Character Skill Swordsmanship

Swordsmanship is one of the Skill that any Characters can raise.

It's one of the Melee Weapon Skill in Ultima Online! It count to lower the Mana Cost of performing Weapon Ability Special Moves. They can be 1 or 2 Hands to Equip!

Swordsmanship have a very large variety of Weapons available because it include all Blade and Axes, it doesn't require a high amount of Dexterity in order to get the max Swing Speed. There 2 Poisoning Swordsmanship Weapon! Axe Weapon can be combined with the Skill Lumberjacking to increase the Damage!

Using an Axe Weapon can raise your Skill Lumberjacking!

Swordsmanship Weapons can be Crafted with any Blacksmith Tools with the Skill Blacksmithy, with any Carpentry Tools with the Skill Carpentry and with any Tinkering Tools with the Skill Tinkering.

Swordsmanship Tips

There's 8 kind of Runic Hammer Tools that can add additional Mods on your Crafted Swordsmanship Weapon.
There's 4 kind of Runic Dovetail Saw that can add additional Mods on your Crafted Swordsmanship Weapon.
There's NO Runic Tinkering Tools!

There's 4 kind of Ancient Smithy Hammer that can help raise your chance of success for your Blacksmith Swordsmanship Weapon.

There's Talisman with Blacksmithy Exceptional Bonus and Blacksmithy Bonus at maximum 30% to help raise your chance of success.
There's Talisman with Carpentry Exceptional Bonus and Carpentry Bonus at maximum 30% to help raise your chance of success.
There's Talisman with Tinkering Exceptional Bonus and Tinkering Bonus at maximum 30% to help raise your chance of success.

There's 9 kind of Ingots that can give a Default Damage Element on your Crafted Swordsmanship Weapon.
There's 7 kind of Boards that can give a Default Damage Element on your Crafted Swordsmanship Weapon.

There's 17 kind of Recipes to Craft Special Weapon that can give a Default Mod Bonus on your Crafted Weapon.

There's 2 kind of Craftable Artifact Swordsmanship Weapon.

Buying Swordsmanship Weapon

Swordsmanship weapon can be purchase at any NPC the Blacksmith and NPC the Weapon Smith in Trammel, Felucia or Tokuno.

Swordsmanship Axe Weapon with Lumberjacking

Axe Weapon can be combined with the Skill Lumberjacking to raise your Damage Increase!

Formula:
Damage % Increase = ((Lumberjacking / 5) / 100)

