'''Turning into a Lycanthrope is a PERMANENT CHARACTER ALTERATION. Even though this is Alpha, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO REMOVE THIS CURSE. EVER.'''

{{Skill infobox|title = Lycanthropy|image = [[File:Werewolf (normal form).jpg|thumb|right|300px|A player using Werewolf form.]][[File:Werewolf (winter form)|caption = Skill in fighting as a wolf beast. Also indicates your ability to control and suppress the beast mode.jpg|thumbskilltype = Beast Form|rightmaxlevel = 90|300pxreq = N/A|A player using Winter Werewolf form.skilltrainers = [[Harry the Wolf]], [[Sanja]], [[Noita the Green]], [[Altar of Norala]]}}

=={{msg:BASEPAGENAME}} Overview==A [[Lycanthropy|Lycanthrope]]'s [[Beast Forms|Beast form ]] makes for a very powerful animal form. '''You'll be able to change to and from it wolf form at will''', with the following limitations:* You Characters with Lycanthropy may become a wolf at any given momenttime, instantly. However, but to become humanoid (or your alternate beast form) again, wolves must kill a certain number of enemies before their beast spirit will resist turning back now allow them to humanoid form until you've killed enough enemies (the un-transform. The higher your Lycanthropy level, the less kills fewer enemies you'll require)need to kill to un-transform, until at Lycanthropy level 53, you can switch back and forth without any killing.* During the full moon, you will be Lycans are forcefully turned into your beast wolf form, and won't be able to turn back until it's all overcannot un-transform for the three days of the full moon. This happens once every lunar month, matching the RL real life moon cycles. If your Lycanthropy-infected character was not in wolf form and offline when the full moon began, for during the full moon you will be transformed into the default brown-fur wolf form immediately upon logging in. If you have unlocked and want to be in the Winter Wolf or Dark Wolf form during the full moon, you need to be in that form ''before'' the three first days of it straightfull moon phase begins.* Remember that turning into a lycanthrope Lycanthrope is a '''PERMANENT CHARACTER ALTERATION THAT CANNOT BE UNDONE''' and '''won't will NEVER be made reversible''' either(the developers have ''repeatedly'' confirmed this). For this reason, it is highly advised you carefully consider the pros and cons before making the decision. For three days every month, Lycans are forced to play as a wolf, and several NPCs and vendors will not speak to wolves. Some can be persuaded to speak with wolves after a particular bribe or a short quest, but a few will not offer any options at all. This means situation can by mitigated by using an alternate character and the transfer chest to sell items or by finding similar vendors in other zones who will speak to you'll or have access to a wolf bribe quest.  ===Advantages===*Lycanthropy is one of the benefits only few animal forms that can shift in and out of their humanoid or alternate beast form at will (except during full moons). And the skillset hastransformation is instantaneous.*The [[Beast Metabolism]] ability, in which you can consume the corpses of your defeated enemies rather than burying them, provides a unique temporary health regeneration buff and, when leveled, significant boosts in overall [[Metabolism]].*The [[Howling]] ability , which grants health regeneration boosts and damage boosts—a buff which can last for up to five hours if the howling is done with additional howling wolves present.*During the full moon you have unique quest objectives that serve as an interesting alternative to shift between your normal and typical skill progression.*Like all beast forms, Lycans (when in wolf form ) can learn and use the [[Warden]] combat skill.*Wolves can wear and benefit from crafted wolf-specific metal armor (see [[Armorsmithing]]). ===Disadvantages===*Lycanthropy is an [[Animal Form]]. Like all animal forms, you have no hands and many NPCs will refuse to talk to you. A few animals (such as [[Red]] in [[Kur]]) may not talk to you either or lose favor if you try to speak with them because you are a scary animal. The defensive pylons at any moment out the Fox Camp in [[Kur]] will also attack you.*For the three days of the full moonyou will be unable to return to your human form no matter what. Words of power will work for their duration.*You cannot chop wood or milk cows while in wolf form. (Again, having a humanoid alternate character to deal with these matters when you are in wolf form can be handy, pun intended.)