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This page describes various skills that can be aquired in Gothic and if you should get them or not. Note: this advice is based on how the game is balanced. If you ''like'' sneaking around the forest with a bow, by all means, aquire those skills! Note: SP = skill points.
This page describes various skills that can be aquired in Gothic and if you should get them or not. Note: this advice is based on how the game is balanced. If you ''like'' sneaking around the forest with a bow, by all means, aquire those skills! Note: SP = skill points.


==Two-handed weapons (guard) vs. magic conundrum==
==Two-handed weapons vs. magic conundrum==
If you join the old camp, you'll have a choice somewhere during chapter 2 to become a guard ''or'' a fire magician. A guard can learn two-handed weapon skills, a magician can learn how to use runes.<!-- I THINK if you become a guard and learn two-handed weapon skills, you can still become a water magician later on -->
If you join the old camp as a ''shadow'', you'll have a choice in chapter 2 after [[Gothic/Secretion of the Minecrawlers|Secretion of the Minecrawlers]] to become a guard ''or'' a fire magician. A guard can learn two-handed weapon skills, a fire magician can learn [[#Magic|how to use runes]]. (up to the fourth circle)<!-- I THINK if you become a guard and learn two-handed weapon skills, you can still become a water magician later on --> As a fire magician, you will have a chance to become a water magician (up to the fifth circle) later on.


If you're not a magician, you can use magic by using spell scrolls. These are one-use only and only a limited supply is available from merchants, chests etc. This means you can't go around killing the majority of enemies using magic. If you're not a guard, you can use two-handed weapons anyway (assuming you have enough strength), but only untrained. This means you can't use the weapon very efficiently. Not being able to strike in quick succession makes it nearly impossible to take down stronger enemies.
If you join the new camp as a ''rogue'', you can be a mercenary (similar to guard) or a water magician. (up to the fifth circle)<!-- need to test this properly -->
 
If you join the swamp camp as a ''novice'', you can only become a templar. You can learn magic circles 1-4 from Baal Cadar right away once you become a novice, earlier than the other two camps. However, you won't be able to become a water magician later on so you'll never be able to enter circles 5 and 6. Learning magic circles from Baal Cadar won't prevent you from learning two-handed weapons because you're not a magician, so you can have both magic and two-handed weapons if you join the swamp camp.
 
If you're not a magician, you can use magic by using spell scrolls. These are one-use only and only a limited supply is available from merchants, chests etc. This means you can't go around killing the majority of enemies using magic. If you're a magician you can use two-handed weapons anyway (assuming you have enough strength), but only untrained. This means you can't use the weapon very efficiently. Not being able to strike in quick succession makes it nearly impossible to take down stronger enemies.


Almost everything before the end of the game, even trolls, can essentially be handled with one-handed weapons, provided you obtain one of the stronger one-handed weapons like Lares' axe, Raven's sword or Scar's sword. Near the end of the game, you '''will''' be forced to use either a two-handed weapon or a sixth circle rune. Becoming a sixth circle magician may well be impossible at this point if you don't have enough skill points and everything is already dead. It may also be impossible if you're not a fifth circle magician yet and you've upset Saturas, because Xardas will just keep telling you to go back to Saturas to learn the fifth circle.
Almost everything before the end of the game, even trolls, can essentially be handled with one-handed weapons, provided you obtain one of the stronger one-handed weapons like Lares' axe, Raven's sword or Scar's sword. Near the end of the game, you '''will''' be forced to use either a two-handed weapon or a sixth circle rune. Becoming a sixth circle magician may well be impossible at this point if you don't have enough skill points and everything is already dead. It may also be impossible if you're not a fifth circle magician yet and you've upset Saturas, because Xardas will just keep telling you to go back to Saturas to learn the fifth circle.
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