True Tides of Chaos (Patch 8)

Description

Tides of Chaos is supposed to be one of the defining features of the Wild Magic Sorcerer: channel your instability, and you're guaranteed a surge, recharged the moment it happens. In vanilla BG3, neither half of that promise actually holds: activating Tides of Chaos only bumps your surge chance to 55% (DC 11), and the charge stays spent regardless of whether a surge ever triggers.

True Tides of Chaos fixes both, bringing the feature in line with the 2024 tabletop rules: your next spell (level 1+) guarantees a Wild Magic surge while Tides of Chaos is active, and the charge is refunded the instant that surge fires, not at your next short rest. 

Installation instructions

• []Download the 

  .zip and extract the 

  .pak file inside.[/]

  []Move the 

  .pak into your 

  Mods folder:

  %LOCALAPPDATA%\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3\Mods[/]

  []Launch the game, open the in-game Mod Manager from the main menu, find the mod in the list, and enable it.[/]

  []Save your load order and start playing.[/]

Mods folder.

To uninstall: disable the mod in the Mod Manager, then delete the

.pak from the 

Mods folder.

Main features

• []Guaranteed surge. While Tides of Chaos is active, your next spell of level 1 or higher is guaranteed to trigger a Wild Magic surge, instead of rolling a 55% chance.[/]

  []Instant refund. The moment that surge fires, your Tides of Chaos charge is restored.[/]

  []No passive override. Unlike most Wild Magic mods, this one never touches the Wild Magic Sorcerer's passive itself. It hooks into a tag-based mechanism the base game already reserves for exactly this purpose, which means it can't conflict with mods that change what a surge does.[/]

  []Plays well with True Wild Magic (smy other mod, separate mod that replaces the surge table with 25 new outcomes). Install either one alone or both together, in any load order[/]

  []Zero footprint. No new assets, no Script Extender, no dependencies. One stats file.[/]