*Secondary combat skills while in wolf form are limited to [[Animal Handling]], [[Mentalism]], [[Necromancy]], [[Priest]], [[Psychology]], [[Unarmed]], or [[Warden]] because all the other combat skills require a specific enabling held weapon.Weapons for other skills are not recognized as being equipped while in wolf form, although any bonuses or mods on the primary or secondary weapon items do still apply. === In-Game Description ===Skill in fighting as a wolf beast. Also indicates the wolf's ability to control and suppress the beast mode. === Obtain {{msg:BASEPAGENAME}} ===* [[Harry the Wolf]] in Serbule Keep may know a thing or two about Werewolves. {{Hint|Get to Comfortable favor level with Rita and Harry the wolf will speak to you.}}* {{Item|Werewolf Spit}} is contaminated spittle containing the [[Lycanthropy|Lycanthrope]] Disease. but Drinking it will also make you a werewolf instantly and forever! This is NO cure. === Training {{msg:BASEPAGENAME}} ===* Levels 51-60 and 61-70 can be unlocked at the [[Altar of Norala]] during the Full Moon for tokens, or by [[Sanja]] for councils.* [[Noita the Green]] can unlock levels 71-80.* Levels 81-90 may be stuck unlocked by gaining favor with its downsides a mysterious entity deep beneath [[Povus]].== Connected Skills ======= Sub-Skills:=====* [[Howling]]. ===== Secondary Skills:=====* [[Beast Metabolism]] - Beast Metabolism represents your metabolic efficiency when consuming raw meats. ===== Related Skills:=====* [[Beast Speech]] - Beast Speech is a skill that all [[Lycanthropy|Lycanthropes]] learn. ===== Synergy Levels =====Bonus [[Synergy Levels]] for [[Lycanthropy]] can be obtained from there the following skills and levels::; [[Animal Handling]]:: Level 60:; [[Butchering]]:: Level 34:; [[Canine Anatomy]]:: Level 19:; [[Giant Bat]]:: Level 25:; [[Skinning]]:: Level 35:; [[Howling]]:: Level 25:; [[Survival Instincts]]:: Level 33 == {{msg:BASEPAGENAME}} Mechanics ==* Once a player becomes a werewolf, they'll be especially vulnerable to silver and wolfsbane, both in humanoid and beast forms. Eating food with wolfsbane or holding a silver weapon will harm werewolves. * During the three days before full moon, werewolves receive the '''Lunacy''' buff, which increases their max health by +30. (Both in your humanoid and beast forms) * Wolves have the ability to feed onenemy corpses for a regeneration buff that becomes more powerful based on [[Beast Metabolism]]  * The ability to howl increases a wolf's (out and in) combat health regeneration and damage. Because It will last up to an hour for a single wolf or for example 5 hours for a group of 5 wolves. Werewolves that howl together boost both effects and max duration by - +1h +2hp regen and +1 damage for each wolf howling in proximity. Repeatedly howling will also eventually get wolves experience on the [[Howling]] sub-skill. === The Full Moon ===* During a real life full Moon players will be stuck as a werewolf. If players are in white wolf form before the full moon you still stay in this, itform which is preferable due to the form's highly advised cold weather mitigation. * If wolves try to change forms during the full moon they will be stuck as the default brown wolf. Players can not change from normal wolf form to white wolf form during the event. * The full moon is an event. Go to [[Kur Mountains]] zone and enter the [[Wolf Cave]] at the Far north and center of the map. Directly Inside the cave is an [[Altar of Norala]]. Completing the altar quests will earn tokens. These tokens disappear if not used during the current full moon. They unlock permanent buffs like 50-60 lycanthrope, 60-70 lycanthrope, and dark wolf form or unlock month long buffs like +%damage, +health, +armor and the coveted +12 run speed bonus buff. * It is advisable to carefully consider unlock the dark wolf form last. The number of tokens is limited by the number of quests. Unlocking the level caps and werewolf abilities should be a priority since tokens are "time gated" by the full moon. === Altar of Norala ===During the full moon, werewolves may now interact with the [[Altar of Norala]] placed at the entrance of the [[Wolf Cave]] in [[Kur Mountains]]. The Altar performs several tasks for the goddess of the hunt, which will earn them tokens they can then spend on special abilities, unlocks and boons.  *The tokens must be used during the pros full moon or they will disappear.*The Boons and cons before making Runspeed buffs that are unlocked with tokens will last until the decisionnext Real Life full moon.

