Using skill trees to make the game harder?

[Jjiinx]

There's a lot of talk about how the game starts out difficult, but becomes too easy around chapter 2 and 3. Yes, there's a mod out there that attempts to solve this issue, but it changes way too much about the game for my liking. I think this issue can be solved with a minimalist approach, by simply lowering values on each skill in the skill trees. This doesn't really weaken you too hard at the beginning, and as you gain more and more nerfed skills you become much weaker compared to a geralt using a non nerfed skill tree, thus balancing out endgame to make it harder, or at the very least, not godmode.

 

So what I'm really asking is, is there a simple way to edit the skill trees? Is it as simple as modifying the geralt_skills.xml file?

 

EDIT: I figured it out, making the mod now.

 

EDIT 2: Finished: http://witchernexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=215

Edited September 24, 2011 by Jjiinx