Combat skills in medieval action MMO: Life is Feudal

This article elaborates on all 30 combat skills featured in Life is Feudal.

For more information on the combat system itself, visit Life is Feudal the action MMO RPG No target combat and double bars.  For more information on how skills raise and the skill system as a whole, visit Skill and stat cap in the MMORPG like Ultima: Life is Feudal. Some weapons allow you to perform combos, these being a series of attacks followed by a finishing blow. All 30 combat skills are listed below.

Chivalry (Mounted)

Governing stat - Intelligence 

Fair against - 1H/Shields, 2H

Counters against - Ranged 

Countered by - Militia

Balance - Expensive equipment, limited utility for rough terrain and sieges

Skills

War horse Handling - Used to train and ride warhorses. Later levels allow you to train higher quality warhorses, such as heavy and spirited.

Chainmail armors - Used to equip and efficiently use chainmail armor. Later levels enable you to wear higher quality chainmail armor.

Mounted fighting mastery - Used to perform advanced techniques on horseback. Later levels unlock abilities, such as faster cavalry attacks and short term dismount immunity.

Lancing - Used to equip and effectively use lances. Later levels enable players to use and higher quality lances, and unlock techniques such as faster lancing and couched lance while blocking.

Heavy horse handling - Used to ride heavy warhorses and perform techniques with them. Later levels unlock techniques, such as having a chance for pikes to break against your warhorse.

Militia (Polearms)

Governing stat - Willpower 

Fair against - 2H

Counters against - Mounted  

Countered by - 1H/Shields

Balance - Cheap equipment, counter vs mounted

Skills

Militia service - Used to equip and effectively use militia weaponry, such as pitchforks, staves, pickaxe, etc. Any handheld tool can be used as a militia weapon. Later levels unlock techniques for milita weaponry such as unparriable thrusting attacks and more damaging swing attacks.

Padded armors - Used to equip and effectively use padded armor. Later levels enable you to wear higher quality padded armor.

Spear mastery - Used to equip and effectively use spears. Later levels unlock techniques with the spear, such as the Wall of Pikes. This technique makes you immobile, deals huge damage against horses and will stop horses in all instances.

Unarmed combat - Used to perform unarmed fighting techniques. Later levels increase unarmed damage, and unlock additional techniques. Examples of these techniques are: parrying polearms and disarm.

Poleaxes mastery - Used to equip and effectively use poleaxes. Later levels enable you to equip higher quality poleaxes, and unlock advanced techniques. Examples of these techniques are: Overhead with high chance to dismount and a pounce attack.

Footman (1H/Shields)

Governing stat - Strength

Fair against - Ranged

Counters against - Polearms

Countered by - 2H

Skills

Blades mastery - Used to equip and effectively use 1H blades. Later levels enable you to use higher quality weapons and unlock techniques and combos.

Scale armors - Used to wear and effectively use scale armors. Later levels enable you to wear higher quality scale armors.

Shield mastery - Used to wear and effectively use shields. Later levels enable you to equip higher quality shields, and unlock techniques. Examples of some techniques are: shield bash and blocking during sprint.

Axe & Mace mastery - Used to equip and effectively use 1H axes & maces. Later levels enable you to use higher quality weapons and unlock techniques and combos.

Piercing mastery - Used to equip and effectively use 1H piercing weapons. Later levels enable you to use higher quality weapons and unlock techniques and combos.

Berserker (2H)

Governing stat - Constitution

Fair against - Polearms, Mounted

Counters against - 1H/shields

Countered by - Ranged

Skills

2H blades mastery - Used to equip and effectively use 2H blades. Later levels enable you to use higher quality weapons and unlock techniques and combos.

Plate armors - Used to wear and effectively use plate armors. Later levels enable you to wear higher quality plate armors.

2H axes mastery - Used to equip and effectively use 2H axes. Later levels enable you to use higher quality weapons and unlock techniques and combos.

2H blunt mastery - Used to equip and effectively use 2H blunt weapons. Later levels enable you to use higher quality weapons and unlock techniques and combos.

War cries - Used to shout war cries. War cries have buffing and debuffing effects, varying between shouts. Later levels unlock further war cries, an example being “You are mine!”. This shout increases your damage against a target enemy.

Marksman (Ranged)

Governing stat - Agility

Fair against - Polearms

Counters against - 2H

Countered by - Mounted

Skills

Throwing weaponry - Used to equip and effectively use throwing weapons. Later levels enable you to use higher quality weapons and unlock techniques and combos.

Leather armors - Used to wear and effectively use leather armors. Later levels enable you to wear higher quality leather armors.

Crossbows mastery - Used to equip and effectively use crossbows. Later levels enable you to use higher quality weapons and unlock techniques and combos.

Bows mastery - Used to equip and effectively use bows. Later levels enable you to use higher quality weapons and unlock techniques and combos.

Combat preparation - Used to put down battlefield emplacements. Later levels unlock further emplacements, such as: arrow stands, pavise and pike walls.

Secondary combat skills

Unit and Formation - Used to organize your unit into battle and formation shapes. Later levels unlock additional shapes. It is discussed further in Strategies and Units in Sandbox MMORPG: Life is Feudal.

Equipment Maintain - Used to repair damage to your equipment. Later levels enable you to repair a wider variety of equipment, recover ammunition and poison weapons.

Battle Survival - Used to perform triage and mitigate fatal injuries by turning hHP damage into sHP damage. More info on hHP and sHP at Life is Feudal the action MMO RPG No target combat and double bars.  Later levels unlock additional triage techniques.

Demolition - Used to man and improve effectiveness with siege equipment. Later levels enable players to man a larger variety of siege equipment.

Drill - Used to administer barracks and train other players in a combat skill of the mentors choice. Mentors cannot raise a student's skill higher than their own. Later levels enable you to teach higher tier skills.