Elric Galad

Yeah, I agree it's annoying. I was thinking about it a few weeks ago (just before struggling with arguably the most annoying flu of my life... still coughing after 4 weeks). Technically I have 2 options : - Make them always stackable (should work) - Make them never stackable (should most likely work) Tweaking the values would be a headache. What are you supposed to tweak with from +1 PL ? +0.75 stackable ? I don't want to do that. Whatever the option, I'll keep the original values for food. So either I make a big leap and go with always stackable (kind of powercreep, but granted how easy it is to trick it, not so much). Or I could go with the safe path and choose never stackable as it should have been.

Yes, it is technically feasible. Slightly tedious, but not so much. Cooldown for Spiritshift is already BPM biggest change by far in term of file size. It IS intentional. Shifter is an overpowered subclass in Vanilla. How much time 5 cancellable forms would be worse than 1 single form that can cast spell in vanilla ? Also consider that buffing underpowered forms and Wildstrike comparatively buffs shifter. Shifter can spend about 60% of its time in spiritshift form with the current setting. The only reason Shifter is not seen as OP in vanilla is that Shifting becomes increasingly relevant at high druid levels. I know, but the code is entertwined so impossible to separate them. You can 🙂 It is not impossible but even with BPM basis it would be tedious. You need to copy 5 times the cooldown status, allocate it for each form, and allow shifting for each form based on this particular status. I can't see another change to make but Cooldown for shifting has surprised me several times with side effects.

CP tweaked a bt Forbidden Fist ability (especially to make it work with Cipher) BPM didn't change it. BPM only buffed Forbidden Pie 🥧

Confirmed. Circle of protection only scales its duration with INT, not PL (which means PL has zero effect).

Usually 2 identical statuses never stack even if coming from a passive... except if they are coded as stackable. Even weapon qualities have to be stated "stack up to 2" or they won't work when dual wielding 2 weapons of similar quality (yeah, even if the quality mod applies to different sources). Rings are coded with "stack up to 2" in general. Ring of Protection is an example. But ring of greater regeneration doesn't have this property, so isn't stackable.

Ok,case closed. On Crit it will be.

The good thing is that the new BPM +10% damages on Kill seems to be only triggered by actual kills from your picture. It is important because the issue looks like an hardcode bug to a Status effect property. The +10% damages isn't implemented this way, so changing the code to implement the duration prolongement the same way as the damage bonus will likely correct the bug. It would be nice to find all concerned abilities. Fury, Chanter's Might/Res/Con invocation, others ?

This is weird. I checked the code but I see nothing suspicious. I tried in-game but Crits do not extand Spiritshift Storm duration. Do other users have this bug too ? Beware there have been a couple renaming of Druid Spiritshift/Wildstrike files, maybe you have older files still in your BPM directory ?

Indeed, it is coded as triggering "OnScoringGrazeHitOrCriticalHit" I let you debate if it shall be corrected and how.

As far as I know, the only summons that don't scale with your INT a the ones summoned by your summons (secondary skeletons / drake summoned on death of your summon). Edit : cause they use the original summon INT I have also a doubt about how the Chanter summoning phrase works.

Eventually I didn't. The double keywords help Druid Water / Ice builds that are a bit limited beyond level 4 (even with Conjure Greater Frost Blight) It would have been too much if I doubled Wildstrike effect on PL, but I didn't so... It's a CP KW change, not BPM, so I think I'll leave it as it is. I think it was sort of good Tier 9 spells, that's all. Plus not only Fury can use it. Why Wiz would get all the good spell ? I doubt current Fury is broken compared to Evoker.

New version is uploaded : Deadfire Balance Polishing Mod at Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com) Feel free to experiment a bit these new Spiritshifts. I would really appreciate feedback to understand if they are now satisfying. Also I would like to know how non random blight summons feel for you (as usual, also a couple minor tweaks and bugfixes

Confirmed and corrected for next version.

