skill

Way, way back in the day - and for only a relatively brief run - Ultima Online had a system that came to be...

If there's one thing that I've learned over the years in which I have played MMOs, it's that people who are quick to point...

There is an assumption, for some reason, that most people who work as game journalists are pretty bad at playing video games. I don't...

I hate "oh shit" buttons! Justin and I were joking about this on a podcast a while back, but I mean it quite seriously. I...

It's now been almost one year to the day that EVE Online officially got a limited free-to-play option, and it's certainly been a boon...

There are no medical exams to pass when you start a new character in the next patch of The Black Death. You get to...

Do you like dragging yourself out of bed at three in the morning because something has finished in a game and you need to...

Charged Dash is a new skill coming to Path of Exile, and when you read about how it works it probably seems a little...

Crowfall's ramping up the dev blogs this week with a fresh one on the skills system. "Skills are one of the main methods of...

The changes to PLEX for EVE Online make it easier to buy small chunks, sell small chunks, and not have all of it get...

Your normal skills in Revelation Online are what you use for 90% of the game, obviously. That's why they're normal skills, after all. You...

Wanna feel old? Three years ago, I wrote a Second Wind piece for Massively-that-was on Ultima Online, which had recently been turned over to Broadsword...

One of the buzzwords of the modern MMO space is games promising to reward player skill rather than gear. I understand the argument being...

It's all about the skills in Wild Terra's recent update, and devs look forward to hearing testers' comments on the changes. The early-access survival game...

The skill system in Star Trek Online is kind of a hot mess. It always has been, from the game's initial launch skills to...

EVE Online's passive skill training system lets players slowly accumulate skill points over time, and until recently there was no way to actively skip ahead...

Enterprising rogues will be pursuing six new skills once The Elder Scrolls Online's Thieves Guild DLC launches next month: Finders Keepers for spotting treasures,...

A few months ago, CCP Games announced its somewhat unorthodox plans to allow EVE Online players to extract and sell their skill points on...

When Crowfall launches, it plans to have upwards of 1,500 skills available for players to choose and train. Before your eyes cross just thinking...

There's a new elite skill that's come to the skill-centric RuneScape, and it's causing both jubilation and jeers among the game's community. Invention allows players...