Skills

The skillbook resource lists the learned skills in the character’s skill pane. daRPC can also use one of those skills through the same native client path as a normal activation.

Reading the skillbook

curl "http://127.0.0.1:2626/clients/ZiLo/skills"

Each occupied slot includes:

• One-based slot
• icon and available name
• Current level and max_level
• cooldown.active
• Optional cooldown.cooldown_ms containing the total cooldown duration
• Optional cooldown.remaining_ms when the client retains an exact expiry

A cooldown can be known to be active even when the exact remaining time is not available. Live action-delay packets are authoritative for the total duration. The skillbook’s retained start and end timestamps provide current progress and recover exact timing after a late attach.

Skillbook {
    observation: ObservationMetadata,
    skills: Skill[]?,
}

Skill {
    slot: u8,
    icon: u16,
    name: string?,
    level: u8,
    max_level: u8,
    cooldown: Cooldown,
}

Cooldown {
    active: bool,
    cooldown_ms: u32?,
    remaining_ms: u32?,
}

Using a skill

Select the skill by one-based slot:

curl --request POST \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{"slot":5}' \
  "http://127.0.0.1:2626/clients/ZiLo/skills/use"

Or by case-insensitive name:

curl --request POST \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{"name":"Assail"}' \
  "http://127.0.0.1:2626/clients/ZiLo/skills/use"

Use exactly one selector. Slots range from 1 through 90. An invalid body or slot returns 400 Bad Request; an unknown name or empty learned slot returns 404 Not Found.

The daemon resolves a name against its retained skillbook. The DLL then checks the live slot again and calls the client’s normal skill activation routine. It does not open the skill panel, change the visible lower-tray page, move the mouse, or synthesize a click.

An executed command means local client activation ran. skill.used is the later observation that the client submitted the skill. Neither result alone is a promise that the game server accepted the action.

Basic attack (Assail)

Assail is the client’s built-in basic attack action. It does not select or require a learned skillbook slot:

curl --request POST "http://127.0.0.1:2626/clients/ZiLo/assail"

The direct named-pipe client exposes the same action for one injected process:

darpc assail --pid 3780

The command queues on the game thread and submits the native client attack packet 0x13. A successful command result means the packet was submitted. The corresponding server response can produce player.animated and sound.played events, which provide the observable animation and audio cues.

Use /assail for the built-in basic attack. Use /skills/use when selecting a learned skillbook entry by slot or name.

Swapping skills

curl --request POST \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{"source":{"slot":5},"destination":{"name":"Assail"}}' \
  "http://127.0.0.1:2626/clients/ZiLo/skills/swap"

Both selectors accept exactly one of slot or case-insensitive name, using the same payload as inventory and spell swaps. A destination slot may be empty. The source must be occupied, and the resolved slots must be different.

Skillbook events

The complete payload structures and batch rules are in Skill events.

These events use the same batch_index, batch_count, slot, before, and after shape as inventory events. Moving or swapping skills can update several slots in one batch. Identical same-slot updates are ignored.

skill.changed is not emitted for a cooldown-only transition. A cooldown event contains observation, the one-based slot, optional name, optional cooldown_ms, and optional remaining_ms. cooldown_ms is the stable total duration, while remaining_ms is the time left at observation and never exceeds the total when both are present. The live packet supplies the total; the retained skill timestamps supply progress. A ready event contains observation, slot, and optional name. When the client exposes an exact skill expiry, daRPC schedules a read at that deadline. Otherwise it polls only the watched active slot until the skill is ready.

Skill use event

skill.used is emitted when daRPC observes the client’s outbound skill-use submission. It contains the one-based slot and the skill name when the daemon can resolve it from the current skillbook.

This event also covers skills used through the normal game interface. It is an observation of the client behavior, not only a receipt for the REST command.

Availability

skills: null means the skillbook was unavailable. An empty array means it was read successfully and no occupied skill slots were found.