Eastern Sun, a modification for Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction adds new skills, new items, and new Aura graphics. 4,779 downloads. Eastern Sun v3 Patch. Reiyo_tsuru_es300patch_R1D.zip| 5.26 MB. A patch for Eastern Sun 3.00, which fixes many bugs including D2 crash, improves the game balance and adds new features.
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Deimos’s Thoughts
Have been playing Hellgate : London for some time, and I kinda got sick of the bugs and random server disconnects, crashes to desktops for no bloody good reason. After watching the video preview and gameplay review of Mythos which I blogged about in this post, another online action RPG PC game by Flagship Studios, I got that nostalgic feeling and made me wanna play Diablo 2 again.
One main factor for me to try out Diablo 2 again, is that while browsing the the official US / EU Hellgate : London forums, I came across a post in which a fellow player commented: “If wanna play Diablo 2 again, play it with the Eastern Sun mod.”
I recalled having played such a Diablo 2 mod before, quite a long time ago though. I did not continue to play that mod much, since online play was not readily available, i.e. the official battle.net does not support mods.
Today, I installed and patched my Diablo 2 : Lord of Destruction to 1.11b, downloaded and installed the Eastern Sun Diablo 2 mod. Launched it, and I was amazed! It felt like this freaking mod made Diablo 2 into a whole new game, I really felt like playing a new game again.
Tried out the Necromancer class, as my name – Deimos Tel`Arin seems to sound more “dark”, “evil” or “demonic” etc. Plus, I think my first character on battle.net was a Necromancer too. Instead of being armed with a wand and a head, my Necromancer was equipped with a scythe! Wicked! Very fast attack speed too! I checked out the skills, and I went, whoah! Bloody new skill tree! Wadafak? I can reset all the skills?
Next, I opened the attributes sheet, wao lao eh! Can subtract points one! It is like the offspring of Diablo 2 and Guild Wars! Awesome! Friggin brilliant! Took a peek at the stash, oh my freaking goodness! Its huge, and I really mean HUGE! You are able to scroll through pages of your stash! I’m not sure how many pages there are, I’ve reached 1000+ pages and there is no ending yet. Did I also mention that there is a SHARED STASH as well?
Features of Eastern Sun, a Diablo 2 Mod
Hoookay, time to summarize a few exciting new features that this mod features:
– New type of monsters in existing locations
– Totally revamped skills tree
(feels like playing a new game since almost all skills and skill trees revised)
– Improved Henchmen?
(I really think the henchmen’s ability to frag monsters is greatly improved)
– HUGE Inventory
– HUGE Horadic Cube
– HUGE Stash and Shared Stash
– Able to reset skills, re-allocate attributes
– HUGE amount of new items, runewords, etc
– etc
Linkies:
Official Eastern Sun Homepage:
http://homepage3.nifty.com/miyoshino/es/es3top.htm
Official Eastern Sun Wiki:
http://miyoshino.la.coocan.jp/eswiki/
Get the latest patch for Diablo 2 here:
http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=20758
So, do you feel like wanting to play Diablo 2 again?
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I'm considering revisiting D2 and I loved playing the Eastern Sun mod for no other reason than it took me away from the vanilla experience. I've since found several other mods and was curious if I could combine them together, and if so, how I could go about doing that?
1 Answer
It depends on how the mod files are structured. Most of the time with D2, you replace the patch file, and that replaces patch 1.13 with whatever mod you have.
If both mods function like this, it would be impossible to install both mods at the same time.
There currently is no Diablo 2 installer that allows for multiple instances of the patch file to run together.
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