Mental Lore, Manipulation

Mental Lore, Manipulation involves the mental manipulation of matter, such as telekinetically moving a large boulder that blocks a path, or causing an object to burst into flames.

Manipulation Lore currently plays a role in various Empath Base Spells and Bard Base Spells, and likely in future will play a part in spells in the Major Mental list, Minor Mental list and Savant Base list.

Empath Base

• Bone Shatter (1106)

Damage from the spell will increase with study in this lore, though how much remains an issue in hot debate. It has generally been found that the damage increase provided by the lore is necessary to effectively use the spell at lesser trainings, but the need for the lore training decreases as the empath gains in levels. With changes pending to 1106, it is unknown how much training in this lore will be recommendable in future to effectively use the spell, but at present .5x to 1x training in the skill is considered the standard requirement.

• Empathic Assault (1110)

Manipulation Lore will provide a warding margin benefit for this attack spell.

Bard Base

• Vibration Chant (1002)

A single rank in this lore will increase the chance of breaking a target's weapon or shield. Additional ranks will further increase the chance, but the exact percentage is unknown.

• Purification Song (1004)

A single rank in this lore will reduce failure for the song, i.e, reduce the chance for shattering a gem. Additional ranks will further reduce failure, but the exact percentage is unknown.

• Song of Sonic Disruption (1030)

At 15 ranks of this lore, the focused version of the spell can be sung for half the mana cost (15 mana). At 60 ranks, the non-focused version of the spell will have the same damage benefit as singing it while playing a two-handed instrument. At 75 ranks, the focused version of the spell will have the same damage benefit as singing it while playing a two-handed instrument.