Everything scales much more smoothly, consistently, and intuitively. Bows & daggers ain't crap anymore. Heavy armor is now worth a damn. Shields are awesome too. Fashion Salts™ is now a thing. Twisted Heart & Drowned Tome now farmable. Amber Idols less scarce. Spells & prayers reviewed. Carsejaw no longer sucks (so bad).
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Changelogs
Version 2.0.3
Dark Swarm wrong creed fix
Armor Mite poise 60 > 80
Cave Keeper poise 50 > 80
Divine Blessed Weapon cost 40 > 50
Roots: Bloated Monstrosity x1 > Retchfeeder x3
Nomad: Stained Page after Lake Witch > Wyrm
Warhammer: missing poise dmg
Axe of Splendor: missing slide, fixed wt (7 > 8)
Trinity Scepter: fixed speed (still "fast swinger" compared to peers)
Version 2.0.2
Prayer rank & devotion rewards adjusted a bit better to progression
Forgotten King & Carsejaw slightly better elemental resistances
Iron Ones stock Kureimoa again
Golem armor set after Skourzh
Blacksmith's Apron +3 STR
Soldier's Spear gained slide
Flint & Steel a bit better
Other minor tweaks
Version 2.0.1
Missing Armor Guardian's Ashes
Fix to mage NPC's incantation shop crash
Devotion rewards improved to match rank/progression
Searing Manacle and Hellfire Arbalest added to Fire & Sky
Small balance pass to class 3 magic (Flamestar & Lit. Bolt notably)
Small balance pass to shields, notably Tower Shields less heavy, Type 46 rank down
Poison Cytoplasm drops all 5 basics (instead of red/blue *2)
Hellfire Arbalest rank up, Red Eclipse pure physical
Red Lord, Bloated Mons more salt
Beggar's set gold suits it best
Spiders higher poison resist
Iron Pot half less OP
Other minor tweaks
Version 2.0
Complete overhaul of original Resalted mod
Version 1.0.10
Added the 4 missing rings (Corroded, Humble, Stone, Heartspent) to respective NPCs, as per latest patch
Version 1.0.9
Silver Leaf drop added to Skullbat and Heartseeker
Frozen Doll drop moved from Skullbat to Heartseeker and Whisperlady
Charred Doll drop added to Blade Wraith
Frozen Locket drop added to Wrathful Dead and Drowned Porcelain
Charred Locket drop added to Wrathful Dead and Lepris
Enduring Skull drop added to Clay Hybrid
Diamond Cluster drop added to Saltfin Creature
Heavy armor chest pieces weights increased by 2 across the board
Grim Justacorps wt. 7 to 7.5
Iron Will Cleric NPC fix: now drops Stone Cleric as intended
Hanged Man HP cut further (75 to 50)
Kraekan Wyrm HP nerfed s'more (-100 to 800)
Tree of Men HP nerfed a smidgen for rounding (-20 to 1000)
That Stench Most Foul HP buffed s'more (+240 to 2800)
Untouched Inquisitor HP buffed s'more (+200 to 1800)
Third Lamb HP nerfed a chunk more (-400 to 1600) *hardest boss second to The Witch
Carsejaw the Lame HP buffed s'more (+300 to 2800) *redemption arc, when?
The Forgotten King HP buffed s'more (+280 to 2200)
The Nameless God blunt resist buffed from 0 to 90 (half of slash at 180 for comparison)
Fixed/standardized EVERY weapon/shield/armor gold costs (some leftover stuff from vanilla made no sense)
Quick pass to magic/prayer gold costs while at it
Version 1.0.8c
Split Manifers and Mirror Shield fix to upgrade values (from an old patch, now rolled into main file)
Quick patch: Jester's, Guide's, & Jute armor +3 WILL instead of +3 END (derp oversight)
Version 1.0.8
Rebalanced material monster drops (see spreadsheet): some items swapped "owners" whilst others were added in to fill gaps + drop rates increased (makes farming significantly less grindy)
Spells costs revised (see spreadsheet); probably close to final tweaks
Bound Arrox higher salt fix (past oversight) + removed "blind" AI flag (should help make it a bit more "engaging")
The Coveted is back to being purely STR (no longer holy) but demoted to class 4; Earthsplitter took the class 5 spot
Trinity weapons rebalanced: Scepter is class 3 now, Sword is class 4, Bardiche still 5 but nerfed (they remain holy)
Bonecrusher promoted to class 5 (as Earthsplitter above); Obsidian to 4 (to account for above change to Scepter)
Downscaled all spears' dmg due to reach + pierce multiplier (they are now a level lower than Swords, Axes, and Maces)
Soldier's Spear became class 1 (no longer on par with Pitchfork)
Headsman's Voulge & Tainted Ranseur (class 4) weights slightly higher, same goes for Saltreaver (class 5)
Reviewed Staves' weights (super tiny tweak, almost insignificant)
Corsair's Backsword is now transmutable (Drowned Peasant's Ear)
Blacksmith: Spatha + Backsword no longer sold (transmute)
Jaws of Death: fix Salt transmutation cost (oversight)
Light Armor weights increased a bit (not a huge difference)
Other pending changes coming...
