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About this mod
A balance mod to the weapons, armor and shields values of the game. Unfortunately it does not achieve what I want for lacking knowledge in proper modding and having other goals in life. Luckily it will be of some use to some other modder or player.
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A balance mod attempting to improve armors and shields mainly, weapons and other stuff found in loot.zlx file. The purpose is to render game easier, probably fairer.
My personal views are that armor in Salt and Sanctuary are way too heavy, does not offer proper protection and many times makes players to fell uncomfortably in spending resources in armor and shields which will be changed later in game or that are still useless after smithing. This seems to not apply as much as for weapons, as first weapons are more balanced alltogether from class 0 weapons to class 5, and secondly prob since attributes directly improves weapon efficacy even a un-smithed weapon will do fine until finding the proper comfortable weapon to use for rest of the gamethrough, and lastly weapons can be switched through alchemy so resources are not completely wasted when trasmuting, while armors and shields don't have meaningful alternatives to transmute.
In conclusion armor and shields are seen as a waste to spend materials and salt to improve, because the improvement is small and very soon they will be changed for another part, and that's why in this my mod I decreased first the weight of all armor by half, some even by a third, and the scaling for improvement by the blacksmith have been increased, so that the upgrade now is worth 6 times more than before, in % differences is actually a 5 to 15% more damage reduction. It makes the game a bit easier in beginning, and does not change that much endgame.
I also include an excel file in download as to refer to my analysis to weapons, armors and shields in salt and sanctuary
All of this is my work, anyone is free to take it and improve it, I would gladly talk and chat with anyone interested. I feel this is a great game and with more modding for balance and extra items, it's even better
TO INSTALL:
simply navigate to your steam folder of Salt and Sanctuary and replace the files in Loot, Monster and Skilltree subfolders with the ones you downloaded and done. I modified those files thankfully to a mod of this webpage, the desalinated pack, have a look at it, it's great
they should be in a folder like C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Salt and Sanctuary
My personal views are that armor in Salt and Sanctuary are way too heavy, does not offer proper protection and many times makes players to fell uncomfortably in spending resources in armor and shields which will be changed later in game or that are still useless after smithing. This seems to not apply as much as for weapons, as first weapons are more balanced alltogether from class 0 weapons to class 5, and secondly prob since attributes directly improves weapon efficacy even a un-smithed weapon will do fine until finding the proper comfortable weapon to use for rest of the gamethrough, and lastly weapons can be switched through alchemy so resources are not completely wasted when trasmuting, while armors and shields don't have meaningful alternatives to transmute.
In conclusion armor and shields are seen as a waste to spend materials and salt to improve, because the improvement is small and very soon they will be changed for another part, and that's why in this my mod I decreased first the weight of all armor by half, some even by a third, and the scaling for improvement by the blacksmith have been increased, so that the upgrade now is worth 6 times more than before, in % differences is actually a 5 to 15% more damage reduction. It makes the game a bit easier in beginning, and does not change that much endgame.
I also include an excel file in download as to refer to my analysis to weapons, armors and shields in salt and sanctuary
All of this is my work, anyone is free to take it and improve it, I would gladly talk and chat with anyone interested. I feel this is a great game and with more modding for balance and extra items, it's even better
TO INSTALL:
simply navigate to your steam folder of Salt and Sanctuary and replace the files in Loot, Monster and Skilltree subfolders with the ones you downloaded and done. I modified those files thankfully to a mod of this webpage, the desalinated pack, have a look at it, it's great
they should be in a folder like C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Salt and Sanctuary