This is why I always used icons off this website!

https://www.hiveworkshop.com/repositories/icons.541/

Made just for other people to use and there are a whole lot of good ones. I think some are ripped from Blizzard games, so avoid those, but most are solid.

I'll look into these hopefully this weekend. I'd like to go through and do some extensive weapon updates/additions as well, but I probably won't get around to that for a little while. I'll probably put together a big bundle patch to push out eventually while periodically targeting reported bugs as soon as I see them.

I need to try and reinstall 3dsmax again too. Dunno why it kept failing to launch, but I did a complete registry purge so maybe it will work now. If so, I should be able to use the plugins that Runic provided to do some additional animation changes as well.

Nah, it's just a little side project I'll work on.

I'm glad my suspicion about that bokken was accurate. Thanks for fixing that.

I still can't seem to replicate that vicious slash error. Does it do it at level 1 for you guys, or at a certain point investment?
Nevermind, I just got it to happen. I think I didn't notice the problem earlier because I didn't read where it only happens for the Steam version & I was testing with the RGFS version. I find it very weird that it only happens for this version. This will take some investigation.

Nevermind, I figured it out. For some reason, all the necessary skill data within the RONIN\SIDE_KICK folder is missing for the Steam version (See attached images). If you just unzip the attached contents to the Steam SKILLS\RONIN\SIDE_KICK folder, it should fix the problem.

Yeah, I just cannot figure out how to reproduce the vicious slash error, but I did notice that the skill tree is laid out pretty chaotically. I'll start working on rearranging the skill tree & maybe I'll stumble over what is causing this bug.

I also noticed that the character select idle animation has the swords stabbing into the Ronin's head. I was thinking it may be worthwhile to change that animation up.

That oakwood.jpg is associated with the Boken swords under _GREATSWORD & is linked to the Kensei character creation due to the starting weapon being the nodachi_00_start. My suspicion would be something to do with the mesh, but I can't verify. Not entirely sure why the jpeg would cause a problem since the mesh should be linked to the *.dds files, but this is the only thing I can think of.

One possible easy fix is to do what the attached image shows.

Also, there are several polearm models loaded into the mod already that can meet the expectations desired (and I'm not entirely sure we ever added them to loot tables).  \MODELS\WEAPONS\POLEARMS & \MODELS\WEAPONS\_POLEARMS

I'll start adding great hammers to all monk skills as well.
@Phanjam
I think I pretty much cleared out that to-do list tonight. No need to worry.
Check attached MONK.rar for all replacement monk skills. They now have updated requirement descriptions & addition of 2HMACE.
Check attached KENSI.rar for all replacement Kensei skills. They now have updated requirement descriptions, replaced all instances of "Sword" with "Blade" & addition of Polearms.
Check attached KENSEI_PLAYER.rar for replacement Kensei units for updated class description; however, I did not change the starting weapons.

This takes care of WM_1, K_1, K_3, K_4, & K_5 if my attached image instructions correct the crashing bug.
Need further information on R_1. Vicious slash looks fine for me within GUTS. I'll have to download the game overnight and I'll verify in-game tomorrow whether I can duplicate this error.

I can help you with them toggle skills if you want. For the FEP toggles, I threw together the system we used based on something I saw forever ago on the TL2 forums - it may have been your customizable pet, but it's been so long that I can't remember.

does the skill effectively desummon the invisible pet and does it not effect other summoned pets/minions?

Yes it does desummon the pet and no, it doesn't affect other summons unless designed to.

I've used this setup to do some interesting things with skills I never got around to releasing. I had an entire class setup where the toggle skills would slowly drain health while toggled on, but each skill would provide some unique benefits/effects/skills/etc. I can send you whatever I had & you can rip it apart as well, if you want.

Oh, I should have removed those affixes from that folder. I removed the call to the affix from the Skill file entirely.

Leave the existing EVENT_START as is. Just change the EVENT_TRIGGER into a 2nd EVENT_START bracket. If I remember correctly, you can only have 1 layout per event bracket.