Find a Skill
Search every perk and Active Ability by name, effect, tree or working phase.
Browse Skills →SKILL GUIDE · SKILL TREE
The Blood of Dawnwalker Skills
Browse Swordmastery, Witchcraft, Vampirism and Active Abilities. Find skill requirements, manuals, working phases, and plan any skill in the Skill Tree Planner.
Try: “parry” · “stamina” · “price” · “night” · “manual” · a Manual name
EXAMPLE UNLOCK PATH
Example Unlock Path
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Fate's Favour4 ranks
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Precision3 ranks
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Growing Momentum2 ranks
Select any skill in the tree to trace the skills and Manuals it requires.
ANSWER FIRST
What Do You Need Help With?
Plan a Build
Add skills to a build and check points, prerequisites and Ultimate requirements.
Open Skill Planner →Why Is It Locked?
Check Player Level, tree investment, Mutation, quest and manual requirements.
Check Requirements →Find a Manual
See which skill levels a manual unlocks and where each manual can be obtained.
Browse Skill Manuals →CHOOSE BY NEED
Find Skills by What You Need
Start from the problem you want to solve. These groups are built from recorded effects and requirements, not from a power score or a tier list.
Health & Damage Reduction
Skills related to Health, regeneration or physical-damage reduction.
Last Stand
Recorded effect: Health.
- REQUIRES
- Root skill
- MANUAL
- No Manual required
TRADE-OFF A defensive effect may matter less when damage or mobility is your immediate bottleneck.
Vigour
Recorded effect: Health.
- REQUIRES
- Root skill
- MANUAL
- Vigour Manual
TRADE-OFF A defensive effect may matter less when damage or mobility is your immediate bottleneck.
Font of Life
Recorded effect: Health.
- REQUIRES
- Root skill
- MANUAL
- No Manual required
TRADE-OFF A defensive effect may matter less when damage or mobility is your immediate bottleneck.
Weapon Damage & Criticals
Skills related to weapon damage, critical hits and attack chains.
Growing Momentum
Recorded effect: Melee Damage.
- REQUIRES
- Precision
- MANUAL
- Growing Momentum Manual
TRADE-OFF A weapon-damage match does not improve unrelated magic or claw attacks.
Last Stand
Recorded effect: Melee Damage.
- REQUIRES
- Root skill
- MANUAL
- No Manual required
TRADE-OFF A weapon-damage match does not improve unrelated magic or claw attacks.
Stinging Blade
Recorded effect: Melee Damage.
- REQUIRES
- Root skill
- MANUAL
- Stinging Blade Manual
TRADE-OFF A weapon-damage match does not improve unrelated magic or claw attacks.
Blocking & Counterattacks
Skills whose recorded effects explicitly mention parries or perfect blocks.
Counterattack
Recorded effect: Parry.
- REQUIRES
- Perfect Riposte
- MANUAL
- Counterattack Manual
TRADE-OFF Lower value if parries and perfect blocks are not part of how you fight.
Perfect Block
Recorded effect: Parry.
- REQUIRES
- Omniblock
- MANUAL
- Perfect Block Manual
TRADE-OFF Lower value if parries and perfect blocks are not part of how you fight.
Perfect Riposte
Recorded effect: Parry.
- REQUIRES
- Omniblock
- MANUAL
- Perfect Riposte Manual
TRADE-OFF Lower value if parries and perfect blocks are not part of how you fight.
Stamina & Mobility
Skills related to Stamina and the actions it gates.
Endless Effort
Recorded effect: Stamina.
- REQUIRES
- Root skill
- MANUAL
- Endless Effort Manual
TRADE-OFF This tag alone does not establish whether a skill is the cheapest route to better stamina.
Fleet of Foot
Recorded effect: Stamina.
- REQUIRES
- Endless Effort
- MANUAL
- Fleet of Foot Manual
TRADE-OFF This tag alone does not establish whether a skill is the cheapest route to better stamina.
Growing Momentum
Recorded effect: Stamina.
- REQUIRES
- Precision
- MANUAL
- Growing Momentum Manual
TRADE-OFF This tag alone does not establish whether a skill is the cheapest route to better stamina.
