QoL/Vanilla Enhancement Mod
WHAT IS THIS MOD ABOUT :
Hello, this mod was at first created for personal usage, and after few requests from GD community im posting it public with source so anyone can use any of its features. its purpose was to make grim dawn little more opened when it comes to leveling decisions, while not mangling endgame.
In short, mod lets u reach endgame faster, while keeping the game challenging, and even attempts to make certain areas harder, allows for pure Shattered Realm characters,and overally offers few QoL Features. Mod is intended for people that wants to reach endgame faster and experiment with classes, yet still keep the leveling interesting
and / or have some extra challenge in older , in vanilla weaker, zones.
mod includes GDStasher (increased stash size) and few modified scripts from grimmest to uncap lvl on some bosses, big thanx to authors, credits below.
in short
YOU SHOULD BE INTERESTED IN THIS MOD IF EITHER:
-you dont have that much time for playing and want to level chars to endgame faster, yet dont take away the challenge
-you want more freedom in your leveling / character approach yet want to keep vanilla mechanics
-you want to play pure SR Character
-you want to rush FG Directly
-you want to focus more on building characters and do little less âeverydayâ grinds
-you want more challenging multiplayer
MAJOR MOD FEATURES :
-Enemy scaling
whole world enemies scale according to player/party level (up to 85 on norm/elite and unlimited for ultimate), keeping the original formula of lvl differences.
only exception to this is SR which scales completely 1-112 on all difficulties, which i may adjust in future.
and making the âhardestâ scaling apply to whole world once you are L100 on ultimate .
(meaning that every boss will scale to 111-112 even in starter zones, while the lvl difference will grow slowly as u level, for example on L50 bosses will be at 57-58)
some specials like Nemesis bosses or major story bosses scale up to 115
-Faster Leveling/Reps/Reaching endgame
experience gains are boosted by 50% across all difficulties
another 50% experience buff added to SR
exp potion available since start and grants 150% experience bonus, its cost has been greatly reduced (friendly at DC)
potion to stop leveling for its duration (-101% experience as -100% resulted in slight exp gains)
cheaper mana/hp potions
respecs of devotion and skill points are capped at way cheaper values allowing for cheaper respecs
mandates/certificates for both positive and negative reputations were increased to 150% and 300% for positive ones, and 200% for negative ones.
certificates were moved to friendly reputation
-Multiplayer difficulty change
Enemy health scaling was altered to add at least 100% hp per player in every difficulty, making multiplayer way harder (insights on balancing MP are welcomed, couldnt find proper values for hp yet to deal with aura stacking etc, trying to make MP âhardâ)
-Soulbound from augments removed
augments from faction vendors are no longer soulbound and can be traded/transfered to other characters that didnt reached the reputation yet, allowing SR dedicated characters to exist
-Increased Stash Size
https://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57391 is included, thanx to the author
-Shattered Realm since game start
warden requirement for SR quest has been cut out, allowing lvl 1 characters to rush directly into FG content and SR
!!!WARNING!!! Take DC portal first before rushing into FG on new characters, as if u wont, u wont be able to get back to DC without help of GI teleport or multiplayer portal, or some other external way to return back to DC
Also, to properly get the opening quest for FG zone, character has to be loaded first in SINGLEPLAYER (on each difficulty) to get the quest, or in MP as a host, (joining players wont recieve the quest and may lead to issues) so in order to prevent any issues,i HIGHLY RECOMMEND to unlock SR in singleplayer, at least up to choosing a cult, then u can continue in MP! and again, BACKUP CHARACTERS OFTEN so in case of any issue you can rollback char to previous save !!!WARNING!!!
