Ability points and Active Abilities

Useful Active Abilities

What are active abilities?
They're abilities that you have on your bar that you have to push the buttons 1-7 (8 for auxiliary) to activate.

Some good rules of thumb:

1. Have two weapon abilities on your bar at all times. You'll come to realize that you'll have both builders and consumers and can use one builder in order to have resources for two consumers after 5 hits
2. Don't be afraid to add buffs/utilities to your bar Speed utility, butts for crit/hit/penetration or even block/evade can come in handy soloing
3. Builders are normally put as 1, while your two main consumers are 2 and 3 After that it's up to you. Play how you want, though.
4. Watch cast times Every single ability has a cast time, might be instant, might take 45 seconds before it's up again for some consumers. Plan out using them wisely.

Ranged:
Pistols:

Deadly Aim - buffs crit chance by 40% for 8 seconds. DA of the DABS combo.
Win-Win - PBAoE that heals but more importantly cleanses 2 debuffs on the party within a 15 meter radius of yourself ever 45.

Shotguns:

Clean up - cleanses a total of 6 debuffs over 9 seconds, also purges the boss/mob of buffs every time you/your party hits
Shotgun Wedding - Does damage in a 60 degree cone channeled over 2.5 seconds. Every time it his, damage increases by 25% for up to 4 times. Best for stationary targets.
Out for a kill - Consumer that gives you a handy Penetration boost by 8% to your turrets for 10 seconds

Assault Rifles:

Anima burst - Builder that heals on hit for 10% of the damage dealt.
Shot of Anima - Consumer Heals your defensive target and gives them a 1.6% leech effect for 8 seconds as well
Red Mist - Consumer that has no glance, can't evade, powerful single target attack
Slow the advance - hinders target's movement speed by 70% for 8 seconds.
Reap and Sew - gives everyone a 12.2% leech effect for 8 seconds. Useful for dungeon healing.

Magic:
Elemental:

Short Fuse - Increases all damage done by 20% for 10 seconds.
Electromagnetic Manifestation - chain attack 6 mobs in a 10m area for 20 seconds, also purges 1 buff from all targets.
Lightning Manifestation - Consumer that has a chain attack that deals 14 damage in a 7m area for 13 seconds
Fire Manifestation - Consumer deals 200 damage over 10 seconds in a 5m area.
Ice Manifestation - deals 90 damage over 9 seconds in a 5m area. Mostly used for its hinder/root ability.
Blaze - deals 200 damage to afflicted targets. When paired with Aidelon a very effective consumer.

Chaos:

Domino Effect - Pulls up to 6 people toward you in a 7m area. Impairs them for 4 seconds. The PVP bomb. (Earns you a lot of hate from other players)
Escalation - AOE builder for tanks. Pair it with Intensity. Just do it.
Chaotic pull - 15m impair range, pulls them to you.
Reality Fracture - AOE consumer for tanks. 6 seconds in a 5m area. Best paired with Extended Fracture

Blood:

Blood Shield - Builder that is Most useful early game shield
Angelic Aegis - Good consumer until you can get Scarlet Arts
The Scarlet Arts - Consumer that places a barrier on your defensive target, channels a heal for 3 seconds, then places down a second barrier after.
Ruby Curtain - Builder that will replace Blood Shield
Cold Blooded - Deal 3% of your health as damage to yourself to heal and barrier your entire team. You also take 40% less damage while you channel this ability.

Melee:
Swords:

Blade Torrent - PBAoE builder that's for tanking. It give you hate. Best paired with Perfect Storm
Steel Echo - Buff for 10 seconds every hit does an extra hit for 311 damage
Trial by Swords - Impair
Clearing the Path - PBAoE builder that has a 40% chance to penetrate any afflicted targets
Sling Blade - Single target attack where you throw your sword to get an enemies' attention
Forking Paths - PBAoE Consumer that heals you if targets are afflicted
Steel Palace - PBAoE Consumer that reduces damage by 7.5% if targets are afflicted
Crimson Theater - PBAoE that generated additional hate
The Art of War - PBAoE that forces mobs to attack you and impairs them for 5 seconds

Hammer:

Shockwave - Elite impair
Molten Steel - Massively powerful single target attack. Deals an additional 15% crit damage. has a 30% extra chance to critically hit. I've seen this crit for over 40k damage.
Beatdown - Single Target impair
Full momentum - Give you a free hammer consumer (gain 5 hammer resources)
Trucker - Charge to the enemy and increases block chance by 45% for 6 seconds

Fists:

Cauterize - Healing single-target builder that not only heals but does a HoT as well
Surgical Steel - Healing burst consumer that heals and also applies a HoT. Best combined with Healing Sparks
Vigour - TAoE heal
Shelter - PBAoE Healing Builder that also has a HoT as well

Misc Skills
Useful Actives
Provoke - used in tanking, starts attacking you for 3 seconds
Stoicism - Reduces damage by 20% and increases hate by 500% for 10 seconds
Misdirection - Used to pass hate back to the tank for 8 seconds (used only in certain circumstances)
Slight of Hand - Removes all crowd control effects for 7 seconds. Very, very useful.
Turn the tables - A self heal that doesn't require a second weapon!