• With your 12.00, I was able to install D2 1.14b with the official Blizzard installer, patch it to 1.14d, extract the PlugY files into the game directory, and copy my PlugY save files into C:/Users/ (me)/Saved Games/Diablo II. Everything seems to be working fine so far. Also, confirmed, Nihlathak's portal is there!
• Hello, I decide to come back to Diablo 2 and brush up before D2R and I’m on Windows 10. I install both the games from battle.net patch 1.14b client. I load up the game and click on battle.net gateway to update to the 1.1&hellip.

Diablo 2 Lod Patch 1.14. Apr 10, 2016 This update almost slipped under the weekend radar but there is now a Diablo 2 patch 1.14b. Today we released 1.14b for Diablo II. This patch fixes a few issues from 1.14a, with specific focuses on frame rate, Mercenaries, and Mac-client crashes. Runewords (Patch 1.14) Edit. Is 1.13 the patch that improved Runes' drop rates? If so, I'm assuming any patch that comes after it won't matter much. Prior to that, Infinity, Enigma, dual Dreams etc are just pipe dreams for most Single Players.

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Δ Diablo II mod: CMod (aka Lord of the Rings -- because it's fun to collect rare rings)
Download CMod.zip (77kb) (this is the one and only, and was built for patch 1.14d in mind)

• x5 ring attributes. (MagicPrefix.txt, MagicSuffix.txt)
• no potions (or scrolls or keys) drop except rejuvs. no gold drops. improved drops. (TreasureClassEx.txt)
• Elite and Exceptional armor/weapons have no level requirement. (armor.txt, weapons.txt)
• Gems and Runes have no level requirement. (misc.txt)
• nine improved runewords (the ones with + in front of their name are enabled ladder-only runewords): (Runes.txt)

1. +Dragon; 3os body-armor/shield; Sur+Lo+Sol; lvl 31 holy fire aura (originally lvl 14); replaced +3-5 to all attributes with +155% MF
2. +Dream; 3os shield; Io+Jah+Pul; lvl 31 holy shock aura (originally lvl 15), +155% MF
3. +Edge; 3os missile; Tir+Tal+Amn; lvl 31 thorns aura (originally lvl 15), replaced +5-10 to all attributes with +155% MF, reduce vendor prices 80%
4. Enigma; 3os body-armor; Jah+Ith+Ber; +260% to defense (originally +750 defense), +155% to magic find (originally +8%MF/lvl), +60 to Teleport (originally +1), +60 to Find Item, removed +2 to all skills, removed +str/lvl, removed +45% movement speed, removed heal-kill, required level 24
5. +Insight; 4os polearm/staff; Ral+Tir+Tal+Sol; lvl 31 meditation aura (originally lvl 12-17), +155% MF (originally 23%), required level 7
6. +Lawbringer; 3os hammer/sceptor/sword; Amn+Lem+Ko; lvl 31 sanctuary aura (originally 16-18), replaced cold dmg with +155% MF
7. Lore; 2os helm; Ort+Sol; +3 to all skills (originally +1), +155% magic find
8. Malice; 3os melee weapon; Hel+Amn+Ith (originally Ith+El+Eth); +40% faster attack speed, +50 max damage, +10% mana steal, +190% damage, +13% life steal, -5 life regen, removed +100% chance of open wounds
9. Rhyme; 2os shield; Shael+Eth; +155% magic find

(take note: in vanilla/non-modded Diablo II, the items with the most MF [Magic Find] gain is Wealth, Cow King complete set, M'avina's complete set, and the Gull dagger -- all of which give +100% MF each. source: http://fabd.github.io/diablo2/wiki/itemswith.html#mag%)
Installation instructions:

