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ShalShad the level 3 Shalore Shadowblade by darkmoodify

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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.7.4
Addons

Free Respec 1.7.2

Allow trial and error for character building without restarting new game while minimizing inbalance.

You can respec stats, talents, categories and prodigies freely at any time.
You cannot respec stats below initial value.
You cannot respec talents that can alter the world in a permanent way.
You cannot respec categories known at start.
You cannot respec categories learnt from event without category point.
You cannot respec prodigies that cannot be learned with Writhing Ring of the Hunter.

Based on Full Respecialization. Fix the Error for prodigies learning introduced v1.7.

Warning:
Version 1.1.3 and older have a bug in the respeccing prodigies.
When I learn a prodigy after I unlearned a prodigy in the same dialog, learning prodigy is not learned correctly.
I recommand to save game before unlearning prodigies.

Weight: 100

Superload:
- mod/dialogs/LevelupDialog.lua:incStat() to respec stats.
- mod/dialogs/LevelupDialog.lua:isUnlearnable() to respec talents.
- mod/dialogs/LevelupDialog.lua:learnType() to respec categories.
- mod/dialogs/LevelupDialog.lua:init() to recognize respeccing prodigies.
- mod/dialogs/UberTalent.lua:init(), use() to respec prodigies.
- mod/dialogs/UberTalent.lua:getTalentDesc() to show which prodigies cannot respec.

Free Respec 1.7.2

Escorts Enhanced 1.7.0

Various enhancements to escort quest NPCs:
- Escorts now follow the player when not close to the portal.
- Escorts occasionally say useful things.
- Escorts heal 5% of their maximum health per turn.

Escorts Enhanced 1.7.0

Items Vault 1.7.0

Donators/Buyers bonus!
Items Vault 1.7.0

Possessor Bonus Class 1.7.4

Donators/Buyers bonus!
Possessor Bonus Class 1.7.4

Select your Escorts 1.7.0

Allows you to choose which escorts you will encounter at the start of the game.
You may change the future encounters in the game menu (Esc).

There is an option to choose a random escort in case you just wanted to guarantee some unlocks before continuing with the base game's behavior.

Note: You're only supposed to be able to choose the lost tinker once. (Must have the Embers of Rage DLC and unlocked by playing in the Orcs campaign)
Note: Unfortunately the only time that addons can get the possible escort types is after the random escort quest is assigned.
This means escorts added by other addons will not be available for selection, but will still be possible to find using the random selection.

To reach me faster, please leave a message on the Steam Workshop page. I don't get notifications on te4.org so I may take longer to reply.

Select your Escorts 1.7.0

Ashes of Urh'Rok 1.7.4

Official Expansion!

Many in Maj'Eyal have heard of "demons", sadistic creatures who appear seemingly from nowhere, leaving a trail of suffering and destruction whereever they go. Their Fearscape floats far above the skies, watching and waiting, but not idly; their agents scout the land, their legions build up their forces, and their scholars develop new spells and strategies. As the barrier between our worlds begins to crack under their scrutiny, helpless Eyalites have begun to disappear, whisked up to serve as their slaves and playthings. They imbue these victims with magical powers to better survive the ensuing stresses - can you use your new-found abilities to escape the legions of Mal'Rok?

Features:

  • Start with a new class, the Doombringer! These avatars of demonic destruction charge into battle with massive two-handed weapons, cutting swaths of firey devastation through hordes of opponents. Armed with flame magic and demonic strength, they delight in fighting against overwhelming odds, softening up the crowd with waves of fire, then feeding on the flames and suffering of their surroundings to stay alive while quickly reducing any group to a pile of ash and gore.
  • Unlock a new class, the Demonologist, with an all-new item enhancement mechanic! Bearing a shield and the magic of the Spellblaze itself, these melee-fighting casters can grow demonic seeds from their fallen enemies. Imbue these seeds onto your items to gain a wide array of new talents and passive benefits, and summon the demons within them to fight on your side! Ever looked at a gigantic demon-cursed minotaur and wished it was on your side for once? Well, now you CAN summon one to pound your foes into paste while you cast devastating spells from afar, or call forth a squad of Fire Imps to pelt your enemies to death while they exhaust themselves on your impenetrable defenses! Demons have persistent health, making them a little more precious than disposable necromancer skeletons or summoner beasts, but can be revived from death nonetheless.
  • Two new zones, with all-new art, foes, and bosses! You've seen the plains of the Fearscape before, now see the lairs and headquarters of the demons themselves!
  • Over 10,000 words of written lore to find! The demons were once an enlightened, peaceful race, hailing from a distant planet known as Mal'Rok; learn what drove them to plot Eyal's eternal torture! Discover monuments to each of the demonic species and noteworthy individuals, showing the place of honor each has among them! Get a glimpse into the culture and daily lives of these sadistic invaders and their brainwashed thralls!
  • Unlock a new race, Doomelves: Shalore who've taken to the demonic alterations especially well, corrupting their typical abilities into a darker form. Blink away to safety, transform into a shadowy dúathedlen to hide in the shadows or prey on your foes with blasts of darkness, use your new resilience to soak up status effects and critical hits, and assault your enemies' minds to leave them unsteady in combat!
  • Between the aforementioned classes and Doomelves, a whopping 75 new talents!
  • Unlock two new cosmetic options! You know you've always wanted demon-horns.
  • Two new events, appearing anywhere in Eyal!
  • 20 new artifacts, with unique and interesting effects. Collect the Obsidian Treasures to amass more and more power! Slip your hands into the Will of Ul'Gruth and watch your sweeping blows smash down walls! Wear a giant hideous hell-mouth as a fashionable belt!
  • 7 new achievements! Conquer the worst Urh'Rok's forces can throw at you, and hang their metaphorical skulls from your profile page!

