Every time you use a skill, it gives you experience to that active skill and also gives a small amount of experience (30%) to the passive skills with which that active skill is connected. Example: the Strike skill and the Shoot skill have a connection with the Wildcat Battle Spirit passive skill. This means that every time you're using the Strike or Shoot skill and gain experience, 30% of that experience will be given to the Wildcat Battle Spirit skill too.
Once a skill reaches a certain amount of xp it levels up. A skill level can't be higher than 99. In conclusion, you level up your active skills depending on how often you use them, while the passive skills level up according to the connections with the used active skills.
Depending on the success of the skill, it will grant different experience:
- Skill succeeds - you get the full amount of the experience (100% xp)
- Skill is avoided, so you or the skill damage is absorbed by the enemy resistances - you get 20% xp
Depending with who I'm fighting with, whether it's a creature or a player, the amount of xp for skills is calculated differently:
- Fighting with a creature and win gives only 20% xp
- Fighting with a creature and you die, but the party wins gives you only 10% xp
- Fighting with a player and win gives 100% xp
- Fighting with a player and you die, but the party wins gives you only 70%