-Faster Devotion Gains
Shrines award 2 devotion points now, while cap remains unchanged, allowing builds to mold into their final form faster during leveling
SR quests now awards bunch of devotion points (5 and more at certain checkpoints) allowing u to reach full devotions by playing SR only
-Different Lvling/Difficulty approach
Normal, Veteran, Elite are all meant as leveling difficulties, and all caps at lvl 75 (bosses scaling up to 85) on normal, locking mythical 94 legendaries and MIs in ultimate which is meant to be kept as endgame
Elite was buffed in terms of damage, as it was nearly same as for veteran, and was not in my opinion different enough from veteran to serve as leveling difficulty
-Increased Legendary Drop rates
Boss chests, Roguelike chests, SR chests, Boss n Hero orbs have legendary drop rates SLIGHTLY increased for all difficulties, you wont see showers of purples, but it certainly nets you legendary or two extra in your runs, and makes lower level legendaries little more frequent.
(for example ultimate regular boss drops are increased roughly from around 12% to 15%)
-Faction Vendor Changes
All vanilla game faction vendors have new items to sell at their âfriendlyâ and maxed status, list follows :
Attributes reset potion
Devotion reset potion
Exp gain potion
Exp stop potion
DC vendor also sells all ânegativeâ mandates for nemesis reputations at friendly reputation
Several rare crafting materials were added to maxed reputation faction table vendors :
Devils Crossing - Aether Crystal
Rovers - Royal Jelly
Homestead - Manticore Eye
The Black Legion - Cthonic Seal of Binding
Coven of Ugdenbog - Ugdenbloom
Barrowholm - Sanctified Bone
Defenders Of Malmouth - Battered shell / Aether Shard / Aether Cluster
Cult of Bysmiel - Frozen Heart
Cult of Solael - Riftstone
Cult of Dreeg - Mutated Scales
-Little camera adjustment
Camera allowing better look at your character at maximum zoom for screenshot purposes (lol)
-Hairstylist!
Included Hairstylist mod that allows you to use various haircuts for your characters as helmet illusions, more info and standalone version here :
https://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84432
Please notice that in Mindawn version of Hairstylist, haircuts were moved to Homestead faction vendor, instead DC one
(more screenshots/info inside hairstylist thread)
HOW IS MOD INTENDED TO BE PLAYED?
with this mod you can take many different approaches with your characters, your first character SHOULD be played as vanilla character, while you get some more freedom in zone picks/quest order, mod features like vendor additions are mostly aimed on alt characters.
anyway as mentioned in features, all difficulties except ultimate are meant to be leveling difficulties, so when starting new alt character in any difficulty i suggest using merit token since start to unlock bags and portals in normal and elite, and then picking difficulty that fits your needs. your options are :
go normally thru norm/elite/ultimate as always, just using other features of mod, and being able to level in any zone you want, or farm equipment/mis anywhere u want
go elite for bigger challenge
go ultimate directly
go immidiately SR on any difficulty
overally, mod should give you complete freedom on how u level your character, and allowing you to play PURE SHATTERED REALM CHARACTERS, allowing them to be properly augmented, and reach full devotions in SR (only thing you cant get in SR itself are story specific ultimate attributes and skill points.
SUGGESTIONS
if you have any idea what should/could be added, or some other open source mod to be merged into this one, let me know, i cant promise that ill use the idea/do the merge, but ill surely consider it :).i am mostly interested in feedback on aggro enchants, and would love to get reports on any bosses/creatures which level doesnt scale properly as rest of the mod. thx in advance
KNOWN ISSUES/BUGS
-some minor enemies, mostly from other enemy summons, may spawn on wrong (boss level) if this happens, please report to me the enemy name so it can be hotfixed, also this may be the case for major bosses like loghorrean which may scale up to 115 in normal, but there would be no point in farming him on norm instead ultimate since his chests will be locked to 75
INSTALLATION n UPDATING
no difference from other mods here.
