Skill Masteries

Skill Masteries let you specialize your character beyond the normal skill cap. Once a skill reaches 90, you can learn its mastery from a matching NPC, then level it up by earning XP from hunting (or harvesting and crafting, for the gathering and crafting masteries). Each mastery grants passive perks and a powerful ultimate ability (proc) that triggers randomly in combat.

Skill Masteries are PvM only. Perks and procs never work against other players — they are automatically disabled while you are in PvP combat. This is purely a monster-hunting progression system.

The Basics ↑ top

Every character has:

Each mastery has:

• Perk 1 and Perk 2 — active whenever the mastery occupies one of your two slots.
• Template Bonus Perk — a third perk, only active for the mastery in the template bonus slot.
• Proc (ultimate) — a chance-based super ability, only for the template bonus mastery. Every successful proc also fully heals you.

You can swap which masteries are active at any time; perks switch over immediately.

Learning a Mastery ↑ top

• The skill must be at 90.0 or higher.
• It costs 10,000 gold.
• Right-click the matching NPC and choose the mastery training option:

Earning XP ↑ top

• Killing creatures grants mastery XP based on the creature's loot quality — tougher monsters give more.
• Deep dungeon bonus: kills on dungeon level 2 grant +20% XP, level 3 and boss rooms grant +40%.
• Harvesting (for Mining, Lumberjacking and Skinning masteries): every successful harvest grants XP scaled by the material tier — rarer ores, woods and hides give far more.
• Crafting (for the Blacksmithy, Tailoring, Carpentry and Fletching masteries, 2026-08): every successful craft grants XP scaled by the materials it consumed — more and rarer materials give more XP.
• Town citizenship can grant an additional XP bonus.
• No mastery XP is earned in the newbie areas.

XP is split across your masteries automatically:

If you only have one mastery active, the 25% share is lost — always run two. A mastery that is already at the XP cap absorbs nothing, and its share is lost as well (it is not redistributed). The XP message after a kill shows what you actually received after these losses.

The Skill Mastery window shows these shares directly: the Character Enhancements headline displays "(35%)", and each selected mastery name shows its cut — e.g. "Macing (40%)" for the template bonus mastery and "(25%)" for the second slot.

XP per Level (cumulative) ↑ top

Every level-up grants 1 point to spend on that mastery's perks or proc. Perks and procs each go up to level 8.

Level-Up Items ↑ top

Leveling a mastery costs items in addition to XP. Each mastery has its own color-coded item set; Aether versions are universal and work for any mastery.

	Levels	Cost
	2–7	Mastery Gems (2 at level 2, up to 7 at level 7)
	8–14	Mastery Prisms + Totems (7 Prisms/1 Totem at 8, shifting to 1 Prism/7 Totems at 14)
	15–21	Mastery Totems + Relics (7 Totems/1 Relic at 15, shifting to 1 Totem/7 Relics at 21)

How to get them:

• Gems, Souls and Fragments drop as monster loot (and from gathering procs for the gathering masteries). The gathering versions can also be bought in the citizenship town shop for export points.
• Prisms, Totems and Relics are crafted with Tinkering from gold ingots plus the matching Gem, Soul or Fragment respectively.

The six item types, their colours, the tinkering recipes and the full per-level cost table have their own page: Mastery Gems.

Special Items ↑ top

	Item	Effect
	Mastery Perk Reset Deed	Resets only your spent perk/proc points — levels and XP are kept. Bought from the Vault of Eren Vendor

Base Mastery (Character Enhancement) ↑ top

The Base Mastery levels alongside your skill masteries (it receives 35% of all XP) and uses its own Gems/Prisms/Totems/Relics. Its points buy four passive bonuses, each up to level 8:

How masteries add damage ↑ top

Mastery damage does not multiply your hit — it arrives next to it. Every damage perk measures its percentage from the same unmodified base hit (the swing or spell after your skills and slayers, before armor), and all of those shares land together as one extra packet:

