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Kirin the level 9 Higher Corruptor by bloodmistress

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GameTales of Maj'Eyal: Age of Ascendancy 1.7.6
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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

Items Vault 1.7.6

Donators/Buyers bonus!
Items Vault 1.7.6

Doombringer Destroyer Reskin 1.7.6

This allows Doombringers to select a different Destroyer form than just the Champion of Uhr'rok. Nothing against the Champ, but maybe some characters wanna look a little different when they hulk out.

Now, the Destroyer can use any of the various demonic appearances, or even a number of non-demonic forms: a faeros of one size or another, a phoenix, and quite a bit more. Even dragons! (Wyrmics, you had your chance.)

The text of Destroyer has been very slightly tweaked to reflect the more general and/or personal effect.

I mostly aimed to include fire-elemental stuff, given the class, but there are some selections that don't really slot into either "demon" or "fire" — i.e., if you wanna morph into a big sandworm, that's also cool.

There are two ways to configure this addon, both only visible to Doombringers:

  • The Cosmetic Options during character creation
  • A button in the Esc menu accessible any time.

I suspect the chosen setting will likely also impact the temporary Destroyer mode granted randomly by demon statues, too, though that's one thing I haven't tested.

This addon has no mechanical component; it's purely cosmetic.

It is also very easy to fork and extend, if desired; just add a new entry — a name and a filename — to the destroyer_forms table in DoombringerDestroyerForm.lua. Height calculations are taken care of already.

Width-variant tiles are not currently supported.

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CHANGELOG:

  • v1.1.0

    This update adds a check to see if the player is the one calling the Destroyer effect, so your custom form selection won't propagate to every random Doombringer with Wrath talents you meet — that is, your DB opponents will now stick to the classic Champion skin.

    This version also adds a few more Horror skins to the selection list.

Doombringer Destroyer Reskin 1.7.6

Possessor Bonus Class 1.7.4

Donators/Buyers bonus!
Possessor Bonus Class 1.7.4

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

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
ModeNormal Adventure
SexFemale
RaceHigher
ClassCorruptor
Level / Exp9 / 36%
Sizemedium
Lifes / Deaths
no deaths recorded
4 / 0

Primary Stats

Strength12 (base 11)
Dexterity12 (base 11)
Constitution18 (base 18)
Magic31 (base 25)
Willpower22 (base 21)
Cunning10 (base 10)

Resources

Life260/260
Vim107/140
Healing Factor1.0711363549267
Regeneration0.26778408873168

Speed

Mental0%
Attack0%
Movement0%
Spell0%
Global+100%

Vision

Sight10
Lite4
Infravision3
See Stealth15
See Invisible6

Offense: Mainhand

Damage11
Accuracy6
Crit Chance2%
APR2
Speed1.00

Offense: Spell

Spellpower27
Crit Chance2%
Speed1

Offense: Mind

Mindpower19
Crit Chance1%
Speed1

Offense: Damage Bonus

Darkness+10%
Arcane+12%
All0%

Defense: Base

Armour (hardiness)2 (30%)
Defense13
Ranged Defense13
Fatigue6
Physical Save10
Spell Save18
Mental Save11

Defense: Resistances

Darkness+ 10%( 70%)
Light+ 9%( 70%)
Arcane+ 12%( 70%)
Lightning+ 15%( 70%)
All 0%( 70%)

Defense: Immunities

Instadeath Resistance100%
Blind Resistance20%

Inscriptions (3/3)

Infusions
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 10
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Standard (100% of a turn)
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to heal yourself for 100 life over 5 turns.
Infusion: Regeneration
Infusions
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 nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to cure yourself of one random physical effect and reduce all damage taken by 14% for 4 turns.
Also removes cross-tier effects of the affected types for free.
Infusion: Wild
Infusions
Effective talent level: 1.0
Use mode: Activated
Range: melee/personal
Cooldown: 12
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
Is: a nature gift
Description: Activate the infusion to instantly heal yourself for 50 then cleanse 1 wound, poison, and disease effect.
Infusion: Healing

