Elite skill

Overview
These are a special type of skills that are generally more powerful than others. These skills can be identified by a golden border surrounding each elite skill's icon. Elite skills cannot be purchased from skill trainers like normal skills can, and are not available at all until late in the game. A character may place one elite skill in his/her skill bar at a time; putting a second one will cause the first to be automatically removed.

Gaining Elite Skills
Elite skills are more difficult to gain than standard skills are. In order to gain one, a character must do the following:


 * Purchase a Signet of Capture from a skill trainer (first available in the quest Malaquire's Test in Lion's Arch).
 * Put the Signet of Capture in one of the skill slots on his/her skill bar.
 * Find and kill a boss who has the desired elite skill (see locations link below).
 * Use the Signet of Capture near the dead boss, causing a list of its skills to appear.
 * Select the elite skill from a list of the boss's skills and click Capture.

When a character captures an elite skill, his/her Signet of Capture is used up, and he/she must purchase another one if more elite skills are desired. The character can have as many of these signets on his/her skill bar at one time as desired, up to the normal maximum of eight.

List of Elite Skills

 * For an alphabetical listing of all elite skills, see: Category:Elite Skills.
 * For a list of elite skills by profession, see: Elite skills list
 * For a list of elite skill locations, see: Elite skill locations

Related Skills
These skills operate on elite skills though not elite themselves:
 * [[image:Mesmer-icon.png|15px]] Arcane Mimicry
 * [[image:Mesmer-icon.png|15px]] Signet of Humility