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Skill Reworks

Skill Reworks is a bounce mod that aims to overhaul the vanilla masteries, making formerly weak skills more interesting without nerfing the strong ones.

The goal is to make all skills worth investing points in, get rid of one point wonders, and have all classes stand on more or less equal ground. To achieve that, most of the skills have been reworked, sometimes even exchanged for entirely new ones, and the mastery bonuses adjusted. Ideally, this should open up new interesting mastery combinations and play styles.

Please note that Skill Reworks will most likely make your character stronger compared to vanilla and the overall game a little easier! But beware, some enemies will use these stronger skills against you, too!

The mod works with or without any of the DLC and can be safely used with existing characters...EXCEPT for Rune's Energy Shield (Equilibrium Rune in the mod), you need to buy those points back before you switch to vanilla!

It's up to date with the current v2.6 of the game and includes the new Atlantis skills as of v1.1!

Features of this Mod:
- The bonuses all masteries grant to Abilities, Health, and Energy were adjusted to match the strongest one (Defense) in overall value (on the basis of 1 Str/Dex/Int equals 10 Health/Energy).
- Many of the vanilla skills were adjusted regarding damage and other effects. Things that didn't scale before now usually do. Scaling of all values was reworked to have equal or increasing returns.
- Some skills have their maximum skill level reduced or increased. (If you use an existing character that has more ranks in a skill than the reworked version, the excess points can be bought back!)
- A few skills were replaced completely for (in my opinion) more interesting ones.
- Pet skills are now included!
- There is now a txt version of the mod that has edited skill names and descriptions (in english).

A full Changelog can be found here: https://pastebin.com/EzVLvW9T

While I have played with these changes for some time already, it's impossible for me to test all masteries on all difficulties, so if you think something is too strong, still too weak, or simply not working right, let me know.

Note: the download contains four versions, skillreworks (only this mod), skillreworkslp (Skill Reworks and Loot Plus, my other mod, merged together), and an additional version of each with edited skill names and descriptions (-txt).

HOW BOUNCE MODS WORK:
After subscribing, start the game, select "custom game" in the game menu. Create a new dummy character if you don't have one already, then start the mod (you'll be bounced back to the regular character selection), select your character and start the game. You will get an "error" message, but this is perfectly normal and just means the game is aware you're using a bounce mod. You'll have to repeat this every time you go back to the main menu.

If you want to use two or more bounce mods together, I've written a Guide on how to merge bounce mods here:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1746931699