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Is Alive

Mod review

Author of isALive hates melee characters, so if you play Barbarian, you will feel pain, like I did at first ;_;

This mod begins pretty sweet - Den of Evil is pretty challenging, but still fair.

However, when you go into any other cave of Act 1 you will be swarmed by new mobs, which have insane stats and special effects - resistance auras, cold on hit, you know the drill. It seems that Zomb just put anything he could think of just to ramp up the difficulty. This causes gameplay to be frustrating, especially if you would like to go a bit faster. A horde of absurdly durable monsters with high resists and health regen, which move faster than TGV and kill you in a few hits? This is a staple in Diablo 2 isAlive.

Also: Andariel(Blood Raven too) teleports you on hit. Why would anyone do that?

Although it gets slightly better, if you somehow manage to slay Act 1 Boss(protip: trap assassin always works). In the later acts, Zomb is a bit more sensible with making humiliatingly dangerous monsters, so I give it a 3/10 instead of 1/10.

I could only recommend this modification for those who love ridiculous amount of grinding and cheap tricks that will kill your character again and again.