Three consequences worth understanding before you spend points:

• Perks never compound. Each one takes its share of the same base, so nine perks at +10% each add +90% of the hit — not ×1.1⁹. Stacking damage perks is powerful but linear.
• The packet skips armor. Only the main hit is absorbed; against a heavily armored monster the mastery packet becomes an outsized share of what actually lands.
• The Base Mastery bonus is percentage and flat: 8% of the hit + 8 at level 8 (1% and +1 per level), for Melee Damage and Spell Damage alike. On small fast hits the flat part dominates — a level-8 Base Mastery adds more relative damage to a Kryss than to a Halberd.

How the PvM-only rule actually works — three separate gates, with one asymmetry:

So a flagged character fighting monsters keeps the Base Mastery damage packet but loses everything else until the flag drops. The full pipeline around this — where the packet sits between your skills and armor — is drawn on the Weapon Damage page.

The 23 Masteries ↑ top

Each mastery has its own page with per-level numbers, level-8 totals and its ultimate in full.

Arms Lore vs Tactics: these are two separate masteries. Arms Lore is the two-handed and bow specialization; Tactics is the one-handed specialization. (Independently of the mastery, the Arms Lore skill itself also grants a passive swing speed bonus in PvM and PvP alike — 5% faster swings at GM, 6% at 120 — and the skill gains up to 120.)

Perk Details ↑ top

Every perk's per-level value and its level-8 total live on that mastery's own page — see the table above.

Two mechanics are shared across masteries and worth knowing before you pick:

• Charge — shields (Parry) and Grimoires (Magic Resist) build up charge by absorbing damage, over 10 levels, fading after 30 minutes without damage. Both retaliation perks and both active strikes scale with it. The charge table is on the Parry page.
• The crafting quartet (2026-08) — Blacksmithy, Tailoring, Carpentry and Bowcraft & Fletching share one perk structure: a better exceptional chance, stronger magic attribute rolls on crafted gear, and a template-bonus chance that an exceptional craft from colored material comes out a Slayer weapon or armor piece. Their ultimate (the four Fortunes) fires on craft actions — its chance grows with the size of the craft, so a plate chest rolls the full rate while a handful of arrows rolls a fraction — and can refund the full materials, gild armor into a golden part, enchant a weapon with charges, condense bonus Magical Essence, or yield mastery items and true rarities.
• The gathering trio — Mining, Lumberjacking and Skinning share one perk structure and one proc outcome roll, and level from harvesting rather than kills.

Ultimate Abilities (Procs) ↑ top

Only the template bonus mastery's proc can trigger. Every successful proc also fully heals you. Chance shown is per proc level (max level 8).

The three gathering ultimates share one outcome roll (triple yield, material upgrade, or a mastery item) and never fizzle. The full outcome table is on the Mining, Lumberjacking and Skinning pages.

The four crafting ultimates likewise share one outcome roll (a material refund, a golden armor part or charged weapon, Magical Essence, or a mastery item) and never fizzle; their chance scales with the size of the craft. The full outcome table is on the Blacksmithy, Tailoring, Carpentry and Bowcraft & Fletching pages.

Suspected unattended (AFK) gatherers receive no mastery bonuses at all.

Mastery Spells ↑ top

Two enhanced spells belong to the mastery system and pair with the Inscription perk Scribe's Fortitude:

They cannot be scribed or learned: with Scribe's Fortitude unlocked, using a regular Reactive Armor or Magic Reflection scroll automatically casts the greater version instead. The scroll itself stays a normal scroll — it can be traded, stacked, and stored as usual.

Related ↑ top

• Barding — the Musicianship mastery's Virtuoso and Repertoire perks power the bard song system
• Skills Overview
• Mining, Lumberjacking, Skinning
• Blacksmithy, Tailoring, Carpentry, Bowcraft & Fletching · Crafting Overview