Every skill in Ultima Online

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All fifty-eight skills, in the game’s own seven groups and its own order — uo.com’s Skill Titles & Order page, not a tidier arrangement of it. Each one has a page of its own with the published formulas, what it does in PvP and against monsters, and every figure uo.com does not publish marked [!] as unpublished where you would look for it.

Twenty-three of them have no Power Scroll and stop at 100. That is in the Caps column on every row, because it is the thing most often got wrong: Alchemy, Arms Lore, Bowcraft & Fletching, Carpentry, Cartography, Cooking, Inscription, Lumberjacking, Mining, Tinkering, Detecting Hidden, Hiding, Lockpicking, Poisoning, Remove Trap, Snooping, Camping, Herding, Tracking, Begging, Forensic Evaluation, Item Identification, Taste Identification.

Combat — 11 skills

Skill	What it does	Stats	Caps
Anatomy	Passively raises the damage of every weapon swing and sets how much each bandage heals; also reads a target's Strength and Dexterity.	Int/Str	120
Archery	The ranged weapon skill for bows and crossbows, hitting at seven to ten tiles but needing ammunition and a standing shot.	Dex/Str	120
Fencing	The weapon skill for fast stabbing weapons such as daggers, krysses and spears, and the natural home for applied poison.	Dex/Str	120
Focus	The warrior's answer to Meditation: it regenerates stamina and mana passively in any armour, and powers a mystic's spells.	Dex/Int	120
Healing	Binds wounds with bandages and no mana at all; paired with Anatomy it also cures poison at 60 and resurrects players at 80.	Int/Dex	120
Mace Fighting	The weapon skill for blunt maces, hammers and staves, which wear down an opponent's armour and drain their stamina on hit.	Str/Dex	120
Parry	Gives a chance to block an incoming melee or archery hit outright, using a shield or, alongside Bushido, the weapon itself.	Dex/Str	120
Swordsmanship	The weapon skill with by far the widest weapon list, from katanas to halberds, including the axes that gain a Lumberjacking bonus.	Str/Dex	120
Tactics	The warrior's core support skill: it unlocks weapon special moves at 30 and 60 and supplies the largest skill-based damage bonus.	Str/Dex	120
Throwing	The gargoyle-only ranged skill: thrown weapons that need no ammunition but hit properly only inside a mid-range sweet spot.	Dex/Str	120
Wrestling	Bare-handed combat, carried mostly by mages: it is your chance to be hit when empty-handed and gives Disarm and a stun without Tactics.	Str/Dex	120

Magic — 12 skills

Skill	What it does	Stats	Caps
Bushido	The samurai's reagent-free combat arts: weapon parrying, stacking Perfection damage, and defensive stances paid for in mana.	Str/Int	120
Chivalry	The paladin's ten spells, paid for with tithing points instead of reagents, and made stronger by a high karma score.	Str/Int	120
Evaluating Intelligence	The mage's damage skill: it multiplies Magery spell damage up to 4.6 times at 120 and sets bless and curse strength.	Int/Str	120
Imbuing	Adds chosen magic properties to items at a soulforge, and unravels magic loot into the residues, essences and relics that pay for it.	Int/Str	120
Magery	Sixty-four spells across eight circles covering damage, healing, travel, summoning and field control, all cast from reagents.	Int/Str	120
Meditation	Regenerates mana passively, and at double rate when actively invoked, but only while wearing leather or other medable armour.	Int/Str	120
Mysticism	Sixteen spells supported by Focus or Imbuing, built around buff-stripping, sleep effects, stored spells and heavy summons.	Int/Str	120
Necromancy	Dark magic of curses, undead summons and four body-altering forms, nearly all of it scaled by the Spirit Speak skill.	Int/Str	120
Ninjitsu	The assassin's toolkit: animal forms, mirror images, smoke bombs and attacks launched from stealth, topped by the delayed Death Strike.	Dex/Int	120
Resisting Spells	Sets a floor under all five elemental resistances and weakens a published list of stat-draining and disabling spells.	Str/Dex	120
Spellweaving	The arcanist's sixteen spells, all amplified by an Arcane Focus that grows stronger when several weavers cast the circle together.	Int/Str	120
Spirit Speak	Necromancy's support skill, scaling curse durations and power, and separately a way to channel healing from corpses or yourself.	Int/Str	120

