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Overhauled Classes will include;

Minor fixes for current classes
Slight updates to feat lists for new feat availability
Updates to Assassin, Blackguard and Harper Scout to have proper spell books
New classes with hardcoded elements in the game already:
- Eye of Gruumsh - A barbarian Half-Orc blind-fighter prestige class
  - Note the "blind appearance" might be doable by VFX on the head.
- Shou Disciple - A Monk prestige class who can wear light armor and use more weapons
New classes: some ideas will be on subpages, hopefully utilising all the NWN:EE features

General Updates

Some random QOL things:

More packages / tuned packages which have at least HotU spell selections among other things, will help henchmen if nothing else (although technically they can be edited with JSON)
Handbook - class, feat and spell guides in-game (encyclopaedia as it were)
- A "better character sheet" might help alleviate some of the issues with the usual one, like showing full weapon effects, full sneak attack and other attack bonuses...
Additional quickbars for all classes.
- Possibly some automatic ones tailored to their class abilities
- Some custom ones they can change (feats, spells, items)
- KISS - don't have every spell read through JSON just do GetHasSpell with warnings about cure-spontaneous spells

Class Specific Updates

Base classes:

Cleric
- Add additional domains. Potentially think about expanding or rebalancing the default ones

Prestige classes:

Shifter
- Have the icons for spell abilities that are limited get greyed out when the uses have been depleted - https://nwnlexicon.com/index.php?title=SetTextureOverride
- Better information on what will be copied item-wise to each polymorph (ie "your item set will give these properties in the end:" and a list)
Assassin
- Add class spell book
Harper Scout
- Add class spell book
- Potentially expand levels with new crafting feats Bioware had planned
Blackguard
- Add class spell book
Arcane Archer
- "Proper" attack checks rather than touch attacks. This hopefully makes it more sane, and also in possibly some ways better for them (since weapon attack bonuses etc. can work). Needs a comprehensive GetEffectInteger set of functions for AC and attack calculations.

New Classes

Some ideas for new classes and potential for implementation.

Class Name	Type	Source	Basic Overview	Notes and Implementation Potential
Eye of Gruumsh	Prestige		Barbarian Blindfighting Barbarian prestige class	Pretty much can be fully implemented due to existing Bioware work. Not perfect however.
Shou Disciple	Prestige		Monk prestige class who can wear light armour and use more weapons as monk weapons	Many hardcoded things already in the engine from Bioware.
Stormlord	Prestige	3.5E Complete Divine variant, p. 65	Divine caster (3rd levels spells minimum) ability to enhance certain weapons with electricity and gets some immunity to electricity	A decent easy to do class that makes use of the divine bonus spell slots and - hopefully - full normal progression (needs testing). As a caster really needs a SetCasterLevel for proper compatibility. May need to have an active feat to apply the bonus damage / immunity bonus (as unyeilding permanent supernatural effects). But then again probably need to have hooks into various events to stop weapons being transferred. NWN2 implementation is probably fine for this. A bit broader allowances on requirements, and different weapons due to NWN limitations on ranged ones.
Archivist	Base	3.5E Heroes of Horror variant, p. 82	A wizard, but uses cleric spells essentially. Gets some bonus abilities, uses Int as the DC modifier and Wisdom for the spellbook modifier.	Will need GetSpellSaveDC alterations (since Wisdom is used for the spellbook and learning spells, but Intelligence used for the save DC), but other than that may "just work" more or less. Lore Mastery is probably the only "useless" thing and can perhaps be replaced with a simple Skill Focus: Lore and Greater Skill Focus: Lore as free feats. The bonus abilities are "neat" and at least make use of Lore (or "knowledge") versus monsters. Select feat - select enemy - gain aura to help allies for a while based on their racial type. Yes it's another cleric-like spellcaster but at least a semi-interesting one needing 2 characteristics to invest into so it's not instantly better than either class by itself. Sorta has some wizard stuff (bonus feats) and some cleric. If you want to just class cleric spells pure cleric is probably still "better". Epic Archivist would presumably just take a page from the Cleric feats available.
Favoured Soul	Base	3.5E Complete Divine variant, p. 6	A sorcerer who casts cleric spells essentially.	Will need GetSpellSaveDC alterations (uses Wisdom to increase DC, but Charisma for learning spells and slot bonuses). It should just work mostly otherwise. Similar to Sorcerer. Difficult parts mainly is enforcing a particular Weapon Focus or Weapon Specialisation, but could just let them be taken who cares on restricting it. Need to test how Energy Resistance (which is NWN, albeit a epic feat called "Epic Energy Resistance") can be done as a bonus feat selection, else perhaps just pre-select them...? Wings will need level up scripts I think, is hardcoded for Red Dragon Disciple. Will be purely visual. The damage reduction at the end should be 10/+1 I guess, not great but similar to the Monks.
Warlock	Base		A 3rd kind of caster compared to divine and arcane!	This is potentially difficult to do, but some options: NUI it up if we get access to SetCasterLevel and SetSpellID since we can just cheat cast spells then from a NUI panel If no NUI, can restore spells using .35 functions so can have a "spellbook" that doesn't really do anything except allow you to select what pacts to cast
Divine Crusader	Prestige	3.5E Complete Divine, p33	A limited divine spellbook user that only learns domain spells.	While the NWN:EE I think forces 2 domains to be chosen that would be pretty ok especially with NWN's more limited domain spell availability. I don't think it's really overpowered. Would be certainly an interesting class! The bonus feats are pretty normal, free Weapon Specialization, acid/electricity resistance (and Epic version) for free, Perfect Self, Darkvision.