Gothic 1 Remake Mage Balance Mod v0.9

                    
Gothic 1 Remake’s mage spells are inconsistent in power, with several falling off sharply in the mid and late game while others barely justify their mana cost. The Mage Balance mod rebalances spell damage, mana costs, cast and charge times, and projectile speed at runtime without modifying any game files. Furthermore, it also fixes Chain Lightning, strengthens endgame spells like Uriziel and Death Breath, and reduces the learn point cost of magic circles. Consequently, mage builds stay competitive and rewarding to play from early game through the end.
What’s Included

Per-spell damage rebalance via simple multipliers or per-circle values.
Mana cost and cast/charge time tuning for most spells.
Reliable Ice Block freeze on every hit instead of requiring overflow.
Improved Fist of Wind knockdown, even on heavier enemies like orcs.
Reduced magic circle LP costs (100 total vs 135 vanilla), with circle 6 remaining a real milestone.
Runtime-only and save-safe. Nothing on disk is touched and changes revert on game close.
Configurable per spell in Scripts\config.lua.

Why You Need This Mod
This mod is useful if you find that mage builds become frustrating in the mid and late game when several spells stop keeping up with enemy health pools. It also makes the mage path more viable on harder difficulties by ensuring crowd control spells like Ice Block and Fist of Wind work reliably. Additionally, the reduced circle LP costs ease the steep early investment without trivializing the final circle as a goal.
How to Get Started

Download the mod archive and extract it to your PC.
Install UE4SS experimental-latest if you have not already. Extract into:
...\Gothic 1 Remake\G1R\Binaries\Win64\
so that dwmapi.dll sits next to G1R-Win64-Shipping.exe and a Win64\ue4ss\ folder is created.
Copy the G1R_MageBalance folder into:
...\Win64\ue4ss\Mods\
If you are using an older UE4SS build, use ...\Win64\Mods\ instead, matching wherever your other mods are installed.
The included enabled.txt activates the mod automatically. No mods.txt edit is needed.
Launch the game. All spell changes apply at runtime.
To adjust individual spells, open Scripts\config.lua, edit the values for the spells you want, save, and restart the game.
To uninstall, delete the G1R_MageBalance folder from the Mods directory.

Good to Know

Uriziel, Destroy Undead, and Fist of Wind have been written but not fully cast-tested by the author. Feedback from players who own those runes is welcome.
Destroy Undead’s effective damage is still reduced by undead resistance, as expected.
Optional mb_* console commands are available if ConsoleEnablerMod is installed, which ships bundled with UE4SS.
On Linux, add WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dwmapi=n,b" %command% to your Steam launch options.