There are MANY skills that you can learn in Dark Age of Camelot. From Swimming, to Disguise, to Battle Skills, to Smithing, to Cooking, there is always variety and things that will set your character apart from the rest. Looking at the samples of skills that have been announced, we were able to break them into four distinct types; Movement Skills, Battle Skills, Trade Skills, and Crafting Activities Skills.

Movement skills are things such as swimming, climbing, leaping, etc. Some of these skills are going to be more valuable to different classes and therefore easier for them to learn. For example, a rogue would be able to learn leaping (which allows a player to jump a larger gap and grab the opposite edge, or if they fall to take less damage) faster and more easily than say a sorcerer trying to learn the same skill.

Battle skills are things which will improve your skills with weapons and help you to avoid getting hit. There hasn't been much information released on these, but we will add more as it becomes available.

Trade Skills are things such as Smithing which creates items that other players will use. The items made from trade skills will have little or no value to NPC's, but after a certain level (roughly 30-40% of maximum) store-bought equipment will become increasingly inferior to player-crafted, to ensure a market for player-created items.

Crafting Activities are things such as Cooking which will produce an item that is more for fun and role playing then actually being something to help you with fighting. These do not require any training (i.e. they dont use skill points) and anyone will be able to do them by combining the proper ingredients in the proper ways. There may be titles associated with these, such as with cooking you may become a "Master Baker" or "Chef" based on how many of the recipes you have used.