Anyone recognize the name Malignus? Chances are if you've ventured very deep into the Crypt, you might know him as the unique Arch Lich that closes in to melee you. Malignus is quite dangerous. In fact, closer inspection revealed that he may be far worse than Na'Krul himself.
Malignus originated in HF:Fixed, the first Hellfire improvement mod that introduced unique foes to Hellfire (it previously had none in its own new dungeons besides the Hork Demon, Defiler, and Na'Krul). While Marsh changed the names of the Hellfire bosses to be a bit less silly (no more 'Flappity the Floppy'), as far as I know their stats were retained. So, since Malignus was first introduced, this boss has had 1200 hit points and a damage range of 100-100.
This strikes me as rather unreasonable, when you consider that Na-Krul himself only has 666 Hit Points on normal when not weakened by using the books in the correct order, and a damage range of only 40-50. Even Sir Gorash (the deepest unique monster in Diablo) only has 1050 Hit Points and 20-60 damage. In fact, Malignus does so much damage that he's only a few points short of hitting as hard on Normal as a Blood Knight does on Hell difficulty (106-106).
I will be reviewing all of the unique monsters that HF: Fixed brought us, and adjusting any that seem too far apart in strength from their original Diablo counterparts of similar levels.
UPDATE:
By request...
This has been implemented for the next version. It will be on by default, but can be commented out like all the other changes.
I haven't had time to test it extensively yet, so I can't guarantee it won't cause other problems, but if either if you wish to try this in the current version without having to wait, copy and paste the following code into the end of cowquestON.dat:
Malignus originated in HF:Fixed, the first Hellfire improvement mod that introduced unique foes to Hellfire (it previously had none in its own new dungeons besides the Hork Demon, Defiler, and Na'Krul). While Marsh changed the names of the Hellfire bosses to be a bit less silly (no more 'Flappity the Floppy'), as far as I know their stats were retained. So, since Malignus was first introduced, this boss has had 1200 hit points and a damage range of 100-100.
This strikes me as rather unreasonable, when you consider that Na-Krul himself only has 666 Hit Points on normal when not weakened by using the books in the correct order, and a damage range of only 40-50. Even Sir Gorash (the deepest unique monster in Diablo) only has 1050 Hit Points and 20-60 damage. In fact, Malignus does so much damage that he's only a few points short of hitting as hard on Normal as a Blood Knight does on Hell difficulty (106-106).
I will be reviewing all of the unique monsters that HF: Fixed brought us, and adjusting any that seem too far apart in strength from their original Diablo counterparts of similar levels.
UPDATE:
By request...
(11-20-2014, 12:22 PM)Predator Wrote: I'd suggest just one thing: how about get a mana recharge from Adria?
(12-30-2014, 06:04 PM)Slyrk Wrote: Finally, same as Predator suggested, A mana recharge from Adria would be a nice-to-have.
This has been implemented for the next version. It will be on by default, but can be commented out like all the other changes.
I haven't had time to test it extensively yet, so I can't guarantee it won't cause other problems, but if either if you wish to try this in the current version without having to wait, copy and paste the following code into the end of cowquestON.dat:
Code:
start HF1.01 "Adria restores Mana"
46DB65 68EC864B E9A65F02
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
end