Character Specialization Guide

A guide that describes the starting creatures and perks of each specialization of mage.

Preamble

Welcome to my guide on the specializations you can choose for your mage in Siralim Ultimate.

This guide will provide you with the information on what each specialization of mage in the game gets for a starting creature as well as their unique perks, in case you are beginning the game, thinking of restarting, wondering which specialization to unlock next, or are simply curious as to what each mage is capable of, since the game itself doesn't provide you with all the information on mage classes other than the one you selected.

The game tells you a rough outline of what your class does and shows you the creature you can get when you begin your adventure, but you only learn about what your perks do once you've started the game. This guide hopes to give players more information ahead of time and aid in making a more informed choice.

Each section also includes my notes and observations on each specialization in general - feel free to skip these if you would rather discover things for yourself, of course.

Last updated on the 17th of July 2022, current as of game version 1.1.0.

Starting Out & Other Info

Classes and how they work

Before choosing your specialization, you should be aware of the game's Class system. Classes are essentially categories that mages and creatures fit into, with certain common themes between them. Creatures are, under most circumstances, only able to equip spell gems of their own class, which limits the spells they will have access to. Each class is also strong against one and weak against another, in a circular manner. This table should give you a quick rundown on information about each class:

Class	Aesthetics	Play Style	Strong Vs.	Weak Vs.	Gods
Life	Celestial, angelic	Defensive, hard to kill	Death	Nature	Surathli, Yseros, Lister, Perdition
Nature	Animalistic, primitive	Adaptive, has an answer to everything	Life	Sorcery	Torun, Regalis, Meraxis, Apocranox
Sorcery	Mystical, weird	Tactical, lots of tricks	Nature	Chaos	Zonte, Azural, Aeolian, Tenebris, Aurum
Chaos	Demonic, militaristic	Offensive, high attack power	Sorcery	Death	Gonfurian, Tartarith, Vulcanar, Venedon
Death	Undead, occult	Weakens enemies, hoards advantages	Chaos	Life	Erebyss, Vertraag, Friden, Mortem

If you're having trouble remembering the class circle (don't worry, most newer players take a little while to memorize it), use this rationalizing aid to help:
Life persists beyond Death
Nature feasts on Life
Sorcery corrupts Nature
Chaos ruins the plans of Sorcery
Death brings an end to Chaos

Starter Creatures

The specializations you start with each get given their own unique creature at the beginning of the game. For those of you returning from Siralim 3, these aren't particularly rare creatures this time around, so don't worry about being locked out of getting the other specialization's starters. After the short tutorial is finished, you will be given another creature to start you off, effectively giving you two before you ever set foot in a realm. Unlike previous Siralim games however, every specialization gets the same "second starter":

Unicorn Vivifier (Unicorn/Life)

Health	31
Attack	21
Intelligence	16
Defense	17
Speed	22

Trait: Reinvigoration
After this creature attacks, it resurrects a random ally with 50% Health.

This is a support creature with decent attacking power, and it will help to keep your other starter alive. It is a Life creature, so it will be effective against Death creatures and weak against Nature creatures, so keep that in mind.

Perk Points and Perk Costs

In this game, you gain Perk Points every time you finish a realm quest at the highest realm depth you've ever done. You gain 10 at a time for finishing your highest realm depth and 50 for defeating a storyline boss, so plan accordingly - unlocking powerful perks takes quite a while in this game and the game gets significantly harder as realm depth increases, so it's best to have a plan of what you want to unlock first.

Players returning from Siralim 3

Those among you who played Siralim 3 should very quickly be able to pick back up on this game, as the base game mechanics more or less work the same way. There are only two things to really make note of going into this game.

Firstly, as mentioned before, the starter creatures in Siralim Ultimate are not ultra-rare or super hard to find like the Godspawn starters in Siralim 3 were. In addition, specializations are now much easier and earlier to unlock and switch between, so the starting choice is really more of a time-saver than anything else. Godspawn still exist, but are found elsewhere - you can pick up your old friends eventually without too much of a fuss, so don't worry.

Secondly, some of you may wish to keep playing a similar mage to what you played in Siralim 3. In the following table I have noted the closest equivalents to Siralim 3's classes so you can hop right in to whichever one you want:

Siralim 3 Class	Siralim 3 Strategy	Closest Equivalent
Life Mage	Defensive Play	Cleric
Life Mage	Offensive Play	Inquisitor
Nature Mage	In General	Monk (Partially)
Sorcery Mage	In General	Evoker
Chaos Mage	In General	Hell Knight
Death Mage	With Saia	Animator
Death Mage	Without Saia	Defiler

Any Siralim Ultimate class not mentioned in the table is effectively a brand new play style that does not correspond or play similarly to a class from Siralim 3.

Which Specialization should I pick?

If you're a complete beginner to RPGs/the series and have no idea what you're doing, go with Hell Knight as it is simple and easy to use.

If you're looking for a simple, strong offensive specialization, go with Hell Knight for physical attacks, or Evoker for casting spells.

If you want a specialization with strong defenses, go with Cleric for tanking hits, or Monk for evading hits.

If you like to shut down enemies to stop them from acting, Defiler is the most straightforward, whereas Sorcerer has a more complex and conditional take on the concept.

The rest of the specializations have various unique strategies, so read their descriptions and consider carefully if you're looking for something different.

Advanced Specializations, Switching & Other Details

Once you defeat a certain boss somewhat early in the storyline, you will unlock projects that, when completed, unlock the other specializations you didn't choose, as well as some advanced specializations that weren't available at the beginning of the game.

Once you've unlocked other specializations, you can switch to them at any time without penalty using the wardrobe in your castle. The total amount of perk points you've earned is available to every class - so for example if you've earned 300 but spent them all on Druid perks, when you switch to Evoker you'll still have the full pool of 300 available for allocating on perks there.

On top of this, you can reset your perks at any time at the wardrobe for free if you want to try out different perks than the ones you selected, or need to rebuild your strategy.

Each Specialization has a series of achievements associated with it, "The Competent _" (e.g. "The Competent Necromancer"), for completing Realm Quests using that Specialization. At 50 quests and 100 quests you will be rewarded with new costumes you can switch to using the wardrobe.

Anointments and Ascension

Anointments

A specialization's perks are available to be equipped by any specialization as Anointments, which is a feature that unlocks much later on in the game. By default you can equip five Anointments, but a particular specialization can equip even more.

These allow you to mix and match, building your team even further with the power of other specializations. Not every perk is available as an Anointment however, so each perk in this guide details whether or not each perk can be used as an Anointment. In particular, Animator and Grovetender have no Anointments at all, and Spellweaver has very few.

Anointments must be gradually unlocked by defeating False Gods via Guilds, a feature that unlocks after defeating each Nether Boss twice, so it will be quite a while after finishing the story before you can get Anointments.

Ascension

Once you have unlocked the Gate of the Gods, defeating every god within at level 10 difficulty or higher with a single specialization will cause that specialization to ascend, which grants you a unique decoration, creature skin, and unlocks the specialization's final perk.

Ascended perks will be marked as such on each specialization's section.

Hell Knight

Careful planning and uptight caution are nothing but a cause to doubt oneself. Hell Knights realize this fact, and instead opt to send their creatures charging headlong into battle, relying on brute strength and reckless attacks to ensure a swift victory.

As a Hell Knight, you'll favor creatures that specialize in attacking. Hell Knights grant their creatures increased critical damage and cause a variety of effects to occur when they attack. Hell Knights are surprisingly adept at spellcasting in a pinch, as well.

Starter Creature

Asura Heartripper (Asura/Chaos)

Health	35
Attack	25
Intelligence	15
Defense	10
Speed	25

Trait: Pummel
This creature deals 200% additional critical damage.

Perks

Blazing Soul
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures afflict enemies with Burning, their Attack is used to determine the potency of this debuff if it is higher than their Intelligence.

Bolster
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 1% less damage from attacks and spells for every 1% of Health they're missing.

Deadly Calm
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies cannot Provoke.

Death Sentence
Ranks: 30
Cost Per Rank: 3
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' critical attacks deal 2% more damage per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 60% extra damage

Dreadnaught
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' attacks cannot be dodged.

Enduring Rage
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures Attack an additional time.

Executioner
Ranks: 50
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 1% more damage per rank with attacks.
Maximum Bonus: 50% more damage

Indomitable
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your creatures are immune to Scorned.

Inner Focus
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures cast a spell, 1% of their Attack per rank is added to their Intelligence to determine the amount of damage dealt.
Maximum Bonus: 25% of attack stat contributed

Kindling
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, the first creature in your party casts Firestorm.

Magma Diver
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures always have Splashing and Savage.

Massacre
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' Splashing debuff now deals damage to all enemies.

Pyromania
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures attack, they have a 1% chance per rank to cast Flamestrike.
Maximum Bonus: 20% chance

Reckless Abandon
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' Savage buff now causes them to have a 100% chance to deal critical damage.

Touch of Chaos
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Attack, they have a 1% chance per rank to afflict the target with a random debuff.
Maximum Bonus: 25% chance

Hellion (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
Your creatures deal 5% more damage with attacks for each time they've Attacked in the current battle.

Supplemental Info

Spells

Firestorm (Kindling)
Enemies take a moderate amount of damage and are afflicted with Burning.

Flamestrike (Pyromania)
Enemies take a small amount of damage. This spell Casts a number of times equal to the number of enemies that are afflicted with Burning.

Status Effects

Burning (Blazing Soul)
Creatures with Burning take damage based on the inflictor's Intelligence each turn.

Scorned (Indomitable)
Creatures with Scorned cannot attack. Overwrites Silenced.
Creatures that are resistant to Scorned can still attack, but deal 50% less damage with attacks.

Splashing (Magma Diver, Massacre)
Creatures with Splashing deal 100% of their damage to enemies adjacent to the target they attack.

Savage (Magma Diver, Reckless Abandon)
Savage creatures have an additional, independent chance to deal critical damage with attacks.

Notes

Hell Knights are the specialization with the hardest focus on physical attacks, and they have a handful of other tricks just in case that attack strategies get shut down by enemies - though due to perks like Deadly Calm, Dreadnaught, and Indomitable, you will likely encounter these situations less often than other specializations would.

Getting the most out of this specialization will involve finding creatures that enhance your attacks further, finding ways to use on-hit effects and also launch extra attacks. The Asura Heartripper you are given to start with gets significantly extra damage on landing a critical hit, which synergizes well with Reckless Abandon - this will allow it to become a consistent powerhouse instead of relying on chance.

Hell Knights also have a smaller focus on the Burning debuff, so finding creatures that can use Burning in various ways will benefit you - especially with the Kindling perk that will make your first monster set all enemies on fire at the beginning of each battle. This is also a great way to still damage monsters that have found a way to stop you from attacking or punish you if you do.

Hell Knight anointments can be obtained by defeating Nebodar.

Reaver

Perseverance, an iron will, and a touch of insanity are the perfect recipe for victory. Reavers live and die by this mantra, instilling their creatures with a cold and calculated anger that allows them to grow more powerful during battle while their foes tire out.

As a Reaver, your creatures will gain massive benefits in combat as battle continue to drag on. If your creatures manage to survive for just a few extra turns, they'll be able to devastate your enemies.

Starter Creature

Inox Apocalypse (Apocalypse/Chaos)

Health	37
Attack	15
Intelligence	15
Defense	20
Speed	20

Trait: Naxor Harbinger
Your creatures deal 40% more damage for each turn they've taken in the current battle. This trait does not stack.

Perks

Blitzkrieg
Ranks: 50
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' attacks that happen simultaneously to the same target deal 1% more damage per rank than the last.
Maximum Bonus: 50% more damage

Controlled Anger
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
After your creatures take 2 turns, they become immune to debuffs for the rest of the battle.

Mental Clarity
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures take 2 turns, they can Cast spells without consuming any Charges for the rest of the battle.

Mercurial
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures are Attacked, and they fail to dodge the attack, their chance to dodge attacks is doubled the next time they're Attacked. This effect stacks multiple times in a row until they successfully dodge an attack.

Onslaught
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 5% more damage and take 5% less damage for each battle you've won in the current realm. If you're not in a realm, this perk acts as if you've won 8 battles.

Proliferation
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 30% more damage for each turn they've taken in battle.

Rapid Exhaustion
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 3
Anointment: Yes
Battle fatigue accumulates 2% faster per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 50% quicker fatigue rate

Red-eye Flight
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
Battle fatigue starts to accumulates 1 turn sooner per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 25 turns earlier

Reign of Chaos
Ranks: 15
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have 1% more Attack, Intelligence, Defense and Speed per rank for each battle you've won in the current realm.
Maximum Bonus: 15% more stats per battle

Relentless
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Attack, and the attack fails to deal critical damage, their chance to deal critical damage with attacks is doubled on their next turn. This effect stacks multiple times in a row until the creature deals critical damage with attacks.

Reverberation
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures Attack and Cast an additional time for every 2 turns they've taken in battle.

Rigor
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures are immune to Snared, Frozen, and Sleeping.

Sap
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Enemies take 5% more damage per rank from battle fatigue.
Maximum Bonus: 50% extra damage

Skirmish
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have a 1% chance per rank to Attack an additional time. This effect can occur repeatedly until it fails.
Maximum Bonus: 25% chance

Stimulation
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures no longer take extra damage from battle fatigue.

Sure-footed
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies cannot move your creatures down the Timeline.

Uncontrollable Anger (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
If your creatures have taken at least 2 turns, they Attack a random enemy at the start of their turn.

Supplemental Info

Status Effects

Snared (Rigor)
Creatures with Snared are stuck at the bottom of the Timeline until they break free. They have a 10% chance to break free at the start of each creature's turn.
Creatures that are resistant to Snared have triple the chance to break out of this debuff.

Frozen (Rigor)
Frozen creatures are unable to act until they thaw, and have a 25% chance to thaw at the start of their turn. This chance doubles after each of their turns.
Creatures that are resistant to Frozen have double the chance to thaw.

Sleeping (Rigor)
Creatures with Sleeping cannot act until they either take damage or this debuff wears off.
Creatures that are resistant to Sleeping wake up at the start of their turns.

Notes

An interesting specialization with mechanics that almost nothing else in the game uses, Reavers don't just get stronger as battles wear on, but actually grow stronger from winning prior battles within a realm too using the Reign of Chaos and Onslaught perks. Once you've got a few victories going within a realm, you should find yourself increasingly steamrolling battles - and for those you still find tricky, you can always just hunker down for a few turns, wait for your strength to gather, and then lash out with far more power than you started with.

Reavers are also unique in that they can not just immunize themselves against battle fatigue using Stimulation, but actually thrive off it with Sap. This makes them without peer when it comes to attrition tactics - which, using Rapid Exhaustion and Red-Eye Flight, sets in far sooner than it does for other specializations.

Almost all creatures will benefit from Reaver's perk set, but finding creatures that grow increasingly more powerful as time goes on will have the effects of their traits amplified even further - the Apocalypse you are given to start with gets more powerful the more turns it takes for example, and its somewhat tank-ish stats allow it to last long enough to ensure this happens.

Reaver anointments can be obtained by defeating Loid Prime.

Pyromancer

Pyromancers quite literally thrive on watching the world burn. These maniacal magi ignite both friend and foe alike with a brilliant conflagration, causing their enemies to suffer gruesome deaths while empowering their allies with the power of flame.

As a Pyromancer, you'll make heavy use of the Burning debuff to deal damage to enemies over time. In addition, your own creatures will be afflicted with this debuff, but it will heal and empower them rather than dealing damage.

Starter Creature

Magma Golem (Golem/Chaos)
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Health	40
Attack	18
Intelligence	18
Defense	18
Speed	18

Trait: Cataclysm
After this creature is Attacked, it afflicts enemies with Burning.

Perks

Backdraft
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy takes damage from Burning, they are afflicted with either Scorned or Silenced.

Burn Out
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal additional damage equal to 1% of the potency of their Burning debuff per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 20% of Burn potency

Burn Their Corpses
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
If an enemy dies while it is afflicted with Burning, it cannot be resurrected.

Cauterize
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures are damaged or healed by Burning, they gain Shelled. Your creatures' Shelled ignores the Burning debuff.

Combustion
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy takes damage from Burning, they have a 1% chance per rank to be sent to the bottom of the Timeline.
Maximum Bonus: 20% chance

Conflagration
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures are damaged or healed by Burning, a random enemy takes damage equal to 5% of this amount per rank as well.
Maximum Bonus: 100% of the amount

Firestarter
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies always have Burning.

Flashover
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy takes damage from Burning, they are afflicted with Bomb.

From Ashes
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures with Burning are killed, they have a 1% chance per rank to be resurrected with 50% Health.
Cost Per Rank: 25% chance

Hot Streak
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures are damaged or healed by Burning, the potency of all creatures' Burning debuffs increases by 2% per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 50% potency increase

Immolation
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' spells that interact with Burning have 5% more potency per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 100% more potency

Kindle the Flame
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' spells that interact with Burning do not consume Charges.

Living Flame
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures always have Burning. Instead of taking damage from this debuff, they are healed by it instead.

Pyroblast
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy takes damage from Burning, each of your creatures have a 2% chance per rank to cast a Scourge spell on an enemy. The type of Scourge spell is based on the enemy's class.
Maximum Bonus: 20% chance

Roaring Blaze
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy with Burning is killed, enemies take damage equal to 5% of the potency of that creature's Burning debuff per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 100% of the potency

Empowering Flames (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
After your creatures are healed by Living Flame, they gain Attack and Intelligence equal to 100% of the amount of healing done.

Supplemental Info

Status Effects

Burning (All Perks)
Creatures with Burning take damage based on the inflictor's Intelligence each turn.

Scorned (Backdraft)
Creatures with Scorned cannot attack. Overwrites Silenced. Creatures that are resistant to Scorned can still attack, but deal 50% less damage with attacks.

Silenced (Backdraft)
Creatures with Silenced cannot cast spells. Overwrites Scorned. Creatures that are resistant to Silenced can still cast spells, but deal 50% less damage with spells.

Shelled (Cauterize)
Shelled negates the next incoming attack or spell.

Bomb (Flashover)
At the start of a creature's turn, its Bomb detonates, dealing damage to the creature equal to 80% of the afflictor's Speed. Then, this debuff is removed.

