How can I ask Larian? Is there some mechanism to get in touch with them for non serious issues?
That was more of a joke ;-)
You could of course ask here on the forum but I'd be surprised if anyone but Raze showed up in your thread. He is the community manager and although he really knows a lot I guess he does not have too much info about the game's internal workings.
Larian is busy with D:OS2 and has shown no increased interest in modding support since EE came out.
They don't even have increased interest in fixing the many bugs that are still in the game.
I'm guessing there's some parameter in the code like you say which influences whether each skill gets boosted by primary attributes. One theory is that AoE skills do not receive the bonus since the two we found were Battering Ram and Whirlwind. I'd have to look at others to form a more thorough opinion, but to some degree it doesn't really matter!
Could be, could be not. I have never looked into the actual damage numbers too much but took Larians settings as blueprints when making another spell.
Thank you for all your patience. It's not often that people are willing to offer real criticism as you did (that may be unnecessary, those skills aren't actually underpowered, etc) and I appreciate that you spoke up. I'm modifying things a bit like Scales did -- I've dug into those Skilldata files and am reducing the damage of several Master-level skills and I've slightly buffed enemy HP and movement/initiative to enhance the challenge!
You can reduce the damage of master level spells or you can simply not use them as I did in my last playthrough.
I suppose you don't want to try out the game unmodified for a very first playthrough ?
(And the only one for quite a while, as you said.)
