Skill Leveling
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:33 pm**Disclaimer**
I did NOT write this guide. It was taken from the forums of another shard I played on. I am taking no credit for the creation of this guide. However since this is a no PvP shard I have edited some of the information to fit the features here.
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Combat Skills
Any skill that requires you to attack something on the shard will be very easy to train. Just gather the required resources (weapons, regs, etc.) and attack the training twiggys in the training area.
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Alchemy
0 – 65 make Cure Potions
65 – 85 make Greater Cure Potions
85 – 95 make Greater Poison Potions (Much cheaper)
95 – 100 make Greater Poison
Anatomy
Attack the Twiggys in the training area. (see combat skills)
Animal Lore
Find an animal that you can tame and macro "Use skill = Animal Lore, last target" on that object.
Even a bird trapped in a house will GM you.
Archery
Again, very easy. Attack the twiggys. (see combat skills)
Arms Lore
See that dagger in your pouch? Macro using "use skill = arms lore, last target" and macro on that. Will GM in an hour.
Animal Taming
Buy up to 30 from an animal trainer.
30 – 60 tame small animals, anything you can find. The Jholem farms work well for this one.
60 – 70 try to tame hinds, polar bears, snow leopards, and Grey/white wolves.
70 – 80 continue to tame the wolves, try maybe dire wolves, and add great hearts. Moonglow is best for these.
80 – 100 you can tame many different things but most of them will bite you. Most people will GM buy bulls in deluccia, some gm off white wolves, and others say hellhounds and lava lizards. Whatever works best for you, and where you can stay alive is what you need to be using.
Anything that you do not have a 100% to tame will give you gains, however the harder the pet is to tame, the quicker gains come.
Begging
Go to a place where there are a lot of NPCs and beg your little hearts desire. Doesnt take too long to GM. However, after you succeed from Begging from an NPC they will not let you beg from them again for 5 minutes. So gains are few and far between in a small NPC town.
Blacksmith
0 – 35 I recommend you buy your skills. 350gp is a lot easier to get a hold of then the ingots you’ll be using to get up to 35.
35 – 45 Making ringmail. Start with the sleeves and work up to the legs and tunic.
45 – 55 Making heavy weapons. Start with heavy swords (long, broad, Viking) then add in krysses, and as you get mid 50s start with big two handed axes.
55 – 65 Making Short Spears and plate gorgets.
65 – 75 Making Long Spears and gorgetes.
75 – 85 Making plate sleeves and helms
85 – 95 Making plate legs.
95 – 100 Making Breast Plates.
100-120s You will use about as much ingots as you used to get to 100 so be prepared.
The following list is the most economical way to GM Blacksmithing, here is listed the skill you need along with the required materials.
0 29.1 Buy with Gold
29.1 49.5 Dagger 3 Ingots
49.5 95.2 S Spear 6 Ingots
95.3 106.3 P Gorg 10 Ingots
106.3 108.8 P Glove 12 Ingots
108.8 112.5 P Helm 15 Ingots
112.5 116.2 P Arms 18 Ingots
116.2 118.7 P Legs 20 Ingots
118.7 120.0 P Tunic 25 Ingots
Bowcraft/Fletching
Start by making arrows one at a time. Separate the logs in your pack individually and have a pile of feathers near by. Carve each log into shafts one by one, and then fletch the shaft into an arrow one by one. This should take you from 0 to 30.
Once at 30 carve bows from logs till you reach 40.
Once you hit 40 continue to craft bows.
Once you reach 60 in skill you’ll want to craft heavy crossbows. You can still gain off bows and regular crossbows still, but you gain faster with heavys.
Carpentry
0 – 50 Craft Mostly small boxes and crates, alternating with a few of the hardest item you can make at your skill level.
4-mid 50s craft trinsic or Vesper chairs
50 – 65 Craft Wooden shields mostly, alternating with a few large crates, plain thrones, and benches.
65 – 75 Craft same as 50-65, but maybe add writing desks.
75 – 85 Craft Gnarled Staffs and Quarterstaffs.
85 – 95 Craft Gnarled Staffs mostly..
95 – 100 Craft Gnarled Staffs mostly, but try to make easels, beds, or water troughs. That will gm you fast.
