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Talent Rebalance
Version: 2.0
Date: 4/29/2011
Description:
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This mod tries to make adjustments to many of the current talents, abilities and spells available for Hawke and his companions by reducing many of the unnatural restrictions existant, improving many abilities that felt either undertuned, or overtuned, while still mantaining a relative good balance. All classes should now feel much more accesible to play and more fun.
However, because of the removal of many of the artificial restrictions imposed by the game developers, this mod is highly recommended to be used on Nightmare and Hard difficulties.
General Changes:
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- All talent trees have been rearranged into a brach like structure, with 3 main braches, each containing between 1 and 3 abilities grouped according to their similarities and usage. Requirments have been adjusted accordingly. No more of the original chaotic ability web to interfere with your choices.
- All talents have had their "number of points in tree" requirment removed. The only requirments are Level and previous talent in branch.
- A lot of fixes and changes have been applied to talents description where appropriate.
- 2 extra spells available (Primal and Arcane trees).
- 2 extra abilities available in the Archery tree.
- All sustained abilities have had their cost reduced to 10% mana/stamina with each upgrade adding another 5%.
For a more detailed description of the modifications for each talent, please check the individual changes available in the readme file (from the options menu or contained in the mod's distribution archive).
Known Issues:
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- Deadly Chain ability from Archery tree does not work with Varric. Until a fix is found, do not give Varric this ability.
- If Anders already has points invested in Panacea, the constitution bonus from Vitality will not be applied and respeccing him later will make you lose 10 constitution. Please respec Anders before applying the mod, until a fix or different solution is found.
Compatibility:
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This mod is NOT compatible with any other mod that changes abilities for Hawke(warrior,rogue,mage) and companions.
Please be advised: if you are seeing different results than what is described in the readme or pictures, it is probably a conflict with other mods that change the same resources. This mod has been thoroughly tested by multiple users and no issues, that have not been mentioned above, have been detected, as long as no other mods that modified class abilities and specializations have been applied.
Install:
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Extract or copy the contents of the archive into the game's override folder (usually: ..\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age 2\packages\core\override)
Uninstall:
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Delete "talent_rebalance.erf" and "core_en-us.tlk" from the game's override folder (or the folder containing these files)
Credits & Legal Issues:
=======================
This mod has been created by modifying original Bioware game resources according to the author's personal views. No outside content has been used. However, because of the nature of the mod, it is invariable that some elements will be similar to what other mods have done.
As such, I thank everyone here at Dragon Age Nexus and Nexus Forums for the great work you have done, the support and the inspiration you have provided to me and others.
A special thanks goes to koriel84 for many of the ideas and talent designs currently implemented.
Thanks to Lautreamont for determining me to improve upon the initial mod.
Version: 2.0
Date: 4/29/2011
Description:
============
This mod tries to make adjustments to many of the current talents, abilities and spells available for Hawke and his companions by reducing many of the unnatural restrictions existant, improving many abilities that felt either undertuned, or overtuned, while still mantaining a relative good balance. All classes should now feel much more accesible to play and more fun.
However, because of the removal of many of the artificial restrictions imposed by the game developers, this mod is highly recommended to be used on Nightmare and Hard difficulties.
General Changes:
================
- All talent trees have been rearranged into a brach like structure, with 3 main braches, each containing between 1 and 3 abilities grouped according to their similarities and usage. Requirments have been adjusted accordingly. No more of the original chaotic ability web to interfere with your choices.
- All talents have had their "number of points in tree" requirment removed. The only requirments are Level and previous talent in branch.
- A lot of fixes and changes have been applied to talents description where appropriate.
- 2 extra spells available (Primal and Arcane trees).
- 2 extra abilities available in the Archery tree.
- All sustained abilities have had their cost reduced to 10% mana/stamina with each upgrade adding another 5%.
For a more detailed description of the modifications for each talent, please check the individual changes available in the readme file (from the options menu or contained in the mod's distribution archive).
Known Issues:
=============
- Deadly Chain ability from Archery tree does not work with Varric. Until a fix is found, do not give Varric this ability.
- If Anders already has points invested in Panacea, the constitution bonus from Vitality will not be applied and respeccing him later will make you lose 10 constitution. Please respec Anders before applying the mod, until a fix or different solution is found.
Compatibility:
==============
This mod is NOT compatible with any other mod that changes abilities for Hawke(warrior,rogue,mage) and companions.
Please be advised: if you are seeing different results than what is described in the readme or pictures, it is probably a conflict with other mods that change the same resources. This mod has been thoroughly tested by multiple users and no issues, that have not been mentioned above, have been detected, as long as no other mods that modified class abilities and specializations have been applied.
Install:
========
Extract or copy the contents of the archive into the game's override folder (usually: ..\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age 2\packages\core\override)
Uninstall:
==========
Delete "talent_rebalance.erf" and "core_en-us.tlk" from the game's override folder (or the folder containing these files)
Credits & Legal Issues:
=======================
This mod has been created by modifying original Bioware game resources according to the author's personal views. No outside content has been used. However, because of the nature of the mod, it is invariable that some elements will be similar to what other mods have done.
As such, I thank everyone here at Dragon Age Nexus and Nexus Forums for the great work you have done, the support and the inspiration you have provided to me and others.
A special thanks goes to koriel84 for many of the ideas and talent designs currently implemented.
Thanks to Lautreamont for determining me to improve upon the initial mod.