Abilities | Divinity Original Sin Wiki


Abilities in Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition are the foundation upon which your characters are built for the rest of the game. The Abilities are divided into 6 categories for easy reference as to how they help to develop your character.

You start with zero Abilities, but are given 5 points to pick your favourites and add a level to them during the Character Creation phase.The more points(or levels) you put into a certain ability (e.g. Aerotheurge), the more skills you can learn from that ability (e.g. Air Shield skill that you can only learn if you have 3 points in your Aerotheurge ability).

Levelling Up


To level up a certain Ability, you need ability points equal to the level you want to increase to. E.g. If you wanted to level up your Crafting Ability from level 3 to 4, you will need 4 ability points. If you wanted to increase it then from level 4 to level 5, you would need 5 more ability points. Gaining ability points can be tricky, so use your points wisely.

 

Abilities

 

Weapon Abilities in Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition increase the character's effectiveness with various weapon types. By increasing these Abilities, characters will deal more damage, gain Critical Damage or reduce the AP cost of attacking.

Weapon Abilities

 

Ability

Description

Ability_Bow.jpg

Bow

Ability_Crossbow.jpg

Crossbow
  • Crossbow increases the critical chance and the critical damage you do using Crossbows.
  • Level 1: Boost starts at +10% critical chance boost and sets base critical damage multiplier to 220%.
  • Each following point boosts the critical chance (by 4%, except level 5 boost is only 3%) and the critical damage multiplier (by 20%).
  • Level 5 crossbow ability would have 25% critical chance and 300% critical damage multiplier.
  • Level 6 in crossbow increases critical chance to 27% but doesn't change critical damage multiplier.
  • There is no benefit to increasing the crossbow ability beyond level 6.
  • Bonuses can be found on Weapons (Single-handed, Two-handed, Bows, and Crossbows), Shields, Bracers and Belts.

Ability_DualWielding.jpg

Dual Wielding
  • Dual Wielding reduces damage penalty and total Action Point cost when wielding two Weapons.
  • Level 1: Sets dual wielding damage penalty to -20% and reduces cost of attacking by 1AP.
    Level 2: Sets dual wielding damage penalty to -20% and reduces cost of attacking by 2AP.
    Level 3: Sets dual wielding damage penalty to -10% and reduces cost of attacking by 2AP.
    Level 4: Sets dual wielding damage penalty to -0% and reduces cost of attacking by 2AP.
    Level 5: Sets dual wielding damage penalty to -0% and reduces cost of attacking by 3AP.
    Level 6: Sets dual wielding damage penalty to +5% and reduces cost of attacking by 3AP.
  • Bonuses can be found on Weapons (Single-handed, Two-handed, Bows, and Crossbows), Shields, Bracers and Belts.

Ability_SingleHanded.jpg

Single-Handed

Ability_TwoHanded.jpg

Two-Handed

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Ability_Wand.jpg

Wand
  • Wand increases damage from main hand Wand attacks.
  • Each point boosts damage by 10%.



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    • Anonymous
      14 Sep 2021 17:18  

      Ability points gaining, level 2-5 gains 1, level 6-10 gain 2, level 11+ gains 3.
      Attribute points +1 on each evan level (2,4,6...).
      Talents starting from levels 3 and then gain one each 4 levels. (3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 21.)

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