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!