How To Update Diablo 2 Version 1.14B To 1.14D - YouTube

1. Once you have the ZIP file downloaded, extract the files. In Windows it's right-click and click 'Extract All...'
2. You should have a CMod folder in the directory of your CMod.zip file. Go into that folder. You should see a data folder.
3. Move the 'data' folder to C:Program Files (x86)Diablo II You can do this by right-clicking the 'data' folder and selecting 'Cut' and then cruising to C:Program Files (x86)Diablo II with Windows-Explorer/File-browser and right-clicking a blank spot and clicking 'Paste' What is in this 'data' folder is the mod. Now we need to create a way to execute Diablo II in a way that uses these files, that is, this mod:
4. Warning: If you are using Windows 8.0 your Screenshots you take in game and sometimes old mod outputs get put into C:UsersyourWin8UsernameAppDataLocalVirtualStoreProgram Files (x86)Diablo II in that directory and in the data folder in that directory, respectively. If you have used another mod in the past, continue to install this mod in C:Program Files (x86)Diablo II However, delete the data folder inC:UsersyourWin8UsernameAppDataLocalVirtualStoreProgram Files (x86)Diablo II The reason Windows 8.0 has this directory is because Windows 8.0 doesn't allow a typical user to have write access to anything in C:Program Files (x86), so if you want your Diablo II.exe to have updated files only for your user in C:Program Files (x86)Diablo II you put them inC:UsersyourWin8UsernameAppDataLocalVirtualStoreProgram Files (x86)Diablo II. Take note that C:UsersyourWin8UsernameAppData is Hidden so you'll need to go into the menu at the top of your File Explorer window and look for the option to be able to View Hidden Files.
5. Inside of C:Program Files (x86)Diablo II right-click Diablo II.exe and create shortcut, which is automatically put onto the Desktop on Windows 8.0. On Windows 10 you'll want to cut and paste that shortcut file (its name will be Diablo II.exe - Shortcut) to the Desktop. I'd recommend renaming your shortcut to something like Diablo II CMod.
6. Go your Desktop and right-click your shortcut and select 'Properties' at the bottom of the context menu that pops up.
7. Put ' -direct -txt' in front of the text in the Target: textfield so that it says something like: 'C:Program Files (x86)Diablo IIDiablo II.exe' -direct -txt
8. Click 'Apply' button at the bottom-right of the Properties window.
9. Click 'OK' button at the bottom-left of the Properties window. The window will close.

Now when you want to start Diablo II with this mod double-left-click this shortcut and it'll run Diablo II with the mod! All other ways you ran Diablo II will run Diablo II like normal without this mod because by default Diablo II does not process the C:Program Files (x86)Diablo IIdata Folder unless 'Diablo II.exe' is executed with the -direct -txt command-line options. You will know you're playing this mod when you go to Charsi and some items will have much higher numbers than vanilla/normal's Diablo 2 to certain magic attributes (like +5 Light Radius than +1 Light Radius). (Be sure to use this shortcut for SINGLE PLAYER ONLY...do not try to enter battle.net with it..I really do not know what happens when you try to xd)
Notice: after running Diablo II with this mod around 20 .bin files are gonna show up in C:Program Files (x86)Diablo IIdataglobalexcel on Windows 10 and around 20 .bin files are gonna show up in C:UsersyourWin8UsernameAppDataLocalVirtualStoreProgram Files (x86)Diablo IIdataglobalexcel on Windows 8.0. Diablo II.exe creates these bin files with the -txt command-line option that you executed through your CMod shortcut to Diablo II.exe. The reason there are more bin files than the 7 txt files that CMod originally came with is because Diablo II.exe pre-compiles (ie. make them faster to read for itself due to the smaller filesize) all of the txt files that are in its MPQ files (basically Blizzard's compression file format and filetype: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPQ) in-memory, and Diablo II.exe sees your -txt flag passed through your Diablo II.exe CMod shortcut and immediately says: 'You need the txts in the data/ folder in Diablo II's installation root directory (ie. on Windows 10 is exclusively at C:Program Files (x86)Diablo II and in Windows 8.0 you can replace stuff in that [ie. C:Program Files (x86)Diablo II] with the stuff in C:UsersyourWin8UsernameAppDataLocalVirtualStoreProgram Files (x86)Diablo II) to be converted from txt to bin so that it can be read by Diablo II with your -direct option. So I'm just gonna dump all of the MPQ txts in the global MPQ collection at address /data/global/excel/' and walla! There you have .bin files in those directories I described above. I'm 39% sure they should never be a problem. In my mod 90% of those .bin generated files are actually originals generated from the vanilla game configuration/engine/settings/internal-data extracted from its MPQ files (primarily d2data.mpq, d2exp.mpq, & Patch_D2.mpq, I'm 20% sure).

