Hello Everyone!
I’ve been working for a few months on updaing an old mod called Darkest Dawn to current GD standards, and decided to share my work! The mod is WIP, but playable enought to 100 and even SR (not SR 40 tho haha 
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Important Note! Previous Darkest Dawn characters won’t work with my version! And starting from v0.4 my mod ONLY works on 1.2 game version!
Mod features:
- 3 new masteries - Lich, Illusionist and Chieftain;
- 25 endgame legendary sets.
- 150 MI’s to boost mod masteries;
- 12 relics;
- 15 cursed components in waist slot. These do large bonuses, but have a downsides.
Meet the Lich, Illusionist and Chieftain!
Lich is a master of spreading affliction and (in the future) shapeshifting to either hulkish Bone Colossus (melee, retaliation) or vile Restless Wraith (caster, leeching).
Illusionist is a master of crowd control, evasion and distracting enemies via temporary Illusions.
Chieftain is a towering brute, focusing on warcries, totems and powerful melee attacks.
How to get new items
When you start a new character, there will be a special NPC right near first Devil’s Crossing gates.
This NPC can exchange MI (monster infrequent items) for Replica MI’s, while retaining all affixes. Simply click the swap dialogue option and then drop MI item on the ground nearby NPC, it will be converted and added back to your inventory.
There’s also another NPC, at which you can craft useful stuff and see what MIs can be exchanged for replica versions (TIP: Dont craft them, you will lose affixes).
Downloads and Installation
v0.1 at MEGA.nz
v0.2 at MEGA.nz
v0.3 at MEGA.nz
v0.4 at MEGA.nz
v0.5 at MEGA.nz
v0.6.1 at MEGA.nz
v0.7.2 at MEGA.nz
Before updating to 0.8.2, you need to UNSPEC completely from all mod masteries. Masteries can be retrieved via GD STASH.
v0.8 at GoogleDrive
v0.8.1 at GoogleDrive
v0.8.2 at GoogleDrive
Simply extract DarkestDawn folder from .zip archive to the Grim Dawn/Mods folder! If the “Mods” folder does not exist in Grim Dawn directory, just create it 
Keep in mind, AoM and FG DLC’s are required for mod to work.
NEW Changelog
Before updating to 0.8.2, you need to UNSPEC completely all mod masteries. Masteries can be retrieved via GD STASH.
Update v0.8.2 changelog:
Game:
-Adjusted all skill icons so they have “depth” now, just like vanilla ones. (great thanks to Asylum101 for almost all updated skill icons and also for teaching me how to do that!)
-Changed modded class enumerations. This was made for easier merge with Grimarillion and will result in loosing all skill points and mod mastery selections. USE GD STASH to retrieve mod masteries. Vanilla ones are unaffected.
Items:
-Added 10 new Replica MI’s to support more Chieftain skills (Ancestral Spirit and Shockwave Totem).
-Added 3 NEW sets for Chieftain!
-Shaper’s Dream: fixed missed skill bonuses for Bone Ward/Arcane Attunement.
-Replica Barrog Bloody Arm: added Thorn Totem skillmodifier, for easier Totem leveling.
-Amygdala’s Legacy: corrected set damage bonuses to aether/fire.
-The Old One: AAR skill modifiers now allow the skill to be used with shields. Added 10% ADCTH to AAR skillmod from Head piece, added skillmod for Maiven’s Sphere of Protection to address squishiness issue when going Arcanist, removed phys damage from Conjure Abomination and increased it’s acid damage and poison damage too.
-Time Traveler: moved CDR bonus to 4/4 set pieces and max speed bonus to 3/3 set pieces.
-Replica Compelled Wraith: fixed skillmod granting armor shred instead of DA shred.
-Replica Spectral Warmaul: added acid->vitality conversion to Flesh Rot skillmodifier.
-Replica Packla’s Skins: increased vitality RR to -10% on Flesh Rot skillmodifier.
-Replica Ascendant’s Authority: removed secondary damage skillmod of Magus Clone to avoid confusion.
-Hexer’s Gems: added acid->vitality conversion to Flesh Rot skillmodifier.
-Bloodgorger: removed Shroud of Gyrus skillmodifiers (there’s already set for vitality Shroud of Gyrus), now the set supports vitality Time Stop/Rip Blood. Also changed granted skill (Siphoning Totem), old Siphoning Totem will move to some other set, hehe.
-Visioneer of Dark Fate: added -2s CD to Shroud of Gyrus set skillmodifier.
-Visage of Dark Fate: added vitality resistance shred on crit as a granted skill.
-Scepter of Dark Fate: added -1s CD to Shroud of Gyrus, changed Arcane Shot skillmod to Time Stop, so it actually works lol.
-Chieftain relics: fixed completion bonuses referring for old skill names resulting in tag not found.
-Void Echo: added FX change to Eldric’s Arcane Shot skillmodifier.
-Time Traveler: reduced 2-piece bonuses to 10% health/80 DA/8% movespeed.
-Replica Bonescythe: fixed higher levels of this item missing +1 Wendigo Totem skillmod.
-Replica Lucius Blade-Arm: fixed granted skill being static first level across all versions of this item (it should scale now as vanilla item does on higher levels).
-Replica Scarab Carapace: fixed higher levels of this item not having more damage on Aura of Censure skillmod.
-Replica Bloodsworn Codex: fixed this item not having Blood Ritual skillmodifier past 20 item level.
-Replica Viper Sandspitter: fixed few items having tag not found instead of proper name.
Chieftain:
-Ancestral Spirit: added tracker for current number of summons.
-Ancestral Maul (Ancestral Spirit skill): reduced max number of hammers from 5 to 3.
-Thorn Totem: mirrored skill icon to differentiate from Wendigo Totem, base duration buffed to 12 s, Thorns skill now shoot only 1 projectile, but attack speed doubled. Added a debuff aura to main skill line. Note: this greatly improves early game and also allows me to add stackable -%RR to support other damage types in Chieftain. Replica MIs were adjusted with these changes.
-Thorned Fury: removed additional projectile bonus, increased starting bonus of %piercing chance from 10 to 20%.
-Volley of Thorns: changed base duration override to 14s.
-Earthquake: stun chance now scales with level rather being 100% chance at all ranks.