Blood & Vampirism
Vampirism skills with a confirmed claw, blood, Health or regeneration effect.
Blood Theft
Recorded effect: Health, Blood.
- REQUIRES
- Closing Wounds
- MANUAL
- No Manual required
TRADE-OFF These candidates are tree-specific and may not support a Swordmastery or Witchcraft plan.
Clawpierce
Recorded effect: Claws Damage.
- REQUIRES
- Restless Claws
- MANUAL
- No Manual required
TRADE-OFF These candidates are tree-specific and may not support a Swordmastery or Witchcraft plan.
Closing Wounds
Recorded effect: Health.
- REQUIRES
- Endless Hunger
- MANUAL
- No Manual required
TRADE-OFF These candidates are tree-specific and may not support a Swordmastery or Witchcraft plan.
CHOOSE BY EFFECT
Find Skills by What They Affect
Know the result you want, but not the skill name? Start with damage, stamina, Focus, parry or another effect. Matching gear is useful to explore, but it is not an automatic recommendation.
Melee Damage
11 matching skills →Weapons 0Armor 18Accessories 8
Weapon Crit Chance
2 matching skills →Weapons 33Armor 19Accessories 6
Weapon Crit Damage
4 matching skills →Weapons 31Armor 12Accessories 7
Focus
11 matching skills →Weapons 64Armor 66Accessories 30
Stamina
12 matching skills →Weapons 70Armor 62Accessories 20
Health
18 matching skills →Weapons 22Armor 33Accessories 8
Skill Cooldown
7 matching skills →Weapons 28Armor 14Accessories 19
Parry
10 matching skills →Weapons 19Armor 0Accessories 0
Blood
7 matching skills →Weapons 19Armor 26Accessories 10
Physical Damage Reduction
1 matching skills →Weapons 0Armor 0Accessories 12
Health Regeneration
2 matching skills →Weapons 0Armor 18Accessories 6
Claws Damage
7 matching skills →Weapons 0Armor 35Accessories 8
SEPARATE SYSTEM
Active Abilities
Active Abilities are separate from the three main perk trees and are not mixed into the Skill Tree Planner. They use their own equip panel, so they are listed here instead of inside Swordmastery, Witchcraft or Vampirism.
Adrenaline Rush
Active Abilities • Day & Night
Melee Damage
- MAX LEVEL
- Lv.4
- MANUAL
- Manual progression
Manual available from 6 known sources →Sold by 5 merchants and other known sources
Artery Strike
Active Abilities • Day & Night
Melee Damage
- MAX LEVEL
- Lv.4
- MANUAL
- Manual progression
Manual available from 9 known sources →Sold by 5 merchants and other known sources
Blood Surge
Active Abilities • Night
Skill progression entry
- MAX LEVEL
- Lv.4
Broad Swing
Active Abilities • Day & Night
Melee Damage
- MAX LEVEL
- Lv.4
- MANUAL
- Manual progression
Manual available from 8 known sources →Sold by 5 merchants and other known sources
Burning Blood
Active Abilities • Day
Skill progression entry
- MAX LEVEL
- Lv.4
- MANUAL
- Manual progression
Manual available from 7 known sources →Sold by 5 merchants and other known sources
Charge
Active Abilities • Day & Night
Melee Damage
- MAX LEVEL
- Lv.4
- MANUAL
- Manual progression
Manual available from 7 known sources →Sold by 6 merchants and other known sources
DAY AND NIGHT
Find Skills by When They Work
Some skills only work during the Day or Night. Pick a phase to see representative skills, then open the full filtered list.
Day
22 skills- Aether Cascade
Witchcraft
- Aether Flow
Witchcraft · Skill Cooldown
- Blasphemous Echo
Witchcraft
- Entwined Torment
Witchcraft
Night
30 skills- Blood Theft
Vampirism · Health
- Clawpierce
Vampirism · Weapon Crit Damage
- Closing Wounds
Vampirism · Health
- Crimson Feast
Vampirism · Melee Damage
Day & Night
36 skills- Counterattack
Swordmastery · Parry
- Endless Effort
Swordmastery · Stamina
- Fate's Favour
Swordmastery · Weapon Crit Damage
- Fleet of Foot
Swordmastery · Focus
ULTIMATE SKILLS
Ultimate Skills
Each tree has three Ultimates and only one can be learned per tree. Swordmastery and Witchcraft Ultimates need 35 Skill Points spent in that tree; Vampirism Ultimates need Mutation 15 instead.
