MediaWiki:Skills Guide

Below is a list of skills available on Legacy UO. Please be aware of Gain Waits when trying to raise any skills above 80 points.

• Alchemy - Create potions that you can use during combat

• Anatomy - See the physical characteristics of a character. Also increases damage done by melee and ranged weapons.

• Animal Lore - Get information about an animal. Also necessary for successful animal taming

• Animal Taming - Tame animals that will fight by your side

• Archery - Combat using bows and crossbows. Increases your chance to hit.

• Arms Lore - See the durability of a weapon.

• Begging - Beg NPC's for small amounts of money.

• Blacksmithy - Create armor and weapons from metal ingots.

• Bowcraft/Fletching - Create Bows and Arrows. Also available through Carpentry.

• Camping - Create a campsite that allows you to log out instantly anywhere in the world.

• Carpentry - Create furniture, weapons, and house addons with wood.

• Cartography - Decode and dig up treasure maps.

• Cooking - Cook raw meat to make it edible.

• Detecting Hidden - Detect hidden players or traps.

• Discordance - Lower stats of a target. Requires Musicianship.

• Evaluating Intelligence - See the mental statistics of a character. Also increases damage with spells.

• Fencing - Combat using daggers, krysses, war forks, and spears. Increases your chance to hit.

• Fishing - Use a fishing rod to find fish, SOS messages, and treasure.

• Forensic Evaluation - Find information about a person.

• Healing - Heal yourself or others using cloth bandages. Requires Anatomy.

• Herding - Coerce an animal to move from one spot to another.

• Hiding - Vanish from sight of players and monsters.

• Inscription - Create spell scrolls, spellbooks, and rune books.

• Item Identification - Identify magical properties of weapons, armor, and clothing.

• Lockpicking - Open locked chests and boxes.

• Lumberjacking - Cut wood from trees.

• Mace Fighting - Combat using maces and hammers. Increases your chance to hit.

• Magery - Cast magical spells with a variety of effects.

• Meditation - Regenerate mana.

• Mining - Dig ore from rocks and smelt it into Ingots.

• Musicianship - Play music with instruments. See Discordance, Peacemaking, and Provocation.

• Parrying - Block melee attacks with a shield.

• Peacemaking - Calms a target NPC, stopping them from attacking.

• Poisoning - Poison weapons and arrows. Also increases inflicted poison damage from weapons, arrows, and spells.

• Provocation - Coerce two NPC's to fight each other.

• Remove Trap - Remove traps from chests and boxes.

• Resisting Spells - Reduce damage and effects of magic spells cast on you.

• Snooping - Snoop into other player or NPC's backpacks to see what valuables they have.

• Spirit Speak - Communicate with the dead. See Also The Summoner and The Slayer.

• Stealing - Steal items from a player or NPC.

• Stealth - Move short distances while hidden.

• Swordsmanship - Combat with swords, axes, and polearms. increases chance to hit.

• Tactics - Greatly increase combat damage with melee and ranged weapons.

• Tailoring - Stitch clothes and leather armor.

• Taste Identification - Identify potions by taste.

• Tinkering - Create tools and knick-knacks.

• Tracking - Track players and NPC's great distances.

• Veterinary - Heal your tamed animals.

• Wrestling - Combat with your bare hands. Increases chance to hit.