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Love this class, as many others have said already, she fits perfectly in the game.

not a fan of affliction-based heroes, but this is hands down one of the best modded characters ever. Versatile skills, balanced gameplay, awesome visuals and lore. Personal all-time favorite. And Sunward trinket is busted as hell with Highwayman/Shieldbreaker in party.

Someone made a russian translation mod, but I just realized that wouldn't work with the updated version. I'll look into it.

It's a shame that there is still no translation into Russian...

Nice to see this mod on BR. I like her concept as stress manager instead of the more common stress healer, and on BR where her stress=some buff, you could use malevolent pact+absorvent mind and get a consequent better head trauma. On other hand, the consequent stress she ends is way too high to use this as a regular combo, and all buffs are not enough to cope with that... but would be a cool way to play her.

Hello Rehtaelle hope you're doing well. You got some really cool looking mods. Wanting to include them in my next run. Are you still planning on updating this one and Milkmaid in the near future or would you just say I should plan to run them as they are?

Really awesome class mod. Love the aesthetics, and she's just so cool! Thanks for this and hope you're doing well!

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I apologize for the delay

Go for it. I'll hand it off to a Russian speaker I know and beg him to proofread it.

Good afternoon or evening. We managed to fix the Russian localization for this mod and if you wish, we can send you this version of the localization so that you can add it to this mod

This is one of my favorite classes, I can easily see her in an animated series being my favorite character.

My gameplay suggestion, the Head Trauma ability causes a lot of damage by itself, and is too broken, so I suggest reducing the damage and adding a stress loss effect when killing an enemy, as if the character was getting rid of her own torment by finishing the monsters herself.

And thanks for the amazing work @Rehtaelle

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I've been... a bit stressed, yeah. At some point (hopefully soon) I'm going to get around to updating her and Milkmaid. See if I can add in that russian .loc I got (after having another Russian speaker verify its quality), and make some balance adjustments. Gonna drop her damage by a single point, drop her crit by a single point, make her no longer deny healing on affliction, slightly the accuracy on Head Trauma and Page Cutter (down from 95 to 90, so still above average), update her visuals and add a "legacy skin" companion mod. Gonna make some adjustments to Milkmaid's trinkets, slightly nerf her single-target heal, and change her virtue ally attack to do a bleed proc instead of direct damage to avoid the rare ally kill.

Hey! Sounds like life has been difficult for you at the moment but I just wanted to say that this is one of my favorite mods. You've made such a useful unit and such an interesting character. Really appreciate the hard work, she's been a mainstay in two of my hamlets so far!

just noticed theres another white little thing on her cloak whenever she walks too

hey, can you please fix the walking sprite? i know its a small thing but it thoroughly bothers me that theres a white little cube to the left of her head whenever she walks

Question: when the updated art from her BR version is made available, will it be as a separate mod? I ask because while the BR version is an upgrade in overall quality, I kinda prefer the disheveled scholar look of the current Philomath

When I have money for commissions. Currently I'm trying to make rent consistently.

Will the somnium update ever come out ?

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This is a translation of this class, unfortunately the Russian text for some reason in the game is displayed with some occult symbols, as I wrote below. Please resolve this issue, I did everything I could

So, what happened with the updated skin?

Hello. I was translating your mod into Russian and noticed the following problem - instead of my translation, strange symbols are displayed in the game. So, for example, why the class name is displayed with an exclamation mark, the name of the skills is replaced by the Latin alphabet, which belongs to some European language that is incomprehensible to me. I don't know what's wrong, but it complicates the translation work.

Postscript: these symbols are also present in the Korean and Chinese localizations of this mod instead of normal hieroglyphs. Please get on with it

Russian translation please

Athenaeum

Does it has district?

Skin will happen sooner or later, the nightmares thing is on ice until BR starts wrapping up *and* my money situation gets better so I can commission some art for the enemies.

Hi there. Been using this mod since its release. Since the Philomath was added into Black Reliquary I want to ask if there will be further development towards this mod, such as the previously planned "Somnium update" or whatever it was called? Will the updated animations and skin from Black Reliquary be added to the base game mod at some point?

I wasn't aware of how to change trinket limits, but you did prompt me to ask in the discord where I was taught how. Cheers.

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No.
Should players want to have more than one Philomath on a team running shared trinkets, that's their right to choose. In your case, there are values you can change locally if you want to do this, which if you have a lot of modded classes, you'll be familiar with doing very quickly.

Hey, I've been enjoying the mod so far. Could you limit her trinkets to 1 per save? In a save file with many modded characters it can be frustrating to find duplicate trinkets.

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Fair enough. I really just wanted to offer the suggestion for your consideration. I can go with your explanation in my head cannon.

And thanks for sharing more of her motivation.

Regarding the houndmaster, in the middle ages police dogs were mostly used for tracking people, so in his previous occupation as the medieval (renaissance?) equivalent of a K-9 unit, I'm imagining that he tracked many people through wilderness areas, which may have involved setting, avoiding, and/or disarming traps. That's my guess as to the lore explanation for his high traps skill.

