Skills and Leveling

Skills & Leveling

Overview

• Skills control various aspects of your character’s performance, such as combat, trading, leadership, and crafting.
• Skills gain experience through use.
• The speed of skill gain depends on the number of Focus Points (FP) and Attribute Points (AP) invested.
• Every 25 levels unlocks perks that grant additional bonuses.

Skill Cap

• The soft cap is approximately 330 with 10 attribute points and 5 focus points in a skill.
• The hard cap is 1023.
• You can exceed the soft cap via high XP events (e.g. selling large trade goods) or mods/cheats.

How to Level Each Skill

One-Handed / Two-Handed / Polearm

• Based on damage dealt, especially overkill damage.
• Maximize by fighting at full speed (e.g. mounted sprint attacks).
• Smithing high-damage weapons can help.

Bow / Crossbow / Throwing

• Earn XP through hits, ideally on horseback.
• Headshots and long-range attacks boost XP.

Riding

• Use ranged weapons while mounted for maximum gain.

Athletics

• Fight on foot in tournaments and battles.

Crafting

• Smith high-damage or high-value weapons.
• Completing smithing orders is effective.
• Harpoon javelin heads and mahogany handles are efficient.

Scouting

• Spot hideouts and parties.
• Travel through forests and maintain high-level scouting skill to gain XP passively.

Tactics

• Give effective orders in battle.
• XP gain is based on your troops’ performance under your command.

Roguery

• Pillage caravans and sneak into towns.
• Best XP comes from prison breaks.

Charm

• Vote on kingdom policies or fiefs.
• Successfully barter with nobles.
• Donate high-tier prisoners (rulers, lords).
• Convince nobles to join your faction.

Leadership

• Lead large armies.
• Recruit base-tier troops and upgrade them.
• Rotate troops between garrison and army to repeat upgrades.

Trade

• Buy/sell trade goods in bulk — high profit = high XP.
• Horses, food, wool, and flax are efficient.

Steward

• Assign yourself as Quartermaster.
• Stay in settlements or lead large parties with diverse food types for best morale bonus.

Medicine

• Assign yourself as Surgeon.
• Recruit disposable troops, starve them near fief, then heal.

Engineering

• Build and operate siege engines.
• Damaging enemy engines or walls during sieges earns the most XP.

Education System (Children)

• When your children age, you can guide their development at specific stages.
• Each stage allows you to choose bonuses to attributes and skills.
• On the third page of each education stage, bonuses are semi-random.
• You can reroll these by saving the day before the birthday.
• Children receive more attribute and focus points than wanderers or lords.

Skill Reset

• Visit an Arena Master in any town to reset your own or a companion’s skill points.