Special Skills

Special skills are skills that belong into the special category in Divinity: Original Sin 2.

Description

Special skills are skills that have special criteria which needs to be met in order to be used. One such criteria is weapon skills needing their corresponding weapon(s) equipped in order to be learnt and consequently used. Some skills are exclusive to summoned creatures such as the Swap Places spell of the Black Cat.

Note that each skill has different damage scaling due to its type (weapon-based vs magic) and damage type. As an example the source skill Blinding Squall scales with Aerotheurge as it deals air damage and since it is magic skill its damage formula is: Damage = (Base Damage) x (1 + Elemental Bonus%) x (1 + Attribute Bonus% + Weapon Skill Bonus %) x (1 + High Ground Bonus% + Crit Bonus%) x ( 1 + Misc Bonus %).

On the other hand the skill All In will scale with Warfare if the weapon used deals physical damage. Since it is weapon-based skill (it requires weapon in order to be cast) its damage formula is: Damage = (Base Damage) x (1 + Elemental Bonus%) x (1 + Attribute Bonus% + Weapon Skill Bonus% + Misc Bonuses%) x (1 + High Ground Bonus% + Crit Bonus%).

Categories

Origin Source skills

Skill	Effect	Cost	Character
File:Blinding Squall.png Blinding Squall	Beast summons a storm to target area; File:Blinded.png blinding all foes without magical armour and dealing air damage.	File:Action Point Icon.png Action Point(s): 2 File:Source Point Icon.png Source Point(s): 1	Marcus Miles
File:Break the Shackles.png Break the Shackles	Sebille dispells almost all negative statuses on herself including Shackles of Pain.	File:Action Point Icon.png Action Point(s): 1 File:Source Point Icon.png Source Point(s): 1	Sebille Kaleran
File:Demonic Stare.png Demonic Stare	The Red Prince steals a certain amount of the magic armour from selected opponent.	File:Action Point Icon.png Action Point(s): 2 File:Source Point Icon.png Source Point(s): 1	The Red Prince
File:Dome of Protection.png Dome of Protection	Mahalia and Rahymus summon a protective dome that restores physical and magic armour for each turn characters are in its field.	File:Action Point Icon.png Action Point(s): 1 File:Source Point Icon.png Source Point(s): 1	Custom Godwoken
File:Maddening Song.png Maddening Song	Lohse makes targeted enemies without magic armour attack those nearest to them, regardless of alliance.	File:Action Point Icon.png Action Point(s): 2 File:Source Point Icon.png Source Point(s): 1	Lohse
File:Summon Ifan's Soul Wolf.png Summon Ifan's Soul Wolf	Ifan summons a Soul Wolf into the combat which can bite and howl at enemies.	File:Action Point Icon.png Action Point(s): 3 File:Source Point Icon.png Source Point(s): 1	Ifan ben-Mezd
File:Time Warp.png Time Warp	Fane grants the target character an extra turn after finishing their previous one.	File:Action Point Icon.png Action Point(s): 2 File:Source Point Icon.png Source Point(s): 1	Fane

Racial skills

Racial skills are skills that are innate to every playable race and are always accompanied by corresponding talents.

Skill	Effect	Cost	Races
File:Dragon's Blaze.png Dragon's Blaze	This skill will set fire in a cone form in-front of the casting character and deal fire damage.	File:Action Point Icon.png Action Point(s): 1	Lizards
File:Encourage.png Encourage	Encourage boosts attributes of allies (except Memory).	File:Action Point Icon.png Action Point(s): 1	Humans
File:Flesh Sacrifice (icon).png Flesh Sacrifice	Gain 1 action point and 10 % damage boost, at the cost of constitution, during combat.	File:Action Point Icon.png Action Point(s): 0	Elves
File:Petrifying Touch.png Petrifying Touch	Petrify your enemy as you deal earth damage to them.	File:Action Point Icon.png Action Point(s): 2	Dwarves
File:Play Dead.png Play Dead	Pretend to die in order to escape combat or make enemies lose interest.	File:Action Point Icon.png Action Point(s): 0	Undead

Weapon skills

The following skills are automatically obtained whenever character wields a specific type of weapon.

Skill	Effect	Cost	Required Weapon
File:All In.png All In	Perform a heavy attack that deals X-Y physical damage.	File:Action Point Icon.png Action Point(s): 3	Two-Handed Melee weapons
File:DOS2 Skill Flurry.png Flurry	Perform three quick attacks, each dealing X-Y physical damage.	File:Action Point Icon.png Action Point(s): 3	Dual Wielding daggers Dual wielding one handed weapons
File:DOS2 Skill Shields Up.png Shields Up	Restore the Physical Armour and Magic Armour on yourself.	File:Action Point Icon.png Action Point(s): 2	Shield
File:Staff Of Magus.png Staff of Magus	Launch a magical missile from your staff that deals X-Y elemental damage.	File:Action Point Icon.png Action Point(s): 2	Staff
File:Sucker Punch.png Sucker Punch	An unexpected blow, that deals X-Y physical damage and knocks down target.	File:Action Point Icon.png Action Point(s): 1	Unarmed off-hand

NPC skills

• Burrow - used by summoned Bone Widow
• Assume Dragon Form
• Dragonfall
• Dimensional Dive - used by Kraken
• Summon Parasitic Heart
• Summon Eternal Stalker
• Swap Places
• Unlock Magic
• Force Push
• Mute
• Deafening Shriek
• Void Glide
• Void Howl
• Harbinger's Step - Harbinger of Doom teleports to chosen location