Skills

               ==Adventuring-related skills==
*Combat
**[[Aggression]]:  This is how well your taunts will affect monsters.  This skill affects the chance that a taunt will be resisted.
**[[Crushing]]:  This is how well you use hammers, maces, staves, and even your own fists.  This skill affects the chance that you will be successful when landing a blow with a weapon that uses the crushing skill.
**[[Fists]]:  This allows you to use your fists in battle.
**[[Focus]]:  This is how well you maintain your concentration in battle.  This will help you cast spells or perform combat arts while under attack.  This skill will help to decrease the chance that you will be interrupted when casting a skill or using a device, while being attacked.
**[[Piercing]]:  This is how well you use daggers and spears.  This skill affects the chance that you will be successful when landing a blow with a weapon that uses this skill.
**[[Poisoning]]:  This is the Predator and Rogue ability to use poisons.  This automatically increases as you level, and determines what level of poisons you can use.
**[[Ranged]]:  This is how well you use bows and thrown weapons.  This skill affects the chance that you will be successful in landing a blow when using a weapon that uses this skill.
**[[Slashing]]:  This is how well you use all types of swords and axes.  This skill affects the chance that you will be successful when attempting to land a blow with a weapon that uses this skill.
*Spellcasting
**[[Disruption]]:  "This reduces your target's resistance to your Disruption spells."  Mechanically, it decreases the odds that you will be fully resisted when casting a spell.
**[[Ministration]]:  "This is how well you use spells that heal and cure."  This skill affects the power cost of spells that use this skill.
**[[Ordination]]:  "This is how well you use spells that augment your friends and weaken your enemies."  This skill reduces the full-resist chance of debuffs and affects the power cost of spells that use this skill.
**[[Subjugation]]:  "This is how well you use spells to command pets and control monsters."  An increase in this skill decreases the odds that a spell that uses this skill will be resisted.
*[[Avoidance]]
**[[Defense]]:  This is how well you avoid physical attacks.  This raises your basic avoidance roll (dodge) chance.
**[[Deflection]]:  This gives you a chance to avert a physical attack.  This raises your deflection avoidance roll (not different from dodging other than generally being better to raise because it runs off different diminishing returns) chance.
**[[Parry (Skill)|Parry]]:  This gives you a chance to ward off a physical attack.  This raises your parry roll chance, which has a chance of being a riposte that counterstrikes the attacker.