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Makes Magic Greatsword and Ornamental Sword obtainable in Korcari Wilds with optional balance tweak.

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During the Korcari Wilds quest, before the Oath ceremony, you were supposed to get two greatswords, the Magic Greatsword and the Ornamental Sword, looted respectively from an hurlock alpha and Gazarath. Those loots were bugged, though, so you could never obtain the swords. I fixed that.

As you may already know, there are other mods that makes the swords obtainable alongside other unobtainable items; then there's the excellent Qwinn's fixpack that restores almost all unobtainable items except for the swords.

I made this mod to integrate Qwinn's fixpack and add just these two items to the restored content.
Now, Qwinn left those out intentionally cause he felt they were made unobtainable on purpose. I do agree that at least the Magic Greatsword is overpowered for the area you get it in, it's a veridium (tier 4) sword in a place where you find mainly iron and grey iron (tier 1 and 2) stuff, steel (tier 3) at best.
Ornamental Sword, on the other hand, is just an iron sword with severe debuffs and the one buff of Lucky, which does absolutely nothing in vanilla (you must use Dain's Fixes to make Lucky do something, it will give +1% crit chance, evasion and spell resistance per power level).

So, here's my take on the situation: with this mod you can get the Ornamental Sword from Gazarath, mainly for completion purpose, and if you use Dain's Fixes (which you REALLY REALLY should anyway) you can get a little use for it with the Lucky property. And you can get the Magic Greatsword from the hurlock alpha and be a little OP for the beginning part of the game.
To address the balance problem, I made an optional file that makes the Magic Greatsword a steel (tier 3) sword, so it can be in line with other loot you'll find in the Wilds.

INSTALLATION

Unzip the file and place the contents into Documents/BioWare/Dragon Age/packages/core/override. If you want just the Ornamental Sword, put only lite_kor_gazarath.utc, for the Magic Greatsword put pre200cr_hurlock_alpha.utc.

If you want the steel version of the Magic Greatsword, download the optional file and unzip it in your override folder as well, otherwise you'll just get the vanilla veridium version of the sword.

COMPATIBILITY

This will not be compatible with any mod that modifies the following files:
lite_kor_gazarath.utc
pre200cr_hurlock_alpha.utc
gen_im_wep_mel_gsw_mg1.uti (this will modify the Magic Greatsword)

If you already have a mod that makes the swords obtainable you obviously don't need this, but you can still use the optional file to modify the sword if you like.

It is compatible with Qwinn's Ultimate DAO Fixpack v3.52 since he doesn't touch those three files. He's working on a new big update though, so when it comes out you should check his Affected Files List to see if they are still unaffected.