Tomes

Tomes or Codices (plural of Codex) can be thought of as Alternate Advancement part 2. Due to client restrictions, new AA's can not be added to Shards of Dalaya, and Tomes are the solution to this. Various tomes exist in the game, be they store bought, quested, or droppped. Tome itself is a blanket term, and 'tome' items aren't necessarily called Tomes at all.

A Tome must be 'filled' with exp to get its benefit. This is done by right clicking the Tome to read it. Any prerequisites or limitations are written within. If you are eligible to use the tome you will receive a message telling you so, and from then on your normal exp bar represents the earned tome experience. For some tomes, the benefit will be gained as you earn experience, for others you will receive no benefit until you level it up completely.

When it is filled it can be disposed of, you do not need to hold on to it any more. A tome is filled when right clicking on it brings up the message "You have learned all you can from this codex." Only one tome can be 'active' at a time, but there is no penalty for switching which tome is active ahead of time. The amount of exp you had in the previous tome is saved, and you can continue right where you left off. The amount of exp a tome needs tends to be measured in equivalent AA levels, and the amount needed vary greatly from tome to tome.

There is no limit to the number of tomes which can be learned. It is safe to switch tomes mid-way, and safe to switch back without losing any progress. A tome may be moved around within a bag without deactivating it. However, if the bag containing the tome is moved in inventory it becomes inactive. Any experience gained will be lost unless the tome is reactivated, another tome is activated, or experience is moved to AAs.

The most common Tome by far, the Codex of Power, can be bought in Erimal library. They cost about 1.7k per volume, with 5 volumes total, which must be used in turn. To use them, you need 250+ AAs to begin with. Each volume of the codex of power requires 110 AAs to complete (The 200 AA myth).

See how to use Tomes in Character Comparisons here.

Note: Tomes need to be right clicked to be activated; this may be done either from a base inventory slot or from within a container. Once activated, adjust your AA experience percentage accordingly.

Old-World Tomes

• Codex of Power - Increase Melee damage, Spell damage, Pet damage, and Healing - 4% per volume, 20% for all 5 volumes.
  • Codex of Power Vol I
  • Codex of Power Vol II
  • Codex of Power Vol III
  • Codex of Power Vol IV
  • Codex of Power Vol V
• Understanding and Working With Runes - Increase rune effects on your character - 15% damage mitigation on rune-absorbed damage
• Dodging the Tears of Tarhyl - Decrease incoming Spell damage - 5% spell mitigation
• Manual of Triggered Casting - Increase item proc rates - 10% increased chance to proc
• Tales of Rapid Recovery - Decrease exhaustion timer - 20% decreased exhaustion time after extreme styles
• Compendium of Aggressive Stances - Increase aggro generation - 5% increased aggro generation
• Compendium of Passive Stances - Decrease aggro generation - 5% decreased aggro generation
• Advanced Foe Management - Increase root, mesmerize, and charm duration - 10% increased duration
• Treatise on Armor Optimization - Increase Damage Reduction - 40% increase to worn Damage Reduction
• Secrets of the Wee Folk - (Increase innate death save) - 10 % increased chance of innate death save (fatal hit dodge)

It is conjectured (more parses needed) that each of the 9 Emberflow Tomes require 40 AAs to complete.

Ikisith Tomes

In order to begin using any droppable tome from Ikisith, you must hand it in to Apprentice Vaceth (Valley of Erimal  at 1151, 860, -42  • Palace library - first floor) to be translated (much like Ancient Spell Scrolls and Eldritch Spell Scrolls). There is a translation fee of 500 for level 1 general tomes, 1200 for level 2 general tomes, 2000 for level 3 general tomes, 1000 for level 1 class tomes, and 2000 for level 2 class tomes. Tomes become no drop after they are translated. This can not be undone.

Bug!

Players must have at least one more platinum with them than the amount required by Apprentice Vaceth to activate their tome.

General tomes

With the exception of "Resistance" tomes which have 6 ranks of similar structure, all Ikisith general tomes have 4 ranks: Tome 1, Tome 2, Opus 1, and Opus 2. Each rank is a prequisite for the next. Tome 1s tend to drop from chests and more difficult dungeon experience mobs. Tome 2s tend to drop from named mobs in Ikisith group experience dungeons. Opuses drop only from raid content.

