Diablo 2 LOD v1.12a Higher Drop Rate Mod

UPLOADED PER MININOVA FORUM REQUEST

This mod increases the drop rate of sets/uniques/rares primarily, but not to a crazy point where they are raining from the sky, this attempts to balance out LAN games with battle.net, but that doesn't mean you'll see a shako after 1 week of playing, you'll still need to farm a bit.

In order to run this mod, just copy the TestMod folder to your Diablo II directory, most likely that is "C:\Program Files\Diablo II"

so the entire file structure will look like:
"C:\Program Files\Diablo II\TestMod\Data\Global\Excel"

Then, create a D2 Shortcut (name it like Mod or something so you know the difference between this shortcut and the regular one)

Right click the shortcut and select properties

the "Target" block should read as: "C:\Program Files\Diablo II\Game.exe" -direct -txt

the "Start in" block should read as: "C:\Program Files\Diablo II\TestMod\"

Enjoy!

Changes include (but are not limited to)
more keys in a stack
more scrolls in a tome
better drops across the bored (unique/set/rare)
skulls have same chance of dropping as other gems
all runes have become less "rare", you'll probably never see a Zod, but better than one in a billion chance.
no diminishing returns on experience past level 75
Ladder-only runewords now available

can't remember the rest.

reverting to regular game is as simple as running the regular shortcut, or running from CD, or running
without the -direct and -txt parameters.