls ;)

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Letschooserandomly
Letschooserandomly - - 3 comments

Nice, thanks for the quick reply!

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ZOMB_ Author
ZOMB_ - - 198 comments

No problem!

Wish you happy playing ;)

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