Black Reliquary looks really cool. Are there any plans to release a Mac version?

In any case, if you are able to finish Nightmares sometime I'd love to try it. But if not, I'd like to express my appreciation for the beautiful piece of art you've already gifted to the community, which is the story and character of the philomath. Thank you.

Why should houndmaster be good at disarming them? Sure, the dog would help find him, but the dog wouldn't know what to do. She's just read up on a lot of books, including mechanical things such as traps, not to mention that many of the hazards in the estate aren't even mechanical in nature. One is a pile of mushrooms, and one is some squibbs in the ground muck.

She doesn't know the details of what's going to help save her here, just that a vision told her that it *might* help, and that's as good a lead as any.

Nightmares is something I do intend to finish at some point, but money is a bit iffy right now to commission the art for it, and my modding attention is on BR right now. (Including adding her to the add-on roster)

Awesome, thanks for letting me in on that lore. Really cool story. So does she believe that destroying the HoD will free her from eldritch influence, or is it more that there's something in the concentration of eldritch power around the manor that she can use to free herself?

Regarding her traps skill, I can see how her psychic abilities might make her better able to detect and avoid traps, but it seems to me that people who have some previous life experience of working with traps in some way would likely be better at disarming them (which is likely true of the four other characters with the highest traps skill: the grave robber, the highwayman, the houndmaster, and the bounty hunter). If it's possible to make the trap resist and trap disarming skills independent values, you might want to consider making her disarming skill at least a bit lower.

Are you still working on adding nightmares to this mod btw (possibly as a separate add-on mod)? If so, I'm looking forward to it.

Trap disarm is high because lore reasons. She's a psychic genius. She can sense it coming (usually) and is technically inclined enough to know how to disarm them. Employing such advanced techniques as throwing rocks into the traps to set them off from a safe distance.

One of the other big reasons that she doesn't go to the bar is that she's on *a lot* of medications and drugs at any given time. And yes, she thinks the hamlet is the key to salvaging her mind. As for the eldritch creature playing her as a pawn (or maybe more of a bishop, she's fairly useful) i interpret this as a power struggle between it and the HoD. It's a lesser entity that's using her to create a power vacuum so it can take the HoD's place.

I do have a critique: Why is her trap resist/disarm skill so high? She's literally tied for best with the grave robber. That's the one aspect of her that felt off to me.

The grave robber is good at disarming traps because she's basically a burglar, but the philomath is a college student who spent all or her time reading books rather than working with physical things; and is now in a constant daze from severe sleep-deprivation, under the influence of a shifting array of various mind/mood altering drugs, and suffering from demonic visions/hallucinations which distort her perceptions of people and things. Shouldn't all of that put her traps skill on the low end? Like, I get that as somebody who's particularly intelligent and has been focusing on challenging her mind as a student, she might be better at figuring things out than most, but that doesn't seem like enough to compensate for her current impairments and lack of practical experience in any area related to traps.

Great job on this character! I love how many little pieces of character-building you created for her, like her bark about not wanting to drink in the tavern (Because she needs to keep her guard up against the demonic forces she's opened herself to). She's well-fleshed-out and compelling. She's the main character I empathize with, and Darkest Dungeon now feels like her story. I also love how perfectly she fits in to the existing lore.

Cool set of mechanics as well, though I'm still learning how to use her.

One thing that's unclear to me is her motivation in going to the hamlet she saw in her vision. Does she think that she'll find some means there to close herself off from the demonic forces she opened herself to? Is she just trying to save the world (out of a remaining feeling of care for her fellow humans she's separated herself from)? Did the demon just compel her to go for its own purposes without her ever having her own motivation to go? Why does the demon want her there?

Well never mind then, sorry i misunderstood it and kudos for not being a coward and creating characters with unlikeable flaws, so many writers dont have the balls to do that.

She is an insufferable knowitall at times. She's a bit of a bitch to anyone she considers of lower intelligence.

One thing about her that i think should be revisited is her unintended flaws, for example some of her barks make her come off like an insufferable know it all and her criticize camping skill in context doesnt do her any favors in this regard, but that wont be an issue if that was an intended character flaw but it doesnt come off as such, her self-centered tendencies on the other hand are treated like a proper character flaw and its clear that they are a flaw.

Awsome!

Mora

Does she have a canon name?

Greetings, how are you doing? How soon can you implement my translation?

Good, flavourful backline attacker with a way back from the frontlines, able to protect and destealth=all in all one cute, universal waifu :-)

Oh, ok, I understand, good luck

Sorry, but I'm still having issues with the mod uploader and I've been doing other things in life right now. I'll try to look into it some more, but for some reason my mod uploader crashes when I try to use it. No one can figure out why. I've talked to dozens of other modders and no one knows what the hell is going on. I'll try to bump it up the list of things to do, but I'm still running into that problem.

Greetings again, so have you added Russian localisation? The XML files have long since been sent to the discord server that you indicated to me

Rad. Having issues with my mod uploader these days because of course I am, so it'll take me a while to get this added in.