Rebalance Series
Attempt to rebalance all spells and cantrips to be more even in power.

• Rebalance - Cantrips
• Rebalance - Level 1 Spells
• Rebalance - Level 2 Spells
• Rebalance - Level 3 Spells
• Rebalance - Level 4 Spells
• Rebalance - Level 5 Spells
• Rebalance - Level 6 Spells
• Rebalance - Class Spells
• Rebalance - Feats
• Rebalance - Racials
• Rebalance - Common Effects
• Rebalance - Nerfs
  

Essential Series
Attempt to add missing pieces to the game.

• Essential Feats
• Essential Armor and Weapons
  

Overview
The goal of this mod is to make cantrips more reliable, more versatile and elevate the weaker ones to a more powerful state. Overall this is a slight buff to cantrips. Cantrips are the resourceless alternative for casters and are not meant to keep up with a "strikers" damage output when not spending resources. However in BG3's fast-paced combat they fall behind significantly, so a slight buff will not have a large impact on balance and you shouldn't need a difficulty increasing mod with this.

Recommendations

• Consider using mods that increase difficulty, like Tactician Plus, which allows you to adjust enemy health based on how many power-increasing mods you have
• Do not overdo buffing/camp casting (less concentration allows it, but if you overdo it you spend literal hours buffing during a playthrough)
• While enemies also benefit from the reworked spells, you will generally benefit more
• Only my Rebalance - Nerfs mod makes the player weaker
• Have fun
  

      
General Changes
Firebolt, Ray of Frost, Shocking Grasp, Bone Chill, Acid Splash, Poison Spray, Conjure Flame, Vicious Mockery, Toll the Dead and Sacred Flame now all scale slightly differently.

• From level 1 to 3 their dice is reduced by one size but they gain a flat +2 base damage (+1 for D4 cantrips and no size reduction)
• At level 4 their dice is returned to normal
• At level 5 they gain their usual second dice and continue scaling like normal with the added +2 base damage
  


Acid Splash

• Dice changed from d6 to d4
• Applies the acid condition for 2 turns, reducing the targets armor class by 2
  

Poison Spray

• Deals damage in a narrow and short cone instead of as a projectile
  

Sacred Flame

• Deals half damage on save
• No longer benefits from the Potent Cantrips passive
• It deals 1d12 damage to fiends and undead instead of 1d8
  


Booming Blade

• Deals 1d4 damage directly from level 1-3, damage on movement is reduced to 1d6
• Deals 1d6 damage directly at level 4, damage on movement is 1d8
• Vanilla values at level 5 and beyond
  

Bursting Sinew

• Dice increased to d12
• Deals magical piercing damage instead
• Radius increased to 4
• No longer requires a "fresh" corpse (allows corpses damaged by fire/acid etc.)
• Still cannot target the same corpse multiple times
• Still explodes the corpse and makes it unusable for spells like Raise The Dead
  

(Might be too good, in which case might reduce radius back to vanilla 3, let me know)



Vicious Mockery

• Hits a secondary target in a 9m radius
• Hits a third target at level 5, a fourth target at level 10
• Third/Fourth target take reduced damage
• Custom beam VFX for chains
  

Notes: I didn't want to make Vicious Mockery a bonus action, so it needed a bit more of a bump than other cantrips. Spread out damage is naturally weak and the main benefit is the attack roll disadvantage. Keep in mind, when this starts hitting more targets enemies also have 'extra attack', meaning that half or more of their attacks will not have disadvantage since it still only lasts for one attack.



True Strike

• Reduces the targets AC by your proficiency bonus (-2 to -4)
• Is consumed by the next attack (from any source)
• Secondary effect lingers, reducing the targets AC by half that amount (-1 to -2) until it is attacked again
• Costs a bonus action
• The Watchers Guide and Bloodthirst are not affected by this change
  

Notes: Please be aware that reducing AC is the same as giving everyone a bonus to their attack roll against the target. It is just far far easier to implement. If you care about logic - AC is the targets physical armor & their dexterity in avoiding attacks. By guiding a strike magically, you can guide it towards weak points in their armor or help track them dodging. Sounds reasonable?



