Terrence talent tree | Pascal's Wager Wiki

Terrence's talent tree has 34 nodes spread over four pages (Attack, Special, Alchemy, Sanity). Maxing all of them takes 52 Immundus stones, 49 once the three free starting nodes are subtracted. This page lists every node with its prerequisite, stone cost per level and the effect the data actually applies.

Overview#

Terrence is the cane-and-sword knight. His tree splits into two weapon branches on the Attack page: the cane lunges (Lunge Attack, Multi Lunge Attack) and the knight's sword (Discipline, Sanction, Rising Slash, Spin Attack). The Special page holds the defensive moves and the damage upgrades for Backstab and Execution. See Terrence for the character and Talents for the rules shared by all trees.

Damage upgrades: Backstab: Enhanced and Execution: Enhanced give 7% per level and cost an Immundus, an Immundus Crystal and an Immundus Diamond. Knight's Instinct, one Diamond level, is the only damage node on the Sanity page and only matters in the Abnormal state (and so also when Lunatic).

Stone budget#

Every level costs one stone of a fixed kind (Talents#Immundus stones). Nodes that start unlocked already hold level 1 for free, so the real bill is the second column.

Stone	All levels	After the free starting nodes
Chipped Immundus	9	6
Immundus	15	15
Immundus Crystal	21	21
Immundus Diamond	7	7
Total	52	49

By page (all levels): Attack 12, Special 13, Alchemy 13, Sanity 14.

The tree#

"Requires" is the node that needs level 1 before this one can be bought (Talents#Prerequisites and learning); no requirement means open from the start of the page. "Data" gives the internal effect type (Talents#Effect types) and the numbers the game actually applies (permille values shown as percent). Effect descriptions are paraphrased.

Page 1: Attack (11 nodes)#

Slot	Talent	Requires	Cost per level	Effect	Data
101	Lunge Attack (starts unlocked)	none	L1 Chipped Immundus	Light, then Heavy: a 30-Rage cane thrust that lunges forward.	`SkillOpen` moves 7
102	Multi Lunge Attack	101 Lunge Attack	L1 Immundus	Light, then hold Heavy: a 100-Rage flurry of thrusts that is hard to interrupt.	`SkillOpen` moves 6
103	Lunge Attack: Knockback	102 Multi Lunge Attack	L1 Immundus Crystal	The lunge now knocks enemies back and down.	`SkillOpen` moves 12
106	Sanction: Broken Sin	108 Sanction	L1 Immundus Crystal; L2 Immundus Diamond	Raises Sanction and Discipline damage by 10% / 20%. The game text mentions only Sanction.	`SkillDamageAdd` 10% / 20% (moves: Sanction, Discipline)
107	Discipline	none	L1 Chipped Immundus	Heavy, then Light: a 30-Rage two-handed sword slash.	`SkillOpen` moves 9
108	Sanction	107 Discipline	L1 Immundus	Heavy, then hold Light: a 100-Rage chain of slashes, hard to interrupt.	`SkillOpen` moves 8
111	Knight's Tenacity	108 Sanction	L1 Immundus Crystal	Adds 15 armour (the temporary Toughness pool) to the Heavy combo that follows Rising Slash (move 4) and the one that follows Spin Attack (move 5), so they are interrupted less. The Heavy combo entered from a Light combo or a dodge (move 15) gets none.	`SkillToughnessAdd` 15 (moves 4, 5)
113	Rising Slash	none	L1 Chipped Immundus	Hold Heavy: a 30-Rage rising strike that punishes guarding enemies; a full charge launches them.	`SkillOpen` moves 2, 3, 4
114	Spin Attack	113 Rising Slash	L1 Immundus	Dodge, then Heavy: a quick turn and slash right after a dodge.	`SkillOpen` moves 10
115	Rising Slash: Enhanced	114 Spin Attack	L1 Immundus Crystal	Unlocks a faster-charging version of Rising Slash.	`SkillOpen` moves 13
117	Rising Slash: Tenacity	114 Spin Attack	L1 Immundus Crystal	Adds 38 armour while Rising Slash (and the faster version) is being performed.	`SkillToughnessAdd` 38 (moves: Rising Slash full and short charge, Rising Slash: Enhanced)

