Final Fantasy Hacktics

So! How's this done? I'm getting Vanya to make me that Lightning sprite for me, but how to I end up creating a new custom class around her and all that?

I was thinking of replacing the Arc Witch and stuff ... would I just go to the ENTD editor and set the Sprite Set to whatever I replaced Lightning with and set the Job as Arc Witch then? So, when she joins, her sprite is there and uses the Arc Witch Job?

How about a new name in, so she's named 'Lightning' and not something random?

I'm starting to notice a lot of the same questions appearing over and over on the forums like, "how do I put ENTD files in," or "how do I do such-and-such with sprites," and so on.

We really should have guides posted somewhere or a FAQ topic or something of that nature so we can direct everyone to it and they can read up on all the answers they want. I'm even willing to make the guides myself if no one else has the time or doesn't know how to make it and all that ...

Can someone, please oh please! Make a sprite of the gal at the end of this video? She appears at 2:19 and stays until the end of it.

She's so freakin' awesome... ^_^ I hope it's not too hard either.

Key
- - -
Cancel [Status] - Cancels [Status]
All [Status] - Either casts All of [Status] or Nothing
Random [Status] - Selects [Status] at Random
Seperate [Status] - Casts all [Status] seperately, each with their own chance to be inflicted
~Repeat~ - The Status Effect is already in use somewhere else. Why they'd use multiple slots for the same thing is beyond me.
~Unused~ - Seems to be completely unused.

00: ~Nothing~ (Used for default)

Items
01: Cancel Poison
02: Cancel Darkness
03: Cancel Silence
04: Cancel Frog
05: Cancel Petrify
06: Cancel Undead & Blood Suck
07: Cancel Petrify, Darkness, Confusion, Silence, Oil, Frog, Poison, Sleep
08: Cancel Dead

Weapons
09: All Darkness
0A: All Silence
0B: All Death Sentence
0C: All Sleep
0D: All Don't Act
0E: All Don't Move
0F: All Sleep ~Repeat~
10: All Frog
11: All Petrify
12: All Slow
13: All Poison
14: All Faith
15: All Darkness ~Repeat~
16: All Poison ~Repeat~
17: All Confusion
18: All Charm
19: All Innocent
1A: Cancel Darkness, Silence, Oil, Frog, Poison, Slow, Stop, Don't Move, Don't Act
1B: All Sleep ~Unused~
1C: Cancel Death Sentence