Class Talents

Corruption / Blood1.30
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 24
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 7
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: You extract corrupted blood from your own body, hitting everything in a frontal cone of radius 5 for 55.89 blight damage.
    Each creature hit has a 52% chance of being infected by a random disease, doing 65.10 blight damage and weakening either Constitution, Strength or Dexterity for 6 turns.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Blood Spray
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 20
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 5
    Travel Speed: 2000% of base
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Project a bolt of corrupted blood, doing 6.92 blight damage and healing you for 20% the damage dealt.
    50% of the damage dealt will be gained as maximum life for 7 turns (before the healing).
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Blood Grasp
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 8
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Make the impure blood of all creatures around you in radius 10 boil.
    Each enemy afflicted by a disease, poison, or wound will have one removed at random dealing 9.21 blight damage, healing you for 3, and slowing them by 17% for 5 turns.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Blood Boil
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain vim cost: 30
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Concentrate on the corruption you bring, increasing your spell critical chance by 0%.
    Each time your spells go critical, you enter a blood rage for 5 turns, increasing your blight and acid damage by 1%.
    The critical chance and damage increase will improve with your Spellpower.
    Blood Fury
0/5
Corruption / Vim1.30
  • Effective talent level: 3.9
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 10
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 4
    Travel Speed: 1000% of base
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Projects a bolt of pure blight, doing 104.80 blight damage.
    This spell has an improved critical strike chance of +20.63%.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Soul Rot
3/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 30
    Range: 7
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Open a dark portal (radius 3) to the target zone. All creatures caught inside will be teleported to your location, and you to theirs.
    All creatures (except you) traversing the portal will catch a random disease, doing 17.39 blight damage per turn for 6 turns and reducing one of its physical stats (strength, constitution, dexterity) by 4.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Dark Portal
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 35
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Feel the very existence of creatures around you for 4 turns, in a radius of 10.
    The evil touch will reduce their blight resistance by 6% and all saves by 9, but also make them aware of you.
    The resistance and save reduction will improve with your Spellpower.
    Vimsense
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a spell
    Description: Each time a creature affected by vimsense hurts you, you regain 0.02 vim and 0.14 health.
    Leech
0/5
Corruption / Blight1.30
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain vim cost: 20
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Increases your critical damage multiplier by 2%.
    The multiplier will increase with your Spellpower.
    Dark Ritual
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 30
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Project a corrupted blast of power that removes up to 1 magical or physical effects or any type of sustain and deals 5.54 blight damage to any creatures caught in the radius 3 ball.
    For each effect, the creature has a chance to resist based on its spell save.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Corrupted Negation
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 12
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 12
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Infects the target with a corrosive worm for 6 turns that reduces blight and acid resistance by 0% and feeds off damage taken.
    When this effect ends or the target dies the worm will explode, dealing 2 acid damage in a 4 radius ball. This damage will increase by 1% of all damage taken while infected.
    The damage dealt by the effect will increase with spellpower.
    Corrosive Worm
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 28
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 24
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: A furious storm of blighted poison rages around the caster in a radius of 4 for 3 turns. Each creature hit by the storm takes 1.21 blight damage and is poisoned for 4.84 blight damage over 4 turns.
    At talent level 2 you have a chance to inflict Insidious Blight, which reduces healing by 3%.
    At talent level 4 you have a chance to inflict Numbing Blight, which reduces all damage dealt by 1%.
    At talent level 6 you have a chance to inflict Crippling Blight, which causes talents to have a 2% chance of failure.
    Each possible effect is equally likely.
    The poison damage dealt is capable of a critical strike.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Poison Storm
0/5
Corruption / Sanguisuge1.30
  • Effective talent level: 5.2
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 5
    Travel Speed: 1500% of base
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Fires a bolt of blight, doing 101.14 blight damage and replenishing 20% of it as vim energy.
    The amount of vim regained depends on the target's rank (higher ranks give more vim).
    The effect will increase with your Spellpower.
    Drain
4/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a spell
    Description: The cost of using life instead of vim for talents is reduced to 170%.
    Bloodcasting
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain vim cost: 5
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 30
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Absorbs the life force of your foes as you kill them.
    As long as this talent is active, vim will decrease by 0.5 per turn and increase by 7.1 for each kill of a non-undead creature (in addition to the usual increase based on Willpower).
    Absorb Life
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 40
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Feed on the pain you cause your foes.
    For 2 turns you gain 0% lifesteal on all damage dealt.
    The lifesteal will increase with your Spellpower.
    Life Tap
0/5
Corruption / Plague1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Cooldown: 3
    Is: a spell
    Description: Whenever you deal non-disease blight damage you apply a disease dealing 15.51 blight damage per turn for 6 turns and reducing one of its physical stats (strength, constitution, dexterity) by 6. The three diseases can stack.
    Virulent Disease will always try to apply a disease the target does not currently have, and also one that will have the most debilitating effect for the target.
    This disease will try to prioritize being applied to an enemy with a high disease count near the target.
    The effect will increase with your Spellpower.
    Virulent Disease
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 18
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 4
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Make your target's diseases burst, doing 4.47 blight damage for each disease it is infected with.
    This will also spread any diseases to any nearby foes in a radius of 0 with a minimum duration of 6.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Cyst Burst
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 20
    Range: 8
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: All your foes within a radius 1 ball infected with a disease enter a cataleptic state, stunning them for 1 turns and dealing 101% of all remaining disease damage instantly.
    Catalepsy
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 20
    Range: 8
    Cooldown: 13
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Infects the target with a very contagious disease, doing 2.67 damage per turn for 6 turns.
    If any blight damage from non-diseases hits the target, the epidemic may activate and spread a random disease to nearby targets within a radius 2 ball.
    The chance to spread increases with the blight damage dealt and is 100% if it is at least 44% of the target's maximum life.
    Creatures suffering from that disease will also suffer healing reduction (40%) and diseases immunity reduction (24%).
    Epidemic is an extremely potent disease; as such, it fully ignores the target's diseases immunity.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower, and the spread chance increases with the amount of blight damage dealt.
    Epidemic
0/5

