====== Ultima Online Skill List ======

In **Ultima Online**, there are **58 official skills** that dictate your character's abilities. Unlike standard MMOs with rigid classes, UO Horizon lets you mix and match these skills up to a total skill cap of **840 points**.

The official skills are categorized below by their general gameplay groups.

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===== Combat & Martial =====
These skills determine how well you hit, damage, defend, and heal during physical combat.

  * **Anatomy:** Increases physical damage and improves the healing skill.
  * **Archery:** Accuracy and use of ranged weapons (bows and crossbows).
  * **Fencing:** Accuracy and use of thrusting weapons (daggers, spears).
  * **Healing:** Allows the use of bandages to heal, cure, and resurrect others.
  * **Mace Fighting:** Accuracy and use of blunt weapons (maces, staffs); drains enemy stamina.
  * **Parrying:** Chance to block incoming attacks with a shield or weapon.
  * **Swordsmanship:** Accuracy and use of bladed weapons (swords, axes).
  * **Tactics:** Directly increases the raw damage dealt by your physical attacks.
  * **Throwing:** Gargoyle-only skill for ranged throwing weapons (boomerangs, axes).
  * **Wrestling:** Hand-to-hand combat; prevents you from being easily interrupted while casting spells when unarmed.

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===== Magic & Mystical =====
These skills govern spellcasting schools, mana management, and magical potency.

  * **Bushido:** The honorable combat magic school used by Samurai.
  * **Chivalry:** Holy magic used by Paladins for buffs, heals, and sacred attacks.
  * **Evaluating Intelligence:** Increases the damage and effectiveness of Magery spells.
  * **Focus:** Passively regenerates Stamina and Mana (great for non-mages/warriors).
  * **Imbuing:** Gargoyle-centric skill used to unravel magical items and add properties to gear.
  * **Magery:** The classic, core 8-circle wizardry spell school.
  * **Meditation:** Rapidly regenerates your Mana pool.
  * **Mysticism:** Gargoyle-themed school focusing on raw elemental power and summoning.
  * **Necromancy:** Dark magic focusing on curses, raising the undead, and horrific transformations.
  * **Ninjitsu:** The stealth combat magic school used by Ninjas.
  * **Resisting Spells:** Lowers the duration and damage of hostile spells cast on you.
  * **Spellweaving:** Nature-based, cooperative magic school that gets stronger with more casters.
  * **Spirit Speak:** Allows you to understand ghosts, heal using nearby corpses, and boosts Necromancy damage.

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===== Trade & Crafting =====
The backbone of the UO economy. These skills let you gather resources and craft items.

  * **Alchemy:** Brewing potions (heal, cure, poison, explosion, etc.).
  * **Arms Lore:** Evaluates weapon/armor quality; grants crafting bonuses to exceptional gear.
  * **Blacksmithy:** Smelting ore and crafting metal armor and weapons.
  * **Bowcraft & Fletching:** Crafting bows, crossbows, and arrows.
  * **Carpentry:** Crafting wooden furniture, add-ons, and weapons (includes //Glassblowing// and //Stonecrafting// at higher levels).
  * **Cartography:** Deciphering treasure maps and creating world maps.
  * **Cooking:** Preparing food and specialized magical recipes.
  * **Inscription:** Scribing magic scrolls, spellbooks, and runebooks.
  * **Lumberjacking:** Gathering wood from trees; provides a damage bonus when using axes in combat.
  * **Mining:** Smelting and digging for iron ore, colored ore, and granite.
  * **Tailoring:** Crafting cloth and leather clothing/armor.
  * **Tinkering:** Crafting tools, keys, traps, jewelry, and mechanical objects (like Golems).

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===== Bardic =====
Musicians who control the battlefield through song. All bard skills require a high Musicianship skill to work.

  * **Discordance:** Lowers an enemy's stats and resistances using music.
  * **Musicianship:** The base skill required to successfully play instruments.
  * **Peacemaking:** Calms aggressive creatures, stopping combat temporarily.
  * **Provocation:** Incites two creatures to fight each other instead of you.

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===== Thieving & Stealth =====
For those who prefer to operate from the shadows or take what isn't theirs.

  * **Detecting Hidden:** Reveals hidden players, thieves, or floor traps.
  * **Hiding:** Allows you to vanish from sight while standing perfectly still.
  * **Lockpicking:** Opening locked chests, dungeon boxes, and treasure chests.
  * **Poisoning:** Applying infectious poison to bladed weapons or food.
  * **Remove Trap:** Safely disarming traps on chests or in dungeons.
  * **Snooping:** Peeking inside another player's or NPC's backpack.
  * **Stealing:** Taking items from NPCs, monsters, or other players' backpacks.
  * **Stealth:** Allows you to walk around completely invisible after successfully using Hiding.

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===== Wilderness & Animals =====
Skills associated with surviving the wild, tracking targets, and taming beasts.

  * **Animal Lore:** Inspects a creature's stats; required to command high-level pets and improves Veterinary.
  * **Animal Taming:** Befriending wild creatures (from horses to Dragons) to fight for you.
  * **Camping:** Building campfires to safely log out in the wilderness instantly.
  * **Fishing:** Catching fish, magical messages in a bottle, and fighting sea monsters.
  * **Herding:** Forcing animals or monsters to move to a specific location.
  * **Tracking:** Detecting the direction of nearby players, monsters, or animals.
  * **Veterinary:** Using bandages to heal, cure, and resurrect bonded pets.

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===== Miscellaneous / Utility =====
Niche skills that offer flavor, roleplay, or highly specific utility.

  * **Begging:** Asking NPCs for gold or items (or getting unique holiday gifts).
  * **Forensic Evaluation:** Examining corpses to see who killed them, or finding thief footprints.
  * **Item Identification:** Historically used to reveal magical item properties (now mostly used for item valuation).
  * **Taste Identification:** Detecting poison in food or drink, or identifying potions without drinking them.