Animalistic Spirit Gear Quick Reference

This Animalistic Spirit Gear Quick Reference covers all 5 pieces in the Animalistic Spirit family. Four are mechanically linked (weapon/shield, armor, headdress — plus UCS gloves/boots, which run the weapon script). Totems are a separate, non-mechanical 5th item that only shares flavor/theming.

The Five Pieces at a Glance

Piece	Released	Shop	Flare Name	Default Damage	Trigger (offense)	Trigger (taming)
Weapon	Aug 2020	Untamed Spirit	Animalistic Fury — offensive, fires on your own hit	Grapple	On hit	Hit like-level foe, or successful parry (melee/runestaff)
Shield	Aug 2020	Untamed Spirit	Animalistic Fury — offensive, fires on your own hit/block	Grapple	On block/hit	Hit or block like-level foe
UCS Gloves/Boots	Aug 2020	Untamed Spirit (weapon script)	Animalistic Fury — offensive, fires on your own UCS strike	Grapple	On UCS strike	Hit, or successful evade (both hands must be empty for revenge flare)
Armor	Feb 2021	Wild Instinct	Animalistic Instinct — defensive, fires when you're hit	Sonic (knockdown/RT)	When you're hit (defensive)	Damage a foe, or evade a like-level foe's attack
Headdress	Aug 2021	Heady Spirits	No flare of its own — its WAVE-triggered Avatar attack "borrows" a flare from one bonded weapon/shield/armor piece	—	—	Damage a like-level foe (physical or magical)
Totem (not mechanically linked)	Aug 2024	Totemic Spirits	—	—	Fluff only + minor passive	—

Key distinction: Weapon/Shield/UCS gear flares are offensive (they fire when you deal damage). Armor's Animalistic Instinct flare is defensive (it fires when you're hit, causing knockdown/disorient on the attacker). The headdress has no flare of its own — it's a force-multiplier for the others.

Shared Mechanics (apply to all 4 linked pieces)

Mechanic	Details
Taming/Affinity	0 (wild) to 12 (fully tame). Untamed spirits can "backlash" you (lose parry/block, or DS/TD debuff) — rare and short, but stops entirely once fully tame.
How to tame	Successful damage to like-level foes, OR the piece's specific defensive action (parry for weapon, block for shield, evade for armor/UCS) while in forward+ stance and actively fighting.
Taming speed	~1,000 in-game combat messages per affinity level solo. Owning headdress + armor together cuts this to ~500 messages/level for both those pieces.
One owner at a time	Spirits only trust one person. A new owner must re-earn trust from scratch — selling/trading resets taming.
Flare power vs. flare rate	Flare tier (1–4) only raises the power ceiling once fully tame — it does not change how often flares fire. Fire rate is standard flare rate.
Off the shelf (OTS)	Comes in at Tier 1, +20 enchant, default Grapple (weapon/shield) or Sonic (armor) damage.

Unlockable Upgrades (via Duskruin certificates — same catalog structure across pieces)

Unlock	What it does	Applies to
Flare Tier (2–4)	Raises power ceiling of the offensive/defensive flare	Weapon, Shield, UCS, Armor
Revenge Flares	Chance to flare on parry/evade/block instead of just on your own attack. Requires forward+ stance, active combat. UCS gloves/boots need both hands empty.	Weapon, Shield, UCS
Wild Backlash	Adds a DS/TD debuff to the target when your flare hits (–5 DS/–3 TD per flare tier, max –20/–12)	Weapon, Shield, UCS
Bestial Barrier	Armor's version of Wild Backlash — flare hit gives you a DS boost for 30 sec or until next attack	Armor
Savage Power	Once/hour, CLENCH to boost AS/CS/crit padding for 2 min (+5 AS/+3 CS per unlock, up to +25/+15). Shared cooldown across all your Animalistic gear — only one piece per hour.	Weapon, Shield, UCS
Untamed Vitality	Once/hour, CLENCH for Health/Mana/Stamina recovery boost	Armor
Feral Whirlwind	Once/hour, STOMP for an AoE Animalistic Instinct hit on 3–5 creatures in the room	Armor
Damage Type Change	Swap default Grapple/Sonic for a Common (cold/fire/impact/lightning/vacuum) or Uncommon (acid/disintegrate/disruption/plasma/steam/unbalance) type	Weapon, Shield, UCS
Spirit Change	Change the type of animal (e.g., Feline → Canine); each type has an approved noun list	All 4
Fluff Action unlocks	More flavor verbs (BOW, PRAY, WAVE, etc.), sold separately from power unlocks	Weapon, Shield, UCS, Armor
Spirit Imprints (up to 4 slots)	Headdress morphs its appearance to match other bonded Animalistic pieces you own	Headdress only
Animalistic Avatar	WAVE-triggered maneuver attack (fear/root), usable every 6 min; unlocks a multi-target (2 creatures) version too	Headdress only

