Skills pertain to any type of profession or combat ability in the game. Anything from blacksmithing to armorsmithing, weapon usage skills or magical abilities is considered a skill. As you progress as an Avatar in-game, you train these skills, and as a result you further advance your knowledge of using items or magic in that skill class.
There are a variety of different skill types, each consisting of their own unique features. The list of Skill Types is shown below.
Skill Type List
• Combat Skills
Combat Skills are any skill used to advance the proficiency of using or carrying a weapon. These include but are not limited to axes, bows, swords, hammers/maces, staves/staffs and even daggers.
• Support Skills
Support Skills are any skills that are profession or communication based. This can include anything from being able to talk to animals or familiars, carpentry, blacksmithing, armorsmithing, tailoring and even things such as hiding or acrobatics.
• Unique Skills
Unique Skills are extremely powerful and fluid Skills that can only be claimed and used by one Avatar at a time, and they are only awarded through either events or completing very specific prerequisites to achieve them. There is 1 Unique Skill for each particular category of normal Skills (whether Combat or Support) which usually grants the Avatar with an ability or buff much greater than what is normally obtainable through natural Skill progression.
Overall levelIn this game, your overall level is a combination of all of your skill levels combined. In accordance, your Avatar starts with 2 Skill Slots upon creation filled by their class combat, and support skill. (each starting at Level 1, making you begin the game at Lv. 2), and gains more as they progress through training. Quests, combat, (etc)
As you progress your skill levels, your Avatar becomes capable of wielding more advanced equipment in correlation to your selected skills, using better or more efficient armor, or even creating higher tier items as a result of your training. Each newly acquired skill starts at Level 1.
Following the Skill Slot List, there will be a list of Skills below it, as well as the unlockables per Skill and the EXP requirement for each of them accordingly.
Skill Slot List
• Lv. 1 - 2 Skill Slots
• Lv. 6 - 3 Skill Slots
• Lv. 8 - 4 Skill Slots
• Lv. 12 - 5 Skill Slots
• Lv. 20 - 6 Skill Slots
• Lv. 30 - 7 Skill Slots
• Lv. 40 - 8 Skill Slots
• Lv. 50 - 9 Skill Slots
Leveling up.
Each level you gain in a skill yields a bonus of +8 stat points to apply to the statistics you have. Substatistics such as Evasion Rating, Encumbrance Rating & Action Points are to be determined through calculations using the provided formulas by you, the player. (Covered in
stat rules) )
Obtaining expOn Sword Art Online, there are many different ways to obtain Experience to level up your skills. Namely, your Combat Skills will almost always advance before your Support Skills, this being because you often will kill more monsters than you would cooking a dish, and crafting items/weapons. But there are quests, events, and other things. That can net exp, and even levels.
The below chart shows the exp progression for each level in a skill.
Lv. 1: all newly aquired skills start out
Lv. 2 0/50 EXP
Lv. 3 0/100 EXP
Lv. 4 0/200 EXP
Lv. 5 0/400 EXP
Lv. 6 0/800 EXP
Lv. 7 0/1,600 EXP
Lv. 8 0/3,200 EXP
Lv. 9 0/6,400 EXP
Lv. 10 0/12,800 EXP
method 1: TrainingYou can train your Combat and Support Skills in solo, or join training threads without having to engage any NPCs at all, though it is slightly more time-effective to raise your Combat Skill Level through the elimination of enemies. But useful for gaining exp in
You can only train 1 Skill per Training Thread, you must specify what you are training and your thread content must at least include some type of training in regards to the intended Skill you are trying to level up. Character Development (CD) in these types of topics is completely okay, and has no affect on the outcome of your skill progression in regards to your training topic. Furthermore, completing a training thread with another player grants you 50% more EXP for your intended skill.
Every 50 words is equal to 4 EXP gained per skill. Each skill has it's own individual experience pool (which you are responsible for keeping track of) and upon leveling up and updating your Avatar Sheet, will be checked and verified by a Dungeon Master/mod. topics can be up to any length in wc.
method 2: CombatThe traditional way of gaining experience via fighting NPC,or even other players in certain cases.