Notes

The Burning debuff runs off the inflictor's Intelligence, so to get the most effect out of this specialization you will want a casting team with high Intelligence stats - in addition, perks such as Kindle the Flame and Pyroblast do suggest using a team of casters to take full advantage.

Beyond that, your entire playbook revolves around the Burning debuff and it causing a ton of extra effects - find creatures that interact with Burning or debuffs in general and you'll get more out of this specialization. Keep an eye out for creatures that are immune to debuffs, but the amount of power you wield means you'll not have too much trouble with them once their allies are gone.

Pyromancer anointments can be obtained by defeating Nebodar.

Necromancer

Necromancers prefer to overwhelm their foes by summoning minions to aid their creatures in battle. Enemies are often so perplexed by the number of undead monstrosities charging at them from across the battlefield that they're dead long before they realize what even happened.

As a Necromancer, you'll summon minions to aid your creatures in battle. These minions can do all kinds of things to support your creatures - they can cause damage, boost your creatures' stats, debuff enemies, and much more.

Starter Creature

Dread Hound (Hound/Death)

Health	30
Attack	20
Intelligence	20
Defense	15
Speed	20

Trait: Summon the Pack
At the start of your creatures' turns, they gain 1 stack of Dire Wolves. This trait does not stack.

Perks

Animated Dead
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 35
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures start battles with 1 Zombie per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 3 Zombies

Army of the Damned
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of your creatures' turns, their minions gain 1 additional stack.

Conquest's Triumph
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Cast a spell, they summon Conquest.

Corpse Eater
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 35
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures start battles with 1 Writhelings per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 3 Writhelings

Cruel Creation
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 35
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures start battles with 1 Unstable Horror per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 3 Unstable Horrors

Deadly Vitality
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures gain a minion or a minion stack, they recover Health equal to 1% of their Maximum Health per rank.
Maximum Bonus: Heal for 20% of Maximum Health

Death's Claim
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the end of your creatures' turns, they summon Death.

Famine's Thirst
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Attack, they summon Famine.

Four Horsemen
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
If your creatures have Conquest, Famine, Death, and War, they cast Apocalypse at the start of their turns. Your creatures are healed by this spell.

Gravewalker
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures are killed, they have a 1% chance per rank to be resurrected with 50% Health for each different minion they had before they died.
Maximum Bonus: 10% chance per minion type

Meat Shield
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 1% less damage per rank for each different minion they have.
Maximum Bonus: 10% less damage per minion type

Midnight Bargain
Ranks: 50
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' minions are 2% less likely per rank to go away.
Maximum Bonus: 100% reduced chance (Minions never leave)

Servitude
Ranks: 15
Cost Per Rank: 6
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 1% more damage per rank for each different minion they have.
Maximum Bonus: 15% more damage per minion type

Undying Loyalty
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' minions persist beyond their master's death.

War's Victory
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures are damaged by an attack or spell, they summon War.

Amalgamation (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
Your creatures start battles with Amalgamation.

Supplemental Info

Spells

Apocalypse (Four Horsemen)
All creatures take a massive amount of damage.

Status Effects

Dire Wolves (Dread Hound)
After this minion's master attacks, each Dire Wolves deals damage to the target equal to 30% of its Speed. Maximum of 5 stacks.

Zombies (Animated Dead)
At the start of this minion's master's turn, each Zombies deals damage to a random enemy equal to 50% of its Attack. Maximum of 9 stacks.

Conquest (Conquest's Triumph, Four Horsemen)
After Conquest's master manually casts a spell, it grants all your creatures a random buff.

Writhelings (Corpse Eater)
After this minion's master takes damage from an attack or spell, each Writhelings afflicts a random enemy with a random debuff. Maximum of 5 stacks.

Amalgamation (Amalgamation)
After the Amalgamation's master deals damage with an attack or spell, this minion deals damage to a random enemy equal to 5% of its master's highest stat multiplied by the number of minions it has.

Unstable Horror (Cruel Creation)
This minion's master has 5% more stats for each Unstable Horror it has. After this minion's master Defends or Provokes, it deals damage to all enemies equal to 10% of its master's highest stat for each stack of Unstable Horror it has. Maximum of 9 stacks.

Death (Death's Claim, Four Horsemen)
At the start of Death's master's turn, it has a chance to kill the enemy with the lowest Health. The chance is increased based on how low the enemy's Health is.

Famine (Famines Thirst, Four Horsemen)
After Famine's master attacks, it decreases the target's Maximum Health by an amount equal to 30% of the damage dealt.

War (War's Victory, Four Horsemen)
After War's master is damaged, it deals damage to the enemy equal to 50% of the damage taken.

Notes

Minions are essentially a special type of buff that offer specific enhancements to creatures that control them, but wear off more quickly - usually after performing their function. Necromancers mitigate this flaw by keeping minions around longer using perks like Army of the Damned, Undying Loyalty and Midnight Bargain. They're also much more adept at calling minions forth than other specializations, with a wide array of perks that summon up new ones.

In addition, they get stronger simply from having minions around - Meat Shield and Servitude stack up to offer power beyond what just the minions in and of themselves offer, which is usually considerable to begin with. They can also summon up the Four Horsemen much more easily, and if they get all four, they will start to snowball the battle in your favor by healing your own team and damaging the enemy team repeatedly.

The Dread Hound you begin with starts with and maintains a stack of Dire Wolves, a minion that enhances its master's attack power. Leverage this using your perks and other creatures that synergize with minion use to start battles with a great deal of immediate strength.

Necromancer anointments can be obtained by defeating Loid Prime.

Defiler

The difference between good and evil is often a matter of perspective, but the morality of a Defiler is simple enough for anyone to decide. These dark magi take sadistic pleasure in afflicting their adversaries with crippling diseases, reducing them to weakened husks that no longer have the capacity to defend themselves.

As a Defiler, you'll specialize in debuffs and stat-reducing effects. Enemies will be so weak that your party will be able to easily pick them off, even if they were originally much more powerful than your creatures.

Starter Creature

Dread Spectre (Spectre/Death)

Health	33
Attack	23
Intelligence	23
Defense	15
Speed	15

Trait: Creation Dirge
After this creature is Attacked, it decreases the enemy's Attack, Defense, Intelligence, and Speed by 25%.

Perks

Anemia
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Enemies' Weak debuffs are 5% more effective per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 100% more effect

Curse of Fragility
Ranks: 35
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Enemies have 1% less Maximum Health per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 35% less Health

Curse of Futility
Ranks: 35
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Enemies have 1% less Intelligence per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 35% less Intelligence

Curse of Impotence
Ranks: 35
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Enemies have 1% less Attack per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 35% less Attack

Curse of Lethargy
Ranks: 35
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Enemies have 1% less Speed per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 35% less Speed

Curse of Vulnerability
Ranks: 35
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Enemies have 1% less Defense per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 35% less Defense

Daybreaker
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies take 10% more damage for each debuff they have.

Hopelessness
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies' buffs last for only 1 turn and their minions have double the chance to leave battle.

Horror Show
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
Enemies with Feared have a 1% chance per rank to lose their turns.
Maximum Bonus: 25% chance

Impiety
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures ignore enemies' Shelled and Barrier buffs.

Infirmity
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, enemies are afflicted with 1 random debuff per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 3 debuffs

Languish
Ranks: 50
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Increases the potency of your creatures' effects that decrease enemies' stats by 2% per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 100% greater potency

Lingering Sickness
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Enemies' debuffs last forever.
Anointment: No

Nighttaker
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies deal 5% less damage (up to 90%) for each debuff they have.

Tenderness
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Enemies' Vulnerable debuffs are 5% more effective per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 100% more effect

Tragedy
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
Decreases the potency of enemies' effects that increase their stats by 2% per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 50% less effect

Unholy Night
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures afflict enemies with a debuff, they deal damage to them equal to 80% of their lowest stat.

Wane
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, enemies lose 1% Health per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 20% Health loss

Death's Due (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
Your creatures deal additional damage with attacks and spells equal to the amount of their highest stat they have greater than the target's highest stat.

Supplemental Info

Status Effects

Weak (Anemia)
Weak creatures deal 50% less damage.

Shelled (Blasphemy)
Shelled negates the next incoming attack or spell.

Barrier (Blasphemy)
Barrier absorbs a certain amount of damage. After the maximum amount of damage is dealt, the buff is removed. Barrier strength cannot exceed 200% of a creature's Maximum Health.

Feared (Horror Show)
Feared creatures cannot gain stats.

Vulnerable (Tenderness)
Vulnerable creatures take 50% more damage.

Notes

Rather than making your own creatures stronger with perks like most classes, the Defiler chooses instead to weaken enemies and take away options they may have of defending themselves from you. The Curse perks knock out a significant chunk of enemy stats, so they'll be operating below their true capacity right from the start of battle - and perks like Tragedy, Hopelessness and Blasphemy limit the enemies options in recovering from or mitigating the weakening effects you heap upon them.

An important synergy Defiler has is with debuffs - while their effects are often debilitating to begin with, Defilers take this to another level entirely by ensuring they stick around longer, weaken them further, and with perks like Wane and Unholy Night, just cause direct damage simply by applying them.

The Dread Spectre you begin with needs to be attacked by enemies to leverage its weakening effect, but with your perk set the enemies will be hitting for rather feeble amounts of damage, so this is much less disadvantageous than it would otherwise be. If you can find creatures that apply or use debuffs to their advantage, they will synergize well with Defiler's perk set and weaken enemies even futher.

Defiler anointments can be obtained by defeating Loid Prime.

Animator

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, and it's difficult to say on what side of that line Animators reside. These fanatical magi spend their days perfecting their Animatus creations: unique creatures that grow more powerful as their master's dark experiments unveil new opportunities.

As an Animator, you will always have a unique creature in your party called an Animatus. Your entire battle strategy will likely focus on this creature. You can empower your Animatus, and even use your other creatures to make it stronger in combat.

Starter Creature

Animatus (Animatus/Death)

Health	38
Attack	18
Intelligence	18
Defense	18
Speed	18

Trait: Brilliant Creation
This creature has 15% more Attack and Intelligence for each dead creature on your side, and 10% more Defense and Speed for each living creature on your side.

Perks

Anguish Through Awareness
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 30
Anointment: No
Your Animatus starts battles with 1 random buff per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 5 buffs

Cogmind
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
At the start of battle, your Animatus gains copies of your fourth creature's first 5 Spell Gems.

Damnation's Edge
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
At the start of battle, your Animatus gains a copy of your fifth creature's innate trait.

Dancing Blade
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your Animatus always has Animated Weapon.

Dark Anima
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your Animatus always has Animated Gem.

Death and Decay
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
When an enemy is killed, your Animatus casts Corpse Explosion. This spell deals 50% more damage for each dead enemy.

Desensitization
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your Animatus is immune to debuffs in normal battles, and resistant to debuffs in boss battles.

Endowment
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
At the start of battle, your Animatus fuses with a copy of the second creature in your party. In addition, its race changes to that creature's race.

Forbidden Magic
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
The first time your Animatus is killed in battle, it resurrects with 100% Health.
Maximum Bonus: Resurrect 3 times

Forged by Pain
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your Animatus splits the damage it takes with your sixth creature.

Gray Matter
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 25
Anointment: No
Your Animatus gains 1 Spell Slot per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 5 extra slots

Grimkeeper
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your Animatus' buffs and minions persist through death.

Masterpiece
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
After your creatures gain a buff, your Animatus gains that buff as well.

Molecular Betrayal
Ranks: 50
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: No
At the start of battle, your Animatus gains 1% of your third creature's stats per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 50% stat theft

Thrive on Death
Ranks: 50
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: No
After your creatures are killed, your Animatus gains 1% of their stats per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 50% stat gain

Live to Serve (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
After your Animatus is resurrected, your other creatures are resurrected with 100% Health.

Supplemental Info

Spells

Corpse Explosion (Death and Decay)
Enemies take a small amount of damage for each dead creature on the battlefield.

Status Effects

Animated Weapon (Dancing Blade)
When the Animated Weapon's master attacks, it deals additional damage equal to the highest total stat from all of its artifact's Stat Slots.

Animated Gem (Dark Anima)
After the Animated Gem's master manually casts a spell, this minion casts one of its master's Spell Gems as well, chosen randomly.

Notes

For Animators, everything hinges around the Animatus - every single perk they have relates to it and enhances it in a broad variety of ways. Some of them such as Cogmind or Molecular Betrayal even weaken your other creatures to strengthen the Animatus even further. Perks that do not relate to the other members of your party strengthen the Animatus in other ways, such as Dancing Blade and Dark Anima making its equipment more powerful, and Desensitization and Forbidden Magic giving it defensive options.

It's a rather all-in strategy and a dark counterpart to the Druid, and your other creatures will find little benefit from the perk set, so try to find creatures that complement the Animatus's strength using the perks that affect creatures within certain positions of the party.

Animator has no anointments that can be equipped by other specializations.

Bloodmage

The Blood Mage is a deranged spellcaster who is willing to do anything to overcome his foes - even at the cost of his own creatures' lives. This menacing spellcaster is adept at manipulating the lifeforce of allies and foes alike in his endless pursuit for power.

As a Blood Mage, your creatures will grow more powerful as they take damage. To facilitate these effects, the Blood Mage offers a variety of different ways to inflict damage on his own creatures.

Starter Creature

Forsaken Scourgewalker (Forsaken/Death)

Health	32
Attack	17
Intelligence	17
Defense	22
Speed	17

Trait: Curse of the Silent
This creature's Spell Gems don't lose Charges when it casts spells, but it also starts battles with Silenced.

Perks

Bleed Out
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
The first time your creatures are killed in battle, they are resurrected with 100% Health, and then they take damage equal to 50% of their Maximum Health.

Blood Clot
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures take damage, they gain a Barrier that absorbs damage equal to 2% of the amount of damage taken per rank.
Maximum Bonus: Barrier equal to 50% of damage taken

Blood-caked Blade
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 3
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal additional damage equal to 1% of the total damage they took in the current battle per rank.
Maximum Bonus: Additional damage equal to 75% of damage taken

Bloodrage
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' damage with attacks is based on 50% of their Maximum Health instead of their Attack.

Bloodthirst
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
The potency of your creatures' spells is based on 50% of their Maximum Health instead of their Intelligence.

Bloody Massacre
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
Enemies always have Bleeding. After an enemy takes damage from Bleeding, your creatures recover Health equal to 3% of the damage taken.
Maximum Bonus: Healing equal to 50% of the damage taken

Deathrattle
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' stats are no longer reset after they're killed.

Endless Slaughter
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures Attack and Cast spells 1 additional time for every 20% Health they're missing.

Hemostasis
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures can take damage a maximum of 1 time during their turn.

March Toward Death
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal additional damage equal to 50% of the amount of Health they're missing.

Masochistic Tendencies
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your creatures' spells no longer consume Charges. Before your creatures Cast a spell, they deal damage to themselves equal to 25% of their Maximum Health.

Relish In Blood
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have additional Attack, Intelligence, Defense and Speed equal to 1% of their missing and Maximum Health per rank.
Maximum Bonus: Stats equal to 10% of missing and max Health

Sacrifice
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 25
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your creatures Health is set to 50% and they gain 1 random buff per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 3 random Buffs

Sanguine Fortitude
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take less damage equal to 1% of the total amount of damage they took in the current battle per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 10% of total damage

Transfusion
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After one of your creatures takes damage and is not killed, one of your other creatures gains Maximum Health equal to 25% of the damage taken.

Voracity
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 3
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal additional damage with attacks and spells equal to 2% of their Current Health per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 50% of Maximum Health

Blood Offering (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
At the start of battle, your creatures grant each other Maximum Health equal to 10% of their Maximum Health.

Supplemental Info

Status Effects

Barrier (Blood Clot)
Barrier absorbs a certain amount of damage. After the maximum amount of damage is dealt, the buff is removed. Barrier strength cannot exceed 200% of a creature's Maximum Health.

Bleeding (Bloody Massacre)
Creatures with Bleeding take damage equal to 30% of their current Health at the start of each turn. Creatures that are resistant to Bleeding take 66% less damage from this debuff.

Notes

At first, Blood Mage seems like a high-risk high-reward class since it offers a lot of power in exchange for taking damage or being on low health, but perks such as Hemostasis and Sanguine Fortitude mitigate that risk considerably, giving Blood Mages an array of both offensive and defensive options.

In addition, since Blood Mages thrive off damage taken with perks such as Blood-Caked Blade and Sanguine Fortitude, they have a degree of resistance to battle attrition and will get stronger as the battle continues, though not to the same extent as Reavers. They can also synergize highly with the Bleed status effect since it will always be applied to enemies.

Bloodmage anointments can be obtained by defeating The Ancestor.

Cleric

The best offense, as some say, is a good defense. Clerics protect their creatures with powerful healing abilities and steadfast barriers, ensuring that not even the most tenacious of foes can overcome them.

As a Cleric, you'll specialize in healing abilities, as well as buffing, resurrection, stat-boosting effects, and providing your creatures with protective barriers. Your creatures will be extremely difficult to kill.

Starter Creature

Unicorn Holycaster (Unicorn/Life)

Health	32
Attack	22
Intelligence	17
Defense	14
Speed	19

Trait: Divine Mending
After this creature attacks, it heals a random ally for 200% of the damage dealt.

Perks

Apotheosis
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures are healed, they have a 2% chance per rank to gain a random buff.
Maximum Bonus: 50% chance

Consecrated Ground
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures are immune to Blighted.

Greater Healing
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' healing effects are 4% more powerful per rank. Your creatures gain 2% more benefit per rank from healing effects.
Maximum Bonus: 100% healing given and received

Guardian Angel
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
You have a 1% chance per rank to negate enemy attacks and spells.
Maximum Bonus: 20% chance

Guiding Light
Ranks: 50
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your creatures gain a Barrier that absorbs damage equal to 1% of their Maximum Health per rank.
Maximum Bonus: Barrier adds 50% of max health

Holy Might
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 1% more damage per rank for each buff they have.
Maximum Bonus: 10% more damage

Inner Light
Ranks: 40
Cost Per Rank: 3
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 1% less damage per rank from all sources.
Maximum Bonus: 40% less damage

Lenience
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 1% less damage per rank for each buff they have.
Maximum Bonus: 5% less damage

Luminesce
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures are healed, and the amount healed exceeds the creature's Maximum Health, store the extra healing as a Barrier.

Overheal
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures can trigger healing effects even while they're at full Health.

