Articles - The Sin War mod for Diablo II: Lord of Destruction

Skills

• Fixed a Phoenix Strike charge 2 issue where some swirling lightning arcs deal no damage when hitting enemies.
• Removed innate thorns damage from Bone Wall and Bone Prison.
• Added a flat amount of returned damage to Thorns.
• Decreased next-delay of Holy Fire, Holy Freeze and Holy Shock to 1 second.
• Greatly decreased damage of Inferno.
• Increased missile range of Inferno and Arctic Blast.

Monsters

• Fixed a Hork Demon (Act 2 sewers) graphic issue where buff/debuff state overlays terribly deviate from the body. Also, a new attack mode spawning minions (Hork Spawn) is added.

Items

• Disabled magic prefix "Mechanist's". (It's a waste of property due to adding-sockets cube recipes.)
• Shields are no longer allowed items for rune word "Dragon" and "Dream".
• Weapons are no longer allowed items for rune word "Fortitude", "Phoenix" and "Spirit".
• Slightly changed rune words "Fortitude", "Phoenix" and "Voice of Reason".
• Slightly changed exceptional set items "Cow King's Hooves" and "Naj's Puzzler".
• Changed set item types of "Cow King's Horns" and "Natalya's Totem".
• New artworks for helms listed below:
  => Set items: Isenhart's Horns
  => Unique items: The Face of Horror, Blackhorn's Face
• Slightly changed unique items listed below:
  => Gloves: Chance Guards
  => Belts: Lenymo, Goldwrap, Bladebuckle, String of Ears, Nosferatu's Coil, Verdungo's Hearty Cord
  => Staves: The Iron Jang Bong, Skull Collector
• Renamed unique jewels "Empyrean Sigil" as "Sunder Sigil".

Interface

• Fixed an issue where advanced stats page fails to display defense bonus from skills.

Skills

Amazon

• Inner Sight and Slow Missiles receive duration bonus from Pierce.
• Decoy has longer base duration and higher chance to parry, receiving life bonus from Dodge and Avoid.
• Valkyrie receives damage bonus from Critical Strike and defense bonus from Evade.

Assassin

• Psychic Hammer receives magic damage bonus from Mind Blast.
• Shadow Warrior has less chance to parry and higher damage resist.

Barbarian

• Concentrate receives defense bonus from Stun.
• Frenzy receives damage bonus from Concentrate instead of Bash.
• Slightly increased chance of Find Item for magic types.
• Shout receives duration bonus from Iron Skin.
• Battle Orders receives duration bonus from Battle Cry.
• Battle Command receives duration bonus from Natural Resistance.

Druid

• Spirits and vines have higher chance to parry, receiving chance bonus from Raven.
• Removed innate 35% poison resist from vines.
• Oak Sage provides defense bonus (capped at 25%).
• Heart of Wolverine provides velocity instead of defense bonus.
• Added 30% damage resist to Grizzly.

Necromancer

• Revive receives duration bonus from Summon Resist.
• Removed innate 35% damage resist from Iron Golem.
• Removed innate 35% fire resist from Fire Golem.

Items

• Slightly balanced normal/exceptional set items listed below:
  => Angelic Raiment: Angelic Mantle, complete set bonus.
  => Cathan's Traps: Cathan's Seal (4 items bonus), complete set bonus.
  => Arcanna's Tricks: Arcanna's Flesh (and 3 items bonus), Arcanna's Sign, complete set bonus.
  => Isenhart's Armory: Isenhart's Case
  => Vidala's Rig: complete set bonus.
  => Cow King's Leathers: complete set bonus.
  => The Disciple: Credendum (4 and 5 items bonus)
  => Naj's Ancient Vestige: Naj's Circlet
  => Orphan's Call: Whitstan's Guard (and 3 items bonus)
• Slightly adjusted life/mana leech suffixes values.
• Gothic Shield (and upgraded versions) can have 4 maximum sockets.

Files

• Removed Game.exe (hardly needed for installation).

Skills

• Slightly increased chance of Critical Strike (capped at 35%).
• Slightly increased chance of Dodge (capped at 40%).
• Slightly increased base radius of Slow Missiles.
• Slightly increased fire duration of Immolation Arrow (3 seconds).
• Slightly increased base radius of Cloak of Shadows.
• Dragon Talon is uninterruptible, but knockback doesn't work on unique monsters and bosses.
• Fury is uninterruptible.
• Slightly increased base resists of Summon Resist.
• Slightly increased base duration of Conversion.

Monsters

• Fixed an issue with Psychorb (Act 5 starting areas) missing get-hit animation.
• As a Lesser Evil, Belial (Act 5 Throne of Destruction, summoned by Baal) can't be knocked back.