Generic Talents

Race / Higher1.00
  • Effective talent level: 1.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 48
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Call upon the power of the Highborn, increasing all damage by 15% and reducing all damage taken by 15% for 5 turns.
    The bonus will increase with your Magic.
    Wrath of the Highborn
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Description: While Highers are not meant to rule other humans - and show no particular will to do so - they are frequently called to higher duties.
    Their nature grants them better senses than other humans.
    Increase blindness immunity by 3%, maximum sight range by 1, and increases existing infravision, and heightened senses range by 1.
    At talent level 5, each time you hit a target you gain telepathy to all similar creatures in radius 15 for 5 turns.
    Overseer of Nations
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Passive
    Cooldown: 20
    Description: Highers were originally created during the Age of Allure by the human Conclave. They are imbued with magic at the very core of their being.
    Increase spell save by 0 and arcane resistance by 0%.
    Also, when you cast a spell dealing damage, you gain a 20% bonus to the damage type for 5 turns. (This effect has a cooldown.)
    Born into Magic
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 52
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Description: Activate some of your inner magic, using it to power your abilities. For the next 1 turns all active talents will be used without resource cost.
    Your resources must still be high enough to initially power the talent and failure rates (etc.) still apply.
    Highborn's Bloom
0/5
Corruption / Curses1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 20
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 15
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Curses your target, decreasing its Defense and all saves by 16 for 5 turns. This cannot be saved against.
    The effects will improve with your Spellpower.
    Curse of Defenselessness
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 20
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Curses your target, decreasing all damage it does by 10% for 10 turns.
    The effects will improve with your Spellpower.
    Curse of Impotence
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 20
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Curses your target, preventing normal life regeneration and dealing 160.56 darkness damage over 10 turns.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Curse of Death
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 20
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Curses your target, decreasing all its resistances by 1% for 7 turns.
    The effect will improve with your Spellpower.
    Curse of Vulnerability
0/5
Corruption / Torment1.30
  • Effective talent level: 1.3
    Use mode: Passive
    Is: a spell
    Description: You set your mind toward a single goal: the destruction of all your foes.
    Increases the maximum amount of vim you can store by 26.
    Willful Tormenter
1/5
  • Effective talent level: 3.9
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 12
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 16
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Instant (0% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Reach out and touch the blood and health of your foes. Any creatures caught in the radius 2 ball will be unable to heal above their current life value (at the time of the casting) for 10 turns.
    Blood Lock
3/5
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain vim cost: 18
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: When you kill a creature, the remainder of the damage done will not be lost. Instead, 49% of it will splash in a radius 2 as blight damage.
    The splash damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Overkill
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Sustained
    Sustain vim cost: 22
    Range: melee/personal
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: When you are dealt a blow that reduces your life by at least 19%, you have a 23% chance to reduce the remaining cooldown of all your talents by 1.
    Temporary life from Sanguine Infusion will not count against the damage threshold.
    The chance will increase with your Spellpower.
    Blood Vengeance
0/5
Corruption / Hexes1.30
  • Effective talent level: 2.6
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 30
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Hexes your target, dazing it and everything in a 2 radius ball around it for 3 turns and giving a 23% chance to daze affected targets again each turn for 20 turns.
    The chance will increase with your Spellpower.
    Pacification Hex
2/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 30
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Hexes your target and everything within a radius 2 ball around it for 20 turns. Each time an affected target uses a resource (stamina, mana, vim, ...), it takes 2.81 fire damage.
    In addition, the cooldown of any talent used while so hexed is increased by 0% + 1 turn.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Burning Hex
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 30
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Hexes your target and everything within a radius 2 ball around it. Each time they do damage, they take 1% of the same damage for 20 turns.
    The damage will increase with your Spellpower.
    Empathic Hex
0/5
  • Effective talent level: 0.0
    Use mode: Activated
    Vim cost: 30
    Range: 10
    Cooldown: 20
    Travel Speed: instantaneous
    Usage Speed: Spell (100% of a turn)
    Is: a spell
    Description: Hexes your target, forcing it to be your thrall for 0 turns.
    If you damage the target, it will be freed from the hex.
    Domination Hex
0/5

