Covert Arts

Covert Arts Mnemonic [CA or PC] Type Active or Passive Available To Rogues

Service Overview

The Rogue service is comprised of two main trees: Covert Arts and Poisoncraft.

Covert Arts

A rogue is able to train characters in Covert Arts which increases their ability to react to and overcome various situations. There are five available arts and each art has 5 available ranks. Characters lose this knowledge over time and must visit a rogue to keep their training fresh.

Process

Each week while the Rogue gains experience, they also earn points of Guile alongside at a 1:1 rate. They can earn a total of 50k of these points per week, and bank up to 200k total. They can then spend 50k/75k/100k/125k/150k of these points to attempt to teach Covert Arts to another character, based on how many ranks of the art the character knows.

Rogues must purchase rogue training materials from the Rogue Guild Workshop for 50,000 silvers. The rogue may then FEAT COVERT TEACH {character} {art} to attempt to train a character in one additional rank of the chosen art. The rogue must have met the training requirements of the art themselves to be eligible. Arts may be taught in any order, and you are not required to reach rank 5 in one art before moving onto another. A failure will result in a loss of 10% of the points of Guile required for the attempt. Consent is required to complete the process.

Knowledge wanes over time and must be kept up to date by a rogue experienced enough to handle your training. Covert Arts have 200 max charges, similar to enhancive items, and will deplete at approximately the same rate. Every rank learned refreshes the charges back to 200.

Rogues may refresh covert art training at a cost of 1000 guile per charge using the FEAT COVERT TRAIN {character} command.

Running out of charges will prevent you from gaining any Covert Art benefits, but will not reset your progress for each Art.

Free to play rogues are not eligible to teach Covert Arts, but may still learn the skills through normal training.

Innate Bonuses

Rogues have additional bonuses that are unlocked through normal skill training. Each rank of an Art is unlocked automatically once the rogue meets the training requirements specified at the end of each art below.

• Grant additional benefits and are permanently available provided the rogue maintains training requirements.
• Rogues may be taught from other rogues, but without the required training they will not gain any innate bonuses.
• Rogues may only teach ranks of Covert Arts that they themselves have unlocked through the appropriate skill training.

The Covert Arts

Side Step

• Rank 1: Grants a (Rank * 1)% chance to avoid maneuver-based AoE attacks. This bonus is doubled while hidden or invisible.
  • Minor Elemental Wave (410)
  • Major Elemental Wave (435)
  • Meteor Swarm (525)
  • Energy Maelstrom (710)
  • Implosion (720)
  • Tremors (909)
  • Call Wind (912)
  • Combat Maneuver: Bull Rush
  • Shield Specialization: Shield Trample
  • Shield Specialization: Shield Throw
  • Weapon Technique: Volley
• Rank 2: Increases phantom dodging ranks for evade and DS calculations by (Rank * 1).
• Rank 3: Increases phantom dodging ranks for evade and DS calculations by (Rank * 1).
• Rank 4: Increases phantom dodging ranks for evade and DS calculations by (Rank * 1).
• Rank 5: Defending against SMR attacks has a (Rank * 4)% chance to treat the attack as if you were in a 20% higher stance. This bonus is capped at defensive stance (100%).

• Innate knowledge granted at (Dodging Ranks / 40). Requires level 20.
  • Defense against SMR always considers you in at least a (Rank * 4%) stance.
  • Sidestep becomes activatable
    • Type: Buff
    • Stamina Cost: 10
    • Roundtime: 5s (soft)
    • Cooldown: 120s, reduced by 5s per successful evasion while in an aggressive stance.
    • Mentally focus on evasion. The next evadeable attack will be evaded (requires SMR roll). Performing any other combat actions will break your focus.
    • Successful evasions have a (Rank * 15)% to be redirected to another target.
      • If SMRv2 success margin is high enough, the redirect surprises them and reduces their effective stance and Defense Strength.
      • Usage: FEAT SIDESTEP
    • Applies the Recent Evasion buff on success.

Keen Eye

• Rank 1: Grants a rank-based chance to passively spot children while moving through rooms with no creatures. There is an internal cooldown on this ability. SNEAKing between rooms reduces the cooldown.
• Rank 2: +1% bonus to all defensive SMR rolls.
• Rank 3: +1% bonus to all defensive SMR rolls.
• Rank 4: +1% bonus to all defensive SMR rolls.
• Rank 5: Grants a (Rank * 4)% perception bonus to defending against ambushes.

• • Innate knowledge granted at (Perception Ranks / 40). Requires level 20.
  • Reduced cooldown for the Rank 1 benefit.
  • Grants a (Rank * 15)% chance to passively search for hidden creatures and passages when moving rooms provided they pass a skill check. Passages and creatures revealed in this manner do not add roundtime. If a character is hidden, they will not automatically reveal creatures but will be made aware of their presence.

