Scratch Evolved

Scratch joins the team in this righteous take on everyone's favorite hound. Scratch uses a build-up system to unlock powerful ultimate abilities. Themed to Paladins, Clerics, Bards, Rangers, and Druids.

This uses the same foundation that the rest of the Evolved Series mods use. Click here for more information about everything added in an Evolved mod.

Changes to Vanilla Scratch Features

If you've used Shovel Evolved and tried to attack Shovel in camp, you'll notice it's impossible. This is now the same with Scratch at camp. On top of that, his faction has been set to the player's faction, so he won't mind watching you pick the occasional pocket anymore. If the act 3 occurrence occurs, the invulnerability, immortality, faction, and sanctuary get removed. Once that occurrence is done, the god mode turns back on.

Scratch's Sniff and Scratch's fetching capabilities on the summon can both be toggled on and off at any time and will stay on or off until you toggle them again.

Progression and Theme

Scratch is a pure-hearted, brave, and loyal beast. For this reason, I decided to give him qualities from some of the "good" classes while keeping his own class as Champion Fighter.

Base Passives:

Pack Tactics: This wasn't on him for some reason. I slapped it back on.

Righteous Bond: Scratch resonates with Clerics, Paladins, Rangers, Bards, Druids, and Monks and forms a unique connection with them while summoned.

When summoned by:

• []Clerics: his healing abilities add Bless and Blade Ward for 2 turns.[/]

  []Paladins: he acts as a repeater for that Paladin's auras. He also receives Shield of Faith without concentration as soon as he's summoned.[/]

  []Rangers: he gets Companion's Bond and Prey's Scent as if he was a Ranger companion.[/]

  []Bard: when the Bard uses Bardic Inspiration on someone, Scratch receives it as well. Likewise, when Scratch unlock Combat Inspiration and uses it on someone, the bard summoner receives it as well.[/]

  []Druid: Scratch gets Animalistic Vitality which heals a bit during combat if he's missing hit points.[/]

  []Monks: Scratch gains Evasion and Martial Arts: Bonus Bite.[/]

Scratch's morning gifts have been overhauled. He will now select a random gift from a list of over 60 possible gifts including elixirs, potions, weapon coatings, camp clothes, and more. Higher value or rarer items are added to the list of possible gifts depending on the current act the player is in. The items are randomly selected and added to a queue 2 items in advance when the queue has fewer than 2 items, so reloading your save after you didn't get an item you wanted won't get you a different one.

Some items will only be given once in an adventure. These are: