Skills Overview

There are 16 combat skills divided into primary and secondaries.

6 Primary Skills

Primary skills are the player’s main source of damage and include:

• Melee

• Defense

• Ranged

• Divine (Arcane)

• Chaos (Arcane)

• Blood (Arcane)

When addressing primary skills more broadly, they are often categorized by casting versus non-casting.

Melee, defense, and ranged are all non-casting skills that implore styles as their form of attack, while arcane skills are considered casting skills that utilize spells when attacking.

More information on styles and spells can be found here: Primary Skills: Styles & Spells.

8 Secondary Skills

Secondary skills, which include elemental callings and invocations, assist in combat through buffs, crowd control, and supplementary damage. These include:

4 Elemental Calling Secondaries

• Water Weaving

• Wind Warping

• Stone Shifting

• Flame Foraging, and

4 Invocation Secondaries

• Worship

• Mantra

• Incantation

• Necromancy

More information on secondary skills can be found here: Secondary Skills: Callings & Invocations.

Lastly, the two advanced channeling skills, ni and ethereal, are unlocked in late-game gameplay and will not be covered here.

Attack Sequence

The four-attack-per-turn sequence alternates between two primary attacks and two secondary attacks. The following sections provide more information on the attack sequence.