Skills3 (Skills Help)

There are two categories of skills in The Two Towers: common skills and professional skills. Every player has the common skills from the beginning, and cannot lose them. The professional skills, on the other hand, must be obtained by either attempting to use them, or at a specific professional trainer. They can later be lost if you decide to change your profession.

You may have up to 8 professional skills at one time. 4 of them always belong to your profession of choice, while the other 4 you may pick from other professions as you see fit. The skills of your profession may be trained up to the value of 100; the 'other' skills may only reach the value of 60. Furthermore, the 'other' skills will also degrade at a rate of 1 point per hour.

The following skills are available:

1. Common skills
   aim, attack, awareness, defense, dodge, evasion, fire building, intuition, riding
2. Warrior skills
   battle instincts, blocking, combat arms, tactics
3. Archer skills
   archery, deflecting, fletching, positioning
4. Assassin skills
   assassination, deception, lethal precision, stalking
5. Rider skills
   balance, motivation, mounted combat, taming
6. Thief skills
   locksmith, nimbleness, stealth, theft
7. Ranger skills
   nature's grace, nature's lore, tracking, wilderness
8. Wizard skills
   6th sense, concentration, control magic, resist magic
9. Sniffer skills
   butchery, prowling, tracking, wilderness
10. Necromancer skills
    6th sense, necromancy, warp magic, will

To see your list of skills, simply type "skills". This will list your current skill levels, to the right of the skill names.

You can improve your skills in two ways:

1. Skills improve as you use them. Each time you use a skill, you are credited with one 'use' of that skill. When you get enough 'uses', your skill goes up. Some skills are invoked by commands, such as repair and pick. Others will be used when something requires them, such as aim, attack, dodge and defense skills which will be used if you are fighting a monster. It takes more 'uses' to raise the skill at higher skill levels.
2. You may improve skills at a trainer, for a price. While at lower skill levels, the 'by use' training may be enough, at higher levels you will notice that it simply takes too much time - and that will be the time to see the trainer!