Guardian Skills

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Classes	Bu	Ca	Ch	Gu	Hu	Lm	Mi
Skills	Bu	Ca	Ch	Gu	Hu	Lm	Mi
Traits	Bu	Ca	Ch	Gu	Hu	Lm	Mi
Deeds	Bu	Ca	Ch	Gu	Hu	Lm	Mi

Active Skills

A Strong Offence

	Ability	Category	Level	Recovery Time	Range	Description
	Charge	Buff	48	3m		You charge into the fray.
	Guardian's Ward	Melee	1	3s	3	Your great skill enables you to strengthen your defences for a short time.
	Salt the Wound	Melee	28	5s	3	You look to further injure a wound opened by thrust.
	Stamp	Melee	32	1m	3	Your attack enables you to break your enemy's concentration, interrupting his actions.
	Sting	Melee	1	6s	3	A quick attack that will lightly wound your opponent.
	Sweeping Cut	Melee+AoE	2	9s	5	Large sweeping strokes cut into all of your foes standing before you.

Ready for Anything

	Ability	Category	Level	Range	Description
	Guardian's Defence	buff	4		Increases Block by 5.0%
	Guardian's Parry	buff	12		Increases Parry by 5.0%
	Guardian's Pledge	buff	20		Briefly increases Evade, Parry and Block
	Protection	buff	24	25	Allows you to increase your ally's stats while gaining any parry's or blocks that they make
	Thrill of Danger	buff	28	10	Refreshed power, increases with every enemy near you to a max of 3
	Warrior's Heart	buff	30		Increases Morale for 1 min and also heals some Morale
	Deep Breath		34		Eliminates cooldown of warriors heart, guardians pledge, and thrill of danger
	Turn the Tables	melee+debuff	36	3	Exits all harmful combat states
	Guardian's Promise	buff	38		Creates a whistle which allows people in your fellowship to summon you to their side
	Summon Tinker		26		Summons repair merchant at a camp site fire.

Block and Counter

	Ability	Category	Level	Power Cost	Range	Description
	Shield-Swipe	melee	4	9	3	After a block you can attack with both your weapon and shield
	Bash	melee	10	6	3	Shield bash that generates additional threat and temporarily stuns oppenent
	Catch a Breath	heal	16	31		Recovers Morale (and Power with equipped trait)
	Shield Taunt	debuff	22	8		You clash your weapon upon your shield to attract the enemies attention

Drawing the Ire

	Ability	Category	Level	Power Cost	Range	Description
	Shield-Blow	melee		8	3	Shield hit that generates threat
	Vexing Blow	melee	6	5	3	Attack that gains threat
	Challenge	debuff	26	7	7	You taunt your foes to gain threat

Overpowering Assault

	Ability	Category	Level	Power Cost	Range	Description
	Overpower	buff	20			Increases melee damage and power costs
	Force Opening	melee	30	68	3	Strong attack that can open parry chain

Parry and Retaliate

	Ability	Category	Level	Power Cost	Range	Description
	Retaliation	melee	8	3	3	After you parry you can perform a swift attack
	Overwhelm	melee	10	6	3	A powerful attack after Retaliation
	Whirling Retaliation	melee+AoE	14	8	5	You whirl in a circle to attack multiple foes
	Thrust	bleed	18	6	3	After Retaliation, Causes your foe to bleed

Ranged Skils

	Ability	Category	Level	Power Cost	Range	Description
	Let Fly	ranged	30	9	30	Range Weapons

Passive Skills

Armour Proficiencies

	Weapon	Category	Level	Description
	Light Armour		1
	Medium Armour		1
	Shields	Off-hand	1	Increases Armour and Chance to Block
	Heavy Armour		15
	Heavy Shields	Off-hand	15	Increases Armour and Chance to Block

Base Passive Skills

For details see Dwarf, Elf, Hobbit, or Man

Combat Characteristics

	Name	Level	Cost	Description
	Block Rank 1	7	4  90	Adds 1.0% to Block Chance
	Parry Rank 1	9	8  10	Adds 1.0% to Parry Chance
	Accuracy Rank 1	11	12  10	Reduces Miss by a medium amount.
	Critical Rank 1	13	16  90	Adds 1.0% to Critical Hit Chance
	Block Rank 2	17	28  90	Adds 1.0% to Block Chance
	Evade Rank 1	19	36  10	Adds 1.0% to Evade Chance
	Parry Rank 2	21	44  10	Adds 1.0% to Parry Chance
	Accuracy Rank 2	23	52  90	Reduces Miss by a medium amount.
	Critical Rank 2	25	62  50	Adds 1.0% to Critical Hit Chance
	Accuracy Rank 3	29	84  10	Reduces Miss by a medium amount.
	Evade Rank 2	31	96  10	Adds 1.0% to Evade Chance
	Parry Rank 3	33	108  90	Adds 1.0% to Parry Chance
	Block Rank 3	35	122  50	Adds 1.0% to Block Chance
	Parry Rank 4	39	152  10	Adds 1.0% to Parry Chance
	Accuracy Rank 4	41	168  10	Reduces Miss by a small amount.
	Block Rank 4	43	184  90	Adds 1.0% to Block Chance

Instrument Proficiencies

	Name	Level	Cost
	Horn Use	5	2  50
	Lute Use	5	2  50

Misc. Passive Skills

	Skill	Category	Level	Description
	Shield Spike Use		20	Increases shield damage(currently bugged only allows about 10-20 seconds of additional damage)

Weapon Proficiencies

	Weapon	Category	Level	Description
	Daggers	1H	1	Chance to land critical hit
	One-Handed Axes	1H	1	Reduces Enemy's Armour but with increased chance to miss
	One-Handed Clubs	1H	1	Chance to Stun
	One-Handed Hammers	1H	1	Chance to Stun
	One-Handed Maces	1H	1	Chance to Stun
	One-Handed Swords	1H	1	Increases to-hit chance
	Spear	MHO	10	Chance to Wound causing damage over time
	Two-Handed Axes	2H	10	Reduces Enemy's Armour but with increased chance to miss
	Two-Handed Clubs	2H	10	Chance to Stun
	Two-Handed Hammers	2H	10	Chance to Stun
	Two-Handed Swords	2H	10	Increases to-hit chance
	Bows	Ranged	30
	Crossbows	Ranged	30