-Shockwave Totem: increased cooldown to 4s, added tracker for current number of Shockwave Totems placed. Now uses different skill template and attacks at range instead of when player is nearby, weapon damage removed, deals double damage when strikes the target directly with Shockwave.
-Fist of War: reworked, now adds a chance to deal big internal trauma on hit and increases aoe size of shockwaves.
-Ancestral Wrath: reduced -%stun RR and merged pierce and phys damage into single big phys damage tick for easier conversions.
-Enduring Cry: increased armour bonus and health regen scaling with ranks.
-Intimidating Cry: reduced cooldown to 5 seconds, removed Fear crowd-control.
Illusionist:
-Magus Clone: clones are permanent now, cooldown raised to 20s. Changed skill template, due to issues with pets targeting obstacles instead of enemies. Sadly, nothing could be done to avoid that. New template is weaker, but still should proc devotions just fine.
-Shroud of Gyrus: greatly reduced skill energy cost, it was wayyy too high.
-Unbounded Storm: removed additional radius bonus. (i forgot to remove it during pre-release testing, oops).
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Update v0.8:
Game:
-Updated Mastery Selection images with new, a better fitting ones.
-Adjusted colours of the 2 remaining sets (Bloodgorger d015 and Warped Praetorian d018).
-Adjusted replica items base stats to match vanilla ones from latest update.
-ALL replica items skill modifiers were changed to match changes in Illusionist/Reanimator.
-Added tags to all skills for better readability.
-Added THIRD MASTERY - A Mighty Chieftain, who uses powerful warcries and 2h weapons to clear the battlefield, dealing physical/pierce/bleeding damage.
Items:
-Cursed Components: reworked, now their negative stat is provided via activation trigger (on attack, when hit, etc.)
-Infinity Ring: reduced raw stats from 333 to 240.
-Storm Secret Set: reworked, now each ring grants 25% ele->lightning conversion, while full set bonus also grants 50% ele->lightning and 50% aether->lightning.
-Font of Thunder: removed max elemental resistance, added +10% physical resistance
-Shaper’s Dream: removed all resistances except stun, freeze, petrify and slow. This ring was insanely OP for capping stats.
-Heart of Targo: reduced flat health, DA, %armor bonus, removed %armor absorption, added %retaliation damage.
-Blessing of Ishtak: reduced flat healing from proc to 5%.
-Kingmaker: reduced -%skill energy cost and added +Attack/Cast speed to the granted skill.
-Prostagma: reduced base attack speed, removed physical damage from weapon, added 388-956 base cold damage, reworked granted skill, so now you have -15% total speed while wielding this weapon.
-Mastery relics were adjusted to account the major changes in Illusionist and Reanimator.
-ALL Monster Infrequents (MI) were reworked and updated with latest vanilla item changes.
-Added 31 new MI, most are for Chieftain mastery.
Reanimator:
-Mastery was overhauled and renamed to LICH. Two shapeshifting forms will become available when Fangs of Asterkarn update goes live! Sooo until then, Bone Colossus and Restless Wraith were swapped with one of their respective skill sets. This also means Lich have NO player scaled pets (sadge).
-Base stats were adjusted from 150/175/175 to 175/150/175.
-Raise Bone Colossus: reworked and renamed to Blight Slash, increased skill ranks to 16, it acts as 120 degree melee attack, similar to Blade Arc, dealing cold/acid damage. (It is a one of two skills from future shapeshifting form, coming with FoA DLC).
-Chilling Strike: reworked and renamed to Sapping Frost, increased skill ranks to 12, now works as a modifier to Blight Slash, adds crit damage, %RATA and flat cold damage.
-Chilling Presence: reworked and renamed to Ancient Bones, increased skill ranks to 12. Now reduces target’s damage on hit and adds flat poison damage with %cold/poison damage modifiers.
-Lord of Bones: removed.
-Blight Colossus: NEW transmuter for Bone Colossus, which converts cold->acid damage.
-Blood Ritual: reworked, now grants a small amount of attack damage converted to health (ADCTH), flat vitality/decay damage, vit resistance and OA. The skill drains your life when activated. Note: this is the only buff in the vanilla which grants generic life leech WHILE not restricting it to exclusive/stationary totem.
-Flesh to Power: added crit damage scaling.
-Boiling Blood: removed healing, added resistance to life reduction and increased overall resistances bonuses.
-Ritual of Flesh: reworked and renamed to Blood Pact, now requires a shield and grants additional %ADCTH and %physical resistance.
-Exoskeletal Armor: reworked and renamed to Bone Ward, increased number of ranks to 12, now grants DA, flat armor and cold damage bonuses.
-Bizzare Shell: reworked, now grants acid damage bonuses, elemental resistance and attack speed.
-Reaper’s Touch: reworked and renamed to Frostbite. Now acts as default weapon attack replacer, similar to Fire Strike, dealing cold/vitality damage.
-Frostbite: reworked and renamed to Creeping Frost. Now adds a small amount of aoe when used with melee and deals vitality/frostburn damage.
-Brittle: now adds a chance to freeze target, flat cold damage and a chance to deal big vitality hit.
-Flesh Rot: reworked, now it is a damage aura, which reduces enemy vitality/bleed/acid/elemental resistances, while also draining your health (but cannot kill you).
-Chilling Death: removed.
-Infestation: reworked, now reduces enemy DA and health regen and adds a retaliation damage added to attack (RATA).
-Synergetic Link: reworked and renamed to Spreading Affliction, now increases total damage done to enemies and size of aura, but also raises enemy total speed and drains more health from you.
-One with Death: renamed to The Undeath, removed %health bonus and AOE, now only works on caster. Added Attack/Cast Speed bonuses.
-Unholy Bastion: NEW Exclusive, which provides a boost to retaliation damage, grants %dmg absorption, while also acting like Counterstrike - when you are hit, you retaliate with small acid nova.
-Circle of Protection: reworked and renamed to Sanguine Frenzy, activates on landing a crit and gives ADCTH, flat OA and %OA.
-Corrosive Swarm: reworked and renamed back to Corrosion Wave. You conjure a 5 waves upon cast that deal pierce/acid damage.
-Atonement: reworked, now slightly reduces CD of the skill and shreds enemy defensive ability.
-Eldritch Might: reworked, now adds retaliation damage added to attack, increases total retaliation damage, but reduces non-retal damage of the skill and requires a shield.
