Profession service

Player services are profession-specific abilities that players can use to give themselves or other players permanent benefits, either directly or through permanent improvements to items. Not all professions currently have player services.

Characters must meet specific level and training prerequisites to gain access to their services and sometimes to unlock more advanced levels of those services.

List of Services

Profession	Service	Applied To	Prerequisite	Resource Name
Monks	Mystic Tattoo	Character (via tattooing)	Level 20	Motes of Tranquility
Rogues	Covert Arts (proposed, in development)	Character (via education)	Level 20, skill requirements dependent on art	Guile
Warriors	Weighting, Padding, Sighting	Weapons and armor	Level 20	Grit
Clerics	Sanctify (330)	Weapons, armor and shields	Level 30, knowledge of 330	Devotion
Empaths	None yet
Sorcerers	Ensorcell (735)	Weapons, armor and shields	Level 35, knowledge of 735	Necrotic energy
Wizards	Enchant (925)	Weapons, armor and shields	Level 25, knowledge of 925	Essence
Bards	Loresong Unlocking	Items	None	Lore knowledge
Paladins	None yet
Rangers	Resist Nature (620)	Imbued wearable items	Level 20, knowledge of 620	Nature's Grace

Resource Points

The use of player services is limited by resource points. These are named differently for each service, but are functionally identical. Once a character meets the prerequisites for their service, they will begin to accumulate resource points whenever they absorb experience at a 1:1 rate. This includes bonuses to experience absorption such as the Gift of Lumnis. Resource point accumulation is limited to 50,000 points per week, up to a maximum of 200,000 points. For the purpose of resource point accumulation, a new week begins whenever a character's Gift of Lumnis begins, including when LUMNIS SCHEDULE is used.

Weekly and total resource point accumulation can be viewed using the RESOURCE verb. There is also an in-game message when a character has accumulated their weekly maximum.

Resource points can be converted into suffused energy using Suffusion, which can be used to increase the odds of success when providing a service.

Each service provision costs a certain number of resource points depending on the particular service and the tier of service being provided.

Service Success Roll

Successfully providing a service requires a successful service roll. An open roll on a d100 is made, adding your character's service bonus and subtracting a difficulty modifier determined by the tier of service and the characteristics of the target. An endroll of 100 or greater will mean a successful service. A failure on this roll will cause a loss of a percentage of the resource points the service would have cost. If sufficient resource points remain, the service can be immediately re-attempted.

Because the service roll is an open roll, it is possible to fumble and fail to apply the service even with a high bonus, or to succeed in application even with an low bonus. The Gift of Eonak can be used to mitigate the possibility of a poor roll by allowing you to make two rolls and use the highest, reducing the chance of a low open roll to much less than 1%.

The service bonus formula is different for each individual service, and is available on the wiki pages for those services. Your bonus is not visible in game, but a difficulty estimate for a particular service can be viewed before the attempt. For services involving spells, the estimate is accessed using CAST <target>, while the syntax varies for other services. The roll itself is also not visible in game, but can be estimated from the in-game messaging.

Wounds above level 1 scars and spirit being below maximum will apply penalties to all service attempts. This should be kept in mind especially when using BOOST ENHANCIVE STATS to improve your service bonus, as it may cause your spirit to drop below maximum.

Roll Needed Description	% Chance
you can only fail if you are horribly unlucky	Can only fail on a fumble
you should be able to <service> it easily enough, barring bad luck	90+%
the odds are on your side to successfully complete the <service>	75+%
you are more likely than not to succeed on your <service>, but you will need some luck	55+%
this <service> will be difficult, but possible	35+%
this <service> will be very difficult	15+%
that this <service> will be nearly impossible	1+%
you will likely need a miracle to complete this <service>	Can only succeed on a positive open roll
this <service> is completely beyond your abilities	0%

Roll Result Description	Result
You make an astoundingly good attempt!	High open roll
You make an outstanding attempt!	90+
You make an excellent attempt!	80+
You make a good attempt!	70+
You make a decent attempt.	60+
You make an okay attempt.	50+
You make a passable attempt.	40+
You make a questionable attempt.	30+
You make a poor attempt!	20+
You make a very poor attempt!	10+
You make a horribly poor attempt!	1+
You make an astoundingly inept attempt!	Low open roll
You make the most horribly incompetent attempt possible!	Fumble

Gear Difficulty Modifiers

Services applied to combat gear have increased difficulty depending on the properties of the gear, including material, scripts, and other characteristics.

