In TADO, as your character levels, you’re awarded stat points. These can be spent of any of the 15 currently available stats.
On the left side you have your martial skills these are related to melee and ranged weapons, in the middle you have some armour types and shields and on the right you have a variety of schools of magic.
Each of these stats have their own related equipment and Skill Gems.
Stats themselves don't grant abilities, those come from Skill Gems. Skill Gems are found all over the world and come from all manner of activities. They may come from quests, bosses, or be hidden deep in caves waiting to be discovered, they pretty much come from all activities and part of exploration and levelling in TADO, is going around the world collecting up interesting and useful Skill Gems.
Once you have a Skill Gem and the related stats, you can equip it to one of the ten slots your character has available which than grants access to that ability on either or both of your weapon sets (assuming both your weapon sets can use the Skill that is!).
Once its in your loadout, it appears on your hot bar at the ready for use in your next fight.
There's already a lot of Skill Gems in the Early Access build and we will continue to add more as time goes on.
See you all shortly!
Monty