Spirit Beast

This article is a work in progress!

Spirit Beasts premiered at Ebon Gate 2014. Similar to siegery, but with much more depth, spirit beasts battle one another like Pokemon<TM>. See spirit beast stats for more information about specific beasts.

GM Auchand redeveloped Spirit Beasts shortly after their debut and introduced Talondown Arena aboard The Firebird airship for players to battle each other and NPC Spirit Beast masters.

Spirit Beasts are the spiritual essences of creatures that have dwelled in a given locale. Enterprising players can bind them to a talisman and make them fight for you to gain levels and become more powerful.

Talismans

The talismans are available off-the-shelf, are neck-worn, and can be altered. Each talisman can hold three beasts: one common, one uncommon, and one legendary. A common beast much reach its twentieth level before the talisman can take an uncommon beast. Likewise, an uncommon beast much reach level 20 before the talisman can hold a legendary beast.

Common beasts are easy to find. Locations are listed below and on the Spirit Beast stats page. Uncommon beasts are a bit harder to find, lurking in special locales. And once you've gotten one of those to its twentieth train, there are rumors abounding about legendary beasts that only exist in a single place. These will obviously take some serious hunting to find, but the good news is that you have pleeeeenty of work to do before then, now, don't you?

Statistics

Specific Spirit Beast stats article

Initial stats for any Spirit Beast can be seen by LOOKing at the talisman containing the beast. The descriptive ranges for stats and growth rates are as follows:

STATISTICS Stat Description Enhancive Color Power The strength of a beast's attacks. Indigo Defense The ability of a beast to defend itself. Emerald Speed How fast a beast is. Gold Insight How well a beast can determine its opponent's tactics. This is important! Violet Accuracy The likelihood a beast is going to hit with its normal attacks. Mauve (all) Saffron (common) Health A measure of the beast's life force. Crimson

STAT RANGES Descriptor Range Pathetic Under 100 Low 100 to 115 Moderate 115 to 130 Above Average 130 to 145 High 145 to 160 Very High 160 to 175 Extraordinary 175 to 190 Monumental 190 to 210 Godlike 210+

GROWTH RATE Descriptor + per Level Slowly 1 Measured 2 Quickly 3 - 4

In addition, many creatures are aligned to an element and the alignment will affect how that beast does in battles vs. other aligned beasts according to this chart:

ELEMENTS

Element	Weakest Against	Weak Against	Strong Against	Strongest Against
Fire	Water	Earth	Air	Spirit
Water	Spirit	Air	Earth	Fire
Earth	Air	Water	Fire	Spirit
Air	Spirit	Fire	Water	Earth
Spirit	Fire	Earth	Water	Air
Wild Magic	Elements	-	-	Spirit
Rift Armament	Spirit	-	-	Elements

Finally, all common and uncommon beasts have a special attack (1 of 14). Uncommon beasts may have special abilities, and legendary beasts all have special abilities. These are accessed using the TELL {BEAST} TO ATTACK command.

SPECIAL ABILITIES

Attack Name	Description
Primitive Strike	Used by most uncivilized humanoids.
Bestial Fury	Used by beasts.
Rage of the Elements	Default elemental special.
Drain Life	Used by undead.
Sky Rend	Used by birds.
False Security	Used by adorable creatures.
Ambush	This one is really self-explanatory, no?
Swordplay	Used by armed creatures.
Fierce Strike	A generic attack, usually used by uncommons and rares with once-per-battle stuff.
Stampede	Used by hooved creatures.
Stinging Swarm	Used by bugs.
Witchcraft	Drain Life for living beings.
We Are Pack!	Used by wolves.
Catscratch Fever	Used by cats.

Common

Common Spirit Beasts have base level 1 stats ranging from 90 to 130 and have a growth potential from 1 to 3 points per level. This means that, at maximum, a common spirit beast with a fully potion-enhanced stat, maximum stat growth, and with a 130 base stat can achieve a 170, or "very high" rating for that stat. They have a stat pool of 635 points and a growth pool of 12 points, but the stat numbers do not go above 130 or under 90, and stat growth does not go over 3 or under 1.

