Past Life Feats

Past Life Feats

There are two kinds of Past Life Feats.

• "Past Life: <class>" is free.
• "Past Life: <more interesting name with abilities that has the above feat as a prereq>" costs a feat slot.

Dominant Class

You gain the Past Life of your dominant class (i.e., the class that is shown as your character's class icon in parties), which is determined by the class you have the most levels of. In the case of a tie, the dominant class is the highest (with the lowest number) on this list:

1. Barbarian
2. Bard
3. Cleric
4. Fighter
5. Paladin
6. Ranger
7. Rogue
8. Sorcerer
9. Wizard
10. Monk
11. Favored Soul
12. Artificer
13. Druid

That is: alphabetical for the original 9 classes, then new classes added at the end in order of release. ^source

Free Past Life Feats (Passive)

If you True Reincarnate again, you keep your old Past Life feat from your first incarnation, and add a second from your dominant class from this life. Each feat can be stacked up to three times.

Icon	Feat Name	Type	Description	Prerequisites
	Past Life: Barbarian	Passive Past Life	You were a Barbarian in a past life. You occasionally find yourself filled with a nearly irresistable urge to smash boxes. With your head. Each time you acquire this feat you gain 10 additional hit points. This feat can be stacked up to three times.	Barbarian Past Life
	Past Life: Bard	Passive Past Life	You were a Bard in a past life. You occasionally find yourself humming a merry tune. Each time you acquire this feat you gain +2 to saves vs. enchantments and illusions. You gain 1 bard song usage. This feat can be stacked up to three times.	Bard Past Life
	Past Life: Cleric	Passive Past Life	You were a Cleric in a past life. You occasionally feel the presence of the divine. Each time you acquire this feat you gain +1 to the DC's of your Conjuration spells, +1 Turn Undead attempt per rest, and you Turn Undead as if you were two levels higher. This feat can be stacked up to three times.	Cleric Past Life
	Past Life: Fighter	Passive Past Life	You were a Fighter in a past life. You occasionally find yourself filled with the urge to bark orders to your fellows in combat. Each time you acquire this feat you gain +1 to attack rolls and +1 to the DC's of your tactical feats. This feat can be stacked up to three times.	Fighter Past Life
	Past Life: Paladin	Passive Past Life	You were a Paladin in a past life. You occasionally find yourself overcome with righteous fervor. Each time you acquire this feat you gain 5% more health when affected by positive energy. (This feat can be stacked up to 3 times, providing an additional 5%, 10% then 15% Healing Amplification)	Paladin Past Life
	Past Life: Ranger	Passive Past Life	You were a Ranger in a past life. You occasionally find small animals in your backpack. Each time you acquire this feat you gain +2 damage with ranged weapons and +2 to elemental resistances. This feat can be stacked up to three times.	Ranger Past Life
	Past Life: Rogue	Passive Past Life	You were a Rogue in a past life. You occasionally find yourself looking over your shoulder. Each time you acquire this feat you gain +2 to saves vs. traps and deal +1 damage when sneak attacking. This feat can be stacked up to three times.	Rogue Past Life
	Past Life: Sorcerer	Passive Past Life	You were a Sorcerer in a past life. You occasionally find yourself daydreaming of dragons. Each time you acquire this feat you gain +1 to the DC's of your Evocation spells and gain 20 additional spell points. (These spell points are only available if you are able to cast spells.) This feat can be stacked up to three times.	Sorcerer Past Life
	Past Life: Wizard	Passive Past Life	You were a Wizard in a past life. You occasionally find yourself desiring a good book. Each time you acquire this feat you gain +2 to spell penetration checks. Additionally this provides +2 to the DC's of Wands and scrolls you use. This feat can be stacked up to three times.	Wizard Past Life
	Past Life: Monk	Passive Past Life	You were a Monk in a past life. You occasionally find yourself contemplating the mysteries of life. Each time you acquire this feat you gain +1 to damage rolls. This feat can be stacked up to three times.	Monk Past Life
	Past Life: Favored Soul	Passive Past Life	You were a Favored Soul in a past life. You occasionally find yourself wishing to leap off of tall things. Each time you acquire this feat you gain +1 to spell penetration checks and gain 20 additional spell points. (These spell points are only available if you are able to cast spells.) This feat can be stacked up to three times.	Favored Soul Past Life
	Past Life: Artificer	Passive Past Life	You were an Artificer in a past life. You occasionally find yourself tinkering with your gear. Each time you acquire this feat you gain a stacking +1 bonus to all Intelligence based skills and Use Magic Device. This feat can be stacked up to three times.	Artificer Past Life
	Past Life: Druid	Passive Past Life	You were a Druid in a past life. You occasionally find yourself gazing at the stars and get sentimental around mistletoe. Each time you acquire this feat your summoned creatures, charmed minions, and hirelings gain +2 to all ability scores. This feat can be stacked up to three times.	Druid Past Life

