iskillzi's Darkest Dungeon Overhaul

This is a mod that adjusts various aspects of the game to rebalance it. Currently I think this mod makes the game slightly easier than the original, but I think I've done a good job with the balance adjustments to keep the game challenging and fun.

iskillzi's darkest dungeon overhaul

✨ **A lightweight overhaul mod designed to rebalance the gaming experience! ** It adjusts hero abilities, mission rules and item stacking, aiming to reduce the boring feeling of repeated missions while maintaining the core challenge and fun of the game.

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🎯 Core Goal

This mod fine-tunes several aspects of the game for rebalancing. It's a very light overhaul that mainly tweaks things like hero combat abilities without having a huge impact on actual gameplay/difficulty.

📜 Update log

• **Current version:** v1.0

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🚀 Quick Overview (TLDR)

• **Hero Ability Adjustments:** The combat abilities of various heroes have been enhanced, modified or weakened.
• **Retreat Penalty:** Abandoning a mission now has slightly heavier consequences.
• **Relaxed task level restrictions:** High-level heroes can perform lower-level tasks.
• **Item stacking adjustment:** Most of the stacking upper limits of gold coins, heirlooms and other items have been increased.
• **Light Effects Removed:** The effects related to the torch's increasing or decreasing light have been removed from all combat abilities.

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📖 Complete modification list

🏕️ **Campaign related adjustments**

• **Retreat Pressure Damage:** Increased** from 20 to 40.
• **Retreat to retain gold coins:** Reduced** from 100%** to 75%.
• *(This makes abandoning the mission more costly)*
• **Task level restrictions:** Level 3 heroes can now perform level 1 tasks, and level 5 heroes can perform level 3 tasks.
• *(Aimed to reduce the boring feeling of repeated tasks)*
• **Town Passive Stress Healing:** Increased from 5 points to 10 points.
• *(Makes the early game slightly easier and slightly reduces gold requirements)*

🦸 **Hero Ability Adjustment**

**GENERAL ADJUSTMENTS:**

• Removed the effects related to the torch's increase and decrease in light from **all** abilities.

**Specific hero changes (partial summary):**

• **Crossbowman (Arbalest):** The armor provides a small amount of blocking, sniper shot damage is increased and comes with debuffs, and the target position is adjusted.
• **Bounty Hunter:** Armor adjustments, bounty collecting and uppercut usage/target positions swapped to make it more flexible.
• **Crusader:** The armor has been adjusted, the damage of the Holy Spear has been slightly adjusted and it can attack targets closer to the front, and the healing amount of Inspirational Shout has been increased.
• **Grave Robber:** Shadow Fading now deals damage, Poison Darts adjusted to match Throwing Knives.
• **Barbarian (Hellion):** Armor block increased, dodge slightly decreased.
• **Highwayman:** Evil Slash hit rate increased, making it more useful.
• **Jester:** Death resistance increased to maintain uniqueness, Dagger Sting removes movement effect.
• **Leper Swordsman (Leper):** Armor block increase, dodge and health adjusted.
• **Man at Arms:** Armor block increased, dodge adjusted.
• **Nun (Vestal):** Armor block increased, dodge adjusted.

🎒 **Inventory adjustment**

**The stack sizes of the following items have been changed (mostly increased):**

• **💰 Gold coins: ** 1500 → **1750**
• **🖼️ Portrait: ** 3 → **6**
• **🗿 Bust: ** 6 → **4**
• **🏛️ Coat of Arms: ** 12 → **16**
• **📜 Land title: ** 6 → **12**
• **💎 All gems: ** 4 → **6** (Purple Relic and Trapezohedron: 1 → **3**)
• **⛏️ Shovel: ** 4 → **3**
• **🪵 Firewood: ** 1 → **2**
• **🔥 Torch: ** 8 → **6**
• **🍖 Dog food: ** 2 → **8** (for dog lovers!)
• *(These changes are intended to make upgrading faster and reduce the boring feeling of repeated grinding)*

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**💡 Usage Suggestions: ** This mod is ideal for players who find some of the original mechanics (such as high-level hero restrictions, item mana …