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I'm separating out my tweaks to existing rules content from Nullpack, in the hopes that Nullpack remains more compatible with other addons.
This addon uses Overload and Superload.
Null Tweaks 2014-12-04: Rocks and Stones
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Null Tweaks 2014-12-04: Rocks and Stones
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Re: Null Tweaks v1 - a gift of tweaks
In the most recent version:
Respec Tuning
There is now an option to enable "Custom" Respec limits. This means that you can choose how many Class or Generic points to re-assign (instead of being limited to 4 or 3 respectively). You are still limited to only changing points while safely in town or on levels which contain no enemies. Hopefully enemies in vaults are ignored, but there may be bugs in enemy generation.
Cosmetic Fixes
New duller icon for Elm Staff, so it's visually distinct from a Yew Staff, even when the icon is small.
This is important when shopping.
Timed Effects
An option will toggle this fix. The fix is to change the on_merge behavior of some timed effects to use the maximum of (old duration, new duration) rather than their average duration (old+new)/2. This results in less wonky results from multiple different burn effects, and results in more sensible behavior when you are suffering from an effect which is about to expire.
For example, in the old code if you had 1 turn left of being on fire, any new Burning duration would be halved (and the damage per turn DOUBLED). When you are being set on fire by multiple opponents, like a pack of fire dragons, this can result in silly and unintended damage per turn.
The fix is to always use the maximum duration. In both cases total damage is conserved: if you would suffer from 100 total fire damage, you will still suffer from 100 total fire damage either way.
Affected effects are: Burning, Cut, Wasting, Manasurge, and Restless Night. REMOVED Lightburn, it turns out to be incompatible, but I could add it back in if there's demand.
Wards
The Ward talent granted by torques, totems and staves is now instant-cast, and the duration (always 10 turns) is displayed in the talent info text.
Torques and Totems
Totems:
- Combined Healing, Poison and Illness into new Healing, which now also cures 2 poison or disease effects. Same long cooldown and generally inferior healing as before. Changed level range to make these available from level 1.
- New totem type Cleansing which removes 1-5 magical debuffs from the target.
- Wards will now ward against Cold, Fire or Blight.
- Natural now grants Equilibrium when you are hit.
- Forceful now grants Stamina when you are hit.
Torques:
- Hateful now increases your maximum Hate.
- Psionic now grants a bonus to Psi regeneration.
Cunning
Re-write of Cunning / Poisons:
- All Poisons are now instant-activation timed effects. Why? Three reasons:
- Rune: Reconstruction (was Infusion: Healing). Same inferior healing, now available to undead! Also cures one Cut or Wound effect. Wyrmics who stay pro-magic now have an interesting choice.
- Rune: Clarity removes 2 Blindness or Confusion conditions, grants type-specific ESP, and each turn has a % chance to reduce the duration of any hostile Mental effect you are suffering, old or new. This is less reliable and thus less powerful than many other duration reductions, but I think it's tactically interesting.
- Infusion: Predator (was Infusion: Insidious Poison). Maps terrain and grants Infravision. Applies a type of poison to your weapons (melee or ranged, just like Cunning / Poisons would). Grants a +% damage bonus to one specific creature type. This Instant infusion never breaks Stealth.
- Infusion: Adaptation removes 2 Poison or Disease effects, grants Water Breathing, grants +% resist Fire & Cold, and each turn has a % chance to reduce the duration of any hostile Fire, Cold, Poison or Disease effect. Like the Clarity Rune, this duration reduction is less reliable and thus less powerful than most current effect cures. The water breathing ought to last long enough to do some digging.
Spell Retuning
Technique / Magical Combat
No talent changes, but the stat requirements for this tree can now be met with Dexterity or Strength, whichever is higher. This works the same as how Combat Techniques and Combat Veteran work.
Earth / Stone Skin
Now grants +10% armor hardiness, and also a flat damage reduction which scales from 1 to 20 (at 5/5 and 100 Spellpower), with a maximum of 35. This talent should now be worthwhile to a variety of builds, including Archmagi and Stone Wardens and Arcane Blades alike.
Spell / Temporal:
- Congeal Time now inflicts global slow and a minor damage over time. The CD is reduced to 4, so it can sub for a tri-beam effect at very low levels (up to ~10 or so), but the damage doesn't scale well, so you'll mainly use it for the speed debuff at high levels.
