Skill Masteries

Skill masteries are the top tier of skill progression — a set of powerful per-skill abilities unlocked once your skill is high. Almost every combat, magic, and bardic skill has its own mastery, and a few support skills (even Animal Taming) do too. This is a Time of Legends feature, and our shard runs EJ, so masteries are live.

Learning a mastery: primers and volumes

Each skill’s mastery comes in three volumes (Volume = One / Two / Three). You learn them from Mastery Primers — books that each teach one volume of one skill (SkillMasteryPrimer): double-click a primer to learn that volume. Learning higher volumes raises your mastery level in that skill, unlocking and strengthening its abilities.

Where primers come from:

• Champion spawns and peerless bosses drop them as rewards (alongside power scrolls).
• A few high-end encounters (certain High Seas bosses, the Time of Legends quest line) award them too.
• Bard masteries are earned through the dedicated Bard Mastery quest line (the knights Berran, Felean, and Hareus).

Using a mastery: one at a time

You can have only one mastery active at a time. Pick your current mastery from the mastery menu (SelectMasteryGump sets CurrentMastery) — choosing one of the skills you’ve learned volumes in. Only that skill’s mastery abilities are then available to you; switch masteries to change your active toolkit. Mastery strength scales with the volumes learned and your skill level.

What each skill gets

A sampling of the signature mastery abilities by role (MasteryInfo):

Role	Skill	Mastery abilities
Bard	Provocation	Inspire, Invigorate (party damage/heal buffs)
	Peacemaking	Resilience, Perseverance
	Discordance	Tribulation, Despair
Caster	Magery	Death Ray, Ethereal Burst
	Mysticism	Nether Blast, Mystic Weapon
	Necromancy	Command Undead, Conduit
	Spellweaving	Mana Shield, Summon Reaper
	Chivalry	Rejuvenate, Holy Fist
Warrior	Swordsmanship	Onslaught
	Fencing	Thrust, Pierce
	Mace Fighting	Stagger, Toughness
	Archery	Flaming Shot, Playing the Odds
	Parrying	Shield Bash
	Bushido / Ninjitsu	Warcry / Shadow, White Tiger Form
Tamer	Animal Taming	Combat Training (buffs your pet)

Bardic masteries (Inspire/Invigorate especially) are the classic group-PvM force-multiplier — which is why a mastery bard is prized at champion spawns and peerless fights. Caster and warrior masteries add burst abilities and survivability tools that a non-mastery character simply can’t match.

See also

• Champion Spawns — the main source of mastery primers (and power scrolls)
• Peerless Bosses — also drop primers
• Skills index — the underlying skills you’re mastering
• Provocation · Magery — two of the strongest mastery skills