Skills

Can you feel the power?

Skills are heroines's special abilities they can learn and use on their journeys. Goddesses have strictly no influence on both the learning and the use of those skills by their champions.

There are three types of skills:

• Combat Skills used during battle
• Trade Skills used at the counter in a shop
• Transportation skills used while traveling

Follow this link to see the complete List of Skills.

General Information

A skill gets more powerful as its level increases, and heroines may use that skill more often.

How to get

The first skill heroines learn is acquired at level 15. For every 3 levels thereafter, they might learn a new skill, but it is not guaranteed, up to a maximum of 10 skills. Sometimes, they may randomly exchange one skill for another skill of the same level but not necessarily of the same category. This can happen during healing, with an occasional payment of gold to the hero, or during any trading occasion.

Some activatable artifacts also offer to swap a skill with another against 50% of godpower.

Swap during healing

!Hero's Diary↻

17:10 A group of scientists offered me 1303 coins to be their lab rat. A barrage of pills, multiple injections, hours of prodding and numerous complications later, they discovered how to swap my “cry of horror” skill with the “effect of the groundhog” skill! If only they knew how to reverse the effect.

Swap during trading

!Hero's Diary↻

09:44 I couldn’t miss this great deal and changed my boring “thumb blowing” skill to the new exciting “iron vortex” skill of the same level. Oh, boy, I love this customer service!

Levels

All skills have a level, which dictates the potency of the skill. These levels will increase over time via two different means:

• In a town, by spending approximately 500 x the skill level to be attained gold coins.

• Upgrading it for free through practice. Many believe this is a cumulative process, but occasional instances of the same skill being upgraded twice in rapid succession suggest that there is instead a random chance of the skill being upgraded each time it is used.

Combat Skills

Combat skills are rather straightforward. Straight in the face of the heroines' foes, whether they are monsters or other heroines. Using those skills, the adventurers may do extra damage to their opponent and may even steal a little portion of their health.

As with any attack, heroines may fail when trying to use a skill, missing their opponent or damaging both fighters in the process.

Similarly to the other skills, Goddesses and Gods have no influence on the uses of combat skills in battles. Combat skills give no advantage in the arena — just like any other kind of attack, heroines and heroes may or may not use them, with the same chance of success and damage regardless of level.

Trade Skills

Heroines can use their Trade skills when dealing with traders, either in towns or with travelling merchants. Those sneaky traders often manage to rip off the unsuspecting adventurers so this type of skill is quite handy for such occasions.

percentage of discount/premium = 30 + level of skill

Cost-benefit analysis of upgrade

The "benefits" of upgrading a trading skill are almost invariably not worth the training costs. While the 31 percent increase in loot yield of obtaining the first level has its merits (especially since it's free), the increase to level 2 is only 0.76% higher. Thus, at level 2, a hero would have to sell items worth 131,000 at base value in order to break even with the 1,000 gold of training cost versus staying at level 1. In other words, it is quite unlikely for your hero to have recovered the costs of training previous level before paying to upgrade again.

Conceivably, by skill level 10, a hero may have to sell a completed temple's weight in gold to justify the amount spent on tuition for each increase! (See table below)

Level	Additional cost to obtain level	Yield increase	Additional sales to break-even vs. unskilled	Additional sales to justify last upgrade	Cumulative sales to recover last upgrade in gold bricks
1	free	31.000%
2	1000	0.763%	3125	131000	44
3	1500	0.758%	4545	198000	110
4	2000	0.752%	5882	266000	198
5	2500	0.746%	7143	335000	310
6	3000	0.741%	8333	405000	445
7	3500	0.735%	9459	476000	604
8	4000	0.730%	10526	548000	786
9	4500	0.725%	11538	621000	993
10	5000	0.719%	12500	695000	1225
11	5500	0.714%	13415	770000	1482
12	6000	0.709%	14286	846000	1764
13	6500	0.704%	15116	923000	2071
14	7000	0.699%	15909	1001000	2405
15	7500	0.694%	16667	1080000	2765
16	8000	0.690%	17391	1160000	3152
17	8500	0.685%	18085	1241000	3565
18	9000	0.680%	18750	1323000	4006
19	9500	0.676%	19388	1406000	4475
20	10000	0.671%	20000	1490000	4972
21	10500	0.667%	20588	1575000	5497
22	11000	0.662%	21154	1661000	6050
23	11500	0.658%	21698	1748000	6633
24	12000	0.654%	22222	1836000	7245
25	12500	0.649%	22727	1925000	7887
26	13000	0.645%	23214	2015000	8558
27	13500	0.641%	23684	2106000	9260
28	14000	0.637%	24138	2198000	9993
29	14500	0.633%	24576	2291000	10757
30	15000	0.629%	25000	2385000	11552

Of course, there is no way to stop your hero from "investing" in their skills other than to keep the amount of coins in hand low, such as by converting gold coins into gold bricks via encouragement before they can spend it. Moreover, having a trading skill is probably still better than not having one at all, as demonstrated by the third column. Furthermore, purchasing is not the only way to level up skills.

Transportation Skill

The Transportation skills (also referred as Transport) are no good for fighting, trading, or gold brick making. These skills instead allow heroines to jump from milestone to milestone like a flea on steroids. These skills can be especially useful for times when champions have to go back a long distance to heal, get a new quest, or simply drop off their loot.

Normally, heroines progress by one milestone every minute or so. With those skills, adventurers can go past many of those pesky milestones in a shorter time. This greatly reduces the time spent on the dangerous roads of Godville.

See Also

• List of Skills
• Category:Skills
• Category:Combat skills
• Category:Trade skills
• Category:Transportation skills