A true musketeer

This is a remake of the Musketeer class. Why? Because the original Musketeer only changed his skin! What a waste, right?

The real musketeer

🔥 **Why do you need this mod? **

The Musketeer class in the original Darkest Dungeon was just a reskinned character, with the same core mechanics as the Crossbowman. What a waste! This mod aims to completely remake the Musketeer, giving her unique skills, attributes, and gameplay to make her a truly unique class.

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✨ Overview of core changes

The mod makes a full range of adjustments to the Musketeers, including:

• **Basic Attribute Adjustment**: Health, damage, speed, and resistance have all been rebalanced.
• **Comprehensive remodeling of skills**: The effects, values ​​and mechanics of all skills have been modified to fit the role of a musketeer.
• **Accessory System Renovation**: All Musketeer exclusive accessories, up to the Scarlet Palace DLC accessories, have new effects.

🎯 Details of skill changes

**Basic Skills**

• **Aimed Shot**: The accuracy of all levels is reduced by 5%, and the critical hit rate is increased by 2%.
• **Shotshot**: Completely reworked! Now knocks back targets, has a high chance to stun, and deals additional damage to enemies in the **Corrosive** state.
• **Smoke Grenades**: No longer deals damage, but greatly increases the effect of reducing enemy accuracy (from 15-20% to 38-50%), and removes the effect of reducing critical hits.
• **Prepare for Volley** (formerly "Call to Fire"): Enemy row 1 can now be marked, and the marking effect becomes team-shared, no longer applying a debuff.
• **Poison-soaked target** (formerly "target shooting"): Completely reworked! Imagine poison-coated target shards piercing your enemies. Now deals a small amount of damage, but applies the **Corrosion** and "increased damage taken" debuffs.
• **Emergency Treatment**: Now available from row 2. The amount of treatment has been adjusted. It no longer increases the amount of treatment received, but instead can **cure the bleeding** effect.
• **Off-hand weapon**: Critical hit rate increased by 1% at all levels.

💎Accessories Remade

The effects of all Musketeer exclusive trinkets have been updated. Here are some examples:

• **Sturdy boots**: +15% movement resistance, +10% chance to stun skills.
• **vengeful boots**: +5% critical strike, -1 speed.
• ** bull's eye hat** (now **rare** quality): +3% critical strike, +4 accuracy.
• **Medic's boots** (now **rare** quality): +33% healing skill effectiveness, +1 speed, +3 dodge, -6 accuracy.
• **wrathful hat**: +20% damage to marked target, +10 dodge, +20% pressure.

**Scarlet Palace Jewelry**

• **Runner's Trophy**: +20% protection when health is above 50%, +20% damage when below 50%, -15% pressure.
• **Silver Rifle Bullets**: +6 accuracy, chance to apply **Corrosion** when attacking (2 damage/round, lasts 3 rounds, 140% chance).
• **Set Bonuses** (when equipped with two pieces at the same time): +10% Protection, +3 Speed, +20% chance to debuff skills.

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📜 Update log summary

• **Version 1.2**:
• Improved shotgun accuracy at all levels.
• Adjusted shotgun critical hit chance.
• Critical hits now provide +10 accuracy to the Musketeer (instead of increasing damage to marked targets).
• "Call to Fire" renamed to "Ready to Fire", becomes a team marker and has no debuff.
• "Bike Shooting" has been renamed to "Poison Dipped Target".
• **Version 1.1**:
• Further adjusted the value of shotgun.
• **Version 1.0**:
• Implemented all core changes mentioned above.

⚠️ **IMPORTANT NOTE**: After installation, please run the `localization.bat` file in the `localization` folder of the module to ensure that the skill name changes are displayed correctly.

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🎮 **Game experience**

After the remake, the Musketeer has transformed from a pure long-range shooter to a character with more tactical depth and both field control and explosive power. She can protect her teammates with smoke grenades, control the front line with canopy …