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I have long been considering doing a stat rewrite for synergies.  I already have wolpaks stat alterations from back before guts in the mod.  And while I like where it went, I think we could do a better job with the experience of time we have gained since then.I was talking to RNF today about how he is working on moving crit chance off of dexterity and adding ranged weapon damage instead, and I was commenting how at end game synergies Strength adding Critical damage bonus is excessively op'n damage outputs when coupled with end game gear, socketables and soulcrafting options.As well as following my own testing with diminishing returns.I came up with the idea that if a few modders are making stat changes to their mods, myself included, maybe we can come to some consensus and do the same changes between our mods, or at least close to, so people using combination of mods only get smaller alterations per mod.  I am not thinking everyone will agree on something as subjective of this topic.  But we can look at what runic has, and see if we can make some universal upgrades for those who want them, and help each other make more personal upgrades as needed.What do you guys think? 

I erased it and reinstalled, same thing.. alas it is likely just this computer.  The others are too slow comparably thou to bother using I can deal with it.. just more compiling to be done.

I hate how my PNG is always out of scale in guts.. meh

For the big red devil manticore in synergies I just used this:   <STRING>TEXTURE_OVERRIDE:media\models\monsters\manticore\MANTICORE_AG01.DDSwas attack gorilla's skin, I just put the DDS in that there directory and made sure it pointing at it.

I believe the proc is actually working as intended.The target_unittype doesn't stop the layout from firing, it simply stops the damage from taking effect.  In a proc it is very difficult to tell what is going on even in the combat log with a pure damage proc.eitherway, it works.Oh and the stat deduction fires regardless, I will be moving all of that to TRIGGER_UNITHIT instead of TRIGGER_START...

So i did a test with my thorn rapid fire skillusing the unittype_target:Target_eliteworks fine, it misses everything.What is interesting thou is that it still fires the skill, MAYBE what I am seeing isn't a bug, the skill is still firing the layout and graphic, but it is not effecting the non_elite monsters..  its hard to read the combatlog correctly .. so I am going to add a    <BOOL>REQUIRES_TARGET:1to the procs and see if that does anything.

