Morph

Morph is a profession mechanic exclusive to the amalgam engineer elite specialization, replacing the utility tool belt skills from F2 to F4 with a pool of seven selectable skills. Each morph skill has an activation effect and grants a strain enhancement effect.

List of morph skills

#	Skill			Description
Amalgam
	Defensive Protocol: Cleanse		20	Convert damaging conditions to barrier and nondamaging conditions to protection.
	Defensive Protocol: Protect	10.5½	20	Briefly block incoming attacks.
	Defensive Protocol: Thorns		20	Grow protective spikes, damaging nearby enemies. For a short duration, the spikes react when you are struck, damaging nearby enemies again.
	Offensive Protocol: Demolish	10.25¼	20	Spin around a hunk of metal, then finish with a forward smash.
	Offensive Protocol: Obliterate	0.75¾	20	Create a giant blade to maim your enemy. The attack destroys the barrier of enemies hit.
	Offensive Protocol: Pierce	1	20	Thrust forward with a spike, piercing the defense of your foe.
	Offensive Protocol: Shred	1	20	Launch cutting disks at your enemies, piercing enemies in their path. Enemies struck are crippled; if an enemy is struck by all three disks, they are immobilized instead.

Related traits

• Soothing Detonation (Inventions) — Heal nearby allies when using a tool belt skill.
• Optimized Activation (Tools) — Using tool belt skills grants vigor.
• Static Discharge (Tools) — Discharge a bolt of lightning whenever you use a tool belt skill.
• Mechanized Deployment (Tools) — Your tool belt skills gain reduced recharge. Tool belt skills remove conditions. Engage Photon Forge cannot activate this trait.
• Kinetic Battery (Tools) — Gain kinetic charges when you use a tool belt skill. At maximum, charges gain a burst of speed.
• Adrenal Implant (Tools) — Endurance regeneration is increased. Reduce the recharge of your tool belt skills when you dodge.
• Hardened Chrome (Amalgam) — Morph skills and evolving grant protection to yourself.
• Hybrid Vigor (Amalgam) — Gain vitality. Gain barrier when you use a morph skill.
• Silver Lining (Amalgam) — Evolve no longer inherits bonuses from strains. Morph skills grant their strain bonuses.
• Willing Host (Amalgam) — Using a morph skill increases your damage for a duration.
• Symbiotic Synergy (Amalgam) — Evolve recharges morph skills. Morph skills deal increased strike damage.
• New Genes (Amalgam) — Morph skills grants boons to allies. Grant an additional boon based on which morph skill was used.

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Skill types and profession mechanics