Trade Skills — 12 skills

Skill	What it does	Stats	Caps
Alchemy	Brews potions from reagents, and raises the damage and duration of explosion, conflagration and invisibility potions for whoever throws them.	Int/Dex	100
Arms Lore	A passive crafting bonus adding up to 5% damage increase or resists to exceptionally crafted weapons and armour, but never shields.	Int/Str	100
Blacksmithy	Forges and repairs metal weapons, armour and shields, and turns coloured ore and runic hammers into player-made magic gear.	Str/Dex	120
Bowcraft & Fletching	Carves bows and crossbows from wood and makes every arrow, bolt and fukiya dart an archer or ninja fires.	Dex/Str	100
Carpentry	Works wood into weapons, shields, instruments, kegs and furniture, and needs high skill in five other crafts for its full menu.	Str/Dex	100
Cartography	Decodes treasure maps, widens how far around the spot you can dig, and sets the quality of the chest you pull up.	Int/Dex	100
Cooking	Turns ingredients into food, and at higher skill into the buff foods and magical fish pies other templates actually carry.	Int/Dex	100
Inscription	Scribes spell scrolls, spellbooks and runebooks, and gives a grandmaster caster a spell damage bonus that sits outside the item cap.	Int/Dex	100
Lumberjacking	Chops the wood every wood-craft needs, and separately adds damage when a swordsman fights with an axe or hatchet.	Str/Dex	100
Mining	Digs ore, granite, sand and gems out of rock and smelts ore into the ingots smiths and tinkers build everything from.	Str/Dex	100
Tailoring	Makes cloth and leather armour, bandages and arcane clothing, and with barbed runic kits the highest-property player-made suits.	Dex/Int	120
Tinkering	Makes the tools almost every other craft depends on, plus lockpicks, jewellery blanks, traps, bolas and golems.	Dex/Int	100

Thieving — 8 skills

Skill	What it does	Stats	Caps
Detecting Hidden	Reveals hidden players, traps and containers, passively within four tiles and actively over a wider search on a six-second timer.	Int/Dex	100
Hiding	Makes you invisible while standing still, with no expiry, and is the state Stealth requires before you can move unseen.	Dex/Int	100
Lockpicking	Picks the locks on treasure chests, town and dungeon containers and the hidden boxes in Exodus; failures snap the pick.	Dex/Int	100
Poisoning	Applies poison to weapons, darts and food, stands in for Tactics on poison special moves, and grants passive poison resistance.	Int/Dex	100
Remove Trap	Disarms container and floor traps; failing sets the trap off, and on a treasure chest it also spawns a guardian you must kill.	Dex/Int	100
Snooping	Lets you look inside someone else's pack so you can pick what to steal instead of grabbing at random.	Dex/Int	100
Stealing	Takes items from containers, monsters and other players' packs; the attempt always reveals you and blocks hiding for ten seconds.	Dex/Int	120
Stealth	Lets you walk while hidden, two steps per ten skill, but heavier armour makes each check harder and you cannot stealth mounted.	Dex/Int	120

Wilderness — 7 skills

Skill	What it does	Stats	Caps
Animal Lore	Reads a creature's full statistics, supplies half the pet control chance, and half of how much a Veterinary bandage heals.	Int/Str	120
Animal Taming	Tames creatures into controlled pets, up to five follower slots' worth, and opens the Animal Training system that customises them.	Str/Int	120
Camping	Lights a campfire that, after thirty seconds, lets you log out quickly out in the wilderness or aboard a ship.	Dex/Int	100
Fishing	Pulls fish, trophy big fish, message bottles and sea serpent loot from shallow water and, later, deep water.	Dex/Str	120
Herding	Drives tameable creatures with a shepherd's crook, to a spot or after you, without spending any follower slots.	Int/Dex	100
Tracking	Points an arrow toward nearby animals, monsters, NPCs or players beyond screen range, including players who are hidden.	Int/Dex	100
Veterinary	Bandages pets in a flat two seconds whatever your dexterity, and with Animal Lore cures their poison at 60 and resurrects them at 80.	Int/Dex	120

Bard — 4 skills

Skill	What it does	Stats	Caps
Discordance	Plays clashing notes that strip a share of a creature's resists and skills, up to 28% at 120, and lower its barding difficulty.	Int/Dex	120
Musicianship	Every bard attempt starts with a Musicianship check; past 100 it adds 1% success per point to the other bard skills.	Dex/Int	120
Peacemaking	Calms fighting creatures, either everything nearby by targeting yourself, or one chosen creature until it is attacked again.	Int/Dex	120
Provocation	Sets two creatures fighting each other, at a difficulty averaged from both; a failed attempt turns that creature's anger on you.	Int/Dex	120

Miscellaneous — 4 skills

Skill	What it does	Stats	Caps
Begging	Asks NPCs for gold or goods at the cost of karma; its one real payoff is grandmaster-only rares during Trick or Treat.	Dex/Int	100
Forensic Evaluation	Reads a corpse for its killer and looters, spots Thieves Guild members, and traces a lost item's owner for the Honesty virtue.	Int/Dex	100
Item Identification	Estimates an item's NPC gold value and predicts what it will unravel into for Imbuing; it no longer reveals magic properties.	Int/Dex	100
Taste Identification	Tastes an unlabelled potion keg to identify its contents, and checks whether a piece of food has been poisoned.	Int/Str	100

Where these come from

Everything here is from uo.com, uo.com’s forum or the game itself. Anything uo.com does not publish is marked [!] as unpublished on the skill’s own page, where a reader would look for it.