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Skills: Javelin and Spear
The Javelin and Spear group of skills will allow your Amazon character to used both a ranged and close combat skill.
Charged Strike -- This skill is electrical, with both a directed and random component. The wandering charges will bump into nearby monsters often, and they do quite a bit of damage.
Fend -- This is an important skill to have if you find yourself being mobbed. It allows you to attack all the monsters around you in one attack. It can be used to wade into groups of weaker enemies, or to hack an escape path if you find yourself surrounded.
Impale -- This skill will boost the damage done by a single attack. It does more damage to your weapon, too, so remember to repair often if you have a valuable weapon.
Jab -- This skill gives you several strikes with one attack. The attacks are not as good as your normal attacks at first, so if you plan to use Jab a lot, plan to put many levels of skill into it.
Lightning Bolt -- This skill allows you to convert your javelin into a lightning bolt as you throw it. The damage added by the lightning is very good, with only a modest mana cost.
Lightning Strike -- This skill allows you to take a normal close range attack, and add a chain of lightning attacks to other nearby monsters. This skill is not available with ranged attacks.
Lightning Fury -- This skill is high-level, but it's very useful in dealing with crowded rooms. You can fire a lightning bolt from a distance, and after the first monster is hit, additional lighting bolts will chain from enemy to enemy. It will be able to hit one more enemy for each skill point you add to it.
Plague Javelin -- This skill boosts the Poison Javelin, putting an area effect of poisoning at the target location.
Poison Javelin -- This skill adds a poison damage over time to enemies that you hit, and to any other enemies that are close to the javelin as it is thrown. At higher levels, the damage is substantial, but remember it takes a while for the poison to work.
Power Strike -- This skill will put lighting damage on top of your normal damage. It is like using a lightning-enchanted weapon when you really have a normal one.
