User:Cloud/Skill Tags

Skill Tags

I've been maintaining a skill database for a long time and one aspect that I'd like to see moved into GWW are tags used to categorize skills. Included here is the basic naming pattern and specific tags that I've used, and while I'd like to keep the general level of detail I'm quite happy to discuss names and groupings. I already have these assigned to skills, although some (especially Nightfall skills) didn't get looked over very carefully -- a fact I'm in the process of correcting.

If you'd like to know what on earth I could possibly want to use all this for, visit GuildBuilds create a new character and click the Change Filter button at the top of the skill list.

Composition of a Tag

A tag is either one of the special tags or is built from an aspect with optional (up to one each) effect, target, and area suffixes attached with dashes.

Aspect

• adrenal - Adrenaline pool used by warrior and paragon skills
• armor - Armor rating
• attack - Standard weapon attacks
• block - Chance to block attacks
• cast - Activation time of spells
• corpse - Body of slain corpeal creature
• critical - Critical hit chance
• damage - Direct damage or weapon bonus damage.
• ecost - Energy cost of skill
• enchant - Enchantments
• energy - Energy
• exhaust - Energy exhaustion
• heal - Direct healing
• health - Used for things that effect health but aren't heals or damage
• hex - Under the effect of a hex spell
• interrupt - Interruption of a foes skill or action
• item - Something held (e.g. flag, repair kit, ashes of an item spell)
• knockdown - Knockdown
• lock - Locks skill or skills making them unusable for a period of time
• minion - Animated undead minions
• move - Movement speed
• preparation - Ranger preparations
• recharge - Skill recharge time, not skill lock a la Diversion
• rez - Resurrects dead party members or animal companions
• sacrifice - Life sacrifice as part of skill activation
• shadowstep - Assassin style shadow-step, not pure teleports
• shout - Shout or chant
• signet - Signet skills
• skill - Generic skill
• spell - Skills of the spell family (enchant, hex, etc)
• spirit - Created or summoned spirits
• stance - Stance of user or target
• teleport - True teleport, not shadow-step
• touch - Touch skills
• weapon - Weapon spells

Condition Aspects

• condition - Any or all conditions
• bleeding - Bleeding condition
• blind - Blind condition
• burning - Burning condition
• crippled - Crippled condition
• dazed - Dazed condition
• deepwound - Deepwound condition
• disease - Disease condition
• poison - Poison condition
• weakness - Weakness condition

Effect

• buff - Improves the aspect (e.g. dmg, heal, move speed) but separately applied
• counter - Decreases effectiveness or prevents completely
• drain - Removes from pool of energy or adrenaline
• gain - Increase in pool of energy or adrenaline
• gone - Completely empties pool (adrenaline or energy)
• leak - Periodic loss, triggered by some event
• nerf - Weakens the effect (e.g. low armor, higher cast time, etc)
• punish - Cause extra damage, conditions, or energy loss when aspect applies to foe
• remove - Removal of aspect (e.g. condition, hex, enchant)
• uses - Takes advantage of allied aspect (e.g. being enchanted)

Target

Used only for 'wrong' (e.g. heal foe, dmg ally) or unusual targets

• ally - Allied to skill user
• foe - Something hostile to skill user, usually target of skill
• pet - Personal or allied animal companions
• self - Applies to user of the skill

Area

Tags with area modifiers should always be accompanied by the unadorned version, and if more then one area modifier applies, use multiple tags. For example, Fire Storm should have 'damage', 'damage-aoe', and 'damage-ot'

• aoe - Effects others around target
• ot - Applies over time (e.g. fire storm, empathy)

Special

• lead-attack - Acts as lead attack in assassin skill chain
• offhand-attack - Acts as off-hand attack in assassin skill chain

