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Basic Information

Insight impact for Enemy and Environmental Changes

Main Game Insight Events

Chalice Dungeon Insight Events

Insight: Frenzy & Beasthood Values

Basic Information

Description The Insight stat represents the depth of inhuman knowledge. Needed to ring special bell, but induces frenzy. Insight increases as your character gains knowledge beyond the ken of men. Insight increases as the story progresses and can be used in network play or traded for items. Insight is inhuman knowledge and represents your awareness of the nightmare's effects. In addition to its use as a currency at the insight shop and during multiplayer, acquiring more insight provides certain benefits but also poses a few risks. High levels of Insight will decrease your Beasthood stat, and while that does mean that you will fill the Beast Gauge faster, you won't be able to reach the later damage modifiers that come with a bigger gauge. Your Frenzy resistance is also heavily dependent on how much Insight you have, and the more you have the more susceptible you will be to getting Frenzied. Some enemies and aspects of the environment will also change at particular insight thresholds, such as the Church Servants in the Cathedral Ward gaining powered-up weapons and new attacks; with extremely high insight you'll also become able to see things during the day which would otherwise only be visible when the Blood Moon is out. Encountering or defeating bosses, meeting various characters and witnessing certain events will often cause you to gain a few points of insight; these conditions can only be fulfilled once per playthrough, with the exception that Chalice Dungeon bosses can be defeated repeatedly for insight bonuses if you recreate the dungeons in which they appear. Simply encountering bosses in recreated dungeons won't yield repeated insight rewards, though, and you won't gain insight from seeing dungeon bosses you've already met in the main game. Moving to a new cycle will reset all encounters and allow you to obtain insight from them again, and successful on-line interactions such as invasions or cooperative play will generally reward you with a point of insight as well. Acquire Insight Encountering bosses in boss area Defeating bosses Witnessing certain events Defeating a boss as a guest grants +1 Insight (Small Resonant Bell) Defeating other players grants +1 Insight (Sinister Resonant Bell) Consuming item Madman's Knowledge +1 Insight Consuming item Blood Dreg +1 Insight Consuming item Great One's Wisdom +2 Insight Consuming item Third Umbilical Cord +3 Insight Spend Insight Using the Beckoning Bell and successfully summoning player for 1 Insight Insight serves as currency at Insight Bath Messengers Since patch 1.07 you can use Old Hunter Bell for 1 Insight to summon Old Hunter NPCs to your aid Visual Documentation Church Servant with 14 Insight Church Servant with 15 Insight, lantern with eyes and homing range attack Church Servant with 15 Insight, AoE attack Church Servant Scythe with 14 Insight Church Servant Scythe with 15 Insight, weapon aura Church Servant Crucifix with 14 Insight Church Servant Crucifix with 15 Insight, weapon aura Hemwick Night with 14 Insight Hemwick Night with 15 Insight, Mad Ones spawn Oedon Chapel with 39 Insight Oedon Chapel with 40 Insight, Amygdalae visible Shrouded Church to Yahar'gul with 39 Insight Shrouded Church to Yahar'gul with 40 Insight, Amygdalae visible Lever for the main gate to Cathedral Plaza with 49 Insight Lever for the main gate to Cathedral Plaza with 50 Insight, messengers visible Notes Insight can be gained repeatedly, in same playthrough, from Chalice Dungeon bosses (just defeating) by recreating respective labyrinths. Encountering boss, that was met before in "main game", in Chalice Dungeons won't grant player any Insight. Witch of Hemwick will keep summoning Mad Ones if you have at least 1 Insight (for boss encounter), if you have 0 Insight no Mad Ones will be summoned. Stationary Grab, Quick Grab and Running Grab: Brainsucker will expand his head and drain two points of Insight Need 10 Insight (always) to Insight Bath Messengers to appear in fountain, this was changed in patch ver.1.04 from 10 to 1 Insight and always requirement was removed.

