Diablo III General Discussion - Page 75

On May 27 2011 20:01 Rimstalker wrote:
the Reign of Shadow mod will get a new version and Ladderreset this weekend.

RoS is an amazing mod, lots of new items and levels, including a Tristram from Diablo 1, with really nasty monsters. About one third of the HC Ladder is dead chars.

Here is a trailer for the 0.80 version, 0.82 will be released this weekend:

+ Show Spoiler +

On May 28 2011 02:35 a176 wrote:
The whole point of runes in d2 was to collect them and form runewords for even more powerful attributes. But this just looks pretty dumb. One modifier, one per skill? Might as well be called gems? Gems for skills, I guess.

On May 28 2011 03:12 danl9rm wrote:


Is there an English version of the site or something? It's not exactly easy to get info
Also, am I going to have to read German just to be able to play?

On May 28 2011 07:46 Rimstalker wrote:


The mod is 100% translated into English.

This is the English subsection of the Forum. http://ros.freiik.de/board.php?boardid=36

This is the beginner's info forum in English: http://ros.freiik.de/board.php?boardid=52

Here is installation instructions, however, these are still for .81: http://ros.freiik.de/site/10--About RoS.Net/

On May 28 2011 12:55 Cyber_Cheese wrote:
Charms need a method of providing more bonus for making certain formations of charm, eg. 3 attack charms horizontal = bonus attack or something

On May 28 2011 13:05 Pangolin wrote:

Bashiok said recently that they removed charms and the talisman for the current build of the game.

Here's the quote: "Well, I can say from feedback and testing we’ve made the decision to pull the Talisman from the initial release of the game.

It was a cool idea at its core, but right now it’s just really too basic and doesn’t provide anything you can’t get from the armor and weapons you’re equipping. It requires a lot of the player to invest time and energy into finding and storing yet another type of item just to add player stats. When they do all that, it’s just to do something pretty boring that they can already do with awesome things like armor and weapons. Originally the Talisman had a much deeper design, but it proved very ambitious and it got whittled down over the years to a very basic +stat per single square. We like simplicity in our designs, but charms became superfluous in their purpose.

We really like the core idea, but we don’t want to stop everything and spend a large amount of time trying to fix the Talisman, although we do have some great ideas already. So, it’ll very likely come back in some form or another after the game ships. And be awesome."

It's a little disappointing to me that they just took it out like that, but honestly if it was just little + stat items with their own inventory that doesn't sound very interesting. Hopefully he's right and it will come back later in a cooler way.

On May 28 2011 10:29 innocence wrote:
I just started playing RoS, anyone wanting to team to play or to help with advice/gear would be awesome!

One thing i noticed, is that i was supposed to start with 3-4 philosopher stones to use with rookie package, and i didnt get any stones, its got me stumped!

On May 28 2011 12:55 Cyber_Cheese wrote:
Charms need a method of providing more bonus for making certain formations of charm, eg. 3 attack charms horizontal = bonus attack or something

On May 28 2011 13:07 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:
I'm playing RoS as well, but when the server was down when I tried to get on it. I assumed it was down for maintenance as somebody said there was a ladder reset this weekend previously. Is this not the case? If/When I can get it working I'd be happy to play with you all as playing solo is an utter nightmare.



I just put them in the cube by themselves and got a few pieces of gear including some very nice unique boots.

On May 28 2011 13:16 Pangolin wrote:

Oh I see, yeah your idea does make it a little better. It would probably make people just choose one type of charm to fill their talisman with though.

On May 28 2011 13:53 Rimstalker wrote:


You have to apply a registry fix to be able to play on the realm. Should be in the installation instructions somewhere.

For the first 10 levels at least, you want javelins. And try to get the a1 merc as soon as possible. Pick up any blue/yellow bow and socket it with potatoes to put in either http://ros.freiik.de/itemdb/runewords/257--Elemental Particle/ or http://ros.freiik.de/itemdb/runewords/178--Twinkling Weapon/

To get an EL rune, you have to gamble surprise potatoes. Get money by selling quiver fillers or any wands/staffs and the $$$$$$$purses. If you sell the things in the gamble screen, there is no 5k gold cap!

And of course, if you play HC, I can pretty much give you any item you want.

Philosophers' stones are some remnant of older versions, just cube the rookie package by itself.

Btw, you can socket any blue/orange/yellow/gold item with the potatoes, uniques get one socket, anything else you can create the number you want with the potatoes, of course depending on the itemtype. Amulets can't be socketed. You can also put a different number of sockets into an item with the potato recipe again.

And last but not least: When playing HC, don't fuck with Kilmandaros, Rex Serpentorum and Skinner. When a portal or entry to anything says 'DANGER', do believe it!

On May 28 2011 15:48 danl9rm wrote:

I am having a heck of a time trying to get on the realm with this game. It just keeps giving me an error when I try to log on to d2maniacs. It says battlenet doesn't recognize my version, and I can't figure out what to do. The forums are no help.
Looks like I'm going to play over tcp/ip.