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Dracos Merged Pack w/ lvl 100 Cap & Vanilla Stat+Skill Gains

GENERAL UPDATE
In the comments I mentioned that I was digging through Apocalypse to determine what needs to be done to reduce the level cap below 100 while keeping the difficulty features. I believe I have a good idea of what's required, but the situation is a bit more complicated than I originally thought. With the various mods in my preferred load order overlapping in certain areas (particularly in GLOBALS.DAT), it's probably in my best interest to go through and check every file against each other and rebuild by hand. It'd be quite a bit of work.

There are two, maybe three potential versions: one that's just Apocalypse Deleveled, one that's compatible with Synergies and TL2E, and then possibly one that wraps it all back into Draco's again.

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With the removal of Apocalypse that PSNick & co. made for the original Draco's Merged Pack to fix the level 101-200 multiplayer issues, things ended up a little off balance (at least in my opinion). Apocalypse did more than just increase the level cap, it also made the game significantly harder with greatly increased enemy damage and HP.

To me it felt like the original Draco's Merged Pack was designed with Apocalypse in mind, which included the doubled Stat and Skill gains on each level. Without the greatly increased difficulty characters with these doubled gains quickly seem to spiral out of control. Wearing level 30+ items around level 10 is... just a little nuts.

This pack is itself a modification of PSNick's own edit that removed Apocalypse Mod, which now also takes out Double the Points. Really all I did was delete a few graph files, all credit goes to those two, as well as the original mods' authors!

If you use General Passives for All, also by Draco1122, your Skill points per level will increase to 2. Skill points gained from fame remain at 1.


- Original Mod:
Dracos Merged Pack (v.15)

- PSNick's Variation:
Dracos Merged Pack (lvl 100 cap)

- My Variation, Includes:
Ultimate Boss Chests By Warhead
Boss Brutality v.3 By RichardH
Buff Durations 5 Minutes (v.24) By ᕦ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ᕤ
Outlander Re balance (v.33) Korgran
Drop and Loot 2.0 By IL_Giudice
Stat Elixir's v.12 Kilmorr
Improved Engineer Summons Lite By Charlie Cyprus
AG spell pack v.40 Attack Gorilla
Synergies Highloot v.11 Salan
Engineer Dps Mod (v.2) by Zdog
Improved Vitality v.3 by Daniel
Starter Chest by Bandit
Smarter Gambler v.10 By Adult Toys
Vendor Boon v.14 By Bandit
Lost Spirit Merchant By Lone Wolf Mcquade
Better Sorting for Synergies v.2 By jon.wd7

Much thanks to Draco, PSNick, and all the authors of the various included mods!


- My Load Order:
Enhanced Retex part 1
Enhanced Retex part 2
Dracos Merged Pack w/ lvl 100 Cap & Vanilla Stat+Skill Gains
LAO 2.0 (Nerf) (or LAO III, or any full version of LAO, if you're looking for the extra features)
Arkham's & Ripper's Armory
General Passives For All
Addon TO Additional Classes
SynergiesMOD Compatible Torchlight 2 Essentials
SynergiesMOD
Additional Classes

Played on Elite, seems to provide just the right amount of "oh crap" moments without fights otherwise just dragging on.

I prefer LAO 2.0 Nerf in this setup because it provides a variety without becoming overwhelming. Unique items have a short limited list with strong effects (+25% damage, +15% armor, +140 HP) some of which are special to them, while rare and magic items have a much larger list of individually weaker generic values (+9% damage, +7% armor, +3% dodge, +4% attack speed, +4% execute, +2% crit, +70 HP). Just about anything can be useful depending on what you're building for! It can mean that uniques are rather weak early on, but they catch up towards the end-game.

If you wish to use the full version of LAO 2.0 as well as LAO 2.0 Nerf, you can get a merged version of Enhanced Retex from this link:
http://www.runicgamesfansite.com/vbdownloads.php?do=download&downloadid=382
Make sure you use the second mirror, the Steam-specific version!

To install:
1.) Navigate to your TL2 mods folder. This is usually found in "My Documents/My Games/Runic Games/Torchlight 2/mods"
2.) Create a new folder there named "enhanced retex full"
3.) Open the zip file containing enhanced retex full
4.) Select and drag (extract) both files in the zip into the "enhanced retex full" folder you just made
- 4.5) May be necessary to delete/unsubscribe-to the split Enhanced Retex. Don't worry, it isn't being updated anymore.
5.) Start/Restart TL2's mod launcher, and replace the two parts of Enhanced Retex with the merged version in your load order.