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

There are three types of skills:

* [[Skills#Combat_Skills|Combat Skills]] used during battle
* [[Skills#Trade_Skills|Trade Skills]] used at the counter in a shop
* [[Skills#Transportation_Skill|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 {{heroes or heroines}} may use that skill more often.

===How to get===

The first skill {{heroes or 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 heroine | invert = y}}, or during any trading occasion.

====Swap during healing====

{{diary | text = 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====

{{diary | text = 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 ==
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'''Combat skills''' are rather straightforward. Straight in the face of the {{heroes or heroines}}' foes, whether they are [[monsters]] or other [[{{heroes or 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, {{heroes or heroines}} may fail when trying to use a skill, missing their opponent or damaging both fighters in the process. 

Similarly to the other skills, {{Gods and Goddesses|uc=y}} have no influence on the uses of combat skills in battles. Combat skills give no advantage in the [[arena]] &mdash; just like any other kind of attack, {{heroes and heroines}} may or may not use them, with the same chance of success and damage regardless of level.

== Trade Skills ==
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{{Heroes or 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. 

<blockquote>'''percentage of discount/premium  = 30 + level of skill'''<ref>Assuming the admins design the game fairly, the formula for should be as '''discount price =  normal price  /  ( 1 + (30 + skill level ) / 100 )'''. By the multiplicative property of equality, this formula would result buying skills being equally beneficial selling skills at any level. If instead the formula were  ''discount price = normal price * (1 - (30 + skill level)/100))''  then a hero with a discount level of 70 could theoretically buy all items for free (under the former formula, a level 70 buying skill would equal to a 50% discount).</ref></blockquote>

===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<ref>0.0076 = 1.32/1.31 - 1</ref>. 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) 

{| class="wikitable" style="width:30%;text-align:right;font-size:.8em;" cellpadding="0" 
|-
!style="height:4em; text-align:top;width:5%"|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 ==
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The '''Transportation skills''' (also referred as Transport) are no good for fighting, trading, or gold brick making. These skills instead allow {{heroes or 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, {{heroes or 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 [[Map of Godville|Godville]].

==See Also==
* [[List of Skills]]
* [[:Category:Skills]]
* [[:Category:Combat skills]]
* [[:Category:Trade skills]]
* [[:Category:Transportation skills]]

==Notes & References==
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[[Category:Gameplay]]