UO Swordsmanship Skill Guide

Swordsmanship is the combat proficiency that governs bladed and edged weapons such as swords, axes, and other slashing arms. Whenever you fight while wielding a swordsmanship weapon, the skill is applied automatically to work out both your likelihood of landing a blow and how well you avoid your opponent's strikes. A higher rating makes you a more reliable attacker and a tougher target in melee.

Skill gains are based on landing hits with swords or axes. Faster weapons provide more attempts per minute, improving gains.

As your Swordsmanship climbs, you unlock the special abilities built into each weapon:

• At 70 skill you can trigger a weapon's primary special move.
• At 90 skill you gain access to the weapon's secondary special move.
• Every point in between improves your raw chance to hit and your defensive chance to be missed.

Your real damage output with a swordsmanship weapon depends on the weapon itself plus your Strength, Dexterity, Anatomy and Tactics, any Lumberjacking bonus on axe-type weapons, the crafting material, and item properties such as Damage Increase and Swing Speed Increase. The table below lists every swordsmanship weapon with its strength requirement, base damage, speed and baseline DPS.

Swordsmanship weapons — strength requirement, damage, speed, and DPS (data from Stratics).