The Arcane Scholar Class Mod

Now with a Japanese translation: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3212472916

A practitioner of powerful magics has come to investigate the Ancient Magics that surround the Estate and the Darkest Dungeon. Her arcane abilities are as powerful as they are taxing, so care must be taken not to let her overexert herself to the point of being a burden.

=====Overview=====

Based on Marcille from the Manga and Anime Dungeon Meshi, the Arcane Scholar is a very powerful backline support with high damage potential, but quickly loses power over time, making her a poor choice in long drawn out battles without proper planning.

The Arcane Scholar’s magic skills are powerful but are subject to diminishing returns, each use of one reduces her ranged damage, healing done, and stun chance for 8 rounds. This debuff can only be removed with her Focus ability.

Her unique supply item, Mandrake, increases her Magic Power by 20% for 2 rounds. There is a 10% chance to find more mandrakes when investigating curios with an Arcane Scholar in your party. Can be used on other classes to increase healing done by 20% for 2 turns.

On crit, her Magic Power is increased by 20% for 2 rounds.

She is non-religious and uses the Athenaeum.

Her Camping Skills provide high utility at low cost in exchange for magic effectiveness, with the exception of Hair Care.

=====Combat Skills=====

Staff Strike

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Low Dmg melee that boosts Ranged Damage, Healing Done, and Stun Chance by 10% on the next turn.

Explosion Magic

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Powerful AoE with a very low crit chance. Deals full damage to Row 3 and 50% damage to Rows 2 and 4, but reduces Magic Power by 20%. Always deals +25% damage to Size 2 enemies regardless of position.

Blinding Flash

XOOO O-O-OX
Low damage Multi-Stun, but has an equal chance of stunning other party members. Also moves back by 1, debuffs enemy accuracy, slightly increases light level, and reduces Magic Power by 10%.

Fast Heal

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Powerful single-target heal that cures bleed and blight, but increases target stress by 5 and reduces Magic Power by 10%

Protection Spell

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O-O-O-O
Increase the Party’s Prot and Stun Resist for 1 battle. Reduces Magic Power by 20%.

Focus

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Remove Mana Sickness debuffs and buff the Arcane Scholar’s magic power by 20% on the next round, but put Focus on Cooldown for several rounds. Levels reduce cooldown time.

Precise Explosion

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Deals increased damage to a single target with a decent crit chance. Large crit bonus vs Marked targets. Reduces Magic Power by 10%.

=====Camping Skills=====

Water Walk

Cost: 1
Allows the party to dodge all non-Boss Liquid-based attacks. Currently supports the following mods: Vermintide, Here Be Monsters & A New Shadow, Maledictor, The Night Parade, Pelagic Hybrid, and the upcoming Makrura mod.

Hair Care

Cost: 4
The Arcane Scholar takes her time washing and brushing her hair, reducing her stress by 15 and increasing her Magic Power by 20%.

Summon Familiars

Cost: 2
Summon Familiars to scout the area, increasing scouting chance by 30%, but reducing Magic Power by 10%.

Resurrect

Cost: 2
Uses: 3
The Arcane Scholar uses powerful Ancient Magic to restore 50% of an ally’s HP, remove bleed/blight, and remove Mortality Debuffs at the cost of 25% of her Magic Power.

=====Trinkets=====

Beastkin Fur Plush

Common
+1 Spd
+7% Melee Crit Chance
-10% stun resist

Ear Covers

Common
+5% All Resistances
-5% Stress
+2 dodge

Student’s Spellbook

Uncommon
+10% Ranged Dmg
+10 Ranged Acc
+20% Debuff Chance
-7% Ranged Crit Chance

Kelpie Tallow Soap

Uncommon
-15% Stress
+50% Stress healing done while camping
-1 Spd

Cute Frog Suit

Rare
+35% Bleed/Blight/Stun/Disease Resist
-20% Healing Received

The Dahlgan Family (Vol. 1-6 of 24)

Rare
+25% Stress healing received
On friendly Skill: Stress -4 (50% chance)
On friendly Skill: Stress +2 (50% chance)

Ancient Magic Tome

Very Rare
+40% Ranged Dmg/Healing/Stun Chance
+10% Ranged Crit Chance
-15% Virtue Chance
On Ranged attack: -10% Magic Power
On Crit: -30% Magic Power

Papa’s Dinner Plate

Crimson Court
+33% Healing Done
+33% Healing done if the target is below 50% hp
+34% Healing done if the target is at Death’s Door
+15% stress

Pipi’s Feather

Crimson Court
On Ranged Hit: Heal Party 2
-20% Ranged Dmg

Set Bonus:
+40% Dmg while at Full Health

Crystalline Comb

Comet
On Friendly Skill: +20% Stun Skill Chance
On Ranged Hit: +20% Healing Done
On Monster Kill: +20% Ranged Dmg
Was Hit: -10% Magic Power

Local Cuisine

Sunward
-25% Stress while above 50 Stress
+100% Healing received from Food
+200% Stress Healing received from Camping Meals
+200% Food Consumed

Warpstone Token

Vermintide
Friendly Skill: +100% Ranged Crit Chance on Self (2 rounds)
Friendly Skill: Suffer 8 damage (25% chance)

Bombonomicon [For the Ringmaster Boss Fight Mod]

Ringmaster
Precise Explosion: +30% dmg
Explosion Magic: +15% dmg
On ranged hit: Enemy Party: 3 damage
+20% Crits received
Can’t be Guarded

=====Credits=====
Programming: Me
Art: Terkmc
Town Event Sprites: Lone Drifter
Animation: 54NBB
Russian Translation: Ordinary Person
Old Russian Translaion (Currently not in use): Admiral Slowpoke
Intro video: ShadowRaptor89 w/ English ED cover by Megami33
2nd (Red) and 3rd (White) Color Palete: Fermint
4th and 5th (Rin) Color Palete: TiltedHat
=====Special Thanks=====

Ryoko Kui
EverydayHeroes Scans
Studio Trigger
RedHookTyler
Sasiji
Mrglrgl
Fermint
The Darkest Dungeon Modding Community
Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis
DragonBones
OrdinaryPerson
74th Bootleg Division-Hale Corp
Jimba
/a/ and /tg/
The American Taxpayer

=====Other=====

I’d prefer if you ask if you want to upload this mod anywhere else or make changes to it, but I really don’t mind as long as I’m credited.

Most dialogue is sourced directly from the EHScans translation of the manga with a handful being pulled from other series, one is even pulled from Deep Rock Galactic. It is a little thin in places, so expect updates to that in the future.

Unfortunately, the way her mana works in the mod is not at all how mana works in Dungeon Meshi. The original design for this mod did function as it did in the source material, but it wasn’t working mechanically and wasn’t fun when it was, so it was scrapped. At a later time, I’d like to make an optional patch to make things closer to the original plan if I can get it working.

There was an oversight on her walk animation that I had to fix by editing the sprite that 99% of people won’t notice, but I felt it was worth mentioning since it looks worse than TerkMC’s work.

Focus ended up having so many revisions that I lost track of how many there were, at least 10. There’s a non-zero chance it’ll have another one in the future.

The class name was one of the most debated things during development, I still don’t know if this was a better choice than Magic Researcher.