Sacred:Skills
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The SkillsSkills improve the hero's characteristics in many different ways. Each character class has different skills and starts adventuring with 2 requisite 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. 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. 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 has access to 15. 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.
Skill Availability Table by Character
Damage enhancing skillsThese skills will increase weapon or spell damage.
Weapon Lore is a skill that is available to all classes, although it is most useful for melee characters. Each skill point allocated to Weapon Lore increases the following stats:
[size=4]Magic Lore[/size] Magic Lore is a skill available to character classes that are able to perform spells. The skill increases the damage dealt by all types of magic spells by a percentage (physical, magical, fire, poison).
Ability enhancing skillsMainly defensive, these skills increase defense rating, armor values and maximum health points.
Agility improves both Defense (lower chance to get hit) and Attack Rating (higher chance to hit) values, making combat much easier. The skill is best suited for characters that do not use a shield (since it provides almost the same defense bonus as Parrying). Of course, the skill stacks with item bonuses and the Parrying skill.
[size=4]Armor[/size] Increased levels of Armor provide greater resistance by enabling more effective use of equipment, and also permit increased movement speed by reducing the encumbrances imposed. Armor reduces the damage taken when hit by increasing each resistance (physical, magical, fire, poison). Additionally, some equipment carries a minimum armor level to be equipped. Wearing armor with specific resistances and damages can imbue the wearer with an armor glow which confers additional protection in the form of a resistance bonus. (15% per element) Movement speed penalties from armor a with higher level than the character level are reduced.
[size=4]Constitution[/size] Increases maximum health and improves its regeneration rate. This skill can make a character twice as durable with little investment. Constitution will not improve combat arts regeneration time.
[size=4]Parrying[/size] Greatly increases a character's defense rating making him harder to hit. Attacks can be parried (deflected) with weapons and shields. The skill stacks with Agility and bonuses from items.
Weapon focus skillsChoosing 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.
Axe Lore increases the chance to hit and attack speed of attacks made with axes. Additionally, certain axes carry a minimum Axe Lore requirement in order to be wielded. This skill may be chosen beginning with the skill selection at level 3.
[size=4]Blade Combat[/size] Increases the attack speed and chance to hit of attacks executed with Dark Elven blade weapons.
[size=4]Long-handled Weapons[/size] Long-handled Weapons is both a skill and a classification of weapon type. The skill enables a character to better utilize weapons of this type by increasing the chance to hit and attack speed. The weapon types that are considered long-handled are:
The depiction of a weapon will indicate if the skill Long-handled Weapons will benefit its use.
[size=4]Ranged Combat[/size] Ranged Combat allow faster and more effective attacks with bows, crossbows & firearms (Dwarf only). Additionally, some weapons carry a minimum skill requirement, and as such cannot be used without Ranged Combat.
[size=4]Sword Lore[/size] Sword Lore increases the chance to hit and attack speed of attacks made with swords. Additionally, certain swords carry a minimum skill requirement in order to be wielded. Swords can be both one-handed and two-handed.
[size=4]Dual Wielding[/size] Enables the wielding of two one-handed weapons during combat, also increases attack speed and chance to hit.
[size=4]Unarmed Combat[/size] Increases the attack speed and chance to hit of hand to hand attacks (with bare hands or combat gauntlets).
Combat Arts regeneration skillsThese skills provide a great improvement in Combat Arts regeneration rate.
Improves the regeneration rate of all combat arts. To maximize Combat Art regeneration spread points as evenly as possible between Physical Regeneration (attribute), Concentration (skill) and Regeneration Special Move (from items) as these three modifiers multiply.
[size=4]Meditation[/size] The skill is available to character classes that are able to cast spells. It improves the regeneration rate for all spells. Contrary to what the game description says Meditation does not increase Mental Regeneration. There are 4 factors when calculating spell regeneration: Mental Regeneration (attribute), Meditation (skill), Regeneration Spells (from items) and a magic skill (e.g. Fire Magic, Heavenly Magic). Meditation and Regeneration Spells add to each other and them multiply with the remaining two factors. (the higher the Regeneration Spells bonus from items the smaller the impact the Meditation skill will have, this makes magic skills like Fire Magic more powerful than Meditation at higher levels). Hybrid characters that rely on combat arts more than spells could skip the Meditation skill.
[size=4]Dwarven Lore[/size] Improves the Dwarf's Weapon Technology combat arts regeneration rate. Affected combat arts:
[size=4]Trap Lore[/size] Improves the regeneration rate of trap-laying abilities. Affected combat arts:
[size=4]Vampirism[/size] Vampirism is a skill available to the Vampiress. It shortens the regeneration rate of all combat arts while in vampire form. It also reduces the damage taken in vampire form during daytime.
It should clearly be distinguished from Vampire Transformation, one of the Vampiress Runes or CAs.
"Spell" enhancing skillsWhile 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%.
Improves the regeneration rate and the casting time of air magic. Affected spells:
[size=4]Earth Magic[/size] Improves the regeneration rate and the casting time of earth magic. Affected spells:
[size=4]Fire Magic[/size] Improves the regeneration rate and the casting time of fire magic. Affected spells:
[size=4]Water Magic[/size] Improves the regeneration rate and the casting time of water magic. Affected spells:
[size=4]Heavenly Magic[/size] Heavenly Magic improves spell regeneration and casting time for the Seraphim's spells. Affected spells:
[size=4]Hell Power[/size] Improves the regeneration rate and casting times of Daemon spells. Affected spells:
[size=4]Moon Magic[/size] Improves the regeneration rate and the casting time of the Wood Elf's Moon Magic. Affected spells:
[size=4]Ballistics[/size] Improves the regeneration rate and casting time for traps. Affected combat arts:
[size=4]Bloodlust[/size] Bloodlust improves the regeneration rate and casting speed of vampire arts or ('spells' available only in vampire form) Affected combat arts:
[size=4]Weapon Technology[/size] Improves the regeneration rate and the casting time for Weapon Technology combat arts. Affected combat arts:
Other skills[size=4]Riding[/size] Allows more effective use of Mounts. Some horses require the riding skill. With Riding chosen as a skill, the character will gain the following bonuses:
[size=4]Disarming[/size] Gives a chance to disarm opponents in combat with physical attacks. That causes the enemy to drop their weapon, doing less damage. If an enemy have multiple weapons, each of them is disarmed individually. The chance to disarm will drop at every level up. For best results the skill should be kept at a high level to balance out this drop. The Battle Mage also can disarm opponents with the Whirlwind spell. This spell can have a way higher chance to disarm that the disarming skill and also can mke the enemies drop their helmet and armor. Bonuses from Disarming and Whirlwind do not stack. Available for: Battle Mage, Daemon, Dark Elf, Dwarf, Gladiator, Vampiress, Wood Elf
[size=4]Forge Lore[/size] Forge Lore is a skill available only to Dwarves. It replicates the ability of the Smith to forge enhancements into weapons and armor. As the level of lore increases, the dwarf becomes more skilled - able to forge better enhancements to equipment and to also work with higher quality items. Additionally, the cost in gold is reduced. The dwarf has the ability to insert all of the same types of items the Smith is able to (amulets, rings, runes and the special items such as Scale of a Dragon or the Orbus Dracos - Full. Additionally, the Dwarf can also forge:
The maximum item level increases with the character and skill level, but the exact formula is still unknown.
[size=4]Trading[/size]
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