Premonition
Ranks: 30
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
While your creatures have a Barrier, they take 1% less damage per rank from all sources.
Maximum Bonus: 30% less damage

Radiance
Ranks: 30
Cost Per Rank: 3
Anointment: Yes
Increases the potency of your creatures' effects that increase their stats by 2% per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 60% extra potency

Revelation
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
At the end of your creatures' turns, your dead creatures have a 1.5% chance per rank to be resurrected with 50% health.
Maximum Bonus: 30% chance

Saving Grace
Ranks: 50
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures are resurrected, they gain a Barrier equal to 2% of their Maximum Health per rank.
Maximum Bonus: Barrier adds 100% of Max Health

Strength of Soul
Ranks: 50
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal additional damage equal to 1% of their Barrier strength per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 50% additional damage

Holy Burst (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
At the end of your creatures' turns, they Cast Holy Fire if they have Barrier.

Supplemental Info

Spells

Holy Fire (Holy Burst)
Enemies take damage equal to 30% of the caster's Barrier strength.

Status Effects

Blighted (Consecrated Ground)
Creatures with Blighted cannot be healed and take damage from healing effects equal to 25% of the effect.

Barrier (Guiding Light, Luminesce, Premonition, Saving Grace, Strength of Soul)
Barrier absorbs a certain amount of damage. After the maximum amount of damage is dealt, the buff is removed. Barrier strength cannot exceed 200% of a creature's Maximum Health.

Notes

By far the most defensive specialization, Cleric revolves all around making it ridiculously hard for your creatures to be brought down. A great deal of Cleric's perk set revolves around Barriers, which are essentially an extra health pool over the top of your main health pool which is depleted first before your actual health. Guiding Light, Luminesce and Saving Grace will allow you to put up and maintain barriers, while Premonition and Strength of Soul make your creatures stronger while they have them.

Outside of barriers, Clerics still have a lot of strong defensive options - Guardian Angel and Lenience mitigate incoming damage, whereas Greater Healing and Revelation ensure that any damage that does get through is quickly reversed. A notable gap in the Cleric's defensive arsenal is a lack of protection from debuffs, so it may be a good idea to find spells and traits that cover this weakness.

You start with a Unicorn Holycaster, another member of the Unicorn race - this one heals rather than revives, so the two can keep each other alive in different ways. Clerics get a lot out of healing and buffing, so try to find creatures that can apply or strengthen buffs or throw good heals around to get the most out of your perks.

Cleric anointments can be obtained by defeating Saint Althea.

Inquisitor

Burn the witch, judge the heretic, and slay the non-believer. Inquisitors make use of healing effects just as much for offense as they do for defense. They enact justice on behalf of the gods, and no one will be spared from holy rapture.

As an Inquisitor, you'll have a solution at your disposal for every problem you encounter. In addition, Inquisitors are able ot use healing effects for offensive purposes - for example, when your creatures heal enemies, they instead cause damage to them.

Starter Creature

Valkyrie Scout (Valkyrie/Life)

Health	29
Attack	24
Intelligence	9
Defense	21
Speed	24

Trait: Fight or Flight
After your other creatures are Attacked, this creature Attacks the enemy for 50% normal damage.

Perks

Admonish
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, enemy Sorcery creatures are afflicted with Silenced and lose 30% Intelligence.

Begrudge
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy Casts a spell, that Spell Gem is sealed.

Berate
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, enemy Life creatures are afflicted with Blighted and lose 30% Maximum Health.

Castigate
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, enemy Chaos creatures are afflicted with Scorned and lose 30% Attack.

Censure
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal additional damage equal to 2% per rank of the healing they've received in the current battle.
Maximum Bonus: 40% of healing received

Condemn
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, enemy Death creatures are afflicted with Vulnerable and lose 30% Defense.

Contrition
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy attacks, they have a 4% chance per rank to be afflicted with Scorned.
Maximum Bonus: 100% chance

Defy Evil
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' damage from attacks and spells ignores 2.5% of the enemies' Defense per rank.
Maximum Bonus: Ignore 25% Defense

Divine Strength
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures are healed, they gain Attack and Intelligence equal to 1% of the healing received per rank.
Maximum Bonus: Boost equal to 25% of healing

Flagellation
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' healing effects deal damage when applied to enemies.

Heresy
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures deal damage with an attack or spell, they deal 30% more damage for each debuff and Sealed Spell Gem the target has.

Judgment
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy Casts a spell, they have a 4% chance per rank to be afflicted with Silenced.
Maximum Bonus: 100% chance

Lay to Rest
Ranks: 100
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: Yes
Enemies can only resurrect once per battle.

Miracle
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 3
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures are resurrected, they deal damage to all enemies equal to 1.5% of their Maximum Health per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 37.5% of max health in damage

Rebuke
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, enemy Nature creatures are afflicted with Feared and lose 30% Speed.

Shining Force
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your creatures gain Rebirth.

Judgment Day (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
Your creatures deal 150% more damage and take 65% less damage as a result of their class strength.

Supplemental Info

Status Effects

Silenced (Admonish, Judgment)
Creatures with Silenced cannot cast spells. Overwrites Scorned. Creatures that are resistant to Silenced can still cast spells, but deal 50% less damage with spells.

Blighted (Berate)
Creatures with Blighted cannot be healed and take damage from healing effects equal to 25% of the effect.

Scorned (Castigate, Contrition)
Creatures with Scorned cannot attack. Overwrites Silenced. Creatures that are resistant to Scorned can still attack, but deal 50% less damage with attacks.

Vulnerable (Condemn)
Vulnerable creatures take 50% more damage.

Feared (Rebuke)
Feared creatures cannot gain stats.

Rebirth (Shining Force)
Creatures with Rebirth are resurrected with 50% Health when they die.

Notes

Inquisitor is something of an inverse of the Cleric - rather than using healing to augment their defenses, Inquisitors gain more offensive power as a result. In addition, many of their perks such as Admonish, Berate, Castigate, Condemn and Rebuke attempt to target specific weaknesses of classes to limit their available strategies.

Among their mixed options, Inquisitors also have something of an adaptive countering strategy, with Begrudge and Judgment trying to shut down enemy casters, and Contrition countering attackers. Divine Strength and Miracle use your defensive options by enhancing your damage output, and Flagellation allows you to outright weaponize heals by making them harm enemies.

The Valkyrie Scout you begin with counterattacks any time any enemy attacks, which will give you an edge especially if you synergize it with your anti-mage options. Beyond this, Inquisitors want to find creatures that can perform heals to get the most out of their perks, though since a lot of their perks weaken enemies rather than strengthen monsters, it isn't quite as paramount as it is with other specializations.

Inquisitor anointments can be obtained by defeating The Ancestor.

Monk

A strong defense is unnecessary when your foe is unable to strike you in the first place. Monks grant their creatures unmatched agility, enabling them to dodge incoming attacks and spells, and respond with devastating counter-attacks.

As a Monk, you'll boost your creatures' chance to Dodge attacks and spells. When your creatures Dodge, they'll unleash a devastating counter-attack on the enemy.

Starter Creature

Summer Aspect (Aspect/Nature)

Health	26
Attack	19
Intelligence	19
Defense	14
Speed	24

Trait: Call of the Solstice
After this creature Dodges an attack, it Attacks the enemy. In addition, this creature has an independent 50% chance to Dodge attacks.

Perks

Blurred Strikes
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures counter-attack with Celerity, they have a 2.5% chance per rank to Attack an additional time. This effect can occur repeatedly.
Maximum Bonus: 62.5% chance

Celerity
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Dodge, they counter-attack the enemy.

Crosswinds
Ranks: 100
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal additional damage equal to 1% of their Speed per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 100% of Speed contributed

Dampen Harm
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures would receive fatal damage, they have a chance to prevent that damage equal to their chance to dodge.

Extended Reach
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures counter-attack with Celerity, they have a 1% chance per rank to move to the top of the Timeline.
Maximum Bonus: 20% chance

Fake Out
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy Dodges your creatures' attacks, they have a 3% chance per rank to Attack again.
Maximum Bonus: 75% chance

Fortified Spirit
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Dodge, they gain 1% Defense per rank for each time they've Attacked with Celerity.
Maximum Bonus: 10% Defense gain per celerity attack

Good Karma
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures always have Agile, and their Agile buff has a 5% greater chance to activate per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 100% greater chance

Pressure Point
Ranks: 50
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Increases your creatures' damage dealt with Celerity by 2% per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 100% damage increase

Protective Winds
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have an independent 3% chance per rank to Dodge attacks.
Maximum Bonus: 75% chance

Ride the Wind
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
While your creatures are Defending, they receive a bonus to their Speed instead of Defense.

Serenity
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
5% of your creatures' chance to Dodge attacks per rank is applied to spells as well. This perk ignores independent chances to dodge attacks granted by other effects.
Maximum Bonus: 100% of dodge chance applied

Spiritual Attunement
Ranks: 50
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures take indirect damage, they have a 1% chance per rank to prevent that damage.
Maximum Bonus: 50% of Serenity chance applied

Thylacine's Fury
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 75
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal additional damage equal to 50% of the amount of Speed they have greater than their target.

Vital Strike
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures counter-attack with Celerity, the attack has a 2% chance per rank to deal double damage.
Maximum Bonus: 50% chance

Windwalker (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
Your creatures have a 5% chance (up to 80%) to avoid damage for each time all your creatures dodged in the current battle.

Supplemental Info

Status Effects

Agile (Good Karma)
Creatures with Agile have an additional, independent chance to dodge attacks.

Notes

Similar to the Paladin, the Monk revolves around using enemy attacks to launch counterattacks - but where the Paladin takes the hits that come their way, the Monk simply avoids them outright. Many of their perks such as Good Karma, Serenity, and Protective Winds increase the chance to dodge incoming damage, and then Celerity is used to offer counterattacks.

Celerity is a key perk since a number of others work off it - Blurred Strikes, Extended Reach, Pressure Point and Vital Strike all require Celerity to work, so strongly consider unlocking Celerity first. The order you want to unlock things in depends on whether you want to prioritize mitigating damage or dealing it back out, so think carefully about which perk you want to take next.

The Summer Aspect is a creature that has significantly large chance on its own to dodge attacks even before its considerable speed is factored in, playing into the Monk's perk set perfectly. Outside of this one, you may want to seek out other creatures with high speed and dodge-related effects to get the most out of your perks.

Monk anointments can be obtained by defeating Jotun.

Warden

Wardens are wholly attuned to the needs of their creatures. These powerful magi empower their creatures with various boons to give them an edge over their opponents in battle.

As a Warden, you'll be able to grant your creatures every buff in existence. In addition, your creatures will grow stronger as they continue to accumulate more buffs.

Starter Creature

Imp Hexer (Imp/Nature)

Health	31
Attack	16
Intelligence	21
Defense	16
Speed	21

Trait: Earthen Attunement
At the start of battle, your creatures gain Shellbust. That's Shellbust, not ShellbuRst.

Perks

Alpha
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Provoke, they gain Taunting and Protected.

Awareness
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Defend, they gain Defensive and Rebirth.

Bristle
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures take damage from a spell, they gain Repelling and Shelled.

Convocation
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Cast a spell, they gain Arcane.

Earthen Frenzy
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures gain a buff, they have a 2% chance per rank to Attack a random enemy.
Maximum Bonus: 20% chance

Eternal Guardian
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' buffs persist through death.

Graceful Spirit
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
At the start of your creatures' turns, they gain a Barrier that absorbs damage equal to 1% of their Maximum Health per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 25% of Maximum Health

Grove Ward
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures lose stats, they gain Warded.

Luster
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures take damage from an attack, they gain Agile and Mending.

Moment of Clarity
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures gain a buff, they have a 2% chance per rank to Cast one of their spells.
Maximum Bonus: 20% chance

Nature's Boon
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have 1% more stats (other than Health) per rank for each buff they have.
Maximum Bonus: 10% more stats

Overrun
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures gain a buff, they recover 3% Health per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 30% Health recovered

Predator
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Attack, they gain Splashing and Savage.

Preparation
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
At the start of battle, your creatures gain Invisible and Proficient.

Primal Vengeance
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After one of your creatures are killed, all your creatures gain Berserk and Leeching.

Soul of the Forest
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures gain a buff, they gain 2% per rank of a random stat.
Maximum Bonus: 20% stat gain

Spirit Shield
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 2% more damage per rank and take 1% less damage per rank for each buff they have.
Maximum Bonus: 10% more damage, 5% less damage

Survival of the Fittest
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures gain a buff and they already have at least 7 other buffs, they gain Immune.

Unending Boon (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
Your creatures' buffs last forever. In addition, when one of your creature's buffs would be forcefully removed (for example, if your creature with Invisible makes an action), they have a 30% chance to retain that buff.

Supplemental Info

Status Effects

Taunting (Alpha)
Creatures with Taunting automatically provoke at the end of their turn.

Protected (Alpha)
Creatures with Protected take 50% less damage.

Defensive (Awareness)
Creatures with Defensive automatically Defend at the end of their turn.

Rebirth (Awareness)
Creatures with Rebirth are resurrected with 50% Health when they die.

Repelling (Bristle)
Repelling creatures have a 50% chance to ignore damage from spells.

Shelled (Bristle)
Shelled negates the next incoming attack or spell.

Arcane (Convocation)
When an Arcane creature casts a spell, the spell does not consume any Charges. Then, this buff is removed.

Barrier (Graceful Spirit)
Barrier absorbs a certain amount of damage. After the maximum amount of damage is dealt, the buff is removed. Barrier strength cannot exceed 200% of a creature's Maximum Health.

Warded (Grove Ward)
Creatures with Warded cannot lose stats.

Agile (Luster)
Creatures with Agile have an additional, independent chance to dodge attacks.

Mending (Luster)
Creatures with Mending recover 25% Health at the start of their turn.

Splashing (Predator)
Creatures with Splashing deal 100% of their damage to enemies adjacent to the target they attack.

Savage (Predator)
Savage creatures have an additional, independent chance to deal critical damage with attacks.

Invisible (Preparation)
Invisible creatures cannot be targeted by enemy attacks or spells.

Proficient (Preparation)
Proficient creatures gain 30% more benefits from their Artifact's Stat Slots.

Berserk (Primal Vengeance)
Berserk creatures deal 50% more damage.

Leeching (Primal Vengeance)
Creatures with Leeching recover Health equal to 25% of the damage they deal.

Immune (Survival of the Fittest)
Creatures with Immune ignore their debuffs.

Notes

Wardens are all about buffs - gaining pairs of them for particular actions or events, leading to them rather quickly stacking up a large amount of buffs. If you can find creatures that share buffs around, your whole team will suddenly be very stacked up - and there are all sorts of creatures in the game that synergize with buffs in general or specific kinds of buffs to power them up further, so there's a lot to choose from to synergize with this perk set.

Do note that since the buffs are granted reflexively, you won't start battles at full power unless you pull a extra tricks with your team composition.

Warden anointments can be obtained by defeating Jotun.

Witch Doctor

Witch Doctors are spiritual warriors who cast deadly hexes and curses on their enemies, forcing them to fight against each other.

As a Witch Doctor, you'll manipulate your foes into damaging each other and empowering your creatures to ensure victory.

Starter Creature

Gimp Mummy (Mummy/Death)

Health	41
Attack	26
Intelligence	16
Defense	16
Speed	11

Trait: Gimp Touch
This creature's attacks deal 75% more damage and afflict Cursed.

Perks

Backbite
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies have a 100% greater chance to deal critical damage to their allies.

Bad Medicine
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your creatures gain Secret Stuff.

Bewitch
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy Attacks one of its allies, your creatures gain a random buff.

Blind Eye
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies cannot dodge attacks from their allies.

Hedge Magic
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Enemies take 10% more damage per rank from their allies.
Maximum Bonus: 100% more damage

Hex
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Enemies with Confused have a 5% chance per rank to lower their allies' stats instead of increasing them.
Maximum Bonus: 50% chance

Initiation Rite
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When an enemy Attacks one of its allies, its highest stat is used to determine the damage dealt.

Jinx
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies always have Cursed.

Maledict
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 30
Anointment: Yes
Enemies take additional damage equal to 5% of the damage they've taken from their allies in the current battle per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 15% of taken damage

Mass Hysteria
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy takes damage from an ally, they are afflicted with Blind and Confused.

Mumbo Jumbo
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Enemies with Confused have a 5% chance per rank to afflict allies with a debuff instead of a buff.
Maximum Bonus: 50% chance

Terrorize
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy Attacks one of its allies, it afflicts the target with a random debuff.

Trance
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Attack, they have a 5% chance per rank to Cast Mind Control on the target.
Maximum Bonus: 25% chance

Vision Quest
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your creatures gain Doppelganger.

Voodoo
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When an enemy Casts a spell on one of its allies, its highest stat is used to determine the potency of the spell.

Cursed Omen (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
Enemies Attack and Cast spells on their allies 1 additional time.

Supplemental Info

Spells

Secret Stuff (Bad Medicine)
A random enemy Attacks one of its allies for 200% normal damage. This spell is a Booze Spell.

Mind Control (Trance)
Target Attacks one of its allies.

Status Effects

Confused (Hex, Mass Hysteria, Mumbo Jumbo)
Confused creatures have a 50% chance to attack or cast harmful spells on their allies.

Cursed (Jinx, Gimp Touch)
When creatures with Cursed deal damage with attacks or spells, they take damage equal to 100% of their target's Attack.

Blind (Mass Hysteria)
Blind creatures cannot choose their targets when attacking or casting single-target spells.

Doppelganger (Vision Quest)
The Doppelganger's master has a 25% chance to take an extra turn.

Notes

Witch Doctors rely on getting the enemy to defeat themselves by causing them to damage each other more often, and make it much more debilitating when they do so. Perks like Bewitch, Maledict and Terrorize also cause somewhat of a cascading effect so that as the battle goes on, the enemy will cause additional attrition to themselves.

The perk set has a rather full reliance on this strategy however, and lacks options other than tricking the enemy - so beware situations where you may not have access to your usual tools, such as being blocked from inflicting debuffs or casting spells easily.

Witch Doctor anointments can be obtained by defeating Jotun.

Evoker

Evokers are the ultimate spellcasters. They excel at casting enhanced versions of spells multiple times in a row to overwhelm their enemies before they can act.