Uncommon

Uncommon Spirit Beasts have a stat pool of 645 points and a growth pool of 14 points. They have a stat range from 90-140 and a growth range of 1-4 points. In addition, some (but not all) of them have access to unique abilities instead of the common ones.

Legendary

Legendary Spirit Beasts have a stat pool of 655 points and a growth pool of 16 points. They have a stat range from 90-140 and a growth range of 1-4 points, but they all have unique special abilities like Sympathy, Bleed, Airwall, Bone Shield, and more. A legendary beast's maximum enhanced stat could reach 220 provided that they started at 140 and had a growth potential of 4.

Binding

In order to bind a Spirit Beast, you'll need a talisman, purchased at my shop, Ilixil's Bestiary. (You may remember Ilixil, the extremely unfortunate scientist, from that time that he got devoured by his pet shade-skinks. He got better.) More than that, you're going to need to prepare that talisman. Preparing a talisman isn't hard if you have a bit of Magic Item Use training, but the good news is that anyone can do the preparation for you. But how do you prepare a talisman?

Blood. Lots of blood. You're going to have to go out and slaughter creatures that have blood. The stronger they are, the better the quality of their blood will be. That means that beasts from the Rift are going to provide you with some amazing quality life-liquid, and kobolds are... well, not. You can collect this blood using syringes and vials that I also sell. Noticing a trend here?

Once you have a vial full of blood, you're going to pour it on your talisman. If you're exceptionally bad with magical items, your talisman's probably going to break at this point.****** Otherwise, you'll either succeed famously or not do so well. Good news: you can try again. You won't even need to buy a new vial!

Now you're going to have to find a beast. The good news is that common beasts, the first type that you'll be able to bind, are everywhere. Most of the wilds around your various towns have a few different options. Every beast has its own strengths and weaknesses, which we'll go into soon enough. You can invoke your talisman anywhere to see if you can find a Spirit Beast there.

Once you've successfully invoked a talisman, you can attune it to a specific beast. Finally, once you're sure you've found the beast of your dreams (or at least one that's mildly acceptable) you'll offer the talisman to the beast. Only a prepared talisman can be offered. Anyone can bind a beast, but it will definitely help a bit if you have some Spiritual Lore, Summoning skill.

If you have low MIU your talisman CAN break and you'll lose it AND have to buy a new one and start over. It's best to have someone high level with high MIU do the pour for you.

Fighting

The entire reason you want to bind a Spirit Beast is so that you can have it fight other people's Spirit Beasts, right? So you'd best get good at fighting. When you summon your beast, it's going to start attacking its opponent at will. But this isn't just a matter of strength against strength! No, sir. You need to guide your beast in order to have it do its best.

Your creature's going to settle into a stance as soon as it begins the fight: Turtle, Wolf, Serpent, Hare, or Crane.

Turtle is strong against Hare and Crane; is weak against Serpent and Wolf.
Wolf is strong against Hare and Turtle; is weak against Crane and Serpent.
Serpent is strong against Turtle and Wolf; is weak against Crane and Hare.
Hare is strong against Serpent and Crane; is weak against Wolf and Turtle.
Crane is strong against Wolf and Serpent; is weak against Hare and Turtle.

Your creature's Insight may give you a glimpse at what stance your opponent's beast is in, but otherwise you're going to have to watch the fight and try to adjust your tactics accordingly. If it seems like your beast is taking a lot of damage and doing very little, you may want to switch to an opposing stance.

Oh, but it's not as simple as that. If things are going especially bad, you can tell your creature to guard, which means that it will take much less damage at the cost of being poor at attacks. This can be a lifesaver if you're taking a pounding and need some time to figure out how to turn things around. When you're ready to go back on the offensive, tell your creature to strike.

And then there are special attacks! Every beast has a special ability. You should only tell your beast to attack when you're certain that you're in a stance stronger than your opponent's, as special attacks are much more damaging then. They won't do much, and some won't work at all, if you're in a same or inferior stance!

