Arcane

Description

The Arcane skill determines the player's chance to attack or avoid attacks while using an Arcane-skill weapon, known as an Arcane Staff. As players hit creatures with an Arcane Staff, it creates an Arcane Buildup, providing large spell damage and damage resistance bonuses to the player. However, any Arcane Buildup is lost if the player controls any followers or uses any bardic skills at any time. Arcane skill also grants a chance to avoid interruption when casting spells. Players with at least 80 skill in Arcane, Wrestling, and Magery can continue to cast spells while wielding an Arcane Staff.

Players with the Arcane Skill can wield Arcane Staves a new class of weapon that is designed around supporting "pure mage" builds
Players having followers or using Barding skills within the last 60 seconds will lose:
Arcane Buildup
Arcane Codex Stances and Arcane Codex Finishers
Weapon Abilities for Arcane Staves
Players with the Arcane Skill can chose Arcanist for the Paperdoll skill title
The Arcane skill will boost the benefits players receive from Arcane Runes and Arcane Buildup
A players chance to hit/defend with an Arcane Staff is based on their Arcane skill, but is also capped by the lower printed value of Magery or Wrestling
Players with 80 Arcane, 80 Wrestling and 80 Magery skill will be able to cast with an Arcane Staff equipped
See Arcane Staves for combat specific details
Players must remain stationary for 0.5 seconds in order to shoot (regardless of their Dexterity)
Stationary delays scale in PvP based on a player's Dex, scaling from 1.0 seconds (25 Dex or lower) down to 0.5s (100 Dex or higher)

Players have an (Effective Arcane Skill / 100%)) chance to avoid Spell Interruption from Creature/Environment Damage while casting with an Arcane Staff equipped
Players with the Arcane Skill will now receive a (25% * (Arcane Skill / 100)) bonus to the effectiveness of nearby Arcane Runes

Players will receive bonuses against creatures based on what "setup" they have for weapons/shields occupying their hands
These bonuses will be listed as (Setup) in the [stats page
These bonuses only apply to non blessed weapons/spell books

Stationary Delays are the length of time that a player must remain on the same tile before a Ranged Weapon will fire

Weapon Swing Delay in PvP

The Stationary Delay for Archery and Arcane Weapons scales in PvP based on a player's Dex, with delays scaling from 1.0 seconds (25 Dex or lower) down to 0.5 seconds (100 Dex or higher) [previously was flat 0.5 seconds]
Examples
A player with 25 Dex must remain stationary for 1.0 seconds before they may fire an Archery/Arcane Weapon
A player with 63 Dex must remain stationary for 0.75 seconds before they may fire an Archery/Arcane Weapon
A player with 100 Dex must remain stationary for 0.5 seconds before they may fire an Archery/Arcane Weapon

Damage Delays in PvP

When attacking with a Ranged Weapon in PvP, the damage on hits will now have a delay that randomizes and scales based on Dex, with max delay ranging from between 0 seconds (100 Dex or higher) up to 0.5 seconds (25 Dex or lower)
Examples
A player with 25 Dex will have a randomized delay of 0 to 0.5 seconds for Ranged Weapon damage
A player with 63 Dex will have a randomized delay of 0 to 0.25 seconds for Ranged Weapon damage
A player with 100 Dex will have no delay for Ranged Weapon damage

Skill	Activity
0-50	Train from NPC
50-80	Passively when making attacks with an Arcane Staff or when casting spells (with or without an Arcane Staff equipped) New Player Dungeon
80-100	Passively when making attacks with an Arcane Staff or when casting spells (with or without an Arcane Staff equipped)