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Skill in fighting as a wolf beast. Also indicates your ability to control and suppress the beast mode.

Overview

A Lycanthrope's Beast form makes for a very powerful animal form. You'll be able to change to and from it at will, with the following limitations:

• You may become a wolf at any given moment, but your beast spirit will resist turning back to humanoid form until you've killed enough enemies (the higher your level, the less kills you'll require).
• During the full moon, you will be forcefully turned into your beast form, and won't be able to turn back until it's all over. This happens once every lunar month, matching the RL moon cycles, for the three first days of it straight.

While you're in beast form, you will have the following abilities, among others:

• The ability to combine different moves, dealing mainly crushing and slashing damage, with several side effects such as stuns, heavy armor damage, bleeding, and even a special "pack attack" that will deal increased damage for each werewolf attacking the same enemy. As you find Lycanthrope gear, you will gain several combos from it, similar to unarmed meditation or sword calligraphy ones, that will give you even more effects and aoe options.
• The ability to howl, eventually gaining a morale boost buff from it that will increase your damage and regeneration. (Supposedly improves with the Howling subskill, altho the means to level up this subskill consistently and its effects are rather obscure).
• The ability to feed on enemy corpses (currently, no limit to what you can eat, even tornadoes!), gaining a very nice regeneration buff from this, for a duration that will depend on your Beast Metabolism subskill (the more you feed on enemies, the higher this subskill will go).
• During the four days before full moon, and the first three days of it (when you're already force-shapeshifted), you'll receive the Lunacy buff, which increases your max health by +30. (Both in your humanoid and beast forms)
• You will receive the option to perform several tasks for Norala, goddess of the hunt, during the full moon. These quests will earn you tokens, which you'll then be able to turn in in exchange for different boons (extra max hp/power, werewolf damage, damage mitigation, abilities...) that will last you until the days prior to the next full moon
• Keep in mind that, once you become a werewolf, you'll be especially vulnerable to silver and wolfsbane, both in your humanoid and beast forms. Eating foods that contain wolfsbane, and being hurt by or simply holding a silver weapon on your hand, are sure to cause some serious damage and potentially kill you.

Description

Skill in fighting as a wolf beast. Also indicates your ability to control and suppress the beast mode.

How to Obtain

Harry the Wolf

Harry the Wolf in Serbule Keep may know a thing or two about Werewolves. Hint

Abilities

As you level your Lycanthropy, you will learn the following abilities:

Advanced

The following skills you'll only be able to learn from several scrolls found out in the world, or as monster drops:

You may find two members of a werewolf pack around the northern coast in Kur mountains. They will tell you off if you try to talk to them, unless you're a werewolf yourself. Jace Soral will teach you several alchemical recipes for poisoned weapons effective against werewolves. Sanja, the pack leader, will teach you the following skills. Both will require favor to be learned:

Also, completing a quest with Jace Soral to defeat Bleddyn the werewolf will grant you the following alternative shapeshifting ability:

Complete Ability List

Click "Expand" on the box below to view a complete list of Abilities for the Lycanthropy skill. Werewolf Abilities

Combos

Equipping certain pieces of gear will grant you the ability to use combos much like when you do calligraphy or meditate. (This list could use some completing, as I don't have all of the data myself)

• NOTE: If you have the same combo available from several pieces of gear, regardless of them being different or the same levels, performing it will trigger the combo multiple times (as many as times you have it). It's not certain if this is intended or not, although it has been reported.
• While not a combo itself, it has to be noted you can get the ability to turn your Bite skill into aoe through a gear effect from gauntlets. This also turns certain combos, like Fireteeth and Savaging Blows, aoe.

Lycanthropy Mechanics

Altar of Norala

During the full moon, werewolves may now interact with an altar placed at the entrance of the werewolf den in Kur mountains. They may use it to perform several tasks for the goddess of the hunt, Norala, which will earn them tokens they can then spend on special abilities, unlocks and boons. The tokens will only last for the duration of the full moon, and the bonuses unlocked will last until the next one, so the lycans can get themselves nearly a month long boosts that will affect both their beast and humanoid forms. (More detailed list of tasks and bonuses to come on the next full moon)

Special Equipment

•  Lucky Belt of the Werewolf (Lycanthropy) Hint
•  Lucky Belt of the Pack Leader (Lycanthropy, Animal Handling) Hint
•  Lucky Belt of the Cunning Wolf (Lycanthropy, Psychology) Hint