Customizations

You can customize a lot about your beast! There are potions for sale in my shop that allow you to improve the traits of your beast. These can help you improve already good traits (like making a beast with a lot of Power really, really strong) or shore up ones that your beast lacks (such as enhancing the Insight on a beast that's not very aware). There's a limit on how much potions can do, but I might be convinced to do a little more for you. Wink wink, nudge nudge.

I can also work on your beast's appearance. You want your twitchy giant rat to look like a snarling fanged rodent? I can do it. Want it to look like a snake? Probably not. I can change its basic appearance and the greater detail when you look at it while it's fighting for you. But that's not all! I can even change what its special attack looks like, within reason.

Q&A 1

Category: Quests/Sagas/Events
Topic: Ebon Gate Festival
Message #: 6991
Author: GS4-AUCHAND
Date: 10/10/2014 2:13 PM EDT
Subject: Re: Ebon Gate Teaser: Spirit Beasts

How many different spirit beasts are there totally; including common, uncommon and legendary? We need to know how many pokeba... erm talismans to buy to collect them all.

There are currently 107 Spirit Beasts. Of those, 39 are common, 16 are uncommon, and 52 are legendary. If you want to be a Pokem--er, Battle Pet--er, Spirit Beast master, well... that would take quite a bit of time. Each talisman holds three Spirit Beasts: one common, one uncommon, and one rare. You have to reach max level with the common to bind an uncommon, and max level with the uncommon to bind a rare. Yeah, I know the numbers are a little skewed if legendary beasts make up a plurality of the system. This is because legendary beasts are found in individual rooms. Uncommon beasts are found in parts of areas (and no, not giving hints!) Common beasts are realm-wide except in towns.

Are there kobolds with katanas?

No, but if you're clever, you can use the system to find out exactly what happens when a kobold attempts to use advanced armor and weaponry. It's... not pretty. I'm only half-joking here.

What is the benefit of having high quality blood?

It makes offering a talisman to a beast a bit easier.

Off the shelf. Since there will be possibly some folks who cannot take all their characters to EG, is it possible to pick up talismans at EG to give to another character?

Yup!

Creature types. Does the talisman picked up affect the creature that can be summoned with it? So far, I've seen rat and roa'ter - will there be a list of creatures (common/uncommon) that we can find, or is that now an in-game puzzle and left to discovery?

As an immediate next project, I'm thinking about doing some sort of enchiridion (let's not call it a Pokedex) for people who'd like to collect information on beast locations. Finding all the common beasts should be relatively easy, as you can step outside a town and start attuning. Common beasts are available in the surroundings of Wehnimer's, Kharam Dzu, Solhaven, River's Rest, Icemule Trace, Zul Logoth, Pinefar, Ta'Vaalor, and Ta'Illistim.

Or, will this merchant come back in a month or so after we've had time to tinker?

I intend to make customization for the talismans broadly available. I'll probably restrict modification of the beasts themselves (i.e. special attacks, custom look descriptions) to me for a bit, as they're a little tough to do at the moment.

How will one know relative statistics of spirit creature, in order to best make use of stances and/or strategies?

This is a good question. In testing, I found that a high-power, low-intuition creature like a roa'ter could definitely get its butt kicked by even a low-health, speedy creature like a rat if played well. Insight is kind of a fun stat. But yeah, currently you can look at your talisman to get a readout of relative stats. Like this:

look talis
A simple clay talisman is currently attuned to a spectral thrak of 1 train.

Its Power is high.
Its Defense is low.
Its Speed is low.
Its Insight is moderate.
Its Accuracy is moderate.
Its Health is moderate.

Its Power will grow slowly.
Its Defense will grow quickly.
Its Speed will grow at a moderate pace.
Its Insight will grow at a moderate pace.
Its Accuracy will grow at a moderate pace.
Its Health will grow at a moderate pace.

Its Insight has been enhanced by 1 points.

5) Potions for the spirit beast are temporary or permanent additions to creature's statistics?

Permanent. There's not currently a potion for clearing stat additions, but I'm thinking that'll be useful to have.

6) Binding common/uncommon. If I have a 20th level common rat spirit, that will enable my talisman to attract an uncommon creature (which, I assume, will be as powerful as a 20th level common rat spirit?). So.. the talisman can store multiple creatures.. or do the spirit creatures trade places?