-Rip Blood: reworked, now chains to enemies, draining their life.
-Malevolence: removed.
-Frozen Blood: reworked, now converts vit->cold on the skill and changes the FX.
-Evisceration: added %vitality damage.
-Crimson Flood: reworked, now increases affected enemies amount, gives vitality damage and raises crit damage of the skill.
-Marrow Drinker: reworked, now it is a secondary modifier, which tethers to enemy and leeching their life and energy.
-Summon Restless Wraith: reworked and renamed to Restless Wraith, now saps the life of nearby targets, dealing vitality/bleeding damage with a small cooldown. (It is a one of two skills from future shapeshifting form, coming with FoA DLC).
-Vampiric Drain: reworked, now increases aoe of the skill and reduces target’s resistances for 3s.
-Vampiric Feast: reworked, now grants a large amount of %vitality/bleed damage bonuses.
-Profane Veil: NEW skill, grants a large amount of %damage absorb, while dealing a high RATA damage to nearby targets and leeches health from that RATA.
-Summon Rotten Mummy: removed.
-Desecrated Ground: removed
-Eldritch Incantations: removed.
Illusionist:
-Mastery was overhauled and received MANY changes. Damage types were swapped from aether/chaos/vit to aether/elemental with focus on the dots. Soo you are no longer playing some kind of Occultist (RIP).
-Base stats were adjusted from 150/125/225 to 125/175/200.
-Illusion Dagger: renamed to Imelda’s Seeking Blade, removed lightning damage, added electrocute damage and %weapon damage scaling.
-Shocking Arrival: reduced tick rate of dot ground from every 0.8s to every 1s, added chance to stun affected targets.
-Dispersion: removed %lightning damage bonus, added %electrocute damage bonus with %increased duration.
-Through the Veil: reworked and renamed to Veilwalk, increased skill ranks to 12. Now a Disengage movement type skill, which reduces enemy OA and damage upon leaping backwards.
-Tearing Rift: reworked and renamed to Illusory Escape, now slows enemies affected at Veilwalk starting point and applies Fumble/Impaired aim to them.
-Time Stop: reworked, now acts as a non-damage dealing debuff, which slows enemy greatly, while also reducing their elemental/aether/chaos/slow resistances. Note: this is the only source of slow resistance reduction in vanilla game.
-Downfall: reworked and moved to Striat’s Vortex skill line.
-Amygdala’s Sight: reworked and renamed to Elemental Equilibrium, now increases elemental damage/dot damage, gives cooldown reduction and converts a portion of aether/physical damage to elemental damage.
-Enrage: reworked and renamed to Eldric’s Arcane Shot, reduced skill ranks to 12. Now shoots with your gun, applying all elemental dots at once and reduces enemy movement speed.
-Hysteria: reworked, now adds aether damage and increases %burn/frostburn/electrocute dot damage.
-Veil of Darkness: reworked and renamed to Shroud of Gyrus, now also provides a small amount of flat damage absorb and deals pure elemental damage.
-Troubled Dreams: reworked and renamed to Combustion, now increases amount of targets affected and radius in which aura works, also adds fire and frostburn damage.
-Dream Eater: reworked and renamed to Primeval Force, now increases base skill duration and elemental damage.
-Aether Corruption: reworked and renamed to Vile Shroud, now converts elemental->vitality damage and adds ADCTH.
-Summon Living Horror: reworked and renamed to Magus Clone. Creates a 2 Magus Illusions, which shower enemies with arcane spears from above, dealing pure elemental damage.
-Burning Horrors: reworked and renamed to Ethereal Blades, now adds a static +1 amount of blades and increases crit damage of the skill.
-Retaliating Echoes: reworked and renamed to Lasting Legacy, greatly increases elemental/elemental dot damage and duration.
-Wrath of the Aether: removed.
-Amygdala’s Cut: reworked and renamed to Amygdala’s Mindstrike, increased skill ranks to 16, now a it is a ranged spell, which deals aether/burn damage and confuses enemies.
-Mindfray: reworked, now adds fire/burn damage and %aether/burn damage.
-Cryptomnesia: reworked and renamed to Arcane Infusion, now a secondary modifier that grants a buff on hit, increasing aether/burn damage you deal for a short time.
-Edge of Sanity: removed.
-Weight of the World: reworked and renamed to Amygdala’s Fall, now converts aether/elemental damage to chaos damage.
-Retaliatory Strike: removed.
-Halo Effect: reworked and renamed to Ether Cloak, now grants a flat DA, bigger movement speed bonus and max move speed, dodge/deflect chance.
-Devil Mind: reworked and renamed to Warding Veil, increased skill ranks to 12, now activates on 40% health, grants big flat damage absorb and max resistances bonus.
-Gyrus’ Sphere of Repulsion: reworked and renamed to Obenor’s Hall of Illusions, now summons a multiple melee Illusions to distract enemies (they cause aggro and give you a short time to rest).
-Striat Vortex: reworked, now deals pure cold damage, slows targets and is created around character (if you’re familliar with PoE, this is basically a Vortex skill from that game)
-Unbounded Storm: reworked, now adds a cooldown to skill, greatly raising damage done while also freezes and disrupts skills from affected targets.
-Void Affinity: reworked and renamed to Arcane Attunement, now increases %elemental/aether damage, adds a chance to deal one of three elemental damage types, OA and energy regen.
-Vanish: reworked and renamed to Ghostwalking, now adds total speed, DA and slow/disruption resistances.
-Growing Shadows: reworked and renamed to Mind Cage, now adds a flat aether damage, increases stun/freeze/chaos/aether resistances.
-Touch of the Void: removed.
-Mind Cage: reworked and renamed to Prismatic Weaver, increased skill ranks to 10, now adds flat elemental amage and chance of big %ele dot damage, and adds %ele resistance.
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Update v0.8.1 changelog:
Game:
-Fixed MI swapper having “Tag Not Found” upon successful conversion to replica MI.
-Raised Tendo’s Replica MI Crafting costs from 1->999 Polished Emeralds. NOTE: USE MAGNUSSON THE MI SWAPPER instead, it is free and preserves ALL AFFIXES on item.
Items:
-Adjusted Thorn Totem replica MIs to reflect changes to the base skill: Scarab Shell, Gutworm’s Mark, Messenger’s Repeater, Viper Hemorrhager, Boneslicer, Murderer’s Cowl.