Escape Artist

• Rank 1: Improves your chance to avoid bandit traps by (Rank * 2)%.
• Rank 2: Reduces the effects of Force on Force by half an enemy combatant.
• Rank 3: Reduces the effects of Force on Force by half an enemy combatant.
• Rank 4: Reduces the effects of Force on Force by half an enemy combatant.
• Rank 5: Reduces the duration of Rooted by (Rank * 5)%.

• Innate knowledge granted at (Combat Maneuver Ranks / 20). Requires level 20.
  • Escape Artist becomes activatable
    • Type: Reaction
    • Roundtime: 2s
    • Cooldown: 120s, -15s per Rank
    • Consume a Recent Evasion to free yourself from Rooted or Webbed status effects. If no Recent Evasion is present, this will cost 15 stamina..

Swift Recovery

• Rank 1: Reduces the roundtime of SEARCH by (Rank * 1)s, including RECOVER ITEM. Roundtime cannot be reduced below 1s.
• Rank 2: Increases health recovery by 5 (enhancive).
• Rank 3: Increases health recovery by 5 (enhancive).
• Rank 4: Increases health recovery by 5 (enhancive).
• Rank 5: Reduces the duration of Stagger refresh by (Rank * 5)%.

• Innate knowledge granted at (Physical Fitness Ranks / 20). Requires level 20
  • Increases stamina recovery by (Rank * 3) (non-enhancive, flat bonus).
    • This bonus moves rogues to the fastest natural recovery, but with the lowest maximum stamina potential.
  • Reduces the additional roundtime of Stun Maneuvers by 1s at rank 3 and 2s at rank 5.

Poison Craft

General Information

• Poison Resistance (105) and innate Poisoncraft resistance reduce the chance of application and the effects of applied poisons.
• Unpoison (114) may be used to completely remove the effects of any poison.

• Poisons do not count against your gear difficulty but do have limited charges.
• Poison vials may be used as an AOE to affect one or more targets.
  • This is a SMR attack that uses Thrown Weapon ranks and Dexterity bonus to succeed.
  • The number of targets is based on the PSM AoE formula of (3 + (MoC Skill / 50)).
  • The result is based on the endroll margin as well as the quality of the poison.
  • Using poison in this way will deplete 5 charges from a vial, discarding when emptied.
  • Usage: FEAT THROWPOISON
• Poison may be applied to the following armaments:
• Armor and armor accessories
  • Disabling poisons only
  • Chance to be applied reactively or contact from Maneuvers, or spikes.
• Shields
  • Disabling poisons only
  • Chance to be applied on any successful block while in an aggressive stance, contact from Shield Specializations, or spikes.
• Weapons
  • Deadly or Disabling poisons
  • Chance on any successful attack or a parry while in an aggressive stance.
• Runestaves
  • Deadly or Disabling poisons
  • Chance on successful offensive spell cast or parry while in an aggressive stance.
• Charges on poisoned armaments may be refreshed, but not stacked.
• Charges on poisoned armaments deplete only when successfully applied to a target.
• Poison vials may not be applied to ammunition and must be applied to ranged weapons.
• Poisons may stack on the target depending on the poison type.
• Poisons have varying flare rates. In general, disabling poisons will apply more often than deadly poisons, and weaker effects will flare more often than stronger effects.
• The character must have knowledge of Poisoncraft to effectively use poisons. Attempting to use a poisoned armament or poison vial without proper training may have disastrous results.

Poison Vials

• Poison vials have a quality which determines the strength of the poison inside. The strength of a poison is used in determining the duration of disabling effects and the amount of damage.
• Creating vials uses the ranks in poisoncraft to determine the strength of the poison vial.
• Supplies to create poison vials may be purchased at the rogue guild for 10,000 silver.
• Supplies are generic and may be used to create all types of poisons.

Poisons

Disabling Poisons

• Dreamer’s Milk: Applies Calmed. (150 charges)
• Merrybud: Applies Dazed. (100 charges)
• Snailspace Poison: Applies Slowed. (75 charges)
• Dullard’s Folly: Applies Disoriented. (50 charges)
• Jester’s Bane: Applies Clumsy. (50 charges)

Deadly Poisons

• Ravager’s Revenge: Deals concussion damage. (150 charges)
• Ophidian Kiss: Applies Major Poison. (150 charges)
• Shatterlimb Poison: Applies Crippled. (100 charges)
• Fool’s Deathwort: Deals concussion damage. (50 charges)
• Arachne’s Bite: Applies Major Poison. (50 charges)

Ranks

• Rank 1: Learn to apply and use Dreamer’s Milk and Ravager’s Revenge.
• Rank 2: Learn to apply and use Merrybud and Ophidian Kiss.
• Rank 3: Learn to apply and use Snailspace Poison and Shatterlimb Poison.
• Rank 4: Learn to apply and use Dullard’s Folly and Fool’s Deathwort.
• Rank 5: Learn to apply and use Jester’s Bane and Arachne’s Bite.

Innate Knowledge

• Innate knowledge granted at (Survival / 20). Requires level 20
  • Improves poison resistance by (Rank * 5)%.
  • Improves poison strength by (Rank * 5)%.