It is important to note that during combat, you will only receive an Experience Gain in the Combat Skill you used to land the killing blow on an NPC. This means that if you used a One-Handed Sword the entire fight, and then at the end punched the NPC in the face, the punch would be considered the killing blow and you would receive an Experience Gain in Martial Arts instead of One-Handed Swords.
Keep in mind that Experience Gained in total does not count toward a universal concurrent cap. This means that once you advance a level, your counter resets back to 0 until you reach the next EXP requirement for Skill Progression. The total EXP Requirement to get from Level 1 to Level 10 in a single Skill is 25,550.
Notice:
If you defeat an NPC that is 3 levels or more below your Avatar, the Experience Gain is halved.
Important Information:
Boss Experience Gain is doubled for any Level of NPC, and can be split between any of your currently equipped Skills. This is the only exception to the killing blow Experience Gain rule.
method 3 QuestsQuesting is another way to earn Experience and additionally offers exclusive rewards you can otherwise only get from Questing. Furthermore, all Experience Gains from Questing — unlike the Experience progression through Combat, can be split between any of your Combat Skills or Support Skills (similar to Boss Battle rewards). The only exception to this would be a Quest specifically designating receiving an Experience Gain to only one Skill, whether Combat or Support related.
Experience via combat in a quest.
In combat quests killing mob/creature grants exp the same was as killing normal Exp. These are often watched over by an signifigantly more powerful creature. Exp gained is through last hitting with the respective weapon/skill in combat.
Experience via support quest.
These are specifically listed,and will require perhaps combat, to pick up specific items dropped. The experience will go to the support skill when the quest is done. If combat commences exp gained from killing creatures is applied to the combat skill.
How do I Obtain a Quest?
Each Floor will have what is called a Quest Board to explore. Upon entry to the Floor, your Avatar may select as many of the available quests from the list as they would like. To complete the quest, you must post on the Quest Board with a link to your thread where the mission was completed - the title of which should reflect the Quest name. At this point a Dungeon Master will review the thread and approve it. You may then spend your Experience Gain and receive whatever rewards are available from completing it.
streaks.
by completing via training, combat, quests, or crafting topics in a frequent manner. (2 or more topics in a week.) you will earn a weekly streak that further enhances your exp gain in training, and total stat gain. in the following way. this will be granted at the end of the topic by the mod in question. This is only applicable to 1 character under the players control at a time.
a bit more challenging then training streak the combat and quest streaks respectively impact Experience, and stat gains, and a hidden re roll system to gaining objects/ loot.
week 1: ×1 no loot re roll
week 2: ×2 1 loot/reward reward re roll
week 3: ×4 2 loot/reward re roll
week 4+:×6 2 loot/reward re roll of a higher quality.
note that this gain will end if the user does not complete a minimum of 2 topics in a week. the minimum word count to have the streak count is 500 words per topic. loot, and reward re roll will only go up to epic quality.
Method:4 Acheivements/titlesThe additions from gaining certain achievements, and titles for your character, can while granting both items, and even skills, will net EXP, based on the difficulty of said Acheivement/title. (note that even when losing a limited title, you will still keep the EXP.)
Support skills expNow with certain support skills such as potion making, armor/black smithing, etc. These have an unique option similar to combat with creating/repairing said objects/creations.
Each of these while yes can be trained in solo topics. They can infact be worked on while you are creating something. For each 1 ooc hour used in the creation/repair of said object. Can be reduced per 100 words writen in said topic. This must only be strictly used Detailing the creation of said object. Realize that this can only go for 1 creation per topic.
At the end of creating said creation. You will gain EXP for the respective skill used. This will be equal to the level of the object in question. (Example crafting an lv 2 item grants 50 exp.)
Note following traditional rules of crafting/support skills. You may only attempt this on things you are able to craft. This is based on your level with said skill. (Example if your construction skill is 2. You can only build level 1, or 2 houses.)
Below is the exp gain based on the level of said creature, quest, or even in the case of equipment.
Quest, npc, refining Experience Gain per Level
Lv 1: +25 EXP
Lv. 2 +50 EXP
Lv. 3 +100 EXP
Lv. 4 +200 EXP
Lv. 5 +400 EXP
Lv. 6 +800 EXP
Lv. 7 +1,600 EXP
Lv. 8 +3,200 EXP
Lv. 9 +6,400 EXP
Lv. 10 +12,800 EXP[/color]
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