soul

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Soul is a complete overhaul of Titan Quest’s core systems, reworking balance, combat, loot, and quality of life while staying true to the game’s original design.

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Compatibility

• Works with both new and existing characters.
• All changes are grounded in the vanilla game, ensuring seamless transitions between modded and unmodded gameplay.
• No risk of save corruption or permanent modifications—your character remains fully playable in vanilla at all times.

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Loot Acquisition

This system improves farming by reducing frustrating RNG and making loot drops more targeted:

• No more broken items – This indirectly increases the chances of finding Magical and Rare items.
• Better affixes on gear – When a Magical or Rare item drops, the affix distribution is more evened out, so low-tier affixes like armor or energy don’t make up the majority of the share. The higher you go up in difficulty, the more profound the effect.
• Smarter Unique drops – Unique items are rarer, but they’re more likely to belong to the Act you’re currently in.
• Improved merchant stock – Merchants no longer sell common items and may offer Monster gear if located in areas where those creatures are found.
• Rebalanced relic/charm bonuses – Completion bonuses weight distribution has been completely reworked for better consistency and usefulness.

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Rebalance
Masteries

• Adjusted skill values and effects for better balance.
• Replaced weak or underused skills with viable alternatives if simple number tweaks weren’t enough.
• Improved skill functionality and responsiveness to feel more modern.

Items & Affixes

• Reviewed and adjusted almost every item and affix for better viability in the current game balance.
• Created unique item and affix-based skills.
• Rebalanced stats across the board, aiming for better power scaling while keeping more options viable as sidegrades.
• Reworked set items for improved consistency and utility.

Combat Feel

• Melee combat adjusted to focus more on attacking than chasing.
• Enemy and ally AI reworked to behave more intelligently based on race and environment.
• Each skill now has unique ragdoll effects, slightly altering enemy death animations.
• Weapons and armor now have distinct mechanics based on their implicit properties.

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Quality of Life
Loot Visuals

• Unique items now display affixes (previously hidden).
• Dropped items have improved ground indicators.
• Monster Uniques now have a distinct drop sound, similar to Epic and Legendary items.

Skill Tooltips

• Skills now include categorized tags, making it easier to understand their function and how stats affect them (refer to the tutorial for tag explanations).
• Descriptions have been rewritten for better clarity.
• Item-based skills with chance activation now explicitly state their activation rates.

Optimization

• Reduced excessive particle effects that could cause lag while preserving the original visual intent.
• Fixed numerous broken references, inconsistencies, and overlooked issues left by the original developers (even more fixes than my Bug Fixes mod).
• Added journal logs to track hidden quest rewards, like One-Shot Dungeons

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New Features (Coming in Future)

• Nemesis System – A new boss progression mechanic where bosses grow stronger each time you defeat them.
  • The more times you kill a boss without looting its reward container, the greater the final reward when you do.
  • Some bosses that can equip items will wield higher-quality gear at later stages, making it beneficial to keep them strong rather than resetting them.
  • If a boss becomes too difficult, simply looting its container will reset it to Stage 1.
• Completion Bonuses – A gold sink mechanic that allows you to reroll Relic, Charm, and Artifact bonuses if you get an undesirable one.
• Hidden Quest Rewards – Certain quest rewards, like skill bonuses from the Olive Branch and One-Shot Dungeon rewards, can now be farmed and exchanged for different options.

(More details coming soon)