==Abilities==As you level your Lycanthropy, you will learn the following abilities:{| {{STDT|sortable}}!Ability Name!Description!Damage Type!Level|-| Claw || Claw your enemy. (+ damage vs vulnerable targets) || Slashing || 0|-| Bite || Bite your enemy. || Crushing || 2|-| Pack Attack || Bite your enemy. Future Pack Attacks (by you or by other werewolves) will deal extra damage to this target. (+15) || Crushing || 3|-| Pouncing Rake || Claw your enemy. If their armor is weak, also stuns them for 3 seconds. (Stuns targets under 33% armor) || Slashing || 5|-| Howl Mode || Begin howling to raise your spirits. Remain stationary Please go to continue howling and slowly build up morale benefits. Other werewolves who howl near you will greatly boost the beneficial effects of howling. || N/A || 7|-| Bite 2 || Bite your enemy. || Crushing || 10|-| Shadow Feint || Take careful heed of your current position so you can leap back to it when injured. (Relocates to casting position if you take 3 hits in 30 seconds, 40m range) || N/A || 12|-| Claw 2 || Claw your enemy. (+ damage vs vulnerable targets) || Slashing || 15|-| Pack Attack 2 || Bite your enemy. Future Pack Attacks (by you or by other werewolves) will deal extra damage to this target. (+20) || Crushing || 20|-| Pouncing Rake 2 || Claw your enemy. If their armor is weak, also stuns them for 3 seconds. (Stuns targets under 33% armor) || Slashing || 25|-| Bite 3 || Bite your enemy. || Crushing || 28|-| Claw 3 || Claw your enemy. (+ damage vs vulnerable targets) || Slashing || 30|-| Shadow Feint 2 || Take careful heed [[Altar of your current position so you can leap back to it when injured. (Relocates to casting position if you take 4 hits in 35 seconds, 40m range) || N/A || 35|-| Pack Attack 3 || Bite your enemy. Future Pack Attacks (by you or by other werewolves) will deal extra damage to this target. (+30) || Crushing || 40|-| Pouncing Rake 3 || Claw your enemy. If their armor is weak, also stuns them Norala]] page for 3 seconds. (Stuns targets under 33% armor) || Slashing || 45|-| Bite 4 || Bite your enemy. || Crushing || 46|-| Claw 4 || Claw your enemy. (+ damage vs vulnerable targets) || Slashing || 48|-| Shadow Feint 3 || Take careful heed of your current position so you can leap back to it when injured. (Relocates to casting position if you take 5 hits in 45 seconds, 40m range) || N/A || 50|}more information

===Advanced===The following skills you'll only be able to learn from several scrolls found out in the world, or as monster drops:{| {{STDT|sortable:Altar of Norala/Token Unlocks}}!Ability Name!Description!Damage Type!Level|-| Pouncing Rend || Leap at your enemy, focusing solely on destroying their armor. (This is a variant of Pouncing Rake. Equipment that boosts Pouncing Rake also boosts Pouncing Rend.) || Slashing (Armor damage only) || 6|-| Pouncing Rend 2 || Leap at your enemy, focusing solely on destroying their armor. (This is a variant of Pouncing Rake. Equipment that boosts Pouncing Rake also boosts Pouncing Rend.) || Slashing (Armor damage only) || 26|-| Pouncing Rend 3 || Leap at your enemy, focusing solely on destroying their armor. (This is a variant of Pouncing Rake. Equipment that boosts Pouncing Rake also boosts Pouncing Rend.) || Slashing (Armor damage only) || 46|-| Pouncing Rend 3+ || Leap at your enemy, focusing solely on destroying their armor. (This is a variant of Pouncing Rake. Equipment that boosts Pouncing Rake also boosts Pouncing Rend.) || Slashing (Armor damage only) || 50|}

