After a second playthrough with the mod it seems it works as intended.

This mod is extremely slept on. It turns the normal early and mid game slog of rushing through dungeons you are more powerful than into a worth while and fun endeavor.

I get a "Lua Error: /data/zones/cave-hatred/npcs.lua:89: table index is nil" from attempting to start an infinite dungeon character that ceases happening when I disable this mod. A quick peek at the contents of this mod does lead me to believe that this isn't a mod conflict.

I did test it. I've been using it right now. I added an extra option to choose whether you can learn an antimagic talent without knowing one already. Additionally, I sanity-checked it, so if you know an Arcane talent, it won't give you an Antimagic one. The same applies in reverse. I had a really good Archmage run get ruined by it giving me an Antimagic talent on an inherently Arcane race and class. That made me crack the mod open and make my own fork to fix that oversight.

Otherwise, it is exactly the same as the old version. It can still give you useless ones. I just made it so it can't end your run at random. Chaos is fun. Having your game end because a level up bonus became a game ending penalty is not.

Once again, don't use this one with the old Chaotic Race addon.

thanks for the information.
I updated the description about weight 0 talent bug.

The only time I expericenced super slow action, is when I burried myself away from the ennemy (quake). And try to use a pickaxe without stoping the AI. It goes super slow.

But I never experience super slow when doing nothing ontop of the AI. Do you have a character link where it happened? So I can try to replicate and find where it come from

I'm referring to melee in general. The only real talent trees for fighting/exploring are Poisons, Artifice, and Trapping, none of which lend themselves to build for anything other than melee with a bit of sneakiness (technically Poisons helps with ranged attacks too, but winning the game using ranged attacks without any ranged talents seems unlikely to me, and I personally can't see either of the other two categories being of much use in most Eastern dungeons,) Just to be clear, I completely get that it's an inherent limitation on the character, like any other class, and doesn't affect the enjoyability. My point is more of a suggestion, since artificing can open up all sorts of builds, from mana/magic to wilder/elemental to tinker/steam by creating artifacts geared to these aspects. So, in theory, I could do a wyrmic using aspects from dismantled mindstars and anti-magic, or a cursed using darkness and hate items. There are just so many possible egos and items that just aren't worth using with a character whose only real offensive talents (besides Combat Training, obviously) involve either poison or the rogue's Artifice talents. So if, for instance, a player wanted to go a bit Celestial, there could be a subtype of Artificer that replaces the Poisons and Trapping trees with two equivalently-powered Celestial trees. So you'd have an aritificer that focuses on items that help with positive/negative energies and light/dark bonuses.

In essence, I'm praising the possibilities of your add-on. I'm not saying it doesn't work great as is. It does. I've been playing around with it for weeks now. Rather, I think it would be perfect for creating an entire meta-class category with specialized variants under it.

I am aware of how much effort that would entail, picking the exact right talent trees to synergize well without leading to unbalanced over/underpowered characters. So I'd absolutely understand that objection

As for the dismantling issue, if there's no reason for it to change from character to character, Ockham's Razor suggests I screwed it up somehow. I would have sworn I checked everything, including talent level, but I must have missed something. I can't find the character I was having problems with, so I probably deleted it. I've been playing around a lot with the class, including using an add-on for more respec flexibility than the normal game allows, so there have been plenty of easy-come, easy-go deletions, unfortunately. (Just to make sure, though -- the fact that some fixedarts can't be dismantled is deliberate, right? I just assumed so, but now that I'm thinking about the issue, I might as well make sure.)

I had it only blocking direct damage, as it made sense to me that adjustments to your armor wouldn't be able to, say, stop you from taking damage from a poison you were already afflicted with. I'd like for it to be able to block dots from area effects (i.e. Burning Wake), but there doesn't seem to be a way to differentiate those in the code from other sources of non-direct damage.

Requiring investment in multiple talents to get the class going was the intent, though not getting anything good from crafting until past level 30 doesn't sound right; other than some quick early game crafts (i.e. slapping two on-hit damage procs on a weapon), I usually started crafting a lot in the 8-15 range (after augments are unlocked). Some of the crafting talents can actually do quite a bit at level 1 (for example Flexible Imbuing can be used to transfer most activated abilities just fine at level 1, as they are not affected by the penalty). I'll do some more playtesting though and see if I can get it to be better in that level range.

For rare egos, I didn't want to make them too much more accessible than normal, as I wanted what items you find to have an impact on the decisions you make for your Artificer character, what items to spec them with, and how to play them. I might look into making it easier to influence the outcome of Fuse Items to get egos you want, although it will still take some experimentation. Right now fusing two lesser ego components has a 10% chance of giving a greater ego that shares a power source with one of its ingredients. If the two ingredients have the same affinity then the result will also have that affinity.

Something funny, something intellectual, something profound, yeah I just felt like posting instead of my usual lurking. I come here nearly daily waiting for more about the DLC's. Just lurking like some creepo in the shadows waiting to spring forth and snatch your Doritos. Well only the kosher ones. I'm trying to have patience about the upcoming DLC'S but it's driving me mad I tell you mad! This is by far worse then what TES fanpeople are feeling about waiting for TES6. I'm Jonesing hard for a little peak man, just a screen shot or two.

From the te4_log.txt (on windows 11) [ENGINE] Switching to turn based Lua Error: /testload/mod/init.lua:50: attempt to index field 'tome' (a number value) At [C]:-1 __index At /testload/mod/init.lua:50 getval At /engine/Module.lua:976 instanciate At /engine/utils.lua:3000 showMainMenu At /engine/init.lua:207 At [C]:-1 dofile At /loader/init.lua:217

darkgod is truely a generous darkgod.

Set it to max EXP in everything to test guessing a update broke the mod shomehow and i don't see a fix happening.