Items

• Slightly changed auto-mods of wands and necromancer shrunken heads.
• Added auto-mod (-20~35% target defense) to crossbows.
• Increased crossbows damage bonus from dexteriy by 50%.
• Slightly changed normal set item "Arcanna's Flesh" (3 and 4 items bonus).
• Slightly changed unique ring "Wisp Projector".
• Renamed unique ring "Sharp Shooter" as "Ranged Expertise".

Documentation

• Added Auto Mods.pdf (in place of Affixes_Auto Mods.pdf).

Files

• Removed D2Win.dll (hardly needed for installation).
• Updated SGD2FreeRes.dll (version 3.0.4.0, with support for D2GL Glide Wrapper).

Skills

• Decreased ground fire duration of Meteor.

Monsters

• Enhanced Overlord (Act 4 late areas) textures.
• Fixed Psychorb (Act 5 starting areas) skill overlay malposition.
• Fixed an issue with Dark Mage (Act 3, 4, 5 late areas) melee animation.

Items

• Slightly changed runewords "Duress", "Harmony", "Melody" and "Plague".
• Slightly enhanced or changed set items listed below:
  => Isenhart's Armory: complete set bonus
  => Sigon's Complete Steel: complete set bonus
  => Vidala's Rig: Vidala's Fetlock (3 items bonus)
  => Bul-Kathos' Children: Bul-Kathos' Sacred Charge
  => Cow King's Leathers: Cow King's Horns, Cow King's Hide (3 items bonus), complete set bonus.
  => Orphan's Call: complete set bonus
  => Naj's Ancient Vestige: complete set bonus
  => The Disciple: complete set bonus
  => Heaven's Brethren: Dangoon's Teaching, Ondal's Almighty, Haemosu's Adamant, Taebaek's Glory (and 2, 3 items bonus), complete set bonus.
  => Hwanin's Majesty: Hwanin's Justice
  => Sander's Folly: Sander's Superstition (2 items bonus), Sander's Riprap (and 2, 3 items bonus), complete set bonus.
  => Sazabi's Grand Tribute: complete set bonus
  => Aldur's Watchtower: Aldur's Deception, Aldur's Advance.
  => Natalya's Odium: Natalya's Soul
  => Griswold's Legacy: Griswold's Redemption, Griswold's Honor, complete set bonus.
• Slightly changed unique items listed below:
  => Claws: Shadow Killer, Jade Talon.
  => Bows: Pluckeye, Witherstring, Raven Claw, Blastbark, Kuko Shakaku, Endlesshail, Magewrath.
  => Swords: Shadowfang, Ripsaw, Blade of Ali Baba, Ginther's Rift.
  => Javelins: all
  => Throwing Weapons: all
• Enabled hidden item modifier "permanent quiver quantity" (arrows/bolts are not consumed) for bows and crossbows, but currently it is spawned only on runeword "Harmony".
• Throwing weapons (excluding amazon-only javelins) can have 1 socket.
• Increased maximum quantity of throwing potions to 50.

Skills

Amazon

• Inner Sight reduces target's defense (capped at 25%) instead of increasing light radius.
• Added mana steal (capped at 10%) to Magic Arrow.
• Decreased next delay of Lightning Strike to 2 frames (undocumented change in older versions).

Assassin

• Removed hidden converted fire damage from Fists of Fire (undocumented change in older versions).
• Removed hidden physical resist by hard skill point from Fade (undocumented change in older versions).
• Decreased next dealy of Phoenix Strike charge 2 and charge 3 missile attack to 2 frames (undocumented change in older versions).

Barbarian

• Fixed an issue with incorrect radius of Howl in practice.
• Monster flee time of Grim Ward scales up with level.

Druid

• Removed flat defense and life regeneration from Lycanthropy.
• Feral Rage harks back to vanilla setting, but life steal is greatly decreased (capped at 10%).
• Maul harks back to vanilla setting, and stun length is slightly increased (capped at 5 seconds).
• Slightly decreased synergy bonus of Hunger.
• Oak Sage provides life regeneration instead of life after each kill.
• Added defense bonus to Heart of Wolverine.
• Added life after each skiil to Spirit of Barbs.
• Cyclone Armor provides flat defense instead of defense vs missile.

Necromancer

• Bone Armor provides flat defense instead of defense vs melee.
• Attract decreases target's defense (capped at 100%).

Sorceress

• Decreased next delay of Chain Lightning to 2 frames (undocumented change in older versions).

Monsters

• The following monster skills deal magic damage (undocumented change in older versions):
  => Act 1, Act 2, Act 3 Acid Beast spitting
  => Act 5 Imp bolt, Baal (and clone) Inferno/Nova

Items

• Slightly changed unique items listed below:
  => helms: Jalal's Mane (druid-only), Wolfhowl (barbarian-only)
  => weapons: Bartuc's Cut-Throat (assassin-only)
  => rings: Nagelring, Primal Totem, Sharp Shooter
  => charms: Arena Bracelet (reworked as Purge Signet), Guild Key (reworked as Sanctum Key)