As an Evoker, you'll empower your creatures' spellcasting capabilities. Your creatures will be able to cast the same spell multiple times in one turn, and these spells will be much stronger than if they had cast them without your guidance.

Starter Creature

Spider Occultist (Occultist/Sorcery)

Health	29
Attack	12
Intelligence	27
Defense	17
Speed	22

Trait: Apprenticeship
After your other creatures manually Cast a spell, this creature Casts Magic Missile on a random enemy.

Perks

Arcane Fortitude
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 2% less damage (up to 90%) per rank for each non-Ethereal Spell Gem they have that does not belong to their own class.
Maximum Bonus: 10% less damage

Arcane Power
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 2% more damage per rank for each non-Ethereal Spell Gem they have that does not belong to their own class.
Maximum Bonus: 10% more damage

Burst
Ranks: 50
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' spells that are cast in the same turn deal 1% more damage per rank than the last.
Maximum Bonus: 50% more damage

Chaos Mastery
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 60
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures can equip Chaos Spell Gems, regardless of their class.

Death Mastery
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 60
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures can equip Death Spell Gems, regardless of their class.

Echo
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures Cast spells an additional time.

Efficiency
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' extra casts no longer consume additional Charges.

Expanded Mind
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures can equip 1 additional Spell Gem per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 5 extra Gems

Life Mastery
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 60
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures can equip Life Spell Gems, regardless of their class.

Mirror Image
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have a 1% chance per rank to Cast spells an additional time. This effect can occur repeatedly until it fails.
Maximum Bonus: 25% chance

Nature Mastery
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 60
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures can equip Nature Spell Gems, regardless of their class.

Outspoken
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your creatures are immune to Silenced.

Sorcery Mastery
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 60
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures can equip Sorcery Spell Gems, regardless of their class.

Spell Corruption
Ranks: 100
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' spells affect stats 1% more per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 100% extra effect

Spell Mending
Ranks: 100
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' spells heal 1% more Health per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 100% extra effect

Spell Power
Ranks: 100
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' spells deal 1% more damage per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 100% extra effect

Supercharged
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' spells have 1 additional Charge per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 5 extra Charges

Overload (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
After your creatures manually Cast a spell, each of their other Spell Gems that belong to a different class have a 50% chance to be Cast as well. Maximum of 1 spell per class.

Supplemental Info

Spells

Magic Missile (Spider Occultist)
Target takes a small amount of damage.

Status Effects

Silenced (Outspoken)
Creatures with Silenced cannot cast spells. Overwrites Scorned. Creatures that are resistant to Silenced can still cast spells, but deal 50% less damage with spells.

Notes

Evoker does two particular things very well - offensive versatility, and sheer attack power. With almost no defensive options other than Outspoken (which, make no mistake, is a very important perk for such a magic-heavy specialization), Evokers go all-in on magical attacks with perks like Echo and Mirror Image allowing spells to be cast multiple times in the same turn, then Spell Power and Arcane Power making those casts hit even harder.

An important perk to take note of is Efficiency - without this perk, Echo/Mirror Image will very quickly make you run out of charges, leaving you with your main form of attack depleted. Meanwhile, the five Mastery perks allow free equipping of any class of spell gem on any class of creature, which gives you drastically more options in what spells you can bring and who to equip them on.

The Spider Occultist has excellent caster stats, and joins in with a magic attack any time one of its allies casts a spell - due to Echo and Mirror Image, this attack itself will often be repeated several times. If you can find creatures that synergize well with spellcasting, you will do tremendously well as an Evoker.

Evoker anointments can be obtained by defeating Caliban the Unredeemed.

Cabalist

Cabalists can conjure Spell Gems out of thin air to be used by their creatures at any given moment. These magi prefer to employ high-risk, high-reward battle strategies to ensure their victory.

As a Cabalist, you'll enable your creatures to cast spells that they normally wouldn't have access to. While other people's creatures might run out of Spell Gem Charges, you'll be able to keep your creatures well-stocked with fresh Spell Gems at the start of every battle.

Starter Creature

Djinn Dreamweaver (Djinn/Sorcery)

Health	38
Attack	13
Intelligence	28
Defense	13
Speed	18

Trait: Chain Spells
After this creature manually Casts a spell, it Casts 2 random spells that belong to the same class.

Perks

Apex
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 1% more damage per rank for each Ethereal Spell Gem they have equipped.
Maximum Bonus: 5% more damage per gem

Battle Mage
Ranks: 50
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Attack, they have a 2% chance per rank to cast one of their Ethereal Spell Gems.
Maximum Bonus: 100% chance

Familiar
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures cast an Ethereal Spell Gem, they have a 2% chance per rank to summon an Animated Gem.
Maximum Bonus: 50% chance

Flow of Magic
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures manually cast an Ethereal Spell Gem, they gain 50% Intelligence.

Hand of the Magi
Ranks: 50
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' Ethereal Spell Gems have 2% more potency per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 100% more potency

Incantation
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Defend or Provoke, they cast one of their Ethereal Spell Gems.

Invoke
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of your creatures' turns, they gain an Ethereal Spell Gem.

Mystify
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 30
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures cast an Ethereal Spell Gem, 1 enemy per rank is afflicted with a random debuff.
Maximum Bonus: 3 enemies afflicted

Prism
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures cast an Ethereal Spell Gem, they gain a random buff.

Quickdraw
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures gain Ethereal Spell Gems, they have a 5% chance per rank to cast them. Only gems that are acquired after start-of-battle effects can be cast in this manner.
Maximum Bonus: 100% chance

Shimmer
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 1% less damage per rank for each Ethereal Spell Gem they have equipped, up to 90% reduced damage.
Maximum Bonus: 5% less damage per gem

Spellslinger
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures Ethereal Spell Gems cast 1 additional time.

Temporal Concentration
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' Ethereal Spell Gems do not consume Charges when used.

Unshackled
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your creatures are immune to Silenced.

Wild Magic
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your creatures gain 1 Ethereal Spell Gem that belongs to their class per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 5 gems gained

Embrace the Arcane (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
Your creatures' spells that are Cast automatically have a 30% chance to be treated as manual casts.

Supplemental Info

Status Effects

Animated Gem (Familiar)
After the Animated Gem's master manually casts a spell, this minion casts one of its master's Spell Gems as well, chosen randomly.

Arcane (Flow of Magic)
When an Arcane creature casts a spell, the spell does not consume any Charges. Then, this buff is removed.

Silenced (Unshackled)
Creatures with Silenced cannot cast spells. Overwrites Scorned. Creatures that are resistant to Silenced can still cast spells, but deal 50% less damage with spells.

Notes

Cabalists are somewhat unpredictable, but similar to Reavers will grow stronger as the battle carries on. Wild Magic and Invoke give your creatures random new spells during every battle, so you'll quickly find yourself becoming familiar with figuring out how to use what you've been provided with to your advantage.

On top of this, Evokers gain strength from the spells they're given in battle, with perks like Culmination, Hand of the Magi and Spellslinger synergizing with the amount of Ethereal gems you'll accumulate during battle to give you more power. If you can find spells or creatures that grant you even more spell gems, you'll get drastically stronger and stronger as the battle continues, though beware of strategies that disrupt or prey upon ethereal gem use.

You begin with a Djinn Dreamweaver, a powerful caster that uses an extra, random spell any time it casts a spell manually. This can have all manner of unpredictable effects, so be prepared for anything that might come of this.

Cabalist anointments can be obtained by defeating Mindwurm.

Sorcerer

Sorcerers are masters of controlling the battlefield. Why worry about offense or defense when your enemies can't move to begin with?

As a Sorcerer, you'll support your creatures by debilitating their enemies from afar. Generally, your enemies won't be able to act for the first few turns in battle as long as you're around.

Starter Creature

Frostbite Yeti (Yeti/Sorcery)

Health	33
Attack	18
Intelligence	16
Defense	21
Speed	16

Trait: Brain Freeze
After this creature is Attacked, the enemy is afflicted with Frozen.

Perks

Calcify
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy takes damage from a spell, they have a 5% chance per rank to be afflicted with Stone.
Maximum Bonus: 50% chance

Comfortable Proximity
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures take damage from an enemy, they take 1% less damage per rank for each creature between the two creatures on the timeline.
Maximum Bonus: 10% less damage per creature

Fade
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures take damage from an attack or spell, they gain Invisible.

Flabbergast
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures deal damage with attacks or spells to the next enemy below them on the Timeline, that enemy has a 1% chance per rank to be sent to the bottom of the Timeline.
Maximum Bonus: 20% chance

Gravity's Void
Ranks: 15
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures damage an enemy, they deal 1% more damage per rank for each other creature between the two creatures on the timeline.
Maximum Bonus: 15% more damage per creature

Mental Fortitude
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
At the start of battle, your creatures gain Shelled.

Perplex
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy takes damage, they have a 1% chance per rank to be afflicted with Confused.
Maximum Bonus: 25% chance

Psychic Scream
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 3
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy Casts a spell, they have a 4% chance per rank to be afflicted with Silenced.
Maximum Bonus: 100% chance

Ruin
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 2% more damage and take 1.5% less damage (up to 90%) for each debuff each enemy has.

Singe
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 3
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy Attacks, they have a 4% chance per rank to be afflicted with Scorned.
Maximum Bonus: 100% chance

Slipstream
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: No
After the Timeline is determined at the start of battle, your creatures are moved up the Timeline 1 position higher per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 3 positions higher

Spell of Roots
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the end of an enemy's first turn, they are afflicted with Snared.

Spell of Slumber
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the end of an enemy's second turn, they are afflicted with Sleeping.

Spell of Frost
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the end of an enemy's third turn, they are afflicted with Frozen.

Unity
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures deal damage, they deal 2.5% more damage per rank for each consecutive ally that is adjacent to them on the timeline.
Maximum Bonus: 20% damage per consecutive ally

Undertow (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
At the start of each enemy's turn, they have a 10% chance that your Spell of Roots, Spell of Slumber, and Spell of Frost perks will activate. This chance is increased by an additional 10% each turn. After this perk activates, the chance is set back to 10%.

Supplemental Info

Status Effects

Frozen (Frostbite Yeti, Deep Freeze, Spell of Frost)
Frozen creatures are unable to act until they thaw, and have a 25% chance to thaw at the start of their turn. This chance doubles after each of their turns. Creatures that are resistant to Frozen have double the chance to thaw.

Invisible (Fade)
Invisible creatures cannot be targeted by enemy attacks or spells.

Shelled (Mental Fortitude)
Shelled negates the next incoming attack or spell.

Confused (Perplex)
Confused creatures have a 50% chance to attack or cast harmful spells on their allies.

Silenced (Psychic Scream)
Creatures with Silenced cannot cast spells. Overwrites Scorned. Creatures that are resistant to Silenced can still cast spells, but deal 50% less damage with spells.

Scorned (Singe)
Creatures with Scorned cannot attack. Overwrites Silenced. Creatures that are resistant to Scorned can still attack, but deal 50% less damage with attacks.

Snared (Spell of Roots)
Creatures with Snared are stuck at the bottom of the Timeline until they break free. They have a 10% chance to break free at the start of each creature's turn. Creatures that are resistant to Snared have triple the chance to break out of this debuff.

Sleeping (Spell of Slumber)
Creatures with Sleeping cannot act until they either take damage or this debuff wears off. Creatures that are resistant to Sleeping wake up at the start of their turns.

Notes

Using ridiculous amounts of trickery to completely shut down their foes, Sorcerers would no doubt be infuriating to fight against if they were opponents. The three Spell perks, Deep Freeze, Psychic Scream, Flabbergast and Singe all attempt to prevent opponents from taking actions at all, while others like Mental Fortitude and Fade allow your creatures to avoid certain enemy actions outright.

Other perks such as Gravity's Void and Solidarity enhance the Sorcerer's damage output in esoteric ways, though if your opponents have been shut down, then you'll have plenty of time to take your opponents out without them being able to retaliate at all.

The Frostbite Yeti that Sorcerers start with has very strong defenses and is able to freeze enemies, allowing you plenty of time to set up your strategy. Sorcerers synergize well with creatures that use or inflict debuffs, but given how many perks affect the enemy rather than your own team, it shouldn't be too hard to get most teams to synergize well with Sorcerer's perk set.

Sorcerer anointments can be obtained by defeating Mindwurm.

Paladin

Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. Paladins are patient combatants who prefer to allow their enemies to strike first, and then return the favor tenfold with holy fury.

As a Paladin, your creatures will be able to endure even the most powerful of attacks. Each time your creatures take damage, they'll also damage their enemies.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Art of War
Ranks: 30
Cost Per Rank: 3
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures deal damage with Retribution, 1% of their highest stat per rank is added to the amount of damage dealt.
Maximum Bonus: 30% of stat contributed

Crusade
Ranks: 50
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal additional damage equal to 2% per rank of the amount of damage they've dealt with Retribution in the current battle.
Maximum Bonus: 100% Retribution damage

Divine Intervention
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
The first time your creatures would take fatal damage in battle, their Health is instead set to 1.

Execution Sentence
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures are killed, they deal damage to all enemies equal to 100% of the amount of damage they dealt with Retribution in the current battle.

Glory
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures deal damage with Retribution, their lowest stat is increased by 1% of the amount of damage dealt per rank.
Maximum Bonus: Boost by 25% of damage

Hand of Light
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures deal damage with Retribution, all your creatures recover Health equal to 2% of the damage dealt per rank.
Maximum Bonus: Heal for 20% of damage dealt

Light's Augmentation
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have 3% more Defense per rank while they're Provoking.
Maximum Bonus: 75% extra Defense

Miraculous Recovery
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Provoke, they recover 2% Health per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 50% health recovered

Perseverance
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 2.5% less damage per rank while they're provoking.
Maximum Bonus: 50% less damage

Reckoning
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Provoke, they Attack a random enemy.

Retribution
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures take damage from an attack or spell, they deal damage to the enemy equal to 1% of the damage taken per rank.
Maximum Bonus: Retaliate for 25% damage

Seraphim
Ranks: 50
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, 1% of your creatures' Defense per rank is added to their Health.
Maximum Bonus: 50% of Defense contributed

Unbound
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Provoke, they Defend.

Wrath
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: No
When your creatures deal damage with Retribution while they're Defending, the amount of damage is increased by 2% per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 50% extra damage

Zeal
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures deal damage with Retribution while they're Provoking, the amount of damage is increased by 2% per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 50% extra damage

Divine Toll (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
After your creatures deal damage with Retribution, they Cast Holy Smite on the enemy as well.

Supplemental Info

Spells

Holy Smite (Divine Toll)
Target takes a small amount of damage and the caster recovers a small amount of Health.

Notes

Paladins are a heavily counterattack based class, who do a great deal of their damage simply by responding to incoming damage. The notable core perk is Retribution, which many of the Paladin's other perks work off of, so strongly consider unlocking some ranks in Retribution as your first pick.

After this, there are quite a number of ways that Retribution can be enhanced further - Art of War, Crusade, Wrath and Zeal all increase the damage Retribution does in various ways, whereas Glory and Hand of Light will strengthen the creature each time Retribution is used. Outside of this perk, the Paladin has a lot of defensive options such as Light's Augmentation, Perseverance, and Seraphim. So not only will your team be hard to kill, but enemies are likely to destroy themselves in the process of trying to bring you down.

Paladin anointments can be obtained by defeating Saint Althea.

Druid

Many people foolishly mistake a Druid's introversion for weakness. These magi believe that quality always trumps quantity on the battlefield. Contrary to tradition, they are often seen with fewer than six creatures at their disposal, but the havoc their limited numbers wreak when augmented by Druidic magic is a sight to behold.

As a Druid, you'll probably only want to have one (or up to three, later on) creatures in your party. Your creatures will gain massive benefits for being part of a smaller party.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Adaptation
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your creatures gain a random buff for each creature missing from your group.

Ancestry
Ranks: 2
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, if you have at least 5 creatures missing from your group, your creatures gain 1 random trait that belong to their race per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 2 random traits

Aptitude
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have a 10% chance to Cast spells an additional time for each creature missing from your group. This effect can occur repeatedly until it fails.

Brood
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have 1% more Maximum Health per rank for each creature missing from your group.
Maximum Bonus: 20% more health

Companion
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
You can have 1 additional creature per rank in your group without it counting against other Druid perks.
Maximum Bonus: 3 creatures

Cornered
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 6
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 1% more damage per rank for each creature missing from your group.
Maximum Bonus: 20% more damage

Disengagement
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have an independent 10% chance to dodge attacks for each creature missing from your group.

Guerilla Tactics
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your creatures have a 10% chance to move to the top of the Timeline for each creature missing from your group.

Killer Instinct
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have an independent 10% chance to deal critical damage with attacks for each creature missing from your group.

Lone Wolf
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have 1% more Attack, Intelligence, Defense and Speed for each creature missing from your group.
Maximum Bonus: 10% more stats

Pack of One
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have a 10% chance to Attack an additional time for each creature missing from your group. This effect can occur repeatedly until it fails.

Reclusive Remedy
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
If you have at least 5 creatures missing from your group, your creatures are resistant to debuffs.

Sole Survivor
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 1% less damage per rank for each creature missing from your group.
Maximum Bonus: 10% less damage

Sovreignty
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have 1 additional Spell Gem slot for each creature missing from your group.

FInal Stand (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
If you only have 1 living creature, your dead creatures count as missing creatures.

Notes

Druids get stronger the less creatures they bring with them, with maximum synergy achieved when you have only one creature with you. Outside of the Companion perk, every perk the Druid has relates to benefiting from not bringing a full team in just about every possible manner (and even the Companion perk allows you to simply ignore a handful of creatures when it comes to the perk benefits).

Since Druid's perks apply to pretty much everything, almost any creature can be used with it, though you often lose the benefit of team-based synergies in return, however Companion can mitigate this to a degree.

Druid anointments can be obtained by defeating Imp Impington Prime.

Tribalist

Strength in numbers. Tribalists prefer to use creatures that belong to the same race or class, and take full advantage of the synergy and camaraderie they offer each other.

As a Tribalist, you'll want to assemble a party of creatures that belong to the same race. This will provide them with significant benefits that are exacerbated by their racial synergies with each other.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Battalion
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
At the start of battle, your creatures gain a random buff for each creature that belongs to the same race fighting on your side. Maximum of 6 buffs.