Cartography
From 30 - mid 60 make local maps
mid 60 - 99.5 make world maps. making city maps will also work but I have found its slower
99.5 - 100, find Lv2+ treasure and decode by yourself.
Cooking
Grab those raw fish steaks I know you all have laying around and cook them singly. Yay its so exciting!
Detect Hidden
Grab yourself a few GM made trapped locked boxes and macro away.
Or you can just Macro "Use Skill = Detect, last target" and target the ground.
Evaluating Intelligence
Go into a store and use the macro "Use skill = Evaluating Intelligence, last target" Just macro that for and hour and you will gm.
Fencing
Attack the training twiggys. (see combat skills)
Fishing
Go to a dock and fish.
Forensic Evaluation
Go to a place where there are usually bodies. Just macro "use skill=Forensic, last target." Should be no time till your GM.
Healing
Once you get to 70 skill the quickest and most efficient way to GM is by finding a ghost and attempting to resurect him. Of course the ghost does not need to accept the resurrection, because you gain when he dead..
Herding
there is a special place in the training area for this
Hiding
Run around and hide, or you could just macro it standing in the middle of a field. I made a space bar macro for Hiding so whenever I would talk I would use it subconsciously and I gmed it without ever training it.
Inscription
40 Train from NPC
40 – 50 High 4th level spells or low 5th level spells. I recommend recall because people will buy these from you.
50 – 60 Scribe high 5th level. I like to scribe mark spells because again people buy these.
60 – 70 High 6th level and low 7th level. I like gate travel scrolls because - well because of money.
70 – 80 7th and low 8th level spells. These scrolls will sell to vendors for like 200 apeice too so they are nice.
80 – 100 Summon elementals because they use less regs
Item ID
Use any item in your bag and macro "use skill = Item ID, last target" It will go fast.
Lockpicking
Get a hold of 20 to 30 locked chests/crates (remember - not magic locked)
You will not be able to unlock GM made locked boxes so get crappy ones from a crappy carpenter.
Line everything up neatly and start at one end of your rows of chests.
Pick chest A, then B, and so on. You will GM before you know it
One way I was able to GM this easily was by having a carpenter the same skill as I was. I would have my carp make boxes at 30 skill and pick them until I was 40 skill and then my carpenter would be at 40 skill and so on and so fourth. Therefore, you are staying in a gainable difficulty.
Lumberjacking
Use an axe while killing twiggys (see combat skills). Or you can go chop trees!
Mace Fighting
Kill the twiggys. (see combat skills)
Magery
50-80 Invis
80-GM Mana Vamp
50-65 Mana Drain
65-100 Mana Vamp
If you'd rather damage the twiggys for quicker gains:
50-65 Mana Drain
65-85 Energy Bolt
85-100 FS
Meditation
This goes up on its own. If you want you can just lower you mana some and it will GM before you know it. Med goes up when your mana is down.
Mining
You cannot macro this for the most part unless you use a bot or some other evil thing. Just go to a mountain range and mine. If you want to keep your ore then go to places around Destard where they have forges set up along the mountain side. Make sure you can recall or something. Miners = easy pray for pkers.
Musicianship
Go get a few instruments and macro "last object." Instruments break so dont go afk and expect you to be GM with one instrument.
Parrying
Kill the twiggys. (see combat skills)
Peacemaking
Go to a bard and train your skill to 30ish
Macro peacemaking on yourself for a while
When that stops you can go to destard and make good money while you are GMing the rest of the few points.
Poisoning
You can gm this skill of of one item
I would suggest using a piece of food because it doesn't corrode and its easier to target
50 use lesser poison
50 – 68 use normal poison
68- 95 use greater poison
95 – 100 use deadly poison
You can get to 95ish skill by using greater posion, but the gains slow tremendously. This skill take a long time to GM after 99, so stick tight. To gain that one more point get ready to use about as many potions as it took to gain half of your skill.
Provocation
Make a macro to provoke the beatles in the training area.
Resisting Spells
0 – 50 Fireball & Lightning
50 - 70 Mindblast or Mana Drain. Mana Drain doesn't gain you as fast but saves mana and Health.
70 - 90 Mana vamp
90 - 100 Mana Vamp
Snooping
Pack llamas in the training area.
Stealing
Training dummies in the training area
Stealth
Buy skill to mid 30s
30 – 63 Start out naked/normal clothes.
