Built to enhance combat with a moment-to-moment tactical resource, give every weapon a distinct set of finishing techniques, and reward the time you invest in a chosen weapon. Sits alongside Attack and Cast — nothing about the existing combat loop has been removed.

Tactical Points (TP)

A new resource bar — purple, between MP and XP on the stat panel — representing the momentum and focus you build during combat.

• Starts at 0, caps at 3000.
• Every landed hit — melee strike or damaging spell — grants +130 TP.
• Every hit you take grants +60 TP — sustained fights reward you for staying engaged.
• Persists between back-to-back fights — chain combat encounters to save TP for a boss opener.
• Decays out of combat — after a 30-second grace window, you lose 100 TP per second until empty. The bar lives with the fight; you can't bank a full TP bar overnight.

Weapon Artes

Spend TP on a Weapon Arte — a multi-hit, stat-scaled finisher specific to your equipped weapon's type. Open the ⚡ Artes ▾ dropdown in combat to see what's available.

• Each weapon type has three Artes at progressively higher tiers (1000 TP, 2000 TP, 3000 TP).
• Higher tiers deal more damage and have richer effects.
• Spare TP above the tier minimum scales the damage further — saving a near-full bar for a Tier 1 Arte adds bonus damage on top.
• Locked Artes appear in the dropdown with the actual reason they're locked (proficiency, level, TP) so you can see what's coming.

Proficiency & Level Unlocks

Artes are gated by your Weapon Skill proficiency in the matching weapon type — the same proficiency you train by landing hits with that weapon (see Weapon Skills). Practising with a weapon is the path to unlocking its repertoire.

Tier	TP cost	Proficiency	Character level
I	1000	30+	5+
II	2000	150+	25+
III	3000	300+	50+

Damage Formula

An Arte's damage is calculated using the weapon's primary stat (STR, DEX or INT depending on the weapon), the enemy's defence, and the Arte's multiplier:

• Base damage uses the same attack curve as your weapon — (primary stat + weapon damage) played against enemy Defence — × the Arte's multiplier.
• TP overflow bonus — extra TP above the tier minimum adds extra multiplier. A Tier 1 Arte at 2999 TP hits noticeably harder than the same Arte at 1000 TP.
• Multi-hit Artes roll an independent hit check per swing, so a 5-hit Penta Lance can both pull off the full chain and partly miss in the same use.
• Elemental flavour — some Artes carry an element tag (Fire, Wind, Light, Dark, Lightning, Earth, Water). Tile and weather bonuses on elemental-tagged Artes are reserved for a future update; right now the element is flavour only.

The Artes Catalogue

Every weapon type has its own progression: Tiers I–III unlock through Skill Proficiency 30 / 150 / 300, and as of Hotfix 2.0.2 a Tier IV finisher crowns each weapon at Proficiency 450 and character Level 100. Tier IV artes cost the full 3,000 TP — your entire gauge behind one strike:

Weapon	Tier IV Arte	Hits	Element		Weapon	Tier IV Arte	Hits	Element
Sword	Crystaria's Oath	1	Light		Staff	Aether Cataclysm	1	Light
Hand Axe	Skysplitter	1	Wind		Knuckles	Hundred-Fist Finale	5	Light
Dagger	Thousand Cuts	3	Dark		Spear	Heavenpiercer	1	Lightning
Club	Final Judgement	1	Light		Whip	Tempest Requiem	2	Lightning
Great Sword	Worldrender	1	Dark		Harp	Apotheosis Aria	1	Light · song-scaled
Great Axe	Titanfall	1	Earth		Crystal Blade	Voidrend	1	Dark · needs 4+ Hex Stacks
Bow	Starfall Volley	3	Light

The full Tier I–III catalogue:

Sword (STR)

Tier	Name	Hits	Element	Effect
I	Twin Fang	2	—	A swift two-strike combo. Solid opening Arte once you reach proficiency 30.
II	Emberblade Edge	1	Fire	A single searing strike. Higher mult, fewer rolls — rewards committing.
III	Soulrend	1	Light	A finishing blow channelling the weapon's spirit. The Sword endgame.

