Abilities

Welcome to the Abilities page of the TribeWars Gitbook! In this guide, you'll learn all about abilities, their types, the ability tree, and how to unlock and use them during battles.

Abilities Overview

Abilities are effects used during battles, unlocked through a caveman's ability tree. During the battle preparation, players can choose their “equipped” abilities on their battle ability tree.

There are 4 tiers of abilities:

Basic - Tier 1

Advanced - Tier 2

Master - Tier 3

Ultimate - Tier 4

Each ability has an effect and a cooldown.

Ability Types

Abilities can be passive or active.

• Passive abilities (auras) are active throughout the battle, with effects happening automatically either every round or with a round cooldown.

• Active abilities must be activated to take effect and have a round cooldown. Players may choose when to activate an ability with a cooldown of 0.

Ability Tree

Each caveman has 1 ability tree with spots for 14 different abilities across 4 tiers:

• 5x Basic spots

• 4x Advanced spots

• 3x Master spots

• 2x Ultimate spots

Unlock Tree Spots

Each spot has a cost to be unlocked:

• Basic spots cost 1 ability point

• Advanced spots cost 2 ability points

• Master spots cost 3 ability points

• Ultimate spots cost 4 ability points

You gain 1 ability point per caveman level (30 in total) and can save or spend points accordingly.

Choose Abilities from Pools

After unlocking a spot, players choose abilities from global or class-specific pools:

• Global abilities are accessible by all cavemen.

• Class-specific abilities come from class-specific pools.

Each caveman must have 1 ability of each tier originating from their class-specific pools.

Abilities in Battle

During battle setup, you must choose 2 basic, 2 advanced, 2 master 3 and 1 ultimate abilities, which will be available in the upcoming battle (green boxes on image). You can select different combinations of abilities before each battle.

Most abilities have a range of starting cooldown, when the battle starts. This is randomly chosen within the possible outcomes. For example, a trap might start with a cooldown of 1-3, so it starts the battle with a cooldown of 1, 2 or 3. The same ability may have a cooldown of 3, which means it will take 3 rounds to use again, after using.

During the battle, opponent cooldowns and/or abilities are not visible, only when used/triggered by the opponent.

Ability Pools

At the starting levels, players may only unlock basic abilities (tier 1). An ability pool can only be unlocked if the previous tier has a specific number of unlocked abilities.

The basic ability pool is unlocked from level 1, when you gain your first level, and so your first ability point.

To unlock the advanced pool (tier 2), you must have 4 basic abilities on your tree.

To unlock the master pool (tier 3), you must have 3 advanced abilities on your tree.

To unlock the ultimate pool, you must have 2 master abilities on your tree.

Bonus ability pool has a natural limit, depending on your caveman’s rarity.

After unlocking the ultimate pool, you can distribute the points you get from higher levels as you wish.