Spiritshift won't be broken, even with recent changes. OP maybe, but not broken 🙂 Currenly planning to set Spiritshift Cooldowns to 120s (normal) and 75s (Shifter). I can't find something else that satisfies me as much. Changing Cooldown has too pratical advantages compared to lower duration : it is way easier to do for me 🙂, and it does not nerf a base game feature (which is good for a mod). 15s is a relatively standard duration for a relatively short Tier 1 self-buff, and its non repeatable nature should limit it. With INT and PL scaling, that would be still 90s downtime in the endgame, so you can emulate Martials, but not for long.

Attempt ? Does it mean it does not work in every cases ? (won't be surprised)

Yes, most likely a bug. I will look into it. Basically : - Without form specific abilities, Spiritshift weapons have a hard time keeping up with unique weapons. Mowdyr (that I always use as a non build specific power weapon for comparison purpose) has a 20% lash and up to 20% speed up + 2 additional abilities. The values above are set so an endgame MC Spiritshift weapon has a slightly above 40% lash, with very good PEN. - I made it scaling, because no one complains about low level Spiritshift - I made it PL scaling so SC druids (who indeed don't get buff from a martial MC) still gets good enough in melee (granted that even Shifter should remain casters above all) - It has to be considered that Spiritshift is the only druid self buff. And costs 2 talents to keep up. That's why I think it has to be good. Even priests get Minor Avatar eventually. And Wiz has an unique spell which adds 30% lash on top of anything their weapon has. Wizards have Grimoire swapping, Priest get "borrowed" abilities and Holy radiance, Druids have Spiritshift as a signature abilities. - PoE1 Druid did loads of damages. That was fun. This mod doesn't bring it to a comparable level though. Now I changed so much stuff that it should be watched in next version. I'm potentially thinking about reducing Spiritshift duration or rising the Cooldown : better to have a low duration and always valuable Spiritshift than able to be kept up for a long time but meh value. Not sure it will be needed though. Edit : Maybe 120s Cooldown for Druid, 75s for Shifters.

The version is almost ready (might take time cause I don't have much time for the release notes though). I have buffed Spiritshift, Fury subclass and Druids in general quite a lot, so it might require some tweaks later. As a summary : - Spiritshift weapons now deals both Slash / Pierce (except Fury) - Wildstrike now gives 10% + 3/(PL -1) lash - Greater Wildstrike now gives 10% + 5/PL lash Fury gets : - 8-13 damages -> 10-15 damages (3s recovery, dual wield) - Wildstrike buff - +10% damages per kills up to 30% under storm blight shift (plus the regular duration extension). This is especially strong in situation where Garden of Life is strong for other subclasses. Bonus : - all spirit shift bonuses stack with everything - Shark does +25% BASE damages. - Wolfs added bonus Vs disengagement attacks - Stag : a Stag companion like carnage effect on crit. Basically a pseudo Wildstrike Frenzy. - Better Weather the Storm - non random Blight Summon So quite a lot of changes for druids. And there are also changes for other classes / items etc...

I don't think I have changed this ^^ But I don't remember getting several instances either. I haven't tried for a while.

Not exactly, The Soul Blade mod does not affect the On Kill event. It is just raw damages. It is not related to Cruel Blade (except you can't have it at the same time as the upgrade "Ghost Blade"). It Ghost Blade on Kill that is universal while Cruel Blade is not. Which is a bit unfair for the alternate upgrade. So I'll make Cruel Blade universal, for the reason you named.

Yeah, I get it. That was a bit the reason why I changed it from On Crit to On damaged in the first place. That being said, I think including Misses would change a bit too much the initial feeling, and I believe On (damaging) graze is enough. Note that an Unbroken has low reflexes, which might be exploited by standing in a wall of flame, even with a shield.