Ashes of Urh'Rok 1.7.4

Faster Run/Rest/Explore 1.0.6

Important: this addon will have no effect if left unconfigured! Please read the description!

Recommended settings:

hit escape -> video options
  • Requested FPS: 30
  • Resting divider: 10
  • Running divider: 5

Description:

Enables faster run/resting by use of FPS dividers.

These dividers simply divide the game's requested FPS by their respective values while resting or running. After starting a new game or loading a saved character, configure this addon by hitting escape -> video options. Setting these dividers to something greater than one can substantially reduce the amount of time required to finish resting/running on older computers.

Just be careful when resting on an escort mission...

Changelog:

See the forum discussion for the changelog.

Faster Run/Rest/Explore 1.0.6

Embers of Rage 1.7.4

Official Expansion!

One year has passed since the one the Orcs call the "Scourge from the West" came and single-handedly crushed the Orc Prides of Grushnak, Vor, Gorbat, and Rak'Shor.  The Allied Kingdoms, now linked by farportal to their distant, long-lost Sunwall allies, have helped them conquer most of Var'Eyal.  The few remnants of the ravaged Prides are caged...  but one Pride remains.  Kruk Pride, isolated on an island, is the last orcish settlement that stands; they, too, face their impending doom.  The Sunwall has blockaded the only exit point from the island, and now, the technologically advanced civilization of Steam Giants have come down from the mountains to take their homeland with machines and weaponry unlike anything else on Eyal.  Kruk Pride has reverse-engineered their technology before; their only hope is to do it again and rise up against the Pride's foes.
 

Features:

  • Explore a whole new campaign from level 1 to 50, one year after the events of the original Tales of Maj'Eyal campaign. Liberate the Orcs (or die trying) by rising up against the Sunwall, the Steam Giants of Atmos, and other dangers that may lie in wait...
  • Play as one of three new races: the battle-hardened Orcs, the brutal Yetis, and the unstoppable Whitehooves. Discover their stories, their pains, their hopes... and their awesome racial powers!
  • Risk your life in over 20 unique zones! Explore the ruins of a lost city, lay siege to the Sunwall forces at the Gates of Morning, and raid the Steam Giants' mining quarry - each has its own unique foes and hazards, leading each to feel and play different from the others.
  • Play as one of the four new tinker classes: Gunslingers, Sawbutchers, Psyshots and Annihilators! Plus a class evolution: Technomancers! Crush and rend your foes with heavy metal, electrocute and immolate them with your gadgets, charge across the battlefield or nimbly strafe in style - each plays differently, and none provide any shortage of ways to slay your foes.
  • Master steam technology to build powerful tinkers to augment your equipment. Need to close in a bit quicker? Turn your boots into rocket boots! Having a hard time deciding whether to shoot someone or stab them? Build a Hand Cannon into your gloves, or deploy a Weapon Automaton to do the stabbing for you! If you have a problem, steamtech has a solution, usually involving explosions; with over 80 different powerful contraptions to craft, enjoy unparalleled versatility and trying something different with every playthrough.
  • Master the tactical uses of over 140 talents! Fire bouncing trick-shots and psychic-infused shots, use your steamsaws as shields or wheels, terrify your foes with long mechanical arms - there are no "boring" talents here, everything has its own special applications and properties!
  • Use advanced technology in the world of Eyal! Burrow through sand, plant bombs to destroy tunnels, and discover that you aren't alone in using it...
  • Infusions and runes are for puny humans; implant new medical injectors to pump an array of experimental chemicals into your body! Injectors can use any (infinitely reusable) salve in your inventory as long as they're off their cooldown, giving you versatility you've wished you could get with a couple of inscriptions.
  • Loot over 70 new and powerful artifacts. Pump lead into foes with big guns, quick guns, and explosive guns! Shred them with saws that maim, saws that thirst for blood, and saws that aren't really saws! Violate common sense by strapping a rocket to your back and calling it a jetpack!
  • Enjoy dying in horrible and exotic ways at the hands (or claws, jaws, guns...) of over 140 new creatures! Not mere piles of stats and chain-stuns, these foes will provide unique challenges - suffer the Sunwall's newest cosmic spells, the new breeds of ritches that infest and multiply, the Steam Giants' elaborate defense systems, and find new strategies to adapt to each!
  • Earn a trunkload of achievements! Have your accomplishments recognized for liberating the Orcish people, displaying exceptional mercy or cruelty, or showing your prowess with impressive feats! Give a boss a fate worse than death, show Sunwall forces how frustrating it is to fight a Radiant Horror as a paladin, come out on top against impossible odds, display a suicidal lack of situational awareness, and wear a badge of pride or shame for each!
  • Read roughly 27,000 words of new lore to immerse yourself in the world! Learn how things have changed since the Scourge's campaign, feel hatred and/or pity for your foes, uncover grand schemes and sinister plots, and notice the elaborate connections between Var'Eyal's numerous factions. Every zone has a story behind it, and every story ties into a bigger picture; enjoy a tale of horror and humor, of intrigue and glory, of despair and hope.
  • Earn the right to use the classic (and Ashes of Urh'Rok) classes in Embers of Rage, and the new tinker classes in Maj'Eyal! Play a Brawler in the East to fulfill your life-long dream of suplexing an entire nation of giants, or play a Sawbutcher in Maj'Eyal to shred through Dreadfell in a whirlwind of sawblades and steam!
Embers of Rage 1.7.4

