Weapon Skills

(we're discussing the expansion of this section in the forum. Look for the skills thread in Suggestions)

• Short Blades - Short Swords, knives
• Long Blades - Scimitars, Bastard Swords, Greatswords
• Hammers - axes, greataxes, maces, and warhammers
• Archery - bows, slings, guns?
• Whip - Whips, chained weapons
• Staves - Scythes, canes, etc.
• Throwing - Javelin, boomerang, throwing knives
• Piercing - Spears, glaives, and rapiers
• Hand to Hand / Glove - Martial arts fighting

Magic Skills

• Fire Magic (Epyri)
• Water Magic (Merene)
• Earth Magic (Geon)
• Air Magic (Izurial)
• Light Magic (Lumine)
• Dark Magic (Tenebrae)
• Time Magic (Chronos)
• Space Magic (Teless)
• Mana Magic (Gen)

Craft Skills

• Metalworking - Make things from metal
• Woodworking - Make things from wood
• Jeweler - Make accessories and other items with gold/gems
• Alchemist - Make items that have spell charges
• Cook - Make items with recovery or enhancing effects
• Tailor - Make cloth weapons, armor, and accessories from animal parts
• Artisan - (possibly if there are collectible or asthetic items or accessories in game, they need to be made too)
• Synthesis - Upgrading weapons and armor with mana orbs (see EquipmentSystem)

General Skills

• Running - Allows players to sprint for longer (only if we use SoM style sprinting)
  this skill will survive)
• Searching - Allows players to detect invisible enemies and traps.
• Sneak - Lowers the range in which enemies will detect the character and attack him.
  (Assuming he doesn't attack them first, at which point this doesn't matter)
• Trading - Allows players to buy merchandise from stores cheaper (1% per level, up to level 10)
• Intimidate - keeps lower-level monsters from attacking you first.
• Athletics - helps to determine performance in physically active minigames.

Combat Skills

• Dodge - improves how often the character can dodge enemy attacks
• Critical - improves the rate of critical hits
• Accuracy - negates the effect of dodge skill for opponents
• Block/Parry - improves the rate of blocking and parrying attacks (blocking is based on this and weapon skills, unlike dodge, which is just based on dodge and Agl.)
• Magic Aura - Improves the stick time of enhancing magics (in conjunction with caster's magic level)
• Counter - improves the rate of automatic counterattacks when you block/parry

Resistance Skills

(There will be one for every status effect)

• Poison - reduces the time you stay poisoned and may prevent poison sometimes
• Silence - reduces the time you stay silenced and may prevent silence sometimes
• Petrify - reduces the time you stay petrified and may prevent petrification sometimes
• Paralyze - reduces the time you stay paralyzed and may prevent Paralysis sometimes
• Blind - reduces the time you stay blinded and may prevent blind sometimes
• Zombie - reduces the time you stay undead and may prevent zombie sometimes
• Slow - reduces the time you stay slowed and may prevent slow sometimes
• Critical - reduces the damage inflicted on the character by critical hits (as relative to normal hits)

Elemental Resistance Skills

• Fire - Reduces the effect of fire attacks on the character.
• Water - Reduces the effect of water attacks on the character.
• Earth - Reduces the effect of earth attacks on the character.
• Air - Reduces the effect of air attacks on the character.
• Light - Reduces the effect of light attacks on the character.
• Dark - Reduces the effect of dark attacks on the character.
• Time - Reduces the effect of time attacks on the character.
• Space - Reduces the effect of space attacks on the character.
• (Resistance to mana element is the average of all these)

Hunt Skills

• Insects - Increases damage against insects

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• Birds - Increases damage against birds

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• Lizards - Increases damage against lizards & dragons
• Amorphs - Increases damage against slimes

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• Undead - Increases damage against undead and ghosts

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• Machines - Increases damage against machines
• Arcana - Increases damage against elementals and arcana (magic-made creatures)
• Humanoids - Increases damage against goblins, soldiers, ninjas, etc.
• Plantoids - Increases damage against plants.

Stat Skills

• Strength - Calculates the derived stat, Attack Power
• Vitality - Calculates the derived stat, Hit points
• Fortitude - Calculates the derived stat, Defense
• Mentality - Calculates the derived stat, Magic Power
• Awareness - Calculates the derived stat, Magic Defense
• Mana - Calcluates the derived stat, Mana points
• Dexterity - Calulates the derived stats, accuracy% and evasion%

Skill Type Groups and level gaining Each skill you gain in the major group makes other skills in the group harder to master. The groups are as follows:

Offensive Sphere: Weapons, Combat, Magic Resistance Sphere: Status Resistance, Elemental Resistance Knowledge Sphere: Hunt, Craft Stat Sphere: Stat

These groups are exempt from the gain penalty: General

the penalty is decided by this formula: (courtesy of imorgado)

( base * (lvl ^ 1.2 ) ) / ( 50 / ( summ of all skills in group/ number of skills in group ) )

Whis way, only if the player has skills above the median rate (50) it becomes harder to upgrade others in the same sphere.