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	1.5.10
	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	1.5.10
	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	1.5.10
	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	1.5.10
	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 ~2/3 of your amulet slot for the chance to get decent to good generic talents. That means, of course, that you also need to have leftover generic points. You also lose the ability to put more points into your racial traits, though you do retain the talents themselves. All in all, it's probably not worth it for most, if not all characters, but could be good on Constitution-stacking melee classes.

• You keep your former invested race skills and also the race boni (e.g. attribute; life-rating; cornac boni), 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 -> Lichfom, keeping all their boni

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