Tempest
Amount of messages : 269
Gold : 1914
Date of registration : 2012-10-24
Character sheet
Power: Earth Gear
Rank: 3
Mana Capacity:
    (240/240)
 |  Subject: Explanation: Skills  Sat Nov 10, 2012 5:15 pm | |
| In this section we will be explaining what “skills” as well as “Supporting skills” are, as well as how to assign them to your character. Before reading this it’s best to read the explanation about powers first. So first, what is a skill? Basically it’s learned technique (either self-thought or learned from someone) which you will actually preform. So lets say your power was "fire manipulation" then skills would be things like: Fireball, Firewall, Fire aura, etc. Each skill has a rank (similar to a characters rank) depending on its power, however skill ranks don’t have 5 as a limit and can be even higher. Here you can see what can be expected of each skill rank. - Skills:
1: Mana use: (0-15)
These skill, are mostly non-combative. There usually simple support skills and if not, can be replaced with real items. Example: creating torchlight, used for lightning up dark places.
2: Mana use: (10-25)
The lowest of attack skills fall under this rank. Varies of low leveled support skills also fall under this. Since the rank of summoning skills can't change (even when summoning stronger allies) summoning skill itself also has this rank (remember that summoning stronger ranked allies, can still cause risk). Examples: Fireball (size of average torso), enhancement of senses.
3: Mana use: (15-30)
Pretty much every normal leveled skill, varying from attack, defense to support fall under this. As long as the attack isn't to large in scale or does mayor damage. Full body transformation which enhances something can also fall in this rank (also long as the same body build is maintained). Examples: Fort wall, healing (for minor wounds)
4: Mana use: (20-50)
More stronger skills are this rank as well as area skills (as long as the area isn't too large). Example: Magic cage
5: Mana use: (30-80)
Advance skills are this rank. Most light and dark attack or support based skills fall under this category. Examples: Concealment, Radiant beam
6: Mana use: (40-100)
Advance skills as well as larger area skill fall in this rank. most high ranking healing skills also have this rank. Skills that greatly enhances your abilities can also be sorted in this category. Examples: Gravity control, poison swamp summoning
7: Mana use: (60+)
Here, really high class skills are listed. Large scale effecting skills also are listed here as well as a combination of elements into 1 strong skill. Example: Dark fire
8: Mana use: (100+)
These skill are always large scaled and since a huge amount of mana is used at once it will always effect the area one way or another. Using these skills will always have a great impact on your character (even if you are rank 5), thus having high risk in using them. Example: Self-destruction (resulting self death)
These are basic examples and skills can differ depending on the situation. After the simulation in which you will display your powers and skills we will also give some indications on which rank your skills should be to give a little guidance. Keep in mind that the mana uses are simple indications and the real cost for using a skill can be higher or lower than the range of the skill. Also keep in mind that for example: area skills in general require more mana and skills which need to be maintained will continuously drain mana until you cancel the skill.
Next is the difference between skills and supporting skills. In a nutshell: a skill is a technique which can be used on its own, while supporting skills require, either a curtained power, or another skill. For example: A magic spell: “Fireball” would be skill and could be learned by anyone. For a support skill let’s take Byakugan as power again as example. Here a support skill would be juuken. A skill where you use energy to pierce through a target and hit a targets vital organ directly. Although anyone could learn this skill it won’t be as effective since someone without the power Byakugan as power can’t see these vital spots and thus can’t strike them more effectively. In this example you could still learn this support skill without the power, however there are examples in which a power is absolutely necessary to perform a support skill. So how do you obtain skills? There are 4 ways to obtain skills
1. Upon creation you are allowed to have set amount of free skill. Mostly you are given 5 free skills , but this can change depending on: your power, rank and the abilities that you have
2. You can teach yourself new techniques. The limitations from self-taught skill, however is that you can’t learn skills higher than 2 ranks above your own rank or above.
3. Find a master/teacher. This could be another player or a NPC who is willing to teach you one of their techniques. When learned from someone else there is no limitations on what rank skill you can learn. Training does become tougher when trying to learn skills far above your own rank.
4. From advancing. In some causes your development can come along with new skills. Skills learned through this method highly depend on how your development went, what you did beforehand and what your rank is/became.How to train skills is more explained in: “Explanation: Training”. | |
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