After you pass 50 put your clothes back on in many layers (pants, skirts, aprons, robes, cape, hat, ect) and do the same thing you did to get to 50
60 – 80 with the clothes you have on add plate gorget and plate gloves or studded suit.
80 – 90 you will want to add plate arms some time soon.
90 – 100 take off all clothes and armor and just wear a chain tunic or closed helm.
Swordsmanship
Training Twiggys (see combat skills)
Tactics
Traiing twiggys (see combat skills)
Tailoring
0 to 33 buy skill
33 to 45 make plane dresses
45 to 55 make cloaks
55 to 75 make robes
75 to 99.6 make oil cloths
99.6 to 100 make studded tunics
100-120 You get to make studded tunics forever!
The following list has been suggested as the most economical way to GM tailoring. Listed is the skill needed along with the required materials.
0 33 Buy 330 Gold
33 49.7 Short Pants 6 Cloth
49.7 54 Skirt 10 Cloth
54 58 Fancy Dress 12 Cloth
58 66.3 Cloak 14 Cloth
66.3 74.6 Robe 16 Cloth
74.6 99.6 Oil Cloth 1 Cloth
99.6 103.7 Studded Gorget 6 Hides
103.7 107.8 Studded Bustier 8 Hides
107.8 112 Studded Armor 10 Hides
112 116 Studded Legs 12 Hides
116 119 Studded Tunic 14 Hides
119 120 Bone Legs 10 Hides, 6 Bones
Tinkering
0-30 buy skill
30 - 48 make keys and copy them
48 - 65 make lockpicks
65 - 90s rotate between lockpicks, heating stands, scales, and spyglasses.
90s - 100 Drop the lockpicks and just roate the three over and over till you GM.
Tracking
Just macro it ever where you go.
After you get past the 20 skill mark you have to choose humans to gain.
Just macro this and you will be GM in no time.
Veterinary
I would assume you have animal taming and possibly pets. get your pets and make them fight each other.
Get your bandiads ready and heal.
Try doing something like 2 bears because they dont take too much health off each other.
Wrestling
Twiggys in the training area (see combat skills)
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This guide may have some mistakes. Please let me know (or fix them if you are a mod/admin).
I did NOT write this guide. It was taken from the forums of another shard I played on. I am taking no credit for the creation of this guide. However since this is a no PvP shard I have edited some of the information to fit the features here.
============================================================================================
Combat Skills
Any skill that requires you to attack something on the shard will be very easy to train. Just gather the required resources (weapons, regs, etc.) and attack the training twiggys in the training area.
============================================================================================
Alchemy
0 – 65 make Cure Potions
65 – 85 make Greater Cure Potions
85 – 95 make Greater Poison Potions (Much cheaper)
95 – 100 make Greater Poison
Anatomy
Attack the Twiggys in the training area. (see combat skills)
Animal Lore
Find an animal that you can tame and macro "Use skill = Animal Lore, last target" on that object.
Even a bird trapped in a house will GM you.
Archery
Again, very easy. Attack the twiggys. (see combat skills)
Arms Lore
See that dagger in your pouch? Macro using "use skill = arms lore, last target" and macro on that. Will GM in an hour.
Animal Taming
Buy up to 30 from an animal trainer.
30 – 60 tame small animals, anything you can find. The Jholem farms work well for this one.
60 – 70 try to tame hinds, polar bears, snow leopards, and Grey/white wolves.
70 – 80 continue to tame the wolves, try maybe dire wolves, and add great hearts. Moonglow is best for these.
80 – 100 you can tame many different things but most of them will bite you. Most people will GM buy bulls in deluccia, some gm off white wolves, and others say hellhounds and lava lizards. Whatever works best for you, and where you can stay alive is what you need to be using.
Anything that you do not have a 100% to tame will give you gains, however the harder the pet is to tame, the quicker gains come.
Begging
Go to a place where there are a lot of NPCs and beg your little hearts desire. Doesnt take too long to GM. However, after you succeed from Begging from an NPC they will not let you beg from them again for 5 minutes. So gains are few and far between in a small NPC town.
Blacksmith
0 – 35 I recommend you buy your skills. 350gp is a lot easier to get a hold of then the ingots you’ll be using to get up to 35.
35 – 45 Making ringmail. Start with the sleeves and work up to the legs and tunic.