The talismans hold three creatures, one of each tier. It's an unlock system, basically. And yeah, it's automatic.

Homelands

Darn, I missed a tick in not making this system like M:TG. Think of all the silver it would have brought in if your beast choice was random on purchase? I didn't do that because I'm not a jerk. Well, I am, but not on that level. Right?

Instructions

Category: Quests/Sagas/Events
Topic: Ebon Gate Festival
Message #: 7214
Author: PENNINGTONB1
Date: 10/18/2014 2:38 AM EDT
Subject: Re: Spirit Beasts Congratulations

>Congratulations to Sepher for binding the first ever Spirit Beast, a griffin found near Ta'Illistim!

Woo! Thanks. So far, it's been a hell of a lot of fun to play with.

Here's a little guide with some tidbits about the beasts from Ilixil (the NPC creator).

First step

So first step: get your gear and collect blood

You need a syringe and a vial for this part. Before you head out, PUT your vial on your syringe so that the blood has a repository to be drawn into. Next, you have to kill things and DRAW their blood. Creatures' blood also has a level of quality associated with it, and the higher the level of the creature you're drawing from, the better the blood will be. Leopards in the Gyldemar Forest yielded "moderate" quality blood while war griffins in OTF yielded an "incredible" quality. The process of drawing blood is thus:

Kill the creature
KNEEL
DRAW creature WITH SYRINGE (this removes the creature as if you had looted it; you don't get treasure)

It looks like this:

K>draw leo with syr

You draw some of a mastodonic leopard's blood into your syringe. The leopard shrivels and decays away
until naught but dust is left.

Roundtime: 3 secs.

Now, you'll need to repeat this process 9 more times to completely fill your vial. You need a full vial to prepare your talisman. If you LOOK at the syringe, you can tell about how much blood you've collected.

• 1-3 doses

A small crystal vial is locked into place within the syringe. A bit of sluggish war griffin blood sloshes inside, deep red in color.

• 4-6 doses

A small crystal vial is locked into place within the syringe. It is about half full of dark red war griffin blood.

• 7-9 doses

A small crystal vial is locked into place within the syringe. The syringe is mostly full of war griffin blood.

• 10 doses

A small crystal vial is locked into place within the syringe. The syringe is full to the brim with war griffin blood, which appears to be of incredible quality.

Note that you don't see the quality until you've drawn a full vial's worth.

Second step

Now that you've got a full vial, you must UNLOCK SYRINGE to remove the vial from the syringe and then prepare your talisman by POURing the vial onto the talisman. It looks like this:

Success

>unlock my syr

You carefully twist and unlock a small crystal vial from a thin silver syringe.

>pour my vial on my talis
You pour the mastodonic leopard blood in your vial over the surface of a rippled clay talisman. A faint thrum of a sensation akin to stirring awareness answers from within the blood-drenched talisman. The blood seeps into the surface of your talisman, and a feeling of faint satisfaction wells up from within.

The vial is now empty. [These can be reused.]

Failure

>pour my via on my tali
You pour the triton radical blood in your vial over the surface of a painted clay talisman. A faint thrum of a sensation akin to stirring awareness answers from within the blood-drenched talisman. As quickly as it came, it flickers out like a dying candle, and the blood beads on the surface of the the talisman as it rejects your offering.

Major Failure (Talisman breaks)

>pour my via on my tali
You pour the troll king blood in your vial over the surface of a simple red and white orb. A faint thrum of sensation akin to stirring awareness answers from within the blood-drenched orb. Cracks form all over the surface of a simple red and white orb just seconds before it crumbles away in your hands. Perhaps you just weren't skilled enough to prepare the orb, but now, you'll never know for sure. The blood on your hands commingles with the dusty remnants of the orb as if to compound your miserable failure. You get the feeling you just aren't skilled enough to prepare the vial.

Third step

Now your talisman is ready to take on a spirit beast, but first you have to find one. Go out into your local wilds and INVOKE TALISMAN. This will show you what beasts are around, if any. Note that you can INVOKE in a single room multiple times and the results may be different.

