Disco Elysium: Skills Disco Elysium guide, walkthrough

Logic

Logic describes the character's ability to analyze the information he's learned, put it together, detect inconsistencies, and draw conclusions. Highly developed Logic will allow Harrier to solve even the most complex puzzle. Successful Logic skill checks often open additional dialog options.

Items that provide a bonus to Logic:

1. FALN Pipo Pipo: 2;
2. Samaran Conical Hat: 1;
3. Flip-up Glasses The Auditor: 1;
4. Interisolary Dress Shirt: 1.

Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia represents the character's knowledge of the world around him and things that have happened in the past. This skill very rarely affects dialogue options.

Items providing a bonus to Encyclopedia:

1. Dick Mullen's Hat: 1;
2. Mega-Bino's Prescription Lenses: 2.

Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of listening and speaking. With this skill, Harrier will be an excellent listener and be able to pick out potential inaccuracies in others' discourse.

Items providing a bonus to Rhetoric:

1. Medal The Setting Sun: 1;
2. White Polo Shirt: 1.

Drama

Drama describes the character's ability to play certain roles. It allows him to effectively lie and make up different stories to achieve his goal. Furthermore, high Drama enables Harrier to recognize situations in which his interlocutors are lying.

Items that provide a bonus to Drama:

1. Leather Jacket Pissf****t: 1;
2. Party Dragon's Silk Robe: 1;
3. Bow Knot: 2.

Conceptualization

Conceptualization is the ability to understand and create art. This skill opens up additional dialogue options for certain NPCs.

Items that provide a bonus to Conceptualization:

1. Saramirizian Lounge Jacket: 1;
2. White Satin Shirt: 1.

Visual Calculus

Visual Calculus is a skill that allows the character to reconstruct the events that unfolded at a crime scene from visible evidence and determine the sequence of events.

Items providing a bonus to Visual Calculus:

1. Neat Office Shades: 1;
2. RCM Commander's Jacket: 1.

Volition

Volition affects the desire to do good, to strive to complete the investigation, but is also related to Morale - one of the two health pools in Disco Elysium.

Items providing a bonus to Volition:

1. Eight-Eyed Teratorn Tie: 1;
2. Fairweather T-500 Cuirass: 1.

Inland Empire

Inland Empire is an ability that provides Harrier with a lush imagination that allows him to talk to inanimate objects (like his tie or shirt). The information obtained this way can change the course of the investigation.

Items providing bonus to Inland Empire:

1. Sunglasses Sub-Insulindic Rendezvous: 1;
2. Horrific Necktie: 1;
3. Eight-Eyed Teratorn Tie: 1.

Empathy

Empathy affects Harrier's ability to understand others: their sadness, suspicious joy, emotional instability - anything that can later be used to your advantage. During conversations, Empathy opens additional dialogue options.

Items providing a bonus to Empathy:

1. Army Surplus Winter Scarf: 2;
2. Mesque Banger's Red Brogues: 1;
3. Jamrock Biker-Cop Sunnies: 1;
4. Pinball Maker's Coat: 1.

Authority

Authority determines how much influence your protagonist has over others - whether he can convince them of his reasons or intimidate them. Using Authority can reflect negatively on your relationship with an NPC if the skill check fails.

Items providing a bonus to Authority:

1. Fairweather T-500 Greaves: 2;
2. RCM Lieutenant's Cap: 1.

Esprit de Corps

Esprit de Corps is a strange ability that allows the character to gain additional information about what is currently happening in the precinct. Esprit de Crops also allows Harrier to perceive discreet comments that other police officers may pass on to him.

Items providing a bonus to Esprit de Corps:

1. RCM Commander's Jacket: 1;
2. RCM Patrol Cloak: 1;
3. Disco-Ass Blazer: 1.

Suggestion

Suggestion is the ability to convince others to do as you say. At a higher level, Suggestion contributes to making the character less susceptible to the charms of encountered NPCs.