Unzip the package you downloaded, and place MinDawn Folder into your Mods folder
(Fodler structure should be for example : grimdawn/mods/MinDawn/database/MinDawn.arz)
UPDATING
when updating mod, simply delete the mod folder first (grimdawn/mods/MinDawn) and procceed with fresh installation
(in order to get rid of leftover files from older versions)
WHAT WILL BREAK WHEN TRANSFERING/LOADING CHARACTERS FROM VANILLA IN MOD AND VICE VERSA
-in case you load vanilla character in mod, everything should be in place and work, nothing should break
-in case you load mod character in vanilla, following will occur :
you will loose mandate bonus on that character, as vanilla caps the booster value on lower value than the mandate grants in the mod, you can reuse it in mod later.
you will loose exp stop potions as they dont exist in vanilla (they are free tho so no biggie here).
-stash items from the increased stash WONT be lost, but in order to be looted, they has to be in the âvanilla stash areaâ, so if u decide to leave the mod, you should make sure you reduce your stash back to original size, if you wont make it 100% precise,it doesnt really matter as u can use âsortâ button then to put items to proper positions in vanilla (there just has to be enough space in the slot or the sort wont work).
nothing else should break, let me know if there are any other issues while transfering.
ANYWAY, as with any other MOD, BACKUP your characters always before doing anything with them, and backup them on regular basis while playing the mod, as anything may go wrong for example on game updates etc as with other mods.
HOW TO TRANSFER CHARS TO THE MOD?
simply copy them in your local save folder, from Main folder into User folder, and using GD stash, check âIn Modâ checkbox on all of them, and save them. (you can do same with recipes, copy them from initial save folder into MinDawn folder). i wasnt able to succesfully transfer stash / illusions yet from vanilla, if theres anything im missing, any hint is welcomed.
or you can use Symlink method described many times over the forum 
in case you want to move chars back to vanilla, simply return them to original locations, and remove the âIn Modâ tag with GDStash again.
CHANGELOGS
Update 1.2.1
Mod updated for FG 1.1.9.0
Mythical :
Shattered relam difficulty reworked, difficulty extremely increased
- shard 50 is now as hard as 100 was before
- 50 - 100 now scales gradually more, up to extreme
- chest rewards in normal and elite reduced
- rewards for each shard (chest type) were changed, each new shard now improves 1 chest
- SR timer set to 10 mins per shard, kill bonuses removed, only killing nemesis will grant 120 extra seconds now
- Fixed all SA accesories/weapons, aded new versions for them for specific loot, more below
- SR chest unlocked with orbs was removed
- Added new option at Orb Dealer, allowing you to Reset your Mythical Shattered Realm progression (you can still regain progress with Mythical Waystones SX)
- rewards after 50 increased, later on you get only Shattered loot, exactly like following
- removed some unnceseary scripts
Each Chest
1-50
legit loot
orbs start to drop at 30
51-60
legit loot 50%
SR Rings/Medals/Necks 50%
61-70
legit loot 25%
SR Rings/Medals/Necks 50%
SR Weapons 25%
71-80
SR Weapons 30%
SR Dual Affix RMN 70%
81-90
SR Dual Affix Weapons 50%
SR Dual Affix RMN 50%
91-100
SR Dual Rare Weapons 50%
SR Dual Affix RMN 50%
medals always double devotion or skills
Update 1.2.0
Mod updated for FG 1.1.9.0
Updated to New bigger Caravan/Inventory Mod, from same author
Mythical : Updated Shattered affixes mod to latest version, prices were reverted to default mod values, might get adjusted in future
Update 1.1.2
Mod updated for FG 1.1.5.0
Update 1.1.0
Mod Updated with FG patch 1.1.3.0 compatibility
Players should now correctly receive FG starting quest in Multiplayer. (On spawning / on talking with Jailor / on talking with Emissary, any of those should trigger quest)
previous changelogs were wiped as they contained obsolete information
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Big thanx to GD modding discord for all the help and answers to my questions.
Download for (FG 1.1.5.x)
mod is under development and may/may not recieve frequent updates, please report any bugs u encounter
Both versions are standalone and are save compatible between each other
Both versions are using same filenames, in order to keep stash/illusions intact when switching between
When/If you are switching between versions, make sure you dont keep leftover files from other version, remove different version from folder entirely before placing other one
!Please before downloading, read ALL the warnings in the topic, also PLEASE KEEP BACKING UP YOUR CHARACTERS FREQUENTLY, ESPECIALLY ON MOD/GAME UPDATES, to prevent any issues with your characters. this is the last warning!
