Skill Tree (Assassin's Creed: Mirage)

For skill trees in other Assassin's Creed games, see Skill tree.

The skill tree is an in-game user interface that allows the player to upgrade Basim Ibn Ishaq's weapons and abilities during his time training to become a Master Assassin in 9th century Baghdad. The skills are assigned to one of 3 trees, Phantom, Trickster, and Predator, represented by a scorpion, a spider, and an eagle, respectively. Unlike the trees used in previous installments of the Assassin's Creed series, progression was linear and story-based rather than dependent on accumulating experience points.

Skills

Phantom

Icon for the Phantom skill class

Ability	Description
Kick Back	After a successful Parry, press Y / △ to strike the parried enemy. Use left-stick to strike in another direction.
Assassin's Focus Capacity 1	Add an additional Chunk to the Focus Bar.
Breakfall	Basim automatically performs a roll when landing from a dangerous height, reducing the amount of damage taken.
Chain Assassination	After performing an assassination, assassinate a second nearby enemy or throw a knife at a distant on if Throwing Knives are available.
Air Strike	Slows down time while aiming with Throwing Knives in mid-air.
Assassin's Focus Capacity 2	Add 2 additional Chunks to the Focus Bar.
Counter Roll	Dodge towards an enemy's Unblockable Attack just before it lands to vault directly behind them. A strong strategy against armored opponents.
Focus Boost	Focus Bar will refill faster after each stealth kill.

Trickster

Icon for the Trickster skill class

Ability	Description
Auto-Collect	Loot an enemy automatically after a Stealth kill or assassination.
Extra Tool Capacity 1	You can unlock a new slot for a Tool by visiting the Banu Musa at a Hidden Ones' Bureau. However, once acquired, this skill cannot be reset.
Elixir Pocket	Increase the maximum number of Elixers you can carry at the same time by 1.
Extra Tool Capacity 2	You can unlock a new slot for a Tool by visiting the Banu Musa at a Hidden Ones' Bureau. However, once acquired, this skill cannot be reset.
Knife Recovery	All the Throwing Knives that hit an enemy can be retrieved from their corpse.
Extra Tool Capacity 3	You can unlock a new slot for a Tool by visiting the Banu Musa at a Hidden Ones' Bureau. However, once acquired, this skill cannot be reset.
Pickpocket Master	Basim's skills as a Pickpocket increase, helping him retrieve his target's valuables more efficiently.
Engineer	You can select a second Tier 1 Tool Upgrade for each available Tool. Warning: Resetting will remove all Tier 1 Perks from the Tool. Visit the Banu Musa to reapply them.

Predator

Icon for the Predator skill class

Ability	Description
Pathfinder	Enkidu’s View reveals Keys and highlights opportunities like Chests with a glow. Secret Entrances are also easier to discover.
Enkidu Acuity 1	Enkidu's perception is increased, making tagging enemies easier.
Enkidu Acuity 2	Enkidu's perception is increased, making tagging enemies easier.
Eagle Sense	Enkidu's Eye reveals the Patrol Path of marked enemies.
Emergency Aim	Holding LT/L2 will snap your aim to an enemy as they detect you, fiving you an opportunity to kill them and remain undetected.
Vision Boost	Increase Eagle Vision radius.
Stealth Recon	Automatically highlight enemies when crouched and undetected.

Behind the scenes

Each of the images for the skill categories utilize the anachronistic Diwani style of Islamic calligraphy developed in the later 16th century Ottoman Empire during the reign of Sultan Suleiman I. The scorpion is an excerpt from an old proverb that reads « لدغ العقارب لم يكن لعّلامة », or "Scorpions sting not out of hostility". The spider reads « بنى بيت العنكبوت على وهن », or "The spider built a feeble and frail house", and is based on the forty-first āyah in the Quran's twenty-ninth surah of Al-Ankabut (The Spider), which translated reads in full "The parable of those who take protectors other than Allah is that of a spider spinning a shelter. And the flimsiest of all shelters is certainly that of a spider, if only they knew." In contrast to the previous quotes of Arabic origin, the eagle is a slight change to the phrase "We work in the dark to serve the light" often spoken at an Assassin apprentice's initiation as it reads « ثم من الظلام تخرج نحو النور », or "From the dark, you will come into the light, then from the light, you will return to the dark".