Torment: Tides of Numenera

Torment: Tides of Numenera

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Permanent Bonuses Guide
By Tommy
The guide shows all permanent bonuses in Torment: Tides of Numenera and where you get them.
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Sagus Cliffs
Reef of Fallen World:
+1 Health - fail smashing check on getting one of the hands

Circus Minor:
+1 Quick Fingers - get cypher "Prestidigitator" from failing smashing check on the rocks
+1 Tidal Affinity - learned from Tol Maguur, solve quest "Beloved Slave"
Flex Skill (+1 to any exploration, lore or conversation skill until rest) - watch Steristi work to get an amulet with this bonus [needs "Lore: Natural" on "Trained"-Level, thx to Hety and Wizu]

Cliff's Edge:
+1 Speed - win 3 times against Aidan Sitabo
+1 Speed - kill Aidan Sitabo [CONFIRMED, thx to meheartkitty]
Ability "Clawed Gauntlets" (+4 Unarmed Damage) - buy implant from Jernaugh
Ability "Jagged Memory" (+1 Melee Damage) - buy implant from Jernaugh
Ability "Encroaching Darkness" (heal 8 Health once per day) - buy implant from Jernaugh
Ability "Blood Nanites" (Immunity to Bleeding/Burn) - buy implant from Jernaugh
Ability "Numenera Analyzer" (+5% Lore: Machinery, +5% Lore: Mystical, +5% Lore: Natural) - buy implant from Jernaugh
Ability "Artificial Eyeball" (+1 Perception) - buy implant from Jernaugh

The Fifth Eye:
+1 Intelligence and +4 Health - talk to O
+1 Intelligence - let Dhama look into your head.

Underbelly:
+1 Might - "get to work" for the "Master Foreman"
+1 Might - go fishing everyday, the third item you get is cypher "Abtrucense" with permanent +1 Might

Buried Crossroads:
+1 Intelligence - use the book "The Tome of Singing Thorns" (puzzle solution: blue, red, indigo, gold, silver)
+1 Intelligence, Might or Speed - inspect the tiny lenses [CONFIRMED, needs "Lore: Mystical" on "Trained"-Level]

The Calm:
Ability "Clear Mind" (+1 Intelligence, Might and Speed) - solve quest "Infestation"
Valley of Dead Heroes
Valley of Dead Heroes:
+1 Intelligence, Might or Speed - get cypher "Savant's Slipknot" from acid pool, it increases the highest stat by 1
+1 Intelligence - determine the nature of the darkness and bind yourself with it [CONFIRMED, thx to Hety, needs "Lore: Mystical" on "Trained"-Level]

Necropolis Tomb:
+1 Lore: Machinery - visit 50 tombs and give the cypher "Philiactery" to Silver, choose teaching reward

Miel Avest:
+1 Resistence - buy cypher "Blood of the Elements" from Lady Anshe
The Bloom
Ioxu's Shanty:
+1 Concentration - buy cypher "Embrace the All" from Ioxu

Chiurgeon's Slump:
+1 Lore: Machinery, Lore: Natural or Lore: Mystical - buy cypher "Essence of Knowledge" from Sheen
+3* Intelligence, Might or Speed - buy cypher "Impure Essence" from Sheen,

  • -1 Health - play test subject during quest "What the Winds Took" (its a malus, so use other options instead)

    The Vast Interior:
    +1 Intelligence - after opening the passage to trade post, help traders with their cart and get cypher "Orb of Perception"

    Little Nihliesh:
    +1 Tidal Affinity - talk to Aen-Tozon and Kwherezimian
    +1 Intelligence and +1 Lore: Machinery - get "Ancient Spirit Cube" from Crimper and repair it

    The Ascension:
    +1 Speed - use "Gauntlet of Murder" dropped by Doran

    The Gullet:
    +2 Intelligence - get "Candy Dispenser" from Murden, use it twice to get 2 cyphers with +1 Intelligence

    Heart Interior:
    +2 Intelligence - dig deep into the memories of the bloom
Reflection Abilities
NOTE: You can only have 4 reflection abilities active at a time. Speak with the reflections in "The Calm" to active or deactive an ability.