Hand Axe (STR)

Tier	Name	Hits	Element	Effect
I	Cleaving Roar	2	—	Two brutal swings driven by a battle cry.
II	Stonebreaker	1	Earth	A crushing overhead blow that rends armour.
III	Galewhirl	1	Wind	A whirling strike carrying a gale.

Dagger (DEX)

Tier	Name	Hits	Element	Effect
I	Hornet Flurry	3	—	Three rapid stabs. Lowest base mult but highest hit count — great vs low-defence foes.
II	Shadowfang	2	Dark	A venomous two-strike combination from the shadows.
III	Final Mercy	1	Dark	A single precise thrust to end the encounter.

Club (STR)

Tier	Name	Hits	Element	Effect
I	Dawnstrike	2	Light	A radiant double-tap.
II	Halo Crush	1	Light	A blessed crushing blow ringed in holy light.
III	Verdict	1	Light	A final, holy reckoning.

Great Sword (STR)

Tier	Name	Hits	Element	Effect
I	Tempest Arc	2	—	A spinning two-stroke slash.
II	Earthshatter	1	Earth	An overhead slam that splits the ground.
III	Voidreaper	1	Dark	A reaping arc of pure shadow. Highest single-hit damage in the game.

Great Axe (STR)

Tier	Name	Hits	Element	Effect
I	Gale Reaver	2	Wind	Two thunderous wind-laden swings.
II	Ironvortex	1	Wind	A full-body spin that mauls the foe.
III	Sovereign Cleave	1	Light	A regal cleaving blow.

Bow (DEX)

Tier	Name	Hits	Element	Effect
I	Embershot	1	Fire	A single fire-touched arrow.
II	Hawkstrike	1	Wind	A curving precision shot guided by the wind.
III	Skypiercer	1	Light	A perfect arrow that pierces the heavens.

Staff (INT)

Tier	Name	Hits	Element	Effect
I	Skyfall Arc	2	—	A weighty two-handed sweep. The only INT-scaling melee Arte.
II	Tidebreaker	1	Water	Pierces the enemy's magical defences with a tide of force.
III	Stonefall	1	Earth	Rends the very ground beneath the foe.

Knuckles (STR)

Tier	Name	Hits	Element	Effect
I	Fivefold Fury	4	—	A four-strike rapid combination.
II	Cascade Flurry	6	—	A flurry of six lightning-quick strikes. Highest hit count in the game.
III	Worldbreaker	1	Light	A devastating concentrated punch.

Spear (STR)

Tier	Name	Hits	Element	Effect
I	Twin Pierce	2	—	Two crisp thrusts.
II	Five-Point Lance	5	—	Five rapid thrusts in a star pattern.
III	Stormpierce	1	Lightning	A blue-lightning piercing strike.

Whip (DEX)

Tier	Name	Hits	Element	Effect
I	Lashing Strike	2	—	Two sharp cracking blows.
II	Stormcoil	2	Lightning	A coiled lash carrying static charge.
III	Headshatter	1	Dark	A final overhead crack.

Harp (INT)

Tier	Name	Hits	Element	Effect
I	Resonant Strike	1	—	A resonant strike that extends your active Song durations by one round.
II	Chord Burst	2	Light	A cascading chord — two hits that ring out across the battlefield.
III	Grand Opus	1	Light	A flawless performance. Damage is amplified by the number of Songs you have active — layer your melodies before the finale.

Crystal Blade (INT/STR)

Tier	Name	Hits	Element	Effect
I	Hex Slash	1	Dark	A dark channelling strike. Grants 2 Hex Stacks on hit.
II	Shatter Pulse	1	Dark	Releases all Hex Stacks in a dark burst — each stack spent adds ×0.5 to the multiplier.
III	Crystal Requiem	1	Dark	The heaviest blow in the Hexblade arsenal (STR-scaled). Requires 3+ Hex Stacks to activate.