Below, you’ve got the option to find the complete list of all skills.
We have also added information on how to use them in the game.
General information about skills
What are the differences between active and passive skills?
Active skillsare those that have a real use during your playthrough.
Note - make a run at distribute skill points evenly between active and passive skills.
Don’t focus only on one category because abilities from both groups are useful in different situations.
Active skills
The table below features all active skills available inPillars of Eternity 2 Deadfire.
Some of the more important skills are Athletics, Mechanics, Stealth and Arcana (for mages).
Skill name
Use
Alchemy
Directly linked with using proper herbs, different enemy body parts etc.
Allows your character to brew and use poisons, potions or drugs.
Arcana
In combat, it has an impact on Power Level of a spell casted via a scroll.
Athletics
Your character gets access to Second Wind skill which can be used once per a battle.
This skill restores health points.
Explosives
Has an impact on using bombs and other pyrotechnical devices during combat.
Having a high level of this ability nullifies a risk of unfavorable rolls, pre-ignitions etc.
Mechanics
Allows your character to open locks and disarm traps.
Also, a character with this skill can place their own traps.
In conversations and during events on the map, this skill influences activation and deactivation of various machines.
Sleight of Hand
Determines how well you might pickpocket someone.
Besides that, it also controls your chances of succeeding at putting something into others' inventories.
Passive skills
The table below features all active skills available inPillars of Eternity 2 Deadfire.
There are more passive skills than the active ones.
Information about the skill
Bluff
Affects the ability to use different bluffs during a conversation.
Diplomacy
Useful when you want to negotiate or to solve various conflicts.
History
Gives you knowledge of history and cultures of different in-game races.
Insight
Allows you to expose real intentions of your interlocutors, their lies and hidden reasons.
Intimidate
Use it to intimidate other characters while you are talking with them by using extortion, blackmail etc.
Religion
Gives you knowledge about different religions and beliefs present in the game’s world.
Streetwise
A so-called “street know-how” which can be useful when you are meeting with unsavory types.
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