new skills on weapons - How?

[mlh06]

Ok, will I automatically gain new skills, such as 'sweep' with my cutlass along the way after leveling up with the weapon? Or are there certain quests I should do to get training to use new skills. I'm a lv7 on my iron cutlass but haven't gotten any new skills for it.

btw - I am an unlimited member.

THanks!

[TooHip]

With each weapon level up you will recieve a skill point for that weapon that can be used to learn new skills, or improve old ones. Some skills will require a specific level to unlock.

Press K while playing to see your skills and notice the skill points listed in the lower right corner. Then mouse over the skill circles to see which skills you can "spend" those points on to improve or learn. Some will most likely be locked, but you will see what level they unlock at this way.

Be sure to poke around on the forums to learn which upgrades you should use and when. Careful use of skill points will help you advance while careless use could actually make some things more difficult.

Good luck mate!

[mlh06]

ok. thank you. that was very helpful. I actually had quite a few skill points to spend on each of my weapons. I chose to learn some of them and spent the skill points however, nothing happened after. I never learned how to do them, nor did they showup as an option to use them while I was using the weapon.

This should be obvious, but do I have to go somewhere to let someone train me? how do I actually use the new skills?

[theblastmage]

there are three types of skills, combo skills, activatable skills and passive skills

at the top of the skill menu are your combo skills, with the dagger and cutlass, press the attack button at the end of an attack to use the next combo skill.

for the grenades and pistol, hold down the attack key to use "take aim" (pistol) or "long volly" (grenades) the doll's combo skill lets you attune targets, and the staff has a 1 attack combo.

the activatable skills appear at the bottom of your screen when you weild the weapon, you know about these already though.

passive skills take effect immediately after learning the skill and the effects are permanent, you never have to re-activate a passive skill, you'll always have it's effects.

i hope this helped