Skills are plentiful in Mistmare. There are a variety of skills that fall into the three categories of combat schools, passive skills and adventuring skills. A character can learn up to four combat schools for the weapon of choice for each school and up to four schools for hand combat. Each combat school includes a basic strike and up to five extended strikes, which can be used in combat situations. Passive skills influence a character’s abilities but are not used directly by the character, and fall into two categories of aspects, spiritual and corporeal. They include observation, manipulation, harvesting, lore, acrobatics, ranger, stealth and defense. Adventuring skills are the basis for alchemic skills. These are important in using reagents and are necessary for solving side quests and random quests in the game.