Servants

This article is about *Servants*. For *Journal Entry: Servants*, see Servants (Quest).

Servants are created using a Servant Coffin. Servants can be given commands and tasks to acquire resources for the castle. In order to give commands to your servants you must build a Castle Throne.

Be careful to use servant lock doors on the exterior of your castle/territory. Servants will freely open and close any doors that are not of the servant lock door type. Like Horses, Servants can be given custom names.

## How to Capture a Servant

Dominate Human is a Vampire Power that allows you to subdue human targets and convert them into loyal **Servants** or Prisoners.

To successfully subdue a target for conversion to a **Servant**, you must first reduce their health below 30%, activate Dominate Human, and channel the Dominate Human Spell (default key R) to dominate the target. The target may still attack during the channel.

Once a target is subdued they will enter a neutral, dormant state where their attacks are disabled, but they can still take damage from enemies. They're then able to be placed in a Servant Coffin or imprisoned.

Waygates are unavailable while a target is subdued, it is therefore recommended to use the newly introduced consumable Dusk Caller to transport the target to an empty Prison Cell almost immediately.

Once placed in a coffin the conversion process will begin, taking 40 (20) minutes in real time. (Crypt Flooring)
It costs 100 Blood Essence to convert or revive a Servant.

## Gear Level, Expertise & Hunt Proficiency

How powerful a Servant will be depends on its Gear Level & Expertise. Gear Level works the same for Servants as it does for players, generally speaking, by proportionally increasing their max health and damage (power). See Gear Level for more info. They have all the same equipment slots available except for cape and headgear. The **only** equipment stat that matters to a servant, is its Gear Level. All other equipment stats have no effect, including set bonuses and durability level.

The servant's Hunt Proficiency is equal to 10 times their Gear Level, plus a flat expertise bonus.

### Expertise

A Servant's expertise is determined randomly on conversion, based on their blood quality. Expertise will influence 4 things: **Max Health**, **Damage**, **Hunt Proficiency** & **Loot**. The health and damage values are increased by the percentage directly. Whereas the Hunt Proficiency increase is a flat amount. For example, a Gear Level 20 Servant with 10% expertise, will have a total of 210 Hunt Proficiency.
Finally, expertise also increases the amount of loot gained from successful hunts by half the % value.

## Expertise Range Table (In need of updates)

\*The Blood Quality of an enemy as it appears in the world is always rounded down. However, on conversion it will round to the nearest integer. For example, both 90.1% and a 90.9% blood quality units will appear as 90% in the world. But once converted, the latter will round up to 91%. Unconfirmed if this allows units to round up to 100% or not.

## Blood Type & Faction Perks

Servants have 2 perks that each will provide a benefit when going on hunts in which the perks are active.

The first perk is based on Blood Type, and will reduce the difficulty of a Hunt in a given location by 100.

The second perk is determined by their faction, ie. location of origin, increasing loot gained from successful hunts in that region by 20%.

Perks do not stack, so sending a diverse group of servants on hunts is advised. The supported perks of each area can be found via the Castle Throne interface. Additionally, parties of 2 / 3 Servants will each gain a +25 / +50 Power Bonus, respectively. Injured servants are unable to be sent on new hunts for 30 - 180 minutes.

 Scholar | Sacred Resistance
 Brute | Tenacious Strength
 Rogue | Tracking Expertise
 Warrior | Military Tactics

 Dunley Farmlands | Dunley Farmlands Hunter
 Cursed Forest | Cursed Forest Hunter
 Silverlight Hills | Silverlight Hunter
 Gloomrot | Gloomrot Hunter

## Tips & Trivia

* Cursed Forest Hunter Perk is currently exclusive to Werewolf Workers from Gracefall Village.
As a Servant they will no longer transform, only when imprisoned.
* Hunt Proficiency only determines if you "succeed" or "fail" a hunt. The amount of resources you collect per hunt, risk of injury etc. are not affected by Hunt Proficiency
* The Castle Throne has a limited range where it can detect Servant Coffins. If a Servant Coffin is more than about 14 tiles away from the Castle Throne, the Servant assigned to that coffin cannot be sent on missions. Missions already underway will still continue without issue if the Castle Throne is moved out of range of an involved Servant's coffin during the mission. (might no longer be the case in Gloomrot)