 Veterancy
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Mastery: |
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Tier: |
3 |
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Skill Type: |
Passive |
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Max. Level: |
12 |
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Cooldown: |
none |
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Associated Skills: |
none |
Experience in some of the toughest theaters of the colonial wars has given you the ability to survive ordeals that would be fatal to others.
Notes[]
This skill, while seemingly subject to usual diminishing results, instead behaves almost linearly due to the way blocking. The threshold values of L1/L4 are thus of lower importance here.
With Y meaning the shield's block amount, e.g. 25% base block chance, +5% block gives 30% change, i.e. 0.3*Y damage blocked overall, but +35% gives you 60% block, i.e. 0.6*Y damage blocked, effectively doubling the blocking strength of a shield. The gain is of course more noticable on low-block-chance, high-block-amount shields, than on high-block-chance, low-block-amount ones.
Also, with -% requirement note that each additional reduction will get relatively more and more visible; still, the results are obviously very logarithmic here. If you're a shield build you'll probably want to max this skill anyway, otherwise getting L4 or L1 should suffice.
Skill Progression[]
| Level | +x% Constitution | -x% Physique Requirement for Armor | Increases Shield Block Chance by x% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| 2 | 15 | 5 | 10 |
| 3 | 20 | 8 | 14 |
| 4 | 24 | 10 | 18 |
| 5 | 28 | 12 | 20 |
| 6 | 32 | 14 | 22 |
| 7 | 35 | 15 | 24 |
| 8 | 38 | 16 | 26 |
| 9 | 40 | 17 | 28 |
| 10 | 42 | 18 | 30 |
| 11 | 45 | 19 | 32 |
| 12 | 50 | 20 | 35 |
| Ultimate Levels | |||
| 13 | 52 | 20 | 35 |
| 14 | 54 | 21 | 36 |
| 15 | 56 | 21 | 36 |
| 16 | 58 | 22 | 37 |
| 17 | 60 | 22 | 37 |
| 18 | 62 | 23 | 38 |
| 19 | 64 | 23 | 38 |
| 20 | 66 | 24 | 39 |
| 21 | 68 | 24 | 39 |
| 22 | 75 | 25 | 40 |
| Soldier Skills |
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| Active Skills |
| Cadence (Discord, Fighting Form, Deadly Momentum) • Forcewave (Tremor, Rending Force, Internal Trauma) • Blitz (Blindside) • Blade Arc (Clean Sweep, Laceration) • Overguard • War Cry (Break Morale, Terrify) |
| Passive Skills |
| Offensive: Markovian's Advantage • Fighting Spirit • Zolhan's Technique Defensive: Military Conditioning • Shield Training • Menhir's Will • Veterancy • Decorated Soldier • Scars of Battle |
| Toggled Skills |
| Oleron's Rage • Counter Strike • Field Command (Squad Tactics) • Menhir's Bulwark |
| Demolitionist Skills |
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| Active Skills |
| Fire Strike (Explosive Strike, Searing Might, Searing Strike, Static Strike, Brimstone) • Flashbang (Searing Light) • Stun Jacks (Quick Jacks, Full Spread) • Blackwater Cocktail (High Potency, Demon Fire, Agonizing Flames) • Grenado (Skyfire Grenado, High Impact, Shattering Blast) • Canister Bomb (Concussive Bomb, Improved Casing) • Mortar Trap (Heavy Ordinance, "The Big One") • Thermite Mine (Hellfire Mine) |
| Passive Skills |
| Blast Shield • Ulzuin's Chosen |
| Toggled Skills |
| Flame Touched (Temper) • Vindictive Flame (Ulzuin's Wrath) |
| Occultist Skills |
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| Active Skills |
| Dreeg's Evil Eye (Blood Burst, Focused Gaze, Terrifying Gaze, Vile Eruption) • Curse of Frailty (Vulnerability) • Bloody Pox (Fevered Rage, Wasting, Black Death) • Sigil of Consumption (Destruction) • Blood of Dreeg (Aspect of the Guardian) • Doom Bolt |
| Toggled Skills |
| Solael's Witchfire (Consecrated Blade, Second Rite) • Bonds of Bysmiel (Manipulation) • Possession |
| Summoning Skills |
| Summon Familiar (Mend Flesh, Storm Spirit, Lightning Strike) • Summon Hellhound (Ember Claw, Hellfire, Infernal Breath) |
| Nightblade Skills |
