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About this mod
This mod alters the Spiritshift cooldown for the Shifter subclass in ElricGalad's Deadfire Balance Polishing Mod. Instead of a global cooldown on Spiritshift, it applies a cooldown to each Spiritshift form independently.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
Credits:
This mod is just an altered form of a file which appears in ElricGalad’s Deadfire Balance Polishing Mod (BPM). All credit goes to ElricGalad for the original override code and initiative, and thanks to him for such an ambitious and excellent mod! Find it here: https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/438
Design philosophy:
By default, the Druid class is a caster first and foremost, with Spiritshift as an ancillary feature. Ideally, the point of the Shifter subclass is to make Spiritshift the class’s primary feature rather than an ancillary one. Thematic Shifter builds should aim to spend the majority of their time in animal shape, with spells playing an important but secondary role.
Because this is my perspective on the subclass, I disliked BPM’s implementation of a global cooldown on the Shifter’s Spiritshift forms. Preventing the Shifter from transforming freely discourages the player from treating Spiritshift as the centrepiece of their build and therefore, in my opinion, runs counter to the spirit of the subclass and the fantasy it encourages.
Accordingly, I altered the relevant file in BPM so that the Shifter has a cooldown on each of its forms independently. For example, if you use the bear shape, you will incur a cooldown on bear shape only – you can still freely use any of the other four shapes, subject only to their independent cooldowns. This should not feel different to vanilla except in extraordinarily long fights, wherein you will no longer be in danger of losing your ability to Spiritshift altogether. This ensures that the player can feel confident building around Spiritshift no matter the length of an encounter.
The cooldowns are set to 180 seconds. That is long enough that the player should not be able to use the same form twice in any ordinary encounter but short enough that a character who spends most of their time in Spiritshift in a very long encounter should always have at least one form available. Keep in mind that BPM has Spiritshift base duration scale with Druid power level.
Installation:
First, ensure that you have installed the Balance Polishing Mod according to the instructions on its page: https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/438
Extract the folder “Alternate Shifter Spiritshift Cooldown” into <Pillars of Eternity II>/PillarsOfEternityII_Data/override/. It should then be in the same place as the “BalancePolishingModBuffs” folder.
In the in-game mod manager, make sure that this mod loads below the Balance Polishing Mod Buffs package. That will allow it to override the changes in the latter.
This mod is just an altered form of a file which appears in ElricGalad’s Deadfire Balance Polishing Mod (BPM). All credit goes to ElricGalad for the original override code and initiative, and thanks to him for such an ambitious and excellent mod! Find it here: https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/438
Design philosophy:
By default, the Druid class is a caster first and foremost, with Spiritshift as an ancillary feature. Ideally, the point of the Shifter subclass is to make Spiritshift the class’s primary feature rather than an ancillary one. Thematic Shifter builds should aim to spend the majority of their time in animal shape, with spells playing an important but secondary role.
Because this is my perspective on the subclass, I disliked BPM’s implementation of a global cooldown on the Shifter’s Spiritshift forms. Preventing the Shifter from transforming freely discourages the player from treating Spiritshift as the centrepiece of their build and therefore, in my opinion, runs counter to the spirit of the subclass and the fantasy it encourages.
Accordingly, I altered the relevant file in BPM so that the Shifter has a cooldown on each of its forms independently. For example, if you use the bear shape, you will incur a cooldown on bear shape only – you can still freely use any of the other four shapes, subject only to their independent cooldowns. This should not feel different to vanilla except in extraordinarily long fights, wherein you will no longer be in danger of losing your ability to Spiritshift altogether. This ensures that the player can feel confident building around Spiritshift no matter the length of an encounter.
The cooldowns are set to 180 seconds. That is long enough that the player should not be able to use the same form twice in any ordinary encounter but short enough that a character who spends most of their time in Spiritshift in a very long encounter should always have at least one form available. Keep in mind that BPM has Spiritshift base duration scale with Druid power level.
Installation:
First, ensure that you have installed the Balance Polishing Mod according to the instructions on its page: https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/438
Extract the folder “Alternate Shifter Spiritshift Cooldown” into <Pillars of Eternity II>/PillarsOfEternityII_Data/override/. It should then be in the same place as the “BalancePolishingModBuffs” folder.
In the in-game mod manager, make sure that this mod loads below the Balance Polishing Mod Buffs package. That will allow it to override the changes in the latter.