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A rebalancing mod designed to fine-tune many weapons and equipment, allowing for more diverse and satisfying builds without significantly changing the overall feel of the game.

Elden Ring Re-Tarnished

✨ **A subtle game balance mod that makes every choice more valuable** ✨

🎯Mod Concept

This mod aims to rebalance many of the game's forgotten weapons, talismans, and mechanics (such as poisons or holy damage) to make certain strategies more satisfying to use, but without overly enhancing or completely changing gameplay like other balance/overhaul mods.

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🛠️ Installation method

• Download the .zip file from the Download tab
• Unzip it into your Mod Engine 2.0 folder
• Use "launchmod_eldenring.bat" to launch the module

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⚙️ General adjustments

🔧 Weapon upgrade cost

• **Normal Forged Stone** upgrade cost reduced from 2/4/6 per level to 1/2/4
• *Allows early game more freedom to try different weapons and less worry about saving forge stones for your primary weapon*

🎁 Increased drop rate

• **Rare weapons/armor** drop chance doubled
• *Reduce the need to spawn monsters during normal gameplay*

🏪 Merchant adjustment

• **Twin Crones** now sell Teardrop Hatchlings for 20,000 runes each

🛡️ Talisman optimization

• **Balachin's Blessing** no longer passively reduces health by 5% in the inventory

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📿 Talisman reworked

💧 Magic Amber Amulet

• Effect increased from 7/9/11% to 15/18/21%
• *Let the +2 version provide FP equivalent to at least 5 points of mental attributes*

🌱 Magic Seed Talisman

• Effect increased from 20% to 100%
• *Guaranteed to fully restore mana in rare cases*

💚 Green Amber Amulet

• Effect increased from 11/13/15% to 20/25/30%
• *This improvement makes it more competitive compared to the Green Turtle Talisman*

⚖️ Adjustment of sealing talisman

• **Radagan's Brand/Erotic Brand** only reduces physical damage reduction by 10/15%
• **Malika's Brand/Corruption Brand** only reduces elemental damage reduction by 10/15%
• **Malika's Brand of Corruption** now drops earlier in Sunshade City on the Yatan Plateau.

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🛡️Defense Amulet

🐉 Dragon Emblem Talisman

• **Dragon Emblem Shield Amulet +2** Physical damage reduction slightly reduced from 17% to 15%
• **Dragon Emblem Great Shield Talisman** now also reduces physical attack power by 6%
• *Gives players more options to consider other talismans*

🐚 Pearl Dragon Emblem Amulet

• Effect increased from 5/7/9% to 9/12/15%

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⚔️ Attack Talisman

🦅 Claw Emblem

• Damage slightly reduced from 15% to 12%
• *Gives more space for other talismans*

🪓 Ax Emblem

• Damage increased from 10% to 15%

🔄 Double-headed sword emblem

• Damage slightly increased from 45% to 50%

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🧪Elixir adjustment

❤️ Red Dettol

• **Crimson Overflow Crystal Drops** now also heal 10% of max health that would normally be left empty

💙 Blue Dettol

• **Blue Crystal Dew Drops** In addition to the normal effect of restoring 50% FP, each one also provides +10% maximum FP

💨 Feng Jing Dew Drops

• No longer reduces damage reduction by 15% when activated

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👑 Big Rune Enhancement

🔄 Big Rune Reserved

• All major runes are no longer removed when entering NG+
• *Allows you to continue using rune builds that are usually found later in the game*

🏰Grek's Big Rune

• Now also increases all resistances by 50 points and toughness by 25%
• *Let Grek's runes find their place in the mid-to-late game*

🐍 Rakad’s Big Rune

• The health recovered from a kill is increased from 7% of maximum HP + 80 fixed HP to 10% of maximum HP + 100 fixed HP.
• *At 1900 HP, each kill restores 290 HP instead of 213 HP*

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🔮 Spell adjustment

🐲 Longfeng Prayer

• All Intelligence/Faith and Wisdom requirements for **Dragon Feast** and **Platinum Magic** are swapped
• *Make them more usable against induction-focused builds*

🌹 Thorn Magic

• All **Thorn Magic** now have a Wisdom requirement instead of a Faith requirement …