Better Item Description 1.7.4

This addon makes items description easier to read and determine on a glance it's usefulness
- sorts all stats by category - DPS/DEF/MISC
- item's passive power always the same blue color (not a random blue-yellow-pink-green)
- item's usable power - always yellow
- all rarity categories are displayed
- encumbrance value moved to the right under item name
- "on hit" powers always green
- "Stats" have an ornage highlight and placed before others because it's most important one
- Removed many extra-explain details, which any veteran player would not want to read each time
for example, stat "S.pwr/crit" shorten from "Spellpower on spell critical (stacks up to 3 times)"
means you do remember that it can stack only 3 times, and is not so super important anyway
- DLC supported - Orcs/Ashes
- few bug-fixes along the way

Most important thing to remember
- Requirements only shown for those you don't meet. If you want to see all reqs - hold CTRL
- "Phasing" stat means - "Damage Shield penetration", the name was taken from the source and looks good to me, and short enough
- The "-" minus sign at the end of stat mean immunity or reduction of some sort, for example "Blind-" = "Blindness immunity",
- "Max.summ" = Max wilder summons
- "Summ.HP.reg" = Life regen bonus (wilder-summons)
- "Def/telep" = Defense after a teleport
- "Res/telep" = Resist all after a teleport
- "Dur/telep" = New effects duration reduction after a teleport

it's not recommended to use this mod if you'r new to the game

Better Item Description 1.7.4

Egress Artifact Codes 1.5.10

Forbidden Cults tweak that adds lore drops containing the random artifact codes that exist for the Occult Egress. This doesn't give you any more artifacts than you would normally get, but makes them easier to find.

Egress Artifact Codes 1.5.10

Forbidden Cults 1.7.4

Official Expansion!

Not all adventurers seek fortune, not all that defend the world have good deeds in mind.
Lately the number of sightings of horrors have grown tremendously. People wander off the beaten paths only to be found years later, horribly mutated and partly insane, if they are found at all. It is becoming evident something is stirring deep below Maj'Eyal.
That something is you.

Forbidden Cults is a big expansion for Tales of Maj'Eyal to let you explore the horrors that lurk beneath the surface, to delve in long lost knowledge and lore and as usual to die a lot!


Forbidden Cults makes two new classes available to play:

  • Writhing One: Give in to the corrupting forces and turn yourself gradually into an horror, summon horrors to do your bidding, shed your skin and melt your face to assault your foes. With your arm already turned into a tentacle, what creature can stop you?
  • Cultist of Entropy: Using its insanity and control of entropic forces to unravel the normal laws of physic this caster class can turn healing into attacks and call upon the forces of the void to reduce its foes to dust.

Both those classes use a new resource called Insanity that gradually makes you both more chaotic and powerful as it fills up.


Forbidden Cults makes two new races available to play:

  • Drem: A corrupt subrace of dwarves, that somehow managed to keep a shred of sanity to not fully devolve into mindless horrors. They can enter a frenzy and even learn to summon horrors.
  • Krog: Ogres transformed by the very thing that should kill them. Their powerful attacks can stun their foes and they are so strong they can dual wield any one handed weapons.


Forbidden Cults adds many new zones for you to explore and die in:

  • Kroshkkur: An ancient Sher'tul Fortress laying half in ruins that serves as a focal point, and home, for all kinds of creatures seeking lost knowledge.
  • The Maggot: A huge living corrupted worm about to destroy Kroshkkur! Teleport inside and save your sanctuary of horrors!
  • The Godfeaster: Deep undergroud the ground shakes as ... -- redacted by corrupt forces --
  • The Scourge Pits: On the south of the Iron Throne lays a fool pit of ... -- redacted by corrupt forces --
  • Forbidden Tomes: Find special artifact books of ancient lore. But, read at your own peril, for the story they tell may very well suck you in... quite literally.
    Maybe you will even find The One That Writes...
  • Occult Egress: A strange, extremely old, contraption of unknown origin. It seems to require some kind of code sequence to activate. Maybe you will find some during your adventures?
  • The Entropic Void: So you think you are strong? Powerful? Invulnerable? In the end, entropy always wins, as you will learn...