Version 1.0.7c
Fix to Stone Mage preventing player from exiting Incantations menu (only affected The Three)
Fix to Split Sabatons (special flag oversight)
Revision: Flame Orbiters class (1 > 2)
Revision: removed STR +3 special from all class 4-5 heavy gloves
Fix: Branding Iron gold cost (51,500 > 15,000) **clearly dev oversight
Version 1.0.7b
Mage shop revision: Lgt Ball swapped back with Lgt Bolt; Lgt Ball double focus cost (I had made it too OP); plus other minor changes (should make spell acquisition still better); Ray of Searing also marginally more accessible
Version 1.0.7
Final (?) balance pass to Shields (makes upgrading more impactful; class 4+ stands out more); Boeotian & Umbral swapped places
Nomad sells new transmutation materials earlier (Drowned Idol after Kraekan Dragon)
Alde Griggs sells tier 1+2 Beast & Drowned materials (like Minty Skell does the other 3)
Reviewed Dried King's & Carsejaw's poise values again
Version 1.0.1
First quick pass at rebalancing Light Armors for more consistent/intuitive scaling
Tainted Armor set moved from Class 5 to 4; buffed Golem's Arms & Legs to make them feel a bit more Class 5 exclusive
Made Krakekan, Gangplank, Flayer, and Rampart Shields no longer droppable, now transmutable
Increased Lamb's & Witch's NERF a bit; increased Stench's & Carsejaw's BUFF some more
Tentative review of Shields' scaling/armor bonuses
Version 1.0.0
Release
Can't believe I'm saying this...
PSA: I'm ready (i.e. in the mood) to finally overhaul SALT & SACRIFICE right about now. It's gonna be an absolutely ginormous pain in the ovaries, but such is my martyrdom. This PSA is merely a call to action. I was working with someone on the programming side of things a few months back. We took a looooong break, and that someone has since been MIA.
I've got a 100% working tool that can unpack/repack (a) loot and (b) monsters, so that's all weapons, armor, monster stats/drops, item costs, and runic arts essentially "finished." However, I still need access to (c) dialogue for NPC shops, at the very least. I can also unpack (d) skilltree but not repack it, and it would be useful to tweak starting classes.
If you think you can help or wanna take a jab, leave a comment or contact me on Discord (link below)!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ — SALT & SANCTUARY: RESALTED —
Welp, there you have it...
I completely overhauled my overhaul.
Literally hundreds of (unpaid) hours of labor, playtesting, data-mining, spreadsheeting, fine-tuning, and painstakingly fixing everything all over again!
Everything should feel more intuitive, rewarding, and enjoyable now.
CHANGELOG
The changes are too numerous to list (might do it later). For now suffice to say everything has been overhauled and completely rebalanced:
- All weapons, shields, and armor sets - All upgrade and transmutation costs - All enemies stats and loot tables - All prayers and magic spells - All leader fetch quests - All devotion rewards - All merchant stocks - All NPC stocks - And more!*
*including but not limited to: listing every weapon/armor/shield special on the item in question, fixing Conduit of Mind's "locks minimum stamina" description, adding some fluff to Heartspent Ring (it was flavorless), and Rotten Crossbowman and Drowned Marauder getting ears!
Some hints/tips: - Rank up your creed, get more benefits - Browse your local merchant, mix things up a bit - Consider revisiting every NPC as you make progress (Minty, Griggs, Candlelit) - Horseheads for late-game Orders/Skulls, Bola Eyes for Charred/Frozen Reliquaries - And don't forget Fern - Potatoes!
WISHLIST - Make Dragonfire Great Again - Fix Crossbow aiming not working on PC - Cavalier Manifer & Sabatons use the same inventory image (same img ID) as Onyx counterparts - Crystal Sphere using Red Flask's sprite when you crush it - QOL: allow buying in stacks of 10 by left-clicking! - Bound Arrox running away from you as you approach - Having enemies stand on Hardlight after you "deactivate" it - The Coveted: one of the "ghosts" getting stuck on the edge of the screen - The Stench Most Foul: Stenchpods running to the edge of the screen and "dozing off" - Kraekan Wyrm occasionally jumping off the Castle to commit suicide - Nameless God's grab face-stomping you into the wall so f@cking hard that you can't unstuck yourself - Fix dying to "Mechanical Lever"/"Simple Sack" unable to retrieve Salt
