Critical Strike and enhanced damage melee skill (2024)

I'm sorry.
I tried my hardest to not ask such a dumb question, I used search, went to the knowledge base, looked and looked but couldn't find anything.
And this is such a retarded question too.
But I have never even tried making a physical skill until now, so I really wouldn't know how to do this...
I wanted to make a skill, that knocks back, and has chance of critical strike, and enhanced damage that increases per level.
I don't even know how to make the skill knockback...
I know I can use bash as a base, but I'd still like to know for knowledge's sake.
How can I give it the critical strike stat, and make that increase by about 5% each skill point. And what columns control the enhanced damage per level?

I'm sorry for asking this!

Thank you though.

As an example, let's modify concentrate skill to do what you want. Find the skill in skills.txt, and change the following columns:

aurastat1: passive_mastery_melee_crit
aurastatcalc1: 5 * lvl (that's 5% crit per skill level, on top of what weapon masteris give you)
calc1: 20 + 5*lvl (this is the damage%, +25% at level 1, +5% each level after that)
calc4: 0 (original concentrate converts physical to magic, we don't want that)
ResultFlags: 8 (this does knock back)

You can wipe out Param* columns, since we are no longer using them and it could get confusing. I'm leaving the ToHit (60) and LevToHit (10) columns as is, so the skill gets 60% + 10% per level AR bonus. You can change those if you like.

You also need to modify skilldesc.txt, but that's a different topic.