The Skills

Every skill on Perilous Legends, what it does, and where the shard has changed it. One page per skill.

Perilous Legends runs 49 skills on a Renaissance-era ruleset, with two of its own: Enchanting and Skinning. Several classic skills have been given new jobs, and nearly all of them plug into a class, a Quartermaster or a shard system somewhere.

The Rules Every Skill Shares

Caps: 720 total. Each skill trains to 100; power scrolls raise a skill's cap by exactly 1 per scroll, in four colour tiers: green takes you from 101 to 105, blue 106 to 110, red 111 to 115, blaze 116 to 120. Each tier must be finished before the next works. Champions drop scrolls for every skill; the Quartermasters and the Village Warden sell scrolls for their own trades as well. Scrolls are cursed: they drop with your corpse.
Stats: 120 each, 225 total; Harrower stat scrolls raise the total to 250.
Gain: classic use-based gain with guaranteed gain timers and no anti-macro. Skills under 10 always gain. Pets never gain skills. Nothing gains inside a scheduled event: Defense of the Shards, Paintball, Castle Siege or the Hardpoint island.
Class bonuses to skills are effective bonuses that never push a skill past 120, and every class skill bonus switches off while you are flagged for PvP. The two Cutpurse exceptions (Dangerous, Thuggery) are noted on their pages.
Builds: the Personality system stores whole skill sets. A new build starts at zero with every cap at 100; a freshly loaded build has all skills locked.
Where skills are off: every skill is disabled inside Paintball. Stealing is blocked in the Dueling Arena; snooping and stealing are blocked in the Casino and Auction House. Duel templates replace your skills for the match.
Free bonuses for everyone: Camping (carry weight, weapon damage to monsters), Inscription (spell damage), Taste Identification (potions), Arms Lore (hit chance), Fletching (archery damage), Mining (mace damage), Lumberjacking (axe damage), Herding (pet and summon damage). No class needed.

Combat

Skill	In one line
Swordsmanship	Swords and axes; Pirate Corsair bonus.
Mace Fighting	Maces; stamina drain, crushing blow; +Mining damage.
Fencing	Piercing weapons; Cutpurse Dangerous.
Wrestling	Unarmed combat; stun and disarm.
Archery	Ranged weapons; Ranger's home skill.
Tactics	Melee and ranged damage multiplier.
Anatomy	Melee damage, two-handed special blows, wrestling stun, bandage healing.
Parrying	Shield blocks; two-handed weapons parry at 50%.
Arms Lore	+1% hit chance per 10, exact durability readout, disarm punch.
Healing	Bandage healing, curing and resurrection.

Magic

Skill	In one line
Magery	Spellcasting success, speed and part of the damage.
Evaluating Intelligence	Spell damage versus the target's Resisting Spells.
Meditation	Mana regen; never fails at 100+.
Resisting Spells	Spell defense; Elementalist Warding.
Spirit Speak	Ghost speech; Necromancer summon scaling and Commune.
Inscription	Spell scrolls, runebooks, staves, contracts, disenchantment wands; +1% spell damage per 10 (PvM and PvP, PvP capped at +10% with Spirit Speak).

Bard

Skill	In one line
Musicianship	Instrument play; gates all barding and Concert Mode.
Peacemaking	Pacify creatures; boss damage cut.
Provocation	Make creatures fight; bosses take +20% damage.
Discordance	Debuffs a creature's stats and skills; works on bosses.

Rogue

Skill	In one line
Hiding	Become hidden; Stealth needs 80.
Stealth	Move while hidden; Stealth/10 steps.
Snooping	Peek into player backpacks.
Stealing	Pickpocketing; Cutpurse procs and Thug Life.
Lockpicking	Chests, Treasure Lock minigame, Golden Lock Chests.
Remove Trap	Disarm traps; Treasure Lock trap chance.
Detecting Hidden	Reveals hidden things; finds Golden Lock Chests.
Poisoning	Poison weapons; Assassin Venomancer; Ranger Poisoned Arrows.

Taming

Skill	In one line
Animal Taming	Tame creatures; control; pet leveling.
Animal Lore	Pet control, pet book, egg hatching, taming gains.
Veterinary	Pet bandaging and resurrection.
Herding	Followers deal +2% damage per 10 Herding.

Crafting

Skill	In one line
Blacksmithy	Metal weapons, armor, Pet Equipment, siege hammers.
Tailoring	Cloth and leather armor; Perilhide; sockets at 100 (beta).
Carpentry	Wood crafts, ship repair tools, hamlet repair deeds, fishing poles.
Bowcraft/Fletching	Bows and ammo; +1% archery damage per 5 skill.
Tinkering	Tools, jewelry, skinning knives, siege cannons, Fine Lockpicks.
Alchemy	Potions, Grave Dust, Growth Serum, Soothing Balm and siege spikes.
Cooking	Dishes with hour-long effects; Chef's Apron and Frying Pan rewards.
Cartography	Decode treasure maps; local, city, sea and world maps.
Enchanting PL	Apply enchantments from learned recipes at a table.

Gathering

Skill	In one line
Mining	Ore and gems; +1% mace damage per 5 (max +20%).
Lumberjacking	Wood harvesting; +1% axe damage per 5 (max +20%).
Fishing	Fish, sea loot, sport fishing and feeding frenzies.
Skinning PL	Harvest enchanting materials and catalysts from corpses.

Utility

Skill	In one line
Camping	+1 stone carry weight per point; +1% weapon damage per 10 against monsters (not spells, not pets or summons).
Taste Identification	+1% potion healing and +1% cure chance per 5 points.
Tracking	Locate creatures and players; arrow follows 1 tile per point.
Item Identification	Identifies magic items; rarely needed here.