No Clever Name
A balancing and reworking module aimed at stabilizing hero power levels and providing clear positioning for some heroes.
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A balancing and reworking module aimed at stabilizing hero power levels and providing clear positioning for some heroes.
No Clever Name - Hero Balance and Remake Mod
🎮 **Feel that some heroes in "Darkest Dungeon" are too strong or too weak? ** The No Clever Name mod aims to bring a new balancing solution to heroes! Some overly prominent heroes were slightly nerfed, while others received massive reworks. If your gaming experience feels a little unbalanced, this mod will help bring some of the old heroes back to life!
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✨ Mod Highlights
- **Comprehensive Balance**: Adjusted the basic attributes and skill effects of almost all heroes.
- **Character Positioning**: Designed to give each hero a clearer combat positioning and gameplay.
- **Continuous Updates**: The module is still in the testing stage and the author will update it based on feedback.
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📜 Detailed update log (v0.97)
**General changes**
- **Crit**: The critical hit rate growth curve of all skills has been rebalanced, and now steadily increases by 0.5% per level.
- **Stun**: Resistance after being stunned is increased (from 20% to 50%).
**Hero specific changes**
The following is a summary of key adjustments to some heroes:
**🏹Arbalist**
- **Basic damage and speed adjustment**.
- **Sniper Shot**: Extra damage reduced.
- **Sniper Mark**: Reworked into "Mark Shot", which can be launched from position 3/4 and marks the enemy after hitting it.
- **Suppressive Fire**: Debuff chance now scales with level, allowing debuffs to be applied even on misses.
- **Bola**: Now has a chance to reduce the target's dodge and speed.
- **Battlefield Bandage**: Now also relieves a small amount of pressure and cures poisoning/bleeding, and no longer provides a healing bonus.
- **Flash Bang**: Dodge buff increased, now buffs and clears stuns/marks for all allies.
**💰 Bounty Hunter**
- **Target Marker**: Increases the bounty hunter's speed and accuracy when used.
- **Hook, uppercut, execution, flashbang** and other skills can now mark the target or cause additional damage to the marked target.
**⚔️ Crusader**
- The maximum damage of basic attacks and the base health are slightly reduced.
**👻Grave Robber**
- **Throwing Knife**: Now applies a small amount of bleed.
- **Throwing Dagger**: The accuracy bonus provided has been greatly increased.
- **Poison Dart**: Base damage increased, poison resistance debuff removed.
- **Poison Trick**: Now provides bonus damage and critical strike chance, and grants a poisoned riposte, but with a slowing side effect.
**😈 Barbarian (Hellion)**
- The base damage is reduced, but the base damage ratio of multiple skills is increased.
- **Barbarian Exhaustion** (Shared by Savage Roar, Breakthrough, and Bleeding): Now has greater damage and accuracy debuffs.
- **Breakthrough**: Now it can only be used from positions 1 and 2.
**🔫 Highwayman**
- Base maximum damage reduced.
- **Gunshot Burst**: Damage, accuracy, and critical hit rate have been reduced.
**🐕 Houndmaster**
- Base damage increased.
- **Dog Food**: Attack damage bonus reduced.
- **Hound Raid**: now triggers on a universal mark instead of a handler-specific mark.
- **Howl**: Pressure healing now always takes effect, at a reduced value, but provides a damage buff to the user.
**🎭 Jester**
- The position movement logic of multiple skills has been changed.
- **Solo**: Greatly enhanced effect, now marks itself and gives a counterattack with weak stun.
- **War Song**: Provides increased accuracy and critical strike buffs, and now also heals stress.
- **Inspiring Tune** has been replaced by the new skill **Dissonance**.
**🛡️Other Heroes**
- **Leper Swordsman, Veteran**: Weapon speed adjusted to be on par with other heroes.
- **Occultist**: **Alien Repair**'s bleed chance and damage are fixed.
- **Plague Doctor**: The target position, damage, poisoning/bleeding effects, accuracy, etc. of multiple skills have been significantly adjusted and optimized.
- **Nun**: Base damage twea …
Install & use Install: follow the bundled instructions
- Unzip the archive from playbuff and read the bundled readme / instructions first.
- There is no universal mod manager for this game: some mods replace game files directly, some go into a game-specific Mods folder, and some need a game-specific community loader or tool first — follow the bundled readme.
- Place the files exactly as the readme says; mods with listed dependencies need those installed too.
- Launch the game to confirm it loaded; some games require enabling mods in settings or an in-game mod menu.
Install locations vary a lot between games and mods — the bundled readme is the most reliable guide.