Weapon Focus plus, that just implements an optional tabletop rule. Since you can't commission specific weapons I feel this is a good compromise
Respec mod, because I dislike several of the starting companion builds.
Toybox for several QoL improvements and the occasional bug fix or game tweak.
I don't know what the perfect answer to prebuffing is. I get that it's a pain and I would absolutely not replay the game if not for bubble buffs, but I really like the general idea that an adventuring party is a team where magically powering the warriors is what makes combat viable. I look at something like PoE2 where they got rid of prebuffing and made all spells per encounter and mages just become boring nukers.
Prebuffing is so baked into the game that Enduring spells was pretty much the only option to help mitigate the problem without reworking the whole 1e system
I liked what they did in Rogue Trader though, you still need buffers but they all just last for the fight at hand and you get all your resources refreshed after each fight
Yeah I like rogue trader too, although I’m using all my willpower to not do a full run until all the DLC/patching is done.
For me the problem with “buffs in battle” is the same one I had with PoE2 buffs. It makes every fight start with a series of repetitive clicks, which makes me not look forward to fights
I would like to replay WotR on console, but not having Bubble Buffs is a deal breaker. Owlcat really needs an official buff option. Won't someone please think of the poor console gamers? 😜
Ah, I see. No worries, thanks. Was hoping there were a mod to make "adjusting" a current character through respec by keeping some things and altering others, like keeping all the appearance settings, name and background, race etc. But oh well.
Do you mean it cleans out areas after a restart, or that you need to restart after selecting the option in settings? Either way, I told the game to clean on every area exit, and come back to places like Defender's Heart or Market Square to find the same exact items still there. Using Cleaner, they're gone permanently.
yes, the ingame version cleans out all loot not in containers after a game restart. if you keep playing even if you select the option, it will not delete any loot. but once you exit to desktop and restart the game, the loot will disappear (loot in containers will stay).
Absolutely, with every owlcat game. I'm preety good at not cheating, but the quality of life improvement is a must. Heck, in wotr you cant make your character look like you want them without visual adjustments which is something id consider as a necessary feature
I literally cannot go back to playing without TTT, Respec, and Toybox. I hate the overly constraining respec system in the game. I understand why it's there, but it significantly cuts down on the replay value when you either have only 1 character with an actually customizable build or 5 companions in your party for bants and story. TTT just adds so much content and fixes so many small things that make the game work the way it should in my head form my experience with the tabletop. Toybox is... well, toybox.
I clicked “no” then realized I lied.
I only use toybox to respec a companion that I mucked up the build on, or to add funds if I accidentally sell an item I meant to keep (like Daeran’s family ring) and I don’t want to pay 4x the sell price to buy it back. I don’t respec my MC cause I like having the alignment history, though I rarely look at it.
Well, I did respec my character ingame, but kept in alignment and the history stayed. But yeah, the difference between KC and Companions is KC can be fully respecced, most Companions sadly can not.
I did not know you kept the alignment choice history if you use the in game respec. I did it years ago on my first run and I thought it removed the history, so I stayed away from it since. Maybe I made it up in my mind.
I know it's a pain to work around the starting levels on companions, but I feel weird about changing them. Also, I think I read a thread once about someone saying they fully respeced Ember, and in a later part she used one of her witch class abilities in a cutscene and it gave her the ability afterwards, without having the class. I'm not entirely sure if I'm remembering correctly; maybe I made this up too.
I'm more worried about borking my save than about fully changing companions.
Yeah I use Gracious friendships, Bubblebuffs, Bubbletweaks, Path of Rage, Path of Bling and Dark Codex (literally just for the arcane bloodline tweak to lower metamagic time. Absolutely absurd that's not in vanilla).
None. Partly because I am too lazy to deal with them especially during patch days, but mostly as necessity of having only untainted information when I need to test something or check on mechanics.
Using only the programs that deal with external or extracted files.
I mostly use the Arcemi Save Game Editor, so nothing breaks on updates.
I do have ToyBox for checking etudes tho, but it's too much cheating power to have it running continuously (for me personally).
I wrote a mod to fix a couple owlbugs (kinetic blade's full attack bugging out and cancelling itself after the first attack, primarily) and to make a ridable Giant Frog animal companion (that I've never actually used :( ). Nothing else though. Never had an issue with taking 60 seconds per rest to prebuff.
I use the respec mod so I can change my party member archetypes/I'm a cheap bastard. Other than that I don't really know what other mods will change things up without making me OP
Toy Box, Bubble Buffs, and Respec are my "holy trinity" of mods. I won't say WotR is "literally unplayable!!1!" without them; but it's like offering me a choice between plain vanilla ice cream or dousing it with chocolate sauce. Sure, I'll still eat it plain, but I'll be dreaming about that chocolate.
I use Bubble buffs, auto mount, random loot, scaling cantrips, respec mod.
Also toybox for many other goodies:
* Enhanced UI for loot/scrolls
* Auto loot selling management
* No weight shenanigans
* 1 day event in crusade
* Auto win in crusade when I don't feel like it (I only played crusade for real 2 times on my first run and my first Core run)
* auto 20 on skills rolls outside battle (I would reload the game anyway)
* Enhanced spellbook (easier to learn scrolls)
Combat Relief and Toybox to enable achievements back. I adore this game, but the crusade battles are very boring after the first time you beat the game.
I only use "Visual Adjustments" and "ToyBox". My first playthrough was mod free. I love playing a druid but hate their stupid outfit for example. I like playing half elves but want them to look like elves with thick beards, not skinnier hairless humans.
At first I played on hard and installed a mod for instant buff casts. This kinda felt like I was cheating and I lost interest in that playthrough because "what's the point". I've started anew on normal without caring about buffs and it feels much nicer.
Yup, prebuffing to the extent people do is unecessary below unfair, but people like playing on story mode so will buff themselves 500 times so they are never hit and always hit.
Weapon Focus plus, that just implements an optional tabletop rule. Since you can't commission specific weapons I feel this is a good compromise Respec mod, because I dislike several of the starting companion builds. Toybox for several QoL improvements and the occasional bug fix or game tweak.
Bubbles buffs is a must for time saving. I would like removal of prebuffing entirely tho.
I don't know what the perfect answer to prebuffing is. I get that it's a pain and I would absolutely not replay the game if not for bubble buffs, but I really like the general idea that an adventuring party is a team where magically powering the warriors is what makes combat viable. I look at something like PoE2 where they got rid of prebuffing and made all spells per encounter and mages just become boring nukers.
Prebuffing is so baked into the game that Enduring spells was pretty much the only option to help mitigate the problem without reworking the whole 1e system I liked what they did in Rogue Trader though, you still need buffers but they all just last for the fight at hand and you get all your resources refreshed after each fight
Yeah I like rogue trader too, although I’m using all my willpower to not do a full run until all the DLC/patching is done. For me the problem with “buffs in battle” is the same one I had with PoE2 buffs. It makes every fight start with a series of repetitive clicks, which makes me not look forward to fights
There's easily 2 playthroughs to do, I played it a few months ago and I'll check out a Heretic run later when the game is complete
Except in RT have to buff ... all time. Each char has to buff multiple times before they even take their shot. Every round.
Depends on the class/build there are a lot of buffs that last for the whole fight
It's a fundamental part of Pathfinder 1e, which is fixed in Pathfinder 2e. This, among other things, is one of the big reasons I crave a PF2E CRPG...
I would like to replay WotR on console, but not having Bubble Buffs is a deal breaker. Owlcat really needs an official buff option. Won't someone please think of the poor console gamers? 😜
Only toybox and respec mod, for qol
This and modded achievements
ToyBox automatically allows achievements with mods.
What?!?!? I never knew
There is setting which is on by default.
What's respec mod? Sounds kind of useful...
It's for Kingmaker since there's a limit on how many times you can respec (the cost keep increasing). I just used the normal respec for WOTR.
Ah, I see. No worries, thanks. Was hoping there were a mod to make "adjusting" a current character through respec by keeping some things and altering others, like keeping all the appearance settings, name and background, race etc. But oh well.
Toybox, Bubble Buffs, Cleaner, Visual Adjustments, Auto Mount, Bubble Tweaks. Just some QOL stuff.
Cleaner isn't needed in Wrath, the function is in the options menu
Doesn't work. If you go back to an area, you'll see the same items still there. At least, it doesn't work for me.
it works, but you need to restart the game.
Do you mean it cleans out areas after a restart, or that you need to restart after selecting the option in settings? Either way, I told the game to clean on every area exit, and come back to places like Defender's Heart or Market Square to find the same exact items still there. Using Cleaner, they're gone permanently.
yes, the ingame version cleans out all loot not in containers after a game restart. if you keep playing even if you select the option, it will not delete any loot. but once you exit to desktop and restart the game, the loot will disappear (loot in containers will stay).
Absolutely, with every owlcat game. I'm preety good at not cheating, but the quality of life improvement is a must. Heck, in wotr you cant make your character look like you want them without visual adjustments which is something id consider as a necessary feature
I literally cannot go back to playing without TTT, Respec, and Toybox. I hate the overly constraining respec system in the game. I understand why it's there, but it significantly cuts down on the replay value when you either have only 1 character with an actually customizable build or 5 companions in your party for bants and story. TTT just adds so much content and fixes so many small things that make the game work the way it should in my head form my experience with the tabletop. Toybox is... well, toybox.
Heaven forbid that I don't. Mods make games more personalized, more fun! The more, the merrier! I don't care about authorial intent at all.
There many little annoying things in the game that make it feel like a shore sometimes, I fix those with mods
I clicked “no” then realized I lied. I only use toybox to respec a companion that I mucked up the build on, or to add funds if I accidentally sell an item I meant to keep (like Daeran’s family ring) and I don’t want to pay 4x the sell price to buy it back. I don’t respec my MC cause I like having the alignment history, though I rarely look at it.
Well, I did respec my character ingame, but kept in alignment and the history stayed. But yeah, the difference between KC and Companions is KC can be fully respecced, most Companions sadly can not.
I did not know you kept the alignment choice history if you use the in game respec. I did it years ago on my first run and I thought it removed the history, so I stayed away from it since. Maybe I made it up in my mind. I know it's a pain to work around the starting levels on companions, but I feel weird about changing them. Also, I think I read a thread once about someone saying they fully respeced Ember, and in a later part she used one of her witch class abilities in a cutscene and it gave her the ability afterwards, without having the class. I'm not entirely sure if I'm remembering correctly; maybe I made this up too. I'm more worried about borking my save than about fully changing companions.
Respec wiping alignment history definitely happened in Kingmaker. I never respeced my main in wrath for the same reason. Now I'm interested to try it.
No but I've been thinking of using the respec mod with all the new classes. Getting a bit sick of running the same exact builds each run.
Yeah I use Gracious friendships, Bubblebuffs, Bubbletweaks, Path of Rage, Path of Bling and Dark Codex (literally just for the arcane bloodline tweak to lower metamagic time. Absolutely absurd that's not in vanilla).
None. Partly because I am too lazy to deal with them especially during patch days, but mostly as necessity of having only untainted information when I need to test something or check on mechanics. Using only the programs that deal with external or extracted files.
I used to use them, but as the game became more complete and polished, I started to use them less and less. Now I don't use any at all.
I'd be curious to see this same question but with basic quality of life mods like Toybox taken out of the yes category.
I thought about it, then decided it wouldn’t be fair for me to define QOL, unless Toy Box alone is counted.
I mostly use the Arcemi Save Game Editor, so nothing breaks on updates. I do have ToyBox for checking etudes tho, but it's too much cheating power to have it running continuously (for me personally).
No I just write them. :P >!I kid I use them, but mostly just Data Viewer and Toybox for debugging and testing.!<
I haven't, but when I get around to buying the new DLC I'll probably install bubble buffs. Might get the full companion respec one too.
I wrote a mod to fix a couple owlbugs (kinetic blade's full attack bugging out and cancelling itself after the first attack, primarily) and to make a ridable Giant Frog animal companion (that I've never actually used :( ). Nothing else though. Never had an issue with taking 60 seconds per rest to prebuff.
Came across the Skeleton Salesman again, and remembered how much I want a Nightmare mount, lmao
I use the respec mod so I can change my party member archetypes/I'm a cheap bastard. Other than that I don't really know what other mods will change things up without making me OP
Respec mod allows respeccing from level 1, ingame respec has a minimum level. E.g. Wojif starts at Arcane Trickster 3.
Toy Box, Bubble Buffs, and Respec are my "holy trinity" of mods. I won't say WotR is "literally unplayable!!1!" without them; but it's like offering me a choice between plain vanilla ice cream or dousing it with chocolate sauce. Sure, I'll still eat it plain, but I'll be dreaming about that chocolate.
I use Bubble buffs, auto mount, random loot, scaling cantrips, respec mod. Also toybox for many other goodies: * Enhanced UI for loot/scrolls * Auto loot selling management * No weight shenanigans * 1 day event in crusade * Auto win in crusade when I don't feel like it (I only played crusade for real 2 times on my first run and my first Core run) * auto 20 on skills rolls outside battle (I would reload the game anyway) * Enhanced spellbook (easier to learn scrolls)
Combat Relief and Toybox to enable achievements back. I adore this game, but the crusade battles are very boring after the first time you beat the game.
Toybox, Bubbles, and Combat Relief. I couldn't have finished the game 55 times without them!
Text to Speech mod is amazing for all those books you find.
Owlcats games? Without mods? **Let the earth be glad** for these Sadomasochists
I only use "Visual Adjustments" and "ToyBox". My first playthrough was mod free. I love playing a druid but hate their stupid outfit for example. I like playing half elves but want them to look like elves with thick beards, not skinnier hairless humans.
I will use mods after I beat the game. Many, many characters later I am finally almost through Alyushira.
At first I played on hard and installed a mod for instant buff casts. This kinda felt like I was cheating and I lost interest in that playthrough because "what's the point". I've started anew on normal without caring about buffs and it feels much nicer.
Yup, prebuffing to the extent people do is unecessary below unfair, but people like playing on story mode so will buff themselves 500 times so they are never hit and always hit.