Purchased Past Life Feats

When you true reincarnate, you'll end up with a new feat called "Past Life: Cleric", or the like. Those act as prerequisites for other (new) feats, listed below. These require a feat slot.

Icon	Feat Name	Type	Description	Prerequisites
	Past Life: Berserker's Fury	Past Life	You recall more about your past life as a barbarian. You gain +20 hit points, have +2 to your Intimidate skill and can enter a barbarian rage one additional time per rest, and enter a basic rage once per rest even if you do not have any other rage abilities. (Activate this barbarian ability to enter a bloodthirsty frenzy, granting you a +4 bonus to Strength and Constitution, a +2 Morale bonus to Will saves, and a -2 penalty to AC. When the rage ends, however, you will lose the hit points granted to you by increased Constitution and become fatigued. Your rage will last for 30 seconds.) This feat grants access to Racial and Class Toughness enhancements.	Past Life: Barbarian
	Past Life: Bardic Dilettante	Past Life	You recall more about your past life as a bard. You have +1 to all Charisma based skills, +1 to the DC's of your Enchantment spells, and can Inspire Courage three times per rest. (Activate this bard ability to rally your companions, giving them a +1 morale bonus to saves against fear effects and a +1 morale bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls before enhancements.)	Past Life: Bard
	Past Life: Initiate of the Faith	Past Life	You recall more about your past life as a cleric. You have +2 to your Heal skill, and can produce a Healing Word effect five times per rest. Positive energy is channeled to heal light wounds of your target or damage undead for 1d4 hit points plus an additional 1d4 per two caster levels. Undead who make a successful Will save reduce the damage by half.	Past Life: Cleric
	Past Life: Student of the Sword	Past Life	You recall more about your past life as a fighter. You have +2 to your Intimidate skill, +1 to the Maximum Dexterity Bonus of armor and shields, and can remember your martial prowess three times per rest, increasing your base attack bonus to your level and granting +4 to hit.	Past Life: Fighter
	Past Life: Soldier of the Faith	Past Life	You recall more about your past life as a paladin. You have +2 to your Heal skill, and can invoke Divine Favor upon yourself 3 times per rest. (Activate this paladin ability to call upon the strength and wisdom of a deity to grant a +1 luck bonus on weapon attack and damage. This bonus is increased by +1 for every 3 caster levels beyond level 3, maximum +3 luck bonus. About 2 minutes per use.)	Past Life: Paladin
	Past Life: Warrior of the Wild	Past Life	You recall more about your past life as a ranger. You have +2 to your Spot skill and can produce a Barkskin effect three times per rest. (Activate this ranger ability to toughen the skin of an ally, giving a +2 natural armor bonus to AC with an additional +1 bonus for every 3 caster levels above 3rd, to a maximum of +5 at caster level 12th.)	Past Life: Ranger
	Past Life: Sneak of Shadows	Past Life	You recall more about your past life as a rogue. You have +1 to all skills and three times per rest you can skulk with the skill of your past life, gaining bonuses equal to your level to your hide and move silently skills, a +1 bonus to sneak attack damage for every two character levels after first, and a +1 bonus to hit with sneak attacks for every four levels. Note: 1 minute per use.	Past Life: Rogue
	Past Life: Arcane Prodigy	Past Life	You recall more about your past life as a sorcerer. Your maximum spell points are increased by 10 at first level, and 5 spell points for each additional level and can produce random elemental damage spells ten times per rest. (Activate this sorcerer ability to blast a target with a ray of combined elements, doing 1d12 damage of a random elemental type plus an additional 1d12 per three caster levels on impact. A successful Reflex save reduce the damage by half.)	Past Life: Sorcerer
	Past Life: Arcane Initiate	Past Life	You recall more about your past life as a wizard. You have +1 to the DC's of spells you cast and can cast the magic missile spell ten times per rest, creating a missile of magical energy (Magic Missile) that darts forth and unerringly strikes its target inflicting 1d4+1 force damage. For every 2 caster levels beyond first you gain an additional missile, maximum 10 missiles.	Past Life: Wizard
	Past Life: Disciple of the Fist	Past Life	You recall more about your past life as a monk. You have +2 to your Concentration skill, deal increased unarmed damage (one step higher than normal on the unarmed combat chart), and can enter an evasive trance once per rest, granting the evasion feat for a short period of time (20 seconds). (When you make a successful Reflex save to avoid damage, you suffer no damage instead of half damage.) Note: You must meet normal evasion requirements for this one. No medium or heavy armor, no heavy encumbrance.	Past Life: Monk
	Past Life: Acolyte of Divine Secrets	Past Life	You recall more about your past life as a Favored Soul. You have +2 to your Diplomacy skill and can call down the wrath of your former deity, producing an Avenging Light effect ten times per rest. (Activate this Favored Soul ability to cause a searing orb of radiant light to smite your target, dealing 1d8 hit points of light damage plus an additional 1d8 per three caster levels.)	Past Life: Favored Soul
	Past Life: Student of Artifice	Past Life	You recall more about your past life as an artificer. When you use a rod, staff, or wand, you have a 15% chance to retain essence and not expend a charge, and can produce an Enchant Armor or Enchant Weapons effect a total of ten times per rest. (Activate this artificer ability to increase the Enhancement Bonus of your target's currently equipped weapons or shields by 1, or to increase the Enhancement Bonus of your target's currently equipped armor by 1. An item can have only one temporary item enchantment at a time.)	Past Life: Artificer
	Past Life: Harbinger of Nature's Wrath	Past Life	You recall more about your past life as a druid. You have +2 to all elemental resistances and can cast the flame blade spell three times per rest, which summons a scimitar of fire that does fire damage instead of slashing damage, and uses the wielder's Wisdom instead of Strength for determining attack and damage bonuses. You can choose to summon one or two scimitars, and the swords are automatically equipped when created. At caster level 1, it has a +1 enhancement bonus and the flaming effect. Every five caster levels the summoned swords improve.	Past Life: Druid
	Completionist	Past Life	You win DDO! You've leveled to 20 in every class, and for your effort can take this feat to get a +2 bonus to all skills and ability scores. When more classes are added, this feat will deactivate and you will need to gain those past lives before this benefit reactivates.	All passive Past Life Feats

