Project Gorgon Skills List: Every Skill Explained

Project Gorgon has one of the deepest skill systems in any MMO, with dozens of combat, crafting, beast, and utility skills you can mix freely. Skills are learned from trainers, books, quests, or special conditions, and you can level almost everything on a single character. Below is a clean, complete overview of all skill types, written to help you understand what exists and why it matters.

How Skills Work In Project Gorgon

You can train many skills at once, but active combat skills have a balance rule. If one active skill is more than 25 levels higher than another, higher level abilities become unavailable until things even out. This encourages skill pairings instead of extreme stacking.

Most skills are optional. You build your character by choosing what to learn, ignore, or replace over time.

Please note we are currently working on updating this entire list (WIP)

All Skills and What They Do

Skill	What It Does
Alcohol Tolerance	Ability to negate negative effects of alcohol
Alchemy	Crafts potions, poisons, and alchemical mixtures
Anatomy	General knowledge of creature physiology
Ancillary Armor Augmentation	Creates helmet and shoe augments
Angling	Catching fish with a pole and bait
Animal Handling	Taming animals and teaching them to fight
Animal Husbandry	Science of breeding pets
Armor Augmentation	Creates chest and leg armor augments
Armor Patching	Ability to repair armor using repair kits
Armorsmithing	Art of making metal armor
Art History	Understanding the history of art in Alharth
Artistry	Creates visual art items like fireworks and jack o lanterns
Assessment	Determining things about someone based on appearance
Bard	Support abilities for aiding allies, humanoid only
Battle Chemistry	Using alchemical concoctions in combat
Beast Metabolism	Metabolic efficiency when consuming raw meat
Beast Speech	Speaking while in beast form
Blacksmithing	Making and enhancing metal equipment
Bladesmithing	Specialization of Blacksmithing focused on blades
Bowery	Craft of making bows and crossbows
Brewing	Creating alcoholic beverages
Buckle Artistry	Creates non magical belt buckles that decay over time
Butchering	Removing meat and organs from corpses
Calligraphy	Empowers Sword abilities and creates written works
Candle Making	Rendering materials into candle wax and candles
Carpentry	Preparing lumber and making wood items
Cartography	Mapping surroundings by exploration
Cheesemaking	Making cheese and dairy products
Civic Pride	Willingness to tackle community tasks
Compassion	Ability to feel empathy
Cooking	Creates food and drink consumables with regeneration effects
Corpse Talking	Communing telepathically with dead bodies
Cow	Cow combat form
Crossbow	Using crossbows in combat
Deer	Deer combat form
Druid	Nature focused combat skill obtained through a pledge altar
Dying	Tracks deaths and unlocks small permanent health bonuses
Endurance	Increases survivability and unlocks passive stamina and armor bonuses
Fairy Magic	Psychic links to the fae realms
Fire Magic	Using fire to destroy enemies
Fishing	Collects fish and aquatic creatures from lakes and rivers
Fletching	Crafts arrows and arrow components
Flower Arrangement	Art of making flower arrangements
Foraging	Picking things up from the environment
Gaming	Playing gambling games
Gardening	Grows plants used for crafting and quests
Geology	Digging crystals out of the ground
Giant Bat	Bat combat form
Goblinese	Fluency in goblin language
Golf	Golf related games
Gourmand	Increases the duration of food and drink bonuses
Hammer	Using hammers in combat
Hardcore Living	Surviving as a hardcore player
Holistic Wellness	Grants passive health related effects from wellness tasks
Hoplology	Study of weapons and armor
Howling	Howling as a werewolf
Ice Conjuration	Creation of ice items
Ice Magic	Lowering temperature for combat effects
Industry	Competence in completing tasks to specification
Interpretive Dance	Dancing to entertain or move others
Iocaine Resistance	Resistance to iocaine poison
Jewelry Augmentation	Creates necklace and ring augments
Jewelry Crafting	Creation of jewelry
Knife Fighting	Using daggers and thrown knives
Leatherworking	Turning leather into armor and goods
Lore	Mastery of ancient knowledge
Lycanthropy	Fighting as a wolf beast
Meditation	Centering yourself and inner focus
Mentalism	Psychic powers
Milling	Operating a grainmill
Mining	Digging metals and ores from the ground
Mushroom Farming	Growing mushrooms in grow boxes
Mycology	Mastery of fungus
Necromancy	Control over the undead
Non Fiction Writing	Writing non fiction books
Oratory	Public speaking
Orcish	Fluency in orc language
Paleontology	Studying the past through fossilized bones
Pathology	Figuring out how something died
Performance	Ability to entertain others
Pig	Pig combat form
Priest	Attunement with Arisetsu
Psychology	Understanding the minds of sentient creatures
Rabbit	Rabbit combat form
Racing	Riding in races
Retail Management	Improves player run shops with inventory and time bonuses
Riding	Riding terrestrial mounts
Safecracking	Opening safes and vaults
Saddlery	Creating tack for horses
Shamanic Infusion	Enhancing items with animal spirits
Shield	Using shields as weapon and defense
Sigil Scripting	Creates consumable runes and sigils for traps, utility, and support effects
Skinning	Removes hides from defeated non sentient creatures
Spider	Spider combat form
Spirit Fox	Spirit fox combat form
Staff	Using staffs as weapons
Stringed Instruments	Performing with string instruments
Sushi Preparation	Creating fish meals
Sword	Using swords and rapiers
Tailoring	Crafts cloth gear and applies enhancements to cloth and leather armor
Tanning	Tanning hides into leather
Textile Creation	Processes raw fibers into cloth for tailoring
Toolcrafting	Creation of advanced tools
Transmutation	Rerolls gear mods using phlogiston and attunes the item
Treasure Cartography	Finding treasure using maps
Unarmed	Fighting with your body and minimal weapons
Vampirism	High level combat skill with strong damage and crowd control but harsh drawbacks
Vocabulary	Supports Bard abilities and improves word knowledge
Warden	Using secret Warden powers
Weapon Augmentation	Creating weapon augments
Weather Witching	Manipulating the environment
Whittling	Turning wood into small artistic items
Wind Instruments	Performing with wind instruments

