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Lightbringer Rework (v.152)

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This is an edit of an amazing Lightbringer mod originally made by Who-I-don't-remember-anymore. Check the original page here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1765628642&tscn=1742288029.

This mod adds a paladin archetype class called Lightbringer, with heavy focus on party buffs, healing and melee-centric gameplay, though there is also the Faith talent tree if you want to be a caster. This is not meant to be a replacement, but an alternative, with many changes probably deviating from the author's vision. I wanted to primarily iron out a few kinks and make additions fitting to my taste.

To the original author: Your mod is a true labor of love, I spent so many days playing Torchlight 2 with it, it's probably the sole reason the game still kept my interest to this day. Thank you so much for bringing this mod to life, I hope this version makes it justice.

===List of changes:===

- Updated visuals of many abilities, mostly to be more subtle and not cover too much of the character's armor and weapon. Too many to list, see screenshots for examples.

- Reworked abilities, primarily in the Might skill tree. Most buffs now have standardized duration and cooldown of 30/35 seconds, tier bonuses edited, values tweaked, etc.

- 2 new abilities: Holy Leap, a movement ability similar (ok almost exactly the same as engineer's Onslaught), and Blessed Weapon, a basic attack proc also similar to engi's Overcharge.

- Updated skill icons, many replaced. Now are clean without WoW's icon border, taken from: https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info19844.

- Rewritten descriptions and flavor text, majority of changes are just personal taste. Some descriptions are now a bit clearer about what the skill does.

- A different selection of face and hair customizations for both male and female characters, new clothing textures, and a new starting greathammer to match!

- Fixed the hitbox of Holy Smite, now will proc Judgement at the point of impact.

- Rebuke was renamed to Aura of Reckoning, the textures for the unit theme extracted from Warcraft 3, reanimated manually in Guts.

I wanted to draw new class icons, but it was too much and I've already worked on this mod for over a month. Maybe I'll finish them sometime.

If you're wondering what is the armor and weapon from the screenshots, it's from my other mod Paladin Arsenal: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3426210833. I actually made them at first with the intention to play with this mod, and it gave me the idea to try modding it next.

Also I tested the abilities (mostly from the Might tree) but I'm not great at balancing, so with the new ones added the class might be a bit OP, though you could say it already was. I tried to lower some values, but please write in the comments your suggestions, and I may edit. In general just let me know what you think, and I hope you enjoy!
9 Comments
potionseller 19 Jun @ 2:52pm 
looks nice
Egorator  [author] 13 Apr @ 7:02am 
@Loaf Hi, thank you for kind words and for your feedback! Yes, I did in fact want to make the class a bit faster than it was in the original and I did so by adding a leap ability, hovewer I didn't adjust the base speed, which is probably needed. I'm a bit hesitant to get it so low because I don't want to risk the movement feeling sluggish. As for the shield throw, it is one of the abilities I never touched as I focused almost exclusively on the might tree, but when I update the mod I'll make sure to tune it down. Thanks again!
Loaf 13 Apr @ 12:43am 
I love your take on the lightbringer class, I can see you put a lot of love into it. I do feel that the shield throw ability is rather OP. It deals so much damage and the damage over time is rather insane for how short the cooldown and how little mana it takes.
Also, for a heavy armored class, the Lightbringer moves quite fast in comparison with some of the vanilla and even modded classes. The speed is 10.5 by default whereas the Outlander moves at only 7.5.
Torchlight2 Plus 6 Apr @ 4:22pm 
Looks Nice! Gonna try it out.
Egorator  [author] 28 Mar @ 11:55pm 
@Who-I-don't-remember-anymore Thank you!!! I feel very honored, but I don't know if I could've succeded if I had to create such a mod from scratch. It is thanks to you that this exists. Also it was very fun (if a little frustrating) to learn an old software that has barely any documentation on it.
Borderlands 28 Mar @ 7:39am 
Wow good
Who-I-don't-remember-anymore 27 Mar @ 11:58pm 
Congrats on releasing the mod! Glad to see someone share my love for this Paladin class, you made this old bones feel like replaying this game again after what feels like a lifetime ago.
Egorator  [author] 23 Mar @ 4:33am 
@steffire3 Thank you so much! :praisesun:
steffire3 22 Mar @ 5:16pm 
@ (author) : Huge thanks for your dedication to make this re-work happen. Also for the other mod that adds Paladin themed items. Up-voted both mods. :steamthumbsup: