Rend Soul

#noformat Rend soul is the beginning of the rediscovery of the basic psionic spells. The psionic tries to rend victim's soul to pieces. Each spell only shears bits and pieces but as it does so, it opens the victim up to other psionic attacks. This allows the psionic to use uncover hidden potential of all the other spells he used to use at the beginning of his career. This spell not only causes damage but also creates a short-term affect that creates an opening for all the basic psionic spells, making them as powerful as rend soul itself. Furthermore, each of them also leaves its own affect that diminishes some aspect of victim's combat ability. All these affects only last for a very short time (one or two rounds) but psionic is great adept at casting many spells per round, even more so as he discovers more secrets of soulrending, so short duration is not a problem. The affects caused by each spell are as follows: +---------------+---------------------+ | Spell | Stat affected | +---------------+---------------------+ | Drain spirit | Physical Resilience | | Ego whip | Physical Power | | Mind crush | Magical Power | | Psychic bolt | Physical Resilience | | Rend soul | Magical Resilience | | Soul twist | Magical Power | | Spirit blast | Precision | | Thought storm | Magical Resilience | +---------------+---------------------+

Improved Rend Soul

Improved understanding of Rend Soul spell not only increases its damage but also increases damage of all the basic psionic spells when they take advantage of rend soul.

Extended Rend Soul

Extended understanding of Rend Soul spell not only increases its damage but also increases damage of all the basic psionic spells when they take advantage of rend soul. This bonus is multiplicative with previous upgrades (i.e. improved is x1.05, and then extended is x1.05 again, for a total of x1.1025).

Enhanced Rend Soul

Enhanced understanding of Rend Soul spell not only increases its damage but also increases damage of all the basic psionic spells when they take advantage of rend soul. This bonus is multiplicative with previous upgrades.

Advanced Rend Soul

Advanced understanding of Rend Soul spell not only increases its damage but also increases damage of all the basic psionic spells when they take advantage of rend soul. This bonus is multiplicative with previous upgrades.

Psionic Cascade

#noformat As the psionic explores the hidden potential of his attack spells he realizes that the spells form three groups: soul, mind and spirit. And that casting the spells of the same type one after another makes them more powerful. Those in the know call it a Psionic Cascade. Casting consecutive but different spells of the same type makes the further spells in the cascade 10% more powerful than previous spell in the cascade. With Psionic Cascade it is beneficial to always cast spells of the same subtype together. The types are as follows: Soul: Rend Soul and Soul Twist Mind: Thought Storm, Psychic Bolt and Mind Crush Spirit: Spirit Blast, Drain Spirit and Ego Whip

Improved Psionic Cascade

Improved psionic cascade increases the bonus of cascade by 10 percentage points (to 20%)

Extended Psionic Cascade

Extended psionic cascade adds further ten points (to 30%)

Enhanced Psionic Cascade

Enhanced psoinic cascade adds an extra ten points (to 40%).

Advanced Psionic Cascade

Advanced psionic cascade brings the power of the cascade to +50%.

Soulrending Resonance

With Psionic Cascade the psionic can empower the spells of the same type but that is not end of the story. With Soulrending Resonance the psionic can create a resonance between different cascades. In fact, the resonance works not between whole cascades but between different types of spells on the individual spell level, each different type increasing power of all of spells by 2%. In other words, after hitting the victim with a soul spell, all soulrending spells become more powerful, after hitting the victim with soul and spirit spell the spells would be even more powerful. It is important to balance these bonuses with bonuses from psionic cascade which requires the spells in the cascade go one after another, with no spell of different type between them.

Improved Soulrending Resonance

Improved soulrending resonance increases the bonus damage for each type of soulrending affect by further two percentage points (to 4%).

Extended Soulrending Resonance

Extended soulrending resonance adds an extra 2% to the bonus (to 6%).

Enhanced Soulrending Resonance

Enhanced soulrending resonance adds further 2% to the bonus (to 8%).

Advanced Soulrending Resonance

Advanced soulrending resonance caps the bonus at 10% per type.

Befuddling Soulrending

The soulrending spells cause violent trauma but with Befuddling Soulrending the immediate trauma is accompanied with longer-lasting mental defects. Each soulrending spell has a chance to deliver short-term brainwash, confusion, schizofrenia or soul echo (at random).

Improved Befuddling Soulrending

This upgrade improves the chance for triggering a befuddling effect to 15%.

Extended Befuddling Soulrending

With extended befuddling soulrending the chance for a befuddling effect increases to 25%.

Enhanced Befuddling Soulrending

With enhanced befuddling soulrending the psionic can subconsciously keep track of the detrimental effects the victim has and focus the befuddling effect towards those the victim doesn't have yet.

Advanced Befuddling Soulrending

Advanced befuddling soulrending adds sense jam and mind stop to the repertoire of befuddling effects but mobs that are normally immune to these spells have very small chance for those and the effects last only very short time on them.

Sunder Animus

The asymmetry between the three types of combat spells is grating. It did not take long to expand the research into the soul magic to develop another soul spell to upgrade soul psionic cascade to the same level as the other two. With Sunder Animus the psionic aims to shatter the underlying animating power of victim's soul, effectively tearing victim's soul from within. As a side effect it also imparts vulnerability to magic for a short time.

Improved Sunder Animus

Improved sunder animus increases the damage of the spell by 5%.

Extended Sunder Animus

Extended sunder animus increases the damage of the spell by 5%.

Enhanced Sunder Animus

Enhanced sunder animus increases the damage of the spell by 5%.

Advanced Sunder Animus

Advanced sunder animus increases the damage of the spell by 5%.

Prolonged Soulrending

Even though the psionic can cast a lot of spells in short time, it is often not enough to take full advantage of all possible synergies. With Prolonged Soulrending the aftereffects have a chance to last longer, thus making it easier to reach more synergies.

Improved Prolonged Soulrending

With improved prolonged soulrending the chance for longer duration of soulrending affects is increased to 33%.

Extended Prolonged Soulrending

Extended prolonged soulrending increases the chance for longer duration to 50%.

Enhanced Prolonged Soulrending

Enhanced understanding of prolonged soulrending increases the chance for longer duration of soulrending effects to 66%.

Advanced Prolonged Soulrending

With full understanding of prolonged soulrending all soulrending affects now last one round longer, all the time.

Interlinked Soulrending

Using Interlinked Soulrending means that the soulrending spells are no longer discrete events but they sort of blur together. The psionic starts with the next spell before the previous one is fully finished, decreasing the interval between spells.

Improved Interlinked Soulrending

Improved interlinked soulrending improves the delay increase to 15%

Extended Interlinked Soulrending

Extended knowledge of interlinked soulrending allows the psionic to cast the soulrending spells even faster, with delay now reduced by 20%

Enhanced Interlinked Soulrending

This enhancement of interlinked soulrending further reduces the delay of soulrending spells, 25% from the base delay.

Advanced Interlinked Soulrending

The psionic now fully understands how to interlink soulrending spells, casting them 33% faster.

Amplified Soulrending

With Aplified Soulrending the psionic can boost the power of his soulrending spells by utilizing already-existing soulrending affects on the victim. Each such affect allows the psionic to amplify his spells by pushing extra mana into it to take advantage of the affect.

Improved Amplified Soulrending

Reduces the extra cost of amplified soulrending to 15% per effect

Extended Amplified Soulrending

Enhanced Amplified Soulrending

Advanced Amplified Soulrending

With advanced knowledge of amplified soulrending the psionic can utilize the soulrending effects even more effectively, increasing the extra damage per effect to +20%.

Rending Link

As psionic delivers the damage and the associated aftereffects, he is able to better push his spells through victim's protections. If the victim has some effect that reflects psionic spells, rending link allows his spells to bypass this protection to some degree and land the spell. The more aftereffects the victim has the better chance of avoiding the reflection.

Improved Rending Link

Improving the rendling link allows the psionic to enjoy increased chance to penetrate reflecting effects to 10% per effect.

Extended Rending Link

With extended rending link the psionic can connect to the soulrending effects more easily, reducing the manacost of this castmode to only 25%.

Enhanced Rending Link

Enhancing the rending link makes it even more likely to penetrate the reflecting effects, increasing the chance to 10% per effect.

