2.0.0 Update out - Asterkarn’s Shadow update - Featuring a new Mastery (Frigid Hunter)!!
MOST ITEMS FROM THE MOD WILL DISAPPEAR WHEN UPDATING FROM ver.2.0.0 AND BELOW TO ver.2.0.1+!!! (due to a file restructure)
as with usual modded stuff with not that much items,
dont expect to do high end sr (34+), maybe ultimate is doable tho (maybe)
The Masteries
Swampdweller
“Foolish are those who dare brave the swamps and marshes of Cairn alone, for it is home to the ever deadly Swampdwellers, humans with an affinity for acid and sadistic tendencies. Since the times of old, Swampdwellers have been known to have actively seal pacts with wendigo spirits, causing them to become ruthless, animal-like monsters that can tear foes asunder while staying physically human. Those that do not create pacts with wendigo spirits tend to master the power contained within the swamp they reside, able to combine alchemy and witchcraft to sprout forth sharp, poisonous plants in an instant, mutate nearby fauna to their will, or to bend nature around them with vile acids and witchcraft.”
These people have lived in the swamps and marshes since the times of old. They have witnessed both the birth and sealing of the Ravager across multiple time periods, the rise and fall of Arkovia, the first summoning of the Logghorean into the material plane in Asterkarn, gazed from the far reaches using their link with the primordial wendigo spirit, up to the those of the aetherials would call the “Glorious Dawn”.
- has 27 skill nodes +3 transmuters
- pierce, chaos, acid, and bleed themed
- On the top row are skills themed around tearing things apart, be it human, monster, or even the veil of reality itself
- On the bottom row are skills themed around the ingenuity used to survive in the harsh conditions of the swamp, such as manipulating plants and incapacitating adversaries using acid and poison
- Has a hint of the Witch Gods meddling (Solael and Bysmiel)
- Offensive focused mastery, featuring a whopping 0 circuit breakers
- Has retal and RATA support
Frigid Hunter
“Behind the brutality left by the work of Berserkers, there is a a soft, yet brittle side of Kurn culture. Those who resisted the surge of Ch’thon worship, and nearly driven to extinction by it, Frigid Hunters are a rare band of Asterkarn outcasts living in seclusion and adhere to three strict tenets: swift, silent, and fatal. The bitter frost of Amatok are but a plaything to them, able to infuse their deadly arsenal with its bone-chilling cold or harness it into brutal winds. Heavy spears and massive long-ranged weapons are their favored tools of mercy, though their mastery of the cold can always make do with whatever weapon in their hands.”
These are the hidden denizers of the Asterkarn Mountains, hiding from plain sight as the berserkers show and display their might to those who would enter Asterkarn. Unlike berserkers or a modern denizer of the mountain, these group of people are much more attuned to the spirits that roam the mountainpeaks, most notably Amatok, the spirit of winter. It is even said that they were the children of Amatok by outiders who managed to bear witness while they work. What has driven them to the brink of extinction of their culture was after the Kurn decided to tap into the powers of the void, which the Frigid Hunters are extremely against. To combat their newfound adversaries of the void, these hunters also worshipped Empyrion and has been bestowed gifts from it to combat the void, even though they ultimately lost and is now living in seclusion.
- has 27 skill nodes + 4 transmuters
- cold, vitality, physical, and fire themed
- spear and two-handed gun biased, but still has a lot of non-locked skills
- lots of ice
- lasers!!
- has both a panic button and a circuit breaker
Item Obtaiment
As of version 2.0.0, enemies will now have a small chance to drop “Threads of Reality” these threads can be used to weave items with the help of the trusty interdimensional vinespawn, Thornellius.
Summon Thornelius by using the “Peculiar Seed” item, purchasable via the Devil’s Crossing faction vendor. It will allow you to “craft” swampdweller gear.
It can also warp certain Monster Infrequents into another version of them containing swampdweller bonuses
At sufficient levels, a drop of thread may instead drop a legendary from the mod.
Download link
Download link - Google Drive
pick the highest version number (currently 2.0.1)
please post feedback (balance, visuals, audio, anything realy) as well as report any bugs to me.
Changelog
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ver.2.0.1 (04/16/2025) – Balance pass and file restructure
Adjustments - General
- Item files and assets have been restructured for the upcoming merge to the grimarillion mod merge (thanks to Asylum101!). NOTE: MOST SWAMPMOD ITEMS WILL DISAPPEAR FROM INVENTORY!