Items that provide a bonus to Suggestion:

1. Signal-Blue Naval Coat: 1;
2. Interisolary Suit Jacket: 1.

Endurance

Endurance affects the hero's health level in a ratio of 1:1. For example, if your character has 3 Endurance, then you will have 3 health bars.

Items providing a bonus to Endurance:

1. FRITTTE Plastic Rain Coat: 1.

Pain Threshold

Pain Threshold measures the character's ability to ignore pain or cope with suffering. This skill is usually tested passively, and if the hero fails the test, he loses 1 point of Health.

Items providing a bonus to Pain Threshold:

1. FALN Faln Windbreaker: 1;
2. Mesque Banger's Silk Scarf: 1;
3. Fairweather T-500 Cuirass: 1.

Physical Instrument

The Physical Instrument skill determines the character's ability to use physical force to affect elements in the environment, such as opening a container or door with a Prybar or delivering a kick.

Items providing a bonus to Physical Instrument:

1. FALN Modular Track Pants: 1;
2. T-Shirt Man From Hjelmdall: 1.

Electrochemistry

Electrochemistry determines the character's tolerance level for drugs - alcohol, and narcotics. The Electrochemistry skill can open additional lines of dialogue when talking to certain NPCs.

Items providing a bonus to Electrochemistry:

1. Fingerless Gloves: 1;
2. Flare-cut Trousers: 1;
3. Pour L'Homme Labourer Jeans: 1;
4. Shades of Self-Destruction: 1;
5. Party Dragon's Silk Robe: 1.

Shivers

Shivers allow Harrier to tune into the streets of Revachol, become more aware of his surroundings and the city at large.

Items providing a bonus to Shivers:

1. RCM Patrol Cloak: 1;
2. Polar Anorak: 1;
3. Scented Scarf: 1;
4. T-Shirt Man From Hjelmdall: 1;

Half Light

Half Light affects the hero's ability to intimidate others. This skill is usually actively tested when you choose a dialogue option in which you want to aggressively interrogate your interlocutor.

Items providing a bonus to Half Light:

1. Fairweather T-500 Helmet: 1;
2. FALN Faln Windbreaker: 1;
3. Leather Jacket Fuck the World: 1;
4. FALN Ultra Series Gloves: 1;
5. Itchy Pants: 2.

Hand/Eye Coordination

Hand/Eye Coordination determines the character's ability to aim firearms or throw objects.

Items providing a bonus to Hand/Eye Coordination:

1. Pinball Maker's Coat: 1;
2. FALN Arrower Shirt: 1;
3. FALN Ultra Series Sneakers: 1.

Perception

Perception defines the character's ability to sense or see something elusive - a hidden passage, a discarded object.

Items providing a bonus to Perception:

1. Amphibian Sports Visor: 1;
2. Franconigerian Cavalry Boots: 1.

Reaction Speed

Reaction Speed determines the hero's ability to react quickly when his life is in danger - avoiding a blow or a bullet.

Items providing a bonus to Reaction Speed:

1. Orange Bum Hat: 1;
2. Royal Carabineer Pants: 1;
3. FALN Ultra Series Sneakers: 1.

Savoir Faire

Savoir Faire defines the balance and fluidity of Harrier's movements. This allows him to, for example, make a jump over an obstacle and land safely without any damage to his health.

Items that provide a bonus to Savor Faire:

1. Oversized Superstar Sunglasses: 1;
2. FALN Modular Track Pants: 1.

Interfacing

Interfacing determines the character's ability to manipulate objects and devices to draw additional conclusions that may come in handy during the investigation.

Items providing a bonus to Interfacing:

1. Yellow Gardening Gloves: 1;
2. Fairweather T-500 Gauntlets: 2.

Composure

Composure determines the character's ability to keep his cool and emotions in check, and allows him to detect when someone is trying to keep their thoughts from being revealed.

Items providing a bonus to Composure:

1. Dynamic Winderbreaker Surf: 1;
2. Polar Anorak: 1;
3. Green Snakeskin Shoes: 1.