game balance

This mod completely rebalances the game, from difficulty to potions to the merchant economy system.

Hogwarts Legacy Game Balance

✨ **Comprehensive game balance overhaul! ** From difficulty adjustment, potion enhancement to merchant economy, we aim to bring a more challenging and strategic experience to your Hogwarts journey.

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🎯 Main quest level balance

• Increased the recommended level of main quests to encourage you to explore the Highlands throughout the seasons, rather than leaving everything until later in the game.
• **The following task levels remain unchanged:**
• All side quests (unless combined with main quests).
• All missions before you enter the secret room of the map for the first time.

💡 **For detailed changes, please visit: Mainquest Level Balance**

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⚔️Enemies and difficulty adjustments

• The highest enemy level can reach **45**.
• Completely changed the enemy level scaling mechanism.
• **Wolves** become extremely aggressive.
• **Commander, Captain** and other elite enemies are more aggressive.
• **All enemies attack speed increased**.
• Trolls have different levels of aggression.
• The attributes of small enemies have been improved.

*Introducing enemy level randomness (RNG):

• If the player level is lower than level 33: the enemy level fluctuates within ±2 levels.
• Player level is higher than level 33: Enemy level fluctuates from -1 to +3 levels.

**🎮 Difficulty recommendation:** It is recommended that ordinary players choose **Story or Easy** difficulty to progress. Advanced players can challenge **Normal or Hard** difficulty.

💡 **For detailed changes, please visit: Complete Enemy Balance**

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✨ Spell Balance

**Damage spells:**

• Damage reduced, sound effects on cast and hit more pronounced.
• **Expelliarmus** is now mainly used for disruption and has very low damage.

**Dark Magic (Curse):**

• **Cerotic Bone Evisceration**: Damage x2, duration reduced from 20 seconds to 6 seconds, cast and hit sound effects are huge.
• **Soul Out of Body**: Duration increased from 30 seconds to 45 seconds, **Unable to control XL or XXL enemies**. The cast is silent and the hit sound effect is low (a nod to Harry's operation in Gringotts 😉).
• **Avada Kedavra**: Range reduced by 20%, cast and hit sound effects are loud. (I thought about weakening its instant-kill effect, but it doesn’t make sense if the life-killing spell can’t kill lives)

**Force field spells:**

• The cast and hit sound effects are enhanced, the duration is shortened, and it is slightly more difficult to control the enemy.
• **Falling to the ground** Damage increased.

**Control spells:**

• The duration is reduced and it becomes more difficult to control the enemy.

**Basic spells:**

• **Armor Guard** Channel time reduced (casts faster).
• Stealth has a cooldown.
• **Araho Cave Opens** with sound effects.

*Basic attack damage increased.

💡 **For detailed changes, please visit: Complete Spell Balance**

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🛡️ Equipment balance

**Attribute level changes:**

• Maximum possible strength attribute reduced from 450 to 429.
• The proportion of attack and defense has been rebalanced, **damage is reduced and defense is slightly increased**.
• Now you really need to rely on **Equipment Traits**!

**Drop adjustment:**

*Equipment has a chance to drop with characteristics:

• Ordinary: about 1% (depends on luck!)
• Rare: 40%
• Epic: 25%
• Legend: 15%
• Legendary equipment may be dropped after being identified.
• Slightly increased the drop chance of identified epic equipment.

**Merchant Adjustments:**

*Inventory increase.

• (Price may be adjusted in next update)

💡 **For detailed changes, please visit: Gear Balance**

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🎮 Gameplay adjustments

**Potion:**

• Duration increased by up to **100%**.
• Potion slot: 8 / Healing slot: 15.
• The production cost has been greatly increased (400% except for troll and ooze liver, which is 100%), and the cost of healing potions has been increased by 100%.
• The potion merchant ha …