Vampire The Masquerade: Swansong allows players to take control of three separate vampires while boosting their abilities to improve their investigative and conversational skills during the game. One way that players can bolster their performance in Swansong is via Talents, a system that levels characters based on their performance throughout levels.

What are Talents in Vampire The Masquerade: Swansong?

Talents are passive boosts to existing skills in Vampire The Masquerade: Swansong. To earn these boosts in Swansong, players must use existing skills successfully in discussions and investigations. There are several types of Talents in Vampire The Masquerade: Swansong, and each Talent has several tiers for players to unlock to further boost its effectiveness. Talents unlock automatically once requirements are met. The requirements usually require the use of skills successfully multiple times.

All Talents in Vampire The Masquerade: Swansong

Talents—Skills

  • Rhetorician: Increase the effectiveness of the Rhetoric Skill Tier I: +10% success rate Dialogue tie. Tier II: -15 XP to the next upgrade costs of Rhetoric Tier II: -1 in Willpower costThreatening: Increase the effectiveness of the Intimidation skillTier I: +10% success rate in Dialogue tie.Tier II: -15% XP to the next upgrade cost of the Intimidation SkillTier III: -1 in Willpower costEloquent: Increase the effectiveness of the Persuasion SkillTier I: +10% success rate in Dialogue tie.Tier II: -15% XP to the next upgrade cost of the Persuasion SkillTier III: -1 in Willpower costPuppet Master: Increase the effectiveness of the Psychology SkillTier I: +10% success rate in Dialogue tie.Tier II: -15% XP to the next upgrade cost of the Psychology SkillTier III: -1 in Willpower cost

Talents—Discipline

  • Brute: Using the Dominate Discipline increases its effectivenessTier I: +10% success rate in Dialogue tie.Tier II: -15% XP to the next upgrade cost of the Dominate DisciplineTier III: -1 Hunger generated for use

Talents—Hunt

  • Ascetic: Permanently increase maximum HungerTier I: +2 maximum HungerTier II: +1 maximum HungerControlled Hunt: Feed on prey without killing itTier I: +1 additional Hunter eliminated on a Controlled HuntTier II: -50% to speed of hunting cursorTier III: +1 additional Hunger eliminated on a Controlled HuntBeastly Hunt: Feed on prey, killing itTier I: +50% to the resonance bonus from prey on a Beastly HuntTier II: +1 additional Hunger eliminated on a Beastly HuntTier III: +1 additional Hunger eliminated on a Beastly HuntRat Eater: Feed from a ratTier I: +1 additional Hunger eliminated per rat killedTier II: -50% Suspicion per rat killedTier III: +1 additional Hunger eliminated per rat killed

All three characters share Talent upgrades in Vampire The Masquerade: Swansong, so continue to use your skills regardless of who you’re controlling.

  • Tier I: +10% success rate Dialogue tie. Tier II: -15 XP to the next upgrade costs of Rhetoric Tier II: -1 in Willpower cost

  • Tier I: +10% success rate in Dialogue tie.Tier II: -15% XP to the next upgrade cost of the Intimidation SkillTier III: -1 in Willpower cost

  • Tier I: +10% success rate in Dialogue tie.

  • Tier II: -15% XP to the next upgrade cost of the Persuasion SkillTier III: -1 in Willpower cost

  • Tier II: -15% XP to the next upgrade cost of the Psychology SkillTier III: -1 in Willpower cost

  • Tier II: -15% XP to the next upgrade cost of the Dominate DisciplineTier III: -1 Hunger generated for use

  • Tier I: +2 maximum HungerTier II: +1 maximum Hunger

  • Tier I: +1 additional Hunter eliminated on a Controlled HuntTier II: -50% to speed of hunting cursorTier III: +1 additional Hunger eliminated on a Controlled Hunt

  • Tier I: +50% to the resonance bonus from prey on a Beastly HuntTier II: +1 additional Hunger eliminated on a Beastly HuntTier III: +1 additional Hunger eliminated on a Beastly Hunt

  • Tier I: +1 additional Hunger eliminated per rat killedTier II: -50% Suspicion per rat killedTier III: +1 additional Hunger eliminated per rat killed

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