What would an expansion about horrors be without a bunch of new horrors to torment you with? Please give a warm welcome to:

  • Searing Horrors: You liked luminous horrors? You loved radiant horrors? You will absolutely adore their searing big brothers!
  • Nethergates: It sleeps. Maybe it should stay that way.
  • Netherworms: Vampiric worm masses that are bound to tickle your fancy! And tickle hard.
  • Fearful Symmetry: Geometry has never been so lively!
  • Entropic Shards: Take an entropic crystal, shatter it with tentacles. And die.
  • : And more ...


"DarkGod, is that all?" Obviously not! You will also find your usual addition of:

  • Lore: Delve into the dark forgotten secrets of the world, where sanity is a very tenuous idea.
  • Artifacts: Discover new objects of power and use them to further your own goals.
  • New wyrmic tree: Unlock the scourge drake for your wyrmics.
  • Glass Golem: Unlock the glass golem option for your alchemists.
  • Events: Discover new strange contraptions in familiar zones. What could go wrong?
  • Achievements: Because there can never be enough!
Forbidden Cults 1.7.4
CampaignMaj'Eyal
ModeNightmare Adventure
SexFemale
RaceShalore
ClassShadowblade
Level / Exp3 / 48%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
Killed by Spellblaze Crystal at level 3 on the 76th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 12:07
Killed by ShalShad at level 3 on the 76th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 12:17
1 / 2

Primary Stats

Strength10 (base 12)
Dexterity23 (base 19)
Constitution10 (base 10)
Magic15 (base 13)
Willpower16 (base 10)
Cunning20 (base 14)

Resources

Life121/121
Mana142/142
Stamina131/131
Healing Factor1
Regeneration0.25

Speed

Mental0%
Attack0%
Movement-66.666666666667%
Spell0%
Global+100%

Vision

Sight10
Lite3
Infravision5
See Stealth21.388114253578
See Invisible21.388114253578

Offense: Mainhand

Damage23
Accuracy25
Crit Chance11%
APR5
Speed1.00

Offense: Offhand

Damage13
Accuracy25
Crit Chance11%
APR5
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower15
Crit Chance4%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower19
Crit Chance4%
Speed1

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)3 (35.65183292883%)
Defense29
Ranged Defense29
Fatigue0
Physical Save7
Spell Save10
Mental Save12

Defense: Immunities

Instadeath Resistance100%

Inscriptions (3/3)

Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 14
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to create a protective shield absorbing at most 100 damage for 5 turns.
Rune: Shielding
Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 18
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a spell
Description: Activate the rune to instantly dissipate the energy of your ailments, cleansing all cross tier effects and 1 physical, mental, and magical effect.
You use the dissipated energy to create a shield lasting 3 turns and blocking 50 damage per debuff cleansed (not counting cross-tier ones).
If there were only cross-tier effects to cleanse, no shield is created and the rune goes on a 75% reduced cooldown.
Rune: Shatter Afflictions
Runes
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 15
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
Won't Break Stealth: 100%
Is: a spell and usable during Aether Avatar
Description: Activate the rune to unleash a manasurge upon yourself, increasing mana regeneration by 820% for 10 turns (0 total) and instantly restoring 41 mana.
Also when resting your mana will regenerate at 0.5 per turn.
Rune: Manasurge

Class Talents

Technique / Duelist1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your offhand weapon damage penalty is reduced to 44%.
    Up to 2.2 times a turn, you have a 16% chance to parry up to 6 damage (based on your offhand weapon damage) from a melee or ranged attack. The number of parries increases with your Cunning. (A fractional parry has a reduced chance to succeed.)
    A successful parry reduces damage like armour (before any attack multipliers) and prevents critical strikes. It is difficult to parry attacks from unseen attackers and you cannot parry with a mindstar.
    Dual Weapon Mastery
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: The flow of battle invigorates you, allowing you to press your advantage as the fight progresses.
    Up to once each per turn, while dual wielding, you may:
    Riposte -- If a melee or archery attack misses you or you parry it, you instantly restore 0.9 stamina and gain 0% of a turn.
    Recover -- On performing a critical strike with your offhand weapon, you instantly restore 0.9 stamina.
    Tempo
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 6
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Make a cunning feint that tricks your target into swapping places with you. While moving, you take the opportunity to trip them, pinning and dazing them for 2 turns.
    Switching places distracts your foes and allows you to improve your defenses: For 0 turns, Dual Weapon Mastery yields one extra parry each turn and you are 4% less likely to miss your parry opportunities.
    The chance to pin and to daze increases with your Accuracy
    Feint
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 12
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 18
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Exploiting a gap in your target's defenses, you make a lethal strike with your offhand weapon for 180% damage that causes them to drop their weapon, disarming them for 0 turns.
    Tempo will reduce the cooldown of this talent by 1 turn each time it is triggered defensively.
    The chance to disarm increases with your Accuracy.
    Lunge
0/5
Cunning / Stealth1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Enters stealth mode (power 28, based on Cunning), making you harder to detect.
    If successful (re-checked each turn), enemies will not know exactly where you are, or may not notice you at all.
    Stealth reduces your light radius to 0, increases your infravision by 3, and will not work with heavy or massive armours.
    You cannot enter stealth if there are foes in sight within range 9.
    Any non-instant, non-movement action will break stealth if not otherwise specified.

