Skills are nice but...

The real treat is the various tweaks and balance changes!

Melee power bonus for weapon skills!
Pedantic Beating... yikes!
Hold on... Nice Combo is even crazier!
Dodge is Dodgier!

Shield Bearer - more , and Shield Bash no longer scales with magic power! (Text says it scales with stubbornness, but dredmorpedia says it scales with ... which is correct?)

Broadsides! I can't believe I love it even more! (Though it still scales with instead of .)

 

This is how i feel about the DLC-- the huge changes to make melee more power and balanced compared to Wizard builds are great

New monsters for some neglected damage types, also. Acid damage clones, existential ravens, etc come to mind.

 

<effect type="damage" affectsCaster="1" blastingF="0.35" crushingF="0.25" primaryscale="3" crushing="8" blasting="8" />

 

I don't understand what information this is supposed to convey...

 

Scales with .

 

Ooh, I didn't even realise the changes other than Shield Bearer, I'm pleased with this! Might I ask though, is there a resource that shows exact changes? Knowing that, say, "CORE: Astrology: Made it a generally more appealing skill line." is nice, but reading the code to find out little things is a bit beyond me...

 

"spellDB.xml" and "skillDB.xml" files in the appropriate folder.

 

You're welcome!

(Most of the XML changes with YHTNTEP are from the Essential Skills Rebalances, which were my 'hidden' contribution to the DLC. There are XML changes that aren't from me, and not all of my XML changes made it in (We'll miss you, Council's Gift!), but everything you mentioned is me. Check out Perception, sometime, too!)

 

I didn't notice any buffs to Tinkering, but I noticed that Philosopher of Axes (the final thing in axe trees) is also now an ability with some probably mean stuff attached to it, the third thing can now do Crippling Wounds, and a few things in the Smithing tree give and . I want to see some in Alchemy.

 

I had heard that much of that was your doing - thank you again!

So... what is the proper attribute Shield Bash now scales with?

 

I don't think I changed that, I think David changed that. But I'm pretty sure it's Crit Chance.

 

Killing Blow -> +50 damage.

 

Well, it lives up to it's name now, at least, Null.

So, Essence, do I have you to thank for Not Dritz giving a whopping 10 to counter?
Because if so, thank you for making all Dual-wield classes now God-like.

 

That would be me, yup.

 

I like to think of that change more as "There is a reason to put points into Dual-Wield"

 

There was always a point to doing that. It's my favorite skill. Now it's even more awesome.

Thank you, Essence.

 

I'm kind of bewildered as to all the buffs to the melee trees myself. Swords + Dual Wield literally broke lategame melee before, now you can hit 100% counter even more easily. I can understand the logic behind the way some existing bonuses were redistriubted (some levels in dual wield and weapon trees were practically dead levels before) but some of the new bonuses seem kind of over the top.

I do suppose the dungeon has gotten a little bit more dangerous lately... maybe it's more justified than I'm giving it credit, guess I'll see the next time I play a pure melee character.

 

Because mages >>>>>>>>>>>>> melee to start with, so buffing melee then buffing the dungeon is more sensible than nerfing mages then nerfing the dungeon.

 

So, what exactly does Clockwork Threshing do?

Edit: Looks like it simply grants you an additional attack, is that so?

 

Yup.