-Added 12 new replica MIs, featuring more support for Chieftain skills.
-Replica Kymon’s Badge: removed elemental->lightning conversion and -%RR (it was left unintentionally), added 78 fire damage.
-Replica Ugdenbog Sparkthrower: added 100% elemental->lightning conversion and FX change to Arcane Shot skillmod.
-Replica Rutnick’s Blaster: added FX change to Arcane Shot skillmod.
-Replica Bloodsworn Scepter: fixed Amygdala’s Mindstrike missing skillmodifier.
-Replica Packla’s Visage: added Sunder skillmod.
-Replica Galeslice Mark: added Sunder skillmod.
-Replica Incendiary Casque: added Sunder skillmod.
-Replica Vilgazor’s Heart: added Sunder skillmod.
-Replica Bloodsworn Sigil: added Sunder skillmod.
Illusionist:
-Eldric’s Arcane Shot: reduced energy cost scaling.
-Hysteria: reduced energy cost scaling.
-Amygdala’s Mindstrike: now uses melee animation for melee weapons and new FX (Courtesy of Hill-op and Astridcone for FX/idea, many thanks!)
Chieftain:
-Thorn Totem: added 8 second duration to summoned totems (they were permanent before), removed Thorn Nova skill. Note: it was way too strong with bleeds added and scaled bleed exponentially with transmuter.
-Thorned Fury: removed additional projectile scaling. Note: this scaled way too much, so now it adds a static +1 projectile bonus.
-Volley of Thorns: changed, now adds +1 max summon limit, +2s duration, but works only with 2h melee or ranged weapons.
-Sunder: increased cooldown to 1.5s, removed additional projectiles, increased base aoe on hit to 1.5meter, increased weapon damage scaling. Note: i wanted this skill to deal the highest %WD per hit, so now it fills better this role.
-Earthshaker: increased additional radius scaling. Note: since the main skill have way more radius and with all skillmods possible, you are able to get big AOE on enemy hits, GREATLY increaseing clearing for enemy masses.
-Korvaak’s Pyre: increased weapon damage penalty to -30%.
-Savage Wounds: removed chance of big phys damage on hit.
-Aftershock: removed flat phys damage, added chance to deal big phys damage on hit.
-Ancestral Bond (Determination secondary mod): renamed to Ancestral Wrath to avoid confusion with same name from Thorn Totem last modifier. Increased base radius to 2.5m.
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Old Changelogs
v0.1:
-Initial release.
v0.2:
-Changed replica smith name to Tendo (a honorable mention of the original mod author), updated smith spawn mechanic (thanks to @Ceno again!) so you will no longer overspawn game with smiths. Note: previous item to spawn smith will be lost after you update the mod, you’ll need to buy it again from Devil’s Crossing faction vendor.
-Changed Bone Colossus aura visuals to be less screen bloating and made the aura range scale with ranks, starting from 3.5 meters on rank 1, up the way to 4.5 meters on 22/12.
v0.3:
Game:
-Tendo the Replica Smith: no longer can be spawned (and item to spawn him was removed), now takes a spot of Oxley NPC from Devil’s Crossing (the one who stands near Emissary/Barnabas).
-Removed Tonic of Reshaping from DC vendor (forgot to remove it in previous versions, oops).
-Adjusted button size on class selection window.
-Greatly simplified relic crafting, now it’s way easier to get the needed completion skill bonuses.
Items:
-Replica Bloodsworn Repeater: reduced Devil Mind duration bonus to 1s, cooldown to -0.5s.
-Replica Bloodsworn Codex: removed duration bonus to Summon Living Horror.
-Replica Fleshwarped Codex: removed duration bonus to Summon Living Horror.
-Replica Groble Stone Effigy: increased skill bonuses to +3.
-Replica Groble Toxic Effigy: increased skill bonuses to +3.
-Replica Grundleplith’s Tail: added Fighting Spirit skill bonus and skill modifier.
-Replica Pulsing Shard: added %vitality damage to item.
-Replica Spectral Bludgeon: reclassified as a scepter, base values updated accordingly.
-Replica Ugdenbog Flamestrife: added %chaos damage to item.
-Replica Kymon’s Badge: removed fumble/impaired aim, added -8% ele RR.
-Replica Vilgazor’s Heart: added Pneumatic Burst skillmodifier.
-Replica Lagoth’Ak’s Voidbinding: Added Aegis of Menhir skillmodifier.
-Replica Rag’Nadar’s Maw: added Thermite Mines skillmodifier.
-Replica Packla Skins: added Savagery skillmodifier.
-Replica Ugdenbog Sparkthrower: added Primal Strike skillmodifier
-Replica Rutnick’s Blaster: added Righteous Fervor skillmodifier.
-Replica Lucius Blade-Arm: added Word of Renewal skillmodifier.
-Replica Death-Watcher Pendant: added Mogdrogen’s Pact skillmodifier.
-Replica Martin’s Crest: added Thermite Mines skillmodifier.
-Replica Colossal Defender: added War Cry skillmodifier.
-Replica Ugdenbog Venom Launcher: added Ranged Expertise skillmodifier.
-Replica Gulgazor’s heart: added Horn of Gandarr skillmodifier.
-Replica Wradlith’s Bulwark: added Iskandra’s Elemental Exchange skillmodifier.
-Bonechill: reduced required level to 60.
-Phantasm: reduced required level to 60.
Illusionist:
-Updated mastery training bar/button textures, changed background color when progressing through skill tiers to more aligning with mastery.
-Gyrus Sphere of Repulsion: updated visual fx and skill icon, removed flat electrocute damage and energy absorb, slightly reduced stun retaliation, adjusted dmg absorb to be lower on early ranks and ramp up higher on ultimate ranks.
-Amygdala’s Cut: updated skill icon.
-Edge of Sanity: updated visual fx, reduced max orbiting skulls to 5, slightly increased their flight speed.
-Striat Mindblast: updated skill icon and visuals (less blinding colors now), renamed to Striat’s Vortex and removed projectile throw, now creates swirling vortex at a targeted location, duration reduced to 3s at all ranks, tick rate and damage are slightly increased to compensate loss of duration, radius is also reduced to 6.5m.
