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==The Skills==
Skills improve the hero's characteristics in many different ways. These abilities are very powerful and they should be chosen carefully depending on the character class and the preferred style of playing. There are a total of 32 skills and each character class gains access to 15 of them, of which 8 can be acquired as the character progresses. Every character starts with two default skills. On reaching subsequent experience levels, the player can distribute additional skill points in order to improve already acquired skills. The number of skill points gained in one level up depends on the level of the hero. As a hero develops they will be able to learn up to 6 additional skills; a new skill is available at each of the following levels: 3, 6, 12, 20, 30 and 50. By editing the Configuration File (Settings.cfg) entry for ''Default Skills'' from 1 to 0, new characters will be able to chose the two starting skills at level one. 

Due to the number of options, for each character class, there are 1716 possible unique skill combinations with Default Skills enabled, and 6435 with Default Skills disabled. This does not include non-unique permutations, i.e. ignoring which skill is chosen at which level, only inspecting the unordered terminal skill sets. Of course, many of these combinations are strategically unwise.


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==Damage enhancing skills==
These skills will increase weapon or spell damage by adding a certain percentage. Due to the incrementing returns of additional damage in the same instance, it is strongly advised to pick one of these, depending on your main damage source, while both should only be considered with caution (as it's generally more rewarding to focus on one source of damage, unless to specifically exploit enemy weaknesses).


=== [[Sacred:Weapon_Lore|Weapon Lore]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Magic Lore|Magic Lore]] ===

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==Survivability enhancing skills==
Mainly defensive, these skills increase defense rating (decrease chance to be hit), resistance values (decrease suffered damage if hit), and boost maximum health and health regeneration. Since these three subcategories of effects are independent, the benefits of skills in different subcategories scale multiplicatively with each other. Only Agility and Parry will yield diminished returns due to their additive stacking, though it may be advantageous to pick both in spite of this due to the more severely diminishing returns of higher skill point investments in the same skill. Whether this is worth a skill slot has to be gauged in the individual case.


=== [[Sacred:Agility|Agility]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Armor|Armor]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Constitution|Constitution]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Parrying|Parrying]] ===

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==Weapon focus skills==
Choosing a weapon skill will allow the character to reach the maximum attack speed of 220. While the game lists the attack speed bonus as a percentage the values are actually just added to the character's attack speed. The skills also improve the attack rating increasing the chance to hit. Some weapons require skill points in their weapon type in order to be used. Since one can't benefit from multiple weapon focus skills at the same time or on the same weapon, these skills are generally considered practically mutually exclusive. The only reason why one might pick more than one of those is to allow for opportunistic equipment choices, especially different sets.


=== [[Sacred:Axe_Lore|Axe Lore]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Blade_Combat|Blade Combat]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Long-handled_Weapons|Long-handled Weapons]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Ranged_Combat|Ranged Combat]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Sword_Lore|Sword Lore]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Dual_Wielding|Dual Wielding]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Unarmed_Combat|Unarmed Combat]] ===

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==Combat Arts regeneration skills==
These skills provide a great improvement in Combat Arts regeneration rate.


=== [[Sacred:Concentration|Concentration]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Meditation|Meditation]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Dwarven_Lore|Dwarven Lore]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Trap_Lore|Trap Lore]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Vampirism|Vampirism]] ===

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=="Spell" enhancing skills==
While they provide a decent regeneration bonus the main reason to take one of these skills is the reduction in casting animation time. 51 points will shorten animations by 50%.


=== [[Sacred:Air_Magic|Air Magic]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Earth_Magic|Earth Magic]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Fire_Magic|Fire Magic]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Water_Magic|Water Magic]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Heavenly_Magic|Heavenly Magic]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Hell_Power|Hell Power]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Moon_Magic|Moon Magic]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Ballistics|Ballistics]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Bloodlust|Bloodlust]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Weapon_Technology|Weapon Technology]] ===

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==Utility skills==
These skills have various effects providing mostly indirect, utile benefits instead of straight up combat amplification.


=== [[Sacred:Riding|Riding]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Disarming|Disarming]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Forge_Lore|Forge Lore]] ===

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=== [[Sacred:Trading|Trading]] ===

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==External links==
[http://forum.sacred2.com/showthread.php?t=42995 Combat Arts and Spell Regeneration Fomulae]

[[Category:Skills]]