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In the profile, it states:

Skills Filesxxxxxx│║█║

Weapon skills✔ || Found here ||

Magic / Beast skills [Depending on what Class you pick]✔ || Found here ||

Primary Passive skills✔ || Found here ||

Secondary Passive skills✔ || Found here ||

Basically, heres what it means.

Weapon Skills = The section that says Weapon Skills and Ranged Weapons.

Magic/Beast Skills = The Magic section, and the Beast Skills section.

Primary Passive Skills = Your first choice of General Skill

Secondary Passive Skills = Your second choice of General Skill

You get 15 Points for now, out of those sections for one skill = 1 point, so pick and place. c:

The Skill system in SAO is designed to allow players the ability to uniquely shape their characters. Two parts constitute this system. The first allows players to decide on which skills to take at level one up to five from each category below, in accordance to their class if such skills are selected from weapon-based skills. Players are not restricted to selecting the max five in each list when they start - they may select fewer skills and place more points in them rather than spreading the points out evenly among the allowed limit.

The second part of the system entails the remainder of the game. Level progression allows you to gain more points (five per level) and allocate them as desired. For weapons, more skills will be unlocked as the character reaches a certain milestone (usually levels five, ten, fifteen, etc). The maximum level achievable in SAO is 100, therefore it is possible to select only five skills and have them at max rank by the end game. This is usually ill advised however since such characters bear larger weaknesses than others who are considered "Jack(or Jill)-of-all-trades."

Whichever path the player decides to take, each and every decision from the first skills taken at level one to the specializations or hybridization by the final level, no two players will ever walk the same footsteps. These shape each man or woman into who they become down the road. It's only a matter of which step you'll take when it's your turn to make your own mark in the game.

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Certain skills have a set success rate. To determine the success of it, write the skill you're rolling for and roll a die in the rolling dice thread.

For example:
Guard has a 70% chance to block some damage and a 5% chance to block all damage.

Let's assume you decide to roll a one-hundred sided die. This is what the scenario might be:

If the roll is 1 ~ 5, all damage is blocked.
If the roll is 6 ~ 75, some of the damage is blocked.
If the roll is 76 ~ 100, the skill fails to block any damage.

When a skill reaches level 50, hybrid skills can be unlocked and may be unique to solely that character.

For example:
50 levels in Suina (INT)(Study of pigs) + 50 levels in MedShield(ATK) = Boar Rush - The player charges at an enemy and displaces them backwards a certain distance. Also causes the target to falter for a few seconds.

The skills in SAO are designated in five general categories:

1. Combat Skills: These are the usual forms of fighting utilized and are commonly known on the floors of Aincard.

2. Magic Skills: Though not in the original game, these were implemented in a later version for more options to players.

3. Beast Skills: Along with taming abilities, a branch of zoological studies allows players to study specific types of beasts in the game. This can unlock additional abilities and skills as well as enhance damage and defenses against certain types.

4. General Skills: Basic survival skills players can obtain to improve other abilities.

5. Unique Skills: Skills attained upon reaching level 50. [See below for more information.]

[[Crew reference: Updated 4/7/2015]]