Skills

Skills measure one´s proficiency in a certain ability. Skills include:


 * Combat Skills:
 * Axe Fighting: Measures one ability in using axe type weapons
 * Sword Fighting: Measures one ability in using sword type weapons
 * Club Fighting: Measures one ability in using club type weapons
 * Distance Fighting: Measures one ability in using long range weapons
 * Shielding: Measures one ability in using a shield


 * Other Skills
 * Fishing:It is the ability in catching fish
 * Magic Level: Measures one ability in dealing with magic

All skills start at level 10, but you can increase them by training. Skill increasing speed depends on the vocation. For example, a knight´s melee increase faster than any other vocation melee. The same goes for paladin´s distance (that have the faster increasing speed of he game) and for druid and sorcerer magic level. Knight and paladin shielding goes up at the same speed, and fishing rise at the same rate for all vocations.

The highest the skill, the better you are on at a given ability. To attack skills that reflect on higher damage/accuary. Higher shielding ranks makes you less likely to be hit. Higher magic level allows you to learn more advanced magic spells and it increase the effectiveness of your magic. Higher fishing makes you catch fish more often. The highest skill are organized in a rank. Each server have its own rank, and you can see it divided by the skill of your choice. The fight for the first place on the skill rank tables have lead to a wave of power gamming.