not to take over the arena thread...so I can't for the life of me get my target_unittype to work correctly.Here is what is set up and why I am confused on what I am missing:Unittype: TARGET_ELITEQuote[TARGET_ELITE]<STRING>NAME:TARGET_ELITE[/TARGET_ELITE]unittype:  MONSTER_ELITEQuote[MONSTER_ELITE]<STRING>NAME:MONSTER_ELITE<STRING>child:MONSTER<STRING>child1:CHARACTER<STRING>child2:ANY<STRING>child:TARGET_ELITE[/MONSTER_ELITE]The base skill applies affixes to the playerQuote[SKILL]   <STRING>NAME:RANGER_NATURE_GIANTKILLER   <TRANSLATE>DISPLAYNAME:Giant Killer   <STRING>SKILL_ICON:icon_turnevil   <STRING>SKILL_ICON_INACTIVE:icon_turnevil_grey   <STRING>ACTIVATION_TYPE:NORMAL   <STRING>TARGET_ALIGNMENT:GOOD   <STRING>TARGET_TYPE:SELF   <STRING>ANIMATION:special_gen_buff   <STRING>MANA_COST_GRAPH:MANACOST_BIG   <FLOAT>MANA_GRAPH_SCALE:1.3   <FLOAT>SPEED:2   <INTEGER>COOLDOWNMS:1500   <FLOAT>TURNRATEOVERRIDE:-1   <STRING>REQUIREMENT_GRAPH:SKILLTIER6   <BOOL>DUELWIELD_REQUIRED:1   <BOOL>CAN_BE_SILENCED:0   <INTEGER>MAX_INVEST_LEVEL:15   <INTEGER64>UNIQUE_GUID:-2080130591739349721   [LEVEL1]      [EVENT_START]         <STRING>FILE:media/skills/ranger/nature_giantkiller/giantkiller_cast.layout         <BOOL>ATTACHES:1         <BOOL>APPLYEFFECTS:1         [AFFIXES]            <INTEGER>AFFIXLEVEL:1            <STRING>TARGET:SELF            <STRING>AFFIX:RANGER_NATURE_GIANTKILLER_1         [/AFFIXES]      [/EVENT_START]   [/LEVEL1]these affixes assign a 'cast spell when skill strike'Quote[AFFIX]   <STRING>NAME:RANGER_NATURE_GIANTKILLER_1   <INTEGER>RANK:0   <INTEGER>MIN_SPAWN_RANGE:0   <INTEGER>MAX_SPAWN_RANGE:100   <FLOAT>DURATION:0   <INTEGER>WEIGHT:0   <INTEGER>SLOTS_OCCUPY:0   [EFFECT]      <STRING>NAME:RANGER_NATURE_GIANTKILLER_ELITE_1      <STRING>ACTIVATION:DYNAMIC      <STRING>DURATION:5      <STRING>TYPE:CAST SKILL ON SKILL STRIKE      <STRING>STATMODIFYNAME:EFFECT LEVEL      <STRING>STATMODIFYPERCENT:100      <BOOL>EXCLUSIVE:true      <BOOL>MODIFIERISBONUS:true      <FLOAT>MIN:3      <FLOAT>MAX:3   [/EFFECT][/AFFIX]these affixes fire this skill on triggeringQuote[SKILL]   <STRING>NAME:RANGER_NATURE_GIANTKILLER_ELITE_1   <TRANSLATE>DISPLAYNAME:GiantKiller ELITE   <STRING>SKILL_ICON:icon_turnevil   <STRING>ACTIVATION_TYPE:NORMAL   <STRING>TARGET_UNITTYPE:TARGET_ELITE   <FLOAT>RANGE:20   <INTEGER>COOLDOWNMS:500   <FLOAT>FINDTARGETANGLE:360   <FLOAT>TURNRATEOVERRIDE:-1   <BOOL>HIDDEN:1   <BOOL>INTERRUPTABLE:1   <BOOL>CAN_BE_SILENCED:0   <INTEGER64>UNIQUE_GUID:7045692403799360456   [LEVEL1]      <STRING>TARGET_UNITTYPE:TARGET_ELITE      [EVENT_START]         <STRING>FILE:media/skills/ranger/nature_giantkiller/giantkiller_hit.layout         <FLOAT>WEAPONDAMAGEPCT:150         <BOOL>ATTACHTOTARGET:1         <BOOL>DAMAGESHAPES_HIT_ONCE:1         <BOOL>APPLYEFFECTS:1         <INTEGER>MAX_UNITS_HIT:1         [EFFECTS]            <STRING>TARGET:SELF            [EFFECT]               <STRING>NAME:RANGER_NATURE_TREE               <STRING>ACTIVATION:DYNAMIC               <STRING>DURATION:INSTANT               <STRING>TYPE:ADD STAT               <FLOAT>MIN:-2               <FLOAT>MAX:-2               <FLOAT>CHANCE:100            [/EFFECT]         [/EFFECTS]      [/EVENT_START]   [/LEVEL1]   [STATWATCHER]      <STRING>STAT:RANGER_NATURE_TREE      <STRING>PRIMARY_TARGET_TYPE:SELF      <STRING>SECONDARY_TARGET_TYPE:VALUE      <STRING>WATCH_TYPE:GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO      <FLOAT>SECONDARY_VALUE:2   [/STATWATCHER][/SKILL]right now this proc hits everythingthere was this line just after the add stat -2, which I have removed Quote         [AFFIXES]            <INTEGER>AFFIXLEVEL:1            <STRING>TARGET:ENEMY            <STRING>AFFIX:RANGER_COMBAT_BLEED_DAMAGE_10         [/AFFIXES]but even with that the skill shouldn't have been firing against normal monsters or target dummies.

strange, doesn't work for me.I'll figure out tomorrow, gotta sleep!