Cogence
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 2% more damage per rank to creatures that belong to their own class.
Maximum Bonus: 50% more damage

Familiarity
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 2% less damage per rank from creatures that belong to their own class.
Maximum Bonus: 50% less damage

Feign Death
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures are killed, they have a 1% chance per rank to resurrect with 50% Health for each creature that belongs to the same race fighting on your side.
Maximum Bonus: 10% chance

Fluster
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have an independent 5% chance to dodge attacks for each creature that belongs to the same race fighting on your side.

Forest Pact
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 30
Anointment: Yes
Traits, spells and other effects that are affected by the number of a certain creature race or class act as if you have 1 more of those creatures in your group per rank.
Maximum Bonus: Boosted by 3

Harbinger
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' Spell Gems with any "Cast On..." property has a 1% greater chance per rank to activate for each creature that belongs to its race fighting on your side.
Maximum Bonus: 5% greater chance

Hybridization
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have 1% more Attack, Intelligence, Defense and Speed per rank for each creature that belongs to the same race fighting on your side.
Maximum Bonus: 5% more stats

Overwhelm
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have an independent 5% chance to deal critical damage with attacks for each creature that belongs to the same race fighting on your side.

Purebred
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have 1% more Attack, Intelligence, Defense and Speed per rank for each creature that belongs to the same class fighting on your side.
Maximum Bonus: 5% more stats

Survival Instincts
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 1% less damage and deal 1% more damage per rank for each dead creature that belongs to the same race fighting on your side.
Maximum Bonus: 10% more/less damage

Ties That Bind
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal additional damage with attacks and spells equal to 1% of your other creatures' highest stats per rank that belong to the same race.
Maximum Bonus: 5% stat contribution

Transformation
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your creatures cast their "Morph" spells if they have one of these spells in their top-most Spell Gem slot.

Union
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures grant 1% of their highest stat per rank to your other creatures that belong to the same race.
Maximum Bonus: 10% stat contribution

We Are Pack
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, if you have at least 4 creatures that belong to the same race fighting on your side, the remaining creatures' races are changed to that race as well. This effect does not change a creature's race if it is an Imler.

Gone But Not Forgotten (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
Traits, spells and other effects that are affected by the number of a certain creature race or class now work with dead creatures as well.

Supplemental Info

Spells

Morph: Chaos (Transformation)
Your creatures gain a large amount of Attack and their classes become Chaos until the end of battle.

Morph: Death (Transformation)
Your creatures gain a large amount of Defense and their classes become Death until the end of battle.

Morph: Life (Transformation)
Your creatures gain a large amount of Health and their classes become Life until the end of battle.

Morph: Nature (Transformation)
Your creatures gain a large amount of Speed and their classes become Nature until the end of battle.

Morph: Sorcery (Transformation)
Your creatures gain a large amount of Intelligence and their classes become Sorcery until the end of battle.

Status Effects

Poisoned (Waspid Slicer)
Creatures with Poisoned take damage based on the inflictor's Attack each turn.

Bleeding (Waspid Slicer)
Creatures with Bleeding take damage equal to 30% of their current Health at the start of each turn. Creatures that are resistant to Bleeding take 66% less damage from this debuff.

Notes

Tribalists like to use creatures of the same race with each other - since creatures within a given race tend to have rather similar abilities to one another, this can often create teams that have a lot of raw power but a somewhat narrow tactical scope.

Where Tribalist really shines however is with particular races of creature that already self-synergize, such as Familiars or Hunters. In these cases, Forest Pact amplifies their already powerful synergies even further. Beyond this, most of Tribalist's perks will work for any team so long as you stick to using one race and class, so look around and find out what works well for you with them.

Tribalist anointments can be obtained by defeating Imp Impington Prime.

Trickster

Luck is not merely a matter of chance, but instead a force that can be manipulated to a clever man's will. Tricksters capitalize on this fact, enabling their creatures to re-roll the proverbial dice whenever fate doesn't turn out quite they way they hoped.

As a Trickster, you'll heavily inconvenience enemies by preventing them from taking action. You'll also gain the ability to manipulate the element of luck - for example, if a positive effect has a chance to activate but fails to do so, you can try again.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Bafflement
Ranks: 6
Cost Per Rank: 15
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, 1 enemy per rank is afflicted with Confused.
Maximum Bonus: All six enemies

Even the Odds
Ranks: 50
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
At the start of normal battles, you have a 2% chance per rank to instantly kill a random enemy. If enemies are immune to this effect, they lose 20% of their Current Health instead.
Maximum Bonus: 100% chance to kill

Feint
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures dodge an attack, they have a 4% chance per rank to afflict the enemy with Disarmed.
Maximum Bonus: 100% chance to inflict

Hidden Hand
Ranks: 15
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your artifacts' Spell Slots have a 2% additional chance per rank to be cast.
Maximum Bonus: 15% extra chance

Intent to Kill
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When the enemy would dodge your creatures' attacks, the dodge chance is re-rolled one additional time.

Nightstalker
Ranks: 6
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: No
At the start of battle, one creature in your party gains Invisible per rank, in order from first to last.
Maximum Bonus: All creatures become invisible

Pilfer
Ranks: 2
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your creatures steal one random Spell Gem per rank from a random enemy.
Maximum Bonus: 2 spell gems stolen

Prey
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures Attack while the target is afflicted with Disarmed, the target's artifact's Stat Slots are applied to your creature for all effects that relate to that attack.

Rebound
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures Attack, and their attack would fail to deal critical damage, the critical chance is re-rolled one additional time.

Sleight of Hand
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Whenever it is one of your creatures' turns, any random effects that fail to occur are re-rolled an additional time.

Spontaneity
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At random times during battle, your creatures have a 1% chance per rank to cast a random, Ethereal Spell Gem from their spell list.

Stratagem
Ranks: 50
Cost Per Rank: 2
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 2% more damage per rank while they're Invisible.
Maximum Bonus: 100% extra damage

Subterfuge
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: No
Your creatures' attacks ignore 2% of the target's Defense per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 50% defense penetration

Tools of the Trade
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: Yes
Your artifacts' Trick Slots are 1% more powerful per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 25% extra power

Whetbone
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures always have Proficient.

Immaculate Recovery (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
When your creatures take damage from an attack or spell, they gain Invisible and Shelled.

Supplemental Info

Status Effects

Confused (Bafflement)
Confused creatures have a 50% chance to attack or cast harmful spells on their allies.

Disarmed (Feint, Prey)
Disarmed creatures lose all benefits from their equipped Artifact.

Invisible (Nightstalker)
Invisible creatures cannot be targeted by enemy attacks or spells.

Proficient (Whetbone)
Proficient creatures gain 30% more benefits from their Artifact's Stat Slots.

Notes

Tricksters do a wide range of things, among them manipulating probability, strengthening artifacts, and weakening enemies - with the overall aim of tipping the odds in your favor.

Intent to Kill, Rebound, and Sleight of Hand all essentially mitigate poor luck by just trying again if things don't turn out in your favor, so you'll likely see favorable outcomes more often and you'll be more able to rely on chance than other specializations - whereas perks like Pilfer or Even the Odds just directly weaken the enemy in your favor.

Trickster anointments can be obtained by defeating Caliban the Unredeemed.

Astrologer

Astrologers are magi who specialize in creating a sound strategy before each battle. Oftentimes, their plans are so well-constructed that their creatures are able to take combat into their own hands without any further input from their master.

As an Astrologer, you'll plan most of your battle strategies before combat even begins. Astrologers allow their creatures to act on their own under certain conditions.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Ascendant
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creature with the highest Health starts battles at the top of the Timeline.

Cusp
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
If your creatures have at least 3 debuffs, they Defend at the end of their turn.

Dying Stars
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
If you have at least 3 dead creatures, your other creatures have a 1% chance per rank to resurrect one of them with 50% Health after they deal damage with an attack or spell.
Maximum Bonus: 20% chance

Equinox
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
If your creatures have at least 3 buffs, they gain a random minion at the start of their turn.

Fixed Signs
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
If your creatures have less than 80% Health, they heal themselves for 1% of their Maximum Health per rank at the start of their turn.
Maximum Bonus: Heal for 20% of Maximum Health

Lunar Eclipse
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 30
Anointment: No
Your creatures with the highest Intelligence per rank always Cast their top-most Spell Gem that has at least 1 Charge and isn't Sealed at the end of their turn.
Maximum Bonus: Three creatures with the highest Intelligence

Mercury Retrograde
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
If your creatures have at least 3 debuffs, they are resistant to debuffs.

New Moon
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
If your creatures have at least 5 buffs when they are killed, they are resurrected with 25% Health. The number of buffs required for this perk to activate increases by 1 each time it activates.

Solar Eclipse
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 30
Anointment: No
Your creatures with the highest Attack per rank always Attack at the end of their turn.
Maximum Bonus: Three creatures with the highest Attack

Stars Align
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
If your creatures have at least 7 different minions, their attacks instantly kill enemies in normal battles, and deal 100% more damage in non-normal battles.

Stellar Blessing
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 30
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures with the highest Intelligence per rank don't consume Charges when they Cast spells.
Maximum Bonus: Three creatures with the highest Intelligence

Summer Solstice
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures at the top half of the Timeline gain 1% Attack per rank at the start of each creature's turn.
Maximum Bonus: 5% Attack gained

Synastry
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creature with the highest Defense always Provokes at the end of their turn.

Transit
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creature with the highest Speed always Attacks enemies that deal damage to it.

Winter Solstice
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures at the bottom half of the Timeline gain 1% Defense per rank at the start of each creature's turn.
Maximum Bonus: 5% Defense gained

Protostar (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
If your creatures have been killed in the current battle, they deal 90% more damage and take 60% less damage.

Notes

This is a very complicated specialization that requires a carefully planned team to take full advantage of. It essentially predefines roles based on your creatures' stats; the three with the highest intelligence have strong casting advantages, the highest attack creatures will attack automatically, the one with the highest speed will always counter attacks, and the one with the highest defense will provoke to automatically act as a tank, so you will want a statistically mixed team rather than going all-in on one strategy.

Consider which specialization role each creature will end up in based on their stats, and try to choose traits that synergize with that - on-provoke traits for the tank, attacking and casting traits for the creatures with the highest stat in each. Also keep in mind that there are general purpose traits such as defending when they have debuffs, and gaining stats at the start of each creature's turn, so its not all about slotting each creature into a meticulous role.

Astrologer anointments can be obtained by defeating Hydranox.

Doombringer

The Doombringer draws magic from the Bastion of the Void to fuel his creatures with vast amounts of power. Doombringers specialize in allowing their creatures to perform actions multiple times in a row, all while nullifying his enemies' efforts.

As a Doombringer, your creatures' on-action effects (on-attack, on-cast, etc) can activate additional times, allowing you to chain brutal combos together to devastate your enemies. Doombringers are also able to prevent enemies' on-action effects from occurring as a defensive measure, as well.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Anger Management
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures' on-heal effects activate, their on-death effects activate as well.

Aversion
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures' on-defend effects activate, their on-provoke effects activate as well.

Blind Fury
Ranks: 2
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' on-attack and on-cast effects trigger 1 additional time per rank after they Attack or Cast a spell.
Maximum Bonus: 2 additional times

Defiance
Ranks: 2
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' on-heal, on-death and on-resurrect effects trigger 1 additional time per rank after they are healed, killed or resurrected.
Maximum Bonus: 2 additional times

Domination
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have a 3% chance to avoid damage (up to 50%) for each time their on-buff, on-debuff, and on-minion effects activated in the current battle.

Detainment
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 5% less damage (up to 90%) for each time their on-defend and on-provoke effects activated in the current battle.

Eruption
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures' on-attack effects activate, their on-resurrect effects activate as well.

Momentum
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have a 5% chance per rank to double the value of all their actions (damage, healing, stat gains, etc).
Maximum Bonus: 50% chance

Obscuration
Ranks: 2
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' on-critical and on-dodge effects trigger 1 additional time per rank after they deal critical damage or dodge.
Maximum Bonus: 2 additional times

Outburst
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have 1% more stats (other than Health) per rank for each time their on-action effects activated in the current battle.

Recklessness
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have an independent 5% chance to deal critical damage and dodge attacks for each time their on-critical and on-dodge effects activated in the current battle.

Siegebreaker
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 10% more damage for each time their on-attack effects activated in the current battle.

Soul Rending
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures are killed, they have a 5% chance (up to 50%) to be resurrected with 50% Health for each time their on-heal, on-death, and on-resurrect effects activated in the current battle.

Unbound Hatred
Ranks: 2
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' on-buff, on-debuff, and on-minion effects trigger 1 additional time per rank after they gain a buff, debuff, or minion.
Maximum Bonus: 2 additional times

Unleashed Power
Ranks: 2
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' on-defend and on-provoke effects trigger 1 additional time per rank after they Defend or Provoke.
Maximum Bonus: 2 additional times

Juggernaut (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
Your creatures deal 5% more damage for each time their on-action effects activated in the current battle.

Notes

Doombringers are an interesting class in that it offers several options where rather than building your creatures' traits around your perk set, they simply power up whatever traits you are already using by doubling the effects and the value of those effects. However, there are diverse options that will allow you to use creatures in unintended ways by making healing, attacking and defending act as triggers for death, resurrection and provocation traits at the same time without actually performing those actions.

Doombringer anointments can be obtained by defeating Hydranox.

Grovetender

Grovetenders take great pride in their Herbling companions, strongly preferring to focus the bulk of their efforts on this prized creature over all the others. This peculiar mage knows just the right techniques to bring out her Herbling's full potential as it transforms rapidly in combat to wreak havoc on its foes.

As a Grovetender, you will always have a unique creature in your party called an Herbling. During battle, your creatures' actions will fertilize the Herbling, causing it to rapidly evolve until it turns into an unstoppable force of nature.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Special Creature

Herbling (Herbling/Nature)

Health	30
Attack	20
Intelligence	20
Defense	20
Speed	20

Trait: Photomorphogenesis
After this creature Attacks, it gains 5% Attack. After this creature Casts a spell, it gains 5% Intelligence. After this creature Defends, it gains 5% Defense. After this creature Provokes, it gains 5% Speed.

Perks

Acclimatization
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
After one of your creatures is afflicted with a debuff, your Herbling Casts Nutrition on it. This perk can activate once per turn.

Angry Orchard
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
At the start of your Herbling's turn, it Casts Cruelty of the Wild. This spell has 20% more potency for each of your Herblings' Tiers.

Biodegradation
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your Herbling Attacks 1 additional time for each Tier it has.

Cultivation
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: No
At the start of your Herbling's turn, it gains 1% of each stat per rank for each Tier it has.
Maximum Bonus: 10% of each stat

Deep Roots
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
If your Herbling is the first creature in your party, it Provokes at the end of its turn. If your Herbling is the sixth creature in your party, it Defends at the end of its turn.

Defensins
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your Herbling is resistant to debuffs. Your Herbling is unable to be afflicted with debuffs while it is at Tier 3 or higher.

Eternal Blossom
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
At the end of your Herbling's turn, it Casts Wild Growth. This spell affects a number of allies equal to its Tier.

Nature's Wrath
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your Herbling always has an additional buff for each Tier it has: Agile, Savage, Leeching, Splashing, Berserk, and Arcane.

Offense Mechanism
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
After your Herbling Attacks, it casts Shellbust on the target.

Parasitic Fertilization
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
At the start of your Herbling's turn, it casts Germinate. This spell affects a number of enemies equal to its Tier.

Photosynthesis
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your Herbling has 3% more stats (other than Health) for each time it has received healing, gained stats, received buffs or minions, or has been resurrected in battle. Every 15% stats earned through this perk causes the Herbling to evolve to a higher Tier at the start of its turn.

Rapid Transformation
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your Herbling deals 25% more damage and takes 15% less damage for each Tier it has.

Strangler
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: No
At the start of your Herbling's turn, enemies lose stats equal to 1% of your Herbling's stats per rank for each Tier it has.
Maximum Bonus: 10% stat loss per Tier

Symbiosis
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
At the end of your creatures' turns, your Herbling gains 1 stack of Spiderlings.

Synthetic Resin
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your Herbling Casts 1 additional time for each Tier it has.

Fertility (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
Your Herbling evolves 50% faster.

Supplemental Info

Spells

Nutrition (Acclimatization)
Removes one of the target's debuffs. If a debuff was successfully removed, heal the target for a large amount of Health.

Cruelty of the Wild (Angry Orchard)
Enemies are afflicted with Blighted. If they are already afflicted with this debuff, they instead recover a moderate amount of Health.

Wild Growth (Eternal Blossom)
Target gains Mending, and a large amount of Maximum Health.

Shellbust (Offense Mechanism)
Target loses a moderate amount of Defense and deals damage equal to 150% of the amount reduced.

Germinate (Parasitic Fertilization)
Target is afflicted with Snared and Poisoned.

Status Effects

Agile (Nature's Wrath)
Creatures with Agile have an additional, independent chance to dodge attacks.

Savage (Nature's Wrath)
Savage creatures have an additional, independent chance to deal critical damage with attacks.

Leeching (Nature's Wrath)
Creatures with Leeching recover Health equal to 25% of the damage they deal.

Splashing (Nature's Wrath)
Creatures with Splashing deal 100% of their damage to enemies adjacent to the target they attack.

Berserk (Nature's Wrath)
Berserk creatures deal 50% more damage.

Arcane (Nature's Wrath)
When an Arcane creature casts a spell, the spell does not consume any Charges. Then, this buff is removed.

Spiderlings (Symbiosis)
After this minion's master takes damage from an enemy, each of its Spiderlings explode, dealing damage to the enemy equal to 50% of the master's Current Health. Maximum of 9 stacks.

Notes

Similar to the Animator, the Grovetender's perks revolve around the Herbling, a creature given you to you for free when you complete the project to unlock it. Your core perk is Photosynthesis, which should be unlocked first before the others - this will allow your Herbling to evolve in battle, strongly empowering the other perks.

The Herbling can grow more powerful in its own right through perks like Biodegradation and Synthetic Resin, as well act acting as a guardian to your other creatures through perks like Acclimatization and Eternal Blossom. Deep Roots allows you a degree of flexibility in what role the Herbling will play - tanking with Provoke in the first slot, or protecting itself in the sixth slot.

Notably, each perk that grants it free spell casts all involve Nature-class spells, so any traits that enhance Nature casts, such as Imp traits, may come in very handy on your team.