Table of Abilities

Class	Tier	Name	Description	Coldown	Type
Any	Basic	False Floor Trap	Place a false floor trap on any free adjacent hex. The trap remains hidden to all enemies. If an enemy steps on a placed trap, the trap pushes them back to the hex that they came from (and they spend 5+5 movement points). The hex gets a hole that no one can go on or pass through for the rest of the game.	3	Trap + Obstacle
Any	Basic	Stun Trap	Place a stun trap on any free adjacent hex. The trap remains hidden from all enemies. If an enemy steps on a placed trap, the trap stuns the enemy immediately and then disappears. You lose the rest of your turn right when you step on the stun trap, lose next turn if pushed on it.	3	Trap + 1-time Effecta
Any	Basic	Infection Trap	Place an infection trap on any free adjacent hex. The trap remains hidden to all enemies. If an enemy steps on a placed trap, the trap applies 1 infection on the enemy, and then disappears. Infection deals direct damage equal to 4% of max HP at the start of each turn, for 3 rounds. Does not affect movement, you can have multiple infection effects at the same time.	3	Trap + Temporary Effect
Any	Basic	Frost trap	Place a frost trap on any free adjacent hex. The trap remains hidden to all enemies. If an enemy steps on on a placed trap, the trap reduces the enemy’s attack speed by 12 for this battle.	2	Trap + Debuff
Any	Basic	Bleed attack	Applies 1 bleed on the enemy on every successful attack. Can stack with bleed from other sources.	Passive	Negative effect
Any	Basic	Poison attack	Applies 10 poison on the enemy on every successful attack. Can stack with poison from other sources.	Passive	Negative effect
Any	Basic	Hard Armor	Negate all negative effects from all sources, for 2 rounds.	6	Temporary Aura + Temporary Effect
Any	Basic	Meditate	Increase the effect of all your buffs by 25%. Does not apply on temporary buffs. Applies only on your caveman buffs, not spawns (decoys etc.).	Passive	Aura
Any	Basic	Bloodlust	Activate to enter attack mode. Gain 25 damage multiplier, but lose 12 armor for this battle. (Multiplier type depends on each caveman’s class.)	1 USE ONLY	Buff + Debuff
Any	Basic	Beehive bomb	Throw a beehive bomb on a hex within 5 range. It explodes next turn, dealing 70 direct damage and stuns all targets on the beehive tile and all adjacent tiles.	4	Throwable + Temporary Hex attachment + 1-time Effect
Any	Basic	Tiger strike	Every 3rd attack, gain 40 damage multiplier for this attack. All extra attacks in a turn also count towards a 3rd attack.	Passive	Aura
Any	Basic	Divine armor	When your HP is below 50%, gain 30 armor.	Passive	Aura + Buff
Any	Basic	Ether	When you evade a melee attack, return 35% of enemy base and active weapon damage as direct damage.	Passive	Aura
Any	Basic	Shapeshift	Sacrifice (lose) 8% of your max HP to permanently gain 20 damage multiplier for this battle, stackable.	3	Aura + Buff
Any	Basic	Fortify	Reduce the effect of all your debuffs by 50%. Applies only on your caveman debuffs, not spawns.	Passive	Aura
Any	Basic	Dodge	Gain +30 block but -10% chance to block each turn, for this battle.	Passive	Buff + Debuff
Any	Basic	Guardian angel	Heal 15% of your lost HP from every successful incoming attack.	Passive	Aura + Healing Effect
Warrior	Basic	Mega Block	Gain +50 block and 100% chance to block, until your next turn. All incoming negative effects have double effect.	4	Temporary Buff + Temporary Aura
Ranger	Basic	Slow attack	Every time you successfully attack an enemy, you have 50% chance to apply 2.5 slow negative effect on the enemy.	Passive	Aura + Negative Effect
Ranger	Basic	Longshot	Gain 2 ranged damage multiplier for each hex between you and the target (equal to the distance between you and the target).	Passive	Aura
Ranger	Basic	Spike trap	Place an spike trap on any free adjacent hex. The trap remains hidden to all enemies. If an enemy steps on a placed trap, the trap deals 45 direct damage and stops enemy movement immediately, and then disappears.	4	Trap + 1-time Effect
Assassin	Basic	Swift attack	Whenever you perform a second attack, you have a chance of performing a 3rd attack, using your attack speed, as normal.	Passive	Aura + Buff
Assassin	Basic	Weakness	Choose an enemy. The target enemy has reduced evasion, armor, and block by 15, for 2 enemy turns.	6	Debuff
Assassin	Basic	Panther reflexes	Gain +200 evasion until the next time you successfully evade.	4	Temporary Buff
Bonus	Basic	Blinding Trap	Place a blinding trap on any free hex within 3 range. The trap remains hidden to all enemies. If an enemy steps on a placed trap, they lose -12 Evasion or -12 Armor for this battle, whichever is higher.	4	Trap + Debuff
Bonus	Basic	Leech trap	Place a leech trap on any free adjacent hex. The trap remains hidden to all enemies. If an enemy steps on a placed trap, the trap deals direct damage to the enemy, equal to 7.5% of the enemy max HP and you heal HP equal to 7.5% of your enemy's max HP.	3	When the enemy steps on placed trap
Bonus	Basic	Class aura boost	Triple your chances of activating class aura on all checks. If class aura triggers, all its effects are boosted by 50%.	Passive	When a class aura is activated