Introduction

Hello! This small tutorial will show you how to invent and implent new affixes that can appear on all items. The process is simple, quick and has a world of possibilities.

I may assume you have some basic knowledge and overlook some manipulations. Feel free to tell me if anything is unclear.

Without further ado, let's get started.

I. Creating the affixes files

I. Create a first affix file charisma
Open your Art Manager. Select the Database tab and, on the right window, right-click  > New > Record. Double click on it, and when you will be prompted to choose its template, select LootRandomizer.tpl.

You can now begin to create your affix. Check the spoiler below for the parameters to edit. Parameters that are irrelevant will be omitted, as always.


Notice how you are not asked to define whether your affix is a prefix or a suffix. This is because the prefixes and suffixes are stored in different tables. You will see this below shortly.

II. Create multiple versions

Depending on what you have in mind, you might want to create upgraded versions of your affix (of Life < of Endurance < of Survival ...). Doing this is very simple, as you only have to copy and paste your .dbr the number of times you wish, rename the new .dbrs accordingly and make the needed changes, that is increase the power of the bonus, increase the cost and perhaps even a new name. Once your work is done, do not forget to build your .dbrs.


III. Include your affixes to tables

Now that your affixes are fully done, it is now time to include them in the affixes tables to finally make them appear on items from chests and merchants. To do so, you will need to import the needed tables. This is where they are located.

records\item\lootmagicalaffixes\... => for the Vanilla Game
records\xpack\item\lootmagicalaffixes\... => for the Immortal Throne Expansion
*Ragnarök does not have its own tables, therefore it uses the same as IT's.

From there, you will have to select if you want to add your affix to the prefix or suffix tables. With this exemple, I'll go with suffixes.

records\item\lootmagicalaffixes\suffix...
records\xpack\item\lootmagicalaffixes\suffix...

Thereafter, you select for what type of item it'll be. My suffixes will be exclusively for shields (but nothing prevents you from including it to swords and mage bracelets at the same time.)

records\item\lootmagicalaffixes\suffix\tablesshields...
records\xpack\item\lootmagicalaffixes\tablesshields...

Here you see the .dbr files that contain all possible affixes for specified category of items, for the difficulty X and the act Y. If I want to include it from the beginning to the end of the game, I'll need to import all the entirety of the two folders mentionned just above.

Open the files you just imported. You will see an array containing other affixes (or in this case, suffixes) that can drop. To include yours, all you need to do is to double-click on an empty space named "randomizerNameX" and insert the access path of the .dbr of your affix.


Just under, there should be a slot "randomizerWeightX". Here, input a flat number that will act as the odds for your affix to be selected by the table.

Keep on editing all the tables you have imported and build them when your work is done. Since those tables are the ones used by the original game, your work is now over, and your new affixes may now begin to appear.

Hi, I came up with a new idea for a mod, but accomplishing it will require to modify tons of .dbrs, and I figured it would be nice to have a "script" to run that would modify the the files I need and their parameters in the background, only I've never done it or know if it's even possible.

Anyone can enlighten me?

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Introduction

Hello! This guide will show you how to make bind skills to your own customized scrolls.

I may assume you have some basic knowledge and overlook some manipulations. Feel free to tell me if anything is unclear.

Without further ado, let's get started.

I. Creating the pictures

This step will require:

• Software for image-editing
  A custom scroll isn't truly "custom" without your own picture. To make one, you will need a software that edit images, such as Photoshop. If you don't own it, GIMP is a free software that will suffice for this task. MS Paint just won't cut it.
• Scroll canvas
  For this step, you will be required to make your own scroll drawings. You can use my canvas if you wish to:
  https://www.dropbox.com/s/5t8kgxmu40s4dur/scrolls_canvas.zip?dl=0[/i]

I. Load your canvas and draw a picture:
If you haven't used such software in the past, you should try out a few tools and experiment. Also, you may use some images as models to get the shape of an item just right. Anyways, we're not here to make work of art.

Save your files when you are done. Very important to save your pictures in .tga/.psd format! Those are the only formats the Art Manager can read.

