The first is to create more variety for hardcore play. My strategy is to make it easier to avoid being one-shotted, while making it much easier to get overwhelmed by creatures due to larger groups, faster attacks, and debuffs. Preparation, farming, and strategic decisions will be much more important than fast reflexes and running around in circles constantly even when on full health when facing bosses.
The second is to create a loot system more like Diablo 2. More items, more sets, greater variety. Makes farming more rewarding (while helping with the challenge of hardcore.
General
Level 60 Mastery Maximum
3 Skill Points per level to level 60 (vs. 50 originally), 2 bonus points at level 10
Major increase in stash size to 24 by 18
Decreased utility of energy potions (I want spirit to be more important)
Idle time set to 4 seconds (I always felt this was way to low)
Potion stack size set to 999 (more room for other stuff)
Added D2 Runes (but no recipes using them yet), Gems as augments
Added skill bonuses to many of the original classes to help balance them with D3 classes.
Monsters are being upgraded, larger groups, faster attacks, more health, more debuffs. Bosses will have more skills.
Soldier
New rank 9 skill called āBarbarian Loreā
Berzerker (Fighting Spirit 12), increase speed and duration
Hardened Spirit (Menhirās Will 16), increase health and energy regeneraton by 30%
Hard Training (Military Conditioning 10), +500 health and +30% health regeneration
A mod of my favorite Grim Dawn mod? Whatās going onā¦ ???
The first is to create more variety for hardcore play. My strategy is to make it easier to avoid being one-shotted
Well, as a lover of hardcore gameplay, you have my vote! Bravo, sir! Bravo! I canāt wait to see how this mod develops. If possible, I would like to see inclusion of hardcore specific items (epic, legendary, sets) such as the Diablo 3 item [i]Ancestorās Grace[/i] which has a unique ability:
When receiving fatal damage, you are instead restored to 100% of maximum Life and resources. This item is destroyed in the process
Now, I doubt that this is possible to achieve in Grim Dawn but, maybe you can create hardcore specifics that help increase āsurvivabilityā or maybe add hardcore specific affixes to legendaries and sets. Not exactly sure what that would be at the moment. At least Iām not the mod-maker. Good luck, Jaime! Iām looking forward to your work.
p.s. ā Can you buff the cheat death passives? Iām not so sure they even need it, but hey, peace of mind, or somethingā¦ :p:D:D:D
Fixed a few minor bugs and a major bug with the Barbarian Battle Circle skill. It should work properly now without having to hold your mouse over a target.
Todayās update has several parts of the Mystic class done. It is a cross between the nature and dream class from TQ. However, this class has a very unique feature in that it uses energy to stay alive (kind of like the sorceress energy shield in D2). Balancing it will take some work, but should be fun to play.
The last thing for the Mystic class is to add some more pet summons. With one exception, they will all get player bonuses, so should make for some good hybrid ideas.
Bug fixes: Warden 2nd form doesnāt have all the crazy additions anymore, Spirit of Vengeance can actually hit something now, fixed the floating eyes (I upped their effective level to 4X for testing and forgot about them).
So, I played for an hour on the Veteran difficulty and reached the Flooded Passage rift. I noticed that Hero Monsters regenerate their health pretty quickly, and the fight with Reanimator was more difficult because the bastard summoned lots of green crystals and zombies. I won by focusing only on him.
I wonder what kind of challenge can be find laterā¦
Also, it will be good if descriptions of summon spells in new classes show how petsā characteristics scale (with petsā bonuses or playerās bonuses).
Also, it will be good if descriptions of summon spells in new classes show how petsā characteristics scale (with petsā bonuses or playerās bonuses).
If you are playing the Mystic, be sure to respec/remove all your points out of it before doing the update, so you donāt lose any skill points. I made some major changes and some of the variable names changed this time.
I am done working on class masteries for now. Total of 18. 9 from Crate, 6 based on the D3 by Grimer, and the 3 I have added. I donāt plan to touch classes again (except bug fixes or serious balance issues) till after the release of the Forgotten Gods expansion.
Is this mod still being worked on? I just wanted to say its a great mod Iām having a lot of fun with it. I hope its still being worked on. I am looking forward to future updates! Please keep up the great work!
I am taking a break right now, but plan to get back to it. I still plan to do some more monster enhancements and add more items.
There is one other thing I want to do, but feel that I need to wait for the FG expansion to plan it properly. And that is a single play through like POE. In that regards, most of the mobs in AoM and FG would need certain built in debuffs to simulate playing on the higher difficulties. Also some mobs will tend to have predefined levels. I want the final boss for GD to be around level 70, AoM boss to be level 90, and the final FG boss to be level 100. Steps of Torment and a couple other spots will always match your level for a challenge though.
Iām glad to hear it. So many people start something great and then lose interest or give up and the incomplete mods on my hard drive just keep piling up lol. Anyway, this is great work its something different and I like it. Iām going to keep playing it for now but, Iāll be on the lookout for future updates when the new expansion comes out!
Awesome! Thanks a lot for the update. I actually just started playing a Mystic and Iām having a blast with this class. The dual dagger concept is really cool. Will look forward to future updates. Thanks again for all of your hard work Iām not a modder but Iām sure itās not easy for one person to do all of this.
Is it possible to make a version with fewer trash mobs? My gaming computer broke and until I can get a new one I canāt handle so many monsters on the screen at once.
Maybe a version with like normal trash mobs but keep the higher hero chances for us weak busted computer people. If you canāt manage it I understand and its cool. This mod still has my vote!
Great mod, I especially like the new enemies. One quick criticism about the new D2 runes, each rune seems to need 3 of the previous to craft. This means that the ā12 Sol Runeā, for example, needs 531,441 total of the ā1 El Runeā to craft. Thatās a lot of resources, and more importantly, a lot of time to craft a rune.
Higher level runes do drop. I donāt think trying to use lower level runes to make much higher runes was ever the intention of the original D2 game designers. Irregardless, I could still switch to two for one on the upgrades. I really canāt see it causing any game imbalances. It is already done for higher level runes. Anyway, I will think about it for a while. Might be nice to have some input from other players on this.
I will fix the skill in the Wizard tree in the next upgrade. If you see any other bugs please let me know.