Invoking looks like this:

You focus your thoughts on a rippled clay talisman, attempting to align yourself with the spirits floes within the area, but fail to detect anything at all.
Roundtime: 15 sec.

And again for different results:

You focus your thoughts on a rippled clay talisman, attempting to align yourself with the spirits floes within the area, and a wash of foreign sensation floods your mind.

You detect the presence of a common griffin spirit.
You sense the presence of at least one spirit whose nature you cannot discern.

Roundtime: 15 sec.

Fourth step

Found something you like? Great. Now you have to ATTUNE TALISMAN to bring the spirit beast within the reach of your talisman so you can offer it.

That looks like:

You tighten your grip on a rippled clay talisman, willing it to attune to the presence of the griffin spirit lingering in the area.
Roundtime: 2 sec.

Fifth step

And finally, you OFFER TALISMAN to bind the beast to your talisman. I managed a couple failures on this and was told that one is major and one is minor, so I'll show those two as well as the success messaging. It is highly recommended to KNEEL before OFFERing.

Minor failure:

You hold out your clay talisman and reach out with your mind, calling to the kiramon spirit lingering in the area. Sudden warmth draws your attention to your hands, where beads of blood begin welling from the surface of your talisman. A stray thought causes you to lose your focus, and the blood seeps back into the talisman.
Roundtime: 14 sec.

Major failure (I had to reapply blood to the talisman after this):

You hold out your clay talisman and reach out with your mind, calling to the kiramon spirit lingering in the area. Sudden warmth draws your attention to your hands, where beads of blood begin welling from the surface of your talisman. The blood rises in a cloud of sanguine mist that evaporates into the air, and you sense that the spirit you are trying to summon is little pleased with your offering.
Roundtime: 20 sec.

Success:

You hold out your clay talisman and reach out with your mind, calling to the kiramon spirit lingering in the area. Sudden warmth draws your attention to your hands, where beads of blood begin welling from the surface of your talisman. The blood rises in a cloud of sanguine mist that illuminates a shrouded form hanging in the air before you. The spirit drifts closer to a charred clay talisman, its outline glowing as it nears. Golden light spills from the surface of the talisman, consuming the spirit. A thrill of satisfaction echoes up your arm and through your body.
Roundtime: 18 sec.

And that's it. Now you've got a spirit beast to fight with. If you look at your talisman, you should see something like this:

It's clay talisman that binds the spirits of the dead. What more do you want?

A rippled clay talisman is currently attuned to a spectral griffin of 1 train.

Its Power is moderate and will grow quickly.
Its Defense is low and will grow slowly.
Its Speed is moderate and will grow quickly.
Its Insight is moderate and will grow at a measured pace.
Its Accuracy is moderate and will grow at a measured pace.
Its Health is moderate and will grow slowly.

It is attuned to the element of air.

Enhancing and battling

At this point, you may also enhance your spirit beast with the flacons sold in the same shop you bought you talismans at. Each spirit beast can be enhances a maximum of 20 times, and as of now there is no way to undo what you enhance, so be careful.

To make your beast fight, you have to POINT TALISMAN AT character and they must do the same to you. This initiates a match.

The commands you can give your spirit beast once the battle has started look are: ATTACK, GUARD, STRIKE, and SWITCH.

Attack: This uses your creatures special move. You must store up energy (this is automatically gained as your beast progresses through the fight) to use this move.

Guard: Basically a defensive stance. You can use it to give you extra time to figure out how you want to fight your enemy.

Strike: An offensive stance. Your beast will automatically continue it's basic attack in this mode.

Switch: You can alternate between five different stance -- Turtle, Wolf, Serpent, Hare, or Crane -- each with their own merit. I'll leave this for everyone to figure out, since I barely have it figure out myself.

Finally, Ilixil came out and battled with us as well as answered some questions. Here are some of the things he said spirit beasts (he was volunteering information based on what was happening during fights, and just in general, so there's not really any discernible order for each piece of information; I'll make notes where I think they're necessary):

Ilixil says, "I should mention that legendary beasts have unique abilities."

Re: Casilla asked how soon you can use the beasts again after you've lost/completed a match
Ilixil says, "You can use them immediately again."