- Time Prison now slows movement and projectiles after the freeze duration expires (or if the freeze effect is avoided). This 100-mana spell is now always useful against archers (or for running away).
Spell / Aether and Spell / Arcane:
- The "trap" created by Aether Beam now has a Disarm difficulty equal to your Spellpower. If the disarm check fails, the "trap" explodes for some small damage (your Spellpower x 2) in radius 3.
- Arcane Power now costs 20 mana to sustain, and grants some moderate Arcane damage resist (8% to 27%) based on talent level. The Spellpower buff remains pathetic outside of very low levels, but the Arcane resist ought to make Aether Permeation more interesting, and 20 mana is cheap enough that even the Spellpower buff seems pretty decent.
Chronomancy Tweaks
There's a new option in the Gameplay tab for Nulltweaks: Chronomancy.
Classic - no changes
TW Willpower - changes only Speed Control:
- All talents in Speed Control now require Willpower rather than Magic. This gives the Temporal Warden an unambiguous start (Dex + Will), and the Paradox Mage two Willpower trees instead of just the current one tree. The impact is that it makes status-caster TW viable early rather than making you wait to get your few active spells. More spellpower is still important for Speed Control, so Magic points and +spellpower gear are still just as desirable.
Awesome - changes all Temporal Warden trees to use Magic, and some Paradox Mage trees to use Willpower.
Magic:
- Temporal Combat
- Spacetime Folding
- Spacetime Weaving
Willpower:
- Energy
- Paradox
Additionally, under Awesome some talents will be tweaked or replaced:
- Quantum Feed -> replaced by Drain Fate, which is an attack talent that increases the target's cooldowns and the duration of negative effects, while reducing the duration of beneficial effects.
- Static History -> the "stasis" duration, which prevents Chronomancy failures, now scales up with Willpower
Berserker Tweak
Replaces Blood Frenzy (the 4th talent in Two Handed Maiming) with a sustain that has a 10-50% chance to trigger one of the other three talents in that tree -- Stunning Blow, Sunder Arms, or Sunder Armour -- 1/turn with a successful melee attack. You pay the stamina cost for whatever gets triggered. Those talents are pretty expensive, but Bloodbath and some +Stamina regen gear can handle it.
(This is only relevant to pre-1.2 players.)
Weapon Mastery Tweaks
There's a new option in the Gameplay tab for Nulltweaks: Mastery.
Classic - no changes
Awesome - changes Weapons Mastery to be a generic, nearly universal mastery talent, but at 0.8 effectiveness. No requirement but level.
Adds Agile Mastery - full effectiveness mastery of Knives and Whips; requires Dexterity.
Adds Greatweapon Mastery - full effectiveness mastery of Axes, Maces, Swords and Tridents; requires Strength. This talent is granted by the Warrior Escort and the prodigy Legacy of the Naloren in place of Exotic Weapons Mastery.
Yeek Starting Area Improvement
- Ritch NPC infravision reduced; Stealth should be more useful now.
- Ritch NPCs gain description strings which hint at their damage types and capabilities.
- Ritch melee damage changed to mostly Physical.
--> Ritch Impalers convert 30% melee to Blight.
--> Chitenous Ritches convert 30% melee damage to Acid.
--> Hive Mother converts 30% melee damage to Fire, and another 30% to Blight.
- Ritch Hive Mother gains a large Lite radius.
Other Monster Improvement
Throw Boulder now has a cooldown of 5 (was 3), and using Throw Boulder puts Throw Boulder on cooldown 1 for all visible allies. So, if you see three Snow Giant Boulder Throwers, expect three turns of boulders rather than eating three boulders at once.
Respec Tuning
There is now an option to enable "Custom" Respec limits. This means that you can choose how many Class or Generic points to re-assign (instead of being limited to 4 or 3 respectively). You are still limited to only changing points while safely in town or on levels which contain no enemies. Hopefully enemies in vaults are ignored, but there may be bugs in enemy generation.
Cosmetic Fixes
New duller icon for Elm Staff, so it's visually distinct from a Yew Staff, even when the icon is small.
This is important when shopping.
Timed Effects
An option will toggle this fix. The fix is to change the on_merge behavior of some timed effects to use the maximum of (old duration, new duration) rather than their average duration (old+new)/2. This results in less wonky results from multiple different burn effects, and results in more sensible behavior when you are suffering from an effect which is about to expire.