Updates : - Boar & Bear form : engagement bonus set to passive (so it stacks with active effects, as for Form of the Fearsome Brute) - Stag form carnage : reworked to an AoE triggered on Crit (including on main target) as Pet Stag companion (BPM made it works also on main target). => Base damage 10-18 Slash / Pierce, 9 PEN, 1.5 radius, scales as similar abilities (+5% multiplicative damages, +1 Acc, +0.25 PEN for each PL beyond 1). Why this change : I think the issue with "Barbarian style" carnage is that it is a bit pointless. It is much less focused than cat attack speed bonus, and more annoying, combo with few other abilities. I worked quite a bit on Barbarian to make carnage feels a bit like PoE1's (making Frenzy upgrades applies to Carnage hits, the making Interrupting blows working with BPM carnage crit). This, obviously, isn't easily doable with Druid Stag form. On the other side, I found this tweak for the stag pet : by working also on main target, it is an AoE passive, but also a Crit reliant damage ability vs main target. Crit fishing isn't easy with Stag pet nor with Stag form (except, well, entropy and some martial MC), but it is still much easier to build around (especially with a party) than a bit of raw damage around. Basically it is an extra Wildstrike Frenzy without extra property. Since it has to compete with things like Cat x1.33 attack speed, it has to be good enough. Finally Stag form working like Stag pet makes some sense.

I would not even know how to do this 😃 Updates : - Stag form : make the all defenses bonus passive so it stacks with similar effect. - Wolf form : make the movement speed bonus passive so it stacks with similar effects - Wolf form : add a passive +20 defenses Vs disengagement attacks - Fury : kills while shifted also grant +10% damages (up to +30%) until the end of the shift (this and attack rised to 10-15 elec damages, 8 PEN, 3s recovery and 1 bounce 80% damages) EDIT : I'm not a big fan of per Kill abilities, but this one reinforces some pre existing aspect. Also Fury will have a good auto attack for boss fight with the new damages, so the per kill bonus is there to complement them for more trash oriented fights.

I'm not set on the values yet. 45% might be a bit excessive. Maybe 35% lash for MC would be enough. Maybe I'll go halfway to 40% (that's a +10% with Potion of Ascension) A "good" DPS unique should provide around 40% lash. Well, there is no 40% lash, but Mowdyr, for example, has 20% lash, up to 20% action speed and a few utility. When a Rogue MC with a Monk, it gets up to +15%+20% lashes on top of what an Unique Weapon provides. Plus attack speed etc... MC with a druid replace your lash by Wildstrike's (and only when shifted), so I don't think it would compete. I get what you say about active ability comboing less, but active abilities : - Won't work on foe druid, cause IA. I really don't like that - Would make Wolf less special (albeit it could get a passive instead) - Is a lot of tedious work 🙂 I tend to avoid creating new abilities for BPM. That's a principle I followed until now, and I don't see a clear reason to change for Shifting. Nope. I think Shifter is fine (compared to other subclass). I stated it earlier. Shifter subclass has never been about better spiritshift. You might have liked it this way, but BPM avoids changing the feeling of a (sub)class. Shifting to "the right form" IS an advantage though. Yup, that's exactly what I think. (bar minor number tweaking). No. I don't think I've hinted at any point that I agree that Forms should get more bonuses. This would be a job for another mod 🙂 The druid active part is it's spell. Beast form is for me about brute power. Maybe for fury I will add something. Just a reminder : BPM is a lot of work. If you want me to do something, please try to start from what I consider to be the picture of the current situation, and that I shared earlier (recap below). You can challenge these statements, point some additional issues for you, or your can agree with some issues and try to find a solution. But if you give solutions to stuff I don't consider to be problems (and not try to convince me that there is a problem), well, I won't agree. @Exanosconvinced me Fury weapon was unfocused, that's why it is currently in my list. Now, what I consider satisfying (bar a couple minor adjustements) about Spiritshift in current BPM version : - The cooldown for long fights. - Balance between Shifter and Animist (so basically Shifter vs other subclass). Granted that Spiritshift has too become a bit more desirable to keep for Shifters to be satisfying. - Wildstrike contribution to casting. Medium/Minor but helps using various spell (as I stated before, you should consider not using this to buff your "best spells", as some unique items can be better, but to boost secondary elements. The new Blight summons help toward that, I think.) - Balance between the 5 main Forms - Wildstrike Frenzy because Entropy (and party support, Stag's Horn, whatever) - The way Lifgiver uses Spiritshift What I should think more about : - Focusing more Spiritshift about fighting better. - The exact role of Fury form (that I'm leaving aside a bit for now).