II. Import your picture in your mod:
Open the Art Manager and select your mod. It will now be time to import your texture into your mod. Before importing it, I'd recommend creating a folder specifically for your custom textures. To do so, right-click on "name_of_your_mod/source > Create New Directory".

Now, select the matching folder, right-click, and select "Import...". Find your texture and select it. It should appear in the menu. Right-click it and choose Auto-Create Asset. You will be prompted to choose between Texture or Bitmap. Choose Bitmap, and proceed by pressing OK.


III. Build your texture:
Your texture isn't quite in your mod yet. You will need to visit the "Assets" tab, and seek your texture in the folder structure, wich should be the same as in your "Source" tab. Right-click on it and choose "Build". When that is done, build your mod by pressing F7. Your texture will now become usable in your mod.


II. Create the scroll

Procedure:

I. Create the scroll entry:

In the Art Manager, go to the Database tab. Determine wich folder will contain your scroll entries. At this place, create a new record with the template 'oneshot_scroll.tpl' if you wish to start from scratch or copy an existing scroll. Open your scroll file and modify the parameters as you see fit. Look at the spoiler below for a description regarding each field.

General Parameters

Edit the parameters until you are satisfied. When you are, save and build your file.

II. Add a custom description:

Let's include a description for a scroll. For this step, we will need to open our Modstrings.txt. This file contains all the texts from your mod. You can find it in the Source Tab of the Art Manager, by default located inside the Text folder. Double-click it to edit it.

To first add text to your item, you will need to use a tag (for example, "scroll_1_Desc".) You will use this tag as a reference for your scroll description. It is quite useful if you need to edit for whatever reason a piece of text you used in several places.

Following your tag, put a "=" and then the text you wish to be displayed in the player's inventory.

Once your text is done, save your Modstrings.txt, and build its asset. Then, open your scroll file and insert your tag in Item Parameters > Item Text. Following my example, I would put "scroll_1_Desc". Save your file, build it.

III. Create and bind the skill

Determine wich skill you will be using for your scroll. Since there's so many kind of skills to create and it would need a tutorial of its own, I will skip this part and leave it for a future tutorial (maybe?).

Once you have a skill in mind, you may bind it to your scroll. To do so, go to the .dbr file of your scroll, then visit the Scroll Config tab. Insert the .dbr file of the skill you want to associate, then save and build to apply the modifications.

IV. Make the skill usable

It may seem like it's all set for your scroll to work, right? If you attempt to use it in a game, you will notice that there will be no skill attached to it! That is because you also need to set it into another file wich contains all the skills that may be used on scrolls. There are two of them that have room for you to insert the skills you want.

records\xpack\skills\scroll skills\scrollskilltree2.dbr
records\xpack2\skills\scroll skills\scrollskilltree3.dbr

Import any of those two files above and open it. Go to the Skill List tab, you will notice many different skills. Those are indeed all the skills that are "authorized" to be attached to a scroll. Find an empty spot to put in the skill of your choice from earlier. Save your work and build this file.

V. Create Epic/Legendary versions

Your first scroll being completed, you might want to make an Epic or Legendary version. To do so, duplicate your scroll and rename them. Do not forget to edit their parameters, too.

General Parameters

Save your new scrolls and build them. You now will have access to a new set of scrolls to play with.

Introduction

Hello! This guide will describe the creation process of the relics and charms. At the end of the tutorial, you will know everything you need to make your custom relics!

I may assume you have some basic knowledge and overlook some manipulations. Feel free to tell me if anything is unclear.

Without further ado, let's get started.

I. Creating the pictures

This step will require:

• Software for image-editing
  A custom artifact isn't truly "custom" without your own picture. To make one, you will need a software that edit images, such as Photoshop. If you don't own it, GIMP is a free software that will suffice for this task. MS Paint just won't cut it.
• Charm and Relics canvas
  I have some sweet canvas for you right here; they will be useful for making your new relics/charms : https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bo4920zrg7f0svl/AACferna8UvoT_MJpDDLMxexa?dl=0 (you can also make something different if you wish to)

I. Load your canvas and draw a picture:
If you haven't used such software in the past, you should try out a few tools and experiment. Also, you may use some images as models to get the shape of an item just right. Anyways, we're not here to make work of art.