Adjustments - Items
- Reverted Swampdweller Legguards - Removed +1 to swampdweller
Adjustments - Skills
Swampdweller:
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Buffed Dreadgaze - increased flat damage scaling with level. tick rate of skill now set to 500 in dbr (lowering it below 500 doesn’t seem to do anything??). Reduced energy cost scaling with level significantly. fiddled with duration and cooldown. adjusted base fx courtesy of Asylum101
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Adjusted Hemmorhage (dreadgaze2) - removed duration modifier, increased %chaos scaling with rank
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Adjusted Eldritch Taint - Added %cunning bonus. added cooldown on autocast skill (1s) to hopefully minimize multiplayer desync issues.
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Adjusted Boil (Dreadgaze transmuter) autocast - added cooldown on autocast skill (1s) to hopefully minimize multiplayer desync issues.
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Adjusted Annihilate - moved %bleeding to modifier (Penetrate). reduced audio volume for base skill
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Nerfed Sharpvine Scatter - reduced damage scaling with level. removed %acid damage. reduced energy cost
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Nerfed Noxious Spores (sharpvine2) - added cooldown on autocast skill (1s) to hopefully minimize multiplayer desync issues. autocast bleed%RR values adjusted to be in line with Devouring Swarm’s bleed%RR. acid damage decreased. autocast duration reduced to 2s
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Nerfed Bloom - removed increased summons on specific levels. a bunch of misc tweaks like rampant blossom proccing when nothing is nearby (my initial intention)
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Nerfed Sadistic Approach - removed %cunning, racial damage% adjusted to be consistent with Anatomy of Murder
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Nerfed Thirst (sadisticapproach2) - reduced ADCtH scaling with level
Frigid Hunter:
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Buffed Ice Totem - increased damage scaling with rank, transmuter version gets new fx (by Asylum101)
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Buffed Ghost of Asterkarn - increased timing window (aka duration) to 0.9s. removed leftover 100% chance stuff (they always apply, so no balance change)
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Buffed Divine Blessing - added %it and %burn
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Adjusted Black Glacier - cooldown reduced to 3.5s. reduced damage at early levels, scaling ramps up at later levels, damage at hardcap reduced. removed %decay and buffed flat decay on modifier (as well as reduce duration to 2.5s)
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Adjusted Mortal Injury (puncture transmuter) - now %tdm is removed, +cd is removed, reduced crit damage to 20%. essensially just a buff for spears now without any tradeoff other than needing a specific weapon type (similar to firestrike transmuters)
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Adjusted Empyrion’s Guidance - removed %DA, replaced with health regen (half of Menhir’s Bulwark)
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Adjusted Glacial Veil - removed dodge chance, replaced with %DA
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Adjusted Puncture - removed %cold and buffed flat cold on modifier (lower earlier higher late) (prob a nerf)
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Nerfed Gelid Gale - Reduced fragment count to 1. reduced fragment explosion radius to 0.8
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Nerfed Fracturing ice (gelidgale2) - %wd now scales with level (before it was just a flat 20%), total %wd lowered.
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Nerfed Frozen Core (gelidgale3) - reduced vitality damage scaling with level.
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Nerfed Frozen Domain - reduced freeze%RR amount by 65% of original value. reduced flat cold damage scaling with rank. added new buff icon indicator for the buff bar (not fx)
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Nerfed Tendon Sever (wayofthehunter3) - Reduced autocast %alldamage scaling with level. added icon for autocast buff
Bug Fixes & Misc
- Removed [Passive] tag on Ice Armaments
- Fixed typo (Artic Impalement → Arctic Impalement)
- Fixed typo (Ice Arnaments → Ice Armaments)
- Fixed typo (on Divine Blessing: strenght → strength)
- Fixed typo on relic gacha description (“both” → “all of them”)
- Fixed Bloom autoattacking enemies if rampant blossom was not unlocked
- Fixed Frozen Domain and bloom errors on the log (by rearangging the skilltree)
- Fixed Ravager’s Gifts Granted skill have missing description
- Fixed Ice Totem transmuter pet name
- FIxed Inquisitor and Necromancer combo names for Frigid hunter are swapped
- Fixed missing 1h gelid gale animations on female
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Changelog Swamp ver.2.0.0 (03/31/2025) – Asterkarn’s Shadow Update
New - General
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NEW MASTERY - Frigid hunter!! focuses on two-handed spear and two-handed ranged, these hunters can decimate the battlefield with emphasis on speed and lethality. even though the mastery is biased towards spears and two-handed ranged, they can still make do with any weapon using their arsenal of cold-based skills and spells. also empyrion devotees and have converters to turn damage into phys and fire
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New item aquisition - find “Threads of Reality”, dropped from any enemy (yes including in sr). these "threads of reality"s (im gonna refer them as threads from now on) can then be used to weave legendary swampdweller/frigidhunter gear and make vinewarped variants of MIs, replacing the need for scrap among other things.