How the Pieces Combo

• Weapon/Shield + Armor — the Set Bonus: When your armor's Animalistic Instinct flare hits, there's a chance it calls out to your wielded weapon/shield to also add their Animalistic Fury flare onto the same attack. That call chance caps at 10%, and only reaches the full 10% when both the armor and the weapon/shield are fully unlocked — partial unlocks on either scale the chance down proportionally. If you own all three pieces (weapon + shield + armor), only one of weapon/shield feeds into that calculation — specifically whichever of the two has more mechanical unlocks. The other one still flares fully on its own hits/blocks; it's just not the one "assisting" the armor's proc. Each item always keeps its own tier/flares — nothing downgrades or syncs to match another piece.
• Weapon + Shield together: fully independent items — separate affinity trackers, separate flare rolls (weapon flares on your hits/parries, shield flares on your blocks). Running both just doubles your chances to proc a flare each round, not a merged single chance.
• Headdress + anything — the Avatar attack: the headdress doesn't flare on its own, but its Animalistic Avatar (WAVE) attack picks one bonded weapon/shield/armor piece and adds that piece's flare onto the Avatar hit — so a single WAVE can land the root/fear effect and a full Animalistic Fury or Animalistic Instinct flare (damage, knockdown, debuffs, whatever that piece has unlocked) in one shot.
• Headdress taming boost: wearing/wielding the headdress alongside other Animalistic items multiplies affinity gain for all of them — the bonus scales with the total number of Animalistic items worn/wielded (e.g., 4 items on = +4 affinity per qualifying hit instead of +1, on every item).
• Full stack (weapon or shield + armor + headdress): the "complete" build — fastest taming, highest set-bonus chance, and the Avatar attack has bonded gear to pull a flare from.
• Totems: purely cosmetic/thematic add-on (worn accessory, POINT-able at animals/companions) — no mechanical tie to the flare system, so they don't factor into a combat build.

Current Prices (August 2026 run, Bloodriven Village — all bloodscrip)

Item / Unlock	Weapon/Shield (Untamed Spirit)	Armor (Wild Instinct)	Headdress (Heady Spirits)
OTS base item	10,000	10,000	15,000
Add script to existing eligible item (The Annex)	50,000	50,000	— (n/a)
Spirit Change (change animal type)	1,000	1,000	1,000
Fluff Actions, T1→T2	2,500	2,500	2,500
Fluff Actions, T2→T3	2,500	2,500	2,500
Flare Tier, T1→T2	15,000	10,000	—
Flare Tier, T2→T3	15,000	10,000	—
Flare Tier, T3→T4	15,000	10,000	—
Common Flare (damage type) (The Annex)	20,000	— (armor stays sonic)	—
Uncommon Flare (damage type) (The Annex)	30,000	—	—
Revenge Flares	30,000	30,000	— (n/a, has Avatar instead)
Wild Backlash	20,000	—	—
Bestial Barrier	—	20,000	—
Feral Whirlwind	—	15,000	—
Untamed Vitality — Health	—	10,000	—
Untamed Vitality — Mana	—	20,000	—
Untamed Vitality — Stamina	—	20,000	—
Savage Power, per tier (T1–T5, 5 total)	10,000 each	— (n/a)	—
Animalistic Avatar, per tier (T1–T4, 4 total)	—	—	10,000 each
Multi-Opponent Avatar	—	—	15,000
Animalistic Apparition	—	—	15,000
Spirit Imprint slot (max 4)	—	—	1,500 each

Rough "full unlock" totals (OTS + every listed unlock on that piece, one damage-type voucher counted for weapon/shield):

• Weapon or Shield, fully loaded: 10,000 (OTS) + 45,000 (flare tiers) + 50,000 (Savage Power x5) + 30,000 (Revenge) + 20,000 (Wild Backlash) + 5,000 (fluff x2) + 20,000 (one damage-type voucher) ≈ 180,000 bloodscrip
• Armor, fully loaded: 10,000 (OTS) + 30,000 (flare tiers) + 30,000 (Revenge) + 20,000 (Bestial Barrier) + 15,000 (Feral Whirlwind) + 50,000 (all 3 Untamed Vitality) + 5,000 (fluff x2) ≈ 160,000 bloodscrip
• Headdress, fully loaded: 15,000 (OTS) + 40,000 (Avatar T1–T4) + 15,000 (Multi-Opponent) + 15,000 (Apparition) + 6,000 (4 Imprint slots) + 5,000 (fluff x2) ≈ 96,000 bloodscrip

(These totals assume one OTS purchase each and don't include the diminutive pangolin figurine / vermeil echidna charm add-certs, which you'd only need if converting an existing weapon/shield/armor piece instead of buying OTS.)

Practical Notes for Squad Planning

• UCS builds: Revenge flares on gloves/boots only fire with true open-hand UCS combat — both hands must be empty. Not worth unlocking for a caster wearing them passively.
• Savage Power cooldown is per-character, not per-item — if you're running weapon and shield with it unlocked, you still only get one Savage Power activation per hour total.
• Enchant/ensorcell difficulty is flat regardless of unlock state, so there's no reason to delay unlocking abilities until after enchanting.
• Selling/gifting resets taming — factor this into whether it's worth buying pre-tamed or building from scratch on a given character.

See Also

• Animalistic Spirit
• Animalistic Spirit Weapon
• Animalistic Spirit Shield
• Animalistic Spirit Armor
• Animalistic Spirit Headdress
• Animalistic Totem