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Information about Skills.


For the beginners , it is possible to purchase skills from vendors , they will train skills up to 25% . To do this you need money in your backpack then stand near the vendor and say teach . After saying that the vendor will tell you what he can teach. Then to select let's say magery , we will say " (vendor name ) teach magery , he will tell you the price and you just have to handle him the money . Consider that 0.1% of skills costs 1 gp .

Alchemy : skill used to creat potions usefull to fight both monsters and players.
To use it you will need a Mortar ( mortar and pestle , empty bottles and reagents ( garlic , ns ,etc ) in your backpack.
Start by clicking the mortar and it will show up a menu where u can chose which kind of potion u want to make. Best way to raise alchemy is usings Nightsades .You just click mortar and then select the green potion called Lesser poison . 
You can put all your potions inside kegs , to do that you just have to click on the keg and then click potions and it will give you back the empty bottles you used.

Blacksmithing : Skill necessary to make armor and weapons , to increase this are necessary resources and patience.
Once you are near an anvil take a smith hammer and ingots in your backpack then just double click the hammer and target ingots. It will show up a menu where u can choose what u want to make ( ex. Tongs ) . Tongs are used to increase the skill and once you have a good amount you can sell them to get back some founds . 

Bowcraft : Skill used to make bows arrows and crossbows . Very useful to hunt down monsters.
to raise bowcraft in a good way you will need to get yourself some logs by cutting trees with Lumberjacking skill , after that you will have to find Feathers ( drop from birds and similars ) . Then just double click a dagger and click on logs , from the menu choose Shafts that is the base for arrows , after that you can just click on shaft and select Arrows . ( make arrows 7 at time for better gain ) 

Carpentry : Necessary for building houses , ships , fornitures etc
to increase this you will need logs and carpentry tools like Saw.
Put tools and logs in your backpack then double click the saw , it will show a menu where you have to select Weapon and tools . Then select Jointing plane that requires 4 logs.

Cooking : Necessary to prepare food since your character has to be fed in order not to die to hunger .
You will need logs and raw food like fish , meat . Once you get a fish to cut it you need to use a butcher knife and click on it . Then equip dagger and click on logs . After that you have to select bowyer items ( same as shafts ) and select kindlings. Place one of them on the ground and double click it to light the fire . Double click the fish and target the fire to start cooking.

Camping : This skill will go up just by lightning large quantity of fires. 

Fishing : Skill used to catch fish . It also has a big chance to make sea monsters appear , whom can be killed to get maps or other things.
To increase this skill is necessary to have a fishing pole. It is possible to fish both from landing stage, and from own ship (consider, in guard zones monsters are not caught). Double click the fishing pole and target the water. At successful attempt, under your feet the small fish will fall.Consider fishing only on one place it is impossible, it is necessary to move. And the fishing pole breaks while u fish .

Lumberjacking : Makes possible to choop wood ( used for arrows , carpentry , to make kidlings for fire etc..)and with Green hatchet is also possible to get rare woods. Just double click the hatchet and then target the tree. 
It's possible chopping in guards zones untill your skill reachs 75%. Then you will be forced 
to do that outside cities.

Mining : Skills that allows you to mine different type of ores , from iron to meteorite ( best of them ) 
ores are used to make ingots required for armor and weapon crafting.
You just need to find a mine, go there with a good amount of pickaces ( they can get broken like fishing poles ) double click one of them and target the ground . Like fishing or lumberjacking you need to move as resources are limiteted in each node.

Stealth : Gives your character the possibility to walk while hidden , to increase it just walk while you are invisible.

Snooping : Allows you to peek into the backpack of another player , just double click it from paperdoll.

Stealing :Lets you steal things from other player's backpacks once they are opened ( by using snoopign )

Tailoring : Skill necessary to sew cloths and armors . You will need a sewing kit and leathers or cloths depending on what you are going to craft . Double click the sewing kit and a menu will show up , in there you can select Pattern that costs only 2 pieces of cloth . After crafting you can sell them to vendors in tailor shops.