Mod version 1.2.0 for FG 1.1.9.x
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Old/Obsolete Versions
Mod version 1.1.2b for FG 1.1.5.x
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Mod version 1.1.2 for FG 1.1.5.0
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Mod version 1.1.1 for FG 1.1.4.1-1.1.4.2
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Mod version 1.0.1 for FG 1.1.3.X
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Mod version 1.0.6 for FG 1.1.2.X
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Mod version 1.0.6c Plus (Extra Features) for FG 1.1.2.X
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Additional Content and Features Mod
WHAT IS THIS MOD ABOUT?
This is the version of the mod that is focused on additional content, and has all the features of QoL version, it was formerly known as Plus version, renaming to Mythical was purely for cosmetic reasons
MYTHICAL ONLY FEATURES
-Ultimate Renamed
Ultimate was renamed to Mythical in this version, to prevent confusion with original mod
-Shattered Realm Reworked
Shattered Realm has been completely reworked, changing how the progression and rewarding works
- You now donât have option to continue after finishing a shard, and always get to cash-out/collect rewards after each and every one shard
- there is 100 checkpoints in total for now, your highest reached shard is always saved as checkpoint, so is each fifth, if you want to open other shards (for example 27) Merit waystones from Mazaan are what you need
- If the timer was beaten, Mazaan will next time offer you to continue from higher shard, allowing progression (YOU NEED TO USE ORDINARY/MYTHICAL WAYSTONE TO OPEN SHARDS HIGHER THEN 1! more info below )
- If the timer was not beaten, your only choice will be to repeat same shard next time
(example here, if you beat shard 16 in time, you will be offered to start at shard 17, on other hand if you fail the timer, you will have only the 16 checkpoint again) - Shard scaling and rewards has been adjusted accordingly to the new system, and will require balancing, it should get tougher at start, but still stay doable on higher shards, as the hyperbolic scaling was changed to be more linear.
- One Waystone for normal/elite and one for Mythical (Ordinary Waystone, Mythical Waystone) you dont need any others
- Merit waystones to unlock checkpoints for alts and to unlock additional checkpoints below (Again in Ordinary and Mythical version)
- Mythical difficulty Shattered realm uses new checkpoint system, and will make you progress from 1 again, as it would be impossible to experience new system and scaling while keeping checkpoints from vanilla game (mod wont delete your checkpoitns from vanilla, it simply uses different system on mythical, your checkpoints from other mods/vanilla stays untouched), on normal and elite u retain your checkpoints from other mods / vanilla. There are still Merit tokens for mythical that you can get after progressing Mythical far enough (each 10 shards) , which means that you have to progress from 1 on Mythical with one character only, and you can unlock waypoints for your alts same way as on other difficulties.
-Unlocked Inventor
Inventor is unlocked since the game start with all his services in this version (you still have to do the quest to save her to get her in DC, but you can use new inventor on conclave). Also you should recieve better rewards when dismantling legendaries.
-Shattered Affixes
Shattered Affixes mod by Okami29 is included and modified to fit into new SR system, and enhanced with new additions
Link to original mod and information :
Shattered Affixes
Changes in Shattered Affixes from original mod :
- Chance to destroy items have been removed for now, chances to get bis affixes modified accordingly
- You may get Shattering Orbs on any shard, and the chance to get orbs is slowly growing as you progress, there isnt any hardpoint where orb is guaranteed, but higher you go, you may get up to 10 orbs at once in extremely lucky situations on extremely high shards
- You can also get Shattering Orbs by dismantling legendaries at inventor, with extremely small chance
-Role Enchants
There are available two kinds of Role Enchants, meant for the waist slot, which should enable the RoleStyle gameplay in multiplayer, allowing one player become the tank, support, or damage dealer.
