Skill Mastery

Skill Mastery are special abilities available only to those who have trained above 90 in a skill. Originally introduced in Publish 66 for bard skills, they were expanded to many other skills in the Ultima Online: Time of Legends expansion. Each skill has three abilities that vary in three intensity tiers. You need to obtain a Book of Masteries and the appropriate Mastery Primer for each skill. A special title is granted to each mastery which can be selected from the skills section of the Title Menu.

Book of Masteries

		Enchanted Summoning	While the magery, necromancy, spellweaving, or mysticism mastery is active the magic user receives a buff to stamina regeneration and summoned creature's hit point based on skill and mastery level.

Animal Taming

Title: The Beastmaster

|   |   | Combat Training | 40 Mana | The animal tamer readies their pet for battle allowing the tamer to add combat abilities to their pet based on animal taming skill, animal lore skill, and mastery level (unhides the caster). | | --- | --- | --- | --- |

Archery

Title: The Exact

|   |   | Playing the Odds | 25 Mana | The archer’s party members rally for them with increased swing speed and hit chance as the archer’s range is decreased, has a chance to apply a lower defense debuff to targets within 5 tiles of casting. Party member buffs are based on the archery and tactics skill of the archer along with the mastery level. | | --- | --- | --- | --- |

Bushido

Title: The Disciplined

|   |   | Warcry | 40 Mana | The samurai unleashes a warcry that will reduce incoming damage from targets within a radius based on the samurai’s bushido skill, best weapon skill, and mastery level. | | --- | --- | --- | --- |

Chivalry

Title: The Courageous

|   |   | Holy Fist | 50 Mana | The paladin unleashes a flying fist against a target that has a chance to slow its target that can be resisted and does energy damage based on the paladin’s chivalry skill, best weapon skill, and mastery level. A bonus to damage is provided by high karma as well against undead targets. | | --- | --- | --- | --- |

Discordance

Title: The Desponder

		Despair	This is a bard spellsong which will reduce the target's strength (4-16 to 22 at 4x Legendary) and periodically (every 2 seconds, 5-11 rounds to 14 at 4x Legendary), inflict damage on the target (9-36 damage to 48 at 4x Legendary. Against a player character with 70 damage resist = 14 damage) as long as the target remains in range, and the bard has enough Mana to sustain the effect. The damage inflicted is proportional to the bards Discordance and Musicianship skills and in PvM its 1.5 times more for NPCs and 3 times more with Slayer instruments. This spell song is affected by the target's Magic Resistance. The type of damage is selectable through the context menu on your Book of Bard Masteries (cannot be changed while ability is active).

Fencing

Title: The Needle

|   |   | Pierce | 20 Mana | The fencer executes a piercing move on their opponent causing a stamina debuff and stamina drain on the victim based on the fencer’s fencing and tactics Skill, and mastery level. | | --- | --- | --- | --- |

Mace Fighting

Title: The Crushing

|   |   | Toughness |   | Ethereal Blast |   | Mystic Weapon |   | Conduit |   | White Tiger Form |   | Heightened Senses |   | Perseverance |   | Injected Strike |   | Invigorate | Strength, Intelligence and Dexterity increased by 8 (base) +2 for each complementary skill at 120 up to 14 at 4x Legendary. Hit Points increased by up to 20 +2 for each contemplary skill at 120 up to 26 at 4x Legendary. All party members are healed every 4 seconds by 4-16 (base) up to 22 HP at 4x Legendary. | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

Spellweaving

Title: The Mysterious

Spellweaving Masters will receive one bonus Arcane Focus per Spellweaving Mastery level. Arcane Focus still caps at 6 strength bonus. Spellweaving Masters are able to cast Arcane Circle alone but will not receive circle bonuses.

		Summon Reaper		Focused Eye		Called Shot		Fists of Fury	20 Mana	The wrestler attempts to land three hits in rapid succession to the next target that damages you within a 2 tile radius. If successful the third hit will deal direct damage based on the wrestler’s mastery level. The duration of this ability is based on wrestling skill and anatomy skill or evaluating intelligence skill.