Page 2: Special (9 nodes)#

Slot	Talent	Requires	Cost per level	Effect	Data
201	Parry (starts unlocked)	none	L1 Chipped Immundus	Special: raise the sword to parry. A failed parry costs a little health.	`SkillOpen` moves 11
202	Counter Attack	201 Parry	L1 Immundus	Special at the right instant counters an enemy attack.	`SkillOpen` moves 105
204	Parry: Enhanced	201 Parry	L1 Immundus Crystal	Blocking with the parry costs 30% less stamina.	`SkillDefenceEnergySub` 30% (moves: Parry)
207	Backstab	none	L1 Chipped Immundus	Interact behind an unaware enemy. Footsteps alert enemies; walking slowly keeps them quiet.	`SkillOpen` moves 107
210	Backstab: Enhanced	207 Backstab	L1 Immundus; L2 Immundus Crystal; L3 Immundus Diamond	Backstab damage +7% / +14% / +21%.	`SkillDamageAdd` 7% / 14% / 21% (moves: Backstab)
213	Execution (starts unlocked)	none	L1 Chipped Immundus	Interact on a weakened enemy.	`SkillOpen` moves 108
216	Execution: Enhanced	213 Execution	L1 Immundus; L2 Immundus Crystal; L3 Immundus Diamond	Execution damage +7% / +14% / +21%.	`SkillDamageAdd` 7% / 14% / 21% (moves: Execution)
217	Rising Slash: Inhibition	216 Execution: Enhanced	L1 Immundus Crystal	A fully charged Rising Slash deals 20 extra poise damage, so it breaks enemy attacks more easily.	`SkillToughnessSubAdd` 20 (moves: Rising Slash, Rising Slash: Enhanced)
218	Lunge Attack: Weakening	216 Execution: Enhanced	L1 Immundus Crystal	Lunge moves deal 25% more resilience damage (stagger gauge).	`SkillWeaknessSubAdd` 25% (moves: Multi Lunge Attack, Lunge Attack, Lunge Attack: Knockback)

Page 3: Alchemy (5 nodes)#

Slot	Talent	Requires	Cost per level	Effect	Data
301	Health Potions: Stock	none	L1 Chipped Immundus; L2 Immundus; L3 Immundus Crystal	Carry 1 / 2 / 3 more Health Potions.	`ItemHpMaxAdd` 1 / 2 / 3
304	Prolonged Duration	301 Health Potions: Stock	L1 Immundus; L2 Immundus Crystal; L3 Immundus Diamond	Item buffs last 10% / 20% / 30% longer.	`ItemStatusTimeAdd` 10% / 20% / 30%
310	Speed Drinking	314 Improved Effect	L1 Immundus Crystal	Drinking potions and elixirs takes less time.	`EatSpeedUp` 1
313	Health Potion: Evolved	none	L1 Chipped Immundus; L2 Immundus; L3 Immundus Crystal	Health Potions heal 10% / 20% / 30% more (relative to their normal amount).	`ItemValueAdd` 10% / 20% / 30%
314	Improved Effect	313 Health Potion: Evolved	L1 Immundus; L2 Immundus Crystal; L3 Immundus Diamond	Item buffs are 10% / 20% / 30% stronger.	`ItemStatusValueAdd` 10% / 20% / 30%

Page 4: Sanity (9 nodes)#

Slot	Talent	Requires	Cost per level	Effect	Data
401	Sanity	none	L1 Chipped Immundus; L2 Immundus; L3 Immundus Crystal	Maximum Sanity +5% / +10% / +15%.	`PropertyAdd` max Sanity: 5% / 10% / 15%
402	Devout	401 Sanity	L1 Immundus	Your hits drain 15% less Sanity.	`SanAttackSub` 15%
403	Sanity: Enhanced Elixir	402 Devout	L1 Immundus Crystal	Each potion or elixir restores a little Sanity (5 per use in the data).	`ItemSanAdd` 5
405	Lucky Madness	402 Devout	L1 Immundus Crystal; L2 Immundus Diamond	Better odds for trophy-crafting materials to drop. Level 1 / 2 adds +5 / +10 drop weight.	`ItemProbAdd` drop column ProbAdd1/ProbAdd2 for item types 701, 706
407	Adapt to Abnormality: Life	none	L1 Immundus; L2 Immundus Crystal	Cuts the Health penalty of the Abnormal state from 30% to 20%, then 15%.	`SanPropertyChangeRate` max HP: 33.3% / 50%
408	Adapt to Abnormality: Dodge	407 Adapt to Abnormality: Life	L1 Immundus Crystal	Lets you chain dodges in the Abnormal state (unlocks the second dodge, move 102).	`SkillSanPermit` 1 (moves: 102)
409	Knight's Instinct	408 Adapt to Abnormality: Dodge	L1 Immundus Diamond	The Abnormal-state damage bonus rises from +10% to +15%.	`SanPropertyChangeRate` physical attack: 50%
413	Revenge	none	L1 Immundus	Taking a hit fills Rage (half of the Rage that hit would normally give).	`HitAddRage` 50%
414	Furor	413 Revenge	L1 Immundus; L2 Immundus Crystal	Each hit of the listed moves gives +2 / +4 extra Rage.	`SkillRageAdd` 2 / 4 (12 move rows: Light chain, Heavy combos, Spin Attack, thrown items, Counter Attack, Backstab, Execution, Drop attack)

