Spiritshift

All spiritshift ability icons

The druid can assume a variety of anthropomorphized forms, with new abilities inspired by the emulated creature. Druids cannot hold weapons while spiritshifted, but they can always cast spells. Spiritshifts deal damage of a different type depending on the form, and are granted unique abilities and items. The exact duration is 15 seconds, increased by 5% for each point of the character's Intellect.

The spirit form is chosen during Character Creation, as part of class selection.

Spirit forms[ | ]

Druids choose a spirit form at character creation. The reason for choosing one form over another will be for the abilities each one inherently comes with. Available spirit forms are:

Icon	Form	Spiritshift	Abilities	Weapon	Armor	Notes
	Bear	Spiritshift Bear	Druid Bear Terrifying Roar – Foe AoE: Frightened for 10.0 sec (2 per rest)	Druid Bear Claws	Spiritshift Bear Hide	Spiritshift Bear Hide grants a +2 Damage Reduction beyond properties of other forms' armor.
	Bear	Spiritshift Bear (Deadfire)	Druid Bear Terrifying Roar (Deadfire) – Foe AoE: Frightened for 10.0 sec (1 per encounter) Spiritshift Bear (Deadfire) – +1 enemies Engaged	Druid Bear Claws (Deadfire)	Spiritshift Bear Hide (Deadfire)
	Boar	Spiritshift Boar	Druid Boar Regeneration – +2.0 Endurance per 3.0 sec	Druid Boar Tusks	Spiritshift Hide
	Boar	Spiritshift Boar (Deadfire)	Spiritshift Boar (Deadfire) – 10% of Damage dealt as Raw Damage per 3.0 sec for 6.0 sec, +4 Health Restored per 3.0 sec, +1 enemies Engaged	Druid Boar Tusks (Deadfire)	Spiritshift Hide (Deadfire)
	Cat	Spiritshift Cat	Cat Flurry Attack – +33% Attack Speed for 10.0 sec (1 per rest)	Druid Cat Claws	Spiritshift Hide	Druid Cat Claws have fast base attack speed beyond properties of other forms' weapons.
	Cat	Spiritshift Cat (Deadfire)	Cat Flurry Attack (Deadfire) – +33% Action Speed for 10.0 sec (1 per encounter)	Druid Cat Claws (Deadfire)	Spiritshift Hide (Deadfire)
	Stag	Spiritshift Stag	Druid Stag Carnage – Attacks deal 33% damage to all enemies in a 1m radius around the target (1 per rest) Druid Stag Defenses – +7 to all Defenses	Druid Stag Horns	Spiritshift Hide
	Stag	Spiritshift Stag (Deadfire)	Druid Stag Carnage (Deadfire) – Attacks deal 1-5 to all enemies in a 1.5m radius around the target (1 per encounter) Spiritshift Stag (Deadfire) – +7 All Defenses	Druid Stag Horns (Deadfire)	Spiritshift Hide (Deadfire)
	Wolf	Spiritshift Wolf	Knock Down (Spiritshift Wolf) – Target: Knock Prone (2 per rest)	Druid Wolf Teeth	Spiritshift Hide
	Wolf	Spiritshift Wolf (Deadfire)	Knock Down (Deadfire Spiritshift Wolf) – Target: Knock Prone (1 per encounter) Spiritshift Wolf (Deadfire) – +25% Stride	Druid Wolf Teeth (Deadfire)	Spiritshift Hide (Deadfire)
Exclusive spiritshifts
	Stelgaer	Spiritshift Stelgaer (Pillars of Eternity only) This form is exclusive to Hiravias. It lacks a description, but is otherwise identical to Cat.	Cat Flurry Attack – +33% Attack Speed for 10.0 sec (1 per rest)	Druid Cat Claws	Spiritshift Hide	Druid Cat Claws have fast base attack speed beyond properties of other forms' weapons.
	Shark	Spiritshift Shark (Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire only) This form is exclusive to Tekehu	Spiritshift Shark – Immune to Dexterity Afflictions	Druid Shark Teeth	Spiritshift Hide (Deadfire)
	Storm Blight	Spiritshift Storm Blight (Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire only) Exclusive to Fury subclass	Shifting Storm – Break engagement with all enemies in a 12m radius, Immune to Engagement for 1.0 sec Storm's Rage – Target: 32-48 , If successful: Stunned for 8.0 sec	Elemental Claws (Spiritshift Storm Blight)	Elemental Corpus (Spiritshift Storm Blight)

Spiritshift weapon and armor[ | ]

All druid's equipment is inaccessible during transformation and any bonus it provides is lost (with the only exception of Wildstrike Belt), but every form comes equipped with a set of special weapon and armor. This weapon is considered unarmed dual wielding with average base attack speed (with the exception of Cat and Stelgaer - see table above), and its damage and Accuracy rating scales with the wielder's character level.

In Pillars of Eternity:
- All spiritshift weapons deal 16-25 damage (Damage Types vary), are granted a +5 Damage Reduction bypass, and gain additional Damage and +4 Accuracy (vs. Deflection) every 3 character levels from - but not including - level 1 (4, 7, 10, etc.)
The bonus damage is calculated exponentially with 1.15 ^ x, where x is 0 at levels 1-3, 1 at levels 4-6, 2 at levels 7-9, etc.
- All spiritshift armors have 8 DR (with the exception of Spiritshift Bear Hide, which has 10), have no recovery speed penalty, and are granted +2 Base DR every 3 character levels from - but not including - level 1 (4, 7, 10, etc.)
In Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire:
- All spiritshift weapons deal 13-19 damage (with the exception of Elemental Claws - Damage Types vary), and gain the enchantment Scaling: +4 Accuracy, +15% Damage, and +1 Penetration every 4 character levels from - but not including - level 1 (5, 9, 13, etc.).
- All spiritshift armors have 8 AR (with the exception of Spiritshift Bear Hide, which has 10), have no recovery speed penalty, and are granted +1 Base AR every 4 character levels over - but not including - level 1 (5, 9, 13, etc.).

Spiritshift equipment scaling
Level	Pillars of Eternity			Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
	Weapon		Armor	Weapon			Armor
	Damage	Accuracy	DR	Damage	Accuracy	Penetration	AR
1	16-25	+0	8	13-19	+0	+0 (9)	+0 (8)
2
3
4	18-29	+4	10
5				15-22	+4	+1 (10)	+1 (9)
6
7	21-33	+8	12
8
9				17-25	+8	+2 (11)	+2 (10)
10	24-38	+12	14
11
12
13	28-44	+16	16	19-28	+12	+3 (12)	+3 (11)
14
15
16	32-50	+20	18
17	Player character level cap			21-30	+16	+4 (13)	+4 (12)
18
19
20

Notes[ | ]

The Wolf Spiritshift is supposed to "move quickly" like its description indicates but does not actually provide any Movement increase.
The weapons of the Spiritshift forms work with the talents Weapon Focus Peasant and Two Weapon Style.
Shifting originally lasted for the duration of the combat or until you choose to shift back,^[1]^[2] but that is no longer the case.