My Diablo II ChangeLog:

Patch 1.14d (7th of June, 2016): implemented Blizzard Error & System Survey to aid troubleshootDiablo II.exe assertions/crashes.

Patch 1.14c (18th of May, 2016): nGlide wrapper now work?

Patch 1.14b (7th of April, 2016): -3dfx glide wrapper works?Capped frame rate at 200 (although single-player is still capped at 25)Minor gameplay fix: mercs can't become 'An Evil Force'

Patch 1.14a (10th of March, 2016): Windows 7/8.0/8.1/10 now work without XP mode
Characters now saved in C:UsersyourWindowsXP7810UsernameSaved GamesDiablo II
instead of C:whateverIdon'tCareanymoreContactMeAndIWillTellYou

Patch 1.13d (27th of October, 2011): Ignoring players in battle.net functionality has implemented afiltering file mechanism.
2 Major gameplay bugs fixed (duping & unintended aura stacking)
4 Minor gameplay bugs fixed (merc aura stacking, color coded game names,disconnection when watching cinematics, & game crash in windowed mode withsound disabled and playing a cinematic)

Patch 1.13c (23rd of March, 2010): Special bosses for the top 3% players.
4 major gameplay bugs fixed (duping, tppking, remote player disconnect,unintended aura stacking)
20+ other things have changed. However here are the highlights:
- game music doesn't stop when the Diablo II.exe window gains/loses focus.
- Barb's leap would lock if hit just before leaping.
- Den of Evil quest now gives Respecialization capabilities: that is, you get all of your stat/skill points back to completely redistribute!
- when Diablo II.exe is in windowed mode the window can now be maximized -- stretched.
- gold bank limit not bound by level.
- hardcore character creation has no requirements. It used to be that you had to defeat Normal difficulty with another character on your system to create a hardcore character (I'm 19-47% sure).
- Oblivion Knight's Iron Maiden curse, which was prominent in Act 4 normal if you're at all any type of melee strategist at any level, has been removed.
- added (?) -nosound Diablo II.exe option
- WW on Barb mana cost cut in half. Masteries with Barb critical strike increased by 10%. Werebear for druid's health increased by 25%, & 12 other skills (these being virtually meaningless) were changed aross Assassin, Paladin, Druid, Necro, & Sorc.

Patch 1.12 (17th of June, 2008)

Patch 1.10 (28th of October, 2003) implemented Synergy bonuses.
Implemented the World Event (which is virtually reserved for the top 2% best players on Battle.net)

Patch 1.0 (29th of June, 2000)

Refer to Blizzard Entertainment's Patch.txt (Diablo II'sChangeLog/Revision-History/Patch-Change-Information) that gets installed whenyou install Diablo II on your computer and update Diablo II with the latestpatch (in this case, 1.14d). This Patch.txt is located and called:
C:Program Files (x86)Diablo IIPatch.txt

will have much higher numbers than vanilla/normal's Diablo 2:OK so 90% of the time there will be at least one magical item in Charsi's shop items that has attributes that are much (like x5+) more than in normal/vanilla Diablo 2. If Charsi doesn't, then go into the Blood Moor for 1 second and come back to Charsi and relook at what she has. Here are some screenshots that I took installing this mod with the current CMod.zip and given installation instructions with a fresh/pure/legit level 1:
I did these in Windowed mode (instead of fullscreen-mode). To enable that mode, in your Diablo II.exe shortcut on your Desktop:

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