Black Desert How To Use Skill Points

Skill is the most of import factor in gainsay.

In the Black Desert, you can learn more skills as your level goes up. Through monster hunting, and completing quest reward, y'all can learn all the skills since y'all can constantly get Skills EXP points.

However, it is not easy to obtain enough skill points. Equally your level goes upwardly, the kinds of skills yous can learn increase, but information technology is difficult to obtain enough skill points.

In addition, as yous gain skills points, the experience required to become more gradually rises. So nosotros recommend you to find out what kind of skills the character has and which skills will exist useful.

Learning Skills

Skill points needed for obtaining skills can exist basically earned through combats.

Yous can earn a small amount of feel through life skills, or by completing some quests.

There are several ways to learn skill points.

ane. When you are at a level where yous can larn the relevant skill, you volition automatically acquire the first level skill automatically.

2. Open the skill carte du jour (Hotkey K) and left click on the skill you wish to acquire.

3. Talk to skill instructor at a city and learn skills.

※ If you are able to larn skills, click the 'knife and shield crossed' icon.

The number of skills that you lot can learn will be displayed.

▲ The location of the skill instructor that you visited once volition exist displayed on the map.

▲ When you are ready to learn skills, 'knife and an axe crossed' icon will be displayed.

After level 56, when you complete the awakening quest through the Black Spirit, you can use awakening weapon to earn enkindling skills that you can perform stronger attacks with.

You tin can earn awakening skills after completing enkindling quests,

And even if you get a level where you can acquire the skills, first level skill doesn't get learned automatically.

Skill Types

Skills are divided into two types: Active and Passive.

Active skills tin be used via hotkeys or past inserting commands,

And passive skills are skills where the effects can be applied simply by learning it.

Some skills cannot be placed in the quick slot, so it is important to familiarize yourself with commands to agile those skills.

※ In improver, there are hidden commands, and if you lot actuate the skill through subconscious command, it activates in a dissimilar way from existing form.

▲ If the word 'Quick Slot Available' does non show, it tin exist only used through command.

You lot can use most of the skills on horseback.

In guild to have horseback combat, you must put on 'stirrups' on the equus caballus.

The control for skills on horseback might exist a little bit different from being on the ground, and then information technology is useful to read the skill description.

Be cautious when learning skills!

As you gain skills points, the experience required gradually rises equally well. If you learn the skills you can learn correct away, you may have to fight with low-level skills to hunt monsters. Therefore, you need to check what kind of skills your grapheme has and learn them more effectively. Through skill descriptions and videos you can acquire which skill you need to focus on and finish your own skill tree.

Skill Window

Press K on your keyboard to view the Skill window.

In this window, you lot view skill demos on the left-side and the skills themselves on the right-side. Succession, Enkindling, Talent, or Ascension skills can exist accessed from the height-right of the screen once you've completed the respective classes' corresponding quests. However, you can yet view the main, awakening, and skill enhancement categories through ② regardless of whether or not y'all completed the quests.

On the skill demo screen, you lot can read the detailed skill clarification and select the skill icon or the playback push button at the bottom of the skill demo screen to view a video demonstration of the skill. Of class, y'all can also mouse over the skill icon to see the skill description equally well.

If you don't want to see the skill demo screen, you tin toggle it on/off with the "Toggle Skill Demo Screen" button.

You can also playback the skill demos or reset the camera viewpoint with the "Play Skill Demo" and "Reset Camera" button at the bottom of the skill demo screen.

The skill window'south principal weapon skills are divided into main, secondary, and passive skills. Yous can press each categories' championship bar to view or hide the skills.

Left-click a skill icon to learn the skill, and Shift + Left-click a skill icon to larn the skill'southward max level. Characters under lv. 56 can freely reset all learned skills, and yous tin reset an private skill past right-clicking the skill's icon or shift+correct click to reset the skill to level 1.

- The "Black Spirit'south Rage" and "Skill Cooldown Slot" push in the lower-right of the skill window allow yous to disable Blackness Spirit'south Rage for individual skills and fix a skill to appear in the cooldown slots on your combat UI.

Skill Preset

The skill preset is a feature that allows you save your currently learned skills and skill add together-ons. You can get more skill preset slots by using the Skill Preset Coupon. Two Skill Preset Coupons can also be obtained as rewards for completing each character'south Awakening and Succession quest (Talent/Ascension for Shai/Archer).

