About Class-Mastery

Mastery determines what units are good at. New or improved mastery can increase attacks, unlock new equipables, grant special abilities, and improve explore techniques.

Mastery Level. Mastery has three levels: Novice (N), Advanced (A), and Master (M). In campaigns, heroes and squads have different mastery caps, the total number and level of mastery they can gain.

Class vs Office. Organizations on Phoibos recruit people partly on skill-sets. To join the Norn, a candidate needs the jutsu and arms masteries. Other qualifications may include: a character’s values, temperament, ideology, and faction origin. In this way, a ‘Merc’ class unit might join up and become a full fledged ‘Norn’. Offices & titles, like Norn, aren’t their own masteries, but can unlock unique org equipment, allies, or campaign rosters.

Starting vs Secondary. Some masteries have utility in tactical battles, others elsewhere. The recommended ‘starting classes’ just are masteries with some type of bonus in tactical scale battles. Secondary masteries are masteries that just enhance an existing mastery (like channeling), or expand abilities purely outside of tactical scale battles (like merchant.)

Alpha Prototypes. The class-mastery cards are alpha prototypes, containing concept art and rules subject to iteration and improvements.

Arms Classes & Mastery

The arms group centers on mastering equipment useful for winning tactical battles.

Magic Classes & Mastery

The magic group centers around masteries giving units access to spell trees, and magical techniques that enhance spells cast.

Expertise Classes & Mastery

The expertise group centers around masteries useful for crafting stuff, and masteries offering new movement & exploration skills.

Leveling Up Mastery

Stock Attack. Use the best stock attack option available.
Example: The thief advances from Weapon(U) + Weapon(U), to Weapon(N) + Weapon(N).

Specials. Add any unlocked N, A, M special abilities.
Example: The thief gains Weapon Focus and Phased Attack specials.

Equips. Add any new equipables. Unproficient armor is double weight cost, unproficient shield adds block as weight.
Example: The thief picks a new equipable weapon group, like CQC Blades: daggers, shortswords, sais, and kunais.

Explore Bonuses. Increase explore techniques and awareness by mastery level bonus
Example: Coming soon with explore systems!

Alder Options

Alder is the small part of Phoibos that the public alpha takes place in. Units that train mastery in Alder have the following options available.