The spectre class is an intelligence based physical-damage spellcaster class in a similar vein to the vanilla necromancer. This Divinity 2 mod adds 30 new spells and an armor piercing mechanic to allow the Spectre to deal direct health damage without having to fully deplete enemy armor. In addition, it adds a new debuff type called “agony” which is an ongoing debuff that is augmented by the “torturer” talent, allowing it to be applied even through armor. This mod also adds scythes to the game, which are pretty neat as well. He has also created a few “add on” mods for this class that I will link below:

• Fort Joy Cheat Chest
• Strength Override
• Finesse Override

This Divinity 2 mod is not simply one class, but is actually four “subclass” builds to offer different playstyles for those among us who love to burn everything to the ground. This mod changes a significant number of the pyrokinetic spells, and adds a ton of fire magic to the game in order to incinerate your foes. As this mod does change a lot about pyrokinetic magic, it does affect game balance somewhat. There has also been a new vendor added to the game that sells the new spells and also the new “flameblade” weapons that the mod includes. I will also note that there are a few add on mods for this overhaul as well that I will link below.

• Dragon’s Blaze add on
• Physical Corpse Explosion

I have always been a huge fan of necromancy in most games, except for Divinity: Original Sin 2. Though I know that many consider it to be a pretty powerful combat ability, with the capacity for a significant amount of physical damage. I have always liked the type of necromancy that brings skeletons and zombies back from the dead to do battle for you.

This Divinity 2 mod, like pyromancy and geomancy overhauls above, offers over fifteen new skills, and provides four “subclass” guides for different builds. One particular skill of note is the ability to raise corpses as minions, which really appeals to the purist necromancer in me. It also adds new intelligence based melee weapons and a vendor who sells items related to the overhauled necromancer.

Much like the Hydrosophist above, I have always found the Aerotheurge to be entertaining to play in the base game. With powerful air and lightning magic to incapacitate and destroy your enemies, it offered the ability to both control battles and strike decisive blows against your foes. It would be remiss if I failed to mention how much this mod improves the Aerotheurge experience though.

With over a dozen new spells, new items, and a new vendor, it adds a significant variety of new and horrific experiences to bring to bear against your enemies.

Physical Damage Teleport Override

This Divinity 2 mod adds a truly staggering amount of skills to the game, and reskins many of the other effects. With over 110 new skills added, it might take you awhile to figure out which ones suit your playstyle the best, but one thing you will not lack is versatility. Like most skill mods, it also adds vendors that will sell the new skills, and it also adds six unique items to find. Interestingly the uniques added by this mod level up as you do, so they will always stay relevant to your level.

This Divinity Original Sin mod adds a pretty entertaining and lethal “class” to the game. Vampirism skills draw from the warfare and necromancer combat abilities and give you access to some of the iconic abilities drawn from vampiric lore from Vlad Dracul to Lestat. These abilities include things like, biting, bat swarms, enthralling, exsanguinating. Stuff like that.

I would highly recommend this class for those of you who like to embrace the night and want to be a lord of the undead. Do not fret, dear friends… you will not be sparkly. Helaene has also included a finesse and intelligence override for this class.

• Finesse Override
• Intelligence Override

This Divinity 2 mod is another interesting new class from Haephaistos, the modder behind the Chronomancer above. It adds sun and moon magic, which both provide support and damage capability. It adds 29 new skills and will focus on pyrokinetic and hydrosophist combat abilities. It is actually a pretty complicated class to play because you can combine sun and moon magic to create eclipse magic, which offers different effects.

It is, however, rewarding when everything goes right. Give it a shot if you want a challenging but pretty cool new type of character to play.

The Constellationist is yet another very interesting class created by Haephaistos. This is a class based around astrology, and although that sounds kind of silly, it ends up being a truly immersive class to play. It is heavily focused around summoning creatures based on the twelve primary zodiacs and, to a lesser extent, some lesser celestials based on other constellations.

