General skill guide

List

Alchemy

16.3 - 18 lesser cure potion
18 - 23 lesser heal potion
23 - 28 lesser explosion, refresh potions
28 - 31 wisdom potion
31 - 34 normal agility potion
34 - 42 normal strength potion
42 - 52 lesser poison potion
52 – 60 normal cure potion
60 - 65 normal heal potion

(Alternatively, a faster but costlier way that may not be accessible to all:

50 – 53 powdered bone, deadwood
53 – 58 normal cure potion
58 – 63 weaken potion
63 – 65 normal protection potion

Tip; It’s recommended that you start with 50% alchemy. The skill is hard to gain and the explosions and poisonings make it even more annoying.

Archery

20-23 – Bow
23-38 – Short Bow
38-53 – Crossbow
53-65 – Heavy Crossbow

Tip; If you shoot arrows to the training targets on training ground, you can retrieve about half of them from the butte so you don’t need to buy so many new ones.

Arms Lore

20-65 – Use the skill on anything, like a carrot or a dagger.

Tip; The gain doesn’t depend on which items you use the skill on.

Anatomy

16.3 - 23 deer
23 - 28 desert ostard
28 - 33 barkeep, innkeeper
33 - 38 frost wolf
38 - 43 raven
43 - 48 mountain ostard
48 - 53 horse
53 - 58 dust ostard
58 - 65 llama4, llama5

Animal Lore

16.3 - 20 dog
20 - 25 cow, sheep
25 - 30 eagle
30 - 35 wildboar, deer
35 - 40 raven
40 - 45 walrus, horse1
45 - 50 brown bear, black bear
50 - 55 llama
55 - 60 bull, great hart
60 - 65 llama2, hildisvini

Animal Taming

16.3 - 25 dog, cat, rat
25 - 35 sheep, goat, pig, cow
35 - 45 wildboar, deer, raven
45 - 55 walrus, horse1, horse4, brown bear, black bear
55 - 65 great hart, bull, horse2, llama

Tip; You cannot use same animal to gain again by releasing and retaming it. Also this list doesn’t contain all the animals you could use to gain skill, you will learn soon which will give you gain and which ones will not.

Blacksmithy

16.3 - 28 hatchet
28 - 33 mace
33 - 36 cutlass
36 - 39 bone harvester
39 - 43 kryss
43 - 49 short spear
49 - 54 - longsword, chainmail gloves
54 - 59 spear
59 - 65 pike

Bowcraft/Fletching

16.3 - 28 shaft
28 - 36 club
36 - 46 tamborine
46 - 56 tamborine with ribbon
56 - 65 lute

Or, if you have feathers:

44 - 48 lesser fire/cold arrows
48 - 56 tamborine with ribbon
56 - 63 lute
63 - 65 normal arrows

Camping

20-65 – Keep using kindlings in war mode. You can train it like that to 65.

Tip; You can aswell train it with war mode off

Carpentry

16.3 - 28 kindling
28 - 38 torch
38 - 44 small crate
44 - 48 keg
48 - 58 fishing pole
58 - 65 billboard pole

Cartography

20 – 40 – Detailed
40 – 65 – Regional

Cooking

16.3 - 25 cooked rib/bird
25 - 45 cooked fishsteak (1)
45 - 65 cooked fishsteak (3)

Detect Hidden

20-65 – Do it with a friend training hiding.

Works up to 30% on your own house

Tip; The person must be hiding around your detecting target. If you have 30% detect hidden, use someone with 40 hiding. If you always find him, try with someone with higher hiding, and if you can never find him do it with someone that has lower hiding.

Enticement

Also known as Leadership or Discordance

16.3 - 20 birds, rabbit
20 - 25 eagle, deer
25 - 30 raven
30 - 38 alligator, desert ostard, wildboar
38 - 48 any horse
48 - 58 llama2, goat
58 - 65 llama3, cave bear

Evaluating Intelligence

16.3 - 20 cow, bull
20 - 30 frenzied/mountain ostard
30 - 35 florist
35 - 45 ranger, guards
45 - 55 Harry
55 - 65 innkeeper, bard, jeweler, Emissaries

Fencing

20-30 – Dagger
30-40 – Pitchfork
40-50 – War fork
50-60 – Short spear
60-65 – Kryss

Fishing

20-65 – Just keep fishing with a fishing rod anywhere where there’s fish

around

Forensic Evaluation

20-65 – Just kill some animal or use it on a friend’s corpse, chop it

with your dagger and macro Forensic Evaluation on it.