Grovetender has no anointments that can be equipped by other specializations.

Purgatorian

Purgatorians blur the line between life and death. These mystical spellcasters are able to call upon the spirits of their slain creatures to continue fighting in the afterlife.

As a Purgatorian, your creatures are able to continue fighting even while they're dead In fact, thanks to your powers, your creatures will be even stronger in the afterlife. Be careful not to let all your creatures die, though, or it's game over!

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Dark Covenant
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your dead creatures have 5% more stats per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 50% more stats

Designated Survivor
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
If you only have 1 living creature, it has a 5% chance per rank to avoid damage.
Maximum Bonus: 50% chance

Destiny Bond
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' buffs and minions persist through death.

Eternal Damnation
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 1% more damage per rank for each time your creatures have been killed in the current batle.
Maximum Bonus: 10% more damage

From the Grave
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your dead creatures Attack a random enemy for 10% additional damage per rank every 3 turns.
Maximum Bonus: 100% additional damage

Intangibility
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
At the start of each enemy's turn, they have a 1% chance per rank to be sent to the bottom of the TImeline for each dead creature on your side.
Maximum Bonus: 5% chance

Last Word
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Provoke, they give your creatures 3% of their stats per rank and are killed.
Maximum Bonus: 30% stats given

Life After Death
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your creatures' traits are active even while they're dead. This perk does not affect traits that cause creatures to intercept or take damage in place of their allies.

Madness
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures Attack 1 additional time for each dead creature on your side.

Masochism
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 3% less damage per rank for each dead creature fighting on your side.
Maximum Bonus: 15% less damage

Medium
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures Cast spells 1 additional time for each dead creature on your side.

Misery
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures are killed, one of your other creatures casts Murder of Crows.

Never Forgotten
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' stat changes persist through death.

Psychic Suicide
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your dead creatures Cast one of their spells with 10% more potency per rank every 5 turns.
Maximum Bonus: 100% more potency

Trauma
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 3% more damage per rank for each dead creature on your side.
Maximum Bonus: 30% more damage

Time to Die (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
At the start of battle, your creatures Provoke if their top-most Spell Gem slot is empty.

Supplemental Info

Spells

Murder of Crows (Misery)
Random enemies take a moderate amoutn of damage 3 times, plus 2 more times for each dead creature on the battlefield.

Notes

Purgatorians are a very high-risk, high reward class that thrive on their creatures dying or being dead. While your dead creatures can still act on your behalf and more strongly than they would while alive, and are effectively beyond retaliation, they still act randomly which gives you less ability to focus down priority targets.

In addition, creatures being dead will increase the risk and enemy focus on your living creatures - while Designated Survivor and Masochism can blunt this, you should still prepare your team build very carefully to allow your final creature to stay standing.

There are a handful of existing traits that allow creatures to act while dead that could synergize with this specialization - in addition, revival-oriented creatures such as Wights and Phoenixes may be of high value to a Purgatorian looking for perk synergies.

Purgatorian anointments can be obtained by defeating The Ancestor.

Rune Knight

Rune Knights call upon their runic powers - Cor, Dun, Lua, Nax and Sah - to bolster their creatures' strength and grant them powerful spells that are unavailable anywhere else.

As a Rune Knight, your creatures will have access to powerful Rune spells. Your creatures can cast these spells to create cumulative bonuses for your entire party.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Aegis
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 30
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 1% less damage per rank (up to 90%) for each time your creatures Cast Rune of Lua in the current battle.
Maximum Bonus: 3% less damage per Lua cast

Aggression
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 1% more damage per rank with attacks for each time your creatures cast Rune of Cor in the current battle.
Maximum Bonus: 10% more damage per Cor cast

Covenant
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
If your creatures have Cast each Rune spell at least once in the current battle, they activate your creatures' on-attack effects 1 additional time.

Crescendo
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures gain and reduce stats 1% more per rank for each time your creatures Cast Rune of Dun in the current battle.
Maximum Bonus: 5% stat change potency per Dun cast

Destiny
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have an independent 1% chance per rank to dodge and deal critical damage for each time your creatures Cast Rune of Nax in the current battle.
Maximum Bonus: 10% chance per Nax cast

Diabolism
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your creatures are immune to Silenced and their Rune Spell Gems cannot be Sealed.

Discharge
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' Rune spells have a 1% chance to target all enemies for each time your creatures Cast a Rune spell in the current battle.
Maximum Bonus: 20% chance

Embiggen
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 1% more damage per rank with spells for each time your creatures cast rune of Sah in the current battle.
Maximum Bonus: 10% more damage per Sah cast

Empowerment
Ranks: 2
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
If your creatures have Cast each Rune spell at least once in the current battle, they Cast 1 additional time per rank and no longer consume Charges.
Maximum Bonus: 2 additional casts

Inspirit
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' Rune spells grant them a buff which differs based on which spell it is.
Cor: Savage
Dun: Berserk
Lua: Shelled
Nax: Agile
Sah: Arcane

Rune of Lua
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your Life creatures gain Rune of Lua.

Rune of Cor
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your Chaos creatures gain Rune of Cor.

Rune of Dun
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your Death creatures gain Rune of Dun.

Rune of Nax
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your Nature creatures gain Rune of Nax.

Rune of Sah
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your Sorcery creatures gain Rune of Sah.

Ruse
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' Rune spells are granted powerful properties at the start of battle.
Magnetic, Increased Damage, and 24% Defense Penetration

Undermine
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' Rune spells afflict enemies with a debuff which differs based on which spell it is.
Cor: Burning
Dun: Bleeding
Lua: Confused
Nax: Poisoned
Sah: Bomb

Runic Might (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
Your creatures' Rune spells have 10% more potency for each Charge they're missing.

Supplemental Info

Spells

Rune of Lua (Aegis, Rune of Lua)
Target takes a large amount of damage, caster recovers Health equal to 50% of the damage dealt, and the caster's on-attack effects are activated. 100% of this spell's damage is based on the caster's highest stat.

Rune of Cor (Aggression, Rune of Cor)
Target takes a large amount of damage, loses a moderate amount of a random stat, and the caster's on-attack effects are activated. 100% of this spell's damage is based on the caster's highest stat.

Rune of Dun (Crescendo, Rune of Dun)
Target takes a large amount of damage, caster gains a random minion, and the caster's on-attack effects are activated. 100% of this spell's damage is based on the caster's highest stat.

Rune of Nax (Destiny, Rune of Nax)
Target takes a large amount of damage, caster gains a moderate amount of a random stat, and the caster's on-attack effects are activated. 100% of this spell's damage is based on the caster's highest stat.

Rune of Sah (Embiggen, Rune of Sah)
Target takes a large amount of damage and its buffs and minions are removed, caster's debuffs are removed, and the caster's on-attack effects are activated. 100% of this spell's damage is based on the caster's highest stat.

Status Effects

Silenced (Diabolism)
Creatures with Silenced cannot cast spells. Overwrites Scorned. Creatures that are resistant to Silenced can still cast spells, but deal 50% less damage with spells.

Notes

Rune Knights are highly flexible, able to modify their bonuses within each battle depending on which Rune Spells they cast - for instance, a team full of Nature creatures casting Nax will amplify their dodge and critical chance, whereas Life creatures casting Lua will become tankier and harder to kill. Obviously the Rune perks that confer these spells are critical to your perk set, so activate them first depending on which creatures you're using.

In addition, generalist enhancements are available such as Discharge and Empowerment, but everything hinges around casting Rune spells as much as possible - the only perk that does not revolve around doing this is Diabolism's silence immunity. Also, since the Rune spells activate on-attack effects despite being a spell cast, it may be worth finding some traits that use these effects to get even more power out of them.

A small handy tip - if you're struggling to remember which Rune is which, each one starts with the same letter as the class it's from. Life is Lua, Chaos is Cor, and so forth.

Rune Knight anointments can be obtained by defeating Lost Construct.

Spellweaver

Chaos, Death, Life, Nature and Sorcery: the five components that gave birth to the land of Rodia. Spellweavers can call upon these elements to imbue their creatures with powerful inscriptions to decimate their foes in battle.

As a Spellweaver, your creatures can cast spells to produce Infusions which can be expended for powerful effects. After your creatures accumulate enough Infusions, they can cast the powerful Colorwave spell to annihilate their enemies.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Attunement
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: No
Your creatures have 5% more Attack, Intelligence, Defense, and Speed per rank for each Chaos, Sorcery, Death or Nature Infusions you have. Your creatures take 1% less damage per rank for each Life Infusion you have.
Maximum Bonus: 25% more stats, 5% less damage per infusion

Chaos Infusion
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
After your creatures manually Cast a Chaos spell, you gain 1 Chaos Infusion. When any of your creatures manually Cast a spell, they decrease the enemies' stats by 1% for each Chaos Infusion you have.

Chromatic Layering
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: No
You start battles with 1 Infusion per rank, up to 1 per class.
Maximum Bonus: 5 Infusions

Chrono Shift
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures manually Cast a spell, they also Cast the Spell Gem below it.

Death Infusion
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
After your creatures manually Cast a Death spell, you gain 1 Death Infusion. After any of your creatures manually Cast a spell, they afflict enemies with 1 random debuff as long as you have at least 1 Death Infusion, plus 1 additional random debuff for every 3 Death Infusions you have beyond that.

Elemental Empowerment
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: No
Your creatures' spells are 10% more potent per rank for each time your creatures have Cast Colorwave in the current battle.
Maximum Bonus: 25% more potency

Eternal Echo
Ranks: 2
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures Cast spells 1 additional time per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 2 additional casts

Infinity
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
After your creatures have collectively Cast Colorwave at least 5 times, they can continue to Cast it for the rest of the battle and it consumes no Infusions.

Inspirited Gems
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' "Cast On..." properties have a 1% additional chance per rank to activate.
Maximum Bonus: 5% chance

Life Infusion
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
After your creatures manually Cast a Life spell, you gain 1 Life Infusion. After any of your creatures manually Cast a spell, they heal your creatures for 10% of their Health for each Life Infusion you have, and gain a Barrier that absorbs damage equal to the amount of Health recovered.

Nature Infusion
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
After your creatures manually Cast a Nature spell, you gain 1 Nature Infusion. After any of your creatures manually Cast a spell, their stats are increased by 3% for each Nature Infusion you have.

Prismatic Barrier
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
While you have at least 1 Infusion that matches your creatures' classes, those creatures are resistant to debuffs.

Sorcery Infusion
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
After your creatures manually Cast a Sorcery spell, they gain 1 Sorcery Infusion. When any of your creatures manually Cast a spell, your creatures gain 1 random buff as long as you have at least 1 Sorcery Infusion, plus 1 additional random buff for every 3 Sorcery Infusions you have beyond that.

Temporal Anomaly
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures manually Cast a spell, they also Cast the Spell Gem above it.

Ultimate Manifestation
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
While you have at least 1 stack of each Infusion, your creatures can Cast Colorwave. After your creatures cast Colorwave, you lose 1 of each Infusion.

Spectral Affinity (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
When you gain an Infusion, you gain another Infusion of the type you have the least Infusions of.

Supplemental Info

Spells

Colorwave (Elemental Empowerment, Infinity, Prismatic Barrier, Ultimate Manifestation)
Chaos Variant:
Target takes a devastating amount of damage, plus 50% more damage for each Chaos Infusion you have.

Death Variant:
Enemies are afflicted with 3 random debuffs, plus 1 random debuff for each Death Infusion you have.

Life Variant:
Your creatures gain 5 random buffs, plus 1 random buff for each Life Infusion you have.

Nature Variant:
Your creatures gain a large amount of stats, plus 50% more stats for each Nature Infusion you have.

Sorcery Variant:
Your creatures Cast one of their spells, plus 1 additional spell for each Sorcery Infusion you have.

Notes

Spellweavers are a complicated class that make their spells gain gradually more powerful additional effects the more they cast them, as well as having exclusive access to the powerful Colorwave spell. Since Colorwave requires 1 of each infusion as "ammo", you will want a diverse range of spells to cast, preferably one of each type across your team. Your key perks are the Infusion perks as well as Ultimate Manifestation, so be sure to unlock those first if you intend to make use of those infusions.

Infusions increase the power of the additional effect each spell gains from your perks, as well as making your creatures stronger in general. In this regard the specialization is similar to Rune Knight, but gains power from all spells rather than specific ones. Spellweavers would gain a lot of mileage out of casting several times per turn, allowing them to stack up infusions more quickly - but of course, keep an eye on your charges if you intend to do that!

Spellweaver anointments can be obtained by defeating Hydranox, however there are very few available.

Dreamshade

Dreamshades blur the line between dreams and reality. This mystical magi is adept at redirecting his foes' efforts for his own benefit.

As a Dreamshade, you'll utilize the Inverted debuff to cause your foes' damage to instead heal your creatures, and their healing effects to damage their allies.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Antipode
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When an enemy with Inverted gains stats, they have a 50% chance to lose stats instead.

Antithesis
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Attack, they afflict the enemy with Inverted. The potency of this debuff is equal to 10% of the damage they caused per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 100% of the damage

Contrarian
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When an enemy with Inverted gains a buff, they have a 50% chance to gain a random debuff instead.

Counterintuitive
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures afflict each other with a debuff, they gain a random buff instead.

Damned Visions
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Cast a spell, they afflict a random enemy with Inverted. The potency of this debuff is equal to 10% of the caster's highest stat.

Delusion of Grandeur
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal additional damage with attacks and spells equal to 1% of the enemy's Inverted potency per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 10% of potency

Edge of Reality
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy is killed, the potency of their Inverted debuff is added to the potency of all other enemies' Inverted debuffs.

Eternal Dream
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies cannot be immune to Inverted.

Hallucination
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures reduce each others' stats, they gain those stats instead.

Late Confessions
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
When the enemies' Inverted debuff activates, there is a 5% chance per rank that its potency will not be decreased.
Maximum Bonus: 50% chance

Losing Touch
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures are immune to Blighted.

Lost in the Echo
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 30
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy is killed, all other enemies take damage equal to 10% of the potency of their Inverted debuff per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 30% of the potency

Paradox
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures can trigger healing effects even while they're at full Health.

Question Everything
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures deal damage to each other, they are healed instead of taking damage.

Unfurling Nightmare
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, enemies are afflicted with Inverted. The potency of this debuff is equal to 1% of their highest stat per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 10% of highest stat

Lucid Dreams (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
Enemies' Inverted debuffs lose 50% less potency when they activate.

Supplemental Info

Status Effects

Inverted (Antipode, Antithesis, Contrarian, Damned Visions, Delusion of Grandeur, Edge of Reality, Eternal Dream, Late Confessions, Lost in the Echo, Unfurling Nightmare)
Inverted creatures heal enemies instead of damaging them with attacks and spells, and damage allies instead of healing them. This debuff is removed after enough damage or healing has been done to offset its potency.

Blighted (Losing Touch)
Creatures with Blighted cannot be healed and take damage from healing effects equal to 25% of the effect.

Notes

With unique access to the Inverted debuff, you will be heavily reliant on maintaining and applying the debuff for your leverage. Thankfully it functions as a defense mechanism by causing enemies to heal you instead of doing damage, and you can leverage your Paradox perk to trigger your creatures' on-heal effects for additional trickery.

In addition, perks such as Counterintuitive, Hallucination and Question Everything invert negative effects into positive ones if you apply them to your own team, causing certain spells and traits to get new tactical leverage they did not have before.

Dreamshade anointments can be obtained by defeating Mindwurm.

Siegemaster

The Siegemaster is a stalwart protector who amplifies the defenses of his creatures to keep them strong in battle.

As a Siegemaster, you'll protect your creatures with powerful defensive mechanisms while they reflect damage taken back on their attackers. This specialization makes great use of the Defend command in battle.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Armor Shred
Ranks: 25
Cost Per Rank: 4
Anointment: No
Your creatures' attacks and spells ignore 1% of the enemies' Defense per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 25% Defense ignored

Barricade
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures are Defending, the creatures adjacent to them take 50% less damage.

Defensive Stance
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 5% less damage (up to 90%) for each time they've Defended in the current battle.

Explosive Armor
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Defend, they gain 10% Defense and a Barrier that absorbs damage equal to the amount of Defense gained. If the creature already has a Barrier, it explodes, dealing damage to enemies equal to 50% of the Barrier strength.

In Formation
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures start battles Defending.

Last Stand
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures take damage that exceeds 100% of their Maximum Health, they have a 50% chance to be left with 1 Health.

Lucidity
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures are immune to Confused.

No Weak Links
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your creatures gain Defense equal to 50% of their highest stat.

Rest Up
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Defend, their Spell Gems gain 1 Charge.

Shield Guard
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures gain 100% more benefit from their Artifacts' Stat Slots that increase Defense.

Purge
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Defend, their debuffs are removed and they gain a random buff for each debuff removed.

The Best Offense
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal additional damage with attacks and spells equal to 3% of their Defense per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 30% of Defense

Thorns
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures take damage from an attack or spell, they deal damage to enemies equal to 15% of their Defense.

Titanic Rage
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 150% more damage to enemies that are Defending or Provoking.

War Machine
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Provoke, they Defend.

Furious Protector (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
Your creatures always deal critical damage and never dodge.

Supplemental Info

Status Effects

Barrier (Explosive Armor)
Barrier absorbs a certain amount of damage. After the maximum amount of damage is dealt, the buff is removed. Barrier strength cannot exceed 200% of a creature's Maximum Health when this buff is applied.

Confused (Lucidity)
Confused creatures have a 50% chance to attack or cast harmful spells on their allies.

Notes

Though primarily a solid defensive bulwark, Siegemasters are able to use their defensive power as an attack angle using perks like Explosive Armor, The Best Offense and Thorns. You will obviously want to stack as much defense as you possibly can as most of your perk set runs off it - though take note of perks such as Armor Shred and Titanic Rage that allow you an advantage against enemies.

Siegemaster anointments can be obtained by defeating Lost Construct.

Windrunner

Windrunners are vigilant sentinels who imbue their creatures with unmatched speed and vigor, allowing them to move so quickly that their opponents can't ever catch them.