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Material Gear Difficulty Modifier
Material Modifiers for Adamantine to Firewheel Material Name Modifier adamantine -150 aganjira (lesser) -60 aganjira (greater) -150 alexandrite -500 black alloy 0 bone -250 bronze -50 carmiln 10 cloth 0 copper -50 coraesine -200 deringo -20 drakar -50 drake 0 eahnor 15 eonake 0 faenor 15 faewood 0 feras 0 fireleaf 15 firewheel -35	Material Modifiers for Ghezyte to Lor Material Name Modifier ghezyte -50 glaes -10 glass 0 glowbark -10 golvern -10 gornar -50 high steel 0 hoarbeam 5 illthorn 0 imflass -30 invar 0 ipantor -40 iron -30 ironwood 0 kakore 0 kelyn 0 krodera2 -100 kroderine2 -100 lathonian -100 leather -10 lor -25	Material Modifiers for Low Steel to Shadarl Material Name Modifier low steel 0 mein -10 metal1 -500 mesille 0 mithglin 15 mithril 20 modwir 0 mossbark 0 obsidian -500 ora 0 ora, black -75 ora, white 0 orase 0 razern -20 rhimar -50 rolaren -40 rowan 20 ruby -500 ruic -60 sephwir -25 shadarl -100	Material Modifiers for Silver to Zorchar Material Name Modifier silver -500 somnis -150 steel -10 stone -500 surita (lesser) -100 surita (greater) -250 urglaes -999 urnon -999 vaalorn 10 veil iron2 -50 vethinye -150 villswood 0 vultite 0 white alloy 0 witchwood -75 wood -10 / -1003 wyrwood -60 yew -20 zelnorn -250 zorchar -50

¹ If the item inspects as "metal" (rather than a specific type of metal) something is wrong. ASSIST to get it fixed.

² Materials with anti-magical properties cannot be improved via magical player services, such as Enchant (925) and Ensorcell (735)

³ 'Wood' has a different difficulty for shield/bow/runestaff (-10) vs melee weapon/armor (-100).

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Script Gear Difficulty Modifier
Script Modifiers for Animalistic Spirit to Ethereal Tattoo Weapon Script Name Modifier Animalistic Spirit Weapon/Shield/Armor -200 Banshee Flares -200 Blink Weapon -200 Bloodtooth Bracers -100 Briar Flares (T1/T2/T3) -70/-100/-200 Bubble Flares -200 Chainspear -150 Chronomage Flares -200 Combat Flourish: Flare Affinity † -200 Combat Flourish: Lore Flares † -200 Combat Flourish: Rage Armor † -200 Cursed Armor -200 Daybringer -200 Elemental Gloves -70 Elven Armor (T1/T2/T3/T4) -70/-140/-200/-200 10/20/30/40* Energy Runestaff -200 Ethereal Armor varies with unlocks, caps at -140 Ethereal String -200 Ethereal Tattoo Weapon -100	Script Modifiers for Fighting Knife to Pure White Ora Weapon (Iasha) Script Name Modifier Fighting Knife -10/-60/-140/-200 Forest Armor -70 Fusion Arms (1/2/3/4/5/6 slots) -25/-75/-140/-225/-325/-450 Globus Elanthias (T1/T2/T3/T4) -40/-40/-40/-100 Greater Elemental Flares -150 Grobey shield -70 Hinged Armor -10 Ithzir Armor -200 Karma Armor -200 Knockout Flares -150 Mana-infused Armor (T0/T1/T2/T3/T4/T5) -70/-70/-140/-200/-200/-200 Mechanical Crossbow (T1/T2) -70/-140 Morphing Armor -100 Nerve Staff -150 Parasite Armor -200 Parasite Weapon -200 (including penalty from bone material) Poison Weapon -70 Polearm Flares -100 Pure Black Ora Weapon (Iasha) -70 Pure White Ora Weapon (Iasha) -70	Script Modifiers for Realm Weapon to Wand Bow Script Name Modifier Realm Weapon -100 (-200 including flare) Returning (Disarm) Weapon -70 Returning (Hurl) Weapon -200 Self-mana Armor -40 Shell Armor -40 Shock Lance varies with unlocks, caps at -140 Sigil Staff (T1/T2/T3/T4/T5) 0/-40/-70/-140/-200 Snake Flares -100 Solar/Nebular Weapon (T1/T2+) -40/-80 Splitter Weapon -200 Sprite Weapon/Armor -200 Terror flare -100 Twin Weapons (T1/T2/T3) -50/-100/-150 Twisted armor (T2+) -150 Twisted shield (T2/T3) -100/-150 Twisted weapon (T3) -150 Vial Flares -70 Voln Armor** (T1/T2/T3+) -70/-140/-200 Wand Bow -150

*Elven Armor Note: Per GM Oscuro, "The way the gear difficulty for item scripts system works is there's an overall difficulty set, then each spell can overwrite that as needed. Loresong doesn't report the per-spell value, just the global difficulty setting." Elven Armor has an overall difficulty of -70/-140/-200/-200 which would be used as the difficulty for non-magical enhancement. Under magical enhancement (such as 620/735/925) this difficulty setting is overridden to the listed 10/20/30/40.
**Voln Armor Note: Sanctify and Ensorcell have an additional modifier on top of the base script difficulty. Ensorcell has an additional -100 to the modifier whereas Sanctify has an additional +50 to the modifier.
† Combat Flourish and Subscript penalties stack with all other modifiers.

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Other Gear Difficulty Modifiers

Property Modifier Enchant -ROUND(((Bonus - 2)^2) / 9) Ensorcell (735) -50 per tier Sanctify (330) -20 per tier, -50 for Holy Fire Damage Type Resistance - (Total / 2) Creature Bane -100 Defender (DS) -Bonus^2 Offensive Bonus (AS) -Bonus^2 Target Defense (TD) -Bonus^2 Category B Flares (except otherwise noted) -100 Acuity Flares -15 per tier Dispel Flares -50 + -50*dispel attempts Mana Flares -20 per tier WPS -CER^2 (separately for each type) Enhancive varies