Advanced Rending Link

Advanced rending link gives the psionic the best chance to penetrate things like psychic mirror or divine protection. Each soulrending affect the enemy has gives 20% chance for penetration so with five or more effects the threat from psychic mirror or divine protection is fully neutralized.

Harmonic Soulrending

The psionic's soulrending powers are now flowing so naturally that it is easier to cast the relevant spells. While manacost of the base forms of those spells is negligible, various upgrades increase the cost but now the psionic achieved harmony between those ugprades and thus reduces the total cost without any extra effort.

Improved Harmonic Soulrending

Improving harmonic soulrending allows the psionic to reduce the cost of his soulrending spells by further 10%.

Extended Harmonic Soulrending

Extending the principles of harmonic soulrending allows the psionic to cast the soulrending spells even cheaper, shaving further 10% of their manacost.

Enhanced Harmonic Soulrending

With enhanced understanding of harmonic soulrending the psionic can cast his soulrending spells 10% cheaper.

Advanced Harmonic Soulrending

Having achieved the full understanding of harmonic soulrending, the psionic now can cast his soulrending spells with extra 10% less mana.

Psychosomatic Assault

There are plenty of enemies who are highly resistant to psychic attacks but can be hit by other types of attacks, especially if the psionic has someone else with them who can reduce victim's defenses against other types of damage. With Psychosomatic Assault the psionic's combat spells are laced with a suggestion that the attacks are actually of another type, the type the victim is most vulnerable to. For this suggestion to take effect the spell still needs to penetrate the psychic resistance but if it does then the victim suffers as if the spell used their lowest resistance. If the suggestion takes hold then 20% of the mind damage is transferred victim's lowest resist.

Improved Psychosomatic Assault

With this improvement the suggestion planted with psychosomatic assault allows the psionic to transfer 40% of mind damage into victim's lowest resist.

Extended Psychosomatic Assault

Extending the psychosomatic assault allows the psionic to persuade the victim with 60% of the mental damage to shift to their lowest resist.

Enhanced Psychosomatic Assault

Enhanced understanding of psychosomatic assault let's the psionic to transfer 80% of the mind damage from soulrending spells to victim's lowest resist.

Advanced Psychosomatic Assault

With this advancement the suggestion is now powerful enough to transfer all mind damage from soulrending spells to the victim's lowest resist.

Resonating Soul Imprint

Each time psionic kills an enemy (including being part of group that kills them) part of his mind remembers that enemy. Whenever the psionic fights the same type of enemy next time, the resonance with the memory of previous fight makes his psychic spells slightly more powerful, the more powerful the more enemies of that type the psionic saw defeated. The memories reach only so far, however, and as the psionic witnesses more defeats the defeats further in the past become blurred until eventually they stop resonating. This puts a cap on the maximum bonus from Resonating Soul Imprint.

Improved Resonating Soul Imprint

The psionic has improved the soul imprint resonance to reach out further in the past memories to increase the limit.

Extended Resonating Soul Imprint

The psionic has learned how to further extend how far in his memories his resonance can reach.

Enhanced Resonating Soul Imprint

The soul imprint has been enhanced to resonate even further down the memory lane, increasing the maximum resonance to 40%.

Advanced Resonating Soul Imprint

The psionic can now reach as far with resonating soul imprint as it is practicable. The resonance can now benefit from the last fifty kills of the same monster.

Echo Of Pain

When the psionic hits the victim with his spells, he uses not just the current attack but can also dredge up a memory of recent hit. With Echo of Pain the psionic forces the victim to relive the most recent successful attack. While the memory is not as powerful as a new attack, it still adds to the damage. And it also restores the duration of the aftereffect if it has already diminished. Note that echo of pain doesn't count as part of Psionic Cascade as it is not a real soulrending spell, it just forces the victim to relive the previous attack.

Improved Echo Of Pain

Improved echo of pain increases the damage of the echo to 7% of normal.

Extended Echo Of Pain

With extended echo of pain the relived memory is 10% as powerful as a normal attack.

Enhanced Echo Of Pain

Enhancing echo of pain with this upgrade increases its power to 15%.

Advanced Echo Of Pain

The psionic has maximized the damage from the relived memory from echo of pain, the echo is now 20% powerful as the original.