Tags currently assigned to skills

Tag	Examples	Description
adrenal-counter	Soothing Images	Prevents adrenaline gain or use
adrenal-drain-aoe	Ancestor's Visage	Causes adrenaline loss to multiple targets
adrenal-gain	"To the Limit!"	Gives adrenaline directly or increases the rate its gained
adrenal-gain-aoe	Dark Fury	Gives adrenaline directly or increases the rate for multiple targets
adrenal-gone	Wild Blow	You lose all adrenaline
adrenal-punish	Signet of Rage	Extra effect against users of adrenal skills
armor-buff	Dolyak Signet	Increases target armor rating
armor-nerf	Weaken Armor	Reduces target armor rating
armor-nerf-self	Elemental Resistance	Reduces users armor rating
attack-counter	Pacifism Reckless Haste	Prevents or causes attacks to miss (not blocking)
attack-punish	Empathy	Target gets damage, conditions, or energy loss when attacking
attackspeed-buff	Frenzy	Increases attack rate
attackspeed-nerf	Shadow of Fear	Reduces targets attack rate
block	Aegis	May block incoming attacks
block-counter	Crossfire Rigor Mortis Wild Blow	Prevents or reduces the chance of target blocking attacks
block-punish	Swift Chop	Extra effect against blocking foe
cast-buff	Glyph of Sacrifice	Reduces time to cast spells
*** cast-nerf	*** use spell-counter	Increases cast time of spells
*** cast-punish	*** use spell-punish	Extra effect if target is casting a spell
corpse	Animate Bone Fiend Well of Blood	Requires and exploits an unexploited corpse
corpse-counter	Malign Intervention	Prevents corpse exploitation
corpse-uses	Lamentation	Added effect when corpse is present
critical-buff	Critical Eye	Causes or increases chance of a critical hit
critical-counter	Balanced Stance	Prevents critical hits from occuring
damage	Flare Power Attack	Direct damage, or bonus damage on a weapon
damage-aoe	Fire Storm Cyclone Axe	Causes damage to multiple targets
damage-buff	Barbs Strength of Honor	Enhances damage done
damage-limit	Angelic Protection Protective Spirit	Limits damage received
damage-nerf	Shielding Hands	Reduces damage when it is taken
damage-ot	Empathy Fire Storm	Inflicts damage over time
damage-self	Ether Prodigy	Damage to self, but not a sacrifice
ecost-buff	Glyph of Lesser Energy	Reduces energy cost of skills
ecost-nerf	Primal Echoes	Increases energy cost of skills
enchant-buff	Blessed Aura	Makes enchantments last longer
enchant-counter	Nature's Renewal	Makes enchantments harder to apply or expire sooner
enchant-punish	Defile Enchantments	Better against enchanted foes
enchant-remove	Rend Enchantments	Enchantment removal
enchant-uses	Dwayna's Kiss	Better when target ally is enchanted
energy-buff	Mighty Was Vorizun	Increases maximum energy
energy-degen	Malaise	Energy degeneration
energy-degen-self	"The Power Is Yours!"	Energy degeneration
energy-drain	Energy Burn	Removes energy from target
energy-drain-aoe	Chaos Storm Signet of Weariness	Removes energy from multiple targets
energy-drain-ot	Chaos Storm Spirit Shackles	Removes energy from target or targets over time
energy-gain	Offering of Blood	Restores energy
energy-gain-aoe	Aria of Zeal	Restores energy to multiple allies
energy-gain-foe	Power Return	Restores energy to foe
energy-gain-ot	Critical Eye Spirit of Failure	Restores energy whenever event occurs
energy-gone	Glyph of Essence	You lose all energy
energy-leak	Divine Boon Spinal Shivers	You lose energy whenever event occurs
energy-regen	Blood Ritual	Energy regeneration
exhaust	Arcane Languor Equinox	Causes or increases exhaustion
heal	Gift of Health	Heals
heal-aoe	Heal Area	Healing multiple targets
heal-buff	Life Attunement	Improves heals or causes heals as side effect
heal-counter	Scourge Healing	Reduces or prevents healing
heal-nerf	Lingering Curse	Prevents or reduces effectiveness of healing
heal-ot	Healing Seed	Healing per second or per event
heal-pet	Comfort Animal	Heals animal companion
heal-self	Ether Feast	Pure self-heal, or heals self as a side effect
health-buff	Endure Pain Vital Weapon	Increase maximum health
health-degen	Conjure Phantasm	Health degeneration
health-degen-self	Malaise	User gets health degeneration
health-regen	Healing Breeze	Health regeneration
health-steal	Vampiric Gaze	Life stealing
hex-buff	Mantra of Persistence	Increases duration of hexes
hex-counter	Hex Breaker Holy Veil	Prevents hexes, reduces effect, or makes them harder to apply
hex-punish	Accumulated Pain Soul Barbs	Added effect against hexed targets
hex-remove	Remove Hex	Hex removal
hex-remove-aoe	Hex Eater Signet	Removes hexes from multiple allies
hex-uses	Dwayna's Kiss	Better when target ally is hexed
interrupt	Distracting Shot Power Spike	Interrupts skill or action
interrupt-aoe	Choking Gas Distracting Blow	Interrupts multiple targets
interrupt-counter	Glyph of Concentration	Prevents or mitigates interruptions
item-uses	Soothing Memories	Better when caster and/or target is holding an item
knockdown	Gale	Causes knockdown
knockdown-buff	Earthbind	Increases knockdown duration
knockdown-counter	Balanced Stance	Prevents knockdowns
knockdown-punish	Aftershock	Better against knocked down foes
lead-attack	Iron Palm	Functions as a lead attack for Assassin skill chains
lock	Blackout Simply Thievery	Foe skill is unusable for period of time
lock-ally	Rebirth	Locks skills of ally (e.g. Rebirth)
lock-self	Focused Shot	Locks some or all of your skills
minion	Animate Bone Fiend Blood of the Master	Creation and maintainence of undead minions
minion-punish	Banishing Strike	Better when the target foe is a minion
minion-uses	Taste of Death	Requires or benefits from the use of a minion
move-buff	Sprint	Increases movement speed
move-nerf	Ice Prison Imagined Burden	Reduces movement speed, but not by crippling
move-nerf-self	Obsidian Flesh	Reduces users movement speed, but not by crippling
move-punish	Bull's Strike	Better against moving foes
off-hand-attack	Mantis Touch	Functions as an off-hand attack for Assassin skill chains
preparation-buff	Practiced Stance	Make preparations last longer
recharge-buff	Arcane Echo Mantra of Recovery	Recharages skills or reduces recharge time (directly or by creating a duplicate)
recharge-nerf	Tease	Increases skill recharge time
recharge-nerf-self	Glyph of Sacrifice	Increases users skill recharge time
rez	Restore Life	Resurrect party members
rez-buff	"We Shall Return!"	Increased initial health and energy when resurrected
rez-pet	Comfort Animal	Resurrect animal companions
rez-temp	Vengeance	Temporary ressurection (e.g. Vengence, Unyielding Aura)
sacrifice	Blood is Power	Skill activation involves a life sacrifice
sacrifice-nerf	Awaken the Blood	Makes sacrifices hurt more
sacrifice-punish	Scourge Sacrifice	Extra health or energy loss when target does sacrifices
shadowstep	Death's Charge	Skill involves shadow stepping
shout-buff	Vocal was Sogolon	Increase duration of shouts or chants
signet-buff	Keystone Signet	Improves signets, generally by reducing recharge or activation
signet-counter	Ignorance	Prevents signets or makes them more difficult to use
skill-copy	Arcane Echo	Duplicates another skill
skill-punish	Spiteful Spirit	Punishes the use of skills in general (e.g. Spiteful Spirit)
spell-counter	Guilt Spell Breaker	Prevents, makes more difficult, or works to counteract spell casting
spell-punish	Backfire	Punishes the use of spells
spirit	Bloodsong Winter Anguished Was Lingwah	Creates a spirit
spirit-counter	Unnatural Signet	Prevents, destroys, or otherwise makes spirits less effective
spirit-punish	Banishing Strike	Added effects with enemy spirits
spirit-uses	Mend Body and Soul	Better when spirits are present
stance-counter	Wild Blow	Prevents, ends, or shortens duration of stances
stance-uses	Standing Slash	Added effect when target is in stance
teleport	Consume Corpse Rebirth	Teleportation, not shadow-stepping. (e.g. Consume Corpse, Rebirth)
touch	Vampiric Touch	Skill is a touch skill
touch-counter	"Can't Touch This!"	Prevents touch skills
weapon-uses	Wielder's Boon	Better depending on if the user and target are under weapon spells

