Skills & Leveling

Introduction

In The Doors of Trithius, your character grows stronger by leveling up both their character level and their individual skills.

Let's start with character levels. Your current character level is seen in the character side pane:

Gaining Wisdom

As with many RPGs, you gain experience by doing things: killing monsters, crafting, completing quests. In Trithius, this experience is called wisdom, and it fills your XP bar.

You can see your progress toward the next level on your hotbar:

Leveling Up

When your Wisdom reaches 100%, your character gains a level and earns a Skill Point:

Skill points are especially useful, because they can be used to unlock a new skill, or level up any existing skill, regardless of its current level, and permanently boost that skill's XP gain.

To spend your skill points, you'll need to use a bed. Beds can be found in every town, and often in dungeons too. You can sleep whenever you like, even banking multiple skill points for later.

Skills Types

There are three categories of skills:

Weapons Masteries: Weapon skills like Blades, Bludgeons, Ranged, Polearms. Most weapon types have two associated skills, a parent and a child.

General Skills: Skills like Cooking, Medicine, and Quartermastery.

Magic: Works like general skills, but often requires more investment to unlock and use effectively.

Skills of each type have similar mechanics, and gain experience through use. However, to level up these skills you'll first have to discover them.

Discovering Skills

Depending on what you selected during character creation, you'll likely have one or more skills already unlocked. To gain more, you'll need to discover them through gameplay.

Each skill has an associated action (sometimes more than one) you can do in game to discover them. For example, using a stove will discover the Cooking skill.

You'll bump into them naturally while playing, just by exploring and interacting with the world. To see your discovered skills, check the skills pane. Hover your mouse over the text to see the full list:

Discovering a skill doesn't make it usable right away. You'll need to unlock it with a skill point the next time you sleep.

Progression: Undiscovered → Discovered → Unlocked

Skill XP

There are two ways to level your skills:

• Spend skill points (earned from character levels)
• Use the skill actively during gameplay

Each time you use a skill, you gain a small amount of XP toward it. For example, cooking food grants Cooking XP; repairing gear grants Quartermastery XP.

Some examples:

Skill	XP Gain
Cooking	Cooking food.
Enchanting	Enchanting or disenchanting items.
Quartermastery	Crafting, salvaging, or repairing armor and weapons.
Medicine	Crafting medicine or applying medicine to wounds.
Alchemy	Crafting potions.
Chivalry	Using chivalry abilities in combat.

Over time, your skills will naturally improve just by playing. Then, when you level up, you can invest skill points to level them even further.

Xp Log

To view recent XP gains, select the XP Log tab in the notification window. It shows all Wisdom and Skill XP gains, and will also tell you if XP was not gained and explain why.

Skill Trees

Summary

Trithius uses a mixed system of character levels and skill-based progression.

Skills:

• Skill: Each skill has its own XP and a skill tree with unique abilities.
• Skill XP: Earned by using the skill in-game. As skills level up, they gain Focus Points used to unlock nodes in their tree.

Character Levels:

• Wisdom: Character experience, gained from most actions (combat, crafting, etc.).
• Character Level: Increases when you gain enough Wisdom. Each level grants 1 Skill Point.
• Skill Point: Can be spent on any unlocked skill, or to unlock a newly discovered one. Investing skill points also boosts that skill’s XP gain and raises its soft cap.

To level up and spend your skill points, sleep in a bed.

What's Next?

This guide is still in progress, with several more parts to come.

For now, you should have everything you need to dive in and start playing.