Elder Scrolls: Skyrim perk tree revealed

A vast list of racial abilities and perk tree skills available in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim has hit the net.

The detailed feature log was compiled by fans following hands-on time with the fantasy role-playing game at Eurogamer Expo 2011.

Did you know, for example, that Argonians can breathe underwater and start with a stat of 25 in picking people's pockets? Well, now you do.

The full list, as posted on fansite TheElderScrollsSkyrim.com, lies below:

Racial Abilities

• ORCS: Beserker
• REDGUARDS: Adrenaline Rush
• WOOD ELF: Resist poison, resisit disease, command animals
• NORD: Battlecry
• KHAJIIT: Night-eye, claw attacks
• IMPERIAL: Voice of the Emperor, find more coins when looting
• HIGH ELF: Regenerate Magicka more quickly
• DARK ELF: Ancestor's Wrath (surround self in fire), resist fire
• BRETON: Dragonskin (absorb spells), resist shock
• ARGONIANS: Histskin (regenerate health quickly), resist disease, breathe underwater
• Note on racial stats: Each race starts off with different stats.
• Argonians start with 25 in Lockpicking, 20 in Pickpocketing, Sneak, etc...
• Orcs start with 25 in Heavy Armour, 20 in Enchanting, Smithing etc...

Perk Trees:

Speech

• Buying and selling price 10 per cent better (5 ranks)
• 10 per cent price buying from opposite sex
• Invest in shops and increase available gold permanently in invested stores
• Master Trader - every merchant in world gains 1000 gold for bartering
• Buy and sell from any merchant regardless of what they normally buy and sell
• Intimidation attempts twice as successful
• Persuasion attempts more likely successful

Alchemy

• Potions 20 per cent stronger (5 ranks)
• Potions for restore health, magicka or stamina are 25per cent more powerful (maybe ranked)
• Poisons 25 per cent more effective (maybe ranked)
• Poisons last for twice as many hits
• Two ingredients are gathered from plants
• 50per cent resistance to all poisons
• All negative effects removed from potions and all positive removed from poisons
• 2 effects of an ingredient are revealed when testing it for the first time (instead of just one)

Illusion

• Dual casting overcharges effect for more powerful spell
• Cast Novice spells for 50 per cent less magicka
• Cast Apprentice spells for 50per cent less magicka
• Cast Adept, Expert, Master etc spells for 50per cent less magicka (more levels this time around)
• Spells work on higher level animals
• Spells work on higher level people
• All spellcasting (from ANY school) is done silently
• Spells work on undead, daedra and automatons
• Fear spells work on higher level enemies

Conjuration

• Novice for 50per cent magicka etc (up to Master)
• Dual casting overcharges -> greater spell effect
• Bound weapons do more damage
• Bound weapons cast Soul Trap on target
• Bound weapons banish certain creatures
• Reanimate undead with 100 more health
• Summon 2 Atronachs or reanimated zombies
• Summon Atronachs at twice the distance
• Summoned Atronachs twice as strong

Destruction

• More damage for each school (fire, frost and shock) - ranked
• Novice for 50 per cent magicka etc.
• Shock damage chance to disintegrate targets if their health is under 10per cent
• Frost damage chance to paralyse targets if health low
• Fire damage chance to make low health enemies flee
• Place runes 5x farther away

Restoration

• Healing spells also restore stamina
• Novice for 50 per cent less magicka etc
• Healing spells do 50 per cent more healing
• Recharging healing spells
• More is recharged with each hit with healing spells (unclear)
• Spells more effective against undead
• Once a day chance to autocast 250HP restoration when health drops low
• Magicka regenerates 25 per cent faster

Alteration

• Novice for 50 per cent less etc
• Alteration spells have greater duration (ranked)
• Absorb 30 per cent magicka that hits you

Enchanting

• Enchants are 20 per cent stronger (ranked)
• Enchanted armour 25 per cent stronger
• "Soul gems provide extra magicka for recharging" - again, dodgy recording but that's what I heard, even if it doesn't make much sense
• Death blows to creatures but not people trap souls for weapon recharge
• Health, magicka and stamina enchants stronger
• Extra effect on already-enchanted weapon can be applied
• Shock, Frost and Fire enchants 25 per cent stronger (individual perks for each element)

Heavy Armour

• Increase armour rating 20 per cent (5 ranks)
• Unarmed attacks with heavy armour gauntlets - damage increased by gauntlets' armour rating
• Half fall damage if all in heavy armour
• Heavy armour weighs nothing and doesn't slow you at all
• Additional 25 per cent armour if in matching set
• 25per cent armour bonus if all in heavy armour (not necessarily matching)
• 50per cent less stagger if all in heavy armour
• 10per cent damage reflected back to enemy if all in heavy armour

2-handed weapons

• 2h weapons do 20 per cent more damage (5 ranks)
• Attacks with warhammers ignore 25per cent armour (ranked)
• Attacks with battleaxes do extra bleeding damage (ranked)
• Attacks with greatswords do extra critical damage (ranked)
• Power attacks cost 25 per cent less stamina
• Standing power attacks do 25 per cent bonus damage, chance to decapitate
• Sprinting power attacks do double (critical) damage
• Sideways power attacks hit all targets
• Backwards power attacks have 25 per cent chance of paralysis

Archery

• Bows do 25 per cent more damage
• Zoom in
• Zooming slows time
• 10 per cent crit chance
• Move faster with drawn bow
• Recover twice as many arrows from dead bodies
• 50per cent chance of paralysing for few seconds
• Draw bow 30 per cent faster

Sneak

• 20 per cent harder to detect (ranked)
• Sneak attacks do 6x damage with 1h weapons
• Sneak attacks with bows do 3x damage
• Sneak attacks with daggers do 15x damage (end perk on skill tree)
• Noise from armour reduced 50 per cent
• No longer activate pressure plates
• Sprinting while sneaking performs silent forward roll
• Running does not affect detection chance
• Crouching can make hostile enemies lose sight of you and search for a target