<<I realize I'm getting off topic here. This just piqued my curiosity. My girlfriend has started playing an empath and seeing as how I never played one I'm trying to research how to better her experience. Can you explain tending blood critters? Any help is appreciated.>>

You can theoretically never heal and still advance through the guild. You'd have to start with a willingness to remain 1rst circle while you do this: training magic with SOP, training FA to about 100 ranks, training some swimming, and (if you want to go to the croc marsh) training evasion to at least 80 ranks. Then you can go to the marsh and tend off bloodworms or to muspari to tend off red leeches in the sand pits. The leeches are more plentiful, though, so you'll learn better there.

While there are a few areas with other blood sucking critters, those two are still your best bet as far as ease of getting them attached to you.

Unless you do that, the only way for an empath circles 1-20 (or thereabouts) is able to learn empathy is through healing. Stats that help you will be stamina and discpline. I think, but have not tested it to be absolutely sure, that charisma helps, too. Until you're 10th circle (or have that much empathy) you'll struggle to take at least certain wounds. Best thing is to stick with externals and their scars, casting healing spells on the area while you're taking the wound. Using cambrinth to help you pull of the spell.

I wish there were other options for the beginning empath. I still think that they shouldn't learn the ability to heal until 10th circle at which time they'd not have the same struggles as they currently have circles 1-10...and either start with 0 empathy at 10th or have had other ways to learn empathy until 10th.

I also like the idea that an empath could choose to not be a healer. Plus, I really wish we could hunt the undead or any critter that isn't alive. It'd be neat if some empaths could give up their healing abilities and just hunt, too. All pipe dreams that have been tossed around and beaten beyond death, but I just thought I'd juggle them momentarily again : )

Good luck with the empath training : )

Lis

You also learn animal lore for the tending. Not much that I've seen, but it does get it moving.

Around fifth circle, you can sit in the room with an empath, and perceive health every so often ad nauseum without moving....and you will train well enough to get those beginning annoying ranks.

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Renegade Empath Raudhan just arrived.

A cutthroat gasps, "I can't get UP!"

You begin to lecture Reexa on the proper use of the brawling skill.
You cackle!
You strike a heroic pose.

Activate empath from before transference, then get the ranks grandfathered.

I am --- Navak

questions about learning from link:

do learn more with a greater difference in skill?

do you learn anything if youre more skilled than your link target?

does it teach better than manipulate?


thanks,

Jakobe