Hello everybody. Absolutely love the mods for this game. Here is my current load out and have some questions about load order and merging mods. Here is my current list of mods in order running on my machine with no conflicts:

Better Drop Rates - using this to try and eliminate most of the whites and get less greens. Tried other drop rate mods and they are way too OP with unique and legendary items dropping far too often. Like 29 legendary items dropping for a new character before making it to the first town too often! This one has a slightly better drop rate than vanilla IMHO so far.
Better Loot Colors - self explanatory.
No Identify - all items drop identified.
Wand Homing Projectiles - turns all wand projectiles into homing missiles.
More Pet Skins - adds tons of new skins for pets.
Variant Classes - adds new classes to player character selection.
Synergies Mod - Mod pack with tons of combined improvements.
FEP+ - Far East Pack 1&2 that's more compatible with above mod.
TorchFull Final - Mod Pack with tons of combined mods not included in Synergies.
Unearthed Arcana - adds original content left out by the original dev's of TL2 and enhances the game with several other features cut from the vanilla game.

I would also like to include the Enhanced Retex packs 1&2, but have reached my 10 mod limit with the above, so since these were only cosmetic improvements I left them out. I want to try and figure out a way to combine some of the above packs to free up space to have these, but I know nothing about merging or modding so if anyone has any suggestions on how to learn and which ones above to combine that would be a great help.

As far as the current load goes, right now everything works without crashing the game or doing anything that keeps it from loading. I have seen a few strange quirks, but am unsure if these are conflicts with the mods, the mod order or by design from the mod creator. Here are a few of them:

1. Character selection screen doesn't show all the classes that it should for all the mods. There are a few missing from the bigger mod packs like synergies and torchfull final. Maybe they are overwriting each other? I have no idea since I know nothing about how the mods work with each other, just that they seem to work with a few drawbacks like this.

2. During the pet selection process the menu is no longer optimized, I still see all or nearly all ( I noticed a few pets disappear and reappear or get replaced if I change the load order or remove some of the mods from the list, I assume some of them are getting overwritten by one or other of the mods) of the pets I am supposed to see, but instead of filling the entire selection screen it creates the pet characters in three lines at the top which slightly protrude out of its containment within the box on the right of it. It just adds extra pages to scroll through instead of using the whole box. Not a deal-breaker, I can live with it, just slightly annoying.

3. While playing any character class during the game, the pet will sometimes (1/10 times) hit an enemy and that enemy splits(spawns?) several other enemies of the exact same type on screen. Like it cast some sort of multiply spell. Now if this only happens with normal mobs ok, I can deal. If it starts to happen with Elites/Champions/Bosses... well that could be a problem. Unsure if this is a bug or glitch, or if this is by design from one of the mods... no idea

4. Loot colors are off or the wrong color on some items like mana and health potions. The potions in particular appear light yellow instead of the Blue and Red respectively that I feel they should, hence the Better Loot Color mod. I would rather not have to have a mod to correct this taking up a precious space in the 10 mod limit, but as I don't know how to keep it from happening, I just added a mod to fix it and move on.

5. Last but not least, one of the mods adds a bunch of items with "alloy or tools" in the name. I think its an item type by itself or an affix of some kind. because there appears to be an alloy or tool version of every kind of weapon (possibly armor as well) in the game. Regardless, they appear in drops, vendors that sell weapons/armor and quest rewards. They are prevalent in every one of those cases, especially the vendors. The skins for these items is a horrid looking black color, sometimes with orange highlights. They look nothing like any of the items found throughout the rest of the game and overall just detract from the aesthetics of the game itself. Between the large number of them that appear (75% or greater) versus all other items (vanilla or added through mods), the fact that they look terrible, haven't found or seen a single one with any enchantment or base stat that is better than whats already available without them. I don't know which mod is adding them, or how to get rid of them even if I did. Short of removing the mod, which I doubt I would do because of all the other things it adds or enhances in the game. It just, it breaks the aesthetic and beauty of the game. I wouldn't even care so much about them if they just didn't show up in everything, all over the place. Sigh...

So hopefully one of you great fellow gamer's and modder's can take a look at my load order and help me with refining it if necessary. Maybe somebody can help me address the issues I raised by fixing them for me or point me to where I can learn how to do it myself. I also wish someone would shed some light on knowing which mods to merge, and merging them to free up at least two or more spots to include the Retex 1&2 mods since everyone seems to enjoy the cosmetic enhancements they provide.

Thanks in advance for anybody who helps me, I really appreciate it greatly.