Transcendance

[Zalasta]

What exactly does this spell do?
Does it mean that when I'm playing a different class, my THM spells are more effective?

[REDace0]

That's it. I Have One With Nature equipped and it makes my CON spells more effective as THM. I believe every DoW and DoM has an ability like this and you have to complete the R36 class quest to make it available for purchase from the guild.

I've heard that affinity for off-class abilities starts at 80. So equipping these abilities halves the off-class penalty.

[Zalasta]

Thanks for the reply.

I think I get it now. So adding this would bring the affinity up to 90?

[Aiko]

Thanks for the reply.

I think I get it now. So adding this would bring the affinity up to 90?

No, I think it's much lower than that.

Punishing Barbs on Thm has a 2.5 minute cooldown. On Conjurer it has a 5 minute cooldown, which would seem to indicate that cross-class affinity (at least for this ability) starts between 50-70. So Transcendance would bring that up to 60-80.

I have also heard that there are three "levels" of this trait included in the .dats, though only Level I is unlocked currently. That would mean that all three levels could get you up to 80-100 affinity. If Level I was enough to get you up to 90, two more levels would not be necessary and wouldn't be included in the game files.

Or at least that's what makes sense to me.

[Zalasta]

Ahhhh cool! Thanks for the reply. Makes sense now.

[REDace0]

Maybe different abilities are affected by affinity differently. My Cures and elemental spells don't feel significantly weaker with One With Nature equipped, although the CD is about a second longer. That's very different from double cd on Punishing Barbs. Maybe this is something we need explicitly explained like the gathering fatigue.

[DarkArchon]

For Thaumaturges is better to use One With Nature to increase the affinity with some protective spells i think.

[kanjimanji]

one with nature... even sounds good

[Prox]

I'm THM50 but I did leve-linking PTs where I would fail my way to 50 so I never accumulated guild points. Now I am doing some THM guild point leves to get this trait. The trait "increases affinity by 10" and it is possible to reach 100. How do I reach 100? Do I need to purchase this trait over and over? Or is it only available for purchase once?

[Archadius]

I'm THM50 but I did leve-linking PTs where I would fail my way to 50 so I never accumulated guild points. Now I am doing some THM guild point leves to get this trait. The trait "increases affinity by 10" and it is possible to reach 100. How do I reach 100? Do I need to purchase this trait over and over? Or is it only available for purchase once?

Currently you can only buy it once, it's for cross-class purposes only and will not benefit your THM at all. Your THM will always have 100 THM affinity, it's the other classes using a THM spell that will take a hit w/o Transcendence.