    Enemies uncertain of your location will still make educated guesses at it.
    While stealthed, enemies cannot share information about your location with each other and will be delayed in telling their allies that you exist at all.
    Stealth
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You know how to make the most out of being unseen.
    When striking from stealth, your attacks are automatically critical if the target does not notice you just before you land it. (Spell and mind attacks critically strike even if the target notices you.)
    Your critical multiplier against targets that cannot see you is increased by up to 0%. (You must be able to see your target and the bonus is reduced from its full value at range 3 to 0 at range 10.)
    Also, after exiting stealth for any reason, the critical multiplier persists for 3 turns (with no range limitation).
    Shadowstrike
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You have a special affinity for darkness and shadows.
    When standing in an unlit grid, the minimum range to your foes for activating stealth or for maintaining it after a Shadow Dance is reduced by 0.
    While stealthed, your life regeneration is increased by 1.2 (based on your Cunning) and your stamina regeneration is increased by 0.2. The regeneration effects persist for 3 turns after exiting stealth, with 5 times the normal rate.
    Soothing Darkness
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 41
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Your mastery of stealth allows you to vanish from sight at any time.
    You automatically enter stealth and cause it to not break from unstealthy actions for 0 turns.
    Shadow Dance
0/5
Technique / Dual techniques1.00
  • Effective talent level: 2.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 15
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Attack with your offhand weapon for 121% damage. If the attack hits, the target is stunned for 4 turns, and you hit it with your mainhand weapon doing 121% damage.
    The stun chance increases with your Accuracy.
    Dual Strike
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Lashes out with a flurry of blows, hitting your target three times with each weapon for 40% damage.
    Flurry
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 10
    Range: 2
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Swiftly leap to your target and strike at their vital points with both weapons, dealing 100% weapon damage. This attack deals 1% increased critical strike damage.
    Heartseeker
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: 2000% of base
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: You quickly move up to 1 tiles to arrive adjacent to a target location you can see, leaping around or over anyone in your way. During your movement, you attack all foes within one grid of your path with both weapons for 60% weapon damage, causing those struck to bleed for 50% of the damage dealt over 5 turns.
    Whirlwind
0/5
Spell / Phantasm1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 5
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 14
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Creates a globe of pure light within a radius of 6 that illuminates the area and deals 40.91 damage to all creatures.
    At level 3, it also blinds all who see it (except the caster) for 3 turns.
    Illuminate
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Surround yourself with a phantasmal shield of pure light.
    Whenever you would take damage there is 5% chance to become ethereal for an instant and fully ignore it.
    If you do get hit, the shield glows brightly, sending triggering a flash of light on the attacker, dealing 8.58 light damage in radius 0 around it and dazzling any affected creature (deal 10% less damage) for 5 turns. This can only happen every 18 turns.
    The damage and ignore chance will increase with your Spellpower.
    Phantasmal Shield
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 35
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Weave a net of arcane disturbances around your body, removing yourself from the sight of all, granting 2 bonus to invisibility for 7 turns.
    While invisible all damage you deal against blinded or dazzled foes is increased by 0% (additive with other damage increases).
    The invisibility bonus will increase with your Spellpower.
    Invisibility
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Create a perfect lookalike of your own form made out of pure light near a creature.
    This image has 2 life and can never take more than 1 damage per creature per turn and is immune to any non direct damage (ground effects, damage over time, ...).
    Whenever you cast a spell your mirror image will try to duplicate it at the same target for 66% less damage, if possible. If it can, it will lose 1 life, if not it will instead taunt a creature to focus its attention on itself.
    While the image exists you receive the damage bonus from the Invisibility spell as if you were invisible.
    This spell can not be cast while a Mirror Image already exists and only in combat. It will disappear after a few turn when outside of combat.
    Mirror Image
0/5
Cunning / Shadow magic1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 10
    Sustain mana cost: 50
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 5
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Channel raw magical energy into your melee attacks; each blow you land will do an additional 16.67 darkness damage.
    The damage will improve with your Spellpower.
    Shadow Combat
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a spell
    Description: Your preparations give you greater magical capabilities. You gain a bonus to Spellpower equal to 13% of your Cunning (Current bonus: 3).
    Shadow Cunning
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 10
    Sustain mana cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 5
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You draw energy from the depths of the shadows.
    While sustained, you regenerate 0.25 mana per turn, and your physical and spell attack speed increases by 0.0%.
    Shadow Feed
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 20
    Mana cost: 20
    Range: 3
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Step through the shadows to your target, dazing it for 2 turns and hitting it with all your weapons for 80% darkness weapon damage.
    Dazed targets are significantly impaired, but any damage will free them.
    To Shadowstep, you need to be able to see the target.
    Shadowstep
0/5
Cunning / Dirty fighting1.00
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 12
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: You make a low blow against a sensitive point on the target, dealing 150% unarmed damage. If your attack hits, the target is left reeling and vulnerable, reducing their physical save by 0 and their stun, blind, confusion and pin immunities to 50% of normal for 4 turns.
    This effect bypasses saves.
    Dirty Fighting
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your quick wit gives you a big advantage against disabled targets, increasing your damage by 1% for each disabling effect the target is under, to a maximum of 2%.
    For this purpose, disabling effects are stun, blind, daze, confuse, pin, disarm, cripple and silence.
    In addition, for each disabling effect the target is under, your melee attacks have a 1% (to a maximum of 2%) chance to inflict a new effect on them (that they do not already have): either disarm, cripple (25% power) or pin for 2 turns.
    The chance to further disable the target increases with your Accuracy.
    Backstab
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 18
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Description: Throw a cloud of blinding dust in a radius 0 cone. Enemies within will be blinded, as well as having their accuracy reduced by 3 and movement speed decreased by 15% for 1 turns.
    The chance to inflict these effects increase with your Accuracy.
    Blinding Powder
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Fixed Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Make a painful strike dealing 100% weapon damage that increases the duration of up to 0 negative effect(s) on the target by 0 turns. For each negative effect extended this way, the duration of a beneficial effect is reduced by the same amount, possibly canceling it.
    Twist the Knife
0/5