Tome name	Effect	Experience cost for Tomes/Opuses
Tome of Bodily Avoidance	Increases physical avoidance by 1% per rank	60 AAs
Tome of Bodily Resilience	Increases physical mitigation by 1% per rank	60 AAs
Tome of Vitality	Increases base hit points by 1% per rank	60 AAs
Tome of Racing Thoughts	Raises the worn Flowing Thought cap by 1 per rank	75 AAs
Tome of the Swift	Increases base movement speed by 2% per rank	35 AAs
Tome of Striking	Increases your chance to land a critical hit by 1 percent per rank	50 AAs
Tome of Bodily Resistance	Increases poison and disease resists by 3 points each per rank	20 AAs
Tome of Elemental Resistance	Increases fire and cold resists by 3 points each per rank	20 AAs
Tome of Magical Resistance	Increases magic resist by 4 points per rank	20 AAs
Tome of Enhanced Strength	Increases Hidden Strength STR overcap by 10 points per rank	30 AAs
Tome of Enhanced Stamina	Increases Hidden Strength STA overcap by 10 points per rank	30 AAs
Tome of Enhanced Agility	Increases Hidden Strength AGI overcap by 10 points per rank	30 AAs
Tome of Enhanced Dexterity	Increases Hidden Strength DEX overcap by 10 points per rank	30 AAs
Tome of Enhanced Charisma	Increases Hidden Strength CHA overcap by 10 points per rank	30 AAs
Tome of Exceptional Healing	Increases the chance to score an exceptional heal by 1% per rank	50 AAs
Tome of Critical Evocation	Increases the chance to score a critical blast by 1% per rank	60 AAs
Tome of Frost Mastery	Increases damage of cold spells by 2% per rank	50 AAs
Tome of Flame Mastery	Increases damage of fire spells by 2% per rank	50 AAs
Tome of Magic Mastery	Increases damage of magic-based spells by 2% per rank	50 AAs
Tome of Infection Mastery	Increases damage of disease and poison spells by 2% per rank	50 AAs
Tome of the Mind	Increases hidden WIS and INT caps by 20 points per rank to award healing and direct damage critical rates of up to 1% respectively per rank	50 AAs
Tome of Lifetap Mastery	Increases the damage of your lifetap spells by 2% per rank	50 AAs

Archetype tomes

Most Ikisith Archetype tomes are available for purchase in the Hidden Refuge in the Dreadlands, accessible via the Main Quest. These include pet tomes, the mututally exclusive glyphs for spellcasting specialization, and the Opus of Melee Discipline

Tome name	Effect	Estimated XP cost/AAs
Companion Bound Magic I	Adds 25% of the player's pre-buff Magic resist to pet.	20 AAs
Companion Bound Fire I	Adds 25% of the player's pre-buff Fire resist to pet.	20 AAs
Companion Bound Cold I	Adds 25% of the player's pre-buff Cold resist to pet.	20 AAs
Companion Bound Poison I	Adds 25% of the player's pre-buff Poison resist to pet.	20 AAs
Companion Bound Disease I	Adds 25% of the player's pre-buff Disease resist to pet.	20 AAs
Companion Critical Strike I	Adds 1% critical strike to pet.	20 AAs
Companion Armor I	Adds 25% of the players AC to pet	20 AAs
Glyph of Shiritri I	Adds -25 resist adjust to any magic spell you cast	40 AAs
Glyph of Tarhyl I	Adds -25 resist adjust to any fire spell you cast	40 AAs
Glyph of Shojar I	Adds -25 resist adjust to any cold spell you cast	40 AAs
Glyph of Sivyana I	Adds -25 resist adjust to any poison spell you cast	40 AAs
Glyph of Gradalsh I	Adds -25 resist adjust to any disease spell you cast	40 AAs
Opus of Melee Discipline I	Grants access to the Rested Style, which regenerates stamina at an accelerated rate (Monk, Rogue, Warrior only)	unknown

Class tomes

As the name suggests, these tomes are class-specific. Each tome has 4 ranks. In general, class tome 1s drop similarly to general tome 2s from difficult named group experience dungeon mobs in Ikisith, and they are available for token purchase from Logistician Zi`zi. Class tome 2s are known to drop from Claw Commander Era`velu, Supreme Ritualist Ofgats, and in The Abyss and Tur'Ruj. Class tome 3s and 4s are NO DROP and come from Tier 11+ raid content in Ikisith. It is believed that all class tomes require 80 AAs to complete.

