Category:Weapon Skills
Weapon Skills are main hand or ranged weapon-specific combat commands that require a character have 1000 TP or more to execute. All of a player's TP in consumed, with the amount consumed modifying the attributes of the Weapon Skill, be it damage, status effects on the player or the player's target, etc. There are 3 main types of weapon skill: physical, magical and unique to Horizon, hybrid.
Learning Weapon Skills
Most Weapon Skills are learned when a player's combat skill with a particular weapon type reaches the necessary level for that Weapon Skill.
Some Weapon Skills are tied to certain jobs whereas others are unlockable via quests. Consult the lists below for individual requirements.
Relic Weapons
Relic Weapons have unique Weapon Skills associated with them that may only be used when wielding a Stage 4 (In Dynamis Only) or Stage 5 weapon. Weapons dropped in Abyssea areas also unlock relic weapon skills but only when the requirements of their latent effect have been met.
Mythic Weapons/Ergon Weapons
Mythic/Ergon Weapons, like Relic Weapons, grant job-specific Weapon Skills to their wielder. These Weapon Skills can also be unlocked via a job-specific Unlocking a Myth quest.Empyrean Weapons
Empyrean Weapons grant weapon skills that can also be unlocked via corresponding Walk of Echoes Weapon Skill Trials.
Exclusive Weapon Skills
Exclusive Weapon Skills are only available to certain jobs when used as Main Job or Support Job once the required combat skill threshold has been reached. For example, you must have WAR, MNK, THF, NIN, PUP, DNC as your main or support job to use Combo. WHM/BLM may not use it even with merit points in the Hand-to-Hand Combat Skills category.
Trial Weapon Skills
These skills are unlocked via quests involving unlocking the latent abilities Trial Weapons as part of a quest. Players may also use these by equipping Stage 4 or higher Ambuscade Weapons regardless of quest completion.
Automaton
Automaton Weapon Skills are Frame-dependent and activate based on the Maneuvers set by its master.Campaign Weapon Skills
Participation unlocks 3 unique weapon skills tied to a specific weapon that may only be used during Campaign:
- Uriel Blade. Sword Weapon Skill. Requires Griffinclaw.
- Glory Slash. Sword Weapon Skill. Requires Lex Talionis.
- Tartarus Torpor. Staff Weapon Skill. Requires Samudra.
Skillchains
Skillchains are activated when 2 or more party members combine their weapon skills in quick succession. Below is a list of each skillchain and their respective properties and further below is a list of weapon categories and their associated skillchain properties.
Level 2 Skillchains | ||||
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Liquefaction | → | Impaction | = | Fusion |
Distortion | → | Fusion | = | Fusion |
Induration | → | Reverberation | = | Fragmentation |
Gravitation | → | Fragmentation | = | Fragmentation |
Detonation | → | Compression | = | Gravitation |
Fusion | → | Gravitation | = | Gravitation |
Transfixion | → | Scission | = | Distortion |
Fragmentation | → | Distortion | = | Distortion |
Level 3 Skillchains | ||||
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Fusion | ← → | Fragmentation | = | Light |
Gravitation | ← → | Distortion | = | Darkness |
Light | ← → | Light | = | Light II |
Darkness | ← → | Darkness | = | Darkness II |
Skillchain Properties by Weapon
Click on the weapon type to show the skillchain properties of its weapon skills.
[Archery] - [Axe] - [Club] - [Dagger] - [Great Axe] - [Great Katana] - [Great Sword] - [Hand-to-Hand] - [Katana] - [Marksmanship] - [Polearm] - [Scythe] - [Staff] - [Sword]
Pages in category "Weapon Skills"
The following 112 pages are in this category, out of 112 total.
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- Savage Blade
- Scourge
- Seraph Blade
- Seraph Strike
- Shadowstitch
- Shark Bite
- Shell Crusher
- Shield Break
- Shining Blade
- Shining Strike
- Shockwave
- Shoulder Tackle
- Sickle Moon
- Sidewinder
- Skewer
- Skullbreaker
- Smash Axe
- Spinning Attack
- Spinning Axe
- Spinning Slash
- Spirit Taker
- Starburst
- Starlight
- Steel Cyclone
- Sturmwind
- Sunburst
- Swift Blade