Median 2008 [by Laz]

[jedimaster86]

Laz is at it again.....this time he brings you Median 2008.


Site: Median 2008 - Diablo 2 Mods by Brother Laz
Current patch: Median 2008 1.57b

Welcome!...

Tired of those mods that call moving teeth to level 30 and giving it cold damage 'major skill editing'?

Try Median 2008. It has a whole new skill system for starters, with 25 new skills per character class (175 new skills), from meteor showers to a wall of archers.

Monsters have been changed greatly, with new skills and abilities. When was the last time a frog killed you? (The frog won't, the prince will!)

Items have been overhauled for improved balance. There are no exceptional or elite items, but the base items get better when dropped by higher level monsters. That cap Baal insists on dropping may well have 300+ defense on it now.

The mod plays very differently from regular LoD. Monsters are fast and furious, defense is very important [hint: you know that defense is zero while running, but walk speed is very close to run speed now!], damage is high, but healing potions and skills provide rapid healing over time. And don't forgot the various delicious crowd control skills.

The download link to Median 2008 can be found in the other sticky threads in this forum, and on the official site, to which a link can be found in my signature. In the meantime, while you sit there waiting impatiently for Fileplanet to process the queue, take a look at these screenshots.

This mod works in 1.10 and 1.11.

What are you waiting for - download it already!

Site: Median 2008 - Diablo 2 Mods by Brother Laz


Personally, I highly recommend this mod to all players. The new skills are incredible, along with the gameplay and kinds of items you can make. For the pros, there are Uber monsters (and levels) in the game that you can attempt (which have special drops in Hell, known in Median as Destruction, mode). This isn't one of those typical "click one monster and the entire map drops uber leet items" kind of mods; it will provide you with a fresh and new perspective on how you play your hero as he adventures his (or her) way through the evil that lies ahead...

[Mathalamus]

laz is years ahead of D2... literally

[Brother Laz]

Thanks for the sticky. :)

[d2modder]

umm bro i downloaded this but i dont know how to install it...help?

[jedimaster86]

Patch 1.43 is out! All hail Laz! =)

Until the file is placed here on the forums, you can click on the Fileplanet link and download it there. If you cannot get the download to work for you there for some odd reason, go to the Median website also posted and there are a couple of other mirrors. While you're there you can check out the site and all the goodies there (most of which comes with the download via .pdf documentations). Enjoy!

1.42 C > 1.43
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Character changes

Amazon

- Bloodstar : Corrected skill description to reflect the real amount of life drained.

Assassin

- Crucify : Increased mana cost, now only works after avoiding attacks for 2 seconds.
- Perfect Being : Slightly reduced chance to dodge attacks from dm(0,90) to dm(0,70).

Barbarian

- Hamstring : Reduced stun length from 4 sec, +1 sec/level to 2 sec, +0.4 sec/level.
- Conquest : Replaced activation animation, added new shield overlay, new sound.
- Snake Stance : Slightly reduced elemental damage bonus to attacks.
- Summon Guardian Spirit : Throwing missile attack rating is no longer equal to 0.
- Greater Manifestations : Reduced the bonuses to ancient spirit life and damage.
- All spirits now have increasing returns on their damage at levels 8, 16 and 24.
- Wolf Stance (Attribute Challenge reward) : Crushing blow component now works.

Druid

- Extinction : Replaces Natural Selection, lowers poison resist of converted monsters.
- Dire Charm : Each point in Dire Charm is now cancelled out by a point in Charm.
- Summon Acid Fiends : Improved damage and life, but halved max minions synergy.

Necromancer

- Improved damage and life of all minions, but reduced maximum number.
- Demon Blood : The aura graphic no longer alternates with totem effect overlays.
- Dark Legion : Now has diminishing returns, the aura caps out at +12 minions.

Dark Legion level
0: +2 minions
1: +3 minions
2: +4 minions
3: +5 minions
4: +6 minions
5: +7 minions
8: +8 minions
11: +9 minions
16: +10 minions
27: +11 minions
60: +12 minions

- Dark Power : Added a 2% crushing blow bonus per skill level to the spell itself.
- The effect provided by aura totems now sticks for ~10 seconds after the last cast.
- Elemental Totem : Increased elemental damage bonus per level from +3% to +5%.
- Mana Tide Totem : Replaces Monster Magnet Totem, rapidly regenerates mana.
- Stormeye Totem : Greatly increased Forked Lightning attack damage at all levels.
- Unholy Prayer (Attribute Challenge reward) : Now adds 300% enhanced damage.