You may find two members of === Riding ===As a werewolf pack around [[Beast Forms|Beast Form]], [[Lycanthropy|Lycanthropes]] are not able to use the northern coast in Kur mountainstraditional Horse mounts offered through [[Riding]]. They will tell you off if you try to talk to themInstead, unless you're a werewolf yourself. [[Jace SoralSanja]] will teach you several alchemical recipes for poisoned weapons effective against werewolves. in [[SanjaKur Mountains]], teaches the pack leader, will teach you the following skills. Both will require favor wolf mount-form to be learned:{| {{STDT|sortable}}!Ability Name!Description!Damage Type!Level|-| See Red || Go into a berzerk rage, dealing extra damageLycan players who are at least level 30 in Lycanthropy. (+5% piercing damage) || N/A || 9|-| See Red 2 || Go into a berzerk rage, dealing extra damage. (+5% piercing & slashing damage) || N/A || 29|-| See Red 3 || Go into a berzerk rage, dealing extra damage. (+10% piercing & slashing damage) || N/A || 49|-| Double Claw || Attack with repeated mauling claws to the target's exposed flesh. Damage is reduced by 1 for every 5 points of armor the foe has left. || Slashing || 13|-| Double Claw 2 || Attack with repeated mauling claws to the target's exposed flesh. Damage is reduced by 1 for every 5 points of armor the foe has left. || Slashing || 22|-| Double Claw 3 || Attack with repeated mauling claws to the targetHunting Speed''s exposed flesh. Damage is reduced by (1 for every 5 points of armor the foe has left. || Slashing || 42|-| Sanguine Fangs || Bite through veins to cause blood loss. (Extra damage vs vulnerable targets, deals 15 health damage over 15 seconds3) || Piercing || 8|-| Sanguine Fangs 2 || Bite through veins to cause blood loss. are now Wolf mount abilities (Extra damage vs vulnerable targets, deals 20 health damage over 10 seconds) || Piercing || 18|-| Sanguine Fangs 3 || Bite through veins they used to cause blood loss. (Extra damage vs vulnerable targets, deals 27 health damage over 9 secondsbe sidebar abilities) || Piercing || 29|-| Sanguine Fangs 4 || Bite through veins to cause blood loss. (Extra damage vs vulnerable targets, deals 32 health damage over 8 seconds) || Piercing || 44|-| Smell Fear || Launch into a vicious attack that sows seeds of doubt and are activated in the targetusual way at the''s mind. (Extra damage vs vulnerable targets, -60 rage) || Crushing || 14|-| Smell Fear 2 || Launch into a vicious attack that sows seeds ' Altar of doubt in the targetNorala''s mind. (Extra damage vs vulnerable targets, -100 rage) || Crushing || 27|-| Smell Fear 3 || Launch into a vicious attack that sows seeds of doubt in the target's mindeach month at Full Moon. (Extra damage vs vulnerable targets, -150 rage) || Crushing || 41|}

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

===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 <!--Assume there is a list 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 formsall armor here.{{:Lycanthropy/Armor}}-->

