The ABC Ultima Online Skill Guide
As a no-skillcap shard, the only things keeping you from acquiring every skill are knowledge and motivation. This guide will help provide both, describing what the skills do, how to learn them, and how to use them.
If you are familiar with the skills, you may still want to skim over these guides. The skills here do not necessarily behave exactly the same as on official shards.
There are only two skills that have drawbacks for training: magery and bushido. Training bushido affects your parrying skill, so you should study the effects of that before learning bushido. Training magery to 70 or higher skill affects the use of chivalry. For every other skill, there are only benefits to training them.
Reducing skills: If for some reason you want to reduce a skill that you've trained, setting the skill arrow to point down will do the trick. As you train other skills, any skill with the arrow pointing down can drop.
Training Skills
The answer to the question of "how do i train that skill" is generally pretty simple: use it!
Each time you use a skill, you have a chance of gaining in skill level, but only if the activity you are attempting has some chance of success and some chance of failure. If you're doing something that will always succeed, you probably won't gain any skill. Likewise if you're trying something that will always fail, you won't gain in skill that way. Generally you want to perform actions that you have a very low chance of success at. (There are exceptions, notably when training spellcasting skills.)
Here are some additional tips for training your skills:
Buy skills - Having an NPC teach your skill (generally up to about 25-30) is almost always faster than training it yourself.
Conserve resources - Use lower reagent cost armor when training magery, chivalry, and necromancy. When crafting, create the items that consume the fewest materials, and recycle them if possible.
Make money - When training craft skills, make things that you can sell. Fill bulk orders with your scrap. Complete animal training contracts.
Multitask - You can train many skills simultaneously. For example, cast damaging spells on yourself to train magery, use bandages on yourself to train healing at the same time.
Use hotkeys and macros - Unfortunately it's true, some tasks are tedious. Use whatever tools you have at your disposal to do those repetitive actions.
Train on your guildmates - Train combat against each other, cast spells on each other, bandage each other (it's faster than bandaging yourself), steal from and snoop each other.
Use faction skill loss - If you are a member of a faction and die at the hands of an enemy faction member, your skills drop by 33% temporarily. Use that temporary skill loss to train skills, as it is almost always easier to train skills at low levels than at high levels.
Forget about 8x8 and power hour - If someone mentions these things to you, ignore them. There's no such thing as 8x8 or power hour on ABCUO.
Skill Training Roadmap
If you plan to train many skills, here are some choices you should consider training early on:
Fencing, Parrying, and Healing: with these three skills at 100, you've taken your first step to self-sufficiency. Use them to go make some money to fund your next steps.
Necromancy: The reason to train necromancy before other spellcasting is because with necromancy you get two spells that are extremely useful for training other skills: lich form and summon familiar. Those two spells greatly increase your mana pool, and once you learn necromancy you can use them to accelerate the training of all other skills that use mana: Magery, Chivalry, Bushido, Ninjitsu, Inscription, and Spirit Speak.
Magery: This may be the single most useful skill there is, so get it done and reap the benefits of being able to cast a host of useful spells. Mark runes, cast gate travel, summon energy vortices and blade spirits, cast invisibility, etc.
Animal Taming: Not only are pets useful in combat situations and for mounts, they're also very useful for training purposes. When you need a target to train skills on, pets are great tools.
Ninjitsu: One ninjitsu spell in particular is extremely useful for players as they are starting out: animal form. At higher skill levels you can transform into a llama or ostard, giving you fast footspeed without using a mount.
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