Skills

Extra Skills TableEdit

After customizing your characters at the Training School, you can choose from a list of skills that are either restricted to certain classes, or available to everyone. Passive skills are those that are activated by chance, automatically, outside or at some point in battle, while Active skills are skills that have to be activated while in or out in battle, and will cost Skill Points to use or the effects decline per use/battle.

Name	Meaning
Brace	Survive once when taking fatal damage. Once per battle, survive lethal damage with 1 HP. Ineffective against instant kill attacks.
Stronghold	Reduces encounter rate. When drawn in battle, party members will remain composed. Party ranks are not disturbed by enemy pull (skills).
High Magic Source	Prevents barrier, chance of effecting multiple characters. Prevents barrier; chance increases with multiple characters.
Spirit Contract	Strengthens your spells. Strengthens fire, ice and lightning type magician spells.
Magic Essence	Ignores enemy magic resistance.
Healing Moment	Using tents has the same effect as resting at inns.
Hand of Kindness	When casting a healing spell, a large amounts of HP will be restored. Ensures healing spells restore at least 20% of max HP.
Curse	Chance to inflict fear status on enemies.
Pass-along Theft	Thief only. When stealing an item, if the thief cannot carry any more items, an ally will take it.
Find Treasure	Treasure chests can appear in random encounters. It should be noted that most encounters in the game are not random encounters, thus limiting the value of this skill.
Tackle	Chance to prevent enemy auto-recovery at the end of the enemy turn.
Avenge	Attacks enemy when ally is defeated. [1]
Restore Magic	Chance to restore MP when casted upon. When casted upon, chance to negate the spell and recover a level 1 spell cast.
Divination	Servant, Bishop, Alchemist. Displays spell information on item screen, also shows ore crafting. Displays item details, curses, and ore quality. (or item alchemy info?) Also guarantees that mined ores are useful, eliminating the chance of Rock.
Mysterious Bag	Sends excess alchemy to the Alchemy Storehouse. Sends extra items to the Alchemy Storehouse.
Imitate	Copy enemy move. Imitates enemy attacks, limited to normal attacks, spells, breath attacks, and barriers. If an attack can't be imitated, character guards instead.
War Rite	Raises ally attack power. Only lasts for turn in which it is used.
Chi Wave	Does non-attributed damage to one enemy.
Drunken Fist	When inflicted by poison, user's damage increases.
Sun's Blessing	Restores HP when walking during sunny and at midday.
Shout	Chance to inflict "Fear" status to all enemies.
Song of Healing	Song that heals all party members at the end of the turn. Increases in power each time used.
Song of Destruction	Song that damages the enemy at the end of the turn. Increases in power each time used.
Song of Protection	Song that reduces damage. Increases power each time used.
Song of Hope	Song that restores status. Increases its power each time used.
Oracle	Shaman only. Experience points and money received after battle may change.
Spirit Pact	Summoner only. Forms Contract with monster.
Master Therion	Summoner only. Summons contracted monster, during summoning, allies cannot take action. Summoner cannot move for three turns.
Level Drain	Lowers your opponent's level.
Absolute Barrier	Cleric, Lord. Puts all concentration into defense and nullifies an enemy attack.
Counterattack	Upon receiving a surprise attack from an enemy, damage inflicted on enemies increases from first turn onwards.
Nocturnal	Increases your damage at night.
Swallow Killer	Can attack without Swallow Return. Performs a normal attack and prevents Swallow Return.
Replica	Ninja only. Summons a copy of yourself.
Last Stand	As your party members drop, defense increases.
Cruelty	The higher your HP, the higher your attack power.
Glutton for Punishment	The lower your HP, the higher your attack power.
Mark of Ruin	Attack power increases dramatically, but your HP decreases at the end of your turn. Furthermore, healing treatment will not work.
Bless +	When blessed, power will not decrease.

Occupation Skills Edit

These are skills that come in with the class chosen.

Name	Meaning
Mage Spells	Can learn magician spells.
Mage Spells'	Learns magician spells. Learning speed is somewhat slow.
Mage Spells''	Learns magician spells. Learning speed is slow.
Cleric Spells	Can learn cleric spells.
Cleric Spells'	Learns cleric spells.
Dispel	Undoes the curses of ghosts and immortal-type monsters.
Holy Physical Attack	Can attack ghost-type enemies with a weapon.
+1 Thief Skills	Discovering secrets, hiding, surprise attacks. Discrening traps and disabling traps are all now possible.
Alchemy spells.	Can learn alchemy spells.
Forging	Can match weapons with ores at the Alchemy Storehouse and strengthen them.
Transmutation	Can match ores together at the alchemy storehouse to make transmutated items.
Treatment	Medicine placed in the medicine pouch can be used automatically in battle at the end of your turn.
Herbology	Using a Magic Herb restores 1 MP. Can also restore depleted SP, draw rate and barrier skills.
Identification	Can assess items.
Pursuit	If a bow is equipped, the character can perform another attack on an enemy that has been inflicted with a negative status.
Thief Skills	Same as Thief Skill +1. However, the success rate is lower than Thief Skill +1.
Lower AC	AC is lowered according to level, with the exception of one part, the effects of equipped items will not be displayed.
Group Attack	There is a 50% chance of a second attack. On the third attack, there is a chance to destroy enemy defenses and land a clean hit.
Tarot	Can draw a tarot cart.
Instrumental	Can use a musical instrument.
Barrier	Create a barrier to deiflect enemy spells.
Summon Spell	Can learn summon spells.
Special Resistance Up	Depending on level, increases resistance to enemy special attacks
Dual wielding	Main weapon can also be equipped as a sub.
Improved Beheading Rate	Depending on level, beheading rate increases.
Vigilance	Chance to prevent enemy pre-emptive attacks and automatically hide at the start of battle.

