Arms Lore

Arms Lore in Ultima Online is the name of a skill that not only gives a detailed description of weapons, but is also very important for the crafting of a number of weapons and gives bonuses to the general crafting of special weapons.

Specifically, it gives these two bonuses:
 * Gives a +1% Damage Increase bonus to all exceptionally crafted weapons for every 20 skill points (up to +5% at Grandmaster).
 * Gives +1% in a random resistance on exceptionally crafted armor for every 20 skill points (up to +5% at Grandmaster).

Training
Training of Arms Lore is possible in many ways.


 * First off for the first 30 points, there is no other way than to learn from an NPC Blacksmith, Armorer, or Warrior Guildmaster.
 * For the points up to 100, the skill has to be actively used. How, read below.

Arms Lore can be gained by using the secondary function of identifying the properties of a weapon and/or armour by actively using the skill on it. This should be done with everything encountered, although failures are still often and gain is generally slow.

The other way is actively crafting weapons and armour (shield and ammunition don't count) with Blacksmithy, Tailoring, Carpentry, Tinkering, and Bowcraft. Which then also raises these skill in the process.

Old Use
Arms Lore used to be required in order to preform the Wrestling special moves Stun and Disarm. This requirement was dropped with the Age of Shadows expansion.

The following tables show the information Arms Lore used to give when the skill was used to assess in-game items.