You will generally not be dealing a lot of direct damage, as you will be focusing on letting the celestials under your control win your fights. If you like summoning, you will love this class.

In my opinion, this is a vital build if you want to play a tried and true “Necromancer”. This mod adds the ability to summon skeletons, liches, death knights. It also has some other skills, but this finally makes it so that your dreams of leading an army of undead come true!

Unfortunately, during testing, I found that I could not control my skeleton force, but that’s fine. They are kind of like totems, in that they will target whatever they want to. The most important thing though, is that you can finally be the necromancer of your dreams.

This is a truly fantastic Divinity 2 mod for those among you who want to draw the eldrich powers of lovecraftian horror into the Rivallon. You will be summoning tentacles, worms, and other dark entities from the nightmares of humanity to bear against your foes. There isn’t much to say about this mod, other than it adds a bunch of new summons and that you should really give it a shot.

This is a very interesting class based around warfare and aerotheurge. Not abilities you commonly see together really. It is focused around taking damage to enhance your abilities. This “resonance” level causes your abilities to have greater effects, but in order to build your resonance level, you have to get closer and closer to death.

It is not an easy class to play, as it requires carefully balancing your ability to live through enemy damage, with your need to maintain a relatively low amount of life to get the most of your abilities. Not a class for new players, but one that offers an interesting playstyle.

This mod really tows the line between acceptable imbalance and outright cheating. I have beaten Divinity: Original Sin 2, four times now, and something that has irked me at times is how often really cool unique items become obsolete. The way that scaling works in the game means that items even a level or two lower than you can be a huge liability, including these supposedly amazing unique items.

This mod allows you to pay to “level up” your items to your character level. This ensures that they are viable for any point of the game you are in. While you can also use this mod to update your epic or legendary equipment as well, I find that I only really used it for uniques.

Full disclosure, I really dislike crafting in most games. I also disliked crafting in the base game. While I did do some testing with this mod, I have not even gotten close to making all 1600 new crafting recipes that this mod adds to the game. For those of you who love crafting, this is the mod for you.

Some of the items may be viciously overpowered, I didn’t get the chance to go through every single one. But you are free-thinking individuals. If you craft an overpowered murder stick it is up to you whether or not to use it. What I will say is that this mod massively expands the crafting system in D: OS2 and is a must have if you like crafting.

This is one of those quality of life mods that doesn’t really imbalance the game, and offers just a pure solution to one of the most annoying aspects of the game. Ensuring you are talking to traders with the right character every time. This mod also allows other members of the group to buy a “pet pal” talent book, but the most important thing is that your characters will all share the highest persuasion and/or barter ability among your group.

This means you do not have to be focused on which character needs to talk all the time and makes your gameplay much more relaxed.

This Divinity 2 mod tows the line between being kind of overpowered and being more realistic. Sometimes you will kill vendors in the game, it just happens. Normally they will drop a random assortment of their inventory, with the rest disappearing into the ether. This mod causes vendors to drop their entire inventory when they die.

There is also an optional part of the mod that causes every character to drop their full inventory and equipment when they die, but in testing this caused problems as many characters have armor and weapons that aren’t meant for players to ever have, but more often they just drop nothing. This is because many enemies simply have “visual” sets without any actual items equipped, so there is nothing to drop.

This is the first “overhaul” mod that isn’t also a class mod on our list. It changes many of the uniques in the game to be generally more powerful, and have better stats or skills than the vanilla version. I would highly recommend this mod if you don’t want to add a bunch of new skills to the game, but find unique items to be a little bit underwhelming.

Divine War With Odinblades Compatibility

This Divinity 2 mod changes a lot of the base game’s talents to be significantly more interesting or powerful. It does not add any new talents or change the game in any other way, but it does make talents that are mostly ignored significantly more viable. I didn’t notice it change the game balance significantly, but it does make your characters marginally more powerful on the whole.