Stressfull Dissonance

During the fight the psionic tends to accumulate psychic stress in his mind. Normally he would need to calm down a bit to reduce this stress but with Stressful Dissonance there is another way. The psionic can isolate the accumulated stress from his mind and channel it to the victim if the victim has all of soul, spirit and mind aftereffects. This instantly resets the stress to zero and increases the damage of further soulrending spells based on the level of stress unleashed (100% stress causes +50% bonus damage) until the channel dissipates (which takes short time). Stressful Dissonance can only be used once in a while so it is not a complete replacement of normal recovery but it certainly makes stress management easier. The immediate damage from Stressfull Dissonance is boosted by the same skills, including castmodes, as normal soulrending spells, except for Psionic Cascade.

Improved Stressfull Dissonance

This upgrade improves the damage boost from stressfull dissonance by 20%. In other words, if stressfull dissonance is unleashed with psychic stress exactly at 100% then the bonus would become +60% instead of +50%.

Extended Stressfull Dissonance

With extended stressfull dissonancec the duration of the damage boost is extended, usually by 2mns but rarely it could be only by 1mns, on the other hand sometimes it could be even 3mns. But 2mns is the norm.

Enhanced Stressfull Dissonance

Enhanced stressfull dissonance allows the psionic to recover from it faster. The cooldown now lasts only 10mns.

Advanced Stressfull Dissonance

Advanced stressfull dissonance increases the amount of damage dealt as the stress is unleashed.

Pain Transference

The psionic is highly skilled in inflicting psychic damage via multiple mechanisms and now another path has opened. The psionic can share his pain with the target, assaulting all aspects of the victim's psyche. Each time the psionic is hit and mind combat absorbs it, it also creates a temporary pain buffer that the psionic may release upon an enemy. The pain buffer only lasts short time and harmlessly dissipates if not used. But each new hit to mind combat while the pain buffer exists adds to it and also resets the dissipation timer. If it is used then it causes damage to the victim proportional to the amount of pain in it and it also creates one random soulrending effect on the victim from each category (i.e. one of soul, mind and spirit effects). Psionic has sufficent control over the pain to avoid trying to create effects that already exists but if, for each category, there is no missing effect then it may strenghten one of the existing ones via Escalating Soulrending if psionic has that ability. Pain transference is especially brutalizing experience for the victim and should they not be affected by Rend Soul, the first effect it creates is always Rend Soul, and then one mind and one spirit effect. Given that Pain Transference is not a spell, it does not participate in Psionic Cascade. For the same reason it doesn't trigger Echo of Pain because the delivery mechanism is just so different.

Improved Pain Transference

Increases the damage dealt by Pain Transference by 25%.

Extended Pain Transference

Extended pain transference doubles the duration of pain transference

Enhanced Pain Transference

Enhanced pain transference expands the pool of stored pain to three times psionic's maxmana.

Advanced Pain Transference

Lethal attacks that trigger one of the death-prevention effects still charge pain transference

Soul Shock

Sometimes the psionic needs a short burst of mana regeneration. With Soul Shock he can get exactly that. By tearing all soulrending affects from the victim he creates a massive shock to their mind, spirit and soul as they snap back into their normal shape. The psionic the harvests the energy released by this shock as a short-term but powerful mana regen bonus. While Soul Shock is also a soulrending spell, it does not participate in Psionic Cascade. In fact, due to the way it resets the soulrending, it breaks existing Psionic Cascade, should there be any. It also resets Echo of Pain for the same reason.

Improved Soul Shock

Increases the mana regen rate from Soul Shock by 33%

Extended Soul Shock

This upgrade extends the duration of soul shock regen bonus.

Enhanced Soul Shock

Enhanced soul shock creates more powerful shock, dealing more damage to the victim.

Advanced Soul Shock

Increases the mana regen rate from Soul Shock by 33%

Haptic Soulrending

Soulrending spells require nothing else than a look but that is not the only way. With Haptic Soulrending the psionic can also deliver them with a touch, even via a weapon. Triggering Haptic Soulrending requires that the psionic dedicates part of his focus to his physical body, this makes spellcasting more expensive but each melee attack has a chance to deliver a random soulrending spell on top of the attack. For haptic soulrending to work the victim has to have their soul rent a little, as in they have to be affected by rend soul effect. The spells triggered with haptic soulrending do not participate in psionic cascade and do not trigger echo of pain.

