Slayer
New skill improving combat with two-handed weapons
About this mod Author’s original text
This mod aims to rebalance two handed weapons, putting them in the same ballpark as one handed weapons combined with a parrying shield.
In Vanilla the swings are slow, eat a lot of stamina, and don't really hit as hard as expected from a purely offensive stance.
Features
- Adds a skill called Slayer
- Each level of the skill raises two handed weapon damage by 0,25%. 25% increase at level 100.
- Each level of the skill lowers the pushback distance on being hit while attacking by 2%. Complete pushback immunity at level 50.
- Each level of the skill raises the stagger damage of twohanded weapons. By 50% at level 100 by default.
- All values can be configured and all features can be toggled on and off separately in the config file.
Installation
Use a mod manager, or drop the "plugins" folder from the zip into your Bepinex folder.
Compatibility
Compatible with EpicLoot. Not sure about other mods affecting weapon damage.
Issues
In case of any issues related to my mod, ping "Neithar" on this discord server:
Suggestions and improvement ideas are welcome.
Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial release, basic functionality.
1.0.1
- Added pushback resistance for the player while swinging two handed weapons, based on the skill level.
1.0.2
- Added configs for damage and pushback resistance.
- Lowered the default damage increase at level 100 from 50% to 25%, as 50% seemed excessive.
1.0.3
- Added a skill based Stagger Damage increase. 50% at level 100 by default. Configurable.
- The skill now only works with two handed swords, axes, clubs and polearms.
1.0.5
- Deep North compatibility
- Knockback resitance now also takes effect when blocking
Special Thanks
- Thanks to EpicLoot authors, their mod helped with coding my own.
- Thanks to the Jotunn and JotunnModStub creators, they made it very simple to get into Valheim modding.
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file. In multiplayer, the host and every client need the same mods installed.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: