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Stop Resisting!

Were you looking for a balanced mage experience, or did you just come here after seeing Manithro's video? Either way, this mod has you covered!

The two biggest problems affecting mages are:

• Low alpha damage output,
  
• Elemental resistances. Elemental resistances everywhere!

This mod aims to fix both of these things by causing magic attacks to lower enemy resistances to the corresponding element by 25 until they leave combat or die. This means you can not only deal out additional damage as a mage, but you can also circumvent most enemy immunities with a bit of work.


Due to limitations with the Divinity Engine, this mod is incompatible with the following mods:

• Armor-Based Saving Throws.
  
• Randomized Enemy Buffs.

I apologise for the inconvenience, but there's nothing that can be done about this until the "OnDamage" script function is given a parameter specifying the entity attacked.


Isn't this horribly unbalanced?

Less than you'd think. Several prominent members of the DOS2 community have commented that mages lack damage and many more have complained about the sheer quantity of enemies who reduce magic damage types by 30% or more. This mod may be slightly imbalanced, but depending on who you ask, it's a straight improvement over the original game.

Will multi-hit skills like Searing Daggers stack resistance debuffs?

No. The resistance debuff may only apply to each enemy once per player action. Until a player casts a new skill or ends their turn, enemies will not suffer debuffs to resistance. This unfortunately means damaging surfaces will also inflict a -25% debuff, but this is a sacrifice I am willing to make.

Are players affected by these decreases to resistances?

No. Players cannot be debuffed by this mod. In fact, only players can inflict these lowered resistances upon NPCs.

It's possible that non-player-controlled summons like Totems may affected. I haven't tested and I don't think it matters since they're made of paper anyway.

This mod is broken and it doesn't--

Hold it. Please:

• Test it without other mods (or at least tell me specifically what other mods you were using with it)
  
• Check, if you can, whether or not any other mods you're using overwrite the "base" characterscript
  
• Be specific about what you were doing when the issue occurred - specify the skill you used and the enemy you used it against

Thank you for your help.