How To Choose Skills As A New Player

Project Gorgon does not lock you into a class, so skill choice is about synergy and comfort, not right or wrong picks. Early on, it helps to focus on 2 combat skills and 1 or 2 support or crafting skills. Spreading too wide too fast slows progression and makes combat harder than it needs to be.

Starter zones reward survivability, sustain, and simple rotations more than raw damage.

Strong Beginner Friendly Skill Combos

These skill pairings are popular because they work well early and do not require rare gear.

• Sword and Shield for steady damage and strong defense

• Staff and Psychology for control and survivability

• Fire Magic and Mentalism for damage with recovery

• Unarmed and Meditation for simple gear needs and scaling power

All of these combos work with basic equipment and scale naturally as you explore.

Best Utility Skills To Train Early

Some non combat skills quietly make the game smoother if trained early.

• Armor Patching keeps gear usable without constant replacement

• Endurance helps with carry weight and stamina

• Assessment unlocks more information about players and NPCs

• Cartography levels naturally just by exploring

These skills do not require grinding and pay off long term.

Crafting Skills Worth Early Investment

You do not need many crafting skills early, but a few stand out.

• Cooking provides reliable buffs and steady XP

• Carpentry supports storage, tools, and later systems

• Blacksmithing feeds multiple other skills

• Foraging supports cooking, quests, and early money

Crafting becomes more valuable the longer you play, especially once markets stabilize.

When To Experiment With Weird Skills

Project Gorgon shines when you lean into its strange systems. Skills like Dying, Corpse Talking, Paleontology, or Performance may not matter early, but they unlock unique content later. It is usually better to experiment once you understand core combat and survival.

Nothing breaks if you try something odd and drop it later.

Final Note

The skill list in Project Gorgon looks overwhelming at first, but you are not meant to engage with everything at once. Pick a few skills, learn how they interact, and let the rest wait. The game rewards curiosity over optimization, and most builds work if you understand how your skills support each other.

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