I was going to ask the same thing that Steffire3 did.  Enchantments are pretty much necessary to advance to the higher leveled gear.  With Boris specific enchantments, meeting the stat requirements should be attainable.  But it does cost money which is what Viz brings up.

If you play LAO III the same way you do vanilla, you will struggle.  With vanilla there is no penalty for advancing to fast in the game.  And it was too easy for my tastes at the start of the game.  Hence the changes.  It is more difficult no doubt.

It will require a bit of loot farming at lower levels to get enough loot sell to purchase the enchantments.  If you just roll through the content and never repeat any of it, you will lag behind in gear and then start to struggle with obtaining loot and killing monsters.  Run some Mapwork Maps, that is a great way to get loot or cherry pick a boss dungeon and re-roll your game a few times and farm that.

Not saying there isn't some balancing that can be done, because I probably need to balance this aspect of the game out a bit.  But I haven't had too many issues getting gear/enchantments with my lower level characters.  But it is more difficult no doubt.

Thanks R!  Here are the 2 items...

Thanks Phan!

Try them now, I think I fixed the issue.  I had to adjust the Fists Range and Attack Range to match other 1 handed melee weapons to prevent this from happening when dual wielding them together.

Couple updates

4/06/2017 Update

Item Changes

2H Throwing Axes
- Added a "homing" effect to the throwing axe effect (helps to counter weapon weakness)
- Shift is no longer needs to be held down to throw axe
- Weakness: Up close targets will be hard to hit

1H Throwing Axes
- Shift is no longer needs to be held down to throw axe

Staffs
- Shift is no longer needs to be held down to fire weapon

All Weapons
- Minimum Attack Range now equals Maximum Attack Range on all weapons
- This improves the ability of all weapons to be able to attack at their maximum range without needing to hold shift down

Shields
- Removed inherited block% bonus


4/7/2017 Update

Mod Changes

LAO III Part 1 is NOT required to use Part 2 anymore

But removing Part 1 can cause you to lose items, if you try to play a character with those items. If you don't load that character and install Part 1 at a later time, the items will be retained.

Part 2 includes items 1-99 and 500-999 (Levels 1-99 are required to override the vanilla settings of items)

If you remove Part 1 from your Mod Load, items between Levels 100 and 499 can vanish if a character with those items is loaded.

Quote from: RnF on April 05, 2017, 05:33:17 pm

Steps to increase the scale of a specific weapon in GUTS

Would this technique be able to adjust the hit range of the modified weapon based on its size?

Btw, great tut! Adding visual aides would be perfect for those who happen to just stroll by our forums.

This would not change the range of the item, that is done like Phanjam said, but it is pretty easy to set via the item editor.  If it's a bow, rifle or some other ranged item, the range would have to be changed in the Particle Missile since it has a set range that will override the weapons.

I will see what I can do about that tutorial.  Still exploring a few things, but it will get done.

you can do it very simply through the unit editor lol
it has a weapon scale and even a shield scale option

Are you referring to the Unit Player Editor?  That would scale every weapon.  As far as I can tell, those scale options do not exist in the Item Editor to scale one specific item.

If you use

<FLOAT>WEAPON_SCALE

or

<FLOAT>SCALE

The item will scale properly when it is on the ground, but the moment you equip it, it goes back to the original size.

I know this subject has come up a few times over the years.  Not sure I have seen a GUTS solution before so here it is.  This solution does not change the actual mesh file, I believe you would need 3D software for that.  It just creates a .layout file that will override the mesh file of the weapon.


Steps to increase the scale of a specific weapon in GUTS

1. Open Item Editor within GUTS - Find the item/weapon you want to scale

2. At the top left of the item editor, Click on the Magnifying Glass (Mesh Viewer)

3. Under the Properties area (right hand side) find the "Mutators" Options and change Scale X, Scale Y and Scale Z to what you want to resize

4. Save the file to your mod folder. This will create a .layout file that can be attached to the weapon that will replace the mesh file with the resized version.

5. Attach the new .layout file to the item in the Item Editor under the "Attached Layout" area with the media file path... ie MEDIA/MODELS/WEAPONS/AXES/AXE02.LAYOUT

6. Save the weapon. And you are done!

Screen shot of re-sized weapon done in this manner
https://www.screencast.com/t/RReSncqoYleJ

Update: 3/30/2017

Part 2 is officially released! Part 2 extends items from Level 500 to 999

Part 1 is required to play Part 2 - load times will be slow with both mods installed, just a warning (up to 5 minutes).

Part 1 - Steam
Part 2 - Steam
Part 1 and 2 - Non Steam