Save your files when you are done. Very important to save your pictures in .tga/.psd format! Those are the only formats the Art Manager can read.

II. Import your picture in your mod:
Open the Art Manager and select your mod. It will now be time to import your texture into your mod. Before importing it, I'd recommend creating a folder specifically for your custom textures. To do so, right-click on "name_of_your_mod/source > Create New Directory".

Now, select the matching folder, right-click, and select "Import...". Find your texture and select it. It should appear in the menu. Right-click it and choose Auto-Create Asset. You will be prompted to choose between Texture or Bitmap. Choose Bitmap, and proceed by pressing OK.


III. Build your texture:
Your texture isn't quite in your mod yet. You will need to visit the "Assets" tab, and seek your texture in the folder structure, wich should be the same as in your "Source" tab. Right-click on it and choose "Build". When that is done, build your mod by pressing F7. Your texture will now become usable in your mod.


II. Create the relic or charm

Procedure:

I. Create the relic entry:

In the Art Manager, go to the Database tab. Find a spot where you wish to put your relics in. When you found it, right-click > New > Record, and choose the template ItemRelic. You can also copy+paste an existing relic of the game and work from it. In fact, I'd recommend the latter method, since creating a new record out of the blue removes many parameters common to all the relics that you probably won't bother to change.

You are now ready to edit your item! Check the spoilers below to see what is each panel about and wich parameters are worth editing.

General Parameters

Item's Bonuses Parameters

The parameters above regard the base bonuses of your relic. You will want to edit at least one parameter, unless you want your relic to do absolutely nothing (you could!). For this example, I will make something really basic and make a relic that boosts Physical Damage.


Here you will need to input values for every stage of your relic (1 piece, 2 pieces, etc...) up to its maximum value. This relic is completed at 3 pieces, so I put 3 entries. The values can be set in a non-linear fashion if you wish.

Edit the bonuses of your choice until you are satisfied. When you are, save your work.

Check out the next post to finish the tutorial.

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Introduction

Hello, people. This is a small guide discussing Hunting's skills, giving insights on wich skills are worth investement and wich ones are less important. It's purely based on my opinions and shouldn't be considered like the one and only truth. You are free to share your disagreements below.

Back in my early TQ days, I wasn't a fan of bows and hunting stuff, so I had little interest in this mastery. I was more into melee stuff. That was until I bought AE a few months ago, and decided to try something different for once : Hunting mastery. And I fell in love with it. It remains my favorite mastery at that day, and has a lot of awesome stuff that I think needs to be shared with anyone who wants to use this mastery.

Well, let's get right into it.

The Mastery

Hunting revolves around piercing and bleeding damage, preferably with bows and spears, making it one of the most offensive masteries. It offers a wide variety of skills and passives that allow for impressive damage both on single-targets and large troops of ennemies. With its high damage potential and its handful of buffs, a hunter can be very independant, but also a remarkable team player. When all that is considered at once, Hunting becomes a mastery that can be either principal or complementary, making it able to succeedly combo with any other mastery.

Hunting's skills

Tier 1

Ensnare

It's a decent skill. On one hand, it offers a defensive ability debuff. Quite nice, but since you can't make critical hits with your bow, this is only useful if you switch for a spear/shield. Also, the strongest ennemies (such as heroes, bosses, etc.) are immuned to the net alltogether. You may also use it to keep regular mobs away from you, but it isn't really worth spending a ton of points, if any.

Take Down

More often used as a mobility skill rather than a damage dealer, though it can hurt a lot when upgraded. It needs a big investement to become really good, though, and you have many other skills that you will want to boost before this one. You may boost it later on.

Wood Lore

This is an amazing passive, and there really isn't any point to not pick it up. Bows have a low attack speed in early levels, and this passive allows you to fix that. Also, you get an appreciable bonus of flat defensive ability. On the top of that, it only requires 6 points to max out! Really, just max this already.

Tier 2

Marksmanship

I assume you will be using bows at some point if you are using Hunting mastery. This thing will make your bow AAs much more deadlier with the piercing bonus it gives. Using Marksmanship will also unlock more powerful upgrades for your bow attacks. This is definetly a skill you will want to max, too.