Improved Haptic Soulrending

Improved haptic soulrending increases the chance for triggering a soulrending spell with a melee hit.

Extended Haptic Soulrending

Extended haptic soulrending increases the chance for triggering a soulrending spell with a melee hit.

Enhanced Haptic Soulrending

Enhanced haptic soulrending increases the chance for triggering a soulrending spell with a melee hit.

Advanced Haptic Soulrending

Advanced haptic soulrending increases the chance for triggering a soulrending spell with a melee hit.

Synergistic Soulrending

Building on the power of Soulrending Resonance, combined with all the additional understanding of soulrending magic, the psionic can increase the synergy of soulrending effects even more generally. With Synergistic Soulrending the power of attack spells grows even more, based on the number of different aftereffects the victim has, regardless of their types. So if the victim has three aftereffects, psionic does the same extra damage via Synergistic Soulrending regardless if it's three soul aftereffects, two soul and one mind or one of each type. This skill takes advantage of the inherent synergies among soulrending spells so it doesn't require any extra mana, once psionic learns it he always casts his soulrending spells to take advantage of these synergies.

Improved Synergistic Soulrending

Improved synergistic soulrending increases the bonus per effect to 1%

Extended Synergistic Soulrending

Improved synergistic soulrending increases the bonus per effect to 1.5%

Enhanced Synergistic Soulrending

Improved synergistic soulrending increases the bonus per effect to 2.0%

Advanced Synergistic Soulrending

Improved synergistic soulrending increases the bonus per effect to 2.5% While 2.5% may seem a little, it is per effect, so once the victim has all nine soulrending effects the total bonus is +22.5% which is nothing to be embarassed about.

Escalating Soulrending

Normally the psionic just slams the victim with his spells for maximum damage but sometimes it is important to elevate the detrimental effects of the soulrending spells. With Escalating Soulrending if a soulrending spell hits the victim while they already have the relevant affect, the affect is strenghtened. I.e. if the victim is already affected by Sunder Animus and is hit by another Sunder Animus spell, the lingering effect's duration is reset to full and the penalty to magical resilience is increased but no more than twice the maximum. Note that this does not apply to rend soul itself as it is the base that all other soulrending spells build on.

Improved Escalating Soulrending

Improved escalating soulrending boosts the increase in penalty to +50% of base.

Extended Escalating Soulrending

If there is an existing penalty and then its maximum duration is increased by one combat round.

Enhanced Escalating Soulrending

Increases maximum penalty from twice of caster's level to three times.

Advanced Escalating Soulrending

Advanced escalating soulrending boosts the increase in penalty to +75% of base.

Pain Resonance

Discharging powerful charge from Pain Transference is a powerful effect but it still requires the psionic to actively focus on the discharge, to the exclusion of other actions. But sometimes it is more useful to transfer the pain instantly. This requires the psionic to devote part of his focus to this resonance, increasing the manacost of all spells. But while Pain Resonance is active, each hit immediately triggers weakened Pain Transference on semi-conscious level, without the need of any further action.

Improved Pain Resonance

Extended Pain Resonance

Enhanced Pain Resonance

Advanced Pain Resonance

The remaining 25% of pain power not used for pain resonance does not dissipate but is kept as pain buffer and can be manually transferred later.

Empathic Worm

With Empathic Worm the psionic turns his attack on victims mental faculties into a multipronged assault. It is not just direct assault on the victim's consciousness but the spells now also burrow through victim's empathy, increasing damage by hitting from unexpected angle.

Improved Empathic Worm

Improved emphatic worm adds an extra +1% of damage to soulrending spells.

Extended Empathic Worm

Extended emphatic worm adds an extra +1% of damage to soulrending spells.

Enhanced Empathic Worm

Enhanced emphatic worm adds an extra +1% of damage to soulrending spells.

Advanced Empathic Worm

Advanced emphatic worm adds an extra +1% of damage to soulrending spells.