Category:Skills

Skills are a core part of Soul's Remnant, allowing the player to perform special feats in combat or other environments that both reflect and dictate their attribute distribution and equipment loadout. There's more to personal expression than just equipment, after all.

It's also about how you live and how you fight!

Skill Tables

Below are sortable tables meant to help you compare skills, as well as help you determine what skills you may or may not use while playing.

The Skill Categories table is a good way of determining what skills benefit from what types of Attack Speed. For example, Shield Slam's cooldown is only affected by Melee Attack Speed and Global Attack Speed. You can easily find skill categories while playing Soul's Remnant as well, by going to the Learned Skills tab of your Skills Window [K] and checkmarking the relevant box.

Skill Categories
Name	Melee	Range	Magic	Faith	Gathering	Crafting	Life
Heavy Strike	✓
Grapple Strike	✓
Upward Strike	✓
Dash Strike	✓	✓
Soul Shot		✓
Nova				✓
Flame Barrage			✓
Gravity Well			✓
Ninja Throw		✓
Triple Throw		✓
Arrow Rain		✓
Revitalize				✓
Medishot				✓
Burst Shield				✓
Mana Shield			✓
Taunt	✓
Armor Link				✓
Whirlwind	✓
Onslaught	✓
Crescent Slash	✓
Shield Slam	✓
Slash	✓
Smite (Skill)				✓
Elemental Charge				✓
Cursed Throw		✓
True Shot		✓
Arrow Storm		✓
Dash		✓
Shadow Step		✓
Shadow Twin		✓
Divine Blessing				✓
Blink			✓
Soul Bomb			✓
Gust			✓
Star Fall			✓
Arcane Surge			✓
Empower			✓
Blood Sacrifice			✓
Divine Protection				✓
Magic Burst			✓
Mining					✓
Herbalism					✓
Fishing					✓
Nature's Veil					✓
Weapon Smithing						✓
Armor Crafting						✓
Jewelry Crafting						✓
Artisan Crafting						✓
Cooking						✓
Alchemy						✓
Merchant							✓
Grapple							✓

Grapple may fall into the Life category, but it is very much useful in combat! The Grapple skill can allow you to hang from walls, ceilings, and platforms for approximately 5 seconds before you are detached. While attached you can swing side-to-side, and change your vertical position with the Up and Down keys. From early-game and even into late-game, Grapple can be an invaluable tool in the right hands!

While in-game, you can click on a skill, then mouse over the colored bar(s) to see the exact numbers of how they scale. The Combat Scaling table is meant to provide an out-of-game option for seeing how skills scale and what they scale with. Extra details like Size and Duration are not included. For the purposes of this table, we feel that including a Power column and a Mob (Amount) column is enough. You can always click on the Skill's name to be taken to its page for more information!

Active Skills

When leveling up, you gain both Stat Points to assign in your Stats window [O] and Skill Points to assign in your Skills Window [K]. This is because in Soul's Remnant, while you can level a Combat Skill up to level 20, the actual level of any Combat Skill you use requires the usage of Skill Points. And the level of your Active Skills have a considerable impactful on damage calculations.

Combat skills can cost anywhere from 1 to 3 skill points to activate at level 1, and from that point on each additional level costs 1 skill point.

You can Activate a skill by opening your Skills Window, and dragging it from the Skill Tree into the "Active Skills" Area to the left!

When you do this with a skill that has a Learned level higher than 1, you will be prompted to choose at what level you want to activate that skill. The prompt will also inform you of the total amount of Skill Points you will need to do so.

Combat Skill Leveling

Before talking about anything else, it's important that we make something very clear here about Combat Skills:

1) Skill level is one of the largest ways to increase your DPS, and the higher the level the higher the difference. Try not to leave skills at +100% Skill EXP if you have the resources to level them!
1) Lower level skills will gain less Skill EXP both for itself and for the relevant Passive(s), so even more reason to level your skills!
3) The math works in such a way that all skills do similar amounts of damage when taking cooldown into consideration. Feel free to focus on the skills you like the most!

To accommodate for this, Soul's Remnant has a system in place that makes level skills easier. 
If you have a Combat Skill that is a higher level than the one you are currently gaining Skill EXP for, then that amount of Skill EXP is increased!

So yes, you can comfortably gain Skill EXP even after reaching enough to level the skill up. As mentioned above however, skill level is a big factor in how damage is calculated.

And finally, a rare material used to level every combat skill past a certain point are the Dungeon Crystals, which are best obtained through Dungeons. Or the Auction House. Odds are they'll be pretty expensive there though, so don't be shy about trying to use up your Dungeon Passes with a party!

Life Skill Leveling

Skill level is also very important for Life Skills. In order to gather certain materials from the world, you will need to have the related Gathering Skill at a high enough level. And certain crafting recipes will only be unlocked after reaching the required Crafting Skill level as well.

Luckily, it's a lot more straightforward to level a Life Skill than it is to level a Combat Skills. Life Skills don't have any material requirements to level them! Because of this, Life Skills will typically level up automatically once you get enough Skill EXP for them, making it easy to keep gathering or crafting without having to worry about missing out on any benefits.

So go forth, level your skills, and take anything and everything from every map!

Passives and Perks

When gaining Skill EXP for any Combat Skill, you will also gain Skill EXP for that skill's "Category Passive". Melee. Range. Magic. Faith.

Passives level automatically and require no material components, mainly providing % Damage every 3 levels in what are referred to as "Skill Perks". Each Category Passive also has notable breakpoint levels where Skill Perks provide something different:

Melee:
Every 4 levels, you gain +3 Max HP.
Range:
Every 5 levels, you gain +1 Crit Rate.
Magic:
Every 3 levels, you gain +1 Max MP.
Every 12 levels, you gain +1 MP Regeneration Per Tick (and +1 Max MP).
Faith:
Every 7 levels, you gain +1 Defense.
Every 20 levels, you gain +1 HP Regeneration Per Tick.

Life Skills provide Skill Perks as well!

Herbalism:
Every 19 levels, you gain +1 MP Regeneration Per Tick and +1 HP Regeneration Per Tick.
Mining:
Every 15 levels, you gain +1 Light Radius.
Fishing:
Every 10 levels, you gain +1 LUK.
Every 30 levels, you gain +1 Speed (And +1 LUK).
Jewelry Crafting:
Every 14 levels, you gain +1% Item Drops.
Weapon Smithing:
Every 15 levels, you gain +1 Damage Balance.
Every 29 levels, you gain +1 Armor Pen.
Armor Crafting:
Every 15 levels, you gain +1 Defense.
Alchemy:
Every 4 levels, you gain +1 Max HP.
Every 6 levels, you gain +1 Max MP.
Cooking:
Every 19 levels, you gain +1 Knockback Resistance.
Artisan Crafting:
Every 8 levels, you gain +1% Echoes Find.
Every 16 levels, you gain +1% Soul Crystal Find (and +1% Echoes Find).

Macros

Soul's Remnant provides a way for players to press one key and use up to three skills at once. This is the Macros system!

You can go into your Skills Window and click the "Macros" button at the bottom left. After doing so, a window will pop up that looks like the image to right.

By dragging skills in the Active Skills Window