Specialties

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Last Updated: Dec 11th, 2019

SO:FDR has 17 specialties, which is unlocked by leveling up Skills or a specific combination of individual skills. All Specialties can be leveled up (max LV10) by leveling up their individual skills. Each specialty has their own use, from providing access to beneficial commands or ability to craft items.

You can conveniently see a character's progress in unlocking specialties by accessing the Menu > Skills > Learn Skills > Progress (Press X). Simply highlight the specialty, including the ones you haven't unlocked yet, to see the required skills and their individual levels.

Early in the game, you won't be able to see specialties if you haven't bought the Skill Sets that contain the required Skills. Combat skills are not tied to any specialty.

Specialty	Req. Skills	Description
Alchemy	Mineralogy, Faeriology, Technology	Turns Iron into a different mineral or metal. Higher levels will enable you to produce rarer metals.
Appraising	Item Knowledge, Herbology, Mineralogy	Identifies an unknown item. Higher levels will enable you to identify any item
Art	Sketching, Aesthetics	Produces very useful consumables, recovery, or support items using clay or canvas.
Compounding	Herbology, Biology, Mental Science	Combine various herbs to produce medicines, tablets, potions and other concoctions.
Cooking	Knife, Keen Eye, Recipe	Ability to cook various dishes, mainly used for off-battle HP and MP recovery.
Crafting	Aesthetics, Eye for Detail, Mineralogy	Ability to create very useful accessories from various metals.
Customization	Eye for Detail, Aesthetic Design, Smithing	Combine weapons with various metals or minerals to transform into more powerful ones.
Familiar	Animal Training, Whistling	Ability to summon a bird and do shopping for you. Very useful when exploring dungeons.
Machinist	Machinery, Operation	Produces bombs and various Support Equipment that boosts the success rate of other specialties.
Music	Performance, Music Knowledge	Compose new songs from musical instruments and ability to perform those songs.
Oracle	ESP, Piety, Purity	Get in-game hints from gods. No special use other than that.
Pickpocketing	Courage, Poker Face	Ability to steal from some civilians or party members during Private Actions. (Thief’s or Magician’s Gloves required)
Replication	Reproduce an exact copy of an item. Not all items can be reproduced. (Magic Camera / Ririca required)
Scouting	Danger Radar	Ability to increase or decrease Frequency of enemy encounters.
Survival	Spend MP to forage the area and get free items.
Train	Effort, Resilience, Determination	Lower some stats to increase experience gained.
Writing	Penmanship	Write skill books that can be used to increase the skill level of other party members.