Proficiencies

Equipment Proficiencies

Effects:

For every 10 points in the respective proficiency (unless otherwise noted):

Armor

• When wearing all CLOTH armor
  • + 0.25% Spell Crit Chance
  • + 0.5% Magical Mitigation
  • + 1 Wisdom

• When wearing all LIGHT armor
  • + 0.25% Attack Crit Chance
  • + 0.5% Resist
  • + 1 Agility

• When wearing all HEAVY armor
  • + 0.5% Crushing/Slashing/Piercing Mitigation
  • - 1 Burden
  • + 1 Endurance

Weapons

• When using ONE-HANDED/SHIELD
  • + 1.5 Physical Base Damage (per 1 point in One-Handed Proficiency)
  • + 0.5% Attack Accuracy (per 10 points in One-Handed Proficiency)
  • + 0.5% Block (per 10 points in Shield Proficiency)

• When using TWO-HANDED
  • + 2.0 Physical Base Damage per 1 point
  • + 0.5% Attack Accuracy
  • + 0.5% Parry

• When using DUAL-WIELD
  • + 2.5 Physical Base Damage per 1 point
  • + 0.5% Attack Accuracy
  • + 0.25% Attack Crit Chance

• When using STAFF
  • + 1.0 Physical Base Damage per 1 point
  • + 0.5 Magical Base Damage per 1 point
  • + 0.5% Attack Accuracy

Weapon proficiencies also increase the chance of the special proc for player's active Fighting Style.

Gaining Equipment Proficiencies:

For Armor:

• When a player is attacked (even if they evade/block/parry, or if the monster misses), an occupied armor slot is randomly chosen for a the chance at a proficiency gain.
• When a player blocks an attack with a Shield, she has an increased chance of gaining One-Handed proficiency.

For Weapons:

• When a player attacks an enemy (even if the monster evades), there is a chance that they will gain proficiency with his active fighting style.
  • Players using the Niten Ichiryu fighting style do not gain proficiency in either Two-Handed or Dual Wielding proficiency even though both are used to determine equipment stats and fighting style procs.
  • Players using a Staff can also gain Staff proficiency by casting Magic Missile.

Magic Proficiencies

Effects:

Magic proficiencies increases:

• The damage caused by spells (Offensive magic and Poison).
  • The formula for calculating this is: Spell damage multiplier = 1 + prof / 200
• The damage caused by Status Effects
• The duration of sustained spells (everything but damage spells and cure).
  • The formula for calculating this is: duration = base_duration * (1 + additional_AP / 4) * (1 + proficiency / 100)
    • Base Durations can be found on the Spells page.

Gaining Magic Proficiencies:

Magic proficiency increases when successfully casting a spell of the specific type.

• Elemental Proficiency can be increased by casting any of the Fire, Cold, Elec, and Wind spells.
• Divine Proficiency can be increased by casting one of the Holy spells.
• Forbidden Proficiency can be increased by casting any of the Soul or Dark spells.
• Deprecating Proficiency can be increased by casting any negative status effect spell on a monster (e.g. Weaken).
• Supportive Proficiency can be increased by casting any positive status spell on yourself (e.g. Shield).
• Curative Proficiency can be increased by casting any health-restoring spell on yourself (e.g. Regen).

Other Notes

• Proficiencies are capped at the player's current level.
• The chance for a proficiency gain decreases as the proficiency approaches the cap. The amount of gain, however, is always chosen at random from one of: 0.01, 0.02, or 0.03.
• Proficiency cannot be gained during the turn the Defend or Focus commands are used or when a player otherwise skips a turn.
• Difficulty has no effect on proficiency gaining.
• Targeted enemy has no effect on proficiency gaining.