Tactics Skills

Tactics Skills generally modify how the character performs in combat.

Corsten, the master of tactics, was last seen in the village of Desolis. Perhaps he is watching someone?

-Adventuring Trainer

Tactics Skill Tree

Active

Berserker's Stance	Increases strength, attack speed and movement speed at the expense of damage resistance. This skill also removes one movement speed debuff when used. Health and focus are constantly drained while in this stance. Tactics Specialization adds an addition critical hit damage multiplier.
Defensive Stance	Increases damage resistance at the expense of attack speed. Tactics Specialization decreases the attack speed penalty.
Fortify Defenses	Can be used any time to give a modest Damage Avoidance bonus but when used immediately after being the victim of critical melee or ranged hit it also grants protection from critical hits for a time. Tactics Specialization increases the window of opportunity to gain the additional bonuses.
Offhand Attack	Quick attack with 1-handed weapon equipped in the offhand. Tactics Specialization adds a short duration bonus to parry attacks.
Parry	Parry gives the player a chance to block the eligible incoming attacks for a modest amount of time. For the first few seconds immediately after using Parry, you will receive a much larger bonus. Tactics Specialization increases the duration of the larger bonus.
Passive Stance	Increases focus regen at the expense of damage resistance, attack speed and movement speed. Fizzle chance is greatly increased while in this stance. Activating this stance also removes one bleed effect. Tactics Specialization reduces the move speed penalty.
Reckless Stance	Increases attack speed at the expense of damage resistance. Tactics Specialization reduces the damage resistance penalty.

Innate

Armor Preservation	Armor durability damage reduced
Elixir Extension	Extends the duration of consumable effects. NOTE: Learning this skill will untrain the Focus skill Elixir Receptive. To train this skill you must set Elixir Receptive to untrain.
Healthy	Increases base health
Heavy Lifter	Increase carry capacity
Magic Warding	Weakens attunement with all schools of magic except Chaos while increasing the resistance to all schools of magic except Chaos.
Mounted Carry Capacity Focus	Increase the mounted carrying capacity but decreases the speed
Mounted Gallop Speed	Increases the speed of a horses gallop
Mounted Proficiency	Gives increases to both mounted carrying capacity and mounted speed
Mounted Speed Focus	Increases the mounted speed but decreases the carry capacity
Offhand Defense	Increases damage resistance while a one-handed weapon is equipped in the offhand
Offhand Power	Offhand attacks do more damage
Tactics Specialization	Tactics Specialization is the devotion of one's self to all things related to combat tactics. It increases the power of most tactics skills. NOTE: Only one Specialization skill may be trained and one additional skill maintained at any given time or two may be set to maintain. Enabling training for a different specialization skill may set a specialization skill currently set to maintain to unlearn.
Train Strength	Increases Strength
Weapon Preservation	Weapon durability damage reduced

External Reference

• This is extremely old and outdated information only for historical purposes: Magic, Combat, and Crafting Skills on the Shroud of the Avatar Forums