« III. Skills & Swords Skills »

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« BASICS »

Since ALfheim Online is very similar to SAO in terms of coding and skills, much of the SAO skills have been transferred over to ALO. All races have the skill or ability to fly for an endless amount of time, but no race can fly in dungeons and caves. Most races are only allowed certain skills. Players can earn skill points by completing quests or "killing" other players. Any time a player earns skills from killing another player, they earn about 5 skill points. Skill points are used to make a skill stronger. The more skill points on a skill, the stronger or better your character will be at using the skill.

QUICK RULES:

i. all prior combat skills must have at least one skill point in them before you can add another skill. If you want to add another skill that your character will be able to use, simply put a skill point towards that skill.

ii. combat skill points will be earned the normal way through quests, battles, "killing" other players, etc.

iii. any non-combat skills (forging, sewing, etc.) can only obtain a skill point in that area if the player specifically trains that skill in game (once more, considering every player technically has those skills, minus the race-specific skills, at the start, they would really only appear on the player's profile after they have began to work with it through various means).

iv. Members must keep track of their character's skills in their character's profile.

v. Skills may be trained up to level 1,000.

Basic Skills:

• Raise HP - Allows a player's health points to be raised by 20 points.
• Raise MP - Allows a player's magic points to be raised by 20 points.
• Raise Speed - Allows a player's speed to be raised by 10 points.
• Raise Attack/Damage - Allow a player's attack/damage to be raised by 10 points.

« SUPPORT SKILLS »

• Musical Instrument (Pooka race skill only!)
• Sewing
• Equipment appraisal
• Tools appraisal
• Purchase negotiation
• Sales negotiation
• Drug mixing - creating potions.
• Slash weapon forging (Leprechaun race skill only!)
• Thrust weapon forging (Leprechaun race skill only!)
• Blunt weapon forging (Leprechaun race skill only!)
• Light metal armor forging (Leprechaun race skill only!)
• Heavy metal armor forging (Leprechaun race skill only!)
• Metal equipment repairing (Leprechaun race skill only!)
• Metal refining
• Familiar recovery (Cait Sith race skill only!)
• Familiar communication (Cait sith race skill only!)
• Wood crafting
• Picking - locked doors and chests.
• Searching - determines the player's detection range. Allows finding monsters and players in hiding.
• Tracking - allows tracking monsters and can be used to track a player who is registered as a friend by displaying their footprints from a certain time.
• Night vision - see better in darker conditions. (Imp race skill only!)
• Straining - Hear sounds from further away than normal. Higher level of skill grants the ability to hear through locked rooms.
• Hiding - Allows a player to disappear from targets that use visual tracking.
• Acrobatics - Determines a player's jumping height and the ability to perform aerial maneuvers.
• Reveal
• Sprint - a burst of speed, and a passive increase in the player's effectiveness at dodging strikes.
• Extended weight limit - Increase inventory size.

« COMBAT SKILLS »

• Parry - The ability to use an attack to block an opposing strike.
• Howl - Attracts the attention of NPC monsters.
• Battle Healing - Recover low amounts of HP over time during battle.
• Emergency Recovery
• Meditation - Increases HP regeneration and decreases the remaining time of negative statuses by entering a mental concentration pose.
• Light metal/Lightweight Shield/Leather/Heavy Metal equipment - The effectiveness with which a player can use light metal, lightweight shield, leather, and heavy metal equipment.
• Spiritual Light
• Fighting Spirit

« WEAPON SKILLS »

• One-Handed Straight Sword
• One-Handed Curved Blade
• One-Handed Dagger
• One-Handed Rapier
• One-Handed War Hammer
• Wild Dance - claws.
• Two-Handed Straight Sword
• Two-Handed Assault Spear
• Two-Handed Battle Axe
• Blade Throwing
• Martial Arts
• Katana
• Dual Blades

« SWORD SKILLS »

One-Handed Sword:

• Slant - (1-hit strike) A simple sword skill slashing diagonally. (cool down: 1 post)
• Vertical - (1-hit strike) A simple sword skill slashing vertically. (cool down: 1 post)
• Horizontal - (1-hit strike) A simple sword skill slashing horizontally. (cool down: 1 post)
• Uppercut - (1-hit strike) A simple sword skill delivering an uppercut. (cool down: 1 post)
• Rage Spike - (1-hit strike) A basic, weak skill that leaps at the enemy and follows with an upward strike. (cool down: 2 posts)
• Sonic Leap - (1-hit strike) A charge-type sword skill that dashes toward the enemy to deal a downward strike. (cool down: 2 posts)
• Vertical Arc - (2-hit combo) A simple sword skill creating a 'V' shape trajectory. (cool down: 3 posts)
• Horizontal Arc - (2-hit combo) a simple sword skill creating a '<' shape.  (cool down: 3 posts)
• Vertical Square - (4-hit combo) A mid-level sword skill tracing the shape of a square. (cool down: 4 posts)
• Horizontal Square - (4-hit combo) A mid-level sword skill tracing the shape of a rhombus. (cool down: 4 posts)
• Snake Bite - (2-hit combo) A left and a right swings that target the opponent's weapon, with a chance of breaking the weapon. (cool down: 5 posts)
• Sharp Nail - (3-hit combo) (cool down: 5 posts)
• Vorpal Strike - (1-hit strike) A heavy one-handed sword skill with a reach that is double the length of the blade and has high attack power. It has a long cool-down. 30% Physical, 30% Fire, 40% Darkness. (cool down: 4 posts)
• Savage Fulcrum - (3-hit combo) A sword skill that traces a number "4" in the air. 50% Physical, 50% Ice. (cool down: 5 posts)
• Serration Wave - a single-hit area of effect (AOE) one-handed sword skill, a technique meant to impede movement and barely does any damage. (cool down: 1 posts)
• Deadly Sins - (7-hit combo) (cool down: 9 posts)
• Howling Octave - (8-hit) Five high-speed continuous thrusts then cut downward, upward, before another full force upward cut. 40% Physical, 60% Fire. (cool down: 7 posts)
• Lightning Fall - a heavy ranged attack that involves kicking off the ground with full force and then stabbing the sword into the ground, shooting out blue sparks in all directions. (cool down: 6 posts)
• Parallel String - (2-hit combo) (cool down: 4 posts)
• Nova Ascension - (10-hit combo) (cool down: 12 posts)