Paladin

- Searing Orb : Does only fire damage instead of fire and physical, but fire damage doubled.
- Wrath : Physical component is now properly affected by +x% physical/magic spell damage.
- Arcane Strike : Reduced elemental spell damage bonus to prevent the two-hit kill.
- Punisher : Corrected damage synergy to 'Poison' damage instead of 'Magic' damage.
- Divine Apparition (Attribute Challenge reward) : Reduced cooldown from 10 to 3 seconds.

Sorceress

- Hex : Now again adds elemental damage when struck, instead of faster cast rate.

Monster changes

- Removed Teleportation from the Crystal Ball in the Cathedral of Vanity uberquest.

Item changes

- Implemented class-specific items, crossbows, hammers, wands, circlets.
- Added improved high level magic and rare affixes (eg. +6 sorceress skills on staves).
- Added 46 new runewords:
Amenonuhoko, Anathema, Aura, Azrael, Berith, Binding, Black Sheep, Blasphemy, Centurion, Choronzon, Circe, Creed, Cube, Dead Ringer, Deep Water, Dust, Elemental, Essus, Fiend, Frequency, Harvest, Hestia, Hourglass, Ice Breaker, Illusion, Judge, Kabbalah, Liquid, Loa, Mantra, Messiah, Misery, Poem, Quimbanda, Rapture, Ruin, Scar, Shedim, Song, Spark, Tao, Thunderbird, Trance, Trishula, Warlock, Zen.
- Added 52 new uniques:
Augur's Pelt, Berserkergang, Bull's Eye, Dark Star, Death's Bellringer, Demonhorn, Dragonspine, Earthrend, Fearward, Firemouth, Flamebreath, Ghost Anchor, Gryphon's Claw, Harpy's Strike, Hero's Fang, Hypnodisk, Jalal's Charge, Larzuk's Bombard, Larzuk's Contraption, Leoric's Banner, Leoric's Fall, Manafeast, Manaflare, Mermaid's Song, Mind Probe, Noblebane, Rathma's Charm, Royal Circlet, Shadowmaster, Shadowmoon, Siege Breaker, Sky Sweeper, Skythrone, Spirit of Corruption, Stone of the Skatsim, Storm Cloud, Tennousuuhai, The Allseeing Eye, The Atom Splitter, The Barracuda, The Foculus, The Legionnaire, The Predator, The Ripper, The Warthog, Thorncaster, Thunder Machine, Trang-Oul's Relic, Trollskull, Vizjun's Justice, Warp Crystal, Zakarum's Legacy.
- Improved modifiers on the rune/jewelwords Enyo, Aiwass and Nahual.
- Increased classless (oskill) bonus on some runewords above +1.
- Disabled the runeword Hypnodisk.
- Added 'gem shatter' recipes : magic item + non-chipped gem -> rare item + next lower gem grade.
- Added max socket recipes : any non-ethereal item + Six Angel Bag -> same item with max sockets.
- The jewelcrafting cube recipes now actually produce crafted jewels (1-4 random modifiers).
- The magic -> rare and rare -> rare reroll recipes now work with any gem and have a higher ilvl.
- Rare tier upgrade recipes now also work with crafted items.

Level changes

- Added new uberlevel, Island of the Sunless Sea (Glacial Trail), the hardest area in the game...

Misc

- Added a charm that increases game difficulty, but increases magic find (advanced players only!).

PlugY

- Added statsinterface.txt file, so PlugY's expanded character stat pages are more relevant to the mod.

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umm bro i downloaded this but i dont know how to install it...help?

Try reading the README that comes with the download; it'll tell you what you need to know. Here are the instructions for Windows; if you use a Mac the instructions are in the README.

Windows

· To install : find your Diablo II folder and make a backup copy of patch_d2.mpq, then copy the patch_d2.mpq file found in the mod download to your Diablo II folder.
· To uninstall : delete the new patch_d2.mpq and copy the original file back in its place.

[jedimaster86]

Laz has been hard at work, and now Median 2008 Version 1.47 has been released!


Link: Median 2008 - Diablo 2 Mods by Brother Laz (look in the "Download this Mod" section)
Forum Download link: Hopefully to be up soon...for the time being go to Laz's site and download there.

