"Day of the Serious Destroyer“ aims to provide Might and Magic 8 with one thing that it is desperately missing, at least for everyone who is not new to the game: A proper challenge.
 
This is achieved mostly by making enemies stronger. Monsters in Might and Magic 8 don’t have considerably better stats compared to Might and Magic 7, whilst in MM8 the player has one more party member, which leads to more damage dealt by the player. What makes an end-game monster in MM7, may only be good enough to be part of the mid-game in MM8. The dungeons also tend to be smaller and powerful items more easily accesible.
Highly powerful spells, easy promotion quests and strong, yet relatively early joining hirelings also contribute to the games relatively low difficulty.
 
This lead me to make changes to monsters, npc hirelings and spell values.
 
Some monsters are only slightly more powerful than they were before, whilst others aren’t even comparable to their vanilla counterpart. More difficult are especially some of those dungeons that contain a lot of treasure or important quest items (expect tougher promotion quests). The differences will get more noticable the further you progress through the game.
 
Other changes were made simply for creating a more diverse and interesting game (e.g. now there are pirate archers and sorcerers in Daggerwound, some monsters can summon others and friendly monsters like minotaurs now also exist as enemies). A few npcs were given different portraits, because some portraits were used multiple times, while others weren’t used at all.
 
Many NPC’s were made weaker, especially the ones you can hire in the early game. Cauri Blackthorne and Blazen Stormlance are less powerful than they used to be. The dragon Ithilgore doesn’t exist anymore and was replaced by a troll. A dragon that early in the game is simply too powerful.
 
All the other dragons require more effort to reach and won’t join the player that early in the game. It won’t be so easy to get there either, partly because invisiblitiy is now highly expensive.
 
This leads us to the next point: Spells are more expensive, especially light and dark magic ones. In Might and Magic 8 you usually end up having way more gold than you can spend. Highly useful or powerfull spells are now extra expensive (e.g. town portal, shrapmetal, light magic buff spells and others).
 
I initially made this mod back in 2014. This new version should be better thought through and generally more well-rounded.

Warning: Not having a cleric may lead to serious forms of despair, broken keyboards and an irresistable urge for posting hateful
messages in the mods comment section.


Monsters
 
-More health points and generally better stats for most monsters
 
-Powerful items are found less frequently
 
-Most monsters give less gold and experience
 
-Locations of some monsters were changed
 
-Monsters that weren’t used much are given more important roles
 
 
NPC’s
 
Frederick Talimere (cleric), Devlin Arcanus (necromancer) and Elsbeth Lamentia (vampire) from Dagger Wound Island:
-levels lowered from 5 to 1, no more dark or light magic
 
Gethric Mercutua (vampire) and Nathaniel Roberts (necromancer) from Shadowspire:
levels lowered from 15 to 5
-weaker abilities (no more dark magic spells for Nathaniel Roberts)
 
Ithilgore (dragon) from Garrote Gorge:
-turned into a troll called Ithil Gore (lvl 5)
 
Cauri Blackthorne (dark elf) from Murmurwoods
-level lowered from 50 to 20, has weaker abilities and worse equipment than before
 
Blazen Stormlance (knight) from a quest in Shadowspire:
-level lowered from 50 to 30, weaker abilities
 
Turned every remaining level 50 NPC into level 40, along with giving them slighty weaker abilities
 
Changed portrait of Nelix Uriel (knight with headband is available three times in the game) from Garrote Gorge into a female portrait that wasn’t used for any NPC yet, now called Jaerin Uriel
 
Changed portraits of Maylander and Dervish Chevron (blonde male cleric, exists three times also) from Ravenshore into female portraits, neither of them was used for an NPC yet, now called Lianne Maylander and Rija Chevron
 
Changed portrait of Infaustus, vampire from Shadowspire, into a different female vampire, her portrait is already used by Elsbeth Lamentia from Dagger Wound
 
 
Spells
 
-water, earth, fire, air and body, spirit, mind spells: value x2
-light and dark magic: value x4
-some spells even more expensive
 
 
Installation:
 
1. Download the .zip file from the download section and unpack it.
 
2. Locate you Might and Magic 8 folder. Copy the file „EnglishT“ into the folder „Data“ and replace existing.
 
The changes will appear only when starting a new game or after having maps respawn (changes to npcs only work on a new game).
 
Recommended to be played with the Might and Magic 8 Grayface Patch.