If Lumberjacking >= 100
Damage % Increase += 0.1

Damage % Increase Min/Max = 1%/30%

Swordsmanship Weapon

Weapon Name	STR Req.	Base Damage	Weapon Speed	Weigth	Primary Move	Secondary Move	Crafting Skill
Axe (2-H)	35	14 - 16	3s	4	Crushing Blow	Dismount	Blacksmithy
Battle Axe (2-H)	35	15 - 17	3.5s	4	Bleed Attack	Concussion Blow	Blacksmithy
Bladed Staff (2-H)	40	14 - 16	3s	4	Armor Ignore	Dismount	Blacksmithy
Bokuto (1-H)	20	9 - 11	2s	7	Feint	Nerve Strike	Carpentry
Bone Harvester (1-H)	25	13 - 15	3s	3	Paralyzing Blow	Mortal Strike	Blacksmithy
Broadsword (1-H)	30	14 - 15	3.25s	6	Crushing Blow	Armor Ignore	Blacksmithy
Butcher Knife (1-H)	5	9 - 11	2.25s	1	Infectious Strike	Disarm	Tinkering
Cleaver (1-H)	10	11 - 13	2.5s	2	Bleed Attack	Infectious Strike	Tinkering
Crescent Blade (2-H)	55	11 - 14	2.5s	1	Double Strike	Mortal Strike	Blacksmithy
Cutlass (1-H)	25	11 - 13	2.5s	8	Bleed Attack	Shadow Strike	Blacksmithy
Daisho (2-H)	40	13 - 15	2.75s	8	Feint	Double Strike	Blacksmithy
Double Axe (2-H)	45	15 - 17	3.25s	8	Double Strike	Whirlwind Attack	Blacksmithy
Elven Machete (1-H)	20	13 - 15	2.75s	6	Defense Mastery	Bladeweave	Blacksmithy
Executioner's Axe (2-H)	40	15 - 17	3.25s	8	Bleed Attack	Mortal Strike	Blacksmithy
Halberd (2-H)	95	18 - 19	4.25s	16	Whirlwind Attack	Concussion Blow	Blacksmithy
Hatchet (2-H)	20	13 - 15	2.75s	4	Armor Ignore	Disarm	Tinkering
Katana (1-H)	25	11 - 13	2.5s	6	Double Strike	Armor Ignore	Blacksmithy
Large Battle Axe (2-H)	80	16 - 17	3.75s	6	Whirlwind Attack	Bleed Attack	Blacksmithy
Longsword (1-H)	35	15 - 16	3.5s	7	Armor Ignore	Concussion Blow	Blacksmithy
No-Dachi (2-H)	40	16 - 18	3.5s	10	Crushing Blow	Bleed Attack	Blacksmithy
Ornate Axe (2-H)	45	18 - 20	3.5s	12	Disarm	Crushing Blow	Blacksmithy
Pickaxe (1-H)	50	13 - 15	3s	11	Double Strike	Disarm	Tinkering
Radiant Scimitar (1-H)	20	12 - 14	2.5s	9	Whirlwind Attack	Bladeweave	Blacksmithy
Rune Blade (2-H)	30	15 - 17	3s	7	Disarm	Bladeweave	Blacksmithy
Scimitar (1-H)	25	13 - 15	3s	5	Double Strike	Paralyzing Blow	Blacksmithy
Scythe (2-H)	45	15 - 18	3.5s	5	Bleed Attack	Paralyzing Blow	Blacksmithy
Skinning Knife (1-H)	5	9 - 11	2.25s	1	Shadow Strike	Disarm	Tinkering
Two Handed Axe (2-H)	40	16 - 17	3.5s	8	Double Strike	Shadow Strike	Blacksmithy
Viking Sword (1-H)	40	15 - 17	3.75s	6	Crushing Blow	Paralyzing Blow	Blacksmithy
Wakizashi (1-H)	20	11 - 13	2.5s	5	Frenzied Whirlwind	Double Strike	Blacksmithy

Acquiring Runic Hammer Tool's

To Acquire Runic Hammer Tool's, you have to do the complete the right Blacksmithy Bulk Order Deed and collect the Reward from the NPC!
There's 8 kind of Runic Hammer Tool's:
- Dull Copper
- Shadow
- Copper
- Bronze
- Golden
- Agapite
- Verite
- Valorite

Acquiring Runic Dovetail Saw Tool's

To Acquire Runic Dovetail Saw Tool's, you have to do any Quest given by the NPC Quest Giver Bowcrafter in Heartwood or Sanctuary City!
There's 8 kind of Runic Hammer Tool's:
- Oak
- Ask
- Yew
- Heartwood

Crafting Swordsmanship Weapon with Runic Hammer Tool's or Runic Dovetail Saw Tool's

When you Craft a Swordsmanship Weapon with any Runic Hammer Tool's or Runic Dovetail Saw Tool's, you can add additional Mods on them:

- Hit Lightning or Hit Fireball or Hit Magic Arrow or Hit Harm to 50%
- Hit Physical Area or Hit Fire Area or Hit Cold Area or Hit Poison Area or Hit Energy Area to 50%
- Hit Lower Attack to 50%
- Hit Lower Defense to 50%
- Hit Life Leech to 50%
- Hit Mana Leech to 50%
- Hit Stamina Leech to 50%
- Spell Challenging -1
- Faster Casting 1
- Damage Increase to 50%
- Mage Weapon to -20
- Swing Speed Increase to 30%
... (need to check all the available list) ...

Training Swordsmanship

0 - 40 = Train your Swordsmanship Skill at New Haven with the NPC Jockles the Swordsmanship Instructor! (400 Golds) and take he's Quest - The way of The Blade!
40 - 120 = Equip any Swordsmanship Weapon and Attack any Mobile!


Some Technique:
- Using a Swordsmanship Weapon without any Damage Increase to too very low on a Tamed Cu Sidhe of your Friend or your own second Account can be good because Cu Sidhe can heal herself!

- Using the Skill Ninjitsu and casting the spell Mirror Image and attack the image, need to be in Felucia or in a Guild!