Skills Mount And Blade Warband
Mirthe Luria
A skill grants an ability or buff to a character or a party. The level of the skill determines its potency. Each of a character's skills can be increased from level 0 to level 10. There are 24 skills.
Each skill has a base attribute. A character's level of a skill cannot surpass one third of their level in its base attribute (except through the use of Books). For example, Tactics has Intelligence as its base attribute; if Intelligence is level 9, Tactics cannot surpass level 3. For players, initial skill levels are dictated by your character's background and may exceed this limitation.
The party skill bonus is applied even if you are the person with the highest rank in the skill. So if you have a rank of 8 in Tactics, then the effective level of the skill for the party is 8 + 3 = 11.
When a character levels up they are granted a skill point (characters are ready to level up when they have a '+' next to their name). To assign a player's character's skill points use the 'Character' screen. To assign a companion's skill points:
Increases your base running speed, either making a lightly encumbered character run faster than normal, or letting a heavily encumbered character move at normal speed. This skill also improves a unit's overland speed on the map if they are not mounted, improving the average speed of the party they are part of. Encumberance has a much larger effect than this skill is able to overcome at higher weight levels, meaning completely unarmored Looters can still outrun an extremely heavily armed and armored man or woman on foot even if he or she has 10 points in this skill.Noticeably increases movement speed in Viking Conquest.
If the player character has a sufficient level in a party skill, a bonus will be awarded. If the party's highest skill is not from the player character, the member who has the highest level in that skill will determine the party skill base value, while the player character's level will grant level bonuses according to the chart:
Finally, higher Power Draw makes powerful bows easier to use by improving your accuracy and the time you can keep your aim steady while the bow is drawn, though this cannot overcome having a low proficiency with bows.
A single point in Tracking and hunting allows you to see tracks left by other parties on the world map. Additional points let you spot tracks from a greater distance and make each track reveal more information as well as last longer before fading.
Considering the 3 battle-related party skills - Surgery, First Aid and Tactics -, the player's ability to participate in battle is crucial, because without you, it will automatically become an autocalc-battle in which these skill effects are bypassed. Apart from that, companions contribute to the entirety of each battle round that started while they were conscious, regardless if they actually participate or if they get knocked out in the meantime. As long as they can regenerate enough hitpoints before the next round via First Aid, their aforementioned party skill bonuses will continue to apply. In the beginning, it may be suggested to order your companions to stay out of battle (talk to them to see the option) to ensure that your party gets the bonuses they provide all along. But eventually, with a high First Aid skill, that will no longer be a problem.
The Looting skill works a little differently as it does not get bypassed by autocalc battles. Which means that the loot from the dead enemy units gets processed at the end of the battle (for more info, read Leonion's posts here: ,348755.msg8353561.html#msg8353561). As such, in order to get more loot, the skill contributor needs to have enough hp left after the battle (First Aid helps when knocked out) to not count as a wounded unit.
The remaining party skills - Wound Treatment, Engineer, Trade, Spotting, Tracking and hunting, Path-finding - apply continously on the world map or inside scenes as long as you or the given skill contributor is not too wounded.
Putting points into this skill increases the amount and improves the quality of loot you receive after a battle. Especially useful when fighting Noldor troops, as you can get Reinforced versions of Noldor armor this way. It also increases the chance of rarer drops such as Demon Chargers. Note that presence of companions in your party as well as a total number of troops in your party affects the amount of loot you get at the post-victory screen.
After the total value loot deserved is calculated, random items from the troops that have been defeated will be looted, until their total value reaches the deserved total. The quality of the item and the modifier it has (if any) will affect each item's value towards reaching the total.
Since 3.9.0, it also helps you from retaining lords whilst they are captured and in your party as prisoners (before it was a flat chance). Chances were changed for all, party, garrisoned and garrisoned in a fief with prison tower (chances for them escaping are rolled every 2 days):
Note that to be asked for a rescue, every day there's a 5% chance the kingdom offers a more generous sum for the freedom of the vassal/monarch. Still due the new high escape chances, until a high Prisoner Management skill is reached, it is suggested to talk to the vassal and give them freedom for whatever they offer.