NOTE ON USING TARGET UNITTYPE.it will not work the way you want if you use the method I tried first:TARGET_UNITTYPE: MONSTER_ELITEwhen unittype is:[MONSTER_ELITE]<STRING>NAME:MONSTER_ELITE<STRING>child:MONSTER<STRING>child1:CHARACTER<STRING>child2:ANY[/MONSTER_ELITE]This will attack any monster due to the inheritance of monster in child.now if you goTARGET_UNITTYPE: TARGET_ELITE and this is your unittype:[MONSTER_ELITE]<STRING>NAME:MONSTER_ELITE<STRING>child:MONSTER<STRING>child1:CHARACTER<STRING>child2:ANY<STRING>child:TARGET_ELITE[/MONSTER_ELITE]this ... works because TARGET_ELITE has no inheritance of monster.just testing it to make sure I am correct, but when i was using MONSTER_ELITE as my target, it would hit anything and wolven showed me one of his his unittypes which the only difference was his blue/red on the bottom.

Naah it doesn't matter what mod I load, the in editor test game window will not display affixes, effects or stats.truly annoying.  But then again I was always use to not having the window to test the mod anyways, so I get by.

Quote from: gytfunke on 05 Sep, 2014 17:43So, as it is now, with the overhaul you're doing (and assuming you remove flat damage bonuses), we have this situation:--Sword and board gets 2 items worth of affixes and 100% dps.  AND some defense from a shield.--Dual wielding gets 2 items worth of affixes and 100% dps.  And a little extra DPS from execute which is now a stat they have to gear for.--Greatweapons get 1 item worth of affixes and ~150% dps (or however high you set it).  And, like wolven said, greater arc, secondary damage and range.  And higher base damage, but that'll be unimportant if you change out flat armor for percent damage reduction.On paper, I think having double the weapon affixes when dual-wielding helps to make it pretty much equal to using a greatweapon that only gets 1 item worth of affixes.  Also, dual-wielding doesn't have 100% more affixes than two-handers.  I think we have to count all the affixes a character can have on their armor as well.  You have 12 item slots total, but the armor and jewelry slots don't get as many or as good of affixes as the weapons, so let's count them for 1/2 (this is a total guess, if you know the actual ratio, I'd love to know it).  So you have 7 'weapons' worth of affixes if you use two one-handers or sword and board, or you have 6 'weapons' worth of affixes.  If this is all correct, then it's more like a character using two-handers has 15% less affix value than one who's dual-wielding.The only issue with counting armor affixes is that all 3 weapon styles get the same amount of armor affixes, so your still back to the differences being the weapons.   In synergies I made the 2handers have a higher rarity modifier to account for the loss of affixes, and the uselessness of heavy hitting 2handers with DPS using skills.  (not completely useless but not as good as 1hander/dual wield in DPS skills vs WEAPON DAMAGE skills)There are good weapon damage skills out there as well which negate that argument but back to ... rarity modifier.For what I have seen and the feedback I have gotten on this it worked well for me, the extra affixes and the way dual wielding works is huge detriment to two handed weapons in vanilla TL2 unless you find a good 'weapon damage' skill.

While your doing this you might have to reconfigure which graphics are used at what stage of the game..there are a lot that can be altered and used with this idea, its definitely one way to add uniqueness, one thing I personally would caution thou is making too many of them class restricted.. Why can't a berserker wear cloth and be a mage, or a mage wear heavy.. of course they might not WANT to wear them, but you might find reasons where you do want to sometimes.

Wondering if any of you have this problem or not.A long time ago my guts would display skills with their affixes and effects correctly.  The skills would work as intended.  Somewhere around a year ago this stopped working.  now when I go into the 'test game' window all my skills show as having no affixes attributed to them, and anything the skill does beyond generating missiles and particles does not work.It makes it very very tiring and cumbersome to test things like triggerables and skill powers as I have to build the mod each time, and synergies is well over 24000 files now and takes long enough to not want to do constantly.And so my question is...  has anyone ever had this problem before?  Do your guts play test windows show your effects and stats?  Even running the "Player effect and stat watcher" my triggerables aren't being registered.  I think its a localized issue and have even reinstalled GUTS to see if I could fix it at one point.Alas..  it hates me I think.

well, I took the leap, and hopefully I can be of use I likely should have registered a long time ago but I am rather 1 track minded at times and am spread over enough social media / forums to rot your brain early.been talking to Gytfunke and RNF a lot lately and its about time that I register and offer what I can around here.  I'll have the odd question sometimes I am sure as well.Either way, if you ever want to get hold of me the easiest route is steam.  http://steamcommunity.com/id/synergies/Salan