Building Your Skill Deck

From the Spellborn Wiki, the wiki for The Chronicles of Spellborn

There's no one best build for skill decks, but there are definitely things you can do wrong in building your skill deck. Here we'll discuss a couple general skill deck building strategies and tell you what to avoid doing. Information taken from the Combat for Beginners official TCoS website.

[edit] Create a Skill Deck

Mess around with skill placement on a deck with this Skill Deck Builder.

[edit] Skill deck building strategies

Type-arrangement
Keep similar skills in the same column. For example, putting melee attacks in the first slot, melee buffs/debuffs in the second, magic attacks in the third, ranged attacks in the fourth, and heal/escape skills in the fifth. By doing this, you will always know what type of skill is associated with each number. If you need a ranged attack, you know there's one in the fourth slot.

Sequence-arrangement
Put a sequence of skills in one column. For example, putting a buff skill in the first tier, a debuff in the second and third, a melee attack in the fourth, an escape skill in the fifth, and a ranged attack in the sixth. This way you can keep using the first column for your attacks, giving you a (more or less) static combat style.

Combos
A good way to make sure you can always finish an open combo is to put a combo finisher on a diagonal in your skill deck. This is called a "Hesselian diagonal".

[edit] Things to Avoid

Combo Openers
Combo openers cannot be used while a combo is open. Do not fill a tier with combo openers.

Pay Attention to Cooldowns
The vast majority of skills have a cooldown associated with it. Make sure you arrange your skills in such a way that you won't be waiting on a cooldown after your skill deck rotates.