Tinkering : Skill needed to make picks , magic keys , special items etc.
to increase it you will need iron and tinker tools , then you just double click them and select
sewing kit that costs 2 iron ingots . Then when you reach 49% skill you can start making master keys that can be sold to vendors . 

Veterinary : Allows you to heal animals. 
place bandages and start hitting your with a dagger or butcher knife animal or have someone doing this for you . You can also have one animal attacking another one.While doing that the owner has to say All stop in order to stop the animal from attacking .After that just heal the animal by targeting him with bandages . 

Poisoning : Allows you to poison weapons , the poisoned weapon not only inflicts normal dmg , it also poison him .

Tracking : Necessary to track down players or monsters near you . 

Animal lorre : Allows you to tame animals and to get information about them , to raise it you just need to target an animal.

Arms lore : Gives you informations about weapons and it's also needed to craft special weapons , you can raise it by using the skill on any weapon.

Forensic Evaluating : It allows you to read who has killed the player and time eslapsed since the death.

Anatomy : Raise it by just using on yourself or friends.

Evaluating Of intelligence : Raise it by using on yourself.

Peacemaking : Use a musical tool and target on yourself.

Magery : Very important skill . Necessary to cast spells , to raise it just cast Poison ( while doing that just use meditation to get back your mana.

Meditation : When you use magic you spend mana and to restore it you need to use meditation.

Archery : It goes up by shooting arrows with bows , just shoot at a friend and have him healing himself with magic or bandages .

Macefighting : Allows you to fight with bludgeon weapons , to increase it take a Blacksmith hammer ( you can buy it from tinker ) and just hit another player or a monster.

Fencing : Same as macefighting but it's linked to fencing weapons like spear , war fork , best weapon to raise it is Dagger.

Parrying : Skill needed to get a good protection from shields.
To increase parrying you just need to wear a shield and have another character hit you . It's not important the material of the shield or the weapon that is hitting you . Only the number of total hits counts in for skill gain . 
With 100% in parrying you will be allowed to use more kind of shields ( you can read more about that in Table of Parrying ) 
How parrying works : your parrying - 100% = chance to parry . A player with 110% parrying will have 10% chance to parry an attack . You can't raise your parrying above 100 , to do that you will need to wear special armors . You can learn more about this under the Table of Armors.

Animal Taming : Skill necessary to tame yourself an animal , you will need to use a tamer staff and then target the animal . After taming all the animals will disappear apart Horses , Sheeps , Lambs and special animals

Cartography : Skill necessary for opening maps ( trasure maps ) , to raise it you just need to buy empty maps from vendor then double click them and select on the menu that you want to write it . ( you can do that only out of antimagic and guard zones )

Detect hidding : Skill used to detect hidden players .

Hiding :Allows players to become invisible ( hidden )

Inscription : Skill necessary to write different type of scrolls ( a scroll makes you cast a spell faster )
high level of inscription gives you the possbility to make scrolls for high level spells. ( example , 80 inscription needed for 8th lvl spells )
To increase it you will need reagents( depending on which spells u want to inscribe ) and blank scrolls . Double click the menu and choose your spell , you can see there which reagents are necessary for each of them.

Resisting spells :This skill provides protection against magic.
To raise it you will need to cast fire field and just step on it . Pay attention that you need to be out of house antimagic zone and you need to constantly check your char health , the best way is to use bandages while you walk on it.  Magic Resistance System.

Herding : Skills for driving the animals , just double click the shepherds crook then click on the animal and then on the point where you want to drive him . 

Item ID : Use it on magic items to identify their propietis . To increase it you can just identify any item .

Taste ID : Use it on food.

Lockpicking : Allows you to open locked chests to increase it you will need lockpicks ( master keys ) 
double click the key and then click on a locked chest.

Spirit speak : To increase it just use the skill.

Provocation : Skill not working.

Remove trap : Skill not working.



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