Ilixil says, "You'll have to get a common to twenty trains, bind an uncommon, get it to twenty trains, and then get a legendary."

Ilixil says, "I'll probably craft a potion that will allow you to remove bad pours."

Ilixil says, "Because... it would be a shame to have to get rid of your talisman and train a whole new beast because of a poor choice."

Ilixil says, "When that time comes, I'll be customizing beasts in various ways."

Re: someone was making suggestions for beasts:
Ilixil says, "If there are beasts that the talismans cannot yet sense, I am always open to suggestions."

Re: the talismans
Ilixil says, "I will say that these are magicked to detect the spiritual floes around all of the major towns, so far."

Ilixil says, "I believe you might find a silverback near Icemule."

Casilla asks, "Do spirits switch stances on their own if their insight is high enough?"

Speaking to Casilla, Ilixil says, "They do not."

Speaking to Casilla, Ilixil says, "That is, however, an intriguing suggestion."

Re: beast enhancive potions
Laelithonel asks, "So common spirit only needs one dose of a certain potion?"

Speaking to Laelithonel, Ilixil says, "The potions are not necessary. They merely allow you more control over your beast's strengths and weaknesses."

Japhrimel asks, "If we get a spirit can we remove it? or would we need a new talisman?"

Speaking to Japhrimel, Ilixil says, "There is no way to remove a spirit currently, I'm afraid. Some of my future plans..."

Ilixil says, "Well."

Ilixil says, "Future plans are future plans."

Ilixil chuckles.

Ilixil says, "At any rate, I would rather enjoy it if there were a way to reimburse people for putting effort into training a spirit they decide they do not want."

Re: someone sancted
Ilixil says, "They will not, by the way, fight in places that are sanctuaries."

Speaking quietly to Ilixil, Demyse says, "Have thoughts turned inward for future experimentings? As in some of the most powerful creatures in this world aren't beasts or animal.. but those which stand as adventurers of Elanthia."

Speaking to Demyse, Ilixil says, "Some of the creatures are not beasts."

Speaking to Ilixil, Riend says, "You can customize the look of your creature, if I recall correctly. Is this option fairly open or must it remain the same type of creature it was to begin with?"

Ilixil says, "It'll have to remain roughly similar to that creature."

Ilixil says, "A rat will have to remain some sort of rodent."

Ilixil says, "I'm more likely to be all right with it if it's merely a cosmetic change."

Ilixil says, "There is a Sheruvian legendary beast, I know."

Ilixil says, "She..."

Ilixil says, "...is unpleasant."

Ilixil says, "Now, in addition to standard tactics..."

Ilixil says, "...elemental attunement can definitely change a fight."

Ilixil says, "That's not something that you can change about your beast, mind."

Casilla asks, "Do I have to attune it? Does it find an element on its own?"

Speaking to Casilla, Ilixil says, "Attunements are indelible."

You say, "They're innate to the creatures, if they have one."

Casilla says, "So this guy [kiramon] is just neutral."

Ilixil nods at Casilla.

Ilixil says, "So, it's worth noting that again, it can be a hindrance or a help."

And done! Someone post this stuff on kp.org, would ya? Thanks! (editor's note: you're welcome, subheadings added by me)

>The commands you can give your spirit beast once the battle has started look are: ATTACK, GUARD, STRIKE, and SWITCH. -Me

Oh, and you TELL it to do these things.

Kind of important.

~Brian, Sepher's player

Common spirit beasts

Originally compiled by Eruheran

Town	Spirit Beasts
Broken Lands (WL)	hyena, jackal
Cysaegir	butterfly, aelotoi guardsman
Ebon Gate	swamp witch, mire wight, giant mantis, skeletal warrior
Four Winds Isle	snapping turtle, great tortoise, capuchin monkey, seagull
Icemule Trace	thyril, penguin, timber wolf, vereri, silverback orc, snowcat
Pinefar	arctic wolverine, seeker, glacei, fox, snowy owl
River's Rest	aardvark, pale crab, chimera, krolvin, pirate
Shadow Valley (WL)	mare, pony, stallion
Solhaven	shan, lobster, fenghai, roa'ter, daggerbeak, hound, alleycat
Ta'Illistim	griffin, moulis sapling, yeti, kiramon
Ta'Vaalor	hawk, fanged rodent, urgh, wolfshade, bobcat, grass snake
Teras	tsark, water elemental, fire elemental, cinder wasp, wind wraith
Wehnimer's Landing	kobold, rat, rolton, goblin, thrak, manticore
Zul Logoth	krynch, bat, whelk

