I'm just wondering if anyone knows or has a list of the confirmed skills, since i personally haven't seen one yet. I'm sure it's been asked before but I couldn't find a thread on it. Thanks.

Well, we know that Athletics, Acrobatics and Mysticism are gone from the 21 in Oblivion.

Since there are now 18 - and we know that Enchanting is back in - then there must be one other that didn't make the cut. But I don't believe it has been confirmed which....

Combat:
One Handed
Two Handed
Smithing

Stealth:
Sneak (includes dagger perks)
Alchemy
Speechcraft

Magic:
Illusion
Alteration
Destruction
Restoration
Conjuration
Enchanting

Confirmed to be not included: mysticism, acrobatics, athletics.

I think archery is included but it's not certain if it's a combat or stealth skill as far as I know.

Edit: I think block/shield was confirmed as a combat skill as well.

Most people think mercantile and speechcraft are merged, armor skills might be merged or removed

I actually forgot about that,so yeah,another has been cut. To me it should be mercantile.If mercantile is in,and hand-to-hand is out,i'll be a little upset to be honest.
Where mercantile is concerned,to me speechcraft covers the lot there. It would make the speechcraft skill stronger,and give it more perks.Whether your bartering,speaking,charming,whatever....speechcraft does it. But that's my opinion.

Armor skill can be merged, with perks showing you what type of armor you use most effectively. Or then again perhaps not, as if they are separate it'd mean there are more perks, and a skill shoudl imo have the option to choose all perks in it to master the skill to 100%.

Assuming a 6+6+6 split....

I would hazard a guess that Block, Heavy Armour and Hand to Hand will be added to Combat

And Marksman, Security and Light Armour will be added to Stealth

But that's just guesswork....

I wouldn't mind armour being one skill. I wouldn't mind it the other way either. But from what some have said it seems heavy armour is there,which means we'll have light armour too,possibly even medium. That's if the heavy armour thing is correct of course.

COMBAT:
1:One-handed
2:Two handed
3:Smithing
4:Hand-to-hand
5:Heavy armour
6:Blocking

MAGIC:
1:Illusion
2:Destruction
3:Conjuration
4:Alteration
5:Restoration
6:Enchanting.

STEALTH:
1:Archery
2:Alchemy
3:Speechcraft
4:Sneak
5:Security
6:Light armour

That's my guess at the minute,but i wouldn't be surprised if it was wrong.

Great minds think alike :icecream: (see my previous post :thumbsup: )

Archery is Marksman, it was mentioned in January and again at the beginning of this week. We already know a perk for it (slow down effect when we pull the bowstring).

Has this been confirmed or even hinted at?

No unfortunately,but in my opinion is far better than mercantile. I'm hoping more than anything,because if it's done right the skill has lots of potential.
They have focused more on tactical and intense combat,hand-to-hand would fit that style in my view. They also added kick animation in the shivering isles,so i'm hoping that has tempted them to keep hand-to-hand,and give it the moves and animations it deserves. But we'll see. But no confirmation,i'm waiting for that myself.

I can't really see them picking mercantile over hand-to-hand,it doesn't make sense to me,but i'm probably biased towards the hand-to-hand skill.

Although i do hope hand-to-hand is in, if someone decides to specialize in it, i really cant see the player taking down a dragon with just his fists and feet.

People say that alot,but if hand-to-hand is done properly....As in: Counters,throws,trips,kicks,flying kicks,grabs,sweeps,breaks,neck snaps,disarming...the list can go on,you name it. Also if there are hand to hand weapons we could add poison to them. Then there is the combination of hand-to-hand with other things....Like stealth,shout's,magic...you could take a dragon down. Playing a monk with proper moves and animation would be exciting,we should also be able to use staffs/staves as melee weapons too.

It wouldn't be too different than fighting a dragon with daggers. You can be more dexterous with hand-to-hand combat,you could use your hands and fingers in a way that you couldn't if holding a weapon.You'd be faster also. In fact,you'd be a walking nightmare,with relentless attacks.

I recall sneak and security being merged...

No,people were guessing they where merged,and i was one of them.But now athletics and acrobatics aren't there security could indeed be it's own skill.I ain't to bothered either way,as long as lockpicking etc isn't as easy as in oblivion. Zen1966 made a good point,in that we now have traps and puzzles etc,so it could warrent being it's own skill. But as i've said before ,if it was merged with sneak,i could see why that would be.

Read this bit i got from an article,hand-to-hand could be in after all.


That's right,it says fist!....oh boy

Actually judging from that,i wonder if hand-to-hand is a two-handed skill,rather than it's own?

Ok these are the skills we have managed to get confirmed...

All 6 magic skills are confirmed and alchemy is in stealth and is confirmed in stealth. The only magic skill that went poof was mysticism.

In combat we have managed to get confirmed one handed weapons two handsed weapons smithing block and heavy armor( that last one just recently)

In stealth we have confirmed archery alchemy speechcraft and as there is heavy armor there must be light so light armor as well tho thats not entiurely confirmed yet its 99.999%

That leaves either combining sneak and security or mercantile and speechcraft.

As for hand to hand.. I very much doubt it made it as anything other then a simple aspect of one handed weapons.

I think that they may have taken out hand to hand and just fit it under 2 handed

Where was Block confirmed?

wait so this means one handed weapons is a skill then in side that skill is the one handed sword perks, mace perks and axe perks? srry im a little confused here
i think armorer is going to be in it's now just called smithing correct me if im wrong

Yes one-handed is a skill,then from there you can focus on axe,sword,mace etc.
Yes smithing is a skill,not just to repair weapons,but to make them aswell i think.

Long time back todd talked about a block perk.. if you take the perk and perform a block with a shield you gain elemental resists during the block.