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
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
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 most foods and non-potion drinks. It does not increase the duration of potions.
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
Mounted Proficiency	Gives increases to both mounted carrying capacity and Mounted Speed
Mounted Speed Focus
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