Ability "Nychthemeron Defense" (Enemies receive a random negative fettle when attacking you in melee) - talk to the Nychthemeron and free it, only works at night if you broke the clock [CONFIRMED, thx to Wizu]

Ability "Seria's Peace" (+1 Intelligence, Might and Speed) - solve quests "Ashen Imitation" and "The Sorrow's Prey"

Ability "Choi's Balm" (+1 Endurance) - solve quests "Endless Horror" and "Severed Child"

Ability "Choi's Balm" [upgraded] (+1 Endurance, +2 Might, +1 Intelligence) - to upgrade the ability visit Choi's grave, visit her fathers grave, talk to Ronus Cai'sul

Ability "Inifere's Madness" (+1 Might edge, +1 Intimidation, -1 Intelligence) - solve quests "Endless Horror" and "Severed Child"

Ability "Catena Intelligence" (+1 Effort for Intelligence tasks) - take Cantena into your mind (during quest "A Hilt Without a Blade")

Ability "Erritis' Luck" (Increased critical success chance) - [UNCONFIRMED, haven't got this, i think you need to make him stronger to keep him in your mind]

Ability "Artaglio's Cunning" (companions in short range gain +5 Initiative, +15% Willpower, +10% Persuasion, +20% Damage) - take him into your mind in the Gullet (only works if he was absorbed by the maw)
34 Comments
bill5499 18 Apr, 2022 @ 9:06pm 
So I can't bind the darkness in the Valley even though I have the skill necessary. There's not even an option.
Coffee Break Hero 21 Jan, 2022 @ 12:23pm 
Eritis has a reflection bonus?
I tried both ways and it didn't work for me
Maliuta 10 Mar, 2020 @ 8:34pm 
The Gullet - fail to desroy candy dispenser after use, + 1 max hp.
MaFAT 16 Jan, 2020 @ 1:32pm 
regarding the +1int from darkness bonding in valley of heroes i was unable to obtain it as male(got all skills at trained, saw an option for natural lore to study it but no option to bond); got the bond option as female cant remember my skills though

as for upgrading chois balm: i went ronus -> choi -> father and didnt get it, then i went ronus -> fater -> choi and got the upgrade
Zarddin 27 Jun, 2018 @ 11:48am 
Missing on the list:
Trade Post +1 INT absorb the memories of dead people while interacting with the Bloom tongues.
Wizu 27 Jun, 2018 @ 10:31am 
Zarddin yep, its basicly only for end battle - and if you're talking through it the whole ordeal feels a bit meh.
Zarddin 27 Jun, 2018 @ 10:29am 
Game version 1.1.0

Finished the game 3 times so far and I think "Erritis' Luck" does not exist.

Both options you get when Erritis is in your mind make him disappear from your mind.

MAYBE the only option to get this is to start his quest but never do it?
If this "Erritis' Luck" exist after you never finish his quest and get to point of no return it would be active only for the last 5% of game.
Wizu 19 Sep, 2017 @ 7:58am 
Only chicks get to MAKE BABEHS WITH ZE DARKNESS!
kamilri 19 Sep, 2017 @ 6:00am 
@Tommy
Hmm, if you trade more than 4, then you must trade for at least one non random secrets - then maybe sequence is important and you must start with random ones. At least I always start with random ones and get crown every time. Or it really was a bug.

@Anyone
Still no one knows what are real requirements for bonding with darkness? I starting to suspect that option is avaliable to female characters only...
Patchouli Knowledge 8 Jun, 2017 @ 9:06pm 
@Tommy @kamilri
Thanks for the explanation. Somehow I didn't know there was a limit on active reflection abilities.