45 – 55 Making heavy weapons. Start with heavy swords (long, broad, Viking) then add in krysses, and as you get mid 50s start with big two handed axes.
55 – 65 Making Short Spears and plate gorgets.
65 – 75 Making Long Spears and gorgetes.
75 – 85 Making plate sleeves and helms
85 – 95 Making plate legs.
95 – 100 Making Breast Plates.
100-120s You will use about as much ingots as you used to get to 100 so be prepared.
The following list is the most economical way to GM Blacksmithing, here is listed the skill you need along with the required materials.
0 29.1 Buy with Gold
29.1 49.5 Dagger 3 Ingots
49.5 95.2 S Spear 6 Ingots
95.3 106.3 P Gorg 10 Ingots
106.3 108.8 P Glove 12 Ingots
108.8 112.5 P Helm 15 Ingots
112.5 116.2 P Arms 18 Ingots
116.2 118.7 P Legs 20 Ingots
118.7 120.0 P Tunic 25 Ingots
Bowcraft/Fletching
Start by making arrows one at a time. Separate the logs in your pack individually and have a pile of feathers near by. Carve each log into shafts one by one, and then fletch the shaft into an arrow one by one. This should take you from 0 to 30.
Once at 30 carve bows from logs till you reach 40.
Once you hit 40 continue to craft bows.
Once you reach 60 in skill you’ll want to craft heavy crossbows. You can still gain off bows and regular crossbows still, but you gain faster with heavys.
Carpentry
0 – 50 Craft Mostly small boxes and crates, alternating with a few of the hardest item you can make at your skill level.
4-mid 50s craft trinsic or Vesper chairs
50 – 65 Craft Wooden shields mostly, alternating with a few large crates, plain thrones, and benches.
65 – 75 Craft same as 50-65, but maybe add writing desks.
75 – 85 Craft Gnarled Staffs and Quarterstaffs.
85 – 95 Craft Gnarled Staffs mostly..
95 – 100 Craft Gnarled Staffs mostly, but try to make easels, beds, or water troughs. That will gm you fast.
Cartography
From 30 - mid 60 make local maps
mid 60 - 99.5 make world maps. making city maps will also work but I have found its slower
99.5 - 100, find Lv2+ treasure and decode by yourself.
Cooking
Grab those raw fish steaks I know you all have laying around and cook them singly. Yay its so exciting!
Detect Hidden
Grab yourself a few GM made trapped locked boxes and macro away.
Or you can just Macro "Use Skill = Detect, last target" and target the ground.
Evaluating Intelligence
Go into a store and use the macro "Use skill = Evaluating Intelligence, last target" Just macro that for and hour and you will gm.
Fencing
Attack the training twiggys. (see combat skills)
Fishing
Go to a dock and fish.
Forensic Evaluation
Go to a place where there are usually bodies. Just macro "use skill=Forensic, last target." Should be no time till your GM.
Healing
Once you get to 70 skill the quickest and most efficient way to GM is by finding a ghost and attempting to resurect him. Of course the ghost does not need to accept the resurrection, because you gain when he dead..
Herding
there is a special place in the training area for this
Hiding
Run around and hide, or you could just macro it standing in the middle of a field. I made a space bar macro for Hiding so whenever I would talk I would use it subconsciously and I gmed it without ever training it.
Inscription
40 Train from NPC
40 – 50 High 4th level spells or low 5th level spells. I recommend recall because people will buy these from you.
50 – 60 Scribe high 5th level. I like to scribe mark spells because again people buy these.
60 – 70 High 6th level and low 7th level. I like gate travel scrolls because - well because of money.
70 – 80 7th and low 8th level spells. These scrolls will sell to vendors for like 200 apeice too so they are nice.
80 – 100 Summon elementals because they use less regs
Item ID
Use any item in your bag and macro "use skill = Item ID, last target" It will go fast.
Lockpicking
Get a hold of 20 to 30 locked chests/crates (remember - not magic locked)
You will not be able to unlock GM made locked boxes so get crappy ones from a crappy carpenter.
Line everything up neatly and start at one end of your rows of chests.
Pick chest A, then B, and so on. You will GM before you know it
One way I was able to GM this easily was by having a carpenter the same skill as I was. I would have my carp make boxes at 30 skill and pick them until I was 40 skill and then my carpenter would be at 40 skill and so on and so fourth. Therefore, you are staying in a gainable difficulty.
