Skills

Skills are a recurring game mechanic that grants travelers various abilities during battle based on their primary and secondary jobs.

• Octopath Traveler
• Champions of the Continent
• Octopath Traveler II

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Skills can be acquired by spending JP. Each traveler can learn the skills of each job, but may only use the skills of their current active primary and secondary jobs during battle.

JP Cost

The JP cost to learn a new skill is specific to the class. For instance, learning a fourth skill for one job will always cost 100 JP and will not count the total number of skills across all jobs.

As the traveler learns more skills, the corresponding job's Support Skills will also be unlocked.

Divine Skills may only be learned once all 7 skills are learned.

Skill #	JP Cost
	Normal Jobs	Normal Jobs Total	Advanced Jobs	Advanced Jobs Total
1	*Known*	0	*Known*	0
2	*Known*	0	*Known*	0
3	30	30	2,000	2,000
4	100	130	2,000	4,000
5	500	630	2,000	6,000
6	1,000	1,630	2,000	8,000
7	3,000	4,630	2,000	10,000
Divine Skill	5,000	9,630	5,000	15,000

Job Skills

• Cleric
• Scholar
• Merchant
• Warrior
• Dancer
• Apothecary
• Thief
• Hunter

Cleric 

Skill	SP	Damage Type	Description
Heal Wounds	8		Restore HP to all allies.
Holy Light	6		Inflict light-based damage on a single foe.
Sheltering Veil	6		Augment a single ally's elemental defense for 2 turns.
Luminescence	9		Deal light-based damage to all foes.
Heal More	25		Restore a large amount of HP to all allies.
Reflective Veil	22		Grant a single ally the ability to reflect one elemental attack.
Revive	50		Revive all incapacitated allies.
Aelfric's Auspices	30		[Divine Skill] For 3 turns, skills performed by a single chosen ally will trigger twice (this will not effect other divine skills).

Scholar 

Skill	SP	Damage Type	Description
Fireball	8		Deal fire damage to all foes.
Icewind	8		Deal ice damage to all foes.
Lightning Bolt	8		Deal lightning damage to all foes.
Analyze	1		Reveal the HP and one weakness of a single foe.
Fire Storm	22		Deal fire damage to all foes twice.
Blizzard	22		Deal ice damage to all foes twice.
Lightning Blast	22		Deal lightning damage to all foes twice.
Alephan's Enlightenment	30		[Divine Skill] For 3 turns, spells cast by a single chosen ally that usually target all foes will instead be focused on a single foe at increased intensity.

Merchant 

Skill	SP	Damage Type	Description
Collect	2		Collect money from a single foe.
Tradewinds	7		Deal heavy wind damage to a single foe.
Rest	0		Restore one's own HP and SP, and cure status ailments.
Trade Tempest	10		Deal wind damage to all foes.
Donate BP	3		Grant 1 BP to an ally.
Sidestep	10		Dodge a single physical attack with a 100% success rate.
Hired Help	0		Pay money to summon hired help to the battlefield.
Bifelgan's Bounty	30		[Divine Skill] Unleash a non-elemental attack on a single foe and receive money equivalent to the damage dealt.

Warrior 

Skill Name	SP	Damage Type	Description
Level Slash	9		Attack all foes with a sword.
Abide	4		Increase the user's physical attack strength for 3 turns.
Spearhead	6		Attack a single foe with a polearm, and act earlier on your next turn.
Incite	4		Become more readily targeted by foes for 3 turns.
Cross Strike	12		Unleash a sword attack on a single foe.
Stout Wall	4		Increase the user's physical defense for 3 turns.
Thousand Spears	20		Attack random foes with a polearm 5 to 10 times.
Brand's Thunder	30		[Divine Skill] Unleash a tremendously powerful sword attack on a single foe.

Dancer 

Skill	SP	Damage Type	Description
Lion Dance	4		Augment a single ally's physical attacks for 2 turns.
Moonlight Waltz	7		Deal heavy dark damage to a single foe.
Peacock Strut	4		Augment a single ally's elemental attacks for 2 turns.
Mole Dance	4		Augment a single ally's physical defense for 2 turns.
Night Ode	10		Deal dark damage to all foes.
Panther Dance	4		Augment a single ally's speed for 2 turns.
Bewildering Grace	25		Cause a curious effect to occur one time.
Sealticge's Seduction	30		[Divine Skill] For 3 turns, skills performed by a single ally that usually target one foe* will affect all foes instead (this will not affect divine skills).

*Buffs that usually target one ally will also affect all allies.

Apothecary 

Skill Name	SP Cost	Damage Type	Description
First Aid	4		Restore HP to a single ally.
Icicle	7		Deal ice damage to a single foe.
Rehabilitate	10		Cure a single ally of all status ailments, and render them immune to further ailments for 2 turns.
Amputation	8		Unleash an axe attack on a single foe.
Empoison	6		Poison a single foe for 2 turns.
Vivify	16		Revive a single incapacitated ally.
Last Stand	16		Attack all foes with an axe, dealing damage inversely proportional to your current HP.
Dohter's Charity	30		[Divine Skill] For 3 turns, items used by a single chosen ally will affect all.

