Try this one? It seems especially made to handle Blizzard's weird coding.
http://www.zezula.net/en/mpq/download.html

You'll also probably want to do a few Google searches for tutorials if this is your first time using a decompiler program.

Gems of better quality cannot be re-converted back into lesser quality gems, no. The 'transmute gem' recipes are relatively worthless; by the time you start finding recipes that require better materials you'll be finding equipment that gives you those materials anyway.

Well the rumor is that there are a few rules you can use, based on the game's creation matrix and in what order the game makes the levels. 1. It usually spawns within 2 spaces of a wall 2. It usually spawns 5 or more spaces away from lava and supposedly never less than 3 3. It usually spawns near a ...

All of us here know exactly the frustration you're going through, but sadly, I'd recommend against duping quest items. It can permanently crash your save files. Sometimes it works, but you'd do so at your own risk. Getting that one time when you want to throw your keyboard in frustration trying to f...

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You can change your character's armor appearance like in Diablo 1 by equipping either light, medium, or heavy armor; if you're talking about going into the code and painting your own custom sprites that's too heady a subject to get into here.

The documentation has a chapter on crafting recipes, albeit incomplete. https://mod.diablo.noktis.pl/doc/ At the lower levels, crafting is important for two reasons: 1. Selling crafting materials nets you higher profits than selling the items whole 2. Filling stat gaps you may need to equip particul...

I.... think treasure chests are affected by MF% but not $Player X, but I can't seem to dig that up right now so I could be completely wrong (or even backwards). Hopefully someone else clears that up, I've been wrong before. Personally I've never thought that it was worth it to restart a character fo...

Your build is pretty tanky. I'm going to make this sound bad, but AC becomes less important for a Rogue as she advances.. of course it's still always good and always important but you'll probably have an easier time pulling out of stun lock with some amount of Hit Recovery or even just more MAG to p...

There's more game-breaking bugs in Belzebub, but more inconvenient ones in Tchernobog.

I think what's happening is the necromancer in the group can start reanimating the other ones in Hell and Torment difficulties, but I'm not entirely sure. Either way it doesn't happen in the first two difficulties so it's definitely intentional. I always just camp in a corner and wait for them to co...

I got both Cleglaw's sword and shield doing Lost Treasure runs in Normal difficulty with about 250 MF%. It took a long-ass time though. I did get the belt too but I want to say it was about Level 9 or 10 in Nightmare, somewhere in the Caves, again with about 250 MF%. Sorry I can't help much on Irath...

I tried taking a crack at it a few times but despite how it seems sometimes, the game is really intuitive. I kept finding my advice always boiling down to "use good abilities." Like, life leech is good, mana leech is good if you use spells, weapon speed up is good, etc. Then there's the fa...

It's largely just a matter of personal preference and whatever unique/set equipment you find. Barbarians specialize in axes, but for the most part axes are slow and sucky and you don't do enough damage to justify the loss of your best defensive slot. As the game progresses, however, they become so t...

Well just get 10 players together.

Ah, that's very clever, I'm stealing that for future reference. First things first. Did you indeed reinstall like the error screen suggested? For competelness, from scratch, the process is: 1. Download Diablo and unzip to it's own folder. (I realized after my first message you should still have a co...