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Blessings & Marks

Blessings are short buffs on you; Marks are debuffs you put on an enemy. Item traits grant them. Their strengths below are read from the game files Datamined; how they stack is read from the game's logic and hasn't been tested in game yet Untested.

Blessings

Blessing	Strength	Greater	Adds to	Lasts	Granted by items such as
Blessing of Power Increases your damage	0.2`0.2 × nonScaling`	0.3`0.3 × nonScaling`	Attack power multiplier`AttackPowerMultiplier` Power multiplier weapon spectral`PowerMultiplierWeaponSpectral`	15 seconds	Evisceration, Everstorm, Hawk Charm, Scorpion Ring, Solace, Zamora
Blessing of Endurance Reduces damage taken	0.2`0.2 × nonScaling`	0.3`0.3 × nonScaling`	Damage reduction incoming`DamageReductionIncoming`	15 seconds	Glacial Wall, Citrine Band, Resonant Sledgehammer, Shadow's Light, Verdant Crusade, Spirit Reaper
Blessing of Luck Increases your Critical Hit chance	0.2 (14 traits)`0.2 × nonScaling` 0.08 (1 trait)`0.08 × nonScaling`	0.3`0.3 × nonScaling`	Critical hit chance`CriticalHitChance`	15 seconds	Cosmic Dance, Hawk Charm, Ring of the Worthy, Drazkul's Legacy, Hacker, Deflection +1 more
Blessing of Infusion Your attacks have a chance to inflict Ailments	0.2`0.2 × nonScaling`	0.3`0.3 × nonScaling`	Ailment damage chance`AilmentDamageChance`	15 seconds	Dissonance, Nebula, Methra's Seal, Drazkul's Legacy, Wailing Fury

Strength is the amount a blessing adds to the stat it changes. It's the same whatever the level, rarity or upgrade rank of the item that grants it: the files give every blessing a fixed value that no level or rarity changes DataminedX: paramType nonScaling = min 1, max 1 in every itemScaling and itemScalingMultipliers row.

Related values in the game's stat tables Datamined: Default ailment damage chanceDefault.AilmentDamageChance 0 · Default attack power multiplierDefault.AttackPowerMultiplier 1 · Critical hit chanceCharacter.Player.CriticalHitChance 0.05 · Damage reduction incoming maxCharacter.Player.DamageReductionIncomingMax 0.5.

How blessings stack

Gaining a blessing you already have replaces the active one if the new one is as strong or stronger; a stronger one that's already active blocks the new one.
Blessing effectiveness is added to a blessing's strength, and Blessing duration makes it last longer by that fraction.

Read from the game's blessing logic UntestedAperion/Content/Aperion/Blueprints/Gameplay/LootEffects/BP_Effect_Modular_Blessing_Base_Exec

For the curious: how a blessing is applied, step by step in the game's logic

X and Duration come from the loot effect's SetByCaller values (the granting trait's magnitudes).
TotalMagnitude = X + the receiver's BlessingEffectivenessMultiplier attribute.
The Greater buff is used when the loot effect's tag ends in 'Greater' (or bUseGreater is set).
Each active effect the exec's matcher accepts is compared: if its X <= TotalMagnitude it is removed; if it is larger, the new blessing is not applied.
Applied duration = Duration x (1 + BlessingDurationMultiplier).

Read from Aperion/Content/Aperion/Blueprints/Gameplay/LootEffects/BP_Effect_Modular_Blessing_Base_Exec Untested

Possible bug in the game filesWhen Blessing of Power is gained, the game looks for an active Blessing of Luck to compare with, not Blessing of Power.

BP_Effect_Modular_BlessingOfPower_Exec applies BP_Effect_Modular_BlessingOfPower_AttackBuff_C but checks BP_Effect_Modular_BlessingOfAcuity_CritChanceBuff_C

When Greater Blessing of Power (the version that also blesses allies) is gained, the game looks for an active Blessing of Luck to compare with, not Blessing of Power.

