Sacred 2:Skills

Skills improve the hero's characteristics in many different ways. Each character class has different skills. On reaching the next experience level, the player can distribute additional skill points in order to improve these existing skills. The number of skill points gained depends on the level of the hero. These abilities are very powerful and they should be chosen carefully depending on the character class and the preferred style of playing.

Skills that provide identical bonuses do not stack with each other. Instead, the game will use the highest listed bonus offered between the two. For example, if the player choose to put five points into Dual Wield and five points into Speed Lore, both can possibly accord a higher attack speed, however, the game will only use the higher of the two, which in this case would be Dual Wield.

Combat Art Skills:
Concentration	Gives an additional buff slot & improves regeneration for all Combat Arts
Exalted Warrior Focus	Improves regeneration and raises max Combat Art level for this aspect
Celestial Magic Lore	Increases damage, critical chance and cast speed for this aspect
Revered Technology Lore	Increases damage, critical chance & cast speed for this aspect
Combat Discipline	Increases damage and improves regeneration for Combos. Also increases the number of Combat Arts you can have in a combo
Celestial Magic Focus	Improves regeneration and raises max Combat Art level for this aspect
Revered Technology Focus	Improves regeneration and raises max Combat Art level for this aspect

Offensive skills:
Ranged Weapons	Increases attack speed, chance to hit and max item level usable without penalties with these weapons
Sword Weapons	Increases attack speed, chance to hit and max item level usable without penalties with these weapons
Pole Arms	Increases attack speed, chance to hit and max item level usable without penalties with these weapons
Tactics Lore	Increases damage with all weapons
Dual wield	Allows you to wield two single-handed weapons
Speed Lore	Increases attack speed and run speed
Damage Lore	Provides a better chance for applying "status effects" (eg, burning with fire damage) on monsters

Defensive Skills:
Shield Lore
Armour Lore	Improves your resists and increases maximum item level without penalties
Warding Energy	Increases shield energy
Combat Reflexes	Improves player's Evasion statistic (chance to dodge attacks) & reduces the chance that the character will get hit with a critical hit from a monster
Constitution	Increases health and health regeneration
Spell Resistance	Increases your resistance to spells
Toughness	Improves your resists and provides minimal % damage mitigation
Pacifism	Reduces damage taken in PvP (all possible ramifications still unknown)

General skills:
Riding	Improves player's mount's Combat Arts as well as the level of Mount allowed to be used by the player.
Enhanced Perception	Gives the player a better chance of "seing" invisible monsters as well as "magical hiding places"
Divine Devotion	Improves regeneration of god-spell
Alchemy	Allows player to use certain consumables
Bargaining	Much like Trading in original Sacred, improves what merchants have to offer.