Actions: Advanced Concepts

From Library of Aethora

Once you've played around a bit and tried some weapon combinations and seen what possible Actions you get from different combinations, you might start to wonder about the logic going on behind the scenes. Here are some details:

• Every Action is either based on either a single skill or two skills combined (the Action descriptions don't tell you what skills you're using, but you can usually guess)
• Each weapon has a Primary Skill, and some weapons have an additional Secondary Skill (the first skill listed is Primary)
• If an action only takes one skill, you must be wielding a weapon which has that skill as it's Primary skill
• If an action takes two skills, those skills can be Primary or Secondary of either weapon you're wielding

Example: The ice shard, a common weapon in Volum Forest, has Primary Skill: Short Blades, Secondary Skill: Frost. This weapon can be used for single-skill Action: the basic stabbing attack based on the Short Blades skill. It can also be used for a combo attack, called icy blade which uses the Short Blades and Frost skills. It cannot, however, be used for the ice shards attack, as that particular Action is Frost-only and requires a weapon which has Frost as a primary skill. Combine your ice shard with another weapon that has the Air skill, however, gives you an additional attack called chill breath that uses both Air and Frost.

Air and Airwind are two very different for those of you who do not know. They have different actions and abilities, and are nothing alike save the first three letters used to type them.

Related:
Skills
Combat and Actions
List of Actions (spoiler warning)