Spirit beast enhancives

Stat	Fluid color
Power	Indigo
Defense	Emerald
Speed	Gold
Insight	Violet
Accuracy	Mauve - also Saffron for common
Health	Crimson
Clear enhancives	Black

Spirit Beasts 2.1

Category: Game Design Discussions
Topic: Spirit Beasts
Message #: 56
Author: GS4-AUCHAND
Date: 03/14/2015 03:23 PM EDT
Subject: Spirit Beasts 2.1: Arenas!

Editor's note: Talondown Arena information appears on that page. Only Spirit Beast system info here.

Armaments, beast experience potions, and common and uncommon Spirit Beast enhancements are all available for purchase or winning at the Talondown Arena!

Max Speed bonus now allows your beast to attack once every 7 seconds, up from 5. This was to compensate for the overwhelming speed of high-level fights, which were becoming a hindrance to strategizing even for experienced players. Speed ranks have been adjusted accordingly.

To positively readjust the value of Speed, extremely high levels of Speed now qualify beasts for the "Blinding Speed" buff, which begins as a passive 3% boost to attack avoidance and climbs from there.

Accuracy has now been considerably improved. Base special attack damage has been reduced slightly, but it is now boosted by Accuracy. Beasts with average levels of Accuracy should see no noticeable damage change, but those with high Accuracy will see more damage out of their special attacks. Furthermore, Accuracy now provides a chance to do more--but still reduced--damage while guarding.

Experience 'til next is now shown on Spirit Beast talismans!

Spirit Beasts 2.0

Category: Game Design Discussions
Topic: Spirit Beasts
Message #: 15
Author: GS4-AUCHAND
Date: 03/06/2015 07:16 PM EST
Subject: Spirit Beasts 2.0 Release

Some avid players of Spirit Beasts have noticed changes to their talismans today. There are quite a few updates as part of the 2.0 release, but the most pertinent one's you'll be seeing right now are:

• Clearer Info - Numerical values now exist for all Spirit Beast stats, accompanied by rough values appropriate for in-character discussion.

• Combat - It's been rebalanced around recent fight tracking to even out the gaps between certain overperforming and underperforming spirit beasts.

• Spirit Beast Armaments - You'll now be able to collect and use armaments for your Spirit Beasts. These come in three different levels: Lesser, Sturdy, and Potent armaments. More powerful armaments can do things like allow your beast access to new skills; all armaments will modify its stats in new and interesting ways. PUT armaments in your talisman to add them, DISARM the talisman to remove them.

• Level-matching - You can now FLIP your talisman and it will level match for lower-level beasts. Beasts will gain experience according to their actual levels, meaning that experienced Spirit Beast gladiators can help their friends gain experience more quickly.

• Fight Notifications - RUBbing your talisman while it's worn will now tune you in to receive fight notifications as they happen across Elanthia.

• New Spirit Beast Elements - Wild Magic (strong against spirit, weak against elements) and Rift Armament (strong against elements, weak against spirit).

• New Spirit Beast Special Abilities - Frailty (weak against criticals), Troll's Tenacity (has a chance to struggle for life), and Leech (has a chance to drain health on normal attacks), all acquired through equipment.

• Replacement Potions - Tired of your Spirit Beast? No problem! They can now be modified with replacement potions, which will trade out your existing beast with another of the same rarity level. All mechanical enhancements will be maintained. All physical customizations are removed by these.

• Classes - Beasts are now sorted into classes: Humanoids, Beasts, Elementals, Arthropods, and Aberrations. This is ultra-important for armaments!

Auchand

Resources

• Officials folder
• Spirit Beast (saved posts)