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Damn, this GUI hurts my eyes :shock:

Very cool maps!!! and they totally fit Diablo. This teserract is very funny how much inventory space it consumes

and the health/mana globes exactly what @stealthmaster pointed

Sadly the GUI doesnt hurt that much as the monsters who seem to have like 30%-40% ctc Dark Summonning when they die :-x

Pic 1: This is definitly the hardest Median patch I've ever played so far. Those toads cast Unholy Armor that last ~10 sec (Ni Va's Sacred Armor sucks) and their Magic Missiles hit like a train. Laz, were you mad? :lol:

Pic 2: If only I could teleport from Rocky Waste right to the Valley of Snakes... (you can see Lut Gholein on the minimap)

Pic 3: first set drop

Oh, and Horadric Cube has 3x4 space :lol:

Pinball asked me for general usefull tips for starting Nezeramontias. I figured i post them here just in case other people might be interested.
1. Choose the build that has rainbow damage or at least two types of damage for end game. Also area damager is recomended since there will be a summoners/reanimators during all game.
2. I play barb. I feel it benefits a lot/most for single playing. Powerfull self buffs, good defense and health. Abitily to move from stuck positions - ww and leap. Good damage versus single targets with frenzy. Also "find item" and find "potion" - doubles your chances of getting good loot.
3. Collect all gold and sell yellow items for more gold. Golem gears, golem in bottles and those small balls of energy - give most gold when starting.
4. Collect all gems and transmute them to get better quality. Collect all runes, upgrade with same recipes as original Diablo. Collect souls and use them as rings. Useless souls - transmute with amulet for bonuses.
5. When done with difficulty, try your build in act 5 frozen plains uber - farm gold and cycles for resists and stats. Then try act1 burial grounds uber for xp and drops.
6. Buy resists potions that add +1 resists before you enter new difficulty to have resists maxed. First max poison, then other. It will cost a lot of gold and you can use souls with resists in ring slots. Later change souls for better ones and leave resists for potions.
7. When you ok in nightmare, go back to normal and farm end act bosses and quest bosses for dolls and make that end game charm.
8. Collect merc set for act2 melee merc. He does a lot of fire dmg - keep that in mind as build rainbow dmg char. Merc gets 1 to all resists with each lvl. You can punch sockets in his eq and use runes for + all resists. Currently my merc is 161 and has 80 all resists. Still dies from poison...
9. When have enough gold and materials - upgrade your equipment to higher tier. I haven't found the way to upgrade set items, so you just have to find better version in next difficulty.
10. Play with pluggy. 60 pages is not a limit believe me

11. Don't be afraid to open tp and go to town for quick heal. Costs less than 50k to revive merc.

12. I believe each char has a skill that reduces prices. When buying potions - restat with pluggy and max that skill. Buy stuff and restat back yto your build. Same with skill that gives % xp - with barb i put points in it until it requires 2 skill points. With +skill points i got over +80% to xp.

http://web.archive.org/web/200708241722 ... index.html

Just to motivate you to farm act 5 uber in nightmare:

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Finally managed to get Diablo down in the HD (beelzebub) mod... Fucker is tough, hits like a truck and knocks you back, deals all types of elemental damage (they gave him a meteor shower spell and all the skills of diablo from vanilla clod + he can spawn portals that keep perma summoning those annoying fire mages when close) and dodging his skills is hard when you have no move speed compared to Median.

At around 30% life left he broke my body armour, which on top of being bad enough already made me lose a 2 piece set bonus with my belt. :lol:

Had to go for mega zerg with all cooldowns since I had only 2 rows of potions left on my belt - and if you go to town the boss gets fully healed. :twisted:

Pretty epic battle all things considered, drops were decent too.

@suchbalance Next time position yourself either directly N or S of him and have one of those floor bone spikes directly behind you to prevent knockback. Also this way his "red lightning spit" will spread out more and do less damage, because when you are attacking from the sides it gets condensed since the game is being viewed from a vantage point. And you can ignore his portal summons and focus just on him until he's down under 1/2 hp (or 1/4 if i'm not remembering correctly), since after this he will destroy all monsters on screen once he destroys the corner walls from his room, then when he summons more portals you can walk (or Teleport, thou i see you have no mana) to the W room and he will follow you, the summons will most likely not follow you if they don't have direct vision and just stay where the portal is.