For example, in the old code if you had 1 turn left of being on fire, any new Burning duration would be halved (and the damage per turn DOUBLED). When you are being set on fire by multiple opponents, like a pack of fire dragons, this can result in silly and unintended damage per turn.
The fix is to always use the maximum duration. In both cases total damage is conserved: if you would suffer from 100 total fire damage, you will still suffer from 100 total fire damage either way.
Affected effects are: Burning, Cut, Wasting, Manasurge, and Restless Night. REMOVED Lightburn, it turns out to be incompatible, but I could add it back in if there's demand.
Wards
The Ward talent granted by torques, totems and staves is now instant-cast, and the duration (always 10 turns) is displayed in the talent info text.
Torques and Totems
Totems:
- Combined Healing, Poison and Illness into new Healing, which now also cures 2 poison or disease effects. Same long cooldown and generally inferior healing as before. Changed level range to make these available from level 1.
- New totem type Cleansing which removes 1-5 magical debuffs from the target.
- Wards will now ward against Cold, Fire or Blight.
- Natural now grants Equilibrium when you are hit.
- Forceful now grants Stamina when you are hit.
Torques:
- Hateful now increases your maximum Hate.
- Psionic now grants a bonus to Psi regeneration.
Cunning
Re-write of Cunning / Poisons:
- All Poisons are now instant-activation timed effects. Why? Three reasons:
- 1) Promote tactical use. You can't just run the same two poisons all the time, and neither can your opponents. Out-waiting an opponent's Poison is now a valid tactic.
- 2) Buff Shalore. Timeless is now great for Rogues, yay!
- 3) Allow more nuance, like how the low Stamina cost and quick Cooldown means you'll actually want to use Deadly Poison sometimes.
- NEW BONUS REASON: Replace Stoning Poison with Vitrification Poison: transform a portion of your opponent's body into glass, which lowers its physical damage resistance and its armour hardiness. This poison inflicts Physical damage.
- Rune: Reconstruction (was Infusion: Healing). Same inferior healing, now available to undead! Also cures one Cut or Wound effect. Wyrmics who stay pro-magic now have an interesting choice.
- Rune: Clarity removes 2 Blindness or Confusion conditions, grants type-specific ESP, and each turn has a % chance to reduce the duration of any hostile Mental effect you are suffering, old or new. This is less reliable and thus less powerful than many other duration reductions, but I think it's tactically interesting.
- Infusion: Predator (was Infusion: Insidious Poison). Maps terrain and grants Infravision. Applies a type of poison to your weapons (melee or ranged, just like Cunning / Poisons would). Grants a +% damage bonus to one specific creature type. This Instant infusion never breaks Stealth.
- Infusion: Adaptation removes 2 Poison or Disease effects, grants Water Breathing, grants +% resist Fire & Cold, and each turn has a % chance to reduce the duration of any hostile Fire, Cold, Poison or Disease effect. Like the Clarity Rune, this duration reduction is less reliable and thus less powerful than most current effect cures. The water breathing ought to last long enough to do some digging.
Spell Retuning
Technique / Magical Combat
No talent changes, but the stat requirements for this tree can now be met with Dexterity or Strength, whichever is higher. This works the same as how Combat Techniques and Combat Veteran work.
Earth / Stone Skin
Now grants +10% armor hardiness, and also a flat damage reduction which scales from 1 to 20 (at 5/5 and 100 Spellpower), with a maximum of 35. This talent should now be worthwhile to a variety of builds, including Archmagi and Stone Wardens and Arcane Blades alike.
Spell / Temporal:
- Congeal Time now inflicts global slow and a minor damage over time. The CD is reduced to 4, so it can sub for a tri-beam effect at very low levels (up to ~10 or so), but the damage doesn't scale well, so you'll mainly use it for the speed debuff at high levels.
- Time Prison now slows movement and projectiles after the freeze duration expires (or if the freeze effect is avoided). This 100-mana spell is now always useful against archers (or for running away).
Spell / Aether and Spell / Arcane:
- The "trap" created by Aether Beam now has a Disarm difficulty equal to your Spellpower. If the disarm check fails, the "trap" explodes for some small damage (your Spellpower x 2) in radius 3.
