Snake (Empathic Bond)
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(Note: This bond was updated Jan 1st, 2023 as per change 8103. So, some of the below is old and needs updating.)
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Bonding Requirements
20 Elder lore - More than just this is required, had 67 elder lore and could not bond until after I raised poison lore to 17.
Elder Lore alone does not appear to be enough. 52 on a new character also required 10 poison lore to bond a snake.
- Bond Assim Skill is Elder Lore
- Upping Elder Lore from 36->313 gives ~11% Assim Speed, so roughly 1% every 25 points (remember bond assim is based on unmodified not modified skills)
- Skills that do NOT impact Bond Assim
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Attribute Modifiers
Those who form an empathic bond with a snake receive bonuses to their Willpower, Agility, Intellect, and Perception.
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Combat Bonuses
- Attack Rating (Breath/Discharge/Melee): Killer Instinct 1x
- Damage Rating (Breath/Discharge/Melee): Precision Strike 3x
- Deflection Rating: Quickness & Escape 1x
- Dodge Rating: Quickness & Escape 1x
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Skill Bonuses
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Extreme
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High
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Medium
- Dagger
- Dodge
- Escape
- Gem Lore
- History
- Legend Lore
- Lexiturgy
- Metaphysics
- Poetry
- Rhetoric
- Rune Lore
- Spear
- Spirit Lore
- Stealth
- Wyrding
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Low
- Arcane Lore
- Introspection
- Meditation
- Metamorphosis
- Order Affinity
- Regeneration
- Supernal Durability
- Swimming
and possibly also:
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Charms
Fairly Healthy:
Resilient:
Mid-Deep:
Intimate:
Complete:
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Combat Maneuvers
Somewhat Frail:
- Coiled Strike
Very Deep:
- Soul Fang
Perform Soul Fang Empathic Bonds Maneuver Usage: perform soul fang [at <target>] Activity Cost For You: Varies on weapon being used (see below) Cost: 10 SP, 10 END Drawing on esoteric and metaphysical knowledge, make a piercing strike that attempts to temporarily disrupt the connection between the body and the spirit.
- Needs piercing weapon like Coiled Strike
- Appears to possibly give SD (need to confirm), but need to hit and do enough damage in order to trigger it
- Attack: Adds Arcane Lore at 1:1.1
- Attack: Adds 60% additional Intellect
- Damage: Adds 22% additional Strength
- Damage: Adds 22% additional Massive Blow
- Activity (Depends on Activity of weapon being used):
- 26->20
- 17->13
- 15->11
- 14->11
- 12->9
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Additional Abilities
WARNING BEWARE Of Ka Chakra from Wandslingers WARNING This will very rapidly drain all your Chakras to 0 in favor of the Ka Chakra The Snake Chakra charge ability does NOT work when Ka Chakra exists This is 100% a Nerf to your character, activating it is highly inadvisable
Midway Very-Frail:
- Snakes will periodically open and charge your chakras, all at once. The stronger the bond, the higher the charge.
- At Complete bond the chakra charges are enough to top off and get traits like Paravision and Paraneurism
- Ioun Stones work better w/ a Snake Bond, but the benefit is VERY small due to Ioun Stones giving very little base benefit, therefore the subsequent buff is small
- Ioun Stones are buffed 1% per 10% of bond strength up to Complete, so at 100% your +30 to a Skill would then be +33
- Ioun Stone buffs do scale post 100% bond but it is not 1:1, i.e. if you have 200% total bond Strength (so 100% over which is a ton) it's not going to 2x the benefit, more like half or 5%. So that +33 would be like +34 or +35.
Before Resilient:
- Ambidexterity (Not sure on this, apparently Zuth has this already. Can anyone confirm?)