Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity Original Sin - Mods Modifying Attribute Penalty on Skills?

Heya guys, another nubnub question. Just wondering if it's possible to remove the penalty some skills have from things such as low intelligence? My first thought was that it'd be connected to the skill's level but I've changed it to "-1" (in skilldata.txt) and the penalty stayed the same. Does anyone mind telling me how to do this? Assuming it's possible..

Did you change the name of the Skill entry that has the level as well? I think the game uses both to determine the penalty.



If you wanted skill level 4-

Yep. The skill I have is basically a modified version of Burning Blaze with the only change being that the "level" is set to -1. What I have is:
and after that section:

I've also tried setting the level to 1 just because but no change sadly, the character still gets a -20% penalty from low intelligence.

What's the penalty if you set the skill level to 16?

-70% at level 16... However, if I set the level to -10 I get a 5% boost and at -5 the penalty is removed completely.. For now I'll just keep it set to -5, but am I correct in assuming that the level of the skill determines the penalty, and at a level of -1 there should be no penalty?
Well to answer my own question I guess not.. But thank you for the help again!

Levels of -1 generally mean that the spell is scaling with your character level. Summons, for example, have their level set to -1 by the skill data, and in-game you see that when you're level 10, the summon is level 10 as well. The skills used by summons (and enemies) are Level -1 as well due to the fact that the summons themselves scale.

The level of the skill does correlate with the penalty, but it's also important to note that the intelligence level of the user has an impact as well. If you raise your intelligence, then the boost will increase (or become more positive) no matter what it was at before.