Insight impact for Enemy and Environmental Changes

Required Insight	Area	Change
1	Hunter's Dream	Doll activates and allows you to channel blood echoes
1	Hunter's Dream	Messengers next to the Doll gives you Beckoning Bell and Silencing Blank as a gift
1	Hunter's Dream	Insight Bath Messenger opens (merchant)
15	Cathedral Ward	Church Servants gain weapon auras and new attacks
15	Hemwick Charnel Lane	Mad Ones appear in Hemwick at night
40	Cathedral Ward	False God visible even when the Blood Moon isn't out
40	Yahar'gul, Unseen Village	Amygdala visible even when the Blood Moon isn't out
50	Hunter's Dream	Hunter's Dream music changes even when the Blood Moon isn't out
50	Cathedral Ward	Messengers around the lever for the main gate to Cathedral Plaza are visible.
60	-	Auditory hallucinations a baby's crying voice can be heard in all areas except the Hunter's Dream and Chalice Dungeons, even before Blood Moon.

Main Game Insight Events

NPC/Location	Event	Insight	NPC/Location	Event	Insight
Central Yharnam	First encounter with the Cleric Beast	1	Upper Cathedral Ward	Defeat the Celestial Emissary	2
Central Yharnam	Defeat the Cleric Beast	3	Upper Cathedral Ward	First encounter with Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos	3
Central Yharnam	First encounter with Father Gascoigne	1	Upper Cathedral Ward	Defeat Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos	3
Central Yharnam	First encounter with Father Gascoigne (Beast)	1	Yahar'gul (Blood Moon)	First encounter with The One Reborn	1
Central Yharnam	Defeat Father Gascoigne	2	Yahar'gul (Blood Moon)	Defeat The One Reborn	3
Impostor Iosefka	Each time she rewards you with an item before becoming her accomplice	1	Lecture Building	Enter the locked lab via the second floor and meet Patches the Spider face-to-face	2
Impostor Iosefka	Each time she rewards you with an item after you become her accomplice	2	Nightmare of Mensis	Enter the Nightmare of Mensis via the Lecture Building 2F	3
Old Yharnam	First encounter with the Blood-starved Beast	1	Nightmare of Mensis	First encounter with Micolash, Host of the Nightmare	1
Old Yharnam	Defeat the Blood-starved Beast	2	Nightmare of Mensis	Defeat Micolash, Host of the Nightmare	2
Abandoned Old Workshop	Enter the Old Abandoned Workshop for the first time	2	Oedon Chapel	Approach Arianna's baby after she moves to the room under the chapel	3
Cathedral Ward	First encounter with Vicar Amelia	1	Nightmare of Mensis	First encounter with Mergo's Wet Nurse	3
Cathedral Ward	Defeat Vicar Amelia	3	Nightmare of Mensis	Defeat Mergo's Wet Nurse	3
Hemwick Charnel Lane	First encounter with the The Witch of Hemwick	1	Hunter's Dream	First encounter with Gehrman, The First Hunter	1
Hemwick Charnel Lane	Defeat the The Witch of Hemwick	2	Hunter's Dream	Defeat Gehrman, The First Hunter	3
Yahar'gul (Evening)	Arrive in Yahar'gul after being taken by a Kidnapper in the Cathedral Ward	1	Hunter's Dream	First encounter with the Moon Presence	5
Yahar'gul (Evening)	First encounter with Darkbeast Paarl	1	Hunter's Dream	Defeat the Moon Presence	5
Yahar'gul (Evening)	Defeat Darkbeast Paarl	3	Hunter's Nightmare	Get grabbed by Amygdalae False God and arrive in Hunter's Nightmare	2
Central Yharnam	Enter Iosefka's Clinic through the rear entrance via the Forbidden Woods	1	Hunter's Nightmare	First Encounter with Ludwig, the Accursed	1
Forbidden Woods	Defeat the Shadows of Yharnam	2	Hunter's Nightmare	Defeat Ludwig, The Holy Blade	3
Cathedral Ward	Let the False God grab you while in possession of the Tonsil Stone to enter the Lecture Building	2	Hunter's Nightmare	First Encounter with Laurence, the First Vicar	1
Nightmare Frontier	Arrive in the Nightmare Frontier via the Lecture Building 1F	2	Hunter's Nightmare	Defeat Laurence, the First Vicar	3
Nightmare Frontier	First encounter with Amygdala	3	Research Hall	Enter the Research Hall for the first time	2
Nightmare Frontier	Defeat Amygdala	3	Research Hall	First Encounter with Living Failures	2
Forsaken Cainhurst Castle	Ride the carriage from Hemwick to Cainhurst Castle	2	Research Hall	Defeat Living Failures	2
Forsaken Cainhurst Castle	First encounter with Martyr Logarius	1	Research Hall	Obtain the Milkweed Caryll Rune from Adeline	2
Forsaken Cainhurst Castle	Defeat Martyr Logarius	3	Research Hall	First encounter with Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower	1
Forsaken Cainhurst Castle	Enter the Queen's Chambers	2	Research Hall	Defeat Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower	3
Queen Annalise	Attack her 50 times, reload the area and approach her remains	3	Fishing Hamlet	Arrive at the Fishing Hamlet for the first time	4
Provost Willem	Speak to him and trigger him to point at the lake	2	Fishing Hamlet	First Encounter with Orphan of Kos	5
Byrgenwerth	First encounter with Rom, the Vacuous Spider	2	Fishing Hamlet	Defeat Orphan of Kos	5
Byrgenwerth	Defeat Rom, the Vacuous Spider	2	Fishing Hamlet	Attack the shadowy figure after Orphan of Kos is defeated to trigger the final cutscene.	3