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| Active Skills |
| Phantasmal Blades (Frenetic Throw, Heart Seeker, Nether Edge) • Pneumatic Burst (Breath of Belgothian, Shadow Dance, Elemental Awakening) • Amarasta's Blade Burst (Lethal Assault) • Shadow Strike (Nidalla's Justifiable Ends (Skill), Nightfall) • Ring of Steel (Ring of Frost, Circle of Slaughter) • Blade Barrier • Blade Trap (Devouring Blades) • Blade Spirit |
| Passive Skills |
| Dual Blades (Belgothian's Shears, Nidalla's Hidden Hand, Amarasta's Quick Cut, Whirling Death, Execution) • Phantasmal Armor • Anatomy of Murder • Merciless Repertoire |
| Toggled Skills |
| Veil of Shadow (Night's Chill) |
| Arcanist Skills |
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| Active Skills |
| Panetti's Replicating Missile (Distortion, Supercharged, Proliferation) • Callidor's Tempest (Wrath of Agrivix, Inferno) • Trozan's Sky Shard (Frozen Core, Shattered Star) • Olexra's Flash Freeze (Absolute Zero) • Albrecht's Aether Ray (Tainted Power, Disintegration) • Devastation • Mirror of Ereoctes • Nullification |
| Passive Skills |
| Inner Focus • Arcane Will • Mental Alacrity • Fabric of Reality |
| Toggled Skills |
| Iskandra's Elemental Exchange (Manifestation, Overload, Elemental Balance) • Maiven's Sphere of Protection (Conversion) • Reckless Power • Star Pact |
| Shaman Skills |
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| Active Skills |
| Primal Strike (Thunderous Strike, Torrent, Storm Surge) • Savagery (Might of the Bear, Tenacity of the Boar, Storm Touched) • Grasping Vines (Entangling Vines) • Devouring Swarm • Wind Devil • Wendigo Totem (Blood Pact) • Storm Totem (Corrupted Storm) • Wind Devil (Raging Tempest, Maelstrom) |
| Passive Skills |
| Brute Force (Feral Hunger, Upheaval) |
| Toggled Skills |
| Stormcaller's Pact • Primal Bond • Mogdrogen's Pact (Heart of the Wild, Oak Skin) |
| Summoning Skills |
| Summon Briarthorn (Ground Slam, Emboldening Presence) • Conjure Primal Spirit • Primal Bond |
| Inquisitor Skills |
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| Active Skills |
| Word of Renewal (Word of Arms, Vigor, Steel Resolve) • Word of Pain (Word of Agony, Death Sentence) • Horn of Gandarr • Rune of Hagarrad (Biting Cold, Chillsurge) • Storm Box of Elgoloth (Allagast's Arcane Net, Lightning Tether) • Inquisitor Seal (Null Field, Arcane Empowerment) • Deadly Aim • Rune of Kalastor (Ignition) • Artifact Handling |
| Passive Skills |
| Ranged Expertise • Bursting Round • Chilling Rounds • Storm Spread |
| Channeled Skills |
| Flames of Ignaffar (Tainted Flame, Intensify, Infernal Purge, Endless Flame) |
| Toggle Skills |
| Aura of Conviction • Aura of Censure |
| Necromancer Skills |
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| Active Skills |
| Siphon Souls (Sear Souls, Blood Boil) • Drain Essence (Gravechill, Hungering Reach, Decomposition) • Ravenous Earth (Decay, Foul Eruption) • Bone Harvest (Harvester of Death, Dread, Soul Harvest) • Ill Omen • Call of the Grave • Mark of Torment |
| Passive Skills |
| Reaping Strike • Necrotic Edge |
| Toggle Skills |
| Harbinger of Souls • Master of Death • Spectral Binding (Spectral Wrath) |
| Summoning Skills |
| Reap Spirit • Raise Skeletons (Undead Legion, Will of the Crypt) • Summon Blight Fiend (Unstable Anomaly, Rotting Fumes, Blight Burst) |
| Oathkeeper Skills |
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| Active Skills |
| Eye of Reckoning (Soulfire) • Vire's Might (Volcanic Might, Volcanic Stride, Tectonic Shift) • Aegis of Mehnir • Judgement (Crushing Verdict, Heart of Wrath) • Righteous Fervor (Dreeg's Reproach, Consecration, Retribution) • Resilience • Ascension (Clarity of Purpose) |
| Passive Skills |
| Smite • Safeguard • Shattering Smash • Avenging Shield • Aegis of Thorns • Reprisal |
| Toggle Skills |
| Divine Mandate • Presence of Virtue (Haven, Rebuke) • Path of the Three |
| Summoning Skills |
| Summon Guardian of Empyreon (Scion of Dreeg, Celestial Presence) |