Hidden mechanics#

Level 1 is enough to continue. The tree check only asks that the previous node has any level above 0, so you can pass through the cheap first levels of a chain and spend the Diamond levels later (Talents#Prerequisites and learning).
Three nodes are free. Lunge Attack, Parry and Execution start at level 1. Terrence does not start with Backstab or Rising Slash: each costs one Chipped Immundus.
Level N always uses the Nth stone type of the node. A level cannot be paid with a different stone (Talents#Immundus stones).
Abnormal-state nodes scale the built-in penalty, not a flat number. In the Abnormal state Terrence loses 30% max Health and gains 10% attack (both relative to base; rules in Abnormal state#How talents reshape these effects). Adapt to Abnormality: Life multiplies the 30% penalty by (1 - 0.333) and then (1 - 0.5), giving 20% and 15%. Knight's Instinct multiplies the 10% bonus by 1.5, giving 15%.
Lucky Madness is a drop weight, not a percentage. For Terrence it adds 5 / 10 to the weight of drop entries of item types 701 and 706 (trophy materials), and the "Abnormal State" condition in its text is not enforced. The mechanism is explained once in Talents#hm-lucky-madness-does-not-use-percent-it-adds.
Revenge scales with the hit. It gives 50% of the attacker's own "Rage on hit" value. Most enemy moves carry 6, so a typical hit gives about 3 Rage; moves with 0 give nothing. At or below 30% Health a trophy bonus can raise it further.
Furor and the poise nodes add flat points. Furor adds Rage per hit to 12 listed move rows; Knight's Tenacity (+15) and Rising Slash: Tenacity (+38) add to the move's own armour pool; Rising Slash: Inhibition adds +20 to the poise damage dealt. None of these are percentages.
Parry: Enhanced reduces the stamina lost when a block lands through the parry move (the formula multiplies the stamina cost by 0.7). It does not change the parry window.
Devout multiplies the Sanity drained by your own hits by 0.85; its limits are in Sanity talents and trophies#Hidden mechanics.
Sanction: Broken Sin boosts two moves. The node's condition lists Sanction (move 8) and Discipline (move 9).

Where the game text disagrees with the data#

Node	The game text says	The data and code give
106 Sanction: Broken Sin	Raises Sanction damage by 10% / 20%	Also applies to Discipline (move 9).
403 Sanity: Enhanced Elixir	Restore 10 Sanity	The applied value is 5 (`Value` 5, `TextValue` 10). The Sanity gauge may be displayed on a different scale, which is not verified.
405 Lucky Madness	Drop rate of trophy materials +5% / +10% in the Abnormal State	Adds +5 / +10 weight to eligible drop entries; no Sanity condition in the code (inferred).
413 Revenge	Gain Rage when taking damage	50% of the attacker's move value for Rage on hit.

Sources#

reference/lua_src/gamedata/structdata/exportdata/es_herotalent.lua: every node (columns TalentPos, PreTalent, StoneLevel, Type, Condition, Value, ValueAdd, TextValue, TextValueAdd, DefaultOpen). English text: GameTextData.HeroTalent.
luascript/structdata/fs_talentdata.lua:5-45, 119-127 (level cap = number of stones listed, DefaultOpen forces level 1, level-up).
luascript/structdata/fs_herodata.lua:401-434 (GetHeroTalentValue: value = Value + ValueAdd x (level - 1), summed over all learned nodes of a type).
luascript/structdata/ms_herotalentcondition.lua:5-63 (how the Condition column is matched).
luascript/ui/controller/playerinfoctrl.lua:4280-4315 (stone check), 4405-4455 (prerequisite: previous node level above 0), 4562-4600 (editing only at an altar), 4850-4925 (confirm, stone consumption, achievements).
Terrence rows: ES_HeroTalent ids with HeroId 10001 (TalentId 11101 and up). Re-read in the heroes_a pass: Condition of Knight's Tenacity (4,0;5,0), Rising Slash: Tenacity (2,0;3,0;13,0) and Furor (1,0;4,0;5,0;10,0;14,0;15,0;103,0;104,0;105,0;107,0;108,0;111); the Heavy combo move indexes come from SkillChainData HeroId 10001 (see Terrence#Sources).
luascript/logic/playervalue/animalbase_value.lua:420-428, 511-552 (Abnormal-state penalties and the talent multiplier), 2339-2380 (resilience, poise damage), 2519-2523 (parry stamina), 2639-2641 (damage), 2700-2716 and 2755-2761 (Revenge, Furor), 783-791 (poise).
luascript/logic/player/animalbase.lua:4242-4247 (move 102 allowed in the Abnormal state), 16722-16735 (Devout), 6609-6640 (potions, Sanity per use).
luascript/controller/controllerstorymode.lua:5360-5385, 5428-5445 (drop weights); reference/lua_src/gamedata/playerdefine/hero10001_define.lua:26-29 (Abnormal-state constants).
Table StoryMazeDrop columns ProbAdd1/ProbAdd2; table SkillData column RageAddHit (value 6 on 502 of 1216 enemy moves).

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