Nothing!
1D: ~Nothing~
1E: ~Nothing~
1F: ~Nothing~

Abilities/Spells
20: Cancel Dead ~Repeat~
21: All Reraise
22: All Regen
23: All Protect
24: All Shell
25: All Protect & Shell
26: Cancel Petrify, Darkness, Confusion, Silence, Berserk, Frog, Poison, Sleep, Don't Act, Don't Move
27: All Poison ~Repeat~
28: All Frog ~Repeat~
29: All Dead
2A: All Haste
2B: All Slow ~Repeat~
2C: All Stop
2D: All Don't Move ~Repeat~
2E: All Float
2F: All Reflect
30: All Darkness ~Repeat~
31: All Faith ~Repeat~
32: All Innocent ~Repeat~
33: All Undead
34: All Silence ~Repeat~
35: All Berserk
36: All Confusion ~Repeat~
37: Cancel Float, Reraise, Transparent, Regen, Protect, Shell, Haste, Faith, Reflect
38: All Don't Act ~Repeat~
39: All Sleep ~Repeat~
3A: All Petrify ~Repeat~
3B: Random Reraise, Regen, Protect, Shell, Haste
3C: Random Darkness, Confusion, Silence, Frog, Poison, Slow, Stop, Sleep
3D: All Death Sentence ~Repeat~
3E: All Charm ~Repeat~
3F: All Invite
40: Cancel Petrify, Oil, Poison, Stop ~Unused~
41: All Don't Move ~Repeat~
42: All Frog ~Repeat~
43: All Stop ~Repeat~
44: All Petrify ~Repeat~
45: All Confusion ~Repeat~
46: All Don't Act ~Repeat~
47: All Sleep ~Repeat~
48: All Death Sentence ~Repeat~
49: All Darkness ~Repeat~
4A: All Silence ~Repeat~
4B: All Slow ~Repeat~
4C: All Dead ~Repeat~
4D: Random Confusion & Death Sentence
4E: All Regen & Haste
4F: Cancel Darkness, Silence, Confusion
50: Cancel Petrify, Confusion, Silence, Blood Suck, Frog, Poison, Stop, Sleep, Don't Move, Don't Act
51: All Stop, Don't Move, Don't Act
52: Random Darkness, Confusion, Silence, Frog, Poison, Slow, Sleep
53: All Petrify ~Repeat~
54: Random Sleep & Death Sentence
55: All Blood Suck
56: Seperate Darkness
57: Seperate Poison
58: Seperate Oil
59: Seperate Undead
5A: Seperate Dead
5B: Seperate Petrify
5C: All Reraise, Regen, Protect, Shell, Haste
5D: All Petrify ~Repeat~
5E: Cancel Darkness, Confusion, Silence, Oil, Berserk, Frog, Poison, Stop, Sleep, Don't Move, Don't Act
5F: Random Dead, Petrify, Stop
60: All Crystal
61: All Frog ~Repeat~
62: All Slow ~Repeat~
63: All Silence ~Repeat~
64: Cancel Petrify, Darkness, Silence, Poison, Stop, Don't Move, Don't Act
65: All Oil
66: Random Petrify & Stop
67: Random Confusion & Berserk
68: Random Confusion & Sleep
69: Seperate Petrify, Darkness, Confusion, Silence, Oil, Frog, Poison, Sleep
6A: Seperate Petrify, Darkness, Confusion, Silence, Berserk, Frog, Poison, Slow, Sleep
6B: Seperate Blood Suck
6C: All Undead ~Repeat~
6D: All Sleep ~Repeat~
6E: All Oil ~Repeat~
6F: Random Petrify, Darkness, Silence, Don't Move, Don't Act
70: All Petrify ~Repeat~
71: Seperate Dead & Sleep
72: All Petrify ~Repeat~
73: All Frog ~Repeat~
74: All Frog & Poison
75: Seperate Stop
76: Seperate Death Sentence
77: Seperate Dead ~Repeat~
78: Seperate Silence
79: Seperate Confusion
7A: ~Nothing~
7B: ~Nothing~
7C: ~Nothing~
7D: ~Nothing~
7E: ~Nothing~
7F: ~Nothing~[/list]

Quote from: "Zozma"okay.. one moment let me try this again

Does anyone know why some random battles appear more often than others? Take the plains for instance.. the first random battleground you can visit. Why's it that monster random battles occur more often than those with humans in them?

Does anyone know if "Angel of Death" officially appears anywhere in the game? I saw him in one of the events, but it's unmarked and in some random battle with Elmdor and a bunch of random NPCs.

Hey everyone! Finally got it uploaded and everything! Newest version is right below;

(Just click the image).
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And here's the readme;

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Heavenly Chaos v0.14

**Changes**

Items
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Gauntlets
- - - - - - -
Power Wrist: PA +1, Cancel: Charm, Blind
Magic Gauntlet: MA +2
Bracer: PA +2
Genji Gauntlet: PA +2, MA +2

Shoes
- - - - -
Germinas Boots: Move +1, Jump +2  
Rubber shoes: Cancel: Lightning, Don't Move
Feather Boots: Always: Float, Strengthen: Lightning
Battle Boots: Move +1, PA +1, Weak: Fire  
Red Shoes: Move +1, MA +1
Sprint Shoes: Speed +1, Initial: Haste  
Spike boots: Move +1, Half: Earth

Rings
- - - -
Reflect Ring: Always: Reflect, MA +1
Defense Ring: Cancels: Sleep, Death Sentence, Halves: Holy Elemental, Strenghten: Holy Elemental
Magic Ring: Always: Faith Cancels: Silence, Berserk
Angel Ring: Cancels: Holy Elemental, Darkness, Dead. Initial: Reraise, Weak: Darkness Elemental
Cursed Ring: Cancels: Darkness Elemental, Charm. PA +1, MA +1, SP +1, Always: Undead, Weak: Holy Elemental