Thief 

Skill	SP	Damage Type	Description
Steal	2		Steal an item from a single foe.
Wildfire	7		Deal heavy fire damage to a single foe.
HP Thief	6		Attack a single foe twice with a dagger, and steal HP equivalent to half of the damage dealt.
Shackle Foe	4		Reduce a single foe's physical attack strength for 2 turns.
Armor Corrosive	4		Reduce a single foe's physical defense for 2 turns.
Steal SP	6		Attack a single foe twice with a dagger and steal SP equivalent to 5% of damage dealt.
Share SP	0		Bestow SP equivalent to 50% of one's current SP to a single ally.
Aeber's Reckoning	30		[Divine Skill] Attack all foes with a dagger, dealing damage proportional to your speed.

Hunter 

Skill	SP	Damage Type	Description
Rain of Arrows	8		Attack random foes 5 to 8 times with a bow.
True Strike	10		Deal critical damage with a bow to a single foe.
Thunderbird	7		Deal heavy lightning damage to a single foe.
Leghold Trap	6		Cause a single foe to act at the end of the turn for 2 turns.
Mercy Strike	4		Attack a single foe with a bow. Otherwise lethal attacks will instead leave the target with 1 HP
Arrowstorm	24		Attack all foes 5 to 8 times with a bow.
Take Aim	8		Increase all allies' critical rate and accuracy for 2 turns.
Draefendi's Rage	30		[Divine Skill] Unleash a highly powerful bow attack on all foes.

Advanced Job Skills

• Starseer
• Runelord
• Warmaster
• Sorcerer

Starseer 

Name	SP	Damage Type	Description
Shooting Stars	35		Deal wind, light, and dark damage to all foes.
BP Boost	25		Allow a single ally to gain 2 BP per turn for 2 turns.
Divination	25		Increase a single ally's critical hit rate for 2 turns.
Starsong	25		Augments a single ally's physical defense, elemental defense, speed, and evasion for 2 turns.
Celestial Intervention	25		For 2 turns, render a single enemy unable to receive attribute augmentations, or a single ally immune to attribute penalties.
Ethereal Healing	30		Grant HP regeneration to all allies for 2 turns.
Moon's Reflection	30		Grant a single ally the ability to counter physical damage one time.
Steorra's Prophecy	50		[Divine] Unleash an elemental attack on all foes that deals damage proportional to the party's current BP.

Runelord 

Skill	SP	Damage Type	Description
Fire Rune	15		Weapons the user attacks with will deal additional fire damage for 3 turns.
Ice Rune	15		Weapons the user attacks with will deal additional ice damage for 3 turns.
Thunder Rune	15		Weapons the user attacks with will deal additional lightning damage for 3 turns.
Wind Rune	15		Weapons the user attacks with will deal additional wind damage for 3 turns.
Dark Rune	15		Weapons the user attacks with will deal additional dark damage for 3 turns.
Light Rune	15		Weapons the user attacks with will deal additional light damage for 3 turns.
Transfer Rune	25		For 3 turns, skills that usually target yourself alone will target your allies as well.
Balogar's Blade	50		[Divine Skill] Deal damage from each of the six elements to a single foe.

Warmaster 

Name	SP	Damage Type	Description
Guardian Liondog	35		Unleash 5 to 10 sword attacks against random foes.
Tiger Rage	35		Unleash an axe attack on all foes.
Qilin's Horn	35		Unleash a polearm attack on a single foe.
Yatagarasu	35		Unleash a dagger attack on all foes.
Fox Spirit	35		Unleash a staff attack on all foes.
Phoenix Storm	35		Unleash a bow attack on a single foe.
Nightmare Chimera	35		Unleash an attack on a single foe using a weapon of your choice. The weapon will be destroyed.
Winnehild's Battle Cry	50		[Divine Skill] Wield six weapons to unleash six attacks on all foes

Sorcerer 

Skill	SP	Damage Type	Description
Ignis Ardere	36		Deal fire damage to all foes 3 times.
Glacies Claudere	36		Deal ice damage to all foes 3 times.
Tonitrus Canere	36		Deal lightning damage to all foes 3 times.
Ventus Saltare	36		Deal wind damage to all foes 3 times.
Lux Congerere	36		Deal light damage to all foes 3 times.
Tenebrae Operire	36		Deal dark damage to all foes 3 times.
Elemental Break	20		Unleash a powerful staff attack on a single foe that also reduces the target's elemental defense for 2 turns.
Dreisang's Spell	50		[Divine] For 3 turns, elemental attacks performed by a single chosen ally will hit for critical damage.

See Also

• Support Skills

Trivia

• 77,040 JP is required to learn all skills for the first eight jobs for a single traveler, and 137,040 JP to learn all skills for all jobs. (This includes Divine Skills, which don't unlock Support Skills.)

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