Healing

20-60 – Just keep healing your wounds. The more wounded you are, the

harder it’s to heal.

60-65 – You can use lesser poison on yourself and after that cure yourself.

Tip; There are certain mobs to get poisoned with. Use a giant spider

Herding

16.3 - 23 rabbit, chicken
23 - 40 cat
40 - 55 pig, goat, sheep, cow
55 - 65 deer

Hiding

0-20 – Vendor Train with the thief in Cove
20-40 – do it alone
40-50 – do it with 1 animal / person near you
50-60 – 2 animals/persons near you
60-65 – 3 animals/persons near you

Tip; If you get stuck, switch it 1 backwards for a while.

Inscription

20-30 – 2nd circle scrolls
30-40 – 3rd circle scrolls
40-50 – 4th circle scrolls
50-60 – 5th circle scrolls
60-65 – 6th circle scrolls

Item Identification

20-65 – Use the skill on any item, like a carrot or a dagger.

Tip; The gain doesn’t depend on which items you use the skill on. Just like with arms lore.

Lockpicking

20-30 – Despise
30-40 – Try those chests in Yew forest
40-50 – Maybe try those chests on first level of Covetous and Despise
50-65 – Despise

Tip; Just keep lockpicking chests you see, they have different difficulty depending on their location.

Lumberjacking

16.3 - 35 normal
35 - 40 willow
40 - 45 cedar
45 - 55 walnut
55 - 65 cypress, apple, peach

Mace Fighting

20-23 – Pickaxe
23-28 – Club
28-33 – Hammer pick
33-38 – Mace
38-43 – Gnarled staff
43-50 – Sledge Hammer
50-58 – Black Staff
58-63 – Quarter Staff
63-65 – War hammer

Magery

20-30 – 1st Circle (Magic Arrow)
30-40 – 2nd Circle
40-50 – 3rd Circle (Poison)
50-60 – 4th Circle (Lightning)
60-65 – 5th Circle (Paralyze)

Meditation

20-40 – The altar at Britain.
40-65 – Keep meditating when training magery.

For religious characters you should use

restoration or effulgence from 40 - 50,
ennervation from 50 - 60
encumberance from 60 - 65.

Mining

16.3 - 30 normal ores
30 - 45 clay/sand
45 - 55 aughlite, executor, radlius
55 - 65 spirit stone, silver, obsidian, devil's claw

Musicianship

20-30 – Fertility
25-30 – Lightheadedness
30-35 – Shielding
35-40 – Transportation
40-45 – Bane
45-50 – Sound of damage
50-55 – True seeing
55-60 – Boosting
60-65 – Recovery

Tip; Some songs are easier to play with a certain instrument. Wood types also affect the success rate, and therefore gain rate.

Parrying

20-23 – Wooden shield
23-38 – Buckler
38-53 – Bronze shield
53-65 – Metal shield

Peacemaking

20-65 – Go to some place with harmless monsters such as headless ones,

arm yourself with a weak weapon to not kill them and repeat peacemaking in peace mode.

Tip;This skill is very fast to gain. Use it in a place with lots of monsters who aren’t really dangerous. Corpsers are a great choice.

Poisoning

20-40 – Lesser poison potion
40-65 – Poison potion

Tip; This is a very hard skill to train., costs a lot of money to buy potions.

Provocation

16.3 - 20 rabbit, rat, cat
20 - 25 sheep, cow, pig
25 - 30 raven, great hart
30 - 35 wildboar, headless one
35 - 40 horses
40 - 45 puma
45 - 50 goat, llama2, black bear
50 - 58 corpser
58 - 63 harpy
63 - 65 llama4, polar bear

Remove Trap

20-30 – Unknown
30-40 – Try those chests in Yew forest
40-50 – Maybe try those chests on first level of Covetous and Despise
50-65 – Despise

Tip; Just keep removing traps from chests you see, they have different difficulty depending on their location. This skill’s training is similar to lockpicking.