All 12 Dragonwilds Skills, Sorted Into the Four Families Jagex Use
Dragonwilds has twelve skills, and the game groups them into four families that most guides never mention: Combat, Gathering, Artisan and Support. That grouping is not cosmetic — it tells you what each skill is for, which ones share training methods, and where the gaps in your build are. Support currently contains exactly one skill. Here is the full map, and what the thirteenth will be.
On sourcing. The taxonomy below comes from the community RuneScape: Dragonwilds wiki, and can change with any patch.
The Four Families
| Family | Skills |
|---|---|
| Combat | Attack, Magic, Ranged — plus Prayer, upcoming |
| Gathering | Mining, Woodcutting, Farming, Fishing |
| Artisan | Artisan, Construction, Cooking, Runecrafting |
| Support | Agility |
Look at the shape of that table. Combat has three skills; Gathering and Artisan have four each; Support has one. Agility is not a small skill — it carries carry weight, mobility, shortcuts and courses — but it is currently a category of one, which is a clear signal about where Jagex have room to expand.
And Prayer will make Combat the largest family, at four.
The Gathering family shares a defining property: these skills "allow the player to acquire resources that cannot be acquired in massive quantities in a short amount of time or not acquired through monster drops", and each has its own dedicated tool type that earns the experience — pickaxe, logging axe, watering can, fishing rod.
The Artisan family is the conversion layer. Everything in it turns gathered material into something usable, and Artisan itself is the skill that covers general crafting — weapons, armour, trinkets and tools.
Where to Start
Some levels change what you can reach rather than how fast you work — and those come first:
| Skill | Level | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Mining | 20 | Mine Crumbled Walls — opens blocked areas |
| Woodcutting | 20 | Chop Thorny Vines — same idea |
| Construction | 11 | Eye of Oculus, the building camera |
| Construction | 40 | Personal Chest — storage from anywhere |
| Agility | 50 / 75 | +75 carry weight each, +150 total |
| Woodcutting | 40 | Lumber Storage, the earliest useful storage recipe |
The two level-20 access perks are the most underrated things in the game. If a route looks sealed, the answer may be a gathering level rather than a quest.
Agility is the one to level passively. It gains experience "while you run across the world" — but not while mounted — so ordinary travel trains it if you stay off the Terrorbird.
And nothing is wasted. Jagex raised every cap to 99 "even though the skills aren't finished yet", promising that content backfills into levels you already hold: "If you've already reached the required levels, these will automatically unlock as we add the content in."
The Combat Family
Combat splits three ways today, and the split is real rather than cosmetic — the Journal records separate weaknesses for combat style, damage type and element, so an enemy resistant to one style may be weak to another.
| Skill | Trained by |
|---|---|
| Attack | Melee weapons — or bare fists |
| Ranged | Bows and crossbows |
| Magic | Air, Water and Fire spells |
Attack has a scaling detail worth knowing: "The higher the tier of the weapon, the higher the base damage, and thus the more experience earned." Better gear trains faster, so upgrading pays twice.
All three can also be trained from items. Skill Tomes grant fixed experience, and special reward tomes — the wiki names the Tome of the Dragon Slayer — come from quests.
On a six-player server the family structure is the argument for spreading roles. Garou Berserkers fold to Magic, Druids to Ranged and Hunters to Melee — three units of one faction, each countered by a different combat skill.
What Is Coming
Prayer is confirmed as the thirteenth skill and the fourth combat skill, scheduled "to release later this year".
What Jagex have said it brings:
- Rituals, blessings and base empowerment.
- The ability to build altars and make offerings.
- Burying bones and sacrificing relics.
- Prayer points, recharged through ritual, shown on a new bar gauge whose size depends on your Prayer level.
- Blessings that boost your character and your base, growing stronger as you level.
- A secondary tutorial quest required to start training it.
Two things about that list are notable for a server. Base empowerment and base defence blessings mean Prayer is the first skill to affect a shared structure rather than an individual — and altars are buildable, so they become part of base design.
We are not going to speculate beyond that. The wiki's own note is explicit: "the wiki is not a crystal ball, this article should consist only of facts included in official Jagex releases and not speculation" — and the Items and Constructs sections currently read "Nothing discovered yet."
Practical tips
- Four families: Combat (3), Gathering (4), Artisan (4), Support (1).
- Support contains only Agility — and it levels passively while you run, but not while mounted.
- Mining 20 and Woodcutting 20 open blocked terrain, not just faster gathering.
- Construction 40 gives Personal Chest — storage from anywhere.
- Higher-tier melee weapons train Attack faster as well as hitting harder.
- Skill Tomes grant fixed experience; quest tomes exist too.
- All caps are 99, and content backfills into levels you already hold.
- Prayer is the confirmed thirteenth skill — rituals, altars and base blessings.
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Conclusion
Dragonwilds sorts its twelve skills into four families: Combat — Attack, Magic, Ranged — Gathering — Mining, Woodcutting, Farming, Fishing — Artisan — Artisan, Construction, Cooking, Runecrafting — and Support, which contains only Agility. Gathering skills each have their own tool and supply what monsters do not drop; Artisan skills convert that material into gear. The levels worth targeting first are the ones that change what you can reach rather than how fast you work: Mine Crumbled Walls at Mining 20, Chop Thorny Vines at Woodcutting 20, Eye of Oculus at Construction 11 and Personal Chest at Construction 40, plus Agility 50 and 75 for +150 carry weight. Prayer is confirmed as the thirteenth skill and the fourth combat one, bringing buildable altars, offerings, prayer points and blessings that strengthen both your character and your base — and requiring its own tutorial quest to begin.
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