-Essence of Madness: renamed to Unbounded Storm, removed additional projectiles, increased total damage modifier to 175%, duration to 3s, added +1.5m radius and 1.5s knockdown.
-Time Stop: updated skill icon, removed fumble/impaired aim.
-Downfall: updated skill icon.
-Summon Living Horror: updated skill icon and visuals, now is a permanent pet, removed -%total speed, added fumble/impaired aim scaling.
-Wrath of the Aether: updated visuals of transmuted pet.
-Burning Horrors: updated skill icon, reduced -%RR values.
-Retaliating Echoes: transmuted version of this skill template has been changed.
-Devil Mind: now activates at 75% health, reduced cooldown and duration to 6s, reduced damage multiplier scaling with ranks to 12% on 10/10 and 22% on ultimate rank.
-Enrage: updated visuals and sound fx, spell spreads faster now, duration also scales with level, energy cost lowered, added taunt and -%taunt RR, removed confusion.
-Hysteria: slightly increased -%OA scaling.
-Void Affinity: added energy reserve.
-Vanish: added energy reserve.
-Growing Shadows: added energy reserve.
-Touch of the Void: redesigned, now converts a portion of physical damage to chaos and adds small speed bonus.
-Mind over Matter: reduced duration to +3s (should be less punishing for healing purposes).
-Decellerate: renamed to Decelerate, changed -%movespeed to -%total speed with less value.
-Veil of Darkness: radius, target amount and tick rate now scales with ranks, energy cost greatly increased, stun now only applies at 20% chance across all ranks.
-Aether Corruption: updated description, removed target amount and radius bonuses, lowered duration bonus to 2s and total damage multiplier to -10%.
-Troubled Dreams: adjusted scaling of %RR, increased energy cost scaling.
-Dream Eater: added duration scaling, increased energy cost scaling.
-Amygdala’s Sight: reduced CDR scaling to be in line with vanilla exclusives.
-Illusion Daggers: adjusted explosion colors.
Reanimator:
-Updated mastery training bar/button textures, changed background color when progressing through skill tiers to more aligning with mastery.
-Reaper’s Touch: updated skill icon.
-Reaper’s Claim: renamed to Frostbite and updated skill icon.
-Reaper’s Call: renamed to Brittle and updated skill icon.
-Summon Restless Wraith: updated skill icon.
–Vampiric Curse: increased vitality decay damage, dot duration reduced to 1s, bleeding damage is slightly increased and moved to Vampiric Blast, -%life leech RR scaling increased with ranks.
-Vampiric Feast: updated skill icon. Removed flat bleeding damage, increased flat vitality scaling, added bonus aoe scaling with ranks, starting with +2m on 12/12, up to +3m on ultimate rank.
-Chilling Strikes: updated skill icon.
-Lord of Bones: updated skill icon and visual fx.
-Desecrated Ground: updated skill icon, reduced skill duration to 5s, increased flat RR duration to 3s.
-Atonement: updated skill icon.
-Blood Ritual: updated sound fx, slightly increased healing at early ranks, increased energy cost.
-Flesh to Power: increased energy cost.
-Ritual of Flesh: reworked, now restores slightly more health and decreases skill cooldown, requires a shield or caster off-hand to work.
-Boiling Blood: reduced -CD scaling with ranks to -2s on 10/10, up to -3s on ultimate rank.
-Exoskeletal Armor: updated sound fx, slightly increased health regen values on higher ranks, added energy reserve.
-Bizzare Shell: added energy reserve.
-Circle of Protection: bonuses reworked, now it grants %damage absorb, flat health regen, phys resistance and +%healing effects, energy cost increased.
–Repulsion: changed skill template, the damage still can be stacked when applying multiple Circles of Protection.
-Corrosion Wave: updated visuals and sound fx.
-Flesh Rot: updated visuals and sound fx.
-Synergetic Link: removed energy leech, reduced total damage multiplier to -15%.
-Malkadarr’s Teeth: removed damage multiplier.
v0.4:
Items:
-Added 6 new endgame sets: one for Reanimator only (Bonelord’s Vestments), one for Illusionist only (Amygdala’s Legacy) and 4 assorted sets for multiple mastery combos. They can drop anywhere, if enemy is above 90lvl.
-Replica Bloodsworn Scepter: nerfed Curse of Frailty -15% chaos resistance skillmodifier to -10%.
-Replica Martin’s Crest: now also changes fx of Time Stop (lightning one).
-All custom mastery components that were applied to waist slot (e.g. Illusionis’t Glory/Reanimator’s Wrath) were reworked, now providing few positive effects (such as +%health, max movespeed cap, OA/DA) with a negative effect (like -%energy regen, -%damage) for player stats and no longer require any custom mastery. Also, the number of components were increased to 15.
Illusionist:
-Retaliating Echoes: adjusted description for transmuted version of this skill.
-Enrage: changed casting animation.
-Halo Effect: toned down sound fx to be less annoying.
-Troubled Dreams: reduced chaos damage scaling.
-Dream Eater: reduced vitality/decay damage scaling at early ranks.
-Summon Living Horror: summon limit and spawn amount is always 3 now across all ranks, reduced fumble/impaired aim scaling but increased their duration to 3s.
-Striat’s Vortex: updated skill icon to better resemble what the skill does.
-Touch of the Void: removed total speed bonus.
Reanimator:
-Conjure Rotten Mummy: updated mummy visuals and it’s slam skill visual.
v0.5:
Game:
-Added a random legendary DD set crafting to Tendo smith. Requires player level 94+ to be usable.
Items:
-Added 8 more endgame sets. As usual, they can drop from any enemy above 90lvl.
-Amygdala’s Veilslicer: increased base weapon damage to 50-82, slightly nerfed added flat chaos damage. Added granted skill - Timeless Void: reduces enemy vitality/chaos resistances.
-Amygdala’s Legacy Set: changed granted skill to Phantasmal Skulls: up to 5 skulls may orbit around player striking nearby foes with vitality and chaos damage.
-Hexer’s Sacrifice: removed cold->vitality conversion from Flesh Rot skillmodifier.
-Replica Spectral Warmaul: removed acid->vitality conversion from Flesh Rot skillmodifier.
-Replica Grundleplith’s Tail: removed Halo Effect skillmodifier, added 100% chaos->vitality conversion to Amygdala’s Cut skillmodifier.
