all the chars have the same skills, they just look different. push s to pick your skills and build. If your europe then only get 1 mastery, if your chinese then get 1 weapon, 1 imbue and 1-2 sub masteries for buffs.
Example, if your chinese archer then you can get.
Bow mastery and skills

thats where your weapon skills come from, also each lvl in mastery gives 1% phy dmg.
Fire mastery and skills

thats where you get the fire imbue and the other prebuff skills. also each lvl in mastery gives 1% fire dmg when using imbue.
Cold mastery and skills

thats a prebuff submastery
Lightning mastery and skills

thats a prebuff submastery
if your europe then only pick 1 mastery and lvl the skills that match your weapon. Like if your rogue archer, then dont lvl the dagger skills. you'll see which is which. You get the first skills at lvl 5, which is imbue and 1 weapon skill I think, thats for chinese. I played this game for a year and a half and then quit. Was very fun while it lasted. Got a lvl 80 and 73 char going to waste right now on venice.
This post was edited by MirkoCroCop on Jan 6 2008 03:58am