Which gift bags are safe to use?

[Eureka Akerue]

So i want the classic experience which enhances my gameplay. Like inventory management and superficial stuff is okay w/ me but i just bought the game and was wondering which gift bags won't make the game easy/affect difficulty. also no spoilers pls. I want the proper experience with the added benefits of gift bags. or should i just not use them at all

[Chaoslink]

I'm not 100% familiar with them all, but most of them wouldn't be something to use first time around. The inventory management one makes things worse. The only one you might consider using is the movement speed one, but I never really felt the default move speed needed adjusting.

[Cookie]

All.
All Gift bag mods are Quality of Life than anything.
Except random traits for enemies.

[Doctor Beetus]

I recommend using the workshop versions of the Gift Bag mods. They are a lot better and aren't buggy or overwrite things they don't need to. You can use Divine Talents, though.

[Rumors]

All gift bags will disable achievements, if you care about that.


The Spirit Vision one is mostly QOL, although there are a few places in the game that react to you casting it that you'll have to toggle off and on again to trigger.

Resting to restore source during most points of the game is more of a time saver since there's places you can go to recover source infinitely. A few points though, it does give you access to easy source regen when you'd otherwise not have it.

The crafting one may make the game easier since it gives you crafting access to stuff you'd normally have to find or buy. On the other hand, it can make it harder since it does add a few new grenades that the enemies can use on you. Mostly just gives you more options though.

Sourcerer Sundries, can argue either way, since it lets you "level up" gear at an expensive price rather than having to find/buy new gear all the time. Good if you don't like finding interesting and unique gear and then tossing it an hour later in favor of a common sword because it's outleveled.

The black cat only seems to mostly let you assign the summon skill to a different character. I've not gotten any of its other aspects to work.

Divine Talents adds new talents to play around with. Could argue makes the game easier since not balanced around them, but it'd be minor.

Hagglers is mostly QOL so you don't have to have your character with Barter do all of the trading.

Fort Joy Mirror lets you respec earlier, which can be argued to make the game easier since it lets you fix leveling errors much sooner.


Everything else will definitely affect the game to make it easier or harder, even if its as simple as letting you have an extra talent point.

[Lethan]

Avoid the bags and hagglers. They are buggy. Some claim they work. Better safe than sorry.
Auto organise is also buggy... and can't be turned off.

[Krampus]

The AP points increase is a nice buff with glass cannon. If you're looking for the standard experiemce i wouldn't activate it. By far the best gift bag imo.

[Alio]

All the Gift Bag mods are great for a first playthrough and beyond except for Combat Randomizer. That's the only one I don't recommend until you're a complete veteran.

Sourceress Sundries will actually make you take a 10-20% hit on gear stats, but is great for keeping stuff around that is hitting sweet spots for your builds.

The AP one doesn't really affect you in any way if you're constantly using your AP anyways.

All of it is just lore friendly/time saver stuff.