Ranked Adventurer

*Balancing info suggestions. I am trying to balance leveling gaining for skills which ultimately translates to ranking up. Initially I was trying to balance it to prevent mob spawner farming to rank up fast but I see some things i put in place inhibit actual intended game play as well. Leave a comment if you have any thoughts on anything that seems out of balance.

Ranked Adventurer is currently in a balancing testing state but should be fully functional.

This mod aims to change the progression of the game making places like the Nether and the End as well as some other mod's generated structures more challenging.

You start off unranked and obtain 4 skills by finding and consuming Skill Stones. After obtaining any of the 6 skill stones you consume these to gain 1 skill up to 4 skills. After gaining 4 skills you will automatically obtain Rank 1. Each rank grants you more health, melee damage, spell power, reduces hunger depletion and grants you new abilities.

After gaining a skill you must level each skill up by fighting in combat. Each skill used in combat will grant xp towards leveling that skill. Each skill must level from level 0 to 4. After all 4 skills reach level 4 you will be able to Rank up to the next rank. You complete this cycle until Rank 5.

Enemies also have ranks and gain the same benefits per rank as the player. Overworld has rank 1-2 enemies, Nether ranks 3-4 and End 4-5 with rank 5 being fairly rare. If using mods like Apotheosis the invader bosses have a change to spawn one rank higher than that dimension excluding the End since rank 5 is the highest.

Each rank will be slower to progress than the last and attacking enemies at your rank will be the easiest fights to progress your skills where attacking higher ranks will grant faster xp but at greater risk. ( this is the balancing that needs to be tested) Attacking lower than your rank grants basically no skill xp.

The goal is to gear up, rank up and take on all dimensions.

Confluences

Your four skills together produce a passive. Which one you get is decided by how those skills are spread across the six types, so it cannot be chosen directly -- it is the consequence of four permanent decisions.

No matter what skills you choose, you will get a confluence

Types of Confluences

Your four skills	You gain	Strength
Four of the same skill stone	That type's confluence	Greater
Three of the same skill stone	That type's confluence	Standard
Two skills from two different skill stones	That pairing's confluence	Standard
Two skills from one stone type, plus two others	The doubled type paired with your first other	Lesser
Four different skill stones	The pairing of your first two	Lesser

Lesser is half the values below. Greater is one and a half times, and is the only strength that grants a confluence's signature effect.

Press K at any time to see yours, with its numbers at your current rank.

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The six pure confluences

Committing three or four skills to one type. Values at rank 5.

Conflagration · Fire

Your spells burn hotter, and fire will not touch you.

Effect	Standard	Greater
Fire and spell damage	40%	60%
Immune to fire	Yes	Yes
Spell hits set the target alight.	—	Yes

Permafrost · Ice

Your spells bite deeper, and cold cannot slow you.

Effect	Standard	Greater
Ice and spell damage	40%	60%
Immune to freezing	Yes	Yes
Enemies near you are slowed.	—	Yes

Tempest · Air

The air carries you further and restores you as you fly.

Effect	Standard	Greater
Wing flap	5	8
Mana regeneration while airborne	50%	75%
Landing from a glide staggers and wounds those beneath you.	—	Yes

Void Walker · Ender

Distance means less to you, and less of what is thrown finds its mark.

Effect	Standard	Greater
Projectile damage taken	30%	45%
Block reach	2.5	3.8
A hard blow displaces you rather than felling you.	—	Yes

Sanctified · Life

Wounds close faster, and never stop closing.

Effect	Standard	Greater
Healing received, from any source	60%	90%
Maximum health	5	8
Near death, something shields you.	—	Yes

Sanguine · Blood

What you take from others sustains you.

Effect	Standard	Greater
Blood and spell damage	40%	60%
Of spell damage returned as health	20%	30%
A kill returns some of the power spent making it.	—	Yes

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The fifteen pair confluences

Splitting between two types. Values at Standard, rank 5.

Types	Confluence	What it does
Fire + Ice	Thermal Shock	+50% damage to enemies hit in the last 3 seconds
Fire + Air	Firestorm	Spell damage knocks enemies back +50% spell damage
Fire + Ender	Emberstep	+40% movement speed for 2s after casting +25% spell damage
Fire + Life	Forge Heart	+10 armour +40% healing received, from any source
Fire + Blood	Cauterise	+30% spell damage Any healing removes one harmful effect
Ice + Air	Whiteout	+40% stronger wing flaps -25% mana cost on every spell
Ice + Ender	Glacial Drift	+10 armour toughness -30% damage taken while standing still
Ice + Life	Hearthfrost	+5 maximum health +50% healing received
Ice + Blood	Cold Blood	Spell damage chills; +40% against the chilled
Air + Ender	Stormstep	-100% take-off charge time One free flap each time you begin a glide
Air + Life	Windward	+25% movement speed +40% mana regeneration
Air + Blood	Opening Strike	+60% damage to enemies at full health
Ender + Life	Anchor	+5 maximum health +50% knockback resistance
Ender + Blood	Reaper	+40% damage to enemies below 40% health
Life + Blood	Transfusion	Any healing damages enemies within 3 blocks for 100% of it

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A worked example

You take Fire, then Fire again, then Ice, then Air.

That is two Fire and two singles, so you gain the Fire confluence paired with the first of your others -- Ice. Lesser Thermal Shock.

Had you taken Air before Ice, it would be Lesser Firestorm. Had you taken a third Fire instead of Air, it would be Conflagration.