If you've already completed the Awakening/Succession/Talent/Ascension quest, y'all can have the "[Skill Preset Coupon] Using a Variety of Skills" quest from the Black Spirit to become a Skill Preset Coupon.

The Skill Preset save feature tin be used wherever, whenever, but y'all'll need the Hush-hush Book of Old Moon or a Skill Teacher to load a saved skill preset.

There's a 10 infinitesimal cooldown time if you load a skill preset with a Skill Instructor, and a 1 hour cooldown time with a Secret Volume of Old Moon. In addition, you can only load a skill preset at a Safe Zone when using a Surreptitious Book of Old Moon.

Lastly, your graphic symbol will perform an animation when loading a saved skill preset.

Skill Effect

If you read the skill description, you can run into that many skills take notations of additional effects. These effects enable you to continue the combat in a more than user-friendly and stable manner.

For example, a skill with a 'Down Attack' can cause additional damage if yous employ it afterwards the enemy is down. This is the aforementioned theory with damage increasing when you lot make a BACK Assail at the dorsum of the enemy. Then if you know what skill has which effect, yous can cause even more damage using the aforementioned skill. In add-on to the increasing amercement in certain situations, there is also a style to neutralize the enemy in various forms. You can stun your enemy and so that it can't do anything for a short menses of time, or you can try Down ATTACK event after making it autumn downwardly. By combining these effects, you can defeat your enemies more efficiently.

The following argument indicates the skill effects available in the Black Desert.

BACK Attack

When attacking an enemy from backside, 120% of the impairment is applied. 150% is practical to monsters.

COUNTER Set on

When a monster moves towards you, attacking with a counterattack skill will employ 170% of the damage. This effect only applies to monsters, not to other adventurers.

Down ATTACK

120% of the damage will exist applied to the knock downed enemies. 150% of harm is applied to monsters.

AIR ATTACK

220% of the damage will be practical once using skills with the aspect of 'Air Attack' to airborne enemies. 250% of damage is applied to monsters.

SPEED Set on

120% of the damage is practical when attacking with skills with speed attack properties.

150% of harm is applied to monsters.

※ In the case of certain enemies, the bones state is existence in the air or on the basis.

If y'all are aware of the nature of the enemy, yous can bear an effective combat.

Bound

Information technology is an effect that causes an enemy to bounce off the ground. This effect is practical to downward assault and downward blast.

Knockback

Information technology is the result that pushes the enemy and neutralizes it for a short fourth dimension. It is like to a stiff effect, merely since you can push off an enemy who came nearby and then yous can escape from a threat.

Knockdown

Information technology is an upshot that pushes and knocks downwardly the enemy far away. If monsters or enemies are knocked down, the effect of the downwards attack and down smash effects will be practical as well.

Stun

It is an effect that stuns an enemy and neutralizes it for a curt time.

Potent

Information technology is the effect that stiffens the enemy for a brusque time. Nigh of the skills with stiffness effects are quick to activate and can be useful in situations of urgent gainsay.

Floating

It is an effect that defeats an enemy in the air and makes information technology caught. While the enemy is floating in the air, it is affected by air assail and air smash, after the enemy has fallen to the ground, they are subjected to the outcome of downward attack and down smash.

Grapple

Grapple the enemy and attack. If y'all cannot grapple the enemy, yous volition exist boom your body to enemies and tin can make them stiff and utilize amercement.

Down attack and down smash effects are practical to enemies that are on the ground after a grapple assault.

Down Smash

It is an effect that blow enemies away when applied to enemies who are downward. No text or effects are indicated.

Air Nail

It is an upshot that blows enemies in the air far abroad. No text or furnishings are indicated.

Using skills

You tin use most of the active skills with commands, featuring a dynamic gainsay as a console game.

If y'all want to experience the dynamic and agile control of the game, use commands instead of using skills which are in the quick slot. If y'all want to play the game comfortably, you lot can drag the skills into the quick slot and enjoy the game.

Equally for some skills, using hotkeys and commands might accept slightly dissimilar effects. (When using command, some skills accept faster activation speed)

If you apply command instead of using skills in the quick slot, at that place is also a slight reduction in the consumption of skill avails (WP, MP, SP).

Too, thanks to the smooth combo skills, the charlatan scan experience the real fun of the combats.

Skills which can be used in combo manner will be displayed on the 'Activity Combo Guide' on the right side of your character. By using the gamepad, you tin bask the feeling that matches your gustatory modality through the shortcut key setting.