Well, the item can still be obtained, and isn't very interesting, so for now, probably not. I don't think it is that interesting in a game that already has multiclassing. If you want a Druid/Rogue, you can just play a Druid/Rogue. That doesn't mean this couldn't be interesting or suitable for a mod. I'm just saying that it will complexify the rules without major benefit. But well, there's literally hundreds of DnD prestige classes, so no harm to develop this. Not really BPM purpose, at least 🙂 I don't aim to do things too different from vanilla, even if sometime I add a couple of properties. In PoE1, Druid was a caster class that, for a short duration, was able to shift to another mode where you distributed some of the biggest melee potatoes in the game. Nothing specially subtle (a couple specialization based on form), but I think the feeling was still good. (Oh I remember the 1 per Rest Stag Carnage + stunning Avenging Storm. It was on overkilling group melter) Somehow, Spiritshift was heavily nerfed in PoE2, to the point their attack is no better than many unique weapons (only Cat and Boar special abilities compensate). In vanilla, Shifter is mechanically superior (at least to Animist). Need to cast a spell ? Just switch back get healed, and switch again. You have 5x switch. This. This is a small change. This is certainly not enough. But this is an obviously good change. Boar vs Skeletons feels way too sad. So Slash/Pierce for everyone. Except Fury. That would be a Fury drawback (drawback are useful, cause they allow buffing somewhere else to compensate). I think boosting Spiritshift weapon damages is probably the way to go. I will keep the small +1/(+2) elemental KW from (Greater) Wildstrike as a way to distinguish non-shifter from shifter. Now, what I consider satisfying (bar a couple minor adjustements) about Spiritshift in current BPM version : - The cooldown for long fights. - Balance between Shifter and Animist (so basically Shifter vs other subclass). Granted that Spiritshift has too become a bit more desirable to keep for Shifters to be satisfying. - Wildstrike contribution to casting. Medium/Minor but helps using various spell (as I stated before, you should consider not using this to buff your "best spells", as some unique items can be better, but to boost secondary elements. The new Blight summons help toward that, I think.) - Balance between the 5 main Forms - Wildstrike Frenzy because Entropy (and party support, Stag's Horn, whatever) - The way Lifgiver uses Spiritshift What I should think more about : - Focusing more Spiritshift about fighting better. - The exact role of Fury form (that I'm leaving aside a bit for now). My proposal : Set Shifted attacks to Slash / Pierce Set Wildstrike to ~5% +3/PL lash damages Set Greater Wildstrike to ~10% +5/PL damages The idea is to boost Spritshift as an endgame "weapon set", but not early on where it is very competitive. For a MC, you end up with : - 12 AR +0% recovery. - 13-16 Slash/Pierce damages, 9 PEN (sword + 3 PEN, but no modal) - +45% elemental lash, a bit more with Potion of Ascension & the likes. (For SC, it will end at 60%+, which is very high... but you're a caster) - 2 unique abilties per form, +1 engagement for Boar and Bear This is basically better than (I think) any unique weapon when it comes to single target DPS. (and a huge DPS with Boar & Cat forms) You will fight better (at least for single target DPS) with a decisively high PEN at the cost of 2 ability points. (Wildstrikes are basically a "maintenance" cost for having a free self buff for druid as class. It costs 2 Passives to be able to benefit from Shifting more than situationally.) You will defend... well... better when combining with weapon DPS. You can't have a shield so I'm not sure if it is that much of an improvement for defending and casting. You will cast some spells with a bonus, maybe not your favorite, but this will at least be a free to switch caster stick set.

Will be added, thx 🙂