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Miscellaneous Skills

Essential utility, social, and specialized skills that don't fit other categories but are crucial for success in New Dawn.

Utility Skills

Healing

Use bandages to restore health.

Effects:

  • Heal yourself or others
  • Cure poison (requires Anatomy)
  • Resurrect (requires Anatomy)

Training:

  • Bandage yourself when wounded
  • Heal during combat
  • Practice on training partners

Requirements:

  • Bandages (created via Tailoring)
  • Anatomy skill improves effectiveness

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Essential for most builds)

Camping

Create campfires for rest and recovery.

Effects:

  • Create campfire
  • Faster HP/Stamina/Mana regeneration near fire
  • Logout instantly at fire

Training:

  • Use kindling and campfire kit
  • Make fires repeatedly

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐ (Helpful for hunters)

Cartography

Read and decode treasure maps.

Effects:

  • Decode treasure maps
  • Find treasure chest locations
  • Improved map accuracy

Training:

  • Decode maps repeatedly
  • Higher level maps at higher skill

Pairs Well With: Lockpicking, Mining

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐ (Great for treasure hunters)

Forensic Evaluation

Determine cause of death and investigate.

Effects:

  • Examine corpses for information
  • Detect criminal acts
  • Identify killer

Training:

  • Use on corpses
  • Examine crime scenes

Importance: ⭐⭐ (Niche use)

Taste Identification

Detect poison in food and identify potions.

Effects:

  • Identify potion type without using
  • Detect poisoned food
  • Reduced poison duration

Training:

  • Taste different potions
  • Examine food items

Importance: ⭐⭐ (Limited use)

Resource Gathering

Fishing

Catch fish and other treasures from water.

Yields:

  • Fish (food source)
  • Treasure (special items)
  • SOS messages
  • Sea creatures

Training:

  • 0-30: Dock fishing
  • 30-50: Shore fishing
  • 50-70: Deep sea fishing
  • 70-100: Rare fish, sea serpents

Requirements: Fishing pole

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Good money maker)

Stealth & Thievery

Hiding

Become invisible to others.

Effects:

  • Become hidden from view
  • Can be revealed by Detect Hidden
  • Breaks on action
  • PvP escape tool

Training:

  • Use skill repeatedly
  • Success depends on surroundings
  • Dungeons give better gains

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Essential for stealth builds)

Stealth

Move while hidden.

Requirements:

  • Hiding skill
  • Must be hidden first

Effects:

  • Move without revealing
  • Speed depends on skill
  • Armor weight affects success

Training:

  • Move while hidden
  • Light armor improves success

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Essential for stealth builds)

Snooping

Look in other players' containers.

Effects:

  • View another player's backpack
  • Fails may reveal you as criminal
  • Required for stealing

Training:

  • Snoop NPC vendors
  • Practice on NPCs

Importance: ⭐⭐ (For thieves only)

Stealing

Take items from others.

Effects:

  • Steal from NPCs
  • Steal from players (if allowed)
  • Weight limit based on skill

Training:

  • Steal from NPCs
  • Practice in thief guild

Importance: ⭐⭐ (Thief template only)

Warning: Criminal activity - expect consequences!

Detect Hidden

Reveal hidden players and objects.

Effects:

  • Reveal hidden players
  • Find hidden objects
  • Counter to Hiding/Stealth

Training:

  • Use in areas with hidden players/objects
  • Dungeons work well

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐ (Useful in PvP)

Lockpicking

Open locked containers.

Effects:

  • Open locked chests
  • Unlock treasure chests
  • Open doors without keys

Requirements:

  • Lockpicks (made via Tinkering)

Training:

  • Practice on locked chests
  • Tinker lockable boxes to practice

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐ (Essential for treasure hunters)

Remove Trap

Disarm trapped containers.

Effects:

  • Disarm traps on chests
  • Prevent trap damage
  • Required for treasure hunting

Training:

  • Tinker trapped boxes
  • Disarm repeatedly

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐ (Essential for treasure hunters)

Animal Skills

Animal Taming

Control and command creatures.