As a Windrunner, you'll rely on the Speed stat to outplay your foes. This specialization also offers several ways to disable your enemies and prevent them from passing through your defenses.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Accumulation
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
At the start of your creatures' turns, they gain 1% Speed per rank, plus additional Speed equal to 1% per rank of the amount of Speed they've gained in the current battle.
Maximum Bonus: 5% Speed

Aeroforged
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures gain 3% more benefit from their Artifacts' Stat Slots per rank, other than Health.
Maximum Bonus: 30% more benefit

Born Again
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
After your creatures are killed from start-of-battle effects, they are resurrected with 50% Health.

Derivation
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures gain stats other than Speed, they gain Speed equal to 3% of the amount gained per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 15% of the amount

First Served
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 30
Anointment: No
After the order of the Timeline is determined at the start of battle, your creatures are moved up the Timeline 1 position higher per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 3 positions higher

Further Beyond
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Increases your creatures' maximum stat limits before they are subjected to diminishing returns by 10% per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 100% higher limit

Inertia
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your creatures cannot lose stats.

Primordial
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' Nether Stones are 5% more powerful per rank. This perk does not affect a Nether Stone's traits, spells, or any Trick Slots that increase a creature's maximum number of Spell Gem slots.
Maximum Bonus: 50% more power

Propulsion
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 1% less damage per rank (up to 90%) for every 100% Speed they have greater than their base Speed.
Maximum Bonus: 10% less damage

Quick Hands
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures are immune to Disarmed.

Retention
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' stats are no longer reset after they're killed.

Sidestep
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
If your creatures' Speed is greater than 200% of their base Speed, they are resistant to debuffs.

Singleton
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies can only Attack and Cast spells once at a time.

True Ending
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
All creatures' on-death effects are ignored. This perk does not affect the Born Again perk. This perk does not work in boss battles.

Velocity
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' attacks and spells deal 3% of their damage per rank using Speed instead of Attack or Intelligence.
Maximum Bonus: 30% of speed

Zoom (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
Your creatures always dodge. The first time your creatures Attack in battle, they have a 100% chance to deal critical damage.

Supplemental Info

Status Effects

Disarmed (Quick Hands)
Disarmed creatures lose the benefits from their equipped Artifact, other than Health.

Notes

Windrunners rely on stacking as much speed as possible, and leveraging it in battle to stay alive long enough for the effects of perks such as Accumulation and Derivation to cascade the battle in their favor. Curiously, their perkset has relatively little in the way of offensive options and is almost all about gaining or preserving speed, so you will have to leverage your creatures' traits much more than with other specializations to get the most out of Windrunner.

Windrunner anointments can be obtained by defeating Imp Impington Prime.

Fanatic

Fanatics devote their lives to serving the gods. From dusk until dawn, these magi toil away at a neverending list of demands to better-serve each of the 21 gods of Rodia. Such devotion is not without purpose, however, for the Fanatic is able to call on the gods' power to serve him in his time of need.

As a Fanatic, you'll be able to take additional Avatar creatures with you on your journey and empower them and their Ultimate Spell Gems with potent magic. Fanatics also make use of Godspawn creatures and create powerful synergies between them and their Avatar allies.

NOTE: Fanatic is special even among non-starter specializations, as it requires you to obtain an Avatar creature and bring it to Everett when attempting to start the project to unlock it.

Perks

Apostle
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
After your Avatars Attack, your Godspawn have a 1% chance per rank to Attack a random enemy.
Maximum Bonus: 10% chance

Army of Gods
Ranks: 2
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: No
You can have 1 additional Avatar creature per rank in your party.
Maximum Bonus: 2 additional Avatars

Canonization
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
After your Avatars are killed, they give 10% of their stats per rank to your Godspawn.
Maximum Bonus: 100% of stats given

Deified Armaments
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' Ultimate Spell Gems have 10% more potency per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 100% more potency

Martyr
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your Godspawn are killed, they are resurrected with 50% Health and transform into their respective Avatar.

Multitheism
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your Godspawn creatures gain their respective Avatars' trait.

Nirvana
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 30
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your Avatars gain 1 random Ultimate Spell Gem per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 3 Ultimate Spells

Otherworldly
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your Avatars are resistant to debuffs.

Pact of the Gods
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your Avatars' Ultimate Spell Gems gain the "Generous" property.

Prophecy
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
After your Godspawn Attack, they have a 1% chance per rank to Cast their respective Avatars' respective Ultimate Spell.
Maximum Bonus: 20% chance

Syncretism
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
After your Avatars Cast a spell, your Godspawn have a 1% chance per rank to Cast that spell as well.
Maximum Bonus: 10% chance

Transcendence
Ranks: 20
Cost Per Rank: 5
Anointment: Yes
After your Godspawn Cast a spell, they have a 1% chance per rank to Cast their respective Avatars' Ultimate Spell.
Maximum Bonus: 20% chance

Ultima
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 30
Anointment: Yes
All Avatars' Ultimate Spell Gems have 1 additional Charge per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 3 additional charges

Undying Exaltation
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your Avatars have been dead for 7 turns, they are resurrected with 50% Health.

Unstoppable Force
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Ultimate Spell Gems cannot be Sealed.

Godforged (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
Your Avatars have 50% more benefit from the Godforge.

Notes

Fanatics are a true endgame class, since they hinge around the use of creatures that are only available some time after finishing the game's storyline. You will want a party comprised entirely of these creatures, since the specialization does not offer any kind of bonus to any other type of creature.

Since Avatars tend to have very powerful traits but you are only limited to one per party, Army of Gods' ability to bring three with you is absurdly strong - and you can get more within battle through use of the Martyr perk. Try to remember which Godspawn corresponds to which Avatar - the god you purchase it from is the Avatar you will invoke through "respective Avatar" perks. It may be better to not use an Avatar AND their respective Godspawn in a single party composition if you plan to make use of Martyr, as Avatar traits tend not to stack. Otherworldly and Unstoppable Force will also prevent your Ultimate Spells from being shut down or blocked by Silence and Seal, but bear in mind that other factors may prevent the casting of these spells.

Fanatic anointments can be obtained by defeating Saint Althea.

Toxicologist

Toxicologists spend their days tarrying away at all manner of potions and elixirs that might serve their use in battle. These mad scientists care little for the well-being of their own creatures, equipping them with venomous toxins that grant them enhanced combat prowess at the cost of their own lives.

As a Toxicologist, you'll use the Poison debuff to inflict massive damage over time to your foes. You'll also Poison your own creatures to generate beneficial effects when they take damage.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Addictive Effect
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal additional damage equal to 4% of the potency of their Poisoned debuff per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 20% of poison potency

Bioassay
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures’ spells that interact with Poisoned do not consume Charges.

Breath of Death
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
If an enemy dies while it is afflicted with Poisoned, all other enemies take damage equal to 50% of the potency of this debuff.

Carcinogen
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies always have Poisoned.

Chronic Illness
Ranks: 2
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take damage from Poison 1 additional time per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 2 extra poison damages

Confounding Factors
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures’ spells that interact with Poisoned have 20% more potency per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 100% extra potency

Diagnosis
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures always have Poisoned. Your creatures can take a maximum of 50% of their Current Health as damage from Poisoned.

Dispersing Plague
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures take damage from Poison, they have a 20% chance to Cast Virus.

Inoculate
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 10% (up to 80%) less damage from attacks and spells for each time they’ve taken damage from Poisoned in the current battle.

Neurotoxicity
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies take 1% more damage from attacks and spells for each time each enemy has taken damage from Poisoned in the current battle.

Plague of Toads
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Attack, they have a 20% chance to Cast Toxic Frogmania.

Prognosis
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures take damage from Poisoned, one of your other creatures is healed for the same amount.

Side Effects
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy takes damage from Poisoned, they are afflicted with a random debuff.

Sudden Exposure
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creaturess take damage from Poisoned, a random enemy takes this damage as well.

Teratogen
Ranks: 5
Cost Per Rank: 20
Anointment: Yes
After a creature takes damage from Poisoned, the potency of all enemies’ Poisoned debuffs is increased by 5% per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 25% potency boost

Toxic Absorption (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
After your creatures take damage from Poisoned, they gain stats (other than Health) equal to 50% of the damage received.

Spells

Toxic Frogmania (Plague of Toads)
Target takes a small amount of damage, or a massive amount of damage if it is afflicted with Poisoned.

Virus (Dispersing Plague)
Enemies take damage equal to 2 turns of their Poisoned debuff.

Status Effects

Poisoned (All Perks except Plague of Toads)
Creatures with Poisoned take damage based on the inflictor's Attack each turn.

Notes

Toxicologist is to Poison what Pyromancer is to Burning. The entire perk set revolves around taking advantage of this classic status effect, with Carcinogen and Diagnosis ensuring everyone on the battlefield is poisoned at all times, and perks such as Addictive Effect and Dispersing Plague turning it from a liability into a dangerous but effective advantage for your own team.

Toxicologist's perk set carries a fair amount of risk to your own creatures, so have a plan to ensure they remain healed and do not themselves die to the constant damage they'll be taking from their own poison.

Shadowbringer

The presence of a Shadowbringer spells doom for all who cross its path. This ethereal being bends the light into darkness, sapping its foes' will to live from their hearts.

As a Shadowbringer, you'll utilize the Blighted debuff to damage your foes using numerous healing effects.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Arrogance is Confidence
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures with Blighted ignore the effects of this debuff, and deal 50% more damage.

Ascent of the Damned
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures attack, they cast Minor Healing, Healing, or Major Healing on themselves.

Dark Souls
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Attack, they cast Minor Healing, Healing, or Major Healing on the target.

Dead Divinity
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies’ healing spells have 50% more potency.

Doomsday
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures heal an enemy, they have a 25% chance to cast Ill Fate.

Dystopia
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy casts a healing spell, each of your creatures have a 5% chance to Cast Shadow Crash.

Fall From Grace
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies receive 5% more healing for each time they’ve been damaged by Blighted in the current battle.

Harrow
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies gain 50% less benefit from stat-boosting effects.

Leeches
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy attacks, it gains Leeching.

Phantom Pain
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of each enemy’s turn, they have a 25% chance to cast Minor Healing on themselves.

Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy Casts a spell, it gains Mending.

Shadow Mending
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures always have Leeching and Mending.

Shadow Sickness
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies always have Blighted.

Touch of Darkness
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures damage an enemy, the enemy is healed for 20% of the damage dealt.

Worldbreaker
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies take 100% more damage from Blighted.

Endwalker (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
If an enemy dies while it is afflicted with Blighted, it cannot be resurrected.

Spells

Minor Healing (Dark Souls, Ascent of the Damned, Phantom Pain)
Target recovers a small amount of Health.

Healing (Dark Souls, Ascent of the Damned)
Target recovers a moderate amount of Health.

Major Healing (Dark Souls, Ascent of the Damned)
Target recovers a large amount of Health.

Ill Fate (Doomsday)
Enemies with Blighted recover a moderate amount of Health.

Shadow Crash (Dystopia)
Enemies take damage equal to 10% of the caster's Intelligence for each time they've cast a spell in the current battle.

Status Effects

Blighted (Shadow Sickness, Fall from Grace, Arrogance is Confidence, Worldbreaker, Endwalker)
Creatures with Blighted cannot be healed and take damage from healing effects equal to 50% of the effect.

Leeching (Shadow Mending, Leeches)
Creatures with Leeching recover Health equal to 25% of the damage they deal.

Mending (Shadow Mending, Self-fulfilling Prophecy)
Creatures with Mending recover 25% Health at the start of their turn.

Notes

Killing them with kindness, the Shadowbringer is a spec that loves to heal enemies to death. The constant presence of Blight via Shadow Sickness will ensure that enemies cannot receive any healing (though do note it does not block resurrection outside of Endwalker's effect), and Worldbreaker amps up its usually middling damage to much better levels.

Most of the rest of the perk set revolves around making enemies just constantly keep getting hurt by further sources of healing, such as Touch of Darkness. Do note that Shadowbringer is rather light on defensive perks, so it may be a good idea to ensure your creatures have a solid plan to protect themselves in place.

Engineer

The Engineer's sole purpose in life is to build a bigger and better explosive than last time. This bombastic bombardier belays bombs to its opponent's backs, blasting them back to the bilgewater from whence they were born.

As an Engineer, you'll strap bombs to enemies and blow them to bits. The Engineer is also accompanied by their greatest invention: the Microbot minion!

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Annealment
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies take 35% more indirect damage.

Dimensional Stability
Ranks: 2
Cost Per Rank: 50
Anointment: Yes
Enemies’ Bomb debuffs detonate 1 additional time per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 2 additional detonations

Dismantlement
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies deal 5% less damage (up to 80%) for each time they’ve been damaged by Bomb in the current battle.

Drone Bait
Ranks: 3
Cost Per Rank: 35
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy’s Bomb debuff detonates, one of your creatures gains 1 stack of Microbots per rank.
Maximum Bonus: 3 stacks of Microbots

Energy Efficient
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures’ spells that interact with Bomb do not consume Charges.

Extrusion
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies’ Bomb debuffs deal 50% more damage for each time they’ve been damaged by this debuff in the current battle.

Grand Finale
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures are killed, they cast Corpse Explosion.

Heat Distortion
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies with Bomb have 20% less stats (excluding Health).

Impact Resistance
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy takes damage from Bomb, your creatures gain a Barrier that absorbs damage equal to 100% of the damage dealt.

Light the Fuse
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures attack, they cast Pyroburst on the target.

Locked and Loaded
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of your creatures’ turns, they have a 20% chance to cast Explosive Arrow on a random enemy.

Pinpoint
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 5% more damage per rank to enemies with Bomb.
Maximum Bonus: 50% more damage

Primed and Ready
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, enemies are afflicted with Bomb.

Prototype
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
The potency of enemies’ Bomb debuffs that are applied after start-of-battle effects is based on your creatures’ highest stats (other than Health) instead of Speed.

Renewable Armaments
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy’s Bomb detonates, it has a 35% chance to be afflicted with Bomb again.

Chain Reaction (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
After an enemy takes damage from Bomb, all other enemies take this damage as well.

Spells

Pyroburst (Light the Fuse)
Target takes a small amount of damage, or a massive amount of damage if they are afflicted with Bomb.

Explosive Arrow (Locked and Loaded)
Target takes a moderate amount of damage, or a devastating amount of damage if it has a Bomb. 100% of the damage is based on the caster's Speed instead of Intelligence.

Corpse Explosion (Grand Finale)
Enemies take a small amount of damage for each dead creature on the battlefield.

Status Effects

Bomb (All perks except Annealment, Light the Fuse, Locked and Loaded and Grand Finale)
At the start of a creature's turn, its Bomb detonates, dealing damage to the creature equal to 80% of the afflictor's Speed. Then, this debuff is removed.

Microbots (Drone Bait)
At the end of this minion's master's turn, each Microbots deals damage to a random enemy equal to 50% of its Intelligence. Maximum of 9 stacks.

Notes

Like Pyromancer, Toxicologist and Shadowbringer, Engineer goes all-in on a single status effect - that being Bomb. Do note that the only perk in this set that actually afflicts Bomb consistently is Primed and Ready, and only at the start of battle, so you will need to bring along something that actually afflicts additional Bombs, such as the Fireworks spell - note that Energy Efficient will make these spells be cost-free to cast, so you can go all-in on them in battle without too much worry.

Once you get the bombs rolling, Engineer's perkset snowballs rather quickly with perks like Extrusion causing the bombs to quickly escalate in damage, and Prototype having the bombs run off your highest stat, which will allow you to stat-stack to ensure they're doing as much damage as possible.

Brewmaster

The Brewmaster believes that no problem can't be solved with a full mug of beer... or six. This unexpected hero generously distributes all manner of ales and cocktails to friend and foe alike - but all should be wary when the time comes to pay the bill.

As a Brewmaster, you'll rely on Booze spells to... well... make everyone get really, really drunk.

Perks

Autograt
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After start-of-battle effects are determined, your creatures’ Booze spells gain the ‘Chance to Attack’, ‘Chance to Defend’, and ‘Chance to Provoke’ properties.

Brewmaster’s Handshake
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures can cast Booze spells manually.

Chaser
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures manually cast a Booze spell, they have a 50% chance to Cast a random spell. Otherwise, they Attack a random enemy.

Double Entendre
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures’ Booze spells also have a chance to be Cast at the start of the equipped creatures’ turns.

Experimental Cocktail
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your creatures gain all Booze spells that belong to their class.

Highball
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures’ Booze spells count 50% less against their per-turn Casting limit.

Inebriation
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies have a 5% chance (up to 80%) to deal no damage for each time they’ve been affected by an Booze spell in the current battle.

Liquid Courage
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 3% more damage for each time they’ve cast a Booze spell in the current battle.

Muddle
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures attack 1 additional time (up to 3) for every 5 Booze spells they’ve Cast in the current battle.

Nightcap
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies cannot be resurrected if they have been affected by Booze spells at least 3 times in the current battle.

Numb the Pain
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have a 5% chance (up to 80%) to avoid damage for each time they’ve been affected by an Booze spell in the current battle.

On The House
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures’ Booze spells do not consume Charges.

Speed Rail
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures cast Booze spells 1 additional time (up to 3) for every 5 Booze spells they’ve cast in the current battle.

Straight Up
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures’ Booze spells cannot be Sealed.

Top Shelf
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures’ Booze spells have a 100% increased chance to be cast.

Drunken Camaraderie (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
Enemies take a moderate amount of damage and your creatures are healed for a moderate amount when they are affected by your creatures’ Booze spells.

Notes

Booze spells, which are available to purchase from the Gambling Dwarves' shop, are usually powerful spells which can't be cast manually and only have a chance to go off at the end of a creature's turn - Brewmasters have the option to cast them manually (Brewmaster's Handshake), make them impervious to sealing (Straight Up) AND not consume charges (On The House). While these effects are powerful in and of themselves, perks like Inebriation and Numb the Pain also grant a Brewmaster absurd defensive power as long as they're able to stay in the fight and spam their booze spells as much as possible.

Throw in the standard-issue snowball perks like Liquid Courage and the fact that Booze spells are strong to begin with AND will still be automatically triggering as they usually would, and you have yourself a truly fearsome specialization in the right hands.

Demonologist

The Demonologist is a wicked summoner who conjures terrible demons from the depths of hell to aid his creatures in battle. This chaotic sorcerer uses Greater Demons to do his bidding while sacrificing Lesser Demons to empower his own creatures.

As a Demonologist, you'll summon powerful demons from the depths of hell to do your bidding.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Brim Fiends
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of your creatures’ turns, they gain 1 stack of Brim Fiends.

