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Combat Skill indicates the proficiency a job has with the use of weapons and equipment pertaining to that skill. It is used in equations to determine accuracy and damage, typically by being compared to the enemy's own combat traits. Using abilities that relate to a combat skill may grant a skill increase with that skill.

Combat Skills and Magic Skills are stats that are natural to a character's job—they both go hand-in-hand as they are all used to battle mobs in one way or another.

There is a cap to each skill depending on the class and their proficiency with said skill. As your job level goes up, the cap rises as well.

Certain jobs excel at some skills, while other jobs excel at others. Make sure you know what skills your job excels at and raise them to reach the maximum potential of your character.

The amount of attack and accuracy you gain by equipping a weapon using a particular skill is directly proportional to the Combat Skill level.

Job Skill Ranks

Skill Caps

Combat Skill Level Chart

Skilling Up

Combat and magic skills are traditionally raised by using the skill on monsters or allies of an appropriate level for your skill.

• For weapons, attack or perform physical weapon skills.
• For defensive combat skills, perform the defensive action (e.g., blocking, evading, or parrying), or simply get hit by an attack that is eligible to be blocked, evaded, or parried.
• For offensive magic skills, cast spells on an enemy.
• For supportive/healing magic skills, cast on yourself or other players (target level doesn't matter).
  • Healing magic can also be cast upon undead for skill ups, similar to offensive magic.
• For summoning skill, summon an avatar or use Blood Pact: Rages and Blood Pact: Wards
• Some magic skills include both offensive and supportive/healing magics and can be skilled up in multiple ways.

To work out the minimum level mobs required for skill ups, follow these steps:

• 1. Using the job skill ranks table, identify the rank of the skill for your job.
• 2. Note your current skill level, and follow the appropriate row in the skill caps tables for your rank, moving up in levels until you reach the level where the skill cap exceeds your current skill level.
• 3. That level is the minimum level required of mobs for you to gain any skill ups with that particular job and particular skill.

Example 1:
Lv 70 RDM skilling up dagger, dagger skill is currently at 150.

• Using the job skill ranks table, RDM's dagger rank is "B".
• Since the rank is B, we'll look at the B+/B/B- row for Lv 1-60, and the B row for Lv 61-80 in the skill caps tables.
• Moving along the B+/B/B- row, skill level 150 is first exceeded at Lv 51 (which has a skill cap of 151).
• So a Lv 51 mob would give the RDM skill ups on dagger, but only until 151 skill, mobs higher than Lv 51 are needed to continue skill ups.
• In order to cap off dagger skill at Lv 70 (which would be 228 for the Lv 70 RDM), he'll need to fight Lv 70 mobs or higher.

Example 2:
Lv 70 BLM skilling up dagger, dagger skill is currently at 150.

• Using the job skill ranks table, BLM's dagger rank is "D".
• Moving along the D row, skill level 150 is first exceeded at Lv 54 (which has a skill cap of 154).
• So at minimum, a Lv 54 mob is needed for the BLM to skill up dagger.
  • Note the same Lv 54 mob would allow the Lv 70 RDM to skill up dagger until 166, since RDM's dagger rank is B.
• In order to cap off dagger skill at Lv 70 (which would be 201 for the Lv 70 BLM), he'll also need to fight Lv 70 mobs or higher.

Note that:

• In order to cap any skill, you must fight Even Match or higher targets eventually.
• The maximum skill obtainable on a certain level target differs between jobs and between skills, as it is determined by the rank of the particular skill for the particular job, as per the job skill ranks table.

Special Consideration:

• Several jobs are capable of equipping weapons (or shields) while also not having access to that combat skill.
• Jobs that do not innately possess a skill are considered to have a 0 in that skill, even if they have that skill leveled on another job.

Skill Caps by Job

• Bard Skill Caps
• Beastmaster Skill Cap
• Black Mage Skill Caps
• Dark Knight Skill Caps
• Dragoon Skill Caps
• Monk Skill Caps
• Ninja Skill Caps
• Paladin Skill Caps
• Ranger Skill Caps
• Red Mage Skill Caps
• Samurai Skill Caps
• Summoner Skill Caps
• Thief Skill Caps
• Warrior Skill Caps
• White Mage Skill Caps