Pool Skill

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Pool Skill is an enchantment on several different item that positively affects your ability to play pool, either in The Haunted Billiards Room, in the Typical Tavern or in your clan's VIP lounge. Maximizing your ability to play pool can be helpful in making some extra meat in the Tavern, showing your clanmates who's boss, or hunting for a certain trophy.

You need to have a total Pool Skill of 14 to find the Spookyraven library key. (This needs confirmation.)

Known Pool Skill Increasers

Source	Source Type	Pool Skill	Duration	Cost	Notes
Staff of Fats	Weapon (2H)	5	Always		A Quest Item
pool cue	Weapon (2H)	3	Always		Moxie +3
Chalked Weapon	Effect	5	10 Adventures	Item Loss	Obtained from cube of billiard chalk Regular attacks can't miss
Chalky Hand	Effect	3	5 Adventures	Item Loss	Obtained from handful of hand chalk Never Fumble Weapon Damage +3
Swimming with Sharks	Effect	3	15 Adventures	Item Loss	Obtained from shark cartilage +20% Meat from Monsters Makes you a better diver
A Shark's Chum	Semi-rare	0 - 10	Always		Choosing to Rack 'em up permanently adds to your Pool Skill. This is believed to continue to a maximum of 10 points. This does carry across ascensions. The amount added is not clear; it may be a consistent +1 now, having been +2 at some time in the past.

Drunkenness

Your level of Drunkenness secretly modifies your Pool Skill. This modifier is not currently shown anywhere in-game.

• For every point of drunkenness up to 10 gives you +1 Pool skill, to a maximum of 10.
• Every point beyond 10 drunkenness will then reduce this score by -2 Pool Skill per point of drunkenness. This can go negative and has no known limit.
• For example, a player with 19 drunkenness will have a 10 - (9*2) = -8 Pool skill modifier added by their drunkenness.

Suspected Pool Skill Increasers

Several items, effects, or qualities of a given Adventurer are also suspected to improve pool playing ability, despite not showing a Pool Skill enchantment. These include:

• equipping a lucky rabbit's foot
• equipping a shark jumper

No Pool Skill Effect

Some noteworthy items that do not increase Pool Skill include:

• the Staff of Ed (but can be untinkered into the Staff of Fats)

Notes

• Items in your display case do not affect your Pool Skill, as stated by Jick on a radio show.

History

• Shortly after the Spookyraven Manor revamp on 14th May 2014, the effect of your drunkenness on pool skill was shown in the Quest Tracker when trying to get the Spookyraven library key. This was then made hidden sometime the next day.

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