PointBoost

Description

A small quality-of-life mod. It changes four things and nothing else: experience gained, skill points per level, devotion points per shrine, and the limit of one exclusive skill at a time.

Everything else is untouched — drop rates, monsters, items, stash, the map, max level, and the experience needed to level up are all exactly vanilla. The mod is 75 database records.

Installation instructions

1. Pick one of the three folders inside presets/ and copy it into your Grim Dawn mods folder, so you end up with:

...\Grim Dawn\mods\PointBoostLite\database\PointBoostLite.arz

2. Launch the game, choose Custom Game (not Main Campaign), and pick the mod.

Custom-game characters are stored separately from main-campaign characters. That is how Grim Dawn works, not something this mod does.

To uninstall, delete the folder. Save files are never modified.

Main features

Experience from kills: 100% -> 200%

Skill points per level: 3/2/1 -> 6/4/2

Devotion points per shrine: 1 -> 2 (the cap is raised to match)

Exclusive skills: run all of them at once instead of only one

Three presets are included:

- Light: 1. 5x XP, 1. 5x skill points (4/3/2), 2 devotion per shrine

- Standard: 2x XP, 2x skill points (6/4/2), 2 devotion per shrine

- Generous: 3x XP, 3x skill points (9/6/3), 3 devotion per shrine

Want your own numbers? The build script is included. Requires Python 3. 8+ and "pip install lz4", then:

python build_lite.py --xp 4 --skill 2 --devotion 5

It finds your Grim Dawn install and writes the mod into your mods folder. Set any multiplier to 1 to leave that feature alone, or pass --no-exclusive.

The 13 exclusive skills affected: Soldier Defensive/Offensive stance, Occultist Possession, Arcanist Mind Over Matter, Shaman Primal Bond and Stormcaller's Pact, Inquisitor Aura of Censure and Aura of Conviction, Necromancer Master of Death and Reaper, Oathkeeper Divine Mandate and Path of the Three. Dual-mastery builds gain the most — a Vindicator has four.

Every build is checked by decompiling the finished .arz with the game's own ArchiveTool.exe and comparing every field against vanilla. Anything changed outside those four features fails the build. The checker is included as verify_lite.py.

Requirements

None. Works with the base game alone, and with any combination of expansions.

Multiplayer: everyone in the party needs the same mod folder.

Grim Dawn loads only one custom-game mod at a time, so this cannot run alongside another one.

Building your own numbers requires Python 3. 8+ and the lz4 package. A small quality-of-life mod. It changes four things and nothing else: experience gained, skill points per level, devotion points per shrine, and the limit of one exclusive skill at a time.

Everything else is untouched — drop rates, monsters, items, stash, the map, max level, and the experience needed to level up are all exactly vanilla. The mod is 85 database records.

Installation instructions

1. Pick one of the three folders inside presets/ and copy it into your Grim Dawn mods folder, so you end up with:

...\Grim Dawn\mods\PointBoostLite\database\PointBoostLite.arz

2. Launch the game, choose Custom Game (not Main Campaign), and pick the mod.

Custom-game characters are stored separately from main-campaign characters. That is how Grim Dawn works, not something this mod does.

To uninstall, delete the folder. Save files are never modified.

Main features

Experience from kills: 100% -> 200%

Skill points per level: 3/2/1 -> 6/4/2

Devotion points per shrine: 1 -> 2 (the cap is raised to match)

Exclusive skills: run all of them at once instead of only one

Three presets are included:

- Light: 1. 5x XP, 1. 5x skill points (4/3/2), 2 devotion per shrine

- Standard: 2x XP, 2x skill points (6/4/2), 2 devotion per shrine

- Generous: 3x XP, 3x skill points (9/6/3), 3 devotion per shrine

Want your own numbers? The build script is included. Requires Python 3. 8+ and "pip install lz4", then:

python build_lite.py --xp 4 --skill 2 --devotion 5

It finds your Grim Dawn install and writes the mod into your mods folder. Set any multiplier to 1 to leave that feature alone, or pass --no-exclusive.

Other options: --skill-add N (N extra points on top of every level, 3/2/1 -> 4/3/2), --skill-flat N (the same N at every level), --maxlevel N (level cap, the table reaches 200), --runspeed N (run speed