One-Handed Curved Sword:

• Reaver - (1-hit strike) A basic sword skill. (cool down: 1 post)
• Fell Crescent - (1-hit strike) A high-class charge-type sword skill that delivers a downward blow and covers a distance of 4 meters in 0.4 seconds. (cool down: 11 posts)

Two-Handed Battle Axe:

• Whirlwind - (1-hit strike) A basic spinning strike. (cool down: 2 posts)

Two-Handed Sword:

• Avalanche - (1-hit strike) A high hitting high-level two-handed sword skill. (cool down: 9 posts)
• Cyclone - (1-hit strike) A two-handed spinning sword slash. (cool down: 4 posts)
• Back Rush - (1-hit strike) A countering technique to spin around when an opponent has the player's back. (cool down: 3 posts)

Rapier Sword:

• Linear - (1-hit strike) The first rapier skill learned that delivers a single thrust at the enemy at a great speed. (cool down: 1 post)
• Star Splash - (8-hit combo) A high-level one-handed thrusting sword skill. (cool down: 10 posts)
• Flashing Penetrator - (1-hit strike) A high-level strike that produces a sonic boom and looks like a comet. (cool down: 7 posts)
• Quadruple Pain - (4-hit combo) A rapid four-hit thrust that can immobilize the target. (cool down: 5 posts; immobilize: 1 post)
• Shooting Star - A charging rapier sword skill. (cool down: 5 posts)
• Neutron - (5-hit combo) a high-ranking extreme speed Sword Skill that delivers 5 consecutive thrusts. 20% Physical and 80% Holy damage. (cool down: 8 posts)
• Crucifixion - (6-hit combo) A skill composed of six strikes, the first three being vertical thrusts, and the latter three being horizontal thrusts, creating a figure of a cross. (cool down: 6 posts)

Dagger:

• Rapid Bite - a middle class charge-type dagger skill. (cool down: 3 posts)
• Fad Edge - (cool down: 2 posts)

Martial Arts:

• Embracer - (1-hit strike) An unarmed skill that pierces the enemy with the fingers. (cool down: 2 posts)
• Senda - a basic Martial Arts thrusting skill. (cool down: 2 posts)
• Gengetsu - a backflip kick technique. (cool down: 3 posts)

Knife Throwing:

• Single Shot - (1-hit strike) A beginner Knife Throwing skill. (cool down: 1 post)

Katana:

• Tsujikaze - (1-hit strike) A straight, long-ranged strike. (cool down: 3 posts)
• Gengetsu - (1-hit strike) A half-circle that moves irregularly. (cool down: 2 posts)
• Tsumjiguruma - (1-hit area strike) An omnidirectional 360-degree whirling spin. (cool down: 4 posts)
• Ukifune - (1-hit strike) Knocks the opponent high into the air. (cool down: 3 posts)
• Hiogi - (3-hit combo) Upward, downward, then thrusting combo. (cool down: 4 posts)
• Iai - (1-hit strike) One of the top techniques of Katana Skill. (cool down: 9 posts)
• Zekku - (1-hit strike) A skill that consists of a slash combined with a drawing motion. (cool down: 3 posts)

Dual Blades:

• Cross Block - A defensive skill that is composed of crossing both of the user's swords to block. (cool down: 3 posts)
• Double Circular - (2-hit combo) A dash-type skill that swiftly attacks with the right and left sword consecutively. (cool down: 3 posts)
• Starburst Stream - (16-hit combo) A high-class dual-blades sword skill. (cool down: 14 posts)
• The Eclipse - (27-hit combo) The highest level dual-blades sword skill. (cool down: 15 posts)

Holy Sword:

• Divine Sword - (1-hit strike) Releases a strong light from the sword to blind the opponent. (cool down: 8 posts)

Weapon Defense:

• Spinning Shield - A defensive skill that involves spinning one's sword like a windmill, forming a half-transparent shield with the sword. (cool down: 3 posts)

Two-Handed Long Bow:

• Explode Arrow - arrows shot with the bow become fire arrows that explode upon contact. 10% physical, 90% flame damage. (cool down: 3 posts)

Other:

• Meteor Break - (7-hit combo) A seven-hit combo, needing unarmed and one-handed sword skills, that uses tackles to chain together strong attacks. (cool down: 7 posts)
• Meteor Fall - (2-hit combo) A Sword Skill that combines a punch with the user's right fist and a slash with a sword. The sword is thrown into the air before the first hit of the skill. (cool down: 6 posts)

« OTHER SKILLS »

Cooking - The effectiveness with which a player can combine ingredients to create varieties of food, some of which can have medicinal properties. Higher level of skill allows the successful cooking of higher-ranked foods.

Fishing - The effectiveness with which a player can catch fish. Higher levels catch rarer fish more often.