Armlets
- - - - - -
Diamond Armlet: Cancels: Stop, Slow, Immune: Haste. MA +1, PA +1, SP +1
Jade Armlet: Cancels: Stop, Petrify, Ice
N-Kai Armlet: Cancels: Charm, Confusion. Halves: Darkness Elemental, Strengthen: Darkness Elemental
Defense Armlet: Cancels: Don't Move, Don't Act, fire  
108 Gems: Cancels: Zombie, Blood Suck, Frog, Poison. Strengthen: Elements

Mantles
- - - - - -
Small Mantle: P.ev 15, M.ev 0
Leather Mantle: P.ev 10, M.ev 10
Wizard Mantle: P.ev 10, M.ev 15, MA +1
Elf Mantle: P.ev 15, M.ev 15, SP +1. Weak: Fire
Feather Mantle: P.ev 25, M.ev 20
Dracula Mantle: P.ev 30, M.ev 30 Initial: Undead
Vanish Mantle: P.ev 25, M.ev 0, Initial: Transparent

Perfumes
- - - - -
Chantage: Initial: Reraise, Always: Regen, Weka: Darkness
Cherche: Always: Slow, Immunity: Stop, Don't Move, Don't Act, Haste, PA +1, MA +1
Setiemson: Always: Haste, Initial: Transparent, MA +1, Weak: Holy
Salty Rage: Always: Berserk, Regen, Dark/Evil Looking, Immunity: Slow, Stop, Weak: Holy, Darkness


Weapons
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• Rune Blade: Added

Earth elemental
• Kikuichiimoji: Added Water elemental
• Slasher: Added Earth elemental
• Wizard Rod: Added Darkness elemental
• Gold Staff: Added Holy elementanl
• Octagon Rod: Added Fire elemental
• Morning Star: Added Lightning elemental
• Gastrafitis: Added Fire elemental
• Ultimus Bow: Added Ice elemental
• Papyrus Plate: Added Lightning elemental
• Nagrarock: Added Darkness elemental
• Materia Blade: Added Water elemental
• Defender: Added Earth elemental
• Save the Queen: Added Wind elemental
• Excalibur: Added Holy elemental & took Haste away
• Chaos Blade: Added Darkness elemental, WP: 30
• Zorlin Shape: Added Wind elemental
• Sasuke Knife: Added Earth elemental
• Iga Knife: Added Ice elemental
• Koga Knife: Added Lightning elemental
• Spell Edge: Added Darkness elemental
• Muramasa: Added Darkness elemental
• Masamune: Added Ice elemental
• Chirijiraden: Added Lightning
• Mace of Zeus: Added Lightning
• Sage Staff: Added Earth elemental
• Blaze Gun: Fixed it to Fire elemental
• Glacier Gun: Fixed it to Ice elemental
• Ramia Harp: Changed to Me'a Blade
• Bloody Strings: Changed to Mori Blade
• Changing Katanas to swords, bumped up the costs for katanas.  
• Gave Chirijiraden +2 MA.
• Gave all ninja blades status effects;

• Hidden Knife: Darkness
• Ninja Knife: Silence
• Short Edge: Sleep
• Ninja Edge: Don't Move
• Spell Edge: Don't Act (Unchanged)
• Sasuke Knife: Slow
• Iga Knife: Frog
• Koga Knife: Petrify

Me'a Blade[/i]

• Resembles: Rune Blade
• Item Type: Knight's Sword
• Attributes: +2 SP, Immune to Don't Move & Don't Act
• Price: 65,535 Gil
• Sold When?: Poaching
• Weapon, Rare
• Range: 1
• Attack Forumla: Normal
• Weapon Power: 27
• Weapon Evade: 18%
• Elementals:

Holy[/list]

Mori Blade

• Resembles: Blood Sword
• Item Type: Knight's Sword
• Attributes: N/A
• Price: 65,535 Gil
• Sold When?: Poaching
• Weapon, Rare
• Range: 1
• Attack Forumla: Drain HP
• Weapon Power: 28
• Weapon Evade: 15%
• Elementals:

Darkness[/list]
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Harps & Silks excluded (though it's possible to find some with move-find item, so it's free Gil since no one can use them)!


Jobs
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Bard is Now Heavenly Knight (Male Only)

Requirements: Level 8 Squire, Level 8 Knight, Level 6 Priest, Level 4 Wizard, Level 6 Samurai

Skillset: Heaven's Light

Move: 3
Jump: 4
Class Evade: 10%

Innate: Move-Find Item, Any Whether, Any Ground.

