It is very high levels - you can make it permanent with a Ritual (at lower level in fact) - very high and you are probably not going to like this..
5th edition Creo Mentem Guidelines
Level 30: Increase one of a person's mental Characteristics by one point, to no more than 0.
Level 35: Increase one of a person's mental Characteristics by one point, to no more than +1.
Level 40: Increase one of a person's mental Characteristics by one point, to no more than +2.
Level 45: Increase one of a person's mental Characteristics by one point, to no more than +3.
Level 50: Increase one of a person's mental Characteristics by one point, to no more than +4.
Level 55: Increase one of a person's mental Characteristics by one point, to no more than +5.
This being 5th edition all the spell guidelines start at R:Personal D: Mom T:Individual so you have to add magnitudes for at least duration and possibly for range as well. And you have to cast the spell multiple times to get one point each time.. And in 5th edition you would also gain Warping from each time (Twilight Points). On the other hand - if you know the ritual version you can just do it at D: Mom and the effect would be permanent with no problem of duration (and adding magnitudes for them).
Well, another option is to create something similar to Gift of the Bear's Fortitude, but for sight. The effects will be temporary, but you may be able to get a bonus at lower levels. The CrCo rituals are intended for permanent enhancements.
Regarding Warping/Twilight, you automatically get points for spending too much time under the effect of a (or multiple) spell -- think of it as a generalization of the Twilight points you get from a Longevity Potion. No rolls involved. If you always go out laden with sense-enhancing spells, you will get warped.
Well, i think i should try to negociate with my AS a bonus in perception for 2nd sight only (as a specialization), so that it might be a CreoMent spell at a lower level.
The Gift of the Bear's Fortitude is a good exemple. It is efficient for sight only... That's perhaps the reason why it is a lower level spell, than one which gives u the bonus without any restrictions. What do u think of that ?
So a CrCo (for sight only) and a CrMe (for 2nd sight only) could be useful at the same time, cause the bonus would be added.
And to avoid Warping/Twilight, i guess i should try to make a magic item... a ring for instance, which could give me the bonus without the bad effects.
But this seems a very hard stuff (long...) i'll find somewhere in the forum the topic on making magic items, cause i'd like to know if it worths it or not...
MuCo(An,Vi) might be better for Second Sight.
It is a Supernatural Ability and probably needs a Vim requisite ,
but you still use your physical eyes to see with.
You can enhance normal sight and Second Sight at the same time.
The Muto Corpus guidelines only give a bonus to Soak.
You could use Muto Corpus to give yourself a minor ability. Eyes of the Cat allows you to see in near darkness , but not absolute darkness.
(page 208 , 3rd Edition , English version) Eyes of the Eagle would give you the Keen Eyesight Quality.
Add +01 to Perception and +03 to all rolls involving eyesight.
(Keen Eyesight is page 42 in 5th Ed Mystery Cults)
If you are not using it already 5th edition actually uses specialisation on all abilities including the ones concerning special talents such as 2nd Sight.
Making it a magic item would not keep you safe from the Warping - but if you are using 3rd or 4th edition ars maybe you shouldn't worry about Warping, but if you chose to use it, and just in generel, I would recommend getting the 5th core book.
On short term inprovements I still think that the MuCo (An) would be easier.
I take the virtue Keen vision to get +3 bonus on all rolls including vision !
With +3 on my 2nd sight and +1 on Per, this give me a die+7 to see all invisible creatures (ease factor 9) !!
So i am SURE to see ALL invisible creatures immediatly !! This is IMBA
Concerning magus using PerIma(co) lvl30, the ease lvl is 11.
If i choose the specialization "hidden by magi" for my 2nd sight i have die+8. So failure will be quite impossible (only with a "2" on my dice roll)!!!
As in the RoP:tD methods and powers, it seems the guideline for effects intended to be permanent is adding 4 magnitudes. So... perhaps you could subtract four magnitudes from the Creo Corpus / Creo Mentem effects for temporary versions.
I would allow it. A spell that temporarily makes you more perfect (but not beyond the bounds of human perfection) seems very much in keeping with the Creo technique.
I could see some abuse, for lab activities and such, though...
Any suggestions? It shouldn't just be nerfed away to nothing, but there should be some kind of downside to just casting, say, Creo Mentem 35 (base 25, +0 personal, +2 sun, +0 individual) every day to raise your INT from +2 to +3 for lab activities. Though I suppose if you did it more than one season of the year, it'd reach the 'half year or more' guideline for causing warping, so it's not too bad. Worse if you stacked castings to raise your INT further.