View all 9 Ultimates →Plan an Ultimate →EXPLORE
Explore Skills by Tree
This is a browser, not a planner. To check costs, points and whether a build can reach a skill, open the Skill Tree Planner.
SWORDMASTERY
Skill Prerequisite Paths
ROOT SKILLS
TIER 2
TIER 3
TIER 4
UNLOCK REQUIREMENTS
Skill Manuals & Unlocks
Skill Points are not the only gate. 49 skills need a Manual in addition to their prerequisite path, and others are gated by a quest, Mutation or tree investment.
Skill Manuals
Some skill levels require a manual before they can be learned. A manual unlocks specific levels, not the whole skill.
Browse Manual Skills →Quest Unlocks
Some skills are unlocked through story or quest progression rather than a prerequisite chain.
View Quest-Gated Skills →Mutation
Some Vampirism skills use Mutation requirements on individual levels.
View Mutation Skills →Tree Investment
Higher-tier skills and Ultimates can require points already spent in their tree.
Open Skill Planner →Read the Skill Manuals guide →
CHECK THE REQUIREMENTS FIRST
Why Is a Skill Still Locked?
1 · Prerequisite
Learn every prerequisite skill shown in its path before the skill itself can be taken.
2 · Player Level or tree investment
Some levels need a minimum Player Level or points already spent in that tree.
3 · Manual or quest unlock
A Manual unlocks specific levels, and some skills are gated behind quest progression.
4 · Mutation or Ultimate choice
Vampirism levels can need Mutation, and an Ultimate blocks the other Ultimates in its tree.
When the exact quest or manual progression in your save is unknown, the planner marks that requirement as Not checked instead of treating it as failed.
Check a specific skill in the Skill Tree Planner →BUILD COMMITMENT
Skill Points & Build Planning
Check whether you can change your choices later and how many points your target path needs before committing to a deeper branch.
HOW SKILL POINTS WORK
Each level has its own cost
Plan costs are calculated level by level. Some levels also need a minimum number of points already spent in that tree, and a skill's own cost does not count toward that.
Skill Points Guide →TREE REQUIREMENTS
Some skills need points spent first
Higher-tier skills and every Ultimate can require points to be spent elsewhere in the same tree before they unlock.
Open Planner →RESPEC
No respec method is known
No normal respec method, location or cost is currently known. Do not plan around resetting Skill Points; keep a manual save before committing them.
Check Respec Rules →SKILL GUIDE FAQ
Skills, Manuals and Build Questions
How do I find a skill manual?+
A Manual unlocks specific levels of one skill instead of the whole skill. Open the Manuals list to see which skill a manual covers and where it can be obtained.
Why is a skill locked even when I have enough Skill Points?+
Skill Points only decide whether you can afford a skill. Check its prerequisite path, Player Level, points spent in the tree, Manual, quest, Mutation and Ultimate rules.
Can I plan a skill directly from this page?+
Yes. Every skill card links to the Skill Tree Planner with that skill already targeted, so you can check what it still needs.
Can you get more than one Ultimate?+
You can plan an Ultimate in a different tree, but only one Ultimate can be learned from each individual tree. Swordmastery and Witchcraft need 35 Skill Points spent in their tree; Vampirism needs Mutation 15.
Do all skills need manuals?+
No. Only some skills have manual-gated levels. Skills without a manual unlock through their tree, Player Level or a quest.
Are Active Abilities part of the main skill trees?+
No. Active Abilities are a separate system and are not mixed into Swordmastery, Witchcraft or Vampirism.
How many Skill Points can I get?+
There is no confirmed campaign-wide maximum. The level-up table grants 59 Skill Points through level 50, but other sources may exist.
Can you respec skills?+
No normal respec method, location or cost is currently known. Do not plan around resetting Skill Points; keep a manual save before committing them.
Does the tree infer missing links?+
No. The tree only draws skill connections that are known.