Absorb: Holy.
Weak: Darkness.

Equipment: Swords, Knight's Sword, Shield, Helmet, Armor, Robe, Shoes, Armguard, Ring, Armlet, Cloak, Perfume.

Starting Status: Shell

Immunity: Undead, Charm, Poison, & Blood Suck.

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Heaven's Light
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Actions
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Stasis Sword
Split Punch
Crush Punch
Lightning Stab
Holy Explosion
Soothing Light (1,400 JP)
Angel's Shield (1,000 JP)
Accumulate
Shock (700 JP)
Heavenly Gate (2,500 JP)

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Reaction
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Dragon Spirit
Blade Grasp

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Support
-------
Attack UP
Gained EXP-UP

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Move
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None

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Dancer is now Chaos Knight (Female Only)

Requirements: Level 8 Squire, Level 8 Knight, Level 4 Priest, Level 6 Wizard, Level 6 Samurai

Skillset: Chaos' Darkness

Move: 3
Jump: 4
Class Evade: 10%

Innate: Move-Find Item, Any Whether, Any Ground.

Absorb: Darkness.
Weak: Holy.

Equipment: Swords, Knight's Sword, Shield, Helmet, Armor, Robe, Shoes, Armguard, Ring, Armlet, Cloak.

Starting Status: Protect

Immunity: Slow, Death Sentence, Confusion, & Blood Suck.

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Chaos' Abyss
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Actions
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Dark Sword (Now 400 JP)
Night Sword (Now 600 JP)
Creeping Energy (900 JP)
Abyssal Fall (1,050 JP)
Sage's Silence (1,200 JP)
Night Sky (1,350 JP)
Tornado's Wind (1,500 JP)
Hellcry Punch
Shock (700 JP)
Chaos Cord (2,000 JP)

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Reaction
--------
Sunken State
Blade Grasp

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Support
-------
Defense UP
Gained EXP-UP

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Move
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None

* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *

Squire
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• Equip: Knight, Ninja Blade, Sword, Katana, Axe, Flail, Polearm, Pole, Shield, Hat, Hair Adornment, Clothing, Robe, Shoes, Armguard, Ring, Amulet, Cloak
• Added Wish & Ultima to Skill list. Ultima is now learnable via JP (at 300).
• Innate: Gained JP-UP.
• Added: Move-Get JP
• Removed: Monster Skill

Chemist
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• Equip: Bow & Poles.

Knight
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• Innate: Defense UP

Archer
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• Innate: Concentrate

Monk
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• Innate: Move-HP Up (Along with Martial Arts)

Priest(ess)
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• Innate: Magic Defense UP

Wizard
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• Innate: Magic Attack UP

Time Mage
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• Innate: Short Charge

Summoner
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• Innate: Half of MP

Thief
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• Innate: Two Swords

Mediator
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• Status Immunity: Charm & Death Sentance
• Innate: Train (Along with Monster Talk)

Oracle
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• Innate: Move-MP Up

Geomancer
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• Innate: Any Ground, Move on Lava, Move in Water

Lancer
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• Innate: Ignore Height

Samurai
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• Innate: Two Hands
• Can equip swords (but not Knight Swords)
• Switched out Equip Knife for Equip Sword

Calculator
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• Removed: Move-Get JP

Mime
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• Requirements: Level 6 Squire, Level 6 Chemist, Level 2 Monk, Level 2 Thief, Level 2 Time Mage, Level 3 Summoner, Level 2 Oracle, Level 3 Mediator.

Special Classes
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• All Special base jobs (like Holy Knight) are edited to also include Move-Get Jp and exclude Monster skill, along with special reactions and support abilities. Such as Sword Skill classes having Counter and Equip Sword instead of Counter Tackle and Equip Axe.
• Orlandu's All Swordskill now has; Stasis Sword, Split Punch, Crush Punch, Shellbust Stab, Blaster Punch, Dark Sword, Power Ruin, and Mind Ruin.
• All Mighty Swordskill's include either Stasis Sword or Lightning Stab.
• Lightning Stab costs 20 MP.
• Holy Explosion costs 15 MP.


