bstriege wrote: Anyways, is anyone has any advice for a beginner I'd welcome it. I wasn't really sure what packages to start with so I just did the default fighter / mage / gatherer thing.
Couple questions I have though:
1) After you pick your starter packages you can save up points and buy into another skill set right? Is it possible to be 250 in all 4 (5?) branches? Like be a fighter / mage / gatherer / crafter 250 in all 4?
2) Once you train up in something is it possible to untrain it? Just wondering if I'm going to end up having to make another character later on because I trained up underwater basket weaving on my first character instead of that instakill skill I should have gotten.
Thanks,
Adam
Yes, you can level as many skill branches to 250 as you want. Only thing you need to remember/realize is that there are more then 4 branches! Each skill splits into 2 or more at one point or another... And sometimes more then once. The people at Ballistic got a nice skill tree here.
As to use skill point from one skill branch to "feed" the other, yes. It is posible but with some limitations. Few examples:- You can use fighting points to buy the "magic starter pack", but only if you did NOT pick magic when the character was created. You can't use fighting skill points to say get cold damage.- There are some things that can be obtain by using any of the skills. Like HP upgrades or magic auras.- You can use defensive magic points (say healing points) to upgrade ofensive magic skills (like elemental), but you can't buy a skill higher then your current level. That is no matter if you are 250 healing, you can only buy "Cold Damage 8" if your elemental is lvl 85+.As to "can you untrain skills"... The answer is no, and that is ok! After all you can get any skill you want, so there is no "wrong choice" per se.
Don't worry much about Skill Points. At 1st it may seem like you're never going to be able to "catch up", or get all the skills you want! But that's only temporary. As soon as you reach 100 with a couple of trees, you should have more then enough SP to get anything you want.
Only one thing, be careful with crafting SPs. Those are very expensive skills right there (at least 25 SP each)... But don't worry much either, once you got 4-5 branches to level 70 or 3 of them to 100 you should be ok, too.
It sounds you're having a hard time leveling elemental magic, that is ok. Elemental is kind of hard to level at 1st. What I recomend is leveling your melee 1st, get as much HP as posible, join a guild and get some nice HP Light Armor and HP Jewels... Then go and level your magic fighting yubos and meks. Then get Rot and continue with plants (Plants do magic damage, so all you need against them is good jewels)
As to the problems with the game, it would help if you post what system configuration. One thing you need to remember is that Ryzom requires a good equipment to run fine. A basic, good system goes like this:At least 1 Ghz CPU (AMD or Pentium 4, avoid Celeron)
At least 1 Gb of Ram
At least 64 Mb Video Card (NVidia MX are just fine)
At least 6 GB free disk space
Any audio card is ok.
Windows XP SP2If you got yourself something like that and still having problems with, it could mean a problem with windows or hardware problems. Having a healty broadband line helps a lot, too.
A few more things: Come to the main lands as soon as you are able to move around and can kill yubos with no difficulty!
If you are going to start a new character, pick magic/craft/harvesting as your starter packs. It's pretty much the more bang for the buck (Well, actually the best way to go SP wise is Magic/Craft/Craft, but then it "hurts" having to use other skill's points to get harvesting)... Magic/Craft/Harvesting is the way to go.
After 21, each branch splits into more branches every 50 levels. So that's about 11,000 levels total, I've heard (haven't bothered to count it up myself). There is also no penalty for levelling multiple skill branches.
