Talk:West of Loathing skills
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Lists of skills
Cow Puncher Skills
These skills are exclusive to Cow Punchers,
Beanslinger Skills
These skills are exclusive to Beanslingers.
Icon | Name | In-Game Description | Effect | How to Obtain |
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Bean Golem | Summon a powerful golem made of beans who will (probably) do your bidding. | Summons a bean golem to aid you in combat.
Usable once per fight. |
Reading the chapter on automatons in a volume of Advanced Beancraft. | |
Beanshield | Conjure up a whirling sphere of beans that will protect you from attacks. | Boosts your Armor in combat.
Usable once per fight. |
Starting combat skill for Beanslingers. | |
Beanwall | Conjure up a wall of beans in front of you, which will provide cover from gunfire. | Conjures a wall of beans in front of you, protecting from ranged attacks. If there is already something in front of you, a beanwall will be summoned in another empty slot. | Reading the recipe for a wall-shaped pile of beans in a volume of Advanced Beancraft. | |
Bloodbeans | Your bloodstream is chock full of tiny beans, which are in turn chock full of restorative proteins. | Restores a bit of HP every round in battle. | Reading the chapter on tiny bean dishes in a volume of Advanced Beancraft. | |
Butter Bean | This spell lets you conjure a giant bean made of pure butter, then use it to gum up an opponent's works. | Decreases your target's Muscle, Mysticality, and Moxie. | Reading the articles on butter and beans in a volume of Advanced Beancraft. | |
Great Northern Blizzard | Summon a whirling blizzard of frozen Great Northern beans, dealing Cold damage to all of your enemies. | Deals Cold damage to every enemy you're facing in combat. | Reading the recipes for ice-cold bean-based desserts in a volume of Advanced Beancraft. | |
Hellbender | You tamper with the forces of nature, making yourself a force of nature. | Increases Spell Damage. | Starting miscellaneous skill for Beanslingers. | |
Lava Fava | Summon a fava bean made of boiling lava, and hurl it at your unsuspecting foes! | Deals Hot damage to a single target, potentially setting it on fire. | Starting combat skill for Beanslingers. | |
Master Cookery | Your cooking skills have boiled over and splatted all over the sublime. | You can cook really good bean foods, as well as make equipment out of bean irons. | Reading Beans Illustrated. | |
Outfoxin' | You're smarter than a box of rocks. | Allows you to pass speech skill checks using logic and outsmarting your foe. | Starting miscellaneous skill for Beanslingers. | |
Use The Ol' Bean | Get smarter! | Increases your Mysticality. | Reading the meditation techniques in a volume of Advanced Beancraft. | |
Wary | You're keepin' an eye out for trouble, 'cuz you know it's keepin' an eye out for you. | Increases your maximum AP at the beginning of combat. | Reading the paranoid, insane scrawlings in a volume of Advanced Beancraft. |
Snake Oiler Skills
These skills are exclusive to Snake Oilers.
Icon | Name | In-Game Description | Effect | How to Obtain |
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Bad Medicine | First, do no harm. Is how that oath you didn't take starts. | Decreases enemy Moxie by a fixed amount. | Reading the article Debilitating Toxins: Where are they now? in a copy of Modern Snake Oiler. | |
Deadeye | You're a crack shot. You can bullseye a bull's eye at 300 paces. You can shoot a fish in a barrel, even if the fish is really small and the barrel is really big. | Gives bonus Pistol Attack Damage, increasing with each level. | Starting miscellaneous skill for Snake Oilers. | |
Deploy Snake | What good is a briefcase full of snakes if you can't occasionally pull a snake out and tell it what to do? | Deploy a snake onto the battlefield to assist you in combat. | Starting combat skill for Snake Oilers. | |
Expert Poisoner | You're much better a poisoning things than you are at not poisoning them. | When you apply poison, you apply three times as much. | Reading the fold-out chart in a copy of Modern Snake Oiler. | |
Fan Hammer | Shoot first, then shoot again, then shoot again, and then ask questions if there's anything left to ask questions of. | You shoot an enemy multiple times, each attack dealing a bit more damage than the last. | Reading the letter to the editor in a copy of Modern Snake Oiler. | |
Good Medicine | Some of your patent medicines actually work! You save those for your own use. | You recover a set amount of HP. | Reading the recipe for the new snake-oil concoction in a copy of Modern Snake Oiler. | |
Hornswogglin' | You're a city slicker and a witty trickster. | Allows you to pass speech skill checks using lies and trickery. | A starting miscellaneous skill for Snake Oilers. | |
Potionology | Your potion-mixing skills are the toast of the West. | Allows you to mix up snake-oil concoctions for use in and out of combat. | Reading Oils I Have Known. | |
Shootenanny | Have a wild shootin' party! | You fire multiple shots wildly into the air. Each shot lands in a random spot on the enemy team.
