Maintenance

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Maintenance

General

Type

Combat

Maintenance is a combat skill.

Overview

Experience is gained when the player hits an enemy, tree, or door with a melee weapon, and the weapon used does not lose any condition from that hit. As a result, training this skill is more effective with a weapon that has a lower chance of losing condition on a hit.

Skill effects

The maintenance skill reduces the chance for a melee weapon to lose condition on each hit. For the firearms equivalent, see aiming.

The chance of a weapon losing condition on a hit is lowered by both the player's maintenance skill and their skill in that weapon's associated skill. The maintenance modifier m is added to the Condition Lower Chance of the weapon n for a 1 in n + m chance of lowering the weapon's condition by one on a hit. The modifier is calculated by adding the player's maintenance level to half of the weapon proficiency level rounded down, then dividing the sum of those two by 2 and rounding down, and finally multiplying that result by 2.

Maintenance modifier		Weapon proficiency level
		0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Maintenance level	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	2	4	4	4
	1	0	0	2	2	2	2	4	4	4	4	6
	2	2	2	2	2	4	4	4	4	6	6	6
	3	2	2	4	4	4	4	6	6	6	6	8
	4	4	4	4	4	6	6	6	6	8	8	8
	5	4	4	6	6	6	6	8	8	8	8	10
	6	6	6	6	6	8	8	8	8	10	10	10
	7	6	6	8	8	8	8	10	10	10	10	12
	8	8	8	8	8	10	10	10	10	12	12	12
	9	8	8	10	10	10	10	12	12	12	12	14
	10	10	10	10	10	12	12	12	12	14	14	14

See also

• Skills
• Weapons