Technique Rebalancer

Weapon Techniques in Bloodstained ROTN are often really cool looking and some feel really good to use, but they are quickly massively outshined by the vast array of shards available to the player. A lot of them can't compete with shards in either damage or utility, and some techniques are almost bafflingly useless.

This mod won't fix that problem entirely, as upgraded shards will always continue to rain supreme in their utility and ease of use, but hopefully this will make each one feel like a valuable tool to use alongside your current shard setup for specific situations that require it.

DISCLAIMER: The balancing is made with difficulties hard and above in mind, and for a player who is not into grinding out shard upgrades, simply because that is how I play. I've never played on normal so I don't know if anything is overtuned for that difficulty, and if you stop to grind up shards I'm guessing you'll probably find them  outclassing your techniques anyway.

This mod comes in two versions:

Randomizer version

This is my recommended version. It is particularly suited for playing in the randomizer mode due to the following changes:

• []All mastery requirements heavily reduced.

  Since you do not get weapons in a normal order in randomizer, it is a pain to have to use a much weaker weapon for long stretches just to master its techniques. Lowering mastery fixes this. It still requires successfully using the technique a few times to encourage trying them all out.

• []Valkyrie Sword now has its unique technique enabled from the start, without requiring mastery of all other skills first.

  Mastering all skills in randomizer mode is an almost hopeless task. This makes the Valkyrie Sword more fun when you find it, and if you find it early you can use its technique to go into hidden desert even without water movement shards. NOTE: This comes with the side effect of mastery level no longer being displayed in the in-game Technique menu. However all skills can still be mastered as usual, and mastery should be quick enough for it not to be a big problem. To make mastery of all skills still be possible, the following changes were also required.

  []Backer weapon Prismatic Heart at max upgrade level can no longer be used to learn Force Blast

  []Fragarach can now be used to master Parry