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at sufficient levels, you may find that thread drops will occasionally be replaced by a legendary swampdweller/frigidhunter gear.
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Thornellius is now able to weave a “Steel Halberd” with random affixes. this item counts as a two-handed spear for Frigid Hunters leveling the campaign and other things if need be. Weaving a Steel Halberd requires scrap instead of threads
New - Items
- Common - Halberd - placeholder common tier spear item until FoA releases with common two-handed spears
- Vinewarped - Fleshwarped Bulwark
- Vinewarped - Naren Kur’s Blade
- Relic - Stargazer - frigid hunter mastery bonus and cc enemies as well as weaken them
- Relic - Sunshower - on hit, raindrops of pure fire (more so meteors) showers you and your enemies. corrosion not included
Adjustments - Skills
Swampdweller:
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Buffed Penetrate (annihilate2) - increased RATA scaling with rank by a lot
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Buffed Condense - increased flat damage by 3, increased damage scaling on ultimate rank, increased range of targetting
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Adjusted Annihilate - Increased flat damage by a LOT (50% for each damage type, bleed unaffected), increased cooldown by 1s (transmuter adjusted accordingly, should be a buff for spam annihilate)
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ver.1.2.0 (01/24/2025) =-----------------------=
New - General
- Thornelius is now able to warp certain Monster infrequents, granting them new Swampdweller bonuses. check it out!! (give me balance feedback about the items pls)
Adjustments - General
- Thornelius comes with a brand new (internal) spawning mechanism! now Thornelius has had a visit to the local interdimensional psychiatrist and the psychiatrist has managed to make it (Thornelius) less possesive (he no longer spawns randomly i hope). thanks to jiaco, mamba, and everyone who worked on Grimmest spawning mechanism.
- The old Peculiar Seed will disappear from your inventory. Rebuy the Peculiar Seed from devils crossing upon updating.
Adjustments - Skills
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Buffed Penetrate (annihilate2) - added -skillmanacost scaling with rank.
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Buffed Sadistic Approach - increased stats scaling with rank (forgot which ones). added range to affect allies and pets. added “new” buff application fx
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Adjusted Eldritch Taint - chaos -%res and elemental -%res adjusted to be in line with Thermite Mines. increased debuff duration to 9s. Increased -da scaling with rank.
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Adjusted Pall (devour3) - bolts now spawn randomly instead of at the person you hit, may lower dps but makes the pattern prettier
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Adjusted Stench of the Swamp - Removed stackable -da, replaced with higher nonstackable -da
Adjustments - Items
- New “Vinewarped” MI variants! check general section for obtainment
- Buffed Spectral lance - Replaced %wd to annihilate to %tdm, increased frostburn damage by 50/s (150/3s)
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Ver.1.1.1 (01/08/2025) =--------------------------------------=
Adjustments - General
- Now you can check if you have installed the mod (or update) properly by looking at he “Peculiar Seed” item for the version number.
- Reworked the mod description to include item obtainment
Adjustments - Items
- Changed Umbrella bitmap
- Changed Umbrella skill (delivery gun) projectile into piercing fireball projectile, also now has bitmap
- Utilised StyleTag for all Mythical items, user end remains the same
- Light, Revealed will now allow you to dual wield weapons
- Added some bitmaps, i didn’t keep track though
Adjustments - Skills
- changed Bloom description to hint that the flowers scale with player damage bonuses
- changed Devour description to say “every second strike” instead of “every other strike”
Bug Fixes
Fixed Flower of Putrid blossoms mesh not appearing on character menu
Fixed Peculiar seed referring to Thornius, now refers to Thornelius instead
Fixed Weave Swamp Relic crafting tag
Fixed non-mythical Incantations of Pestilence level requirement
Fixed Spectral Lance texture
Fixed Bloom’s flowers not having names (now just called bloom)
Bonus
there is a cheat item only accesible via the console (aka unobtainable) for those who would want to speed up leveling, the dbr you have to find yourself.
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ver.1.1.0 (01/03/2025) =----------------------=
New - General
- you can now get the items from Thornius. to summon him, buy the “Peculiar Seed” in devil’s crossing faction vendor and use the item (thanks to Bane, and by extension, Ceno and Asylum101 for the script. (for the blacksmith npc it’s almost a 1-1 copy from DarkestDawnReborn v02, so many thanks to that too.))