BP_Effect_Modular_GreaterBlessingOfPower_Allies_Exec applies BP_Effect_Modular_BlessingOfPower_AttackBuff_C but checks BP_Effect_Modular_BlessingOfAcuity_CritChanceBuff_C

Read literally: gaining Blessing of Power removes an equal or weaker Blessing of Luck and is blocked by a stronger one, and regular and Greater Power are never compared with each other. Planned test T-0003 checks this.

Marks

Mark	Strength	Greater	Changes	Lasts	Applied by items such as
Mark of Fragility Increases damage dealt to the marked enemy	0.2`0.2 × nonScaling`	0.4`0.4 × nonScaling`	see “How marks work”	15 or 5 seconds	Overstrike, Ram Talisman, Faithful, Ancestor, Predator's Band, Lethe +1 more
Mark of Weakness The marked enemy deals less damage	0.2`0.2 × nonScaling`	0.3`0.3 × nonScaling`	Damage dealt multiplier`DamageDealtMultiplier`	15 or 5 seconds	Grandmaster's Station, Mirror, Phoenix Talisman, Gilden Rose Band, The Gavel, Carapace Blade +2 more
Mark of Leeching Restore Health whenever you hit the marked enemy	grows with the item (below)`0.5 × coreAttribute`	—	see “How marks work”	15 seconds	White Recluse, Soul Leech, Crab Talisman, Ring of Noxious Power, Witherweaves

The Mark of Leeching's heal grows with the level and rarity of the item that applies it Datamined0.5 × coreAttribute. Health restored per hit, before Mark effectiveness:

Item rarity	Item level 50	Item level 100
Common	36.5–45	204.5–250.5
Uncommon	38.5–48	215–268
Rare	40.5–51.5	226.5–287
Epic	44–56	247–313
Legendary	49–64.5	274–359

How marks work

Mark of Fragility: every hit on the marked enemy, except ailment damage over time, is multiplied by 1 + the Mark's strength + the marker's Mark effectiveness.
Mark of Weakness: takes the Mark's strength + Mark effectiveness off the enemy's Damage dealt multiplierDamageDealtMultiplier. How much less damage that means depends on game code we can't read UNKNOWN.
Mark of Leeching: each qualifying hit on the marked enemy heals the attacker by the heal amount × (1 + Mark effectiveness).
One Mark per enemy: a different Mark overwrites it, and a regular Mark does not replace a Greater one of the same type.

Read from the game's Mark logic UntestedAperion/Content/Aperion/Blueprints/Gameplay/Effects/Marks/BP_Effect_Mark_Apply_Base_Exec

Effectiveness and duration

Ascension perks that improve every Blessing or Mark.

Perk	Strength	In game
Blessing duration`BlessingDuration`	0.3`0.3 × nonScaling`	+30% Blessing duration`Trait.Ascension.Perk.Blessings.1`
Blessing effectiveness`BlessingEffectiveness`	0.2`0.2 × nonScaling`	Improve your Blessings by 20%`Trait.Ascension.Perk.Blessings.2`
Mark duration`MarkDuration`	0.3`0.3 × nonScaling`	+30% Mark duration`Trait.Ascension.Perk.Marks.1`
Mark effectiveness`MarkEffectiveness`	0.2`0.2 × nonScaling`	Improve your Marks by 20%`Trait.Ascension.Perk.Marks.2`

The wording and the files differThe effectiveness bonus is added to the strength, not multiplied, for Blessings, Fragility and Weakness (a 0.2 blessing becomes 0.4). Leeching multiplies its heal by 1 + the bonus. The starting values of Blessing and Mark effectiveness aren't in the files UNKNOWN.

History

No official patch notes have been added yet. When they are, each entry will quote the notes word for word, with the date and a link, marked Documented. Patch notes record changes over time; the values on this page come from the game version this wiki is built from.

Sources

data/records/effects/blessings_marks.json (tools/extract_blessings_marks.py)
Loot effects and traits: Aperion/Content/Aperion/Data/Gameplay/SourceData/source_data.json