- Arcane Power now costs 20 mana to sustain, and grants some moderate Arcane damage resist (8% to 27%) based on talent level. The Spellpower buff remains pathetic outside of very low levels, but the Arcane resist ought to make Aether Permeation more interesting, and 20 mana is cheap enough that even the Spellpower buff seems pretty decent.
Chronomancy Tweaks
There's a new option in the Gameplay tab for Nulltweaks: Chronomancy.
Classic - no changes
TW Willpower - changes only Speed Control:
- All talents in Speed Control now require Willpower rather than Magic. This gives the Temporal Warden an unambiguous start (Dex + Will), and the Paradox Mage two Willpower trees instead of just the current one tree. The impact is that it makes status-caster TW viable early rather than making you wait to get your few active spells. More spellpower is still important for Speed Control, so Magic points and +spellpower gear are still just as desirable.
Awesome - changes all Temporal Warden trees to use Magic, and some Paradox Mage trees to use Willpower.
Magic:
- Temporal Combat
- Spacetime Folding
- Spacetime Weaving
Willpower:
- Energy
- Paradox
Additionally, under Awesome some talents will be tweaked or replaced:
- Quantum Feed -> replaced by Drain Fate, which is an attack talent that increases the target's cooldowns and the duration of negative effects, while reducing the duration of beneficial effects.
- Static History -> the "stasis" duration, which prevents Chronomancy failures, now scales up with Willpower
Berserker Tweak
Replaces Blood Frenzy (the 4th talent in Two Handed Maiming) with a sustain that has a 10-50% chance to trigger one of the other three talents in that tree -- Stunning Blow, Sunder Arms, or Sunder Armour -- 1/turn with a successful melee attack. You pay the stamina cost for whatever gets triggered. Those talents are pretty expensive, but Bloodbath and some +Stamina regen gear can handle it.
(This is only relevant to pre-1.2 players.)
Weapon Mastery Tweaks
There's a new option in the Gameplay tab for Nulltweaks: Mastery.
Classic - no changes
Awesome - changes Weapons Mastery to be a generic, nearly universal mastery talent, but at 0.8 effectiveness. No requirement but level.
Adds Agile Mastery - full effectiveness mastery of Knives and Whips; requires Dexterity.
Adds Greatweapon Mastery - full effectiveness mastery of Axes, Maces, Swords and Tridents; requires Strength. This talent is granted by the Warrior Escort and the prodigy Legacy of the Naloren in place of Exotic Weapons Mastery.
Yeek Starting Area Improvement
- Ritch NPC infravision reduced; Stealth should be more useful now.
- Ritch NPCs gain description strings which hint at their damage types and capabilities.
- Ritch melee damage changed to mostly Physical.
--> Ritch Impalers convert 30% melee to Blight.
--> Chitenous Ritches convert 30% melee damage to Acid.
--> Hive Mother converts 30% melee damage to Fire, and another 30% to Blight.
- Ritch Hive Mother gains a large Lite radius.
Other Monster Improvement
Throw Boulder now has a cooldown of 5 (was 3), and using Throw Boulder puts Throw Boulder on cooldown 1 for all visible allies. So, if you see three Snow Giant Boulder Throwers, expect three turns of boulders rather than eating three boulders at once.
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Re: Null Tweaks v2 - weirdling bug fix
Null Tweaks v2 released.
Bug fix: the Weirdling Beast was hard-coded to use a Healing Infusion, which is removed by this addon. This meant the bottom of Lake Nur could not be explored. I've updated his definition to use an equivalent Reconstruction Rune instead.
Bug fix: the Weirdling Beast was hard-coded to use a Healing Infusion, which is removed by this addon. This meant the bottom of Lake Nur could not be explored. I've updated his definition to use an equivalent Reconstruction Rune instead.
Re: Null Tweaks v2 - weirdling bug fix
Aw, no more insidious poison infusion? I loved those for my rogues because it gave me another easy to use poison to apply venemous strike too.
Gonna check this out though
Gonna check this out though
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Re: Null Tweaks v2 - weirdling bug fix
Instead you get a new timed_effect which can coat all your weapons in insidious poison, or one of 3 other poisons.Sradac wrote:Aw, no more insidious poison infusion? I loved those for my rogues because it gave me another easy to use poison to apply venemous strike too.
It ought to allow your Rogue to play with poison before level 10, so you can start stacking +% Nature gear etc.