Blade Ward

• Now is 'consumed' when you are attacked - it still lasts for the full turn of the attacker
• It is removed at the end of the turn of who attacked you, so its effectiveness depends on how many attacks they make against you
• Costs a bonus action
• Hellrider's Pride and The Reviving Hands are affected by this change
• Garb of the Land and Sky and Armour of Persistence are not affected by this change
  

Notes: There isn't a technical reason for which items are affected. Its simply the two that are almost game-breaking by allowing you to blanket your party and summons in Blade Ward vs. ones that only affect one target. Armor of Persistence would need a special rework (since its permanent Blade Ward) if I wanted to nerf it. But thats a job for a different mod.



Thorn Whip

• Dice changed from d6 to d4
• Pulls further
• Costs a bonus action instead
  


Shillelagh

• Scales to 1d10  at level 5 and 1d12 at level 10
• Scales with whichever mental ability (INT/WIS/CHA) is your highest
• Now also works on Spears, Javelins and Maces
• When wielding a versatile weapon and nothing in the off-hand, deal +1 extra damage
• Now lasts until long rest
  

Notes: The versatile weapon change is to give any sort of reason to use a versatile weapon in two hands. +1 Damage is the exact same overall bonus as increasing the dice size by one (e.g. from 1d6 to 1d8) to mirror how versatile weapons work. This is needed because Shillelagh overwrites the weapon's die, so a staff wielded in one hand has the same die as one wielded in both hands.

Long rest duration has the issue that shillelagh inventory-binds the weapon, meaning you would need to wait until a long rest to be able to trade any weapon you used shillelagh on. However, I have added a 'Dispell Shillelagh' spell that you can use to remove the effect. (similar to my Cancel Banishment/Binding etc. spells from the Level 4/5 rebalances). When you wield a weapon with shillelagh the spell will appear on the right 'temporary' hotbar.



 
Guidance & Resistance

• No longer require concentration
• Limited to one target
  

  
Eldritch Blast, Friends, Dancing Lights, Light, Mage Hand and Thaumaturgy are unchanged. If you want the light cantrip to work in Wild Shape try my Druid Quality of Life mod.



Requirements
Script Extender is highly recommended as the mod contains a script that changes High Elves cantrip spellcasting ability to INT/WIS/CHA depending what your highest stat is when you level up or respec.

Without SE this script will not run, but otherwise the mod works normally. Your high elf cantrip will then be stuck at the spellcasting ability of the class you chose at character creation (respecing will not change that). While Shadowheart's will be stuck at WIS and Astarion's at INT, again respecing can not change it.


Common Questions
If you ask these questions in the comments I'll not be answering them. You have the ability to write, so you have the ability to read as well. And hopefully the ability to think one step further than just my explanations.

Compatibility


Load Order
This mod overwrites level 1 of Highelf and High Halfelf progressions. You can use Compatibility Framework if you use a mod that overwrites level 1 Highelf/High Halfelf. To do so, load this mod before other mods that edit the progression node.


Feedback


Work involved
Rebalance - Cantrips took around 12h to make. This is despite me being fairly experienced and efficient. You can multiply this time by x5 to x10 for a novice.



Syrchalis' Druid Mod Collection

• Druid Quality of Life - Huge quality of life improvements and bugfixes for druids
• Druid Perfection - Added depth, multi-classing benefits and features for druids
• Druid Wildshape Weapons Armor Gear and Items - Items that work in Wild Shape
• Wildshape Viability - New Spells, Rebalance, Icons and more - Wild Shape overhaul, dozens new spells, specialized Wild Shapes
  

Links
Check out my other mods.

• Immersive Tutorial Chest Spawning and more
  

And also my armors:

• The Real Protecty Sparkswall
• Moonlight Robes for Shadowheart
• Robes and Armor of the Absolute - Nere Z'rell and The Warden