Chaos Satyrs
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of your creatures’ turns, they gain 1 stack of Chaos Satyr.

Demonic Consumption
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After any number of stacks of your creatures’ Lesser or Greater Demons go away, they recover 100% Health.

Demonic Pact
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have 10% more stats (excluding Health) for each different Greater Demon your creatures have.

Drained Essence
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 3% more damage for each time all your creatures’ minions went away in the current battle.

Final Summoning
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures’ Greater Demons go away, they cast a powerful spell depending on which Greater Demon went away.

Fire Imps
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of your creatures’ turns, they gain 1 stack of Fire Imps.

Inner Demons
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After any number of stacks of your creatures’ Lesser Demons go away, they gain 15% stats.

Reawakening
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures sacrifice a Lesser Demon, each stack has a 35% chance to resurrect.

Renounce the Light
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
Your creatures cannot gain buffs or minions that are unrelated to this specialization. This perk is always active while your specialization is Demonologist, even if you haven’t allocated any Perk Points to it.

Soul Shield
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 3% less damage (up to 80%) for each time all your creatures’ minions went away in the current battle.

Summon Asmodeus
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your Chaos creatures gain Asmodeus.

Summon Beelzebub
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your Death creatures gain Beelzebub.

Summon Belphegor
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your Sorcery creatures gain Belphegor.

Summon Leviathan
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your Nature creatures gain Leviathan.

Summon Mammon
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, your Life creatures gain Mammon.

Summon Satanachia
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of battle, if your creatures collectively have Asmodeus, Beelzebub, Mammon, Leviathan, and Belphegor, they gain Satanachia.

Void Shift
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When your creatures’ Greater Demons would go away, they move to a different creature fighting on your side instead.

Summon Lucifer (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
At the start of battle, if your creatures collectively have Asmodeus, Beelzebub, Mammon, Leviathan, and Belphegor, your creatures gain Lucifer.

Status Effects

Brim Fiends (Brim Fiends)
When this minion's master Attacks, it sacrifices each Brim Fiends to increase its damage by 50% per stack. Maximum of 9 stacks.

Fire Imps (Fire Imps)
When this minion's master Casts a spell, it sacrifices each Fire Imps to increase its potency by 30% per stack. Maximum of 9 stacks.

Chaos Satyrs (Chaos Satyrs)
After this minion's master Defends or Provokes, it sacrifices each Chaos Satyrs to deal damage to enemies equal to 15% of its highest stat per stack. Maximum of 9 stacks.

Asmodeus (Summon Asmodeus)
When Asmodeus' master Attacks, it always deals critical damage, cannot be dodged, and damages all other enemies for 50% less damage.

Beelzebub (Summon Beelzebub)
When Beelzebub's master kills an enemy, it gains a random Greater Demon.

Mammon (Summon Mammon)
When Mammon's master takes damage, the damage is reduced by 50% and it gains Shelled.

Leviathan (Summon Leviathan)
When Leviathan's master kills an enemy, it gains 5 stacks of each Lesser Demon.

Belphegor (Summon Belphegor)
When Belphegor's master Casts a single-target spell, it targets all the creatures fighting on the target's side.

Satanachia (Summon Satanachia)
At the end of Satanachia's master's turn, it Casts the last 3 spells creatures Cast in the current battle.

Lucifer (Summon Lucifer)
At the start of Lucifer's master's turn, it Attacks random enemies 3 times.

Notes

A very unique specialization, Demonologist has exclusive access to Lesser and Greater Demons, though Renounce the Light does make you pay the price of eschewing buffs and regular minions in order to get this access.

Demonologists favor a class-diverse team that features at least one of every class, else they will not be able to get access to Satanachia, and if ascended, Lucifer. Otherwise, the Greater Demons offer a significant power boost - Asmodeus and Belphegor offer drastic offensive benefits for attackers and casters respectively, Beelzebub and Leviathan synergize with the rest of the perk set, and Mammon is a strong defensive presence since the Protected buff is not available.

On top of this, your Lesser Demons in and of themselves supplement your attacks and casts, and turn defending/provoking into an offensive option - but that's not all, since Demonologist's perk set makes the sacrificing of these minions grant you lasting empowerment through perks such as Inner Demons and Soul Shield, so you shouldn't try to hold onto your Lesser Demons for too long - use them up and grow stronger, since you can always get more!

Gladiator

The Gladiator is a master of the arena, sporting tremendous proficiency with all manner of weapons. No sword, no axe, no bow is too difficult for this master of armaments to wield.

As a Gladiator, you'll utilize powerful Arsenal spells to bolster your forces and devastate your opponents. In addition, your creatues' Artifacts will become far stronger than normal.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Acclimated Armaments
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures’ Arsenal spells are 5% more potent for each time they've Cast an Arsenal spell in the current battle.

Blacksmith’s Boon
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures’ Trick Slots that apply buffs and debuffs have a 35% greater chance to activate.

Crowd Favorite
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures’ Trick Slots activate, they gain a random Arsenal Spell.

Double Time
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures’ Trick Slots that apply buffs and debuffs affect 1 additional creature.

Elbow Grease
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures gain 50% more benefit from their Artifact’s Stat Slots.

Frenzy
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 15% more damage with attacks and spells for each debuff they afflicted from all your Artifacts’ Trick Slots.

Grip of the Gods
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures are immune to Disarmed.

Helping Hand
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures’ Trick Slots activate, they resurrect an ally with 50% Health. If none of your creatures are dead, they heal an ally for 50% Health instead.

Impending Victory
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
50% of the potency of your creatures’ Arsenal Spells is based on their highest stat instead of Intelligence.

It’s Called a Lance
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures manually Cast an Arsenal Spell, they cast a Living Lance spell. The type of Living Lance spell is based on the caster’s class.

Nether Imbuement
Ranks: 10
Cost Per Rank: 10
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures’ Nether Stones are 5% more powerful per rank. This perk does not affect a Nether Stone’s traits, spells, or any Trick Slots that increase a creature’s maximum number of Spell Gem slots.
Maximum Bonus: 50% more powerful

Reprimand
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures Provoke, their Ethereal Spell Gems are transformed into random Arsenal Spells.

Taking Measure
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 10% less damage (up to 80%) for each buff they gained from all your Artifacts’ Trick Slots.

Turn the Tables
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After your creatures manually Cast an Arsenal spell, they Attack a random enemy for 50% more damage.

War Paint
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures have 10% more stats (other than Health) for each non-Ethereal Arsenal Spell they have equipped.

Killing Machine (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
At the end of your creatures’ turns, each of their Arsenal Spells have a 5% chance to be Cast.

Status Effects

Disarmed (Grip of the Gods)
Disarmed creatures lose all benefits from their equipped Artifact.

Notes

It may take a bit of grinding out the Arena's rewards to get a solid plan for this specialization rolling, as unlocking the Living Artifact spells that are sold there may take quite a bit - though you can use Reprimand or Crowd Favorite to get random arsenal spells if you don't have them yet, so this specialization isn't a dead end if you haven't gotten around to it.

Besides this, another factor you'll want is making sure your castle's Blacksmith is fully upgraded, since the higher level an artifact is upgraded to, the more benefit it will get from Gladiator's slot-enhancing perks such as Elbow Grease, Nether Imbuement and Blacksmith's Boon.

Do be cautious to note that Gladiator features no anti-seal or anti-silence mechanisms in its perk set, so you may want to shore up your defenses by finding ways around these in order to ensure you stay at maximum flexibility and strength in battle. Reprimand could potentially be used to get around sealing, but only if you have ethereal spells available.

Graveborn

The Graveborn is a once-powerful warlock who was killed for his heresy and has since risen from the dead to wreak havoc on the living. This undead spellcaster is capable of bringing his creatures back from the dead with far greater power than before.

As a Graveborn, you'll bring empowered versions of your creatures back from the dead to wreak havoc on your enemies.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Carapace That Protects
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
The first 3 times your creatures are resurrected, they gain 25%, 50%, and 100% Defense.

Claws That Cast
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
The first 3 times your creatures are resurrected, they gain 25%, 50%, and 100% Intelligence.

Death’s Bane
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
The first 3 times your creatures are resurrected, they attack random enemies 1, 2, and 3 times.

Death’s Echo
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
The first 3 times your creatures are resurrected, they Cast their spells at random 1, 2, and 3 times.

Dread Covenant
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 25% less damage (up to 80%) for each time they’ve been resurrected in the current battle.

Eternal Legacy
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
The first 3 times your creatures are resurrected, they gain a random trait that belongs to their race.

Graveborn Bargain
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
The first 3 times your creatures are resurrected, they gain 1, 2, and 3 random buffs.

Heart That Thrives
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
The first 3 times your creatures are resurrected, they gain 25%, 50%, and 100% Maximum Health.

Jaws That Bite
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
The first 3 times your creatures are resurrected, they gain 25%, 50%, and 100% Attack.

Legs That Carry
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
The first 3 times your creatures are resurrected, they gain 25%, 50%, and 100% Speed.

Mortal Vessel
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 50% more damage with attacks and spells for each time they’ve been resurrected in the current battle.

Past Life Regression
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures’ stat changes persist through death.

Somnus
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
The first 3 times your creatures die, they are resurrected with 25%, 50%, and 100% Health. Your creatures cannot be resurrected by any other means. Your creatures' on-ressurect effects can activate only once at a time. This perk is always active while your specialization is Graveborn, even if you haven’t allocated any Perk Points to it.

Unnatural Causes
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: No
Your creatures that have been resurrected at least 1 time are resistant to debuffs. Your creatures that have been resurrected at least 3 times always have Immune.

Visitors From Before
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures’ buffs and minions persist through death.

From Beyond the Grave (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
If your creatures have been resurrected at least 3 times in battle, their traits are active even while they’re dead. This perk does not affect traits that cause creatures to intercept or take damage in place of their allies.

Status Effects

Immune (Unnatural Causes)
Creatures with Immune can't be afflicted with debuffs.

Notes

Graveborn should not be confused with Purgatorian despite the similar tone of the two - Graveborn is all about coming back stronger each time. Care should be taken to eliminate enemy traits that prey upon your creatures dying however, or you will find your main advantage rapidly turning into a liability since you only get three resurrections per creature.

This is a higher risk specialization since you may opt to let your creatures a few times to get them up to full power - once they're on their last life, they will boast doubled stats, debuff immunity and significant bonuses to dealing out more damage and taking less - but if they go down anyway, they stay down. Use traits that synergize with resurrections to push your advantages even further.

Mime

While the Mime's own combat prowess leaves much to be desired, it excels at copying it's opponent's actions, turning its enemies' strategy against them to assure victory.

As a Mime, you'll enable your creatures to copy the actions of your opponents and grow stronger based on how your enemies behave in battle.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature.

Perks

Bewilderment
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy attacks, it has a 25% chance to be afflicted with Blind.

Circus Walk
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
The first time your creatures Attack each turn, your other creatures have a 15% chance to Attack the enemy as well.

Clic
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
The first time your creatures Attack each turn, the target has a 15% chance to attack itself as well.

Finger Painting
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When an enemy gains a buff, one of your creatures gains that buff as well.

Follow the Leader
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
The first time your creatures Cast a spell each turn, your other creatures have a 15% chance to Cast that spell as well.

Gesticulation
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy Provokes, one of your creatures Provokes as well.

Imitation
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
The first time an enemy Casts a spell each turn, one of your creatures Casts that spell as well.

Immobility
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
At the start of your creatures’ turns, they have a 10% chance to Cast Aggravate.

Mock
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy casts a spell, it has a 25% chance to be afflicted with Confused.

Pressure
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
The first time an enemy Attacks each turn, one of your creatures Attacks a random enemy.

Pull the Rope
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
When an enemy afflicts your creatures with a debuff, a random enemy is afflicted with that debuff as well.

Stationary Walk
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures take 5% less damage (up to 80%) for each time an enemy has Cast a spell in the current battle.

Stillness and Silence
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Enemies always have Cursed.

The Lean
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures deal 5% more damage with attacks and spells for each time an enemy has Attacked in the current battle.

Trapped In a Box
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 100
Anointment: Yes
After an enemy Defends, one of your creatures Defends as well.

Fidelity (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
The chance for your Mime perks to activate is doubled.

Spells

Aggravate (Immobility)
Enemies with Cursed Attack the caster for 25% normal damage.

Status Effects

Cursed (Stillness and Silence)
When creatures with Cursed deal damage with attacks or spells, they take damage equal to 100% of their target's Attack.

Blind (Bewilderment)
Blind creatures cannot choose their targets when attacking or casting single-target spells.

Confused (Mock)
Confused creatures have a 50% chance to attack or cast harmful spells on their allies.

Notes

Mimes are a tricky beast, since enemy team compositions are unpredictable and you can't ever really count on an enemy having particular things in their lineup or taking particular actions. However, Mime's perk set covers just about every action enemies may take, allowing you to set up counter-reactions through various trait combos to take advantage of just about anything an enemy might do, with Stationary Walk and The Lean in particular allowing you to gradually grow in power as battle wears on.

There is also nothing stopping you from manipulating the enemy into taking particular actions to get the reaction you want either, so long as you have the right traits and spells on hand.

Deprived

The Deprived was born with nothing and will die with nothing. Cursed with the intelligence of a sponge and the physique of a sickly child, the Deprived must make do with what little fate has left him with.

As a Deprived, you'll lose access to your most significant sources of power, including Fused traits, Avatar creatures, and Relic effects. This is a Challenge Specialization, and it will not appear at the Goblet of Giving after you unlock it.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature. It is also a Challenge Specialization, meaning it makes you weaker rather than stronger.

Perks

Total Deprivation
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: Yes
Your creatures' Fused traits are ignored. You cannot use Avatar creatures. Your creatures' Relic effects are ignored. This perk is always active while your specialization is Deprived, even if you haven't allocated any Perk Points to it.

Simple Life (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
You have a 100% increased chance to find Skins. This perk is always active, even if your specialization is not Deprived.

Notes

This specialization is intended as a challenge, particularly for Ascension - facing down all the gods without fusion traits, avatars or relics is intended to get you to rack your brain and think about how to get as much as possible out of the most basic elements of a team.

Don't forget that you can take it to realms outside of the Gate of the Gods, and completing 100 realms with it will unlock achievements and outfits.

Pariah

The Pariah is a social outcast who prefers to spend her days in solitude. Though her friends are few, she is resourceful enough to maintain her indepdendence with some success.

As a Pariah, you'll be forced to fight using a more limited number of creatures than usual. This is a Challenge Specialization, and it will not appear at the Goblet of Giving after you unlock it.

This is an Advanced specialization and as such cannot be chosen at the beginning, nor does it get a starter creature. It is also a Challenge Specialization, meaning it makes you weaker rather than stronger.

Perks

Introversion
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: Yes
You can only use 3 creatures at a time. Your Druid anointments are ignored. This perk is always active while your specialization is Pariah, even if you haven't allocated any Perk Points to it.

Lifelong Respite (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
You have a 25% increased chance to find Nether Stones. This perk is always active, even if your specialization is not Pariah.

Notes

Another challenge specialization similar to Deprived, this one tests your ability to get the most out of a small team, without powering them up through Druid's small-team advantages.

This specialization is intended as a challenge, particularly for Ascension - facing down all the gods with half of the usual party size and no druid perks to empower them means you need to think of how to get the most out of your picks.

Don't forget that like Deprived, you can take it to realms outside of the Gate of the Gods, and completing 100 realms with it will unlock achievements and outfits.

Royal

Authority is passed down through generations, but true power must be earned. A master of all professions, the Royal possesses the unique ability to combine the powers of other specializations at will.

As a Royal, you'll be able to use more Anointments than anyone else, allowing you to create your own, custom specialization.

NOTE: Royal is special even among non-starter specializations, as it requires you to unlock all other specializations before you can start the project to unlock it.

Perks

Master of All
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1500
Anointment: No
You can equip 10 additional Anointments.

Highborn (ASCENSION)
Ranks: 1
Cost Per Rank: 1
Anointment: No
You can equip 3 additional Anointments, or 5 if you've ascended all other specializations.

Notes

This specialization has no perks of its own, instead using the Anointments system to choose up to 15 perks from every other specialization as you see fit, essentially making it the ultimate custom hybrid specialization.

Royal offers an unprecedented amount of flexibility, so look through the other specializations' perks and see what kind of combinations you can come up with!

Royal itself has no anointments that can be equipped by other specializations.

[gay moth aunt]

@{GFG} Kage:
Changed that, thanks! It was outdated - Asura Heartripper's earlier trait effect was that it hits four times, but does reduced damage on non-crits. I forgot to catch that section in the notes.

[{GFG} Kage]

Found a mistake in the Hell Knight section:
The Asura Heartripper you are given to start with gets four attacks per turn - your Pyromania and Touch of Chaos perks will be far more likely to trigger in synergy with four hits. In addition it hits fairly hard, and your other perks will only make this damage even stronger.
The ability is 200% increased crit damage for that specific creature, nothing about multiple attacks. I think you confused him with Lord Zantai.

[The Mi-Go 13]

So useful. This and your codex guide are good reading and very informative. Thanks kindly!
M13

[tobo]

part of the 'notes' section for pariah is copy pasted from deprived and needs changing

[{GFG} Kage]

The wording for Endwalker (Shadowbringer ascended perk) is incorrect. The correct wording is "If an enemy dies while it is afflicted with Blighted, it cannot be resurrected." I found the mistake after ascending my own Shadowbringer.

[Back To 17]

As an Evoker, you'll empower your creatures' spellcasting capabilities. Your creatures will be able to cast the same spell multiple times in one turn, and these spells will be much stronger than if they had cast them without your guidance.

The last than sentence caught me, lol, so fking true

[gay moth aunt]

@B R I N G O:
Not at all! I do all of this by hand, so errors are bound to occur here and there. Your attention to detail is tremendously helpful and I am very grateful for it!

[Y O U K N O W]

Great guide. I hope you don't mind some nitpicking about formatting; Pyroblast, Unity, and Acclimatization don't list whether or not they're anointments, and the maximum bonus for Dying Stars is incorrectly bolded.

[The Gamaniac]

Found a mismatch between the guide and ingame: An Animatus' Forbidden Magic perk only has 1 rank, not 3.

[Fluffy McFluffenstein the First]

err somehow found it O.o