Lumberjacking
Use an axe while killing twiggys (see combat skills). Or you can go chop trees!
Mace Fighting
Kill the twiggys. (see combat skills)
Magery
50-80 Invis
80-GM Mana Vamp
50-65 Mana Drain
65-100 Mana Vamp
If you'd rather damage the twiggys for quicker gains:
50-65 Mana Drain
65-85 Energy Bolt
85-100 FS
Meditation
This goes up on its own. If you want you can just lower you mana some and it will GM before you know it. Med goes up when your mana is down.
Mining
You cannot macro this for the most part unless you use a bot or some other evil thing. Just go to a mountain range and mine. If you want to keep your ore then go to places around Destard where they have forges set up along the mountain side. Make sure you can recall or something. Miners = easy pray for pkers.
Musicianship
Go get a few instruments and macro "last object." Instruments break so dont go afk and expect you to be GM with one instrument.
Parrying
Kill the twiggys. (see combat skills)
Peacemaking
Go to a bard and train your skill to 30ish
Macro peacemaking on yourself for a while
When that stops you can go to destard and make good money while you are GMing the rest of the few points.
Poisoning
You can gm this skill of of one item
I would suggest using a piece of food because it doesn't corrode and its easier to target
50 use lesser poison
50 – 68 use normal poison
68- 95 use greater poison
95 – 100 use deadly poison
You can get to 95ish skill by using greater posion, but the gains slow tremendously. This skill take a long time to GM after 99, so stick tight. To gain that one more point get ready to use about as many potions as it took to gain half of your skill.
Provocation
Make a macro to provoke the beatles in the training area.
Resisting Spells
0 – 50 Fireball & Lightning
50 - 70 Mindblast or Mana Drain. Mana Drain doesn't gain you as fast but saves mana and Health.
70 - 90 Mana vamp
90 - 100 Mana Vamp
Snooping
Pack llamas in the training area.
Stealing
Training dummies in the training area
Stealth
Buy skill to mid 30s
30 – 63 Start out naked/normal clothes.
After you pass 50 put your clothes back on in many layers (pants, skirts, aprons, robes, cape, hat, ect) and do the same thing you did to get to 50
60 – 80 with the clothes you have on add plate gorget and plate gloves or studded suit.
80 – 90 you will want to add plate arms some time soon.
90 – 100 take off all clothes and armor and just wear a chain tunic or closed helm.
Swordsmanship
Training Twiggys (see combat skills)
Tactics
Traiing twiggys (see combat skills)
Tailoring
0 to 33 buy skill
33 to 45 make plane dresses
45 to 55 make cloaks
55 to 75 make robes
75 to 99.6 make oil cloths
99.6 to 100 make studded tunics
100-120 You get to make studded tunics forever!
The following list has been suggested as the most economical way to GM tailoring. Listed is the skill needed along with the required materials.
0 33 Buy 330 Gold
33 49.7 Short Pants 6 Cloth
49.7 54 Skirt 10 Cloth
54 58 Fancy Dress 12 Cloth
58 66.3 Cloak 14 Cloth
66.3 74.6 Robe 16 Cloth
74.6 99.6 Oil Cloth 1 Cloth
99.6 103.7 Studded Gorget 6 Hides
103.7 107.8 Studded Bustier 8 Hides
107.8 112 Studded Armor 10 Hides
112 116 Studded Legs 12 Hides
116 119 Studded Tunic 14 Hides
119 120 Bone Legs 10 Hides, 6 Bones
Tinkering
0-30 buy skill
30 - 48 make keys and copy them
48 - 65 make lockpicks
65 - 90s rotate between lockpicks, heating stands, scales, and spyglasses.
90s - 100 Drop the lockpicks and just roate the three over and over till you GM.
Tracking
Just macro it ever where you go.
After you get past the 20 skill mark you have to choose humans to gain.
Just macro this and you will be GM in no time.
Veterinary
I would assume you have animal taming and possibly pets. get your pets and make them fight each other.
Get your bandiads ready and heal.
Try doing something like 2 bears because they dont take too much health off each other.
Wrestling
Twiggys in the training area (see combat skills)
============================================================================================
This guide may have some mistakes. Please let me know (or fix them if you are a mod/admin).