Parasite

ToME Version:

1.7

Parasite
Metarace	Other
Locked	No
Life Rating	as origin
Exp Penalty	0
Stat Modifiers
Strength	0
Dexterity	0
Constitution	0
Magic	0
Willpower	0
Cunning	0
Luck	0

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Description

The various racial bonuses a character can have.. when its head is cut off and replaced with a parasite.

Racial Talents

Take a Bite
Game Version	1.7.6
Category Type	Race
Category	Parasite
Requirements	Level (0,1,2,3,4)
Use Mode	Activated
Cost	-
Range	Melee/Personal
Cooldown	45–25cTL:15
Travel Speed	Instantaneous
Use Speed	Instant
Description	You try to bite off your foe with your "head" for 50–150%cSS:Str/Dex/Mag blight weapon damage. If the target falls under 20% life you have 20–70%cSS:Con chances to outright kill it (bosses are immune). Whenever you succesfully bite a foe you regenerate 3–25cSS:Con life per turn for 5 turns. Instant kill chances and regeneration increase with your Constitution stat and weapon damage increases with the highest of your Strength, Dexterity or Magic stat.

Ultra Instinct
Game Version	1.7.6
Category Type	Race
Category	Parasite
Requirements	Level (8,9,10,11,12)
Use Mode	Passive
Cost	-
Range	-
Cooldown	-
Travel Speed	-
Use Speed	-
Description	Without the distraction of "thoughts" or "self" your body reacts faster and better to aggressions. Increases global speed by 5–25%cTL:40.

Corrupting Influence
Game Version	1.7.6
Category Type	Race
Category	parasite
Requirements	Level (16,17,18,19,20)
Use Mode	Passive
Cost	-
Range	-
Cooldown	-
Travel Speed	-
Use Speed	-
Description	The parasite corruption seeps into your body, strengthening it. Increases blight, darkness, temporal and acid resistances by 14–40%cTL:50 but decreases nature and light resistances by (14–40%cTL:50)/3.

Horror Shell
Game Version	1.7.6
Category Type	Race
Category	Parasite
Requirements	Level (24,25,26,27,28)
Use Mode	Activated
Cost	-
Range	Melee/Personal
Cooldown	30–16cTL:10
Travel Speed	Instantaneous
Use Speed	-
Description	Creates a shell around you, absorbing 3,2*CON+(120–300cTS)+(1–5%cTL:0,1)*Max_Life damage. Lasts for 10 turns. The total damage the shield can absorb increases with your Constitution.

Strategy

Being a Parasite means sacrificing your head slot and permanently wearing the fanged collar in exchange for a new racial tree. That means, of course, that you also need to have leftover generic points. You lose the ability to put more points into your racial traits, though you do retain the talents themselves. The best time to change, if you can help it, is after you've completed all of your escort missions, due to the fact that the parasite is always hungry and will consume the escorts, resulting in automatic failure.

• You keep your former invested race skills and also the race bonuses (e.g. attribute; life-rating; Cornac bonuses), but cannot invest anymore into it
• You cannot change their amulet to anything but the fanged collar
• You cannot equip headgear and lose the currently equipped one
• You can go Cornac -> Parasite -> Lich, keeping all their bonuses.
• Parasite causes all escorts to start with instant failure.

Races
Human	Elf	Halfling	Dwarf	Yeek	Giant	Undead	Orc	Yeti
Higher	Shalore	Halfling	Dwarf	Yeek	Ogre	Ghoul	Orc	Kruk Yeti
Cornac	Thalore		Drem		Krog	Skeleton
	Doomelf					Whitehoof

Source

1) http://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=49271