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DD2 Abomination Skills

Gives Abomination 4 new skills inspired by his new skills in Darkest Dungeon 2:

Backlash: Knockback 2. Stun vs marked. Clears mark.

Ichor: Single-target blight. +30% Blight chance vs Marked. Clears mark. On clearing mark, chance to mark other enemies. No damage, but can CRIT.

Maul: Single-target damage that ignores PROT.

Instinct: Single-target, -65% DMG. Removes riposte, Pull 2, lowers PROT, low chance to stun.

Also tweaks some of Abomination's pre-existing skills (again, based on their appearance in DD2):

Transform: Self-heal changed to regeneration and moved from change-to-beast to change-to-human. Stress-heal on change-to-human targets self instead of party.

Manacles: Stun moved to Backlash, instead pull 2 and mark.

Beast's Bile: Clears corpses. No damage, but can still CRIT. Debuff removed. Base Blight amount increased.

Slam: Reduced knockback, increased accuracy. Can be used from rank 4 but not rank 1.

A few remarks:

Compared to vanilla DD1 Abomination, this version lacks a way to stun rank 3. I'm personally fine with this, since he now has more push/pull disruption options and stun-bot is a rather boring playstyle.

The best rank to keep him in is still rank 2, where he can use both Beast's Bile/Ichor and Backlash/Beast skills.

My favorite change is that Slam can be used from rank 4 now. (Changing this was one of my first ever mods, several years ago.) This means that, as long as you're careful about skill selection, he no longer has any ranks where he gets "stuck" and has to use the move "skill".

Speaking of skill selection, in DD2 he's able to select four human skills and four beast skills, separately, with Transform always selected. Being unable to replicate this within DD1, I've made him automatically go back to "human" mode at the end of each fight without using the Transform skill. Like in vanilla DD1, he can select up to seven skills at once, except that now he can choose them.

Lastly, you might be wondering what happened to the old "Extra Abomination Skills" mod that I made before he was added to DD2. This is getting remade in due time, along with other mods that I've deleted. If you want to see the old version, it's available on Skymods or on RoyPsich's Workshop (who has been uploading my deleted mods, which I'm fine with).