-Replica Colossal Defender: removed Halo Effect skillmodifier, added 100% vitality->fire conversion to Amygdala’s Cut skillmodifier.
-Replica Packla Skins: removed Halo Effect skillmodifier, added 100% physical->vitality conversion to Amygdala’s Cut skillmodifier.
-Replica Ugdenbog Sparkthrower: removed Gyrus Sphere of Repulsion skillmodifier, added 100% chaos->lightning and 100% vitality->lightning conversions to Amygdala’s Cut skillmodifier.
-Replica Rutnick’s Blaster: removed Halo Effect skillmodifier, added 100% vitality->aether conversion to Amygdala’s Cut skillmodifier.
-Replica Lucius Bladearm: removed Mind Cage skillmodifier, added 100% vitality->aether conversion to Amygdala’s Cut skillmodifier.
-Replica Death’s Watcher Pendant: removed Mind Cage skillmodifier, added 100% chaos->aether conversion to Amygdala’s Cut skillmodifier.
-Replica Wradlith’s Bulwark: changed Chilling Strike skill bonus to Raise Bone Colossus, removed -%freeze RR and added -70 DA instead to Bone Colossus skillmodifier.
-Replica Ugdenbog Howler: removed -10% vitality RR from Restless Wraith skillmodifier.
-Replica Viper Hemorrhager: removed -10% bleeding RR from Restless Wraith skillmodifier.
-Replica Bolvar’s Pendant: removed -%5 life leech RR from Restless Wraith skillmodifier, removed granted skill.
-Replica Lagoth Ak’s Bloodbinding: removed -%12 bleed/vitality RR from Restless Wraith skillmodifier, added 50 vitality damage instead.
-Replica Bloodsworn Sigil: removed duration bonus from Striat’s Vortex skillmodifier, increased chaos damage bonus to 29.
-Replica Alkamos Warsword: changed Lord of Bones skill bonus to Chilling Strikes.
-Replica Warden’s Judgment: removed -%energy cost from Halo Effect skillmodifier, increased %healed to 10%.
-Replica Crimson’s Arcane Scepter: reworked previous Decelerate skillmodifier, now grants -0.4s CD and 160 reduced target’s DA for 5s to Through the Veil.
-Replica Spectral Bludgeon: added 2s duration to Circle of Protection skillmodifier and increased cold damage to 120 and frostburn damage to 600 over 3s.
-Replica Bound Wraith: removed physical resistance and summon limit from Circle of Protection skillmodifier.
-Replica Death’s Whisper Hood: increased cold damage to 250 and removed OA debuff from Circle of Protection skillmodifier.
-Replica Illgor’s Eternal Vigil: removed 1 summon limit from Circle of Protection skillmodifier.
-Replica Spectral War Shield: removed additional projectile from Bone Lance skillmodifier, instead added 40 vitality damage.
-Replica Night Herald: removed additional projectile from Bone Lance skillmodifier, instead increased granted cold damage to 45.
-Replica Ulraprax Sting: removed -CD and weapon damage from Illusion Daggers skillmodifier, added +1 projectile instead.
-Replica Ascended Diadem: removed -3m radius from Illusion Daggers skillmodifier.
Components:
-Aetheric Blood: removed negative flat energy regen, increased negative energy regen to -60%.
-Chthonic Lens: reduced negative phys resistance to -6%.
-Solael Mirror: increased %OA to 6%, reduced -%DA to -12%.
-Tainted Diamond: reduced pets negative %health to -30%.
-Void Spark: removed negative flat health regen, increased negative %health regen to -60%.
-Warped Plating: reduced negative max resistance to -3%.
-Yugol Essence: reduced pets life leech bonus to 8%.
-Korvaak Scale: added 10% block recovery reduction.
Illusionist:
-Weight of the World: adjusted description to avoid contradiction with Amygdala set having a dagger as prime mastery weapon instead of 2hander. Also removed melee target radius and chance to pass through, added 15% crit damage bonus.
-Edge of Sanity: reworked, now grants some flat chaos/vitality damage and makes melee attacks splash nearby targets.
-Enrage: removed vitality damage.
-Hysteria: removed -%OA and vitality decay, reduced %fire/burn scaling, added flat vitality damage and -DA debuff.
-Striat’s Vortex: removed chance to disrupt, reduced duration to 1s, increased tick rate, now deals 2 ticks of damage per cast.
-Unbounded Storm: reduced damage multiplier to 125%.
-Veil of Darkness: increased vitality decay duration to 3s, target amount no longer scales with ranks and now defaults to 5.
-Troubled Dreams: removed %RR, added +3 target maximum.
-Dream Eater: reduced life leech scaling, now starts with 7% and goes up to 15% on ultimate rank.
-Halo Effect: reworked, now has 5s duration/cooldown, activates when you’re hit, grants %DA, maximum run speed and %healing effects, raised up sound volume.
-Mind over Matter: reworked, now a part of Amygdala’s Cut skill line, adds some retaliation and crit damage to Amygdala’s Cut, names as Retaliatory Strike.
-Devil Mind: removed total damage multiplier, added +%all damage scaling.
-Decelerate: reworked into teleport skill, does no damage though, now named as Through the Veil.
-Reckless Abandon: reworked, now debuffs enemy damage and OA when teleporting into them, renamed to Tearing Rift.
-Void Affinity: changed skill fx to previous Decelerate one.
-Vanish: increased DA scaling.
-Summon Living Horror: removed fumble/impaired aim, added -%total speed, -%slow/petrify/stun RRs.
-Time Stop: reduced cooldown to 5s, toned down slow debuff and petrify scaling.
-Downfall: removed OA debuff, added fumble/impaired aim for 5s.
-Amygdala’s Sight: removed freeze/entrapment/knockdown durations.
-Gyrus Sphere of Repulsion: reduced flat absorb scaling with early ranks.
-Illusion Daggers: reduced cooldown to 3s, adjusted drop radius, angle and height, increased explosion radius scaling.
-Dispersion: removed projectile amount and target area bonuses, now slightly increases projectile explosion area so they shotgun better.
Reanimator:
-Circle of Protection: reworked, now the summon limit is 1, cooldown is 18 seconds, duration is 8s, circle radius is doubled, %damage absorb removed, health regen and healing effects are greatly increased.