Usable once per fight. |
Reading the essay in a copy of Modern Snake Oiler. | |
Snakewhip | Whip out a snake, then whip something with it! This skill deals a flat amount of damage and poisons its target. | Deals a flat amount of damage to a target and poisons it. | A starting combat skill for Snake Oilers. | |
Strong Medicine | The right combination of chemicals, extracts and oils can make you stronger, smarter and more stylish, respectively. | Boosts all stats by a fixed amount.
Usable once per fight. |
Reading the recipe for the quick-brew potion in Modern Snake Oiler. |
Nex-Mex Skills
These Necromantic skills are learned by reading Nex-Mex Textbooks. These can be obtained from encounters with Cultists and from other sources. While riding a pale horse in Region A, you will sometimes encounter a necromancer and a skeleton. Winning this battle will give you a Nex-Mex Textbook.
Meddling with the Dark Arts comes with a price. While your first Nex-Mex book will not cause you harm, each subsequent book read will grant you a negative "perk" that weakens you in some way. Something of note is when you learn enough Necromancy skills, the perks Withered Muscles and Clouded Eyes will give a -25 'bonus' to Melee and Pistol attacks, which will definitely make life harder for you if you are a Cow Puncher or a Snake Oiler.
If Doc Alice is your companion, learning Nex-Mex skills will anger her. She will express disapproval every time you attempt to learn a new skill, excluding the first attempt.
Icon | Name | In-Game Description | Effect | How to Obtain |
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Grinnin' Skull | Skulls are scary, and ghosts are scary, so you know what would be double scary? Yes, you do. | Blast an enemy with a spectral skull to deal Spooky damage. | Reading Introductory Nex-Mex. | |
Raise Skeletal Buddy | You can ensorcel skeleton bones and then use them to summon skeletons to protect you in combat! | You can ensorcel Skeleton bones to create an Ensorcelled skeleton bone. Using it in combat will summon a Skeletal buddy to aid you. | Reading Fundamentals of Nex-Mex. | |
Vampiric Yodel | Yodelay-hee-boo. | Steal HP from an enemy, and potentially disable it for a turn. | Reading Intermediate Nex-Mex. | |
Raise Skeletal Thrall | You can bind the soul fragments left in chips of skull and then use them to summon skeletal wizards to do you bidding in combat! | You can ensorcel Skull chips to create Ensorcelled skull chips. Using it in combat will summon a Skeletal thrall to aid you. | Reading Frightening Topics in Nex-Mex. | |
Rain of Teeth | At any given point, there are millions of human teeth suspended in the clouds above us. You just know how to jostle them loose. | Conjure up a ghastly rain of teeth in combat to attack the entire enemy team, dealing Spooky damage. | Reading Horrifying Concepts of Nex-Mex. | |
Dark Howdy | Say hello. To EVIL. | Utter a dark howdy in combat to boost your Mysticality. However, this will decrease your Muscle and Moxie. | Reading Dangerously Advanced Nex-Mex. | |
Raise Skeletal Gunslinger | You can ensorcel loose teeth, which you can then use to summon a skeletal gunslinger in combat. | You can ensorcel a Handful of loose teeth to create an Ensorcelled tooth. Using it in combat will summon a Skeletal gunslinger to aid you. | Reading Dark Forbidden Secrets of Nex-Mex. |
Miscellaneous Skills
Icon | Name | In-Game Description | Effect | How to Obtain |
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Dickerin' | You drive a hard bargain, and you never let anyone sell you the long end of the stick. | Gives a discount at stores. | Reading Mind Your Meat. | |
Dirty Poker | You've learned how to cheat at the the weird variant of Poker they play in these parts. | Unlocks the option for you to cheat while playing Poker. | Reading How to "Cheat" at "Poker". | |
Foragin' | You know how to live off the land, by extracting food and booze and potions from the cactus parts of the land. | Allows you to extract goods from cacti. | Reading Desert Eatin' and Drinkin'. | |
Lockpickin' Expertise | They ain't yet invented a lock that''ll keep you out! | Allows you to pick locks. | Reading Locks and How to Pick Them. | |
Safecrackin' | The word "safe" is a real misnomer when you're around. | Allows you to crack safes. | Reading Get Crackin': A Guide to Modern Safes. |