Through training, effort, and perseverance, a martial artist hones the skills of their style—their class. These skills vary greatly from class to class, and through the wielder’s wisdom and preparation, their individual style is defined. The skills a martial artist applies themselves to can be focused upon, improved, and increased in power and impact. And by specializing one’s focus, even those of the same class can call upon vastly different abilities.

At the start of your journey, you will receive a Martial Tome that explains the secret abilities of the Hongmoon Clan as applicable to your class. As you progress and learn more, you’ll unlock the ability to customize your skills; and with each character level gained you’ll also gain a skill point to spend.

Most skills can be enhanced and customized through a skill tree defined in your Martial Tome—a series of options that allow a skill to be increased in strength, or specialized in a number of ways. When opening the skill window, one can see all of the skills they have access to, how to activate them, as well as a description of the skill’s abilities—including any prerequisites or conditions that need to be met, and the type of damage that a skill may use.

Skills are customizable at any time out of combat, encouraging martial artists to focus their attention on improving skills for different situations. Skill choices can also be saved, as there’s an opportunity to unlock additional pages in the skill book to save individual builds to swap between at-will. You could, for example, have one build to balance damage and survivability for adventuring alone, and another that’s more attuned to supporting other players in a world PvP setting.

How you choose to customize your skills is up to you, but recommendations on builds that work well for your class are also provided, for those who prefer to purely focus on combat.

While a martial artist can train, level up, and increase their ability in most skills, there are rumors of secret techniques to unlock—the ultimate mastery of a skill. These are the kinds of legends and stories whispered about in hushed tones in local taverns, the kind of fables that all martial artists believe they can aspire to, but that only a few may ever attain. Discovering secret techniques is the utmost challenge for anyone hoping to master their skills, and the ultimate in martial prowess.