Three Cut Shrines in Diablo II

Here is a genuinely obscure piece of trivia: in the game, Health Shrines, Mana Shrines and Gem Shrines show up far more often than the rest.

That is because three cut shrines were replaced by them.

They are:

• Health Exchange 生命交換神殿
• Mana Exchange 法力交換神殿
• Shrine of Enirhs 颠倒神殿

What they were meant to do:

Health Exchange:

• Immediately deducts 50% of current Life and adds five times that amount to current Mana
• Message: you feel incredibly strengthened.

【The odd part: it deducts Life and adds Mana, so why does the message still say your Life was strengthened?】

Mana Exchange:

• Immediately deducts 50% of current Mana and adds five times that amount to current Life
• Message: you feel incredible energy poured into your body.

Shrine of Enirhs:

• Reverses the player character's name
• Message: your senses are sharpened.

As the name suggests, Enirhs (Eh-nir-ss) is "Shrine" spelled backwards. The shrine does nothing else, but since your senses are sharpened, I think it would be considerably more entertaining if The Mahim-Oak Curio showed up under Michio Okamura's name and Bverrit Keep under Peter Brevik's (one of the developers).

In testing, though, this shrine had no effect at all.

All three shrines also have designed sound effects, so they were actually fairly complete.

But in the end all of them were disabled, and the method was simply:

• When the game randomly rolls Health Exchange, replace it with a Health Shrine
• When it rolls Shrine of Enirhs, substitute a Gem Shrine

So three shrines end up with twice the appearance chance of their kind.

Note that these are one-shot shrines with no duration. If your name gets reversed, you have to find another Shrine of Enirhs to reverse it back.

The shrine hands you overflowing Life and Mana; once you have spent it, its effect is over.

That five-times multiplier still feels absurd, and since players could inflate their stats indefinitely by farming shrines, a mod restoration would have to correct this mechanic before it could work.

On top of that, the game has no overflow mechanic at present.

A few more special shrines:

• Null Shrine — it does nothing, yet it still has a message: you feel nothing (it is shrine 0, and since shrine selection starts from 1, it never appears).
• In the development build, Health Shrine doubled your Life and overflowed the maximum Life cap
• In the development build, Mana Shrine doubled your Mana and overflowed the maximum Mana cap
• Monster Shrine has its own unique sound, but what actually plays is the Town Portal Shrine's sound