Effects

talent
Overkill

Quests

You successfully escorted the lost defiler to the recall portal on level 3 of Trollmire.
As a reward you improved talent Curse of Death (+1 level(s)).
Escort: lost defiler (level 3 of Trollmire)		done
You failed to protect the temporal explorer from death by Kirin.
Escort: temporal explorer (level 1 of Old Forest)		failed
You successfully escorted the worried loremaster to the recall portal on level 1 of Ruins of Kor'Pul.
As a reward you improved Magic by +5.
Escort: worried loremaster (level 1 of Ruins of Kor'Pul)		done
You have found all the clues leading to the hidden treasure. There should be a way on the third level of the Trollmire.
It looks extremely dangerous, however - beware.
You have slain Bill. His treasure is yours for the taking.
Hidden treasure		done
It is time to explore some new places -- dark, forgotten and dangerous ones.
The Old Forest is just south-east of the town of Derth.
The Maze is west of Derth.
The Sandworm Lair is to the far west of Derth, near the sea.
The Daikara is on the eastern borders of the Thaloren forest.
* You must explore the Old Forest and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
* You must explore the Maze and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
* You must explore the Sandworm Lair and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
* You must explore the Daikara and find out what lurks there and what treasures are to be gained!
Into the darkness		active
Explore the caves below the ruins of Kor'Pul and the Trollmire in search of treasure and glory!

* You have explored the Trollmire and vanquished Prox the Troll.
* You have explored the ruins of Kor'Pul and vanquished the Shade.
Of trolls and damp caves		done
You were asked to prove your worth as a fighter by a rogue, in order to participate in the arena
The agent of the arena		done

Equipment

Tool
Imp Claw
Powered by arcane forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: tool / misc ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +1
See stealth: +10
It can be used to activate talent Flame (costing 9 power out of 9/9) :
Effective talent level: 2.0
Power cost: 9 out of 9/9.
Range: 10
Travel Speed: 2000% of base
Is: a spell
Description: Conjures up a bolt of fire, setting the target ablaze and doing 96.27 fire damage over 3 turns.
At level 5, it will create a beam of flames.
The damage will increase with your Spellpower.

