// CLASSES
Meridian Oracle
Trade
The Oracle is the Meridian tradition's answer to a question the other races don't think to ask: what if knowing were more valuable than having? Other traders move goods. The Oracle moves what goods will be worth tomorrow. Other combat classes count damage. The Oracle counts the ability cooldown on the mob that's about to fire. Information is the commodity, and the Oracle is the vendor.
Void Resonance on an Oracle is the strongest expression of the racial mechanic. Where a Warden or Wayfinder uses passive awareness as a combat utility, the Oracle builds the whole class on it — layered perception that reads markets, enemies, Ancient sites, and group member states in parallel.
Psionic Read is the capstone. Against an enemy, it surfaces the full ability loadout, current debuff state, resist profile, and which attack is about to land. Against an Ancient structure, it reads imprints other classes see only as static - history, purpose, occasionally coordinates to sister sites the Conclave sealed long ago. Oracles are the reason any Ancient content yields lore at all; without a Psionic Read, you get fragments and guesses.
Build archetypes:
- The Augur - max Psionic Read + Ancient Sight + Deep Resonance → peak Ancient-site readers, best PvE intelligence support in the game
- The Market Seer - max Trade Intuition + Market Divination + Counselor's Hand → pure trader; sees price moves hours before they happen
- The Reader-at-War - max Psionic Read + Foresight + Pattern Recognition → combat-intel support, calls out enemy abilities a beat before they land
Oracle Class Perk Card
(Shown at character selection)
MERIDIAN ORACLE
- Sees enemy ability cooldowns, resist profiles, and next-attack telegraphs
- Only class that can fully read Ancient structure imprints for lore and hidden coordinates
- Market price predictions extend up to 6 hours into the future
- Group members see a fraction of the Oracle's enemy intel while within 500u
- Exclusive: Psionic Read - full enemy ability/stat reveal, Ancient site deep-read for rare rewards
Oracle Skill Tree
| Skill | Type | Unlock OL | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psionic Perception | Passive | 0 | Enhanced Void Resonance baseline - reveals more enemy state information than other Meridian classes see. R5: shows active buffs on mobs. R7: shows enemy target priority and hate list, visible only to Oracle and group members in scan range. |
| Trade Intuition | Passive | 0 | Market predictions extend further into the future; rare-item availability surfaced earlier. R5: 2-hour price forecast. R7: 6-hour price forecast; arbitrage routes flagged automatically across connected regions. |
| Counselor's Hand | Active | 10 | Raise NPC faction standing by a fixed amount; cooldown. R5: cooldown halved, works on factions at Unfriendly (normally blocked). R7: also works to raise Hostile standing if the Oracle has a verified contact in that faction. |
| Sensor Resonance | Passive | 10 | Scan range extended; detects cloaked ships within a close radius. R5: +30% scan range, detects cloaked ships within 400u. R7: +50% scan range; cloaked ships are revealed to the Oracle's group as well. |
| Ancient Sight | Passive | 20 | Reveals Ancient structures and their lore type at range; reading is faster than baseline. R5: reveals Ancient-site resource yield before reading. R7: passive reads of Ancient structures while within 2000u, no approach required. |
| Market Divination | Passive | 0 | Identifies rare-item availability at distant stations before travel. R5: flags vendor rotations - reveals which stations will restock a rare item within the next hour. R7: unlocks a Conclave price network that aggregates all Meridian-tier merchant data. |
| Energy Cascade | Active | 15 | Convert a portion of current shields into an instant energy refill. Meridian shield/energy synergy. R5: 40% shield conversion; also reduces ability cooldowns by 2s. R7: 60% shield conversion; if the Oracle is at full energy post-conversion, the overflow grants a brief +20% energy regen. |
| Minded Talk | Passive | 25 | NPC dialog options expand - Oracle sees dialogue branches other classes don't receive. R5: certain mission NPCs offer exclusive rewards to Oracles. R7: some hidden missions are only visible to Oracle. |
| Pattern Recognition | Passive | 0 | Mob behavior patterns surface after brief observation - reveals cooldown rotations and ability sequencing. R5: shown 1s before each ability use. R7: shown 2s before; Oracle's group members see the same telegraphs within scan range. |
| Resonant Shielding | Passive | 10 | Shield regen and shield-based resists improved; Meridian-identity. R5: +25% shield regen. R7: incoming energy-type damage also refunds a portion as Oracle's shield. |
| Detached Will | Passive | 35 | Reduced effectiveness of debuffs, crowd control, and fear-type effects against the Oracle. R5: -40% crowd control duration. R7: -60%; certain psionic attacks (enemy Oracle equivalents) are completely negated. |
| Foresight | Active | 25 | Short pre-cast - Oracle sees the next enemy attack before it lands, gaining a brief window of invulnerability or dodge chance. R5: 2s window. R7: 3s window; if the dodged attack would have killed the Oracle, Foresight auto-triggers Energy Cascade on resolve. |
| Deep Resonance | Active | 45 | Meditative state - boosted stats and automatic Ancient-site reads for 30s. Cannot activate in combat. R3: basic boost. R5: reveals hidden Ancient features. R7: triggers a full deep-read on one Ancient site per use. |
| Psionic Read (Exclusive) | Active | 15 [Q] | Deep read target. On an enemy: full ability loadout, current debuffs, exact resist profile, next ability used + cooldowns, HP breakpoints. On an Ancient structure: full lore imprint, coordinates to linked sites, bonus rare-resource drops on interaction. R3: 60s cooldown per target, basic enemy info. R5: 30s cooldown, full ability timing; Ancient reads grant Ancient Lattice Component drops. R7: 15s cooldown; Psionic Read on an Ancient structure once per day grants a guaranteed rare-tier lore rarity and can unlock sealed sector coordinates. |