Proficiencies

Equipment Proficiencies

Weapon proficiencies increase the chance of the special proc for player's active Fighting Style. It also gives additional fighting skills.

The following effects are per 1 point in their respective proficiency but all benefits require the related ability to be active and slotted as well as the player only wearing the related equipment.

Bonus	Min/Max Prof	Amount
Weapon
One-Handed
+Physical Damage	0/???	2 / 3 / 4
+Physical Accuracy	50/???	1% / 2%
+Block Chance	250/???	2.5%
Two-Handed
+Physical Damage	0/???	2 / 2.5 / 3
+Parry Chance	250/???	1% / 2%
Dual-Wielding
+Physical Damage	0/???	3 / 4 / 5
+Physical Accuracy	50/???	1% / 2%
+Physical Critical Chance	250/???	2.5%
Niten Ichiryuu
(See Two-Handed and Dual-Wielding)
Staff
+Spell Damage	0/???	0.2 / 0.4 / 0.5
+Spell Accuracy	50/???	1% / 2%
+Physical Damage	0/???	3
Armor
Cloth
+Spell Accuracy	200/???	5%
+Spell Critical Chance	0/???	1% / 1.5% / 1.8% / 2.1% / 2.5%
+Spell Casting Speed	150/???	1.5% / 2.5%
+Mana Points	0/???	5% / 6% / 7% / 8% / 9% / 9.5% / 10%
Light
+Physical Accuracy	0/???	5%
+Physical Critical Chance	0/???	1% / 1.5% / 1.8% / 2.1% / 2.5%
+Physical Attack Speed	150/???	1.5% / 2.5%
+Health & Mana Points	0/???	HP: 2.5% / 3.5% / 4.5% / 5.5% / 6.5% / 7% / 7.5% MP: 2% / 2.5% / 3% / 3.5% / 4% / 4.5% / 5%
Heavy
+Crushing Mitigation	0/???	2% / 4% / 5%
+Piercing Mitigation	0/???	2% / 4% / 5%
+Slashing Mitigation	0/???	2% / 4% / 5%
+Health Points	0/???	5% / 6% / 7% / 8% / 9% / 9.5% / 10%

Gaining Equipment Proficiencies

For Armor:

• When a player is attacked (even if they evade/block/parry/absorb/resist, or if the monster misses), an occupied armor slot is randomly chosen for the chance at a proficiency gain.
• When a player blocks an attack with a shield, they have 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 their 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.

Magic Proficiencies

Effects

Magic proficiencies increases:

• The damage caused by spells.
  • The formula for calculating this is:

Spell Damage Multiplier = 1 + (prof / 200)

• The damage caused by status effects.
• The duration of sustained spells.
  • Base durations can be found on the Spells page.
  • The formula for calculating this is:

Spell Duration = base_duration * (1 + additional_AP / 4) * (1 + prof / x)

• For supportive spells x = 100, for deprecating spells x = 50.
• The amount of HP recovered from curative spells.

Gaining Magic Proficiencies

Magic proficiency increases when casting a spell of the specific type even if it misses. The chance of gaining proficiency when using a spell is directly tied to the cost of the spell compared to the player's base magic points. Spells auto-casted via Innate Arcana can give an increase each turn that they are kept active.

• Elemental Proficiency can be increased by casting any Fire, Cold, Elec, or Wind spells.
• Divine Proficiency can be increased by casting any Holy spells.
• Forbidden Proficiency can be increased by casting any Dark spells.
• Deprecating Proficiency can be increased by casting any negative status effect spell (e.g. Weaken).
• Supportive Proficiency can be increased by casting any positive status spell (e.g. Haste) or any health-restoring spell (e.g. Regen).

Gains

• The rate at which proficiency is gained can be increased via Assimilator training at +10% per rank trained, up to a maximum of double the normal rate.
• The chance for a proficiency gain decreases as the proficiency approaches the cap. The amount of gain however, is always chosen at random to be: 0.01, 0.02, or 0.03.
• Proficiencies cannot be gained during the turn the Defend or Focus commands are used or when a player otherwise skips a turn.
• Difficulty and monster classes have no effect on proficiency gains.

Effective Proficiency

• Effective proficiency can be seen on the right-side scroll section of the character page.
• Base proficiencies are capped at a player's current level. However, bonus proficiency points on equipment allow players to exceed their cap.

See also

• Fighting Styles