The battered remains of a flame imp's hand. It still burns with that unnatural flame.
Imp Claw
On fingers
copper ring of sensing
Powered by arcane forces
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: jewelry / ring ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Blindness immunity: +20%
Infravision radius: +3
See stealth: +5
See invisible: +6


Rings make your fingers look great!
copper ring of sensing
On fingers
copper ring of aether (+12%)
Powered by arcane forces
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: jewelry / ring ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes resistances: +12% arcane
Changes damage: +12% arcane


Rings make your fingers look great!
copper ring of aether (+12%)
Around waist
blurring rough leather belt
Crafted by a master
1.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / belt ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Defense: +9 (+8 eff.)
Stealth bonus: +5


A belt that goes around your waist.
blurring rough leather belt
Main armor
prismatic rough leather armour of lightning resistance (3 def, 2 armour)
Requires:
- Strength 10

Powered by arcane forces
Crafted by a master
9.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / light ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +2
Defense: +3 (+3 eff.)
Fatigue: +6%
Changes resistances: +15% lightning / +10% light / +11% darkness


A suit of armour made of leather.
prismatic rough leather armour of lightning resistance (3 def, 2 armour)
Light source
Planar Beacon
Powered by arcane forces
1.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: lite / lite

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +3
It can be used to activate talent Fearscape Shift (costing 25 power out of 25/25) :
Effective talent level: 2.0
Power cost: 25 out of 25/25.
Range: 5
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Is: a spell
Description: Open a gateway to the Fearscape, stepping through it to a nearby location. As you step out, a burst of fire will leave with you, dealing 71.05 demonfire damage to everyone within 3 spaces and leaving flames which will deal an additional 71.05 demonfire damage over 4 turns.
Additionally, shifting through reality enhances your awareness, allowing you to see all enemies within 8 spaces for the next 3 turns.
The damage will scale with your Spellpower and the range will increase with the talent level.

A strange orb of demonic origins. It glows with a surreal red light.
Planar Beacon
In main hand
elm starstaff (10-12 power, 2 apr, darkness element)
Requires:
- Magic 11

5.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / staff ; tier 1
It must be held with both hands.

Base power: 10.0 - 12.0
Uses stat: 80% Mag
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Staff Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +2.0% proc dam (max 200%)
Armour Penetration: +2
Crit. chance: +2.5%
Attack speed: 100%
When wielded/worn:
Changes damage: +10% darkness
Talent granted: +1 Command Staff
Spellpower: +3 (+1 eff.)
Spell crit. chance: +1%


Staves designed for wielders of magic, by the greats of the art.
elm starstaff (10-12 power, 2 apr, darkness element)

Inventory

This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
stabilizing copper amulet
Infused by nature
0.10 Encumbrance.

Type: jewelry / amulet ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes resistances: +12% temporal
Pinning immunity: +20%
Knockback immunity: +23%


Amulets make your neck look great!
stabilizing copper amulet
Bill's Tree Trunk (30-51 power, 7 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 25

Crafted by a master
5.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: weapon / greatmaul ; tier 1
It must be held with both hands.

Base power: 30.0 - 51.0
Uses stat: 130% Str
Damage type: Physical
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% base dam (max 20%)
Armour Penetration: +7
Crit. chance: +1.5%
Attack speed: 100%
When wielded/worn:
It can be used to activate talent Shattering Blow (costing 20 power out of 20/20) :
Effective talent level: 2.0
Power cost: 20 out of 20/20.
Range: melee/personal
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Description: Hits the target with your weapon, doing 124% damage. If the attack hits, the target's armour and saves are reduced by 10 for 6 turns.
Also if the target is protected by any temporary magical or psionic damage absorbing shields there is 36% chance to shatter a random shield.
Armor reduction chance increases with your Physical Power.

This is a big, nasty-looking tree trunk that Bill the Troll used as a weapon. It could still serve this purpose, should you be strong enough to wield it!
Bill's Tree Trunk (30-51 power, 7 apr)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
hateful iron mace (13-18 power, 2 apr)
Requires:
- Strength 11

Infused by psionic forces
3.00 Encumbrance.