-Raise Bone Colossus: removed skill cooldown, reduced model size by around 30%, adjusted controller to make pet more responsive for surrounding enemies, added scalable pet amount, 2 by default and scales up to 3 pets on ultimate levels (from 20+ ranks), increased base attack and move speed.
–Chilling Presence: removed from base skill and now takes place of Shield Throw skillmodifier (skill points previously invested in Shield Throw are preserved and kept in Chilling Presence, no respeccing is needed), reduced -attack/cast speed debuff, removed -freeze RR, added reduced target’s damage and -slow RR.
–Chilling Strikes: now only affects base skill, removed OA debuff, added +%crit damage.
–Lord of Bones: swapped skill icons with Shield Throw, removed +DA and +all damage, added +%attack/cast speed.
-Conjure Rotten Mummy: adjusted pet controller, reduced model size by around 10%, increased delay between Desecrated Ground casts to around 4s.
-Summon Restless Wraith: reduced model size by around 20%, adjusted pet controller, reduced visual aura fx a bit, casting no longer has a super-bright red effect.
–Vampiric Blast: adjusted fx lightning colors to be less blinding, and toned down cast sound, added vitality decay scaling.
–Vampiric Curse: removed.
–Vampiric Drain: reduced tick rate to 2/s and halved life leech scaling, added small life reduction.
-Flesh Rot: reduced vitality/bleed RR and -%health regen scaling, range no longer scales with ranks and reduced to 4m, duration scaling reduced and starts off 5s now.
-Synergetic Link: reworked, now converts 100% of acid and cold damage to vitality damage.
-Chilling Death: removed frostburn damage and -DA debuff, added +2s duration and -OA debuff.
-Infestation: removed poison and vitality decay, added acid damage scaling and +3m radius.
-Exoskeletal Armor: reduced flat cold and flat health scaling, removed health regen and pierce resistance, added flat armor and OA scaling.
-Bizarre Shell: removed bleeding resistance, flat OA and %health regen, added +%armor.
-One with Death: reduced health scaling on ultimate ranks, reduced flat cold and %damage scaling, added energy reservation.
-Bone Lance: projectile amount no longer scales with ranks and is now 1, damage adjusted accordingly, also added fragments on hit so there’s some splash from the get go.
-Splinter: fragments amount was standardized to remove rng, now starts with 2 fragments and goes up the way to 5.
-Bone’s Marrow: reduced life leech scaling, reduced crit damage scaling on ultimate ranks, added some flat vitality damage.
-Malkadarr’s Teeth: removed chance to freeze targets.
-Blood Ritual: reduced %healing and flat vitality/decay scaling, removed attack/cast speed bonuses, added DA and flat health regen.
-Flesh to Power: removed crit damage bonus, added %health regen.
-Boiling Blood: removed duration scaling, reduced flat health healing and life/energy leech resistance scaling.
v0.6:
Items:
-Added 4 more endgame sets. Hunt down 90+lvl monsters to get them! Or use a random legendary crafting at Tendo smith if you’re swimming in rare crafting mats.
-Sky Seer set: removed +1 projectile from Illusion Daggers skillmodifier, added 160 lightning damage instead.
-Replica Ulraprax’s Sting: removed +1 projectile from Illusion Daggers skillmodifier, added +3 targets chain and 90 lightning damage instead.
-Replica Ascended Diadem: splitted aether damage to Illusion Daggers into 55 aether/lightning damage, added 20% chance for 100% cooldown reduction to Illusion Daggers skillmodifier.
-Replica Night Herald: removed pierce->cold conversion from Bone Lance skillmodifier.
-Replica Bonespike: removed pierce->vitality conversion from Bone Lance skillmodifier.
-Replica Balegor’s Crusher: removed increased radius from Corrosion Wave skillmodifier.
Components:
-Aetheric Blood: removed -60% energy regen, added -60% healing effects.
-Whispering Skull: increased negative movement speed to -15%.
-Korvaak Scale: removed -60% health/energy regen, now reduces block damage by -50%.
-Dreadstone: increased negative attack/cast speed to -15%.
-Blight Crystal: removed -12% physique/cunning/spirit, added -15% total speed.
-Void Spark: removed -60% health regen, added -15% resistance to life reduction.
-Desecrated Ground: removed -50% crit damage, added -50% slow resistance.
-Eldritch Remains: removed -25% slow resistance.
Reanimator:
-Bone Lance: reworked and renamed to Rip Blood. Now fires a single tendril to enemy, spawning a Blood Orb which hovers to nearby enemy and detonates itself after 2 seconds or after reaching maximum spawned orbs.
-Eviscerate: reworked. Now adds a bleed damage, life leech and increases vitality decay damage for the tendril.
-Splinter: reworked and renamed to Crimson Flood. Now adds more burst summons/max summon limits to Blood Orb, increases vitality decay damage and %vitality damage for main tendril.
-Bone’s Marrow: reworked and renamed to Marrow Drinker. Now adds flat vitality damage, crit damage and increases bleeding damage for the tendril.
-Boiling Blood: cooldown reduction removed.
-Corrosion Wave: reworked and renamed to Corrosive Swarm, now spawns a trio of foul ravens that expand outward, cooldown increased to 3.5s. This skill rewards positioning if using a non-transmuted version, and may deal up to 600% weapon damage (6 raven hits on softcapped skill rank).
Illusionist:
-Mindfray: reduced weapon damage and flat fire scaling.
-Void Affinity: made fx colors darker.
-Halo Effect: activation chance is now always 100% at all ranks.
-Touch of the Void: now converts 30% physical->vitality damage, also added a petbonus for 45% physical->vitality and 20 flat vitality damage.
-Illusion Daggers: reworked, now fires a single dagger which chains between a few targets before returning to player.
-Shocking Arrival: reworked, now creates a dot ground below enemies hit by Illusion Dagger.
-Dispersion: reworked, now adds crit damage, bonus %aether/lightning damage and has a chance to do additional aether damage.
-Summon Living Horror: summon amount and max limit reduced to 2.
v0.6.1:
Game:
-Fixed source files not having recent updated versions.
Reanimator:
-Atonement: removed increased range modifier, since it does nothing for the skill now.
v0.7:
Game:
-Corrected spellings on item descriptions which had “scale with player damage bonuses” wording.