Art of the Hunt

This aura will boost your piercing and bleeding damage. It also affects any pets or party members nearby. No debate needed, this is a must.

Herbal Remedy

This thing will provide a huge boost in poison resistance for your character, so you have less to worry about it when choosing your gear. The flat regeneration bonus is a little cherry on the top, as in it shouldn't be the reason why you're picking this skill in the first place.

Tier 3

Barbed Netting

If you are using Ensnare, this may be an upgrade you would want to try. Though the bleeding damage isn't that extreme, it will be increased with your skills, gear, etc.

Call of the Hunt

This buff will make yourself much better at fighting for a brief duration. You will want to upgrade it to enlarge its duration and effectiveness. A common strat is to use gear with -x% recharge to use it more frequently, to the point you have its bonuses permanently. Tracker's Hood is a nice item for that. If you lack -x% recharge gear, you should only use it versus large ennemy groups, heroes you have trouble with and boss fights.

Eviscerate

Putting skills on that depends on your needs. If you are using Take Down for mobility, you can put at most one point on it. The bleeding damage, when maxed out, is very good, but again, it needs a decent amount of points to make it shine.

Monster Lure

This skill can distract ennemies for a while, so you can avoid being hit. I guess it could have some uses, but there are other skills out there that you will want to boost first.

Tier 4

Study Prey

Perfection incarnate. Applies a buff in an area around the targeted monster, greatly reducing their resistances. Even though it has a great power, the skill's duration is equal to its cooldown. Wich means you can cast it as soon as the effect wears off. There's no good hunter without Study Prey.

Puncture Shot Arrows

So far, Hunting hasn't offered much options for clearing mass armies of ennemies. This will allow you to turn your strong single-target attacks into strong multiple-targets attacks. It will boost your waveclearing abilities by a lot.

Gouge

With an high dexterity and your currently maxed out auras, you will be dealing a lot of bleeding damage. This allows you to deal even more bleeding with your AAs. Ineffective versus undeads (duh) but still a nice upgrade that costs only 6 points.

Find Cover

Makes your hunter less vunerable to all projectile attacks. You will want to put points into it. Remember though, the cap is set at 80%. If your gear's bonuses make your projectile-avoidance chance go over 80%, consider removing points on this skill (or else they will be sitting there doing nothing) and move them on other skills.

Tier 5

Exploit Weakness

This will further boost your damage while Call of the Hunt is active. This should be high in your priorities.

Trail Blazing

Provides a nice boost in movement speed and entrapment immunity. Leveling this up only provides more movement speed. The movement speed cap being very low (only 166%), odds are your gear will provide sufficient movement speed so that you don't need to max this to reach the limit. Even then, having 150%+ is more than enough.

Detonate

It is not worth to invest any points on this skill, in my opinion. It deals a bunch of fire damage, wich might be interesting if you play with Earth along with Hunting, but in other cases, you will probably have nothing to boost its damage. Even then, with the help of all your buffs, your own damage should be sufficient enough to take care of your opponents; if you are using the lure in the first place, it's to distract ennemies, correct? In most cases, you shouldn't bother with this skill at all.

Tier 6

Flush Out

Makes Study Prey even deadlier, reducing elemental and bleeding resistances, wich makes basically any other skill hit much more harder on the targets. Very useful.

Scatter Shot Arrows

This will enhance even more your waveclearing abilities, allowing you to hit mass of ennemies at once with heavy bleeding damage. People could argue saying that it has been rendered useless because it was heavily nerfed by the AE, but I think it still remains awesome and is worth the investement.

Volley

Insanely strong passive, making your bow fire three arrows and your spear hit thrice. Only needs 6 points. This should be maxed as soon as possible.

Conclusion

I hope this make you want to build a Hunting toon and shoot every living thing down (was the intended goal.)

Either way, I hope you enjoyed reading through that post. Enjoy the rest of your day ^.^

Hi.

For my new map, I'd need people to submit their characters (a bit like for Titanslayers) for it to appear. I need to see its gear and skillset, and its name. I could always use or make up characters myself, but it's more fun to see members of the community.

If you like (cause I would), leave here a screenshot of your character.

Cheers.