For bow handling
If charged-bow aiming is your focus, start with Breath Control; its effect extends steady aim time on charged shots, and the guide lists no prerequisite.
Breath ControlSkill trees, weapon upgrades, and crafting. Explore how the equipment and progression systems work.

If charged-bow aiming is your focus, start with Breath Control; its effect extends steady aim time on charged shots, and the guide lists no prerequisite.
Breath ControlIf crafting materials are your focus, compare Naturalist and Survivalist to see how the guide distinguishes natural from man-made resources gathered from each source.
Naturalist SurvivalistIf you are following handheld-explosive skills, compare the gas-can and radio crafting options with the skill that increases crafted handheld items’ detonation radius.
Incendiary Bombs Demolitions ExpertChoose a topic to see how it works, where it helps and what to consider.
Thick-Skinned reduces damage from enemy gunfire and melee attacks. Its effect is cumulative with Heart of Stone, another Brawler skill.
Understand this choiceDodge Counter lets Lara incapacitate an unarmored enemy during a dodge with a well-timed press of the indicated button.
Understand this choiceArrow Retrieval gives Lara a chance to recover arrows when looting enemies killed with a bow, returning some ammunition through looting.
Understand this choiceBreath Control extends the time Lara can keep steady aim while charging a bow shot, allowing steadier aim for longer.
Understand this choiceAnimal Instincts highlights animals in Survival Instincts and makes larger animals leave trackable footprints and blood trails.
Understand this choiceNaturalist increases the natural crafting resources collected from each source, affecting the amount gathered for crafting.
Understand this choiceSurvivalist increases the man-made crafting resources Lara gathers from each source, supporting collection of materials used in crafting.
Understand this choiceIncendiary Bombs enables explosive bombs made from red gas cans and proximity mines made from enemy radios.
Understand this choiceDemolitions Expert increases the detonation radius of crafted handheld items, expanding the area affected by those explosives.
Understand this choiceCrafting Mastery enables large-capacity ammunition and resource pouches to be crafted at Base Camps and increases ammunition crafted on the run.
Understand this choiceThe guide states that tier II unlocks after spending eight skills and tier III after spending nineteen. Tiered skills may also have their own specific skill or weapon prerequisites.
WikiRaider says some ammunition, such as bullets, cannot be quick-crafted, and that some craftable ammunition must first be learned through a skill.
The crafting passage says handheld explosives require the relevant skills and the appropriate item in hand, using a bottle for a Molotov Cocktail as an example. It says Body Traps can only be crafted near a fallen enemy.
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