And how to change the skill to another one, let's say I have a punisher and how to put a holy hammer instead of it, I click with the mouse nothing happens

Don't forget that race matters. Elves can forego runes and get double damage essentially out of all offensive options. Something to think about.

Also having Convert Skill Uses built with gear, the RNG passive skill map and corpse parts to Max: 75% can help with making direct skill use free almost 100% of the time.

Belts has intrinsic remaining protection quality, just using a belt already gives you enough survivability against most petrification sources unless you take too long in a fight (which is possible with some nasty yellow elites). You can roll remaining protection on any item as well or take a node on the upgrade tree, it's quite easy to raise it to 100%. A belt with +100% remaining protection is rollable even on the lower floors (I rolled one on floor 4 once). I found that on most lower rarity skills the 5 soulstone "cost (weak)" rune that reduces uses consumption by 1 was enough even for 30F dungeons. For something like Black Orb that has consumption 3 stacking halfling's racial bonus with that rune also makes it manageable.

@[OP]Fragilehardass Remaining uses has been addressed in the latest dev update - they're nerfing the encounter rate of problematic things including enemies such as the medusa and basilisk, as well as removing exhaust runes (-1 per cast) and modifiers like evil eye (-1 per hit) from the pool for the lower floors.

Truthfully, if you interface with the crafting system at its most basic level you can get maximum use increases, percent chance to ignore consumption on spell use, lower consumption, and remaining use protection modifiers fairly easily from rerolls alone, much less the guaranteed contracts. The skill tree can also throw you a bone with 75% remaining use protection and the like, though you'll mostly see maximum use nodes.

As a bonus tip, Auto Rune proc'd skills always consume only one use from their skill and are put on a one turn cooldown (before slow), regardless of the consumption. So that can be a great way to get more value out of your abilities rather than casting them.

I'm sorry but tbh... how can you forget to punch? I understand if you create a game named 'Alzheimers' but it just feels wrong now. Imagine you would have the same mechanic gear wise, after a few levels you just forget to keep it on, makes no sense. Was really looking forward to it but I'm not gonna play it when the skills have uses. People (like me) complaining about the mechanic with fewer than 3 hours on it are players that could go 100+ hours if the feel of the game is good, it doesn't mean they are right but neither that they are wrong

Sociability also helps a lot just up the encounter rate

Added a section for auto Runes because they're op as hell.

@Azella Likely some sort of debuff. Particularly, 'stun' resets all of your skills to their full cooldown, as well as 'slow' adding however much of its potency to the cooldown. Of note for new players, the burst variant of the warrior's 'slash' is one such skill that actually stuns yourself whenever you use it, which is really bad. The caterpillar race is innately 'sticky', which applies 1 slow every time they're hit (also sticky or legendary elites).

With the Necromancer Union, you can unlock the race 'halfling' which has a trait that reduces both cooldown and usage by 1. Besides that, take note of situations where you feel this is happening and consult the bestiary/skill list for more information.

Awesome guide! I have a kinda unrelated question but on higher levels my skills seem to always be on cooldown. Do you know what causes this?