CHANGE LOG

1.46b > 1.47
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Character changes

Necromancer

- Summon Rampagor : Now does the correct amount of damage at all skill levels.
- Summon Lamia : Now does the correct amount of damage at all skill levels.
- Unholy Prayer : Increased mana drain rate per second from 40 to 250 (cheaters!).
- Bend the Shadows : Skill timer now properly goes down at higher skill levels.

Paladin

- Light and Shadow : Slightly reduced the enhanced damage bonus to holy Judgement.

Sorceress

- Cold Blood : No longer does eight times the listed amount of damage.

Item changes

- Reduced the bonus from strength/dexterity to bow/crossbow damage.
- Tweaked the modifiers on the set item Warmage's Conjuration.
- Slightly increased the chance to find set items in the various level 121 areas.
- The Hard Mode Charm now goes up all the way to 11. Spinal Tap lives.

Level changes

- Added one new uberlevel, Rathma Square (Kurast Causeway).
- Fixed a monster save bug related to Stormbane's boss pack in the Harem.

Make sure to also take a look at the 1.46/1.46b changelog; the previous patch to 1.47 was a pretty big one.

Enjoy! (please note that the Phrozen Keep should hopefully be up within a couple of days)

[AngelzUnit]

Very nice mod Haven't found one person on open to play with tho But enjoying single player very much. I just beat Andy with ease but Rad is giving me a tuff time Hopefully I'll find some people to play with in the next few days

BTW, the median forums dont seem to be working for me right now, so was wondering, I'm a barb, which one of the summons is the best in the harder difficulties? defender spirit, or protector spirit? thanks

[2Fluffy]

I am going to try this one tonight....I hope it can top the nez mod...

I went home and played this mod and it was AWESOME!!! It rivals the Nez mod...if someone has played classic lod and got tired of it this is the one for you!

[jedimaster86]

The latest version, 1.51, has been released! Go download it now!

This patch adds sacred set items, a larger and fixed cube size, skill balances, and other goodies. Check it out (download using the link to go to Laz's page).

[Deleriousanxiety]

Median 2008 is even better than the 2007 version, which i swore up and down couldnt be beat. Been playin this mod for quite sometime, and i would definately encourage it if you are tired of regular lod.

[unknowndrummer6]

why hasnt this become a private server?

[jedimaster86]

why hasnt this become a private server?

Because Single Player is far superior to any kind of playing. Seriously. It basically is a private server. Very private.
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Expect a new patch probably sometime soon in a period of about a week or so.

[unknowndrummer6]

Because Single Player is far superior to any kind of playing. Seriously. It basically is a private server. Very private.
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Expect a new patch probably sometime soon in a period of about a week or so.

well
it would seem like a better idea to have a private server
so it could be like bnet

cept super awesome

[FrogMan]

I have added it to the downloads.

[DemonKiLLa]

man i love this mod no doubt my fav. any1 wanna play tcip or like open bnet
pm me or reply here i have a 50+ pally 1.56 / 1.11b

[SunnyD2M]

Median has a closed realm now, google: d2maniacs
you need median2008 version 1.57b and diablo 1.11

[jedimaster86]

Ok, it was released a little while ago actually, I just kinda forgot about posting it here, but 1.57b is out. You can pick up the mod in the download section here, or from Laz's page if so inclined.

Speaking of Median 2008, if you wish to discuss with other players of the mod, the forum was moved from the Phrozen Keep to here. Have fun!

[DarkWulfVoid]

I Have Been Working Vigorously Collecting Items, Crafting, And Runing, But Certain Things I Cannot Acquire, Or Cannot Come By. I Was Curious If There Was Any Available Item Pack For The Median Mod? Any Help In Finding Or Creating One Would Be Greatly Appreciated.

Thanks,
Dark Wulf

[Mathalamus]

i dont like difficult mods but ill give it a try

the mod is unappectably hard, even with a level 33 charater

half the skills arent that great

waaaaaay ti much strength requirement for some items

the mod is just plain unacceptable and not useful, you ned to be level 120 to actually be good.

[FroggyBre]

hi, i have a kind of idiotic problem :)
i lost my horadric cube and i'm 21th lvl so i cant go to halls of dead and take it again because its a high level area... :) i tried puting it back in with udietoo but it just doesnt work.. i cant edit with u die too... i'm running it on 1.11b... any ideas? :)