However, the biggest buff to the skill is the improved chances of capturing enemy lords and unique spawns by 5%, from 40% at 0, up to a max of 90% capture chance at lvl10. Extremely useful, it is generally regarded as the one of the highest priority skills mid-game.
Has turned out to be nerfed, as now the town/castles/villages upgrades rely on the skills of the steward/village elder, not on yours. The skill is still useful to reduce siege time. With 14 engineering, a ladder takes less than an hour to settle, a siege tower takes only 6 hours.
This mod aims to turn Calradia (Warband's native world) into a fantasy one by adding several fantasy races, weapons, magic, monsters and new factions and cities.The mod is currently an open beta so there is still much to do and polish, but it is quite fun.
Different spells and spell types when used take up one of your four weapon slots. Depending on the type of spell it is depends on which weapon slot it uses. When choosing a thrown spell to cast it will take over your 2nd weapon slot in your inventory. The Shield spell will take the 3rd weapon slot, and the Magical weapon summons *like the Cleric's Spiritual Hammer* will take the fourth slot.
This means that a wizard will have 3 slots to put weapon or other items into their equipment if they only use thrown spells. Depending on the different variations of spells you like to use will determine how many slots of weapons you will have available. A high level wizard that uses thrown spells, shield summoning, and weapon conjuring, will only have their first slot available as a personal weapon of choice, but they will be able to throw magic spells, conjure magic weapons, and summon a shield to supplement this. You can mix and match to your liking and as you acquire new abilities, or to the variation of battles. One siege you may want to use a heavy board shield rather than summoning a shield so as to conserve mana!Party Morale and Good vs. Evil
In Phantasy the party morale system has been slightly changed to better suit the heavily D&D inspired world. With the addition of new factions and races a form of role-playing was done to reform the party morale system to best indicate a form of alignment. If you have a group of Blazing Hand troops, a faction solely dedicated to the destruction of the undead and demons, then it would make sense that harboring any undead or demons would heavily affect the party's morale. Below is a list indicating which factions and units, when mixed, can cause party morale problems.
These are red armies which are bands of units that appear on the map, sort of like high level bandits with better loot! The "red armies" do scale a little bit. They have a minimum and maximum number for each troop type that scales automatically with the character level, so they should get bigger and tougher the more the main character grows. They are all, except for the undead army and the unholy knights, of the outlaw faction so relations with the outlaws may suffer, but that isn't usually a big deal. The other two parties are members of the free undead faction, same as all free roaming undead. They are another kind of outlaw, except they will be hostile towards other outlaws.
There are no special rewards except the treasures every encounter may carry, that is, not only equipment, but for instance unholy knights and greedy dwarves may carry gems that are quite valuable. These "red armies" will spawn throughout the world, and if you notice the notification it can give you an idea of where to look!
The "horde event" is supposed to happen only once after a week of game time, it will strengthen the orcs considerably and it should make them powerful enough to get some Sarranid and Khergit towns or castles. All other factions get a troop boost after a game day, not as large as the orc one, but it will help them survive in case they go to war against a native faction.
NEW! Faith Skill: Faith is a newly added skill for all the clerics (and your player!). The skill will be a representation of what level "divine" abilities the cleric/paladin is able to cast. There are now 4 cleric/paladin skills usable in the prayer book. *The spoiler directly underneath will give the mechanics behind how the flame strike divine spell works, and the spoiler underneath the "An in-depth look" will explain all the new mechanics of Faith and Magic spells.
Right now you need a faith level of 5+ to cast Flame Strike (this also applies for all cleric npcs). The level of your faith skill and the armor of your enemy are factored in when determining damage by faith*8 - armor score. The flame strikes will cast every once in a while, the check is every 25 seconds, but first there's a 1d8 roll and on a 1-3 result it fires. This is all subject to change as testing progresses. Be EXTREMELY CAREFUL when you have 5 faith skill. The casting animation of the spell causes you to raise your shield and sword which leaves you vulnerable to attack especially missile fire which will get you killed quickly in sieges.
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