Generic Talents

Cunning / Survival1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You notice the small things others do not notice, allowing you to "see" creatures in a 5 radius even outside of light radius.
    This is not telepathy, however, and it is still limited to line of sight.
    Also, your attention to detail increases stealth detection and invisibility detection by 21, and you gain the ability to detect traps (+13 detect 'power').
    The detection abilities improve with Cunning.
    Heightened Senses
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your cunning manipulations allow you to use charms (wands, totems and torques) more efficiently, reducing their cooldowns and the power cost of all usable items by 8%.
    In addition your knowledge of devices allows you to disarm known traps (0 disarm 'power', improves with Cunning).
    Device Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
    Won't Break Stealth: 100%
    Description: Sense foes around you in a radius of 5 for 1 turns.
    The radius will increase with your Cunning.
    Track
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You have an enhanced sense of self preservation, and your keen intuition allows you to sense dangers others miss.
    Your ability to detect traps is enhanced (+0 detect 'power').
    Critical attacks against you have 0.0% reduced bonus damage, and damage bonuses attackers gain against you for being unseen are reduced by 10%.
    You also gain an additional chance (at your normal save -20, effective) to resist detrimental status effects that can be resisted.
    The detection and additional save chance improve with Cunning.
    Danger Sense
0/5
Race / Shalore1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 45
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Call upon the grace of the Eternals to increase your global speed by 19% for 5 turns.
    The speed bonus will increase with your Dexterity or Magic (whichever is higher).
    Grace of the Eternals
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a spell
    Description: Reality bends slightly in the presence of a Shaloren due to their inherent magical nature.
    Increases critical chance by 1% and critical strike power by 0%.
    Magic of the Eternals
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 53
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: As the only immortal race of Eyal, Shaloren have learnt over the long years to use their innate inner magic to protect themselves.
    13% chance to become invisible (power 9) for 5 turns when hit by a blow doing at least 10% of your total life.
    Secrets of the Eternals
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Fixed Cooldown: 50
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: The world grows old as you stand through the ages. To you, time is different.
    Reduces the time remaining on detrimental effects by 2, most cooling down talents by 1, and increases the time remaining on beneficial effects by 1 (up to 2 times the current duration).
    Timeless
0/5
Technique / Mobility1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 8
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 10
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Jump back up to 3 grids from your target, springing over any creatures in your way.
    You must disengage in a nearly straight line directly away from your target (which you must be able to see).
    After moving, you gain 116% increased movement speed for 3 turns (which ends if you take any actions other than movement), and you may reload your ammo (if any).
    The extra speed and maximum distance you can move are reduced by your Fatigue level.
    Disengage
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 25
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 37
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Your quick wit and reflexes allow you to anticipate attacks against you, granting you a 11% chance to evade melee and ranged attacks and 0 increased defense for 4 turns.
    The chance to evade and defense bonus increase with your Dexterity.
    Evasion
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 20
    Range: 2
    Cooldown: 17
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: In an extreme feat of agility, you move to a spot you can see within range, bounding around, over, or through any enemies in the way.
    This talent cannot be used while wearing heavy armor, and leaves you exhausted. The exhaustion increases the cost of your activated Mobility talents by 97% (stacking), but fades over 30 turns.
    Tumble
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 10
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 5
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: You have trained to be very light on your feet and have conditioned your reflexes to react faster than thought to damage you take.
    While this talent is active, you instantly react to any direct damage (not from status effects, etc.) that would hit you for at least 44% of your maximum life.
    This requires 2.0 stamina and reduces the damage by 5%.
    Your reactions are too slow for this if you are wearing heavy armour.
    The damage reduction improves with your Defense.
    Trained Reactions
0/5
Spell / Conveyance1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Teleports you randomly within a small range of up to 7 grids.
    At level 4, it allows you to specify which creature to teleport.
    At level 5, it allows you to choose the target area (radius 7).
    If the target area is not in line of sight, there is a chance the spell will partially fail and teleport the target randomly.
    The range will increase with your Spellpower.
    Phase Door
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Teleports you randomly within a large range (115).
    At level 4, it allows you to specify which creature to teleport.
    At level 5, it allows you to choose the target area (radius 22).
    If the target area is not in line of sight, there is a chance the spell will partially fail and teleport the target randomly.
    Random teleports have a minimum range of 15.
    The range will increase with your Spellpower.
    Teleport
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Mana cost: 40
    Range: 8
    Cooldown: 35
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: This intricate spell erects a space distortion around the caster that is linked to another distortion, placed around a target.
    Any time the caster should take damage, there is a 40% chance that it will instead be warped by the shield and hit the designated target.
    Once the maximum damage (63) is absorbed, the time runs out (10 turns), or the target dies, the shield will crumble.
    The max damage the shield can absorb will increase with your Spellpower.
    Displacement Shield
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain mana cost: 100
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 40
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: When you hit a solid surface, this spell tears down the laws of probability to make you instantly appear on the other side.
    Teleports up to 4 grids.
    After a successful probability travel you are left unstable, unable to do it again for a number of turns equal to 450% of the number of tiles you blinked through.
    The range will improve with your Spellpower.
    Probability Travel
0/5
Cunning / Lethality1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You have learned to find and hit weak spots. All your strikes have a 3.1% greater chance to be critical hits, and your critical hits do 9.4% more damage.
    Also, when using knives and throwing knives, you now use your Cunning instead of your Strength for bonus damage.
    Lethality
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 6
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Weapon (100% of a turn)
    Description: Focus on a single target and perform a probing attack to find flaws in its defences, striking with your melee weapon(s) for 80% damage.
    For 3 turns thereafter, you gain 5 armor penetration, 7 accuracy, and 30% all damage peneration.
    Learning this technique allows you to permanently gain 1 armour penetration with all melee and archery attacks.
    The temporary armor penetration and accuracy bonuses increase with Cunning.
    Expose Weakness
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain stamina cost: 30
    Drains stamina: 4
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Become a whirling storm of blades, increasing attack speed by 0% and causing melee attacks to strike an additional adjacent target other than your primary target for 100% weapon damage.
    This talent is exhausting to use, draining 4 stamina each turn.
    Blade Flurry
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Stamina cost: 25
    Range: melee/personal
    Fixed Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Combat (100% of a turn)
    Description: Your quick wits allow you to reset the cooldown of up to 2 of your combat talents (cunning or technique) of tier 1 or less.
    Snap
0/5
Technique / Combat training1.00
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Your skin becomes more resilient to damage. Increases resistance to all damage by 0.0%.
    Thick Skin
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You become better at using your armour to deflect blows and protect your vital areas. Increases Armour value by 0, Armour hardiness by 0%, and reduces the chance melee or ranged attacks critically hit you by 0% with your current body armour.
    (This talent only provides bonuses for heavy mail or massive plate armour.)
    At level 1, it allows you to wear heavy mail armour, gauntlets, helms, and heavy boots.
    At level 2, it allows you to wear shields.
    At level 3, it allows you to wear massive plate armour.
    (Note that wearing mail or plate armour will interfere with stealth.)
    Heavy Armour Training
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: You learn to maintain your agility and manage your combat posture while wearing robes or light armour. When wearing armour no heavier than leather in your main body slot, you gain 18 Defense, 6% Armour hardiness, and 10% reduced Fatigue.
    In addition, when you step adjacent to a (visible) enemy, you use the juxtaposition to increase your total Defense by 9 for 2 turns.
    The Defense bonus scales with your Dexterity.
    Light Armour Training
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases the accuracy of unarmed, melee and ranged weapons by 14.
    Combat Accuracy
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 0% and physical power by 30 when using swords, axes or maces.
    Weapons Mastery
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: Increases weapon damage by 30% and physical power by 30 when using daggers.
    Dagger Mastery
1/5

