Ability Book
Ability Books are special consumable items that drop primarily from monsters, dungeons and elite challenges, with some exceptions. By consuming a book or ‘learning’ an ability, the player has permanent knowledge of that ability.
There are abilities for all three combat styles, defensive abilities and team support abilities which may or may not require the use of runes, ranged ammo, and/or particular weapon types.
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Splash an enemy with acid, heavily reducing their defenses. | Fallen Academy | |
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Splash your enemies with acid, heavily reducing their defenses. | Fallen Academy | |
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Release a hellish wave of sulfuric flames to destroy nearly everything in its wake. Magic of this scale may destroy the entire enemy party, but the incredibly long incantation time leaves the caster wide open to counter attacks. | Barrows Cache | |
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Tear at the enemy armor, reducing its effectiveness. | Overgrown Woods | |
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Fire a barrage of explosive projectiles into the midst of your enemies, allowing you to deal an extreme amount of damage to multiple targets. | RFI | |
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Bandage the lowest HP member of your party to heal them for 300 health over 15 seconds. | RFI | |
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Channel your life force to deal a massive amount of typeless damage. | RFI | |
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Channel your life force to deal a massive amount of typeless damage. | RFI | |
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Grants the owner the ability to summon City Guards as reinforcements in combat. You should probably feel a little guilty if you bring them into a fight they cannot survive. | RFI | ||
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Wait, where did you go? Makes you harder to hit but does not inherently decrease your threat generation. | RFI | |
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Let loose a mighty swing to strike up to two enemies at once! Due to having to cleave through two enemies, this attack deals slightly less damage than a single target attack. | RFI | |
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Target the enemy movement with a crushing strike. Applies Rooted 1, decreasing target agility by 10% or 20, whichever is higher. | RFI | |
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Use the weight of your weapon to crush your target. | RFI | |
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One shot, one kill. Fire a well placed arrow at an enemy's weakspot. | RFI | |
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Increase the defenses of an ally at the expense of your own. | RFI | |
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Harness a ball of fire to throw at your enemies. Not a good idea to play catch with. | Barrows Cache | |
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Fire an intense gout of flame! | Barrows Cache | |
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Barrage your enemies with a burst of ice. Is this Ancient Magic? | RFI | |
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Launch a magically hardened ice into your opponent to deal an impressive amount of piercing and ice damage. | Barrows Cache | |
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Temporarily encase yourself in a shell of magical ice, increasing protection, resistance, and defensive ice affinity at the cost of agility. Melts very quickly! | RFI | |
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An impaling attack that can hit up to 2 enemies at once. | RFI | ||
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Actually, you're probably closer to just a little translucent, but if you claim to be invisible to sound cooler, that's okay too. | Barrows Cache | |
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Target the enemy movement with a slashing strike. Applies Rooted 2, decreasing target agility by 20% or 20, whichever is higher. | RFI | |
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Target the enemy movement with a stabbing strike. Applies Rooted 1, decreasing target agility by 10% or 20, whichever is higher. | RFI | |
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Fire a distraction shot and retreat from the frontline temporarily, significantly reducing your threat. | RFI | |
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Sets several traps that significantly reduces agility of an enemy if they are hit by it. | RFI | |
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Sets a trap that significantly reduces agility of an enemy if they are hit by it. | RFI | |
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Use the blade of your weapon to slash at your target. | RFI | |
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Use the tip of your weapon to stab your target. | RFI | |
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Taunts the enemy, significantly increasing your threat level. | RFI | |
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Release powerful magical energy and let the physical world fall away; enter a trance where the winds of magic are revealed to you, increasing your intellect by 50%, but decreasing your protection and resistance by the same amount. This state cannot be maintained for long! | RFI | |
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Quickly fire up to three arrows at the enemy party! Inherently incredibly inaccurate. | RFI |
RFI: Requires further information
Consider all drop locations as requiring further citation. Visit the scroll's article page for acquisition details.
Uses
If an ability is already learned, then the book in question can not be consumed. As ability books are not currently tradeable in the Marketplace, they can be sold to the npc vendor, burned for Heat, or sometimes researched for their Runic Dust.