Condition tags

Tag	Examples	Description
condition-aoe	Fevered Dreams	Spreads conditions to multiple targets
condition-buff	Extend Conditions	Increase condition duration
condition-counter	Avatar of Melandru Infuse Condition	Prevents or reduces duration of conditions
condition-punish	Fragility	Extra effect against target suffering from condtion
condition-remove	Draw Conditions Mend Ailment	Condition removal, works on any condition
condition-remove-aoe	Martyr	Remove conditions of any type from multiple allies
condition-remove-foe	Crystal Wave	Removes one or more conditions from foe
condition-self	Draw Conditions	Causes user to contract conditions
condition-transfer	Plague Touch	Transfers condition from you to target, imples condition removal
condition-transfer-aoe	Plague Sending	Transfers condition from you to multiple targets
condition-uses	Words of Comfort	Extra effect when target ally has a condition
bleeding	Sever Artery	Causes bleeding
bleeding-punish	Gash	Extra effect against bleeding targets
bleeding-self	Blood Drinker	Makes user start bleeding
blind	Blinding Flash	Causes blindness
blind-aoe	Blinding Surge	Causes blindness to multiple targets
blind-punish	Signet of Shadows	Extra effect against blind targets
blind-remove	Antidote Signet	Removes blindness
burning	Immolate	Causes burning
burning-punish	Searing Flames	Extra effect against burning targets
burning-self	Cautery Signet	Sets youreself on fire
crippled	Axe Rake	Causes crippling
crippled-punish	Jungle Strike	Better against crippled foes
crippled-remove	Illusion of Haste	Crippled removal
crippled-self	Illusion of Haste	Cripples user of the skill
dazed	Broad Head Arrow	Causes dazed
dazed-counter	Glyph of Concentration	Ignores, prevents, or reduces the duration of dazed
deepwound	Dismember	Causes deep wound
deepwound-punish	Axe Rake	Added effect against targets with Deep Wound
disease	Rotting Flesh	Causes disease
disease-remove	Antidote Signet	Removes disease
poison	Poison Arrow	Causes target to be poisoned
poison-remove	Antidote Signet	Poison removal
poison-self	Chilblains	Makes yourself poisoned
weakness	Enfeeble	Causes weakness
weakness-punish	Heavy Blow	Better against targets with weakness