Effects

Quests

You have heard that within the scintillating caves lie strange crystals imbued with Spellblaze energies.

There are also rumours of a renegade Shaloren camp to the west.

* You must explore the scintillating caves.
* You must explore the renegade Shaloren camp.
Echoes of the Spellblaze		active
You failed to protect the lost sun paladin from death by ShalShad.
Escort: lost sun paladin (level 3 of Scintillating Caves)		failed

Equipment

Tool
The Cog
 0.0
T3 mechanical cog
[Legendary]
Unknown

While equipped:
Stats +5 Cun +3 Wil
10% chances when you are hurt to negate the blow entirely.

A tiny set of metal pieces. It seems to move on its own.
The Cog
On feet
pair of rough leather boots of tirelessness (0 def, 1 armour)
 2.0
T1 feet armor
[Ego]
Master

While equipped:
----- def -----
Armour +1
---------- misc
Stam/turn +0.40
Max.stam +10.00

A pair of boots made of leather.
pair of rough leather boots of tirelessness (0 def, 1 armour)
Around neck
copper amulet of dexterity (+3)
 0.1
T1 amulet jewelry
[Ego]
Nature

While equipped:
Stats +3 Dex

Amulets make your neck look great!
copper amulet of dexterity (+3)
In main hand
iron dagger (101% power, 5 apr)
 1.0
T1 dagger 1H weapon
[Normal]

Power 101% Range: 1.3x
Uses 50% Cun, 50% Dex
Dmg Physical
Mastery Dagger Mastery
Acc+ +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Apr +5
Crit +4.0%
Atk.spd 100%

Sharp, short and deadly.
iron dagger (101% power, 5 apr)
Around waist
blurring rough leather belt
 1.0
T1 belt armor
[Ego]
Master