- Boss aggro / threat / taunt resists were modified to allow this behaviour
- First tier of enchants can be bought at Devils Crossing Quartermaster, and offers only basic role enabling abilities
- Second tier of enchants can be crafted at anomalus at Conclave of the three, those are endgame versions providing serious (overpowered?) bonuses for specific roles, these are crafted using Shattering Orbs.
-Mythical DPS Cooldown Enchants (Shoulder Slot)
- Dps cooldowns for every element / style / role in the game, with 120 second cooldown unaffected by CDR, and 10 second duration, they can be crafter at anomalus using Shattering Orbs, and are meant to be extremely strong / short duration nukes, which should open new options on dealing with SR boss rooms, since aggro cheesing is not that ideal anymore as u need to keep the shards timed.
-Various new NPCs on Mythical
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Inventor joins Bysmielâs Cult
Inventor with fully unlocked services can be found at Conclave of the three
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Anomalus The Shattered Smith
Smithy that offers all Shattered Affixes crafts, and new mythical only crafts for Shattering Orbs, he also knows all useful vanilla blackmith enhancements, and can craft random legendaries (same recipes as old world crafters), he can be found in Conclave of the Three
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Orbulus, Creature Lusting for Power
Creature from another world that ended here probably by accident, its craving for Shattering Orbs and offers various services for them, like level-uping your alts, granting them devotion points, or lets you use special kind of orbs, Lucky Orbs, which you get randomly in SR or you can craft/trade for Shattering orbs, to summon Loot orbs, which can vary from very bad to extremely good (Color/Name of orb will tell you how lucky you are )
-New Nemesis
Mod brings new Aetherial Zombie Nemesis - EttallâGhul âThe Master Reanimatorâ
How to find him/More information about him:
- Player has to be on Nemesis rep level with Aetherials for him to have chance to spawn
- He spawns only once per session, as vanilla Nemesis
- He does not have spawn points, but instead, he can spawn anywhere where zombies are
- He has fairly low spawn chance, but his spawn chance increases with each zombie pack encountered, meaning you should encounter him sooner or later
- His Spawn is NOT guaranteed, meaning that if you extremely-unlucky, he can very rarely not spawn at all, but this should be really rare occasion, he should spawn in 99% of sessions
- He is Acid/Aether based master summoner which will try to overwhelm u with zombies
- He should be pretty easy to defeat, he is supposed to be weaker nemesis, its a zombie after all
- He does not have any new specific MI, but he uses classic Nemesis Trove reward system
WORK IN PROGRESS!
Mod isnât properly balanced reward wise / content wise yet, and the balancing of the mod is main focus now, it will take some time to balance properly.
PLANNED FEATURES
TBD
More information about planned features will appear here soon
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!Please before downloading, read ALL the warnings in the topic BACKUP CHARACTERS, and also PLEASE KEEP BACKING UP YOUR CHARACTERS FREQUENTLY, ESPECIALLY ON MOD/GAME UPDATES, to prevent any issues with your characters. this is the last warning!
THIS IS EARLY ACCESS VERSION, AND PROBABLY WONT BE WELL BALANCED, ITS WORK IN PROGRESS
Mod version 1.2.1 for FG 1.1.9.x
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Mod version 1.2.0 for FG 1.1.9.x
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Mod version 1.1.2 for FG 1.1.5.0
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Mod version 1.0.1 for FG 1.1.4.1-1.1.4.2
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Mod version 1.0.0 for FG 1.1.3.X
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CREDITS
Crate : For Grim Dawn
Asylum101 : For help with hairstylist and creating bitmaps and tags
Okami29 : For all the help and Shattering Affixes mod
tt300 : For updated stasher mod
LINKS
External Links :
Mod Discord : https://discord.gg/HDmSdQABg7
Paypal Donation Link : www.paypal.me/MendezJMXC
If you are interested in supporting the mod/mod creator, feel free to donate via paypal, link is at the links section, and thanx for your support in advance, hopefully you are enjoying the mod
