Skills

The skill system is significantly different than what many players are used to, and as such you can consider skills with red text to be useless so far as enhancing any damage, or having any effect whatsoever on any related skills.

Skill Descriptions and Considerations

• Alchemy: potion kegs are NOT available
• Anatomy: Gauge the strength and dexterity of a creature. Does NOT provide additional healing bonus or combat damage bonus.
• Animal Lore: Get information about an animal. NOT required to command tamed animals.
• Animal Taming: Dragons require 99 skill to attempt taming.
• Archery: You may shoot while running
• Discordance: this skill did not exist at the launch of UO
• Enticement: this skill is currently unsupported
• Evaluating Intelligence: Gauge the intelligence of a creature. Does NOT provide additional healing bonus or combat damage bonus.
• Healing: Instantly bandage yourself for a small amount of damage. Amount healed scales with your healing skill. 8 second cooldown.
• Hiding: You may cast spells without being revealed until you target.
• Magery: Evaluate Intelligence will not enhance Magery damage. Spells will do 1hp in town. Meditation is unavailable. Metal armors do no affect meditation rate.
• Meditation: this skill did not exist at the launch of UO
• Mining: there are no colored ores to mine.
• Resisting Spells: Spells will do 1hp in town.
• Snooping: Snooping will turn you gray.
• Stealth: this skill did not exist at the launch of UO.
• Tactics: Tactics will increase your melee damage.
• Veterinary: Veterinary works similar to Healing, except on animals.

Skill Guides

Advice from the community on training certain skills

• Animal Taming
• Archery
• Parrying
• Healing
• Provocation
• Magery
• Resisting Spells

Starting Equipment List

Skill	Starting Equipment
Alchemy	mortar & pestle; 4 empty vials; 4 random reagents; red robe
Anatomy	3 bandages; robe
Animal Lore	practice shepherd’s crook; green robe
Animal Taming	practice shepherd’s crook
Archery	practice bow; 25 arrows
Arms Lore	random practice weapon
Begging	practice gnarled staff
Blacksmithy	random tool; brown apron
Bureaucracy/Fletching	materials for 2 bows; shafts and feathers
Camping	5 kindlings; bedroll
Carpentry	carpentry tool; 10 boards; brown apron
Cartography	4 blank maps; sextant
Cooking	3 raw food items; water pitcher; flour sack; 2 kindlings
Detecting Hidden	black cloak
Enticement	random musical instrument
Evaluating Intellect	none
Fencing	practice spear
Fishing	fishing pole; brown floppy hat
Forensic Evaluation	none
Healing	5 bandages; pair of scissors
Hiding	black cloak
Herding	practice shepherd’s crook
Inscription	2 blank scrolls; small blank book
Item Identification	practice gnarled staff
Lockpicking	5 lockpicks
Lumberjacking	practice hatchet
Mace Fighting	practice mace
Magery	spellbook; 5 random reagents; 3 random First Circle scrolls
Mining	practice pickaxe; shovel
Musicianship	random musical instrument
Parrying	wooden shield
Peacemaking	random musical instrument
Poisoning	2 poison potions
Provocation	random musical instrument
Resisting Spells	spellbook
Snooping	4 lockpicks
Spirit Speak	black cloak
Stealing	4 lockpicks
Swordsmanship	practice long sword
Tactics	none
Tailoring	sewing kit; 4 folded cloths
Taste Identification	3 random potions
Tinkering	set of tinker parts; set of tinker tools; brown apron
Tracking	practice skinning knife; brown boots
Veterinary	5 bandages; pair of scissors
Wrestling	pair of leather gloves