While equipped:
----- def -----
Defense +9 (+5 eff.)
Stealth +5

A belt that goes around your waist.
blurring rough leather belt
Light source
brass lantern
 2.0
T1 lite
[Normal]

While equipped:
---------- misc
Light +3

A brass container with a wick emerging from it, protected from draughts by a sheet of greased paper. It can be carried by a handle.
brass lantern
Main armor
rough leather armour (3 def, 2 armour)
 9.0
T1 light armor
[Normal]

While equipped:
----- def -----
Armour +2
Defense +3 (+2 eff.)
Fatigue +6%

A suit of armour made of leather.
rough leather armour (3 def, 2 armour)
In off hand
iron dagger (102% power, 5 apr)
 1.0
T1 dagger 1H weapon
[Normal]

Power 102% Range: 1.3x
Uses 50% Cun, 50% Dex
Dmg Physical
Mastery Dagger Mastery
Acc+ +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Apr +5
Crit +4.0%
Atk.spd 100%

Sharp, short and deadly.
iron dagger (102% power, 5 apr)

Inventory

agate
 0.0
T1 black gem
[Normal]

While equipped:
Stats +1 Str +1 Dex +1 Mag
+1 Wil +1 Cun +1 Con
Item imbue powers:
Stats +1 Str +1 Dex +1 Mag
+1 Wil +1 Cun +1 Con
Latent Damage Type: Acid

Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
agate
2 spinel
 0.0
T1 green gem
[Normal]

While equipped:
Defense +2 (+1 eff.)
Phys.save +2 (+2 eff.)
Spell.save +2 (+2 eff.)
Mind.save +2 (+2 eff.)
Item imbue powers:
Defense +2 (+1 eff.)
Phys.save +2 (+2 eff.)
Spell.save +2 (+2 eff.)
Mind.save +2 (+2 eff.)
Latent Damage Type: Nature

Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
2 spinel
Scrying Orb
 1.0
orb
[Plot Item]
Unknown

While carried:

This orb will automatically identify items you find.
Scrying Orb
Transmogrification Chest
 2.0
sher'tul chest
[Plot Item]
Unknown

While carried:
Transmogrify all the items in your chest at once (also done automatically when you change level).
Uses 0 power out of 1000/1000

This chest is an extension of old Sher'tul places of power. Any items dropped inside are transported to an other place, processed and destroyed to extract energy.
The byproduct of this effect is the creation of gold, which is useless to process, so it is sent back to you.

When you possess the chest all items you walk upon will automatically be put inside and transmogrified when you leave the level.
Simply go to your inventory to move them out of the chest if you wish to keep them.
Items in the chest will not encumber you.
Transmogrification Chest
elm totem of stinging [power 116] (15 cooldown)
 2.0
T1 totem charm
[Ego]
Nature

Sting an enemy dealing 116 nature damage over 7 turns and reducing their healing by 50%
Puts all charms on 15 cooldown

Natural totems are made by powerful wilders to store nature power.
elm totem of stinging [power 116] (15 cooldown)
citrine
 0.0
T1 yellow gem
[Normal]

While equipped:
Light +4
Infravis +4
Item imbue powers:
Light +4
Infravis +4
Latent Damage Type: Light

Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
citrine

Achievements

Utterly Destroyed (Nightmare (Adventure) difficulty) Died on the Eidolon Plane.
By ShalShad the Shalore Shadowblade level 3
76th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 12:17 see stats

Log

ShalShad casts Illuminate.
Yvothra, the lost sun paladin is dead, quest failed!
Quest 'Escort: lost sun paladin (level 3 of Scintillating Caves)' is failed! (Press 'j' to see the quest log)
ShalShad deactivates Stealth.
ShalShad hits Yvothra, the lost sun paladin for 41 light damage.
ShalShad hits Spellblaze Crystal for 38 light damage.
ShalShad killed Yvothra, the lost sun paladin!
Spellblaze Crystal casts Elemental Bolt!

ShalShad uses Dual Strike.
Spellblaze Crystal is stunned!
ShalShad hits Spellblaze Crystal for 16 physical, 16 darkness, 30 physical, 16 darkness (78 total damage).
Spellblaze Crystal's Elemental Bolt hits ShalShad for 32 lightning damage.

ShalShad performs a melee critical strike against Spellblaze Crystal!
ShalShad hits Spellblaze Crystal for 23 physical, 16 darkness, 24 physical, 16 darkness (79 total damage).
Spellblaze Crystal casts Soul Rot.
Spellblaze Crystal's Soul Rot hits ShalShad for 19 blight damage.
ShalShad the level 3 shalore shadowblade was debilitated by noxious blight before falling to death by Spellblaze Crystal and vaporised into nothingness on level 3 of Scintillating Caves.
You have 1 life(s) left.
You enter a zero gravity zone, beware!
From the brink of death you seem to be yanked to another plane.
Spellblaze Crystal's Soul Rot killed ShalShad!
Saving game...
Saving done.
Talent Rune: Shielding is ready to use.
Talent Dual Strike is ready to use.
Talent Shadow Combat is ready to use.

Personal New Achievement: Utterly Destroyed (Nightmare (Adventure) difficulty)!