Type: weapon / mace ; tier 1

Base power: 13.5 - 18.9
Uses stat: 100% Str
Damage type: Physical
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% base dam (max 20%)
Armour Penetration: +2
Crit. chance: +0.5%
Attack speed: 100%
Damage (Melee): +6 darkness
Damage against: +7% Living


Blunt and deadly.
hateful iron mace (13-18 power, 2 apr)
Serpent's Glare (7-7 power, 15 apr, nature damage)
Requires:
- Willpower 12

Infused by nature
3.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: weapon / mindstar ; tier 1

Base power: 7.0 - 7.7
Uses stats: 50% Wil, 30% Cun
Damage type: Nature
Mastery: Psiblades
Accuracy bonus: +0.2% crit chance (max 25%)
Accuracy is based on willpower for this weapon.
Armour Penetration: +15
Crit. chance: +7.0%
Attack speed: 100%
Damage conversion: 30% poison
When wielded/worn:
Changes resistances: +10% nature
Changes damage: +10% nature
Poison immunity: +50%
Mindpower: +4 (+2 eff.)
Mental crit. chance: +2%
It can be used to activate talent Spit Poison (costing 8 power out of 8/8) :
Effective talent level: 2.0
Power cost: 8 out of 8/8.
Range: 10
Travel Speed: instantaneous
Is: a nature gift
Description: Spit poison at your target, doing 107.64 poison damage over six turns.
The damage will increase with your Strength or Dexterity (whichever is higher).

A thick venom drips from this mindstar.
Serpent's Glare (7-7 power, 15 apr, nature damage)
Stormlash (17-18 power, 7 apr)
Requires:
- Dexterity 15

Powered by arcane forces
3.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: weapon / whip ; tier 1

Base power: 17.0 - 18.7
Uses stat: 100% Dex
Damage type: Physical
Mastery: Exotic Weapons Mastery
Accuracy bonus: +0.4% crit mult (max 40%)
Armour Penetration: +7
Crit. chance: +5.0%
Attack speed: 125%
On weapon crit:
* Focus the lightning forces on an enemy
Damage conversion: 50% dazing lightning
When wielded/worn:
Accuracy: +7 (+7 eff.)
Changes damage: +10% lightning
It can be used to strike an enemy within range 3 (for 100% weapon damage as lightning) and release a radius 1 burst of electricity dealing 13.17 to 39.50 lightning damage (based on Magic and Dexterity)

Activation costs 10 power out of 10/10.

This steel plated whip arcs with intense electricity. The force feels uncontrollable, explosive, powerful.
Stormlash (17-18 power, 7 apr)
linen robe (0 def, 0 armour)
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / cloth ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes resistances: +7% all


A cloth vestment. It offers no intrinsic protection but can be enchanted.
linen robe (0 def, 0 armour)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
pair of rough leather boots (0 def, 1 armour)
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / feet ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +1


A pair of boots made of leather.
pair of rough leather boots (0 def, 1 armour)
Firewell the cured leather armour (6 def, 4 armour)
Requires:
- Strength 14

Powered by arcane forces
9.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / light ; tier 2

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +4
Defense: +6 (+6 eff.)
Fatigue: +7%
Changes stats: +2 Str / +2 Con
Changes resistances: +6% arcane / +1% physical
Changes resistances penetration: +25% fire
Spell save: +10 (+6 eff.)
Only die when reaching: -40.00 life


A suit of armour made of leather.
Firewell the cured leather armour (6 def, 4 armour)
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
impenetrable iron plate armour (0 def, 13 armour)
Requires:
- Massive armour training
- Strength 22

Crafted by a master
17.00 Encumbrance.

Type: armor / massive ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +13
Fatigue: +22%


A suit of armour made of metal plates.
impenetrable iron plate armour (0 def, 13 armour)
4 agate
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / black ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Changes stats: +1 Str / +1 Dex / +1 Mag / +1 Wil / +1 Cun / +1 Con
When used to imbue an object:
Changes 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.
4 agate
Demonic Soul
Powered by arcane forces
0.00 Encumbrance.