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Boss Improvements
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Lune Knight
Holy Priest
Dark Knight
White Knight
Divine Knight
Arc Knight
Sorcerer

Impure King
Warlock
Angel of Death
Ghost of Fury
Regulator
Holy Angel
Arch Angel
Serpentarius

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Monster Improvements
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• Weaker Undead: Weak: Holy Elemental
Stronger Undead: Normal vs. Holy
Strongest Undead: Half: Holy Elemental

• Weaker Other (Any other monster): Weak: [Normal Elemental] (What they're normally weak against)
Strong Other: Normal vs. [Normal Elemental], Weak vs. [Opposite Elemental]
Stronger Other: Half vs. [Normal Elemental], Normal vs. [Opposite Elemental]

• Added Darkness & Holy Absorb/Weak/Half to several monsters besides undead.
• Dragons stay the same (in terms of weaknesses)
• General Improved Stat Growths and Multipliers
• Added several elementals to monster attacks, including both holy and darkness.
• Removed Monster Skill and Rearranged Monster Skills (beware of Vampires! )
• Added all negative Status effects to Bad Breath.
• Included Fairy in Warlock Summon skillset.
• Yellow Chocobos are now support-only monsters in attempts to make them more like the traditional image. Only able to Cure and Esuna, but their cure is extremely powerful.
• Improved the Cure Boar class of monsters.
• Gave Byblos 4 Move, Bio, and Bio 2 (only one of each set).
• Removed Cannot Enter Water from all floating monsters (I never understood that).

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Misc.
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• Priest Spells are now all Holy Elemental
• Negative Life (including Draining) Spells are now all Darkness Elemental
• Gravity Spells are now wind elemental
• Lowered Drain and Demi to around 10-15% of life instead of 25-50%
• Pray Faith is only targetable to allies as Doubt Faith is only to enemies.
• Job Levels are easier to obtain
• Fixed Beowulf's Faith and Innocent to match the Oracle.
• Switch Drain to Wind & Dark, so Zodiacs are hopefully immune - if not, at least hopefully it'll not work as well.
• Took out Life Drain.
• Lich is now Wind & Dark for the same reason Drain & Life Drain are.
• Lowered the amount of Brave Points Foxbird & Chicken will lower Brave Points
• Cheer Up now lowers Brave Points instead of raising them
• Switched Ramza's skillset around a little; gets Ultima in Chapter 2 & 3, and Cheer Up & Scream (doesn't raise Brave anymore) in Chapter 4.
• Improved the levels of all story battles. Now every story battle the enemies will go up two levels, making them level 99 by the last three final battles (yes, including Altima!).
• Improved abilities for all story battles. This means running into knights with two swords or ninjas with equip armor and such.
• All classes benefit from innate Gained EXP-UP
• Beware the Fovoham Plains!

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Bugs
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• Chaos' Darkness makes the secondary skill invisable in the in battle selection screen.
• Level up & Job Level up messages are cut off.

Credits: VK Patch Team (Base ideas), Vincent, Austin[/list]


-Lydyn

Not sure where else this would fit ... I got the text all spiffy-ed up an' stuff, but it's not really clear on how to get the new text file into the SCUS_942.21 so I can finish patching the game with the new descriptions and stuff...

Can anyone give me some insight to this? Thanks.

I'm super bad when it comes to graphics besides anything from settings (drawing sunsets, rolling hills, castles, map editing terrian, etc.) and since I'm beginning to go all out here ... at least for myself, I was wondering if anyone can help me come up with some sprites?

I want a Heavenly Knight generic Sprite to replace the Bard one, and it'll be for males only and a Chaos Knight one to replace the Dancer one for females only.

*Puts a plate of cookies for all those who offer help*  

So, I'm completely new at this and just downloaded it a few days ago with the thought of reworking the Mime class (original FFT) into perhaps a Dark or Mystic Knight... or something, since I can't afford the remake right now.

Anyways, I didn't see any sort of manual or readme at all. Most of it seems... sort of user friendly, though there's quite a bit I don't understand, like some of the "unknown" check boxes and how to rename skill sets, classes, etc. The spirte, I'm not going to mess with .. but the rest, yeah.

I hate to be so generic, but could someone help? Thanks.