Skills

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In Everquest 2, you have a number of skills, which determine how well you perform the various actions in the game. You learn skills by performing the appropriate actions; in most cases, you can raise the skill to 5 times your current adventure or tradeskill level. Your current skill levels are shown in the Skills Window

Adventure

Adventure skills are used in melee combat and for casting spells. These are practiced while fighting in the world. They are classed as Combat (melee), Spellcasting, and Avoidance skills.

Combat	Crushing	how well you use hammers, maces, staves, and even your own fists.
	Fists	allows you to use your fists in combat.
	Focus	how well you maintain your concentration in battle; helps you cast spells while under attack.
	Piercing	how well you use daggers and spears.
	Poisoning	how well you apply and use poisons (rogues and predators).
	Ranged	how well you use bows and thrown weapons.
	Slashing	how well you use all types of edged swords and axes.
Spellcasting	Disruption	how well you cast damage dealing spells.
	Ministration	how well you cast healing and curative spells.
	Ordination	how well you cast spells that augment your friends or weaken your enemies.
	Subjugation	how well you cast spells that command pets and control others.
Avoidance	Defense	how well you avoid physical attacks.
	Deflection	an additional chance to avoid physical attacks (brawler)
	Parry	how well you ward off physical attacks with your weapons.

Tradeskill

In addition to harvesting skills, which everyone starts out with, anyone who begins a tradeskill career gets a whole array of skills. There is a skill for each of the nine final tradeskill classes and a set of four "artisan" skills used with the recipes used to make interim components for final recipes.

Harvesting	Fishing	how well you catch fish.
	Foresting	how well you find and harvest different kinds of lumber.
	Gathering	how well you gather herbs, flowers, and other small plants.
	Mining	how well you mine for ore and minerals.
	Trapping	how well you catch small game animals.
Artisan	Binding	how good you are with weaving recipes.
	Geocraft	how good you are with geomancy recipes.
	Thaumatury	how good you are with apothecary recipes.
	Woodcraft	how good you are with timbercraft recipes.
Craftsman	Artistry	how good you are with provisioner recipes.
	Fletching	how good you are with woodworker recipes.
	Sculpting	how good you are with carpenter recipes.
Outfitter	Metal Shaping	how good you are with armorer recipes.
	Metalworking	how good you are with weaponsmith recipes.
	Tailoring	how good you are with tailor recipes.
Scholar	Artifacing	how good you are with jeweler recipes.
	Chemistry	how good you are with alchemist recipes.
	Scribing	how good you are with sage recipes.

Utility

Utility skills are those other skills you use while out and about in the world.

General	Disarm Trap	how well you disarm the dangerous effects of a trap.
	Safe Fall	how well you reduce damage taken in a fall.
	Swimming	how well you swim in water.
	Tracking	how well you find monsters or creatures within an area.
Language	a list of each language you have learned; you start with common and your racial language.