[MattCaspermeyer]

Normally, you'd just edit "skills_off=" under your particular hero class in HERO.TXT as you mention, but there is a complication.

You can remove "contrstrike" from the warrior's "skills_off=" list. If you do this and start the game, you'll have the Counter-attack skill available.

However, in Crossworlds, there are the "Secrets of..." quests which are meant to grant you either Counter-attack, Holy Armor, or Archmage based on your class when completing that quest.

All three of those skills are turned off at the start of the game per their inclusion in skills_off=.,.,megamage,contrstrike,holy_armor for all the hero classes.

Where:

megamage = Archmage
contrstrike = Counter-attack
holy_armor = Holy Armor
. = place holder for class specific disabled skills (i.e. hi_magic,resurrection for the warrior)

Also, the three skills (megamage,contrstrike,holy_armor) occupy the same spot (second row, second column, i.e. 1,1 (0-indexed)) in the mage skill tree (see the end of SKILLS.TXT) and so I'm pretty sure they cannot be enabled at the same time.

So I'm not sure what would happen if you completed the quest and you enable one of those skills at the start of the game via HERO.TXT. I guess you can just try to avoid getting the quest, because once you get it, you can't really avoid completing it sooner or later.

You'll most likely have to experiment with removing skills from "skills_off=" for the class you're interested in and see what happens when you complete the "Secrets of..." quest for you hero class.

Good luck and let us know how your experimentation works out!

Matt

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