Tome name	Class	Effect
Blademaster's Rhythm	Bard	Grants the Bard a 2.5 / 5 / 7.5 / 10% chance to gain up to 8 extra melee swings when playing Spell: Song of the Blademaster
Crescendo	Bard	Increases non-melee damage from the Bard when target is under 15% health by 10 / 20 / 30 / 40%
Quiet Reflection	Bard	Increases Bard's Meditate skill (130) by 25 / 50 / 75 / 100
Frenzied Companion	Beastlord	Grants beastlord pets a chance to flurry (2 additional attacks in a combat round) based on mana usage by the beastlord. Flurry chances initiate when the beastlord uses mana, and gradually decay until chances reach zero. Flurry chances are capped at 15 / 30 / 45 / 60%.
Empathic Warder	Beastlord	Shares ? / ? / ? / ?% of beastlord's critical strike with their pet. Also heals the beastlord for 7.5 / 15 / 22.5 / 30% of direct heals received by the pet.
Third Beastlord Tome	Beastlord	unknown
Tool of the Divine	Cleric	Causes a portion of any overhealing from your single target heals to be spread to your group
Manual of Condemnation	Cleric	A successful bash may be followed up with additional melee damage at a rate of (Unknown).
Third Cleric Tome	Cleric	unknown
Euphorbium Mastery	Druid	Increases effectiveness of all damage shields in druid's group by 10 / 20 / 30 / 40%
Advanced Apiculture	Druid	Casting Crawling Swarm and Doomswarm will summon a queen bee at a rate of 3 / 6 / 9 / 12%.
Third Druid Tome	Druid	unknown
Overpowering Calm	Enchanter	Reduces mitigation of mesmerize spells by 15/30/45/60% and reduces their chance to be resisted by 3/6/9/12%.
Cascading Bond	Enchanter	Increases the accuracy of melee while Somatic Bond is active on the enchanter. Tome 1: 80% accuracy in melee and 1.25x dmg. Tome 2: Additional 1.5x dmg. Tome 3: Chance to double attack. Tome 4: Additional chance to double attack.
Third Enchanter Tome	Enchanter	unknown
Elemental Embodiment	Magician	While in an elemental form, you will convert 2 / 4 / 6 / 8% of the total damage into mana for yourself and absorb 5/10/15/20% of the damage of the spell type that form adds resist to. Vs. unresistable-type spells and in any form, the damage absorption is reduced to 2.5 / 5 / 7.5 / 10%.
Empowered Storm	Magician	Reduces the critical hit chance penalty on area of affect and rain spells from base chance 0.33% to base chance 0.53 / 0.73 / 0.93 / 1.13%.
Word of Power	Magician	Gives the Magicians pet the ability to Flurry / Rampage / Whirlwind / Devastating Blow for a short time using pet stances with /style commands
Elemental Fists	Monk	Adds fire and ice damage of increasing likelihood to hits (amounts unknown)
Force of Body	Monk	Increases Strength of Flying Kick by 50%
Third Monk Tome	Monk	unknown
Insidious Elements	Necromancer	unknown
Leeching Servant	Necromancer	Gives pet the ability to mimic necromancer's lifetaps, then increases that ability (amounts unknown)
Strands of Life	Necromancer	Mobs killed in Sap Death style give increasing amounts of health and mana back to the group (amounts unknown)
Holy Constitution	Paladin	Increases effectiveness of all heals that land on the paladin by 2 / 4 / 6 / 8%
Tears of the Crusader	Paladin	Gives an innate melee proc that heals the group for 100 / 200 / 300 / 400
Divine Radiance	Paladin	Reduces reuse time of Divine Refusal from 72 to 24 hours. Also allows the Paladin to flurry against undead mobs
Crippling Shot	Ranger	Increases damage of pinning shots by 25 / 50 / 75 / 100% and with an additional 25 / 50 / 75 / 100% stun duration and 2 / 4 / 6 / 8% damage when the pinning shot is done to the flank.
Splitting Arrow	Ranger	Gives your arrows a 2 / 4 / 6 / 8% chance of splitting and hitting your target an additional time. This effect can occur multiple times from a single shot.
Third Ranger Tome	Ranger	unknown
Insidious Stab	Rogue	Allows you to perform Insidious Stabs, causing 2 / 4 / 6 / 8% of your Critical Hits with Backstab to deal 4x damage.
Periphery Dodging	Rogue	Allows the rogue a 10 / 15 / 20 / 25% chance to dodge special melee attacks from any NPC.
Sinister Revenge	Rogue	Allows you to prolong your life for up to 15 seconds when dealt a mortal blow, dealing increased damage before finally perishing.
Focused Hate	Shadowknight	Adds manadrain and stun to Improved and Leech Touches and increases their damage per rank (amounts unknown)
Servant Training	Shadowknight	Grants a new stance each rank that sacrifices the pet with the following effect: 1) Explode in a disease-based AoE 2) Mez nearby foes 3) Drain HP from target to heal group 4)Infect target with a splurt-type spell
Third Shadowknight Tome	Shadowknight	unknown
Tastes Like Chicken	Shaman	Increases mana gained from all cannibalize-type spells by 10 / 20 / 30 / 40%
Blood Feast	Shaman	Empowers Form of the River Keeper, granting a chance that the Maul proc will do extra damage and heal the Shaman.
Blood Ritual	Shaman	Grants an endurance-heavy stance (/s 4) in which the Shaman's DoT spells are amplified by 15 / 23 / 32 / 40% and direct healing spells are amplified by 10 / 15 / 25 / 33% in exchange for 20-to-30% of the Shaman's maximum HP per spellcast.
Berserk	Warrior	Increases the chance to critical strike 1/5; 1/4; 1/3; 1/2 of your lost of hit points.
Crippler	Warrior	Increases accuracy and level cap of crippling strike per rank 63 / 65 / 67 / 70.
Third Warrior Tome	Warrior	unknown
Forbidden Harvest	Wizard	A killing blow returns the wizard 2 / 4 / 6 / 8% of his total mana pool back
Elementary Evocation	Wizard	Increases the damage done by non-critical/ultimate/primal spells by 2 / 4 / 6 / 8%.
Ley Line Mastery	Wizard	Empowers Wizard Harvest spells to return extra mana 20 / 40 / 60 / 80% of the time.