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.

lvl 2: 1 new skill

lvl 3: 1 new weapon + Combat Art slot

lvl 5: 1 new skill, + 1 skill / Attribute point

lvl 8: 1 new skill

lvl 11: 1 new weapon + Combat Art slot

lvl 12: 1 new skill + 1 skill / attribute point

lvl 18: 1 new skill

lvl 21: 1 new weapon + Combat Art slot

lvl 25: 1 new skill, + 1 skill / attribute point

lvl 35: 1 new skill

lvl 50: 1 new skill - *not confirmed yet*

lvl 60: 1 new skill - *not confirmed yet*

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:

Damage Lore - Provides a better chance for applying "status effects" (eg, burning with fire damage) on monsters

Dual wield - Allows you to wield two single-handed weapons

Hafted Weapons - Increases attack speed, chance to hit and max item level usable without penalties with these weapons

Magic Staffs -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

Ranged Weapons - Increases attack speed, chance to hit and max item level usable without penalties with these weapons

Speed Lore - Increases attack and defense and run speed

Sword Weapons - Increases attack speed, chance to hit and max item level usable without penalties with these weapons

Tactics Lore - Increases damage with all weapons

Defensive Skills:

Armour Lore - Improves your resists and increases maximum item level without penalties

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

Pacifism - Reduces damage taken in PvP (all possible ramifications still unknown)

Shield Lore - Still unknown, possibly increases defense and maximum item level without penalties

Spell Resistance - Increases your resistance to spells

Toughness - Improves your resists and provides minimal % damage mitigation

Warding Energy - Increases shield energy (only available for Seraphiim and Temple Guardian) and damage absorption for Combat Arts that use/create a shield (Eg, Temple Guardian's T-Energy Shroud).

General skills:

Alchemy - Allows player to use certain consumables

Bargaining - Much like Trading in original Sacred, improves what merchants have to offer.

Blacksmith - Allows the player to socket items without having to use a Blacksmith

Divine Devotion - Improves regeneration of god-spell

Enhanced Perception - Gives the player a better chance of "seing" invisible monsters as well as "magical hiding places"

Riding - Improves player's mount's Combat Arts as well as the level of Mount allowed to be used by the player.