Chalice Dungeon Insight Events

Event	Insight	Event	Insight
First encounter with Amygdala	3	Defeat Amygdala	3
First encounter with Rom, the Vacuous Spider	2	Defeat Rom, the Vacuous Spider	2
First encounter with Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos	3	Defeat Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos	3
First encounter with Yharnam, Pthumerian Queen	1	Defeat the Yharnam, Pthumerian Queen	3
First encounter with Darkbeast Paarl	1	Defeat Darkbeast Paarl	3
First encounter with Bloodletting Beast (either variant)	1	Defeat the Bloodletting Beast (either variant)	3
First encounter with Blood-starved Beast	1	Defeat the Blood-starved Beast	2
First encounter with Pthumerian Descendant or Elder	1	Defeat the Pthumerian Descendant or Elder	2
First encounter with Watchdog of the Old Lords	1	Defeat the Watchdog of the Old Lords	2
First encounter with the Keeper of the Old Lords	1	Defeat the Keeper of the Old Lords	2
Defeat the Brainsucker (boss version)	2	Defeat the Maneater Boar (Eyeballs) (boss version)	2
Defeat the Loran Silverbeast (boss version)	2	Defeat the Undead Giant (boss version)	2
Defeat the Merciless Watchers (boss version)	2	Defeat the Beast-possessed Soul (boss version)	2
Defeat the Abhorrent Beast (boss version)	2

Insight: Frenzy & Beasthood Values

Insight	Frenzy Resistance	Beasthood	Insight	Frenzy Resistance	Beasthood	Insight	Frenzy Resistance	Beasthood	Insight	Frenzy Resistance	Beasthood
0	100	300	25	73	123	50	33	40	75	16	8
1	100	291	26	70	118	51	32	37	76	15	7
2	100	282	27	68	114	52	30	34	77	15	7
3	100	274	28	65	109	53	29	31	78	15	7
4	100	265	29	62	104	54	28	28	79	15	7
5	100	256	30	60	100	55	26	25	80	14	7
6	100	248	31	58	97	56	25	22	81	14	7
7	100	239	32	57	94	57	24	19	82	14	7
8	100	230	33	56	91	58	22	16	83	14	7
9	100	222	34	54	88	59	21	13	84	13	6
10	100	213	35	53	85	60	20	10	85	13	6
11	100	204	36	52	82	61	19	9	86	13	6
12	100	196	37	50	79	62	19	9	87	13	6
13	100	187	38	49	76	63	19	9	88	12	6
14	100	178	39	48	73	64	18	9	89	12	6
15	100	170	40	46	70	65	18	9	90	12	6
16	97	165	41	45	67	66	18	9	91	12	6
17	94	160	42	44	64	67	18	9	92	11	5
18	92	156	43	42	61	68	17	8	93	11	5
19	89	151	44	41	58	69	17	8	94	11	5
20	86	146	45	40	55	70	17	8	95	11	5
21	84	142	46	38	51	71	17	8	96	10	5
22	81	137	47	37	49	72	16	8	97	10	5
23	78	132	48	36	45	73	16	8	98	10	5
24	76	128	49	34	43	74	16	8	99	10	5