
The Ethereal Crossbow has been beefed up to feel more like a true shotgun weapon. Both the un-Tomed and Tomed versions of the Wand fire slightly faster. The Elven Wand's shot is now a bit more powerful. The Gauntlets are slightly more powerful and are more likely to stunlock enemies. The Tomed Staff is significantly more powerful, and it now hits ghost enemies. The Staff uses custom animations by OSJC that make it feel more like a weapon and less like a cattle prod. The following is a complete list of changes. The main goal of these design changes is to make the game a bit more fast-paced and fun to play. The Wayfarer's Tome adds a variety of mostly minor tweaks to Heretic, which are intended to make the gameplay smoother, improve the overall balance, fix a few weird design choices that could be considered features but are probably bugs, and so on. wtome_qcs.wad: Quest for the Crystal Skulls Load files in the following order: the mapset you're playing, then wtome_sa.pk3, then the patch. *Requires a patch, which is included with the release. I've tested the following maps and mapsets with The Wayfarer's Tome, and I would highly recommend all of them (with or without the mod, but especially with). What do you recommend playing with the mod? If you play continuous, you'll often end up with enormous amounts of ammo and armor, so consider using Wand starts if you're looking for more of a challenge. E1 is super quick and breezy with all the fodder enemies, and the tougher maps in E3-E5 are generally more fun as well. I think it's worth playing Heretic with the mod, especially if you didn't like the game much in the past but want to give it another shot.

However, playing with the mod does improve the pace of the game and keeps the combat from dragging. Heretic has mixed quality when it comes to level design, and a gameplay mod isn't able to address all those issues. Although the rebalance was designed primarily as a base for creating new maps, I've found it to be enjoyable with any well-designed Heretic map. The Wayfarer's Tome is a standalone gameplay mod that lets you use the gameplay rebalance from The Wayfarer with any standard Heretic map.
