Short Questions Thread

[pradeep644]

Which works best for caster? mana on attack, Mana stolen per hit or mana after kill?

[Philby]

Which works best for caster? mana on attack, Mana stolen per hit or mana after kill?

As far as I know, Mana after kill is the only way to leech. Same goes for life of course.

[pradeep644]

Which works best for caster? mana on attack, Mana stolen per hit or mana after kill?

As far as I know, Mana after kill is the only way to leech. Same goes for life of course.

Ok.Thanks for the info

[SwineFlu]

I was wondering, how come MXL Rifts doesn't make use of the random level generator of Vanilla D2 ?
I'm not a dev or anything close, just out of curiosity. Please note that I'm sure there's a good reason, so my point is not to ask for anything...
Thanks !

Because it's much easier to draw a new comprehensive preset map from scratch than trying to make something out of existing random level generator. Map generation process is heavily hardcoded and there is only a handful amount of possible level layout schemes available. Have you ever wondered why Arcane Sanctuary always resemble the same pattern even though it's a randomly generated map?

There is not that much you can do except for trying to replicate the existing room set for some specific level blueprint. That would require a lot of time and effort yet you'll end up with the same well known layout and the only difference would be its visual appearance. I have no doubt it's possible to write a brand new layout scheme but good luck with that, there is an enormous amount of code that needs to be reversed just to get a grasp on this process.

[Philby]

I was wondering, how come MXL Rifts doesn't make use of the random level generator of Vanilla D2 ?
I'm not a dev or anything close, just out of curiosity. Please note that I'm sure there's a good reason, so my point is not to ask for anything...
Thanks !

Because it's much easier to draw a new comprehensive preset map from scratch than trying to make something out of existing random level generator. Map generation process is heavily hardcoded and there is only a handful amount of possible level layout schemes available. Have you ever wondered why Arcane Sanctuary always resemble the same pattern even though it's a randomly generated map?

There is not that much you can do except for trying to replicate the existing room set for some specific level blueprint. That would require a lot of time and effort yet you'll end up with the same well known layout and the only difference would be its visual appearance. I have no doubt it's possible to write a brand new layout scheme but good luck with that, there is an enormous amount of code that needs to be reversed just to get a grasp on this process.

Thanks for the answer. Technicals aspects aside, it would probably be more boring to grind a randomly generated map rather than a well designed preset map. Like Act 1 jail vs Duncraig...

[altoiddealer]

Hello, just made my first Xis rune and I want to make sure I understand it completely before botching it up.

1. Can it only be used for runewords? Or can you use it for its bonus? I would assume you can but the documentation includes this slightly cryptic sentence “Xis rune cannot be used by itself unless making Natasha's Legacy.”
(https://docs.median-xl.com/doc/items/socketables)

2. Does cubing it with an ordinary rune merge the bonuses? Such as, JahXis would be 40% ed in a weapon?

3. Can you slap 6 JahXis runes in a weapon to add 240% ed?

[cnlnjzfjb]

Hello, just made my first Xis rune and I want to make sure I understand it completely before botching it up.

1. Can it only be used for runewords? Or can you use it for its bonus? I would assume you can but the documentation includes this slightly cryptic sentence “Xis rune cannot be used by itself unless making Natasha's Legacy.”
(https://docs.median-xl.com/doc/items/socketables)

2. Does cubing it with an ordinary rune merge the bonuses? Such as, JahXis would be 40% ed in a weapon?

3. Can you slap 6 JahXis runes in a weapon to add 240% ed?

Jah-Xis: 15%ED

[Scalewinged]

Xis runes by themselves providing just the same bonuses as their usual bases (so Jah and JaXis will give the same ED bonus) and it's simply worthless to use Xis runes for anything other than making enhanced runewords.

[altoiddealer]

Thanks for the replies

Xis runes by themselves providing just the same bonuses as their usual bases (so Jah and JaXis will give the same ED bonus) and it's simply worthless to use Xis runes for anything other than making enhanced runewords.

So to clarify: Xis runes do not actually add 25% ed to a weapon?

If they did, then I would rather use 6 Xis for 150% ed, rather than my current 6 Jah for 90% ed. I feel like I can hit more dmg with a crafted Labrys (plus, 6 rune bonus towards Runemaster skill), than with any runeword (only 1 rune bonus to Runemaster skill)

[Scalewinged]

Thanks for the replies

Xis runes by themselves providing just the same bonuses as their usual bases (so Jah and JaXis will give the same ED bonus) and it's simply worthless to use Xis runes for anything other than making enhanced runewords.

So to clarify: Xis runes do not actually add 25% ed to a weapon?

If they did, then I would rather use 6 Xis for 150% ed, rather than my current 6 Jah for 90% ed. I feel like I can hit more dmg with a crafted Labrys (plus, 6 rune bonus towards Runemaster skill), than with any runeword (only 1 rune bonus to Runemaster skill)

Xis runes themselves ye, adding what they list, but not Xis enhanced runes. So you won't get 40% ED if you make JaXis, you won't get XX% extra gold + 25% ED if you make TirXis and so on.