-Mod items drop tables were splitted into 4 categories (weapons, armor, accessories and chase items), overall giving more chances to acquire custom items. Chase items are strong and very rare, thus they cannot be rolled via Tendo’s random legendary craft.
-Almost Every item set received a visual improvements - less overbright colours, better fitting textures, some sets even got a new colour scheme in preparation for FoA DLC.
Items:
-Added 4 more endgame sets (3 of which are classless).
-Added 9 non-set legendary items: 2 rings, 2 amulets and 5 weapons aimed to fill “holes” in “+all Skills” weapon categories (2h axe, 2h mace, dagger, shield and off-hand).
-The Cold Grave: changed 3-part set phys resistance bonus to 140 armor.
-Amulet of the Grave: added 6% phys resistance to Mogdrogen’s Pact, removed Wind Devil skillmodifier (Wind Devils are now permanent).
-Helmet of the Grave: added 15% life reduction resistance to Mogdrogen’s Pact.
-Bonelord set: 3/3 set bonus changed from 100% health regen to 20% healing effects.
-Bonelord’s Heart: removed flat and %health regen, added 8% healing effects, changed Circle of Protection health regen skillmodifier to 5% physical resistance.
Relics:
-Silhouette: replaced % Physical resist bonus with 100 armor.
-Voidborn: reduced bonuses from granted skill - total damage nerfed to 180%, crit damage to 15% and %OA to 8%.
-Velibreaker: replaced % Physical resist bonus on granted skill with 15% armor.
Components:
-Void Spark: increased negative resistance to life reduction to -20%.
-Eldritch Remains: removed -%freeze/entrapment/petrify resistances, raised negative stun resistance to -50%.
-Aetherwarped Ruby: removed pet bonuses.
-Chthonic Lens: increased negative phys resistance to -8%.
-Tainted Diamond: reduced pet bonus values to player levels.
-Cursed Flesh: reduced %health bonus to 20%, negative energy to -60%.
-Dreadstone: reworked, now grants 14% total speed at a cost of -80 OA/DA.
-Whispering Skull: reworked, now grants 25% resistance to life reduction, but reduces armor by -15%.
-Warped Plating: reduced %phys resistance to 12% and negative max resistances to -2%.
-Yugol Essence: reduced %ADCTH to 10%.
Reanimator:
-Reaper’s Touch: increased max targets to 6, reduced energy cost by ~20%.
-Exoskeletal Armor: reworked VFX.
-Bizzare Shell: reduced %armor scaling to 15% on softcap, going up to 25% on ultimate rank.
-One with Death: reworked VFX, reduced %health scaling to 25% on softcap, going up to 35% on ultimate rank.
-Blood Ritual: reworked VFX, now has 12s CD, health regen removed, instead skill heals for up to 14% instantly and 5% health per second on softcap. Pets receive reduced effect, because of how large their health pools can be.
-Flesh to Power: removed %health regen, added %healing effects scaling.
-Circle of Protection: removed flat health regen, added resistance to life reduction, %healing effects scaling increased, now starts with 20%, going to 45% on 12/12 and up to 65% on ultimate rank.
-Rip Blood: toned down explosion sound effect.
Illusionist:
-Illusion Dagger: increased damage scaling with ranks by ~30%.
-Retaliating Echoes: reduced aoe size to 8m.
-Time Stop: updated skill description and adjusted VFX, now acts as semi-transparent aoe that expands outwards for 1.5 seconds.
-Striat’s Vortex: reworked VFX and reduced aoe size to 4m at all ranks.
-Unbounded Storm: increased radius bonus to 1.8m, now also changes VFX of Striat’s Vortex. All items that change Striat’s Vortex VFX to another now also affect transmuted VFX.
-Void Affinity: reworked VFX, removed AS/CS, added total speed scaling.
-Vanish: reduced DA scaling, removed evade/dodge, added slow and stun resistances.
-Halo Effect: reworked VFX, removed movespeed and healing effects, added high dodge/deflect scaling.
-Devil Mind: reworked, when this skill procs it’s cooldown starts only if health is going above 75% value. Now grants crit damage, flat OA, %all retaliation damage and chaos retaliation.
-Gyrus Sphere of Repulsion: reworked VFX, changed lightning retaliation to physical, value ranges removed and min retaliation value was increased, removed energy leech retaliation.
-Amygdala’s Sight: reworked, now boosts %all damage, elemental dots damage/duration and grants chance of 100% CDR. (damage types are done in preparation for FoA update).
-Amygdala’s Cut: reworked, now acts like Cadence, magnifying the third hit. Note: while initially dealing less damage than Cadence, investing into nodes provides bigger profit in the end.
-Mindfray: removed weapon damage, increased flat damage values, max targets amount reduced, added %retaliation damage added to attack.
-Cryptomnesia: increased %chaos damage bonus, upped flat vitality scaling and it is now always procs instead of 75% chance, added %vitality damage, %life reduction and reduced target’s damage debuff.
-Edge of Madness: reworked, magnified hit now spawns 2 phantom copies which do basic attacks for 4s, they have no summon limit other than your attack speed being a limiting factor to ramp up clones amount.
-Weight of the World: removed 100% chance to pass through enemies.
-Retaliatory Strike: removed crit damage bonus, increased %retaliation damage added to attack to 16%, added -8% damage multiplier downside.
Known Issues
- None atm.
Roadmap
- MOAR legendary sets!;
- more polish for skills VFX/Audio;
- balance tweaks and adjustments for overpowered/underpowered skills.
FAQ
Q. Is itemisation final or my items may change/disappear?
A. Itemisation is a big WIP, there’s a chance the items you’ve earned will have different skillmodifiers.
Q. Can you change how X skill works?
A. I can adjust stats of a skill, but there’s very low chance i will change skill template.
Q. How to contact you?
A. You can find me in GD Community Discord by name #Banemason.
Credits and Sources
- @Grimer for a few selected VFX and audio from D3 Mod.
- @ASYLUM101 for nearly infinite knowledge about GD Modding.
- @Ceno for Augur smith which i copied and renamed (shame on me haha).
- T3nd0 for original Darkest Dawn mod.
- Midjourney for generated image of Reanimator!
- ArenaNet for Guild Wars 2 skill icons which i adapted for my mod.
- Grinding Gear Games for Path of Exile item icons which i adapted for my mod.
That’s all for now! Enjoy and don’t forget to share your feedback! 
