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Magic Overhaul - Useful Buffs

These magic tweaks aim to make non-damaging spells more useful and interesting.
Buffs (and debuffs!) are now large and powerful.
Most of the spells have been modified, with the exception of most damaging spells.

Typically, what you can expect is better and more useful non-damaging spells, thanks to:
- Larger (and added!) area of effects
- Longer durations
- Stronger, but not game breaking, effects

Now you can place a large aoe to significantly buff most if not all your army for a while, instead of not giving a small bonus to one dude for a few seconds.

/!\ Not compatible with Less buff and effect VFX /!\

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Rather than simply increasing the values of the vanilla spells, care has been put to give spells new effects to make them feel more unique :

- Most overcast versions will now offer an alternative use for the spell rather than giving it more raw power.
For instance, Djaf’s Incantation of Cursed Blades now has a 50m radius (instead of none) on it's base cast, and reverts back to single target but with a stronger effect on overcast, to be used on a construct for example.

- While some spells like Hand of Glory (stats shown in the mod's images) now have access to a large aoe on their overcast version, others like Spiteful Shot are still single target, but can instead be cast again immediately with no cooldown.

- Some spells like Soulblight are now drastically stronger on their overcast version, but compensate with a high mana cost.

- Some spells now give Missile Parry chances, note that although it says "with shield", it actually works even on units without shields.


Additionally, changes have been made to magic reserves and the realm of souls, and to a larger extent, to undead fatigue:
- Magic reserves increased by 33% (from 60+30(starting pool) to 90+30)
- Magic regeneration increased by 33% (from 0.15 to 0.2)
- Magic regeneration falloff decreased by 50% (meaning mana regen won't be as slow when the magic reserve gets low)
- Realm of Souls healing increased by 50%
- Realm of Souls now also restores 25% vigor per stage
- Curse of Undeath (vampire lore passive) now also restores 15% vigor per spell cast


Complete list of changes can be found here[docs.google.com]
Look up the changes to your favorite magic lore to not miss anything !

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Lore or tabletop balance were not in mind. I looked at spell descriptions and extrapolated from there.
Balance however was in mind but not the focus (= aimed for pve rather than pvp), some spells may still be too strong or still too weak.
If you are not happy with my mod, you can check out this other cool mod that does something similar.

Feedback and suggestions are greatly appreciated !

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Have fun, drink water, and stretch regularly o/

- Thumbnail slann courtesy of Dicey June


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A note on compatibility:
- Not compatible with Less buff and effect VFX.
- Spell tooltips have been modified. They are included in the same table (unit_abilities_to_additional_ui_effects_juncs_tables) as abilities and items tooltips, which requires to be overwritten to be edited.
I decided against that, for compatibility and maintenance reasons. Instead, tooltips that show erroneous informations have a lil warning indicating which information is wrong and how it was changed by the mod.