22.nov.2008: Median XL released!25.feb.2012: Median XL 2012 v005 available (latest patch)05.nov.2013: Hi, good to see this mod is still going strong -Laz official site:The main attraction of Median XL is the brand new skill trees, 30 skills per class, providing a whole new experience. List of featuresSkillsThe 210 new skills (25+5 per class) give rise to very different build strategies. Ever wanted to build a throw barb, poison sorceress or bloodwitch amazon?Amazon - archer, spearmaiden, huntress or bloodwitch, choose your devotion!Assassin - adept at physical and elemental melee and can throw knives and place time bombs.Barbarian - powerful warrior, but can also throw axes and summon ancient spirits.Druid - elementalist, bow hunter, and shapeshifter in a giant tree or angry giant quill rat.Necromancer - minions, corpse totems, melee and crossbow attacks. Join the army!Paladin - choose between the holy path of Auriel or the shadow dogmas of Imperius.Sorceress - pagan elementalist or poison witch. It's witch hunt payback time.MonstersWhat would new skills be without new monsters to pulverise? The focus here is on AI and skill changes. From hammer-throwing clerics and quill rats with homing spikes to corpse exploding goatman priests and frogs that turn into a prince when killed, the new monsters are more than a match for the new skill set.
There are a few brand new monsters here and there too - fear the mushroom people.Elite monstersMuch more powerful than regular monsters and with new and improved skills, these rare encounters send you running for the hills.Heroic monstersEven more powerful than elites, these are thankfully restricted to their own special dungeons. Mostly.Veteran monstersRare and very powerful, you gain a reward for killing all of them.UberquestsThese are special dungeons, levels or player-summoned bosses that should only be attempted by the skilled and powerful. Median XL offers 17+1 uberbosses, 8 uberlevels and 4 separate bosses, most based on Diablo lore.
The uberquests range from the invasion of Toraja by the edyrem to the cursed city of Ureh (from the Diablo novel 'Kingdom of Shadow') and an uberquest that recreates the capture of Baal by Tal Rasha and the Horadrim. With you as Baal.ChallengesCompleting difficult tasks and encounters at a low level or performing tricks like dodging witches or shattering stained glass windows may earn you big rewards.
From powerful charms to additional new skills.ItemsWhile some people play the game to defeat the denizens of Hell (haha), for most others TEH L00T and the bragging rights that come with it are more important. Median XL does away with normal, exceptional and elite items, instead providing six 'tiers' of item quality. Baal may drop a cap, but it will be a cap with 600 defense on it. Median XL also features many new class-specific items to augment the new skills, from necromantic crossbows to the assassin naginata with a built-in multitarget sweep attack. A huge collection of new uniques, sets and runewords is a given, of course, as well as some much more powerful crafting recipes.MultiplayerMedian XL supports single player, tcp/ip and open battle.net. Closed battle.net ('realms') obviously won't work, but certain third parties have provided alternatives.The forumDue to the failure of Forumer, the official forum has died in 2012 after five years of faithful service.
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In its place is a third party forum! And yes, it's still pretty active (05.nov.2013) and is also home to the Ultimative line of third party Median XL patches in case you can't get enough of it. Median never dies!
SACRED UNIQUESThe Sacred tier of items has, on average, two unique versions that are different from the tiered unique. Some items don't have a sacred variant. Sacred uniques can only drop in Hell difficulty. The best rings, amulets, jewels and quivers are also marked as sacred uniques.VariationsAll sacred uniques aside from jewelry come in 2 or 3 different variations. Their position within the table dictates what variation they come as (SU is leftmost, SSU is center (rightmost in a 2 column arrangement), and SSSU is rightmost (in a 3 column arrangement), jewelry not included).
The SU variants are typically found beginning at Area Levels of 104 and beyond, SSU variants begin dropping in Area Level 119 areas, and SSSUs start dropping in Area Level 130 areas.The Flamen staves are an exception to this rule, the ending staff being SSU.SocketsAll unique items come with the maximum allowed number of sockets for the item type.OskillsIf an item has a skill bonus with no character class requirement (eg.