
Kalavinka gave me the thumbs up to publish this improved mod, and while the coding and features are new and done by myself, the concept is certainly theirs.
This gives characters skills and basic starting weapons to truly let you rebuild them. This fixes the second issue, and helps you circumvent the first. The respec mirror has some bugs that are still yet to be fixed, and so does selecting some companions with Polymorph in their preset class to do with attribute points. It's more convenient, and can always be used with the respec mirror anyway. Why use this when there's a respec mirror? You will receive relevant basic starting weapons for both your avatar and recruited characters. This means if you spec into Geomancer + Polymorph, expect to start with all 8 skills you see in character creation. Your player character will receive all of the skills associated with your abilities, just like the recruited members would have.
You can enable this mod right from the start of the game, no need to play about with turning the mod on after the character creation. Additionally, you will then receive a set of basic starting weapons that synergise with those abilities. This can happen up to two times for abilities that have associated skills. When you place a point in an ability, they will receive the associated 4 basic skills allowed from character creation. When you recruit a character, all of their attributes, abilities, civil abilities, skills, and talents are refunded for you to re-allocate. You will then receive a set of basic starting weapons that synergise with those abilities. If you also placed a point in Pyrokinetic, you'll receive Haste, Peace of Mind, Ignition, and Searing Daggers. For example, if you placed a point in Geomancer you will receive Poison Dart, Contamination, Fortify, and Fossil Strike. On completing character creation, your player will receive the 4 starter skills associated with the abilities you chose. However, their mod had a few problems I wanted to address, so I bring you Just Let Me Build You!++.
In fact, there was already a mod for you called Just Let Me Build You by Kalavinka. If you're sick and tired of recruited characters coming with awful ability or attribute spreads, this is the mod for you.