Effects:

  • Tame wild animals
  • Control powerful pets
  • Command pets in combat

Training:

  • 0-30: Small animals (rabbits, hinds)
  • 30-50: Bears, bulls
  • 50-70: Great harts, white wolves
  • 70-90: Hell cats, dragons
  • 90-100: Ancient wyrms, dragons

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Essential for tamer build)

Taming Tips

  • Start with easy creatures
  • Have animal lore for better control
  • Veterinary to heal pets
  • Be patient - taming takes time!

Animal Lore

Understand and evaluate creatures.

Effects:

  • View creature stats
  • Determine pet loyalty
  • Better pet control
  • Required for pet training

Training:

  • Use on animals and monsters
  • Passive gains during taming

Pairs Well With: Animal Taming, Veterinary

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Essential for tamers)

Veterinary

Heal pets and animals.

Effects:

  • Heal pets with bandages
  • Cure poisoned pets
  • Resurrect dead pets (high skill)

Requirements:

  • Bandages
  • Animal Lore helps

Training:

  • Heal damaged pets
  • Heal during pet combat

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Essential for tamers)

Herding

Control groups of animals.

Effects:

  • Direct animal movement
  • Herd multiple creatures
  • Keep animals grouped

Training:

  • Use crook on animals
  • Practice in pastures

Importance: ⭐⭐ (Limited use)

Tracking & Detection

Tracking

Locate creatures and players.

Effects:

  • Track nearby creatures
  • Find specific monster types
  • See direction and distance
  • Locate hidden players

Training:

  • Use skill repeatedly
  • Track different creature types

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Very useful for hunters)

Arms Lore

Evaluate weapon and armor quality.

Effects:

  • Identify equipment quality
  • Better repair success
  • Estimate damage/protection
  • Determine durability

Training:

  • Use on weapons and armor
  • Examine player equipment

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Important for crafters and fighters)

Item Identification

Identify magical properties on items.

Effects:

  • Reveal magic properties
  • Determine item value
  • See remaining charges

Training:

  • Use on unidentified items
  • Visit dungeon for magic items

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐ (Useful for all)

Bard Skills

Musicianship

Required for all bard abilities.

Effects:

  • Prerequisite for other bard skills
  • Improves bard ability success
  • Instrument mastery

Training:

  • Use instruments repeatedly
  • Macro playing instrument

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Essential for bards)

Peacemaking

Calm aggressive creatures.

Effects:

  • Make creatures non-aggressive
  • Area peace effect
  • Pause combat temporarily

Requirements:

  • Musicianship
  • Instrument

Training:

  • Use on aggressive monsters
  • Practice in dungeons

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Great for bards)

Provocation

Make creatures fight each other.

Effects:

  • Force two creatures to fight
  • Excellent for hunting
  • Safe monster farming

Requirements:

  • Musicianship
  • Instrument

Training:

  • Practice on weak monsters first
  • Progress to stronger creatures

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (One of the best PvM skills)

Discordance

Weaken a creature's abilities.

Effects:

  • Lower creature stats
  • Reduce damage dealt
  • Easier to kill tough monsters

Requirements:

  • Musicianship
  • Instrument

Training:

  • Use on various creatures
  • Higher skill needed for tough monsters

Importance: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Very useful for bards)

Specialized Templates

Treasure Hunter

  • Cartography: 100
  • Lockpicking: 100
  • Remove Trap: 100
  • Mining: 100
  • Magery: 100
  • Meditation: 100
  • Resisting Spells: 100

Bard Archer

  • Archery: 100
  • Musicianship: 100
  • Provocation: 100
  • Peacemaking: 100
  • Tactics: 100
  • Anatomy: 100
  • Healing: 100

Stealth Thief

  • Stealing: 100
  • Hiding: 100
  • Stealth: 100
  • Snooping: 100
  • Lockpicking: 100
  • Detect Hidden: 100
  • Magery: 100

Master these diverse skills to become a versatile adventurer!