Version 4.9 : 
by Kingpin
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changes 4.9

-more uniques items total is now more than 1600
-some uniques are flaged as "ultimate"
-difficulty increased . difficulty is nice balanced .
-due to the harder difficulty mercenaries are now more balanced (they was too strong in 4.8)
-removed iron maiden from doomknights and mages. replaced by auras (conviction , holy freeze etc) ,(this curse was removed cause i judge that this break too much the gameplay , and in order to help solo players )
-caves are larger and the difficulty is very hard in uber difficulty
-rune drops increased and quality as well .
-new runewords (7) (read runeword.txt to see new runewords)

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Details 4.9 : 
 
H bien ca y est ! nous y voila , je viens de finir la version 4.9 avec encores des choses en plus et des changements voici le detail (non exhaustif) :
 
-Globaly Uber World Difficulty was increased with + 50 to 100 % more hitpoints to all monsters and monsters do more damage (not too much) 
, and they got a better defense and higher level /globalement la difficult du mode Uber World a t augment les monstres recoivent 
: + de vie 50  a 100 % environ , ils font + de degats , ils ont une meilleure defense et ils ont un niveau + elev .
 

-As world become harder , i have made and introduced again new uniks items 
, new ones are more powerful in order to reach the fun of playing in Ubers World
 mode , old ones can get a little up or adds of properties.
 Total of unik items is around 1600 .
/comme le monde deviens plus difficile ,
 j'ai cr et introduit de nouveaux objets uniques 
, les nouveaux sont en general plus puissants dans 
le but de pouvoir jouer dans le mode Ubers World et 
de prendre du plaisir en jouant dans ce mode , 
les anciens objets peuvent avoir recu un leger up 
ou l'ajout de proprits .Le total des objets uniques 
s'eleve maintenant a 1600 ! (a peu pres).
 

-all bosses get a lot more hitpoints and regen is better
 . tous les boss de fin de niveau et certains autres
 ont recu beaucoup + de point de vie (entre autre)
 et une meilleure regeneration de la vie .
 

- removed uniks monsters with "Champions status" 
, these not affect difficulty because for example uniks
 with berserker status 
are again here.enlev les monstres uniques
 ayant la proprit d'etre des "champions" 
cela n'affecte pas la difficult parce que les autres types
 de monstres uniques par exemple les monstres uniques berserkers
 sont toujours presents .
 

-Removed iron maiden spell
 from monsters casting spell list
 and that in order to help all melee class ,
 this spell was insane and it has been removed .
 all old monsters (and some others) that could cast 
iron maiden got now auras 
.Enlev le sort dame de fer 
de la liste des sorts casts
par les monstres et cela parce
 que le sort etait trop devastateur pour les classes de mle
 .tous les monstres (et quelques autres accompagnants)
 qui pouvaient caster dame de fer ont maintenant des auras .
 

-Lowered population in nightmare mode (15 %)
 but little up of difficulty in nightmare,
 a little in hell mode (maximum 10 %),
 diminu la population dans le mode cauchemard
 (ca tourne dans les 15 %) mais la difficult a t un peu hausse
 . , et un peu dans le hell (maximum 10 %) .

 

-Underground caves and others areas are longer
 and more rooms.
les caves , grottes , souterrains ont plus de pieces
 et sont plus long .
 

-runes drops increased and quality as well 
.les runes tomberont plus souvent 
et vous aurez plus souvent une rune d'une qualit meilleure .
 

- unik items can get the flag "ultimate"
  that said that the unik items is
  the best unik item of this style 
or close and is very powerful . 
les objets uniques peuvent avoir la description
 "ultimate" cela veut dire qu'ils sont le meilleur objet
 de ce style ou un des meilleurs et 
qu'il est vraiment tres puissant .
 

-Rares items with 10 % chance of cast amplify dmg
 now got only 8 % chance.
les objets rares qui ont la proprit de lancer amplify dammage
 ont 8 % de chance de lancer le sort
 a la place de 10% avant .
 

-Power of Mercenaries have been reduced a little
 ,but is up to you to find good stuff .
 les mercenaires sont un peu moins puissants
 , mais c'est a vous de leur trouver un bon equipement.
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some details about difficulty 

the difficulty is nice balanced i have made a hardcore zealot and made only one time the cow level in normal (where the drops quality is increased , more rares , more uniques . Note that the magic find in this area work better in : normal , nightmare , hell and in uber difficulty as well , normal : more chances of finding uniques items , nightmare lesser chance , hell again lesser lesser chance etc...)
my drops was not so much  (2-3 of usefull things with approximatively 75 mf) but it have provided a little help (and not boost ^^ , only help =),i was ready for nightmare where i have made my way ...
if you feel that you need to do more cow levels to go farther , then do it , i have made this system in order to allow you to make your way anyway if you feel that it's hard and you need more cow levels , so don't worry and enjoy :) .
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Thanks for playing.