• Caster Level is considered to be equal to your character level.

Developer quotes

All by lead developer Eladrin

Quote: Originally Posted by Eladrin When you true reincarnate, you'll end up with a new feat called "Past Life: Cleric", or the like. Those act as prerequisites for other (new) feats such as "Initiate of the Faith". Past Life: Initiate of the Faith Prereq: Past Life: Cleric Benefit: You recall more about your past life as a cleric. You have +2 to your Heal skill, and can produce a Healing Word effect three times per rest. Positive energy is channeled to heal light wounds of your target or damage undead for 1d4 hit points plus an additional 1d4 per two caster levels. Undead who make a successful Will save reduce the damage by half. Quote: the option to clutter your screen with a massivly oversized graphic I think many people are seriously overestimating how much larger true reincarnated characters are. No Halfling Godzillas rampaging across House Jorasco, sorry. A double reincarnated human is still shorter than a Warforged.

Quote: Originally Posted by Eladrin Originally Posted by Zenako Thanks for the feedback. That spins a new light on things, and also raises the question about multiclass toons as well. Dominate class determines? Correct, you gain the Past Life of your dominant class. If you True Reincarnate again, you keep your old Past Life feat from your first incarnation, and add a second from your dominant class from this life (if it was different). Here's the current list of Past Life feats: editors note: clearing this since it's listed above. Edit: Caster Level is considered to be equal to your character level.

Quote: Originally Posted by Eladrin "Past Life: <class>" is free. "Past Life: <more interesting name with abilities that has the above feat as a prereq>" costs a feat slot. May be worth it to get some healing ability, or a superior version of Mental Toughness, or ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Eladrin (Nov 2009 recap/update)