'''Wolf tasks:''' (Each quest awards 1 token)<!-- Adding another comment here to see if I can save the edit. -->* Wolf: Civilized races {{belt|Belt of the Werewolf}} (Kill 50 humansLycanthropy) {{Hint|Crafted through the toolcrafting skill, elves or rakshasa)* Wolf: Goblin killing (Kill 50 goblins)level 36. Requires 20 Lycanthropy to be equipped.}}* Wolf: The scion {{belt|Belt of Gulagra the Pack Leader}} (Kill the Lycanthropy, [[Scion of DiscordAnimal Handling]]){{Hint|Sold by Harry the wolf.}}* {{belt|Belt of the Cunning Wolf: Wolfsbane }} (Deliver 10 wolfsbane)* Wolf: Hunt deer (Kill 25 deer)* Wolf: Hunt deer 2 (Kill 50 deer)* Wolf: The scion of Norala (Kill the Lycanthropy, [[Scion of NoralaPsychology]]){{Hint|Sold by Harry the wolf.}}* Wolf{{:{{msg: Orcish genocide (Kill 50 orcs)BASEPAGENAME}}/Treasure Effects}}* Wolf{{: Orcish genocide 2 (Kill 100 orcs)* Wolf{{msg: Ciervos must die (Kill [[Ciervos The Shadow]])BASEPAGENAME}}/Stat Bonuses}}* Wolf{{: Dragon-kin (Kill 10 dragon kin)* Wolf{{msg: Fae destruction (Kill 50 fae or fey creatures)BASEPAGENAME}}/Level Up Rewards}}

'''Boons:'''== Lycanthropy Experience Table =={{Spoiler|Click Expand to view the Experience Table for Lycanthropy| {{STDT|sortable:Xptables/TypicalCombatSkill}}!Effect!Increase per rank!Rank 1 token cost!Rank 2 token cost!Rank 3 token cost!Rank 4 token cost!Rank 5 token cost|-| Max health || +10 max health || 1 || 1 || 2 || 2 || 3|-| Max power || +10 max power || 1 || 1 || 1 || ? || ?|-| Werewolf damage || +2% werewolf damage || 1 || ? || ? || ? || ?|-| Physical mitigation || +1 physical mitigation || 2 || 2 || 2 || 2 || ?|-| Corpse-eat healing || +5 beast metabolism healing || 1 || ? || ? || ? || ?|}}

{| {{STDT|sortable}}==Notes==!Ability Name!Description!Token cost!Level|[[Sanja]] can unlock [[Lycanthropy]] levels 51-60 and 61-| Hunting Speed || Increase your wolfen sprint speed while out of combat. You gain 5 sprint speed 70 for 30 seconds or until you enter combatcouncils. || 1 || 1|-| Hunting Speed 2 || Increase your wolfen sprint speed while out Alternatively (and rather less expensively), these level unlocks are also available at the [[Altar of combatNorala]] during the full moon for task reward tokens. You gain 8 sprint speed Similarly, [[See Red 6]] and [[See Red 7]] are also available from Sanja for 30 seconds councils, or until you enter combat. || 3 || 1|-| Hunting Speed 3 || Increase your wolfen sprint speed while out from the [[Altar of combatNorala]] during the full moon for tokens. You gain 12 sprint speed for 30 seconds or until you enter combatmay want to schedule your training options accordingly. || ? || 1|}

=== Special Equipment ===* {{belt|Lucky Belt of If your character is a [[Druid]] and can transform into a deer, assuming it is not the Werewolf}} (Lycanthropy) {{Hint|Crafted through the toolcrafting skillfull moon, level 36you can use that to speak freely with NPCs who will speak with animals but are afraid of scary wolves. Requires 20 Lycanthropy Transforming directly from wolf to be equipped.}}* {{belt|Lucky Belt deer (and back again) still counts as being in continuous beast form in terms of the Pack Leader}} (Lycanthropy, 3-hour in-game beast form status required to speak to most [[Animal HandlingTown]]) {{Hint|Sold by Harry the wolfresidents.}}* {{belt|Lucky Belt of the Cunning Wolf}} (Lycanthropy, [[PsychologyDruid]]bird forms also work.) {{Hint|Sold by Harry the wolf.}}

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