I'm referring to Comet of Calamity from the Tome of Calamity. My bad, I mispoke when I said Catastrophe.

If you mean Blizzard Catastrophe from the same mod, being a weaker version of a siege project seems completely fine to me. As it stands currently, even with the friendly fire on the spell I was still perfectly okay with hitting my own troops because it hits basically an entire army while also dealing more damage than the Tier-V spells that are intended to hit the entire enemy army. I'm not sure where the sweet spot is balance wise.

It used to be 2-hexes then someone said its a weaker version of catastrophe so putting it back down to 2-hex on top of reducing the damage is probably gonna have the same previous feeling. I can reduce the damage, however, or if you have an alternative idea.

Just finished up a cold-caster campaign. It was fun, but Bite of Winter ended up being the only thing I was casting at endgame. The 3-hex radius is just way too strong. It covers essentially an entire army and then some on top of being a shadow spell for the bonus frost damage synergies. I'd recommend shrinking it just slightly and *maybe* lowering the damage.

Otherwise, fun spells. I like the animal major conversion.

Interesting mod, really lets some of the earlier beast tomes shine.

UPDATE(8/5/25)
Blizzard Catastrophe
>1 Fortification damage => No Fortification damage
Hastened (1T) -> (3T)

Bite of Winter
>1-Hex radius => 3-Hex Radius
>15 frost damage => 25 frost damage
>Tooltip to show it inflicts status vulnerability on fail

Wolf Blood
>Human Core (+25% Upkeep)
>Since animals innately have low maintenance (-25% upkeep), I had to make Human Core to counteract it.

Woof

ywes

this still work?

doesnt work in multiplayer sadly

I was disappointed the original only has 2 Frost spell tomes and every other spell tomes there's tons of.it really needed more. You finally made the 3rd one for it. Frost spells needs more love, finally a spell tome to add on the frost list.

Soul Siphons and catastrophe have different use cases and are different builds regardless if they share an affinity. Also, when you say "from a glance", have you tried it? Blizzard is meant to essentially have you go first instead allowing you to close the gap and to combo it with Call the Pack or follow up on your next turn with bite to freeze them again. The freeze is also irresistible unless they are immune to being frozen.

As for Bite of Winter, I'll look into it. I'll probably buff the Freeze rate and maybe some other things.

blizzard catastrophe looks really weak from a glance, tome of the reaper, a different tier 4 tome has a siege project that deals 3 fortification damage and (I would argue) for a better effect.
even if its better than im giving it credit for it just *feels* weak, im not sure i would ever pick it up or even use it for a siege project slot

Similarly, when i compare bite of winter with comet of calamity from the tome of calamity, bite of winter does 15 less damage, has 10% better chance to freeze, but is 1 smaller area and doesnt apply a second debuff at 100% proc rate

Only upcoming update is the hero skill will be removed from the tome which will probably be tomorrow. The tome still works as normal now. The Hero skill on the tome page is just a visual bug

Is this one getting updated too?

PSA, the Animal Kinship bug is only a visual bug. The effect is not doubling.

thanks!

@Invertin its because it puts Tome of Beast and Vigor on hyper mode. Animal Kinship + Empowered Beast + Supergrowth is extremely potent. Add their respective hero skills, and they're pretty juiced up.

Thats the reason the transformation doesn't have anything extremely potent in itself.

wild how hard it is to get the Animal subtype normally; this tome fills a neat niche! plus i got an actual ice wolf faction so

Bruh moment

i was the one that commissionned it and im not a furry, just a vikingaboo :(

*Obligatory "I'm a furry and this is a mod I needed" comment*