Mastery Skills Edit

These are skills that are given after reaching a certain level.

Name	Meaning
Physical Attack Power UP+1	Depending on level, physical attack damage drastically increases.
Physical Attack Power UP	Depending on level, physical damage increases.
Magic Spell Power UP+1	Depending on level, magician spell power drastically increases.
Magic Spell Power UP	Depending on level, magician spell power increases.
Alchemy Power UP+1	Depending on level, alchemy spell power drastically increases.
Alchemy Power UP	Depending on level, alchemy spell power increases.
+1 Magic Power	Depending on level, spell power drastically increases.
Magic Power UP	Depending on level, spell power increases.
Soul Release	Receive experience for defeating enemies with dispel.
Equipment Removal	Can take possession of enemy items.
Disassemble	Items forged by the blacksmith can be returned to their original state.
High Purity Synthesis	When forging or transmuting, higher value materials can be made.
Apothecary	Doubles amount recovered from using a magical herb.
Pursuit Sweep	The target for pursuit increases to all enemies.
Combatitive Instinct	Depending on level, rate of clean hit increases.
Alter Fate	Reduce Tarot card draw success decline.
Ancient Rites	Talisman-type items can be equipped as armour.
Blood Oath	Depending on the summoners level, summoned monsters abilities increase.
Holy Lance Art	Lances wielded with both hands can be equipped as main weapon.
Court Sanctuary	Divides your special reduction rate among your party members (if the skill owner is a summoned monster, it will not take effect.
Surprise Attack	When unarmed, attack range becomes limitless.

Enemy Skills Edit

Name	Definition
Sacrifice	Sacrifice yourself to fully restore allies. Can be used only once per battle. Even ashen characters can be revived.
Unclean Earth Job Monster Dirty Round	During combat, restorative spells cannot be cast.
Torrent of Darkness	Adventurers receive double damage.
Dragon's Roar	Adventurers receive triple damage.
Dark Region Wind	Adventurers receive five times damage.
King's Proof	Renders instant death penalties ineffective so long as health remains above half of maximum.
Restore	Chance to cure negative status (non-naturally removing)
Summon Judgement	Kill summoned monster instantly.

Effects and Occupation Edit

Passive skills are those that are activated by chance, automatically while in a dungeon or in a battle, while Active skills are skills that have to be chosen to activate, and will cost Skill Points to use. The effects decline per use/battle. There are skills which are restricted to certain classes, as well.

Monsters that are recruited sometimes get randomized skills; there are devilish exclusive skills and those that are randomly given as they arrive in the Tavern.

Name	Class	Active	Passive	SP	Battle	Camp
Brace	All, De
Stronghold	All
High Magic Source	All
Spirit Contract	All
Magic Essence	All
Hand of Kindness	All
Curse	All
Pass-Along	All
Find Treasure	All
Tackle	All
Avenge	All
Restore Magic	All
Divination	Al, Se, Bi
Mysterious Bag	All
Imitate	All
War Rite	All
Chi Wave	All
Drunken Fist	All
Sun's Blessing	De
Shout	All
Song of Healing	All
Song of Destruction	All
Song of Protection	All
Song of Hope	All
Oracle	Sh, De
Spirit Pact	Su, De
Masther Therion	Su, De
Level Drain	All
Sacrifice	De
Absolute Barrier	Lo
Counterattack	All
Nocturnal	De
Swallow Killer	All
Replica	Ni, De
Last Stand	All
Cruelty	All
Glutton for Punishment	All
Mark of Ruin	All
Bless+	All

DisclaimerEdit

Differing in-game descriptions are in bold, while normal text are the official manual's description. Some of these have been updated with more detailed or differing descriptions from the Japanese wiki or through first-hand player experiences are in italics. Game version changes and mistranslations are possible, so edit the page or make a comment if you can confirm or refute the correct description.

Trivias Edit

Hilariously, the JP wiki says Avenge throws the party member's corpse at the enemy, so it does not work when the character is turned to ash. The skill is listed as JOB_EX_SHITAI_THROW in the game files, "shitai" meaning corpse in Japanese. Curse is shouting swear words at the enemy.
Unclean Earth is called Monster Dirty Round.
Gluttony for Punishment and Cruelty is called Masochism and Sadist respectively in the files.
Brawlers have group attack, which is called rengeki or combo attack in Japanese.
In the files, Tea Time and Banking are there, which is a left over of the Servant/Maid class in Elminage Original. Servant is listed as Herbalist and acts more as one in the files.

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