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All talents have been re-coded to remove artificial break points in scaling. New scaling should approximately match the same values at the same talent levels.
Talent costs have been adjusted to be more in line with other stamina users with respect to the damage and utility of the talent.
Many talent damage formuals have been adjusted to increase the minimum value and bring them somewhat more in line with other weapon damage talents, although in some cases even considerable adjustment has left them with larger scaling variation than many other weapon damage scaling formulas. Maximum values remain the same, giving better returns at lower talent levels as a result.
Trapping mastery reduced to 1.0.
Poisons mastery is bumped up to 1.3 (from 1.2; still locked)
Stealth is granted, locked at 1.0 mastery.
'Buckler Expertise' has had the description updated to reflect what it actually does (i.e. it now notes that melee attack deflection does not work in heavy armor) and grants armor and hardiness while wearing light armor.
'Bash and Smash' now scales in the second shield hit as a chance to occur (50-100%). Moved to teir 3.
'Buckler Mastery' no longer has scaling projectile spread radius (projectiles will always be deflected in a radius of 1). Buckler Mastery now grants immunity to damage from your own projectiles. The critical strike for Bash and Smash now scales in as increased crit chance (50-100%) for the shield hit(s). Moved to teir 4.
'Counter Shot' has been replaced with 'Dash and Crash', a new teir 2 talent which will rush toward a targeted foe, strike with your shield, and activate Block for free. If the shield strike hits, the target may be confused.
'Breathing Room' is reworked. It now adds stacks of the new 'Breathing Room' effect each turn their are no enemies adjacent to you. The effect increases life and stamina regen and can stack up to 4 times. You will lose one stack per turn if an enemy is adjacent to you.
'Dauntless Challanger' has been reworked. Rather than passively granting regen based on enemies in sight, you now activate the talent to consume all stacks of Breathing Room and gain the Dauntless Challenger effect for X turns. The effect grants 200% of the stamina regen and 400% of the life regen granted by Breathing Room, multiplied by the number of stacks consumed. You cannot gain stacks of Breathing Room while under this effect, but the regeneration from Dauntless Challenger will persist regardless of enemy location, etc.
'The Eternal Warrior' now scales in the 'Breathing Room' regeneration bonus from 10%-20% (which also improves 'Dauntless Challenger' as a result).
'Sling Supremacy' now allows you to reload when using Block.
'Swift Shot' will completely reset Hurricane Shot, rather than reducing the cooldown by one. Cooldown increased to 6 from 5. Fixed a bug from vanilla in Swift Shot's cooldown by movement handling from.
'Hurricane Shot' now always hits targets only once, but the damage scaling is doubled. Projectiles from this attack now travel instantly. Cooldown reduced to 6 from 7.
'Bombardment' has been totally reworked. The sustain now costs 20 stamina and increases fatigue by 65% and causes Shoot to cost 5 stamina. While active, all archery attacks will trigger an instant shot for [20-40]% weapon damage, up to twice per target per turn.
'Called Shots' projectiles now travel effectively instantly.
'Kneecapper' has improved pin/slow duration scaling.
'Noggin Knocker' now scales the stun/increase duration from 1 (at tl1) to 2 (at ~tl5).
'Sling Sniper' scales in all bonuses from the first point.
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). I have been playing this for the last few days and really like the changes, does not feel too powerful while still feeling like it should be able to get to those ridiculous power levels that skirmishers should be able to get to with good equipment and proper play. I have not found any real bugs and no error codes so far. I did just die though due to the "people being able to walk right through my shots given that they are not instant". Personally I think it should basically be instant for all shots. But the called shots are kind of definitely needed to be instant. You need to be able to land the stun in particular to do well against ranged caster/archer rares/bosses in nightmare+. I realize you might not be balancing for that, but I think you can run into the same with decently powerful caster and archers in normal mode. I wish I could offer a code solution. Though I CAN say that I have been playing another mod a while back called Zephyr by minmay. Lightning archer/caster. Fun. I think they solved it by making all shots hit instantly but still have to check accuracy/defense. So looking at the shoot talent in the mod may give some ideas. It is just kind of disheartening to use big, powerful attacks and I would say somewhere close to 25% of the time they do not land and there is no miss or deflect just because of movement. I know this is game code and not yours. 
). So in another day I will give this a try after I get done with work. The more I think about it the more I think all shots for all ranged classes should be instant. Or at least a decent percentage. Casters often have aoe or ways to disable that cannot miss so it is fine for them to have projectiles that are not instant. But this goes beyond the scope of this addon of course. Updates sound great. Looking forward to giving it another try!