Re: Null Tweaks v2 - weirdling bug fix
Here's the two logs I took.
Log 1 includes the journey from start up to trying to generate the sher'tul fortress.
Log 2 is just trying to load the character up after force-quitting during the infinite map generation.
Hope it helps.
Log 1 includes the journey from start up to trying to generate the sher'tul fortress.
Log 2 is just trying to load the character up after force-quitting during the infinite map generation.
Hope it helps.
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Re: Null Tweaks v2 - weirdling bug fix
Just pushed out Null Tweaks v3, which ought to play nicer with other addons: more superloading, less overloading.
Please let me know if this fixes your issue. I'm able to get through Nur 4 with this (and with v2 above).
Please let me know if this fixes your issue. I'm able to get through Nur 4 with this (and with v2 above).
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Re: Null Tweaks v4 - poison description fixes
Null Tweaks v4 - fixes a description bug for two kinds of poisons
Re: Null Tweaks v4 - poison description fixes
After using them for a while, I believe that the healing rune needs a higher base value. It just doesn't compare to the healing one in the slightest, and it's cooldown feels like it's always longer, though that may be pure rng luck.
<mex> have you heard the good word about archmage?
<mex> I'm here to tell you about your lord and savior shalore archmage
<mex> have you repented your bulwark sins yet?
<mex> cornac shall inherit the Eyal
<mex> I'm here to tell you about your lord and savior shalore archmage
<mex> have you repented your bulwark sins yet?
<mex> cornac shall inherit the Eyal
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Re: Null Tweaks v4 - poison description fixes
The Reconstruction Rune is actually identical to the old Healing Infusion except for the status buff (that it removes one cut or wound).StarKeep wrote:After using them for a while, I believe that the healing rune needs a higher base value. It just doesn't compare to the healing one in the slightest, and it's cooldown feels like it's always longer, though that may be pure rng luck.
I suspect that it's just bad RNG luck, but it's intended that the Healing Rune will retain the lower total healing value than Regeneration since burst effects are better "escape" buttons (or rather better "save my butt" buttons) than healing over time.
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Re: Null Tweaks v4 - poison description fixes
I've pushed this out to Steam, but it's not appearing in the main ToME workshop area yet.
I think you can subscribe to this addon using the links in my personal workshop area:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/doctornull ... pid=259680
I think you can subscribe to this addon using the links in my personal workshop area:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/doctornull ... pid=259680
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Re: Null Tweaks v4 - poison description fixes
The slave brawler needs to have a reconstruction rune now, fyi.
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Re: Null Tweaks v4 - poison description fixes
Thanks, I'll see if I can fix that.FlarePusher wrote:The slave brawler needs to have a reconstruction rune now, fyi.
(The existing slave has a Healing Infusion, right? It ought to work as a near equivalent until I do fix it.)
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Re: Null Tweaks v5 - Aether Ascendent
Added two new tweaks:
- The trap created by Spell / Aether / Aether Beam now has a disarm difficulty set by your Spellpower, and if the disarm check fails the trap explodes for 2x Spellpower Arcane damage. (This damage seems kinda low, any suggestions on a better range?)
- Arcane Power now costs 20 mana to sustain (rather than 50), and in addition to the current rather anemic Spellpower buff it grants 8% to 27% Arcane damage resistance. This is intended to make Aether Permeation more interesting and also help the Arcane Archmage survive shooting himself in the face with spells from Aether until he gets Meta / Spellcraft running.
- The trap created by Spell / Aether / Aether Beam now has a disarm difficulty set by your Spellpower, and if the disarm check fails the trap explodes for 2x Spellpower Arcane damage. (This damage seems kinda low, any suggestions on a better range?)
- Arcane Power now costs 20 mana to sustain (rather than 50), and in addition to the current rather anemic Spellpower buff it grants 8% to 27% Arcane damage resistance. This is intended to make Aether Permeation more interesting and also help the Arcane Archmage survive shooting himself in the face with spells from Aether until he gets Meta / Spellcraft running.
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Re: Null Tweaks v4 - poison description fixes
Fixed, thanks for the report!FlarePusher wrote:The slave brawler needs to have a reconstruction rune now, fyi.
I also gave the slave ring master guy a chance at a Predatory Infusion (poison damage) because he was currently coded to try for a Speed Rune, and those haven't existed for ages.