[Legendary]
Type: misc / demonic ; tier 3

15% chances once per turn, when you deal damage to do a burst of fire damage in radius 1 equal to your spellpower


A tiny, jagged gem, dredged up from the very core of Mal'Rok, the homeworld of demons. It still burns with the fires of the Spellblaze that blew it apart.
Demonic Soul
2 spinel
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / green ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Defense: +2 (+2 eff.)
Physical save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Spell save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Mental save: +2 (+2 eff.)
When used to imbue an object:
Defense: +2 (+2 eff.)
Physical save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Spell save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Mental save: +2 (+2 eff.)
Latent Damage Type: Nature


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
2 spinel
Summertide Phial
Infused by nature
1.00 Encumbrance.

[Unique]
Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Damage (Melee): 15 Lite Light Burst (radius 1)
Changes resistances: +30% light
Changes damage: +10% light
Light radius: +5
Healing mod.: +10%
When attacking in melee, deals 15 light damage and lights tiles in radius 1.
It can be used to call light, dispelling darkness and lighting tiles in radius 20.(72 power, based on Willpower)

Activation costs 10 power out of 15/15.

A small crystal phial that captured Sunlight during the Summertide.
Summertide Phial
brass lantern
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +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
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
brass lantern of clarity
Infused by psionic forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: lite / lite ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Mental save: +6 (+6 eff.)
Light radius: +3
See stealth: +7
See invisible: +7


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 of clarity
Scrying Orb
Powered by unknown forces
1.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: orb / orb

When carried:


This orb will automatically identify items you find.
Scrying Orb
Rod of Recall (1/1)
Powered by unknown forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: charm / rod

It can be used to recall the user to the worldmap after 40 turns

Activation costs 202 power out of 400/400.

This rod is made entirely of voratun, infused with raw magical energies that can bend space itself.
You have heard of such items before. They are very useful to adventurers, allowing faster travel.
Rod of Recall (1/1)
Transmogrification Chest
Powered by unknown forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

[Plot Item]
Type: chest / sher'tul

When carried:
It can be used to transmogrify all the items in your chest at once (also done automatically when you change level)

Activation costs 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
This item will automatically be transmogrified when you leave the level.
piercing steel torque of gale force [power 150] (15 cooldown)
Infused by psionic forces
2.00 Encumbrance.

Type: charm / torque ; tier 2

It can be used to project a gust of wind in a cone knocking all creatures back 8 spaces and dealing 150 physical damage

Activation puts all charms on cooldown for 15 turns.
When used:
* Increase all damage penetration by 11% for 2 turns.


Torques are made by powerful psionics to store psionic powers.
piercing steel torque of gale force [power 150] (15 cooldown)
citrine
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Light radius: +4
Infravision radius: +4
When used to imbue an object:
Light radius: +4
Infravision radius: +4
Latent Damage Type: Light


Gems can be sold for money or used in arcane rituals.
citrine
4 zircon
0.00 Encumbrance.

Type: gem / yellow ; tier 1

When wielded/worn:
Armour: +1
Changes resistances: +1% all
When used to imbue an object:
Armour: +1
Changes resistances: +1% all
Latent Damage Type: Light


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

Achievements

The Arena Unlocked Arena mode.
By Kirin the Higher Corruptor level 8
78th Pyre 122nd year of Ascendancy at 02:45 see stats

Log


Kirin misses Giant brown ant.
Giant brown ant hits Kirin for 13 physical damage.
Giant brown ant hits Kirin for 13 physical damage.

Giant brown ant is afflicted by a weakness disease!
Overkill hits Giant brown ant for 2 blight damage.
Kirin hits Giant brown ant for 13 physical damage.
Kirin killed Giant brown ant!
Giant brown ant hits Kirin for 10 physical damage.
The demonic soul releases a burst of fire around giant brown ant!

Demonic Soul hits Giant brown ant for 32 fire damage.
Weakness Disease from Kirin hits Giant brown ant for 18 blight damage.
Kirin casts Soul Rot.
Kirin's Soul Rot hits Giant brown ant for 125 blight damage.
Kirin's Soul Rot killed Giant brown ant!

Kirin uses Infusion: Healing.
Kirin receives 53 healing from Infusion: Healing.
Kirin uses Infusion: Regeneration.
Kirin starts regenerating health quickly.
Talent Virulent Disease is ready to use.

Talent Soul Rot is ready to use.

Kirin stops regenerating health quickly.

Talent Infusion: Regeneration is ready to use.