Guardian Skills

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Classes	Bu	Ca	Ch	Gu	Hu	Lm	Mi	Rk	Wd
Skills	Bu	Ca	Ch	Gu	Hu	Lm	Mi	Rk	Wd
Traits	Bu	Ca	Ch	Gu	Hu	Lm	Mi	Rk	Wd

Contents 1 Active Skills 1.1 A Strong Offence 1.2 Ready for Anything 1.3 Block and Counter 1.4 Drawing the Ire 1.5 Overpowering Assault 1.6 Parry and Retaliate 1.7 Ranged Skils 2 Passive Skills 2.1 Armour Proficiencies 2.2 Base Passive Skills 2.3 Combat Characteristics 2.4 Instrument Proficiencies 2.5 Misc. Passive Skills 2.6 Weapon Proficiencies

Active Skills

A Strong Offence

	Ability	Category	Level	Recovery Time	Range	Description
	Sting	Melee	1	6.2s	3	A quick attack that will lightly wound your opponent.
	Guardian's Ward	Melee	1	3s	3	Your great skill enables you to strengthen your defences for a short time.
	Sweeping Cut	Melee+AoE	2	9s	5	Large sweeping strokes cut into all of your foes standing before you.
	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.
	Charge	Buff	48	3m		You charge into the fray.

Ready for Anything

	Ability	Category	Level	Range	Description
	Guardian's Defence	Buff	4		Increases Block Percentage by 5.0%, Partial Block Migitation by 5%, Partial Block Chance by 2.5%, and -5% Shield Wear from Blocks. This is the main Tank stance for guardians and is designed for using a shield. See the "Drawing the Ire" skills for other Tank specific skills.
	Guardian's Parry	Buff	12		Increases Parry Percentage by 5.0%, Partial Parry Migitation by 5%, Partial Parry Chance by 2.5%, and -5% Weapon Wear from Parries. This is an intermediate stance between Guardian's Defence and Overpower. The skills in "Parry and Retaliate" are designed for this stance.
	Guardian's Pledge	Buff	20		Briefly increases Evade, Parry and Block by 50%
	Protection	Buff	24	25	Allows you to increase your ally's defensive stats while gaining any parries or blocks that they make
	Summon Tinker	Melee	26		Summons repair merchant at a camp site fire. Note that this repair is more expensive and should only be used for broken items in emergency.
	Thrill of Danger	Buff	28	10	Restores power by an amount multiplied by the number of enemies nearby. Max number of enemies: 3
	Warrior's Heart	Buff	30		Increases Max Morale and instance self-heal. Lasts for 1 minute.
	Deep Breath	Melee	34		Eliminates cooldown of Warrior's Heart, Guardian's Pledge, and Thrill of Danger
	Turn the Tables	Melee+Debuff	36	3	Removes any negative combat states (except roots and cowering from Dread) and stuns the enemy for 5s. Starts a Fellowship Manuoever if possible.
	Guardian's Promise	Melee	38		Creates a whistle which allows people in your fellowship to summon you to their side.

Block and Counter

These are the Tank moves that are designed mostly for shield wearers. These should work well while in Guardian's Defence stance.

	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	After a successful Shield-Swipe, you bash an enemy with your shield drawing attention to yourself and temporarily stunning the enemy for 3s.
	Catch a Breath	Self-heal	16	31		Recovers Morale (and Power with equipped trait) after a Block.
	Shield Taunt	Taunt	22	8		You clash your weapon upon your shield to attract the enemies attention.

Drawing the Ire

These are the Tank moves that generate extra threat on your enemies. Generally you should be in Guardian's Defence stance when you use these.

	Ability	Category	Level	Power Cost	Range	Description
	Shield-Blow	melee	1	8	3	Shield hit that generates threat
	Vexing Blow	melee	6	5	3	Attack that gains threat
	Challenge	debuff	26	7	7	All affected foes are forced to attack you for a short period of time, generating some threat.
	Fray the Edge	debuff	40	60	25	Ranged Taunt. Increases chance of FM. Stacks.

Overpowering Assault

These are for highest damage. Overpower is a highest damaging Stance for Guardians.

	Ability	Category	Level	Power Cost	Range	Description
	Overpower	Buff	20			You put away your shield and focus on overwhelming attacks. +15% Melee damage, +30% Melee skill power costs, -5% Evade chance, -5% armor damage on Parries, Cannot equip shield
	Force Opening	Melee	30	68	3	A powerful strike that opens up a Parry Response on a successful hit.

Parry and Retaliate

These skills are intermediate between pure tank and pure damage. They are designed to work best with the Guardian's Parry stance.

	Ability	Category	Level	Power Cost	Range	Description
	Retaliation	Melee	8	3	3	After a parry, you can perform a swift attack.
	Overwhelm	Melee	10	6	3	A powerful attack after Retaliation. Stuns on a crticial hit.
	Whirling Retaliation	Melee+AoE	14	8	5	You whirl in a circle to attack multiple foes (up to 5). Gathers threat from fellowship members to guardian.
	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	Powerful ranged attack

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
	Evade Rank 4	50	250	Adds 1.0% to Evade 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