Weaponmastery

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Masters of melee weapons, knights with the weaponmastery skill are a force to be reckoned with.

Weaponmasters can select a specialisation based on the weapons they wish to use, either dual cutting, dual blunt, two-handed, or sword and shield.

Dual cutting

Proficient in the use of two cutting weapons, knights with this specialisation use scimitars or battle axes to decimate their foes with damage and venoms.

Abilities in the Dual Cutting Specialisation

Ability Description
Predict Predict when your blows will damage their limbs.
Raze Attack the defences that would keep your weapons out.
Duality The ability to wield and use two weapons simultaneously.
Lunge A deep, piercing blow from an adjacent location.
Impale Sink your blade into an opponent.
Razeslash First penetrate his defences, then give him the sharp end.
Cleave Rend your opponent's body in two.
Mastery Through intense concentration, increase your blade mastery.
Disembowel Tear the entrails from a target.

Dual blunt

Master of destruction, these specialists obliterate an opponents limbs with flails and morningstars.

Key abilities: Momentum, Whirl, Skullcrush, and Pulp.

Two-handed

Wielding the largest weapons available, these warriors conquer their enemies with bastard swords and warhammers.

Abilities in the Two-handed Specialisation

Ability Description
Continuation Shrug off afflictions like the trivialities they are.
Slaughter Dispense with your opposition.
Overhand Split their skulls with a mighty blow.
Carve Carve through your victim's defences.
Splinter Splinter the defences protecting your opponent.
Perceive Perceive the state of your opponent.
Underhand Deliver a devastating rising stroke.
Upset Bring them down in a tangle of limbs.
Hew Deliver precision strikes against your opponent's limbs.
Pulverize Pulp your opponent's limbs with crushing blows.
Focus Alter your technique.
Cleave Rend your opponent's body in two.
Skullcrush Crush their skulls.
Recover A true knight will die on their feet.
Devastate Destroy their limbs utterly.
Impale Sink your blade into an opponent.
Disembowel Tear the entrails from a target.

Sword and shield

Using their shields for both offence and defence, masters of the sword and shield specialisation are a foe to fear. They are also armed with longswords and broadswords.

Key abilities: Ferocity, Drive, Strike, and Smash.

Picking/Changing a specialisation

Picking and changing a specialisation is a simple task:

SPECIALISE IN <specialisation>

If you're already specialised, and wish to change, you can use the above command to change it. There is a fee of one hundred lessons to change a specialisation.