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Learning
Learning & Training of Skills[edit]
Adventurer Skills can be learned from the following types of trainers:
- Basic Adventuring Trainer - teaches skills that are Tier 1 and 2 in any adventurer skill tree.
- Adventuring Trainer - teaches skills that are Tier 1 to 3 in any adventurer skill tree.
- Master Trainer- teaches skills of all tiers in a specific skill tree. Each Master Trainer will train only one Adventurer skill discipline.
Crafting Skills can be learned from any Crafting Trainer.
To learn a skill from a trainer, you simply need to pay the trainer (and occasionally perform a quest).
Once you have the skill learned, you can train the skill to a higher level if you have sufficient Experience in your relevant Experience Pool. You can set each skill by clicking the small arrow/dash icon to the upper left of a skills icon.
- Green up arrow = Training (The skill will advance toward a higher level each time a relevant skill is used and Experience will be consumed from the appropriate Experience Pool).
- White dash = Not Training (The skill will maintain at its current level and no experience will consumed).
- Red down double-arrow = Unlearning; perhaps a more accurate name for this would be Untraining (The skill's level will slowly decrease each time a relevant skill is used, and Experience will be refunded back into your experience pool at a rate of 50% of the experience that was invested in the skill).
Unlearning Skills[edit]
Untraining is perhaps a more accurate term for this process than Unlearning.
A skill can only be unlearned to the level of the prerequisite required by the skill below it.
To un-train slowly, you can set a skill to "unlearn" (see above) and then use relevant skills.
Unlearning can be done more rapidly and in a single step using the following items (both available in he Crown Shop):
- Obsidian Item of Unlearning - unlearns one skill to its lowest possible level (down to minimum level of 1).
- Obsidian Item of Greater Unlearning - unlearns an entire skill tree, with each skill dropping to its lowest possible level (down to minimum level of 1).
If you want to take a level 1 skill to level 0, then you can right click the skill in the Skills Window and select "Forget Skill".
Learning Rate for Skills (i.e. Rate of Training)[edit]
The following things can accelerate the speed at which you increase a skill's level when training (i.e. they increase the rate at which experience is transferred from your experience pool into a skill). All of the items listed below can be active at the same time (i.e. they stack with eachother). To maximum learning rate, your avatar should have all of these buffs simultaneously. Note: these items do not change the rate of unlearning.
- Consumables (Foods & Potions)
- Blessings
Learning & Teaching Recipes[edit]
All characters begin with several crafting Recipes already known. Additional recipes can be learned (i.e. added to your Avatar's Recipe Book).
Recipes can be found in loot, purchased from NPC Merchants, purchased from other players, learned from other players, obtained as a reward for completing a quest, or Discovered by making an item for the first time. Some recipes can only be obtained in one specific way, while others can be obtained in multiple ways.
A recipe document is a piece of paper that contains the recipe information (for example, the Recipe: Fried Frog Legs). When you find a recipe document, the title text of the document will either appear in white or blue.
- Blue title text = recipe not learned (i.e. it is not in your recipe book).
- White title text = recipe already learned (i.e. it is already in your recipe book).
This distinction can be helpful when purchasing recipes from a vendor because recipes that you do not have will appear blue on the vendor's inventory list.
Learning a Recipe[edit]
- Learn by Using A Recipe Document - If you double left-click on a recipe document that you have not previously learned, you will learn the recipe (i.e. the recipe will be added to your Recipe Book) and the recipe document will be deleted from your inventory.
- Learn by Discovery - for re-teachable recipes, the recipe can be learned (discovered) by placing the ingredients on the correct Crafting Station and then crafting the item. The first time you craft the item, the recipe will be added to your Recipe Book.
Teaching a Recipe[edit]
- For recipes that are either Teachable or Re-Teachable, teaching a recipe is done by opening a trade window with another player (by right clicking on the player and then clicking "trade"), then dragging the recipe from your Recipe Book and into the trade window. Both players then accept the trade.
Learning & Teaching Emotes[edit]
All characters begin with several Emotes already known. Additional emotes can be learned (i.e. added to your Avatar's Emote list).
Learning an Emote[edit]
- Emotes can be learned from other players, obtained as a reward for completing a quest, or purchased in the Crown Shop. Some emotes can only be obtained in one specific way, while others can be obtained in multiple ways.
- When you receive an emote, it is automatically added to your emote list (i.e. you automatically learn the emote when it is given to you).
Teaching an Emote[edit]
- For emotes that are either Teachable or Re-Teachable, teaching an emote is done by opening a trade window with another player (by right clicking on the player and then clicking "trade"), then dragging the emote from your Emote listing and into the trade window. Both players then accept the trade.
Differences Between Teachable, Re-Teachable, and Not Teachable[edit]
Teachability of Recipes and Emotes falls into 3 categories:
- Teachable - can be taught to another character from your Recipe Book, but that character will not be able to teach it to others.
- Re-Teachable - can be taught to another character from your Recipe Book, and that character can teach it to others. All Re-teachable recipes are Discoverable (i.e. the Recipe that can be learned/discovered by placing the ingredients on the correct Crafting Station and then crafting the item. The first time you craft the item, the recipe will be added to your Recipe Book).
- Not Teachable - cannot learned through discovery nor taught to another character from your Recipe Book (but you can trade a Recipe Document to another player).
| Type of Recipe/Emote |
You Can Teach Recipe/Emote to Other Players? | Players Who Learned Recipe/Emote from You Can Teach it to Other Players? |
Discoverable (for recipes only) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Not Teachable † | No | (not Applicable) | No |
| Teachable | Yes (the player who learns the recipe/emote will learn it as Not Teachable) | No | No |
| Re-Teachable | Yes (the player who learns the recipe/emote will learn it as Re-Teachable) | Yes | Yes |
† Not Teachable emotes will have a "'-" (dash) shown in the "Teachability" column in the Emotes listing. Not Teachable recipes will not have "(Teachable)" nor "(Re-Teachable)" appended to the recipe name in your Recipe Book.
Books of Learning[edit]
These books give you Experience. See Book of Learning
Items of Unlearning[edit]
These items will un-train a skill or skills. A skill can only be unlearned to the level of the prerequisite required by the skill below it. If there is no skill below it that has been learned, the skill will drop to level 1. To take a level 1 skill to 0, you can then right click on the skill in the Skills Window, and then select "Forget Skill".
Unlearning can be done rapidly and in a single step using the following items (both available in he Crown Shop):
- Obsidian Item of Unlearning - unlearns one skill to its lowest possible level (down to minimum level of 1).
- Obsidian Item of Greater Unlearning - unlearns an entire skill tree, with each skill dropping to its lowest possible level (down to minimum level of 1).