- Thornius will occasionally jumpscare you as a reminder to grab swampdweller gear (actually a bug where Thornelius will spawn randomly in certain spots, now called a “feature”)
- legendary items from the mod will not be available outside of this system (Thornius), only new MIs will
- devil’s crossing faction vendor now sells tonics to reset attributes and devotions
- devil’s crossing faction vendor now sells merits for higher difficulties
- devil’s crossing faction vendor now sells dynamites, since crafting the items require obscene amounts of scrap
New - Items
New non-set legendary item - “Umbrella” of Myriad Manifestations. budget omniclass weapon with support for everything but does not excel in anything. also has ranged spam skill too. (if you know, you know.)
New item set - 5pc Ravager’s Gifts (and its lv75 counterpart, Ravager’s Toys). Mono-swampdweller set. chaos devour
New item set - 4pc The First Runner (and its lv75 counterpart, The Runner). Deserter set. bleed blade arc and bleed violent outburst
New item set - 4pc Baan’s Legacy (and its lv75 counterpart, Baan’s Equipment). Executioner set. chaos condense with support for demolitionist mastery buffs like blast shield
New item set - 4pc The Black Death (and its lv75 counterpart, The Plague). Witch set. acid dreadgaze meets acid pox, using both transmuters (fevered rage and boil) is not really recommended.
New item set - 4pc White Flash (and its lv75 counterpart, White Streak). Researcher set. has a skill to shoot and clear waves while having annihilate do single target burst
2 New Relics - 1 acid/chaos the other is pierce/chaos/vitality
Adjustments - Items
adjusted Spectral Lance - now has atkspd and castspd, reduced base atkspd stat
buffed Swampdweller’s Legguards (both normal and empowered) (yes it’s a base game epic) - now has +1 to all skills in Swampdweller (for name accuracy)
Adjustments - Skills
buffed Boil (dreadgaze transmuter) - added total damage modified %
adjusted Stench Of the Swamp - removed phys red dmg thing, replaced with stackable flat -da
adjusted Assimillate (bloom2) - removed -movespeed, it didnt even work anyway
adjusted condense’s hit fx and sound fx, now it hijacks different vanilla effects 
adjusted Devour - increased internal cooldown to 0.46
adjusted Pall (devour3) - now projectile goes further away from the toon, and spawns closer to the toon too. looks prettier but it is kinda a nerf(?)
adjusted Pall (devour3) sfx - now is less loud
adjusted dreadgaze - increased flat chaos, increased cd by 1.5s
nerfed Rampant Blossom (bloom3) - reduced flat rr duration from 5s to 3s
nerfed Sharpvine Scatter - changed animation from fastThrow (stun jacks speed) to Throw (blackwater speed). now you need cast speed :). also increased projectile velocity
nerfed Uncontrollable Growth (Sharpvine Scatter transmuter) - increased cooldown to 4.5s
nerfed annihilate - increased cd to 3s (in line with primal strike), transmuter adjusted accordingly
Bug Fixes:
fixed Flower Of Putrid Blossoms giving ridiculous amounts of cast speed instead of the intended amount
fixed Spectral Lance (weaker versions) does not replace annihilate fx
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Ver. 1.0.1 =--------------=
new MI 2h spear: Spectral Lance (drops from ghosts)
new Legendary offhand: Flower of Putrid Blossoms (mesh courtesy of Asylum101)
fixed violent outburst and thirst skill mastery requirement
fixed devour would freeze your toon when using a spear
fixed bloom energy cost
buffed dreadgaze energy cost (cut by 50%)
buffed annihilate energy cost (cut by 30%)
buffed penetrate: added crit damage scaling with rank
adjusted thirst total speed, now it starts lower, max total speed remains the same
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Credits:
- Crate Entertainment (can’t do much without their tools and assets)
- random sharingan sound i found on youtube. link
- Grimer’s Priest Mastery. i use it to learn to mod too alongside the vanilla files (esp. the buttons and ui stuff), so I think it deserves recognition
- Asylum101 - for the plant focus asset that he made, the updated base dreadgaze fx, transmuter ice totem fx, the whole file restructure undertaking, as well as advice and help
- Bane (and by extension, Ceno and Asylum101) for the blacksmith script
- Jiaco, Mamba, and everyone who worked on Grimmest for their spawning mechanism
- Astridcone on Grimmarilion & DoM discord server for the name Thornelius
- Guild Wars 2 Wiki for a lot of icons used in frigid hunter
- Limbus Company Wiki for the icons used in relics
. will fix next hotfix
