Publish 1999 (Skill Management)
Skill Management In an effort to give players more control over their character’s skills we will be implementing a skill management system. To facilitate this management the skill menu will be changed in the following ways:
A toggle button will be added at the top of the menu. This toggle button will change the state of the menu so that it will show or hide your character’s unmodified skill numbers. This will allow you to see what your actual skill level is unmodified from stats. A toggle button will be added next to each skill. This toggle button will have three states: "up", "down", and "stop". Skills marked "up" will rise normally and will never go down. Skills marked "down" will be candidates for atrophy. Skills marked "stop" will not go up or down, regardless of how often they are used. A field will be added to the bottom of the skill menu that lists the character’s unmodified skill total. This will allow you to see how close you are to the skill cap (700).
FAQ
Q: "What happens if I’m at the skill cap and all my skills are all marked ‘up’?" A: "None of your skills will change."
Q: "What happens if I’m at the skill cap and the only skills marked ‘down’ are at 0.0?" A: "None of your skills will change."
Q: "What happens if I mark all my skills ‘down’?" A: "None of your skills will change, because they only atrophy when another skill raises."
Q: "If I mark all my skills ‘down’ except for one, will that skill go up faster?" A: "No."
Q: "Will I gain stats when I use a skill marked ‘down’?" A: "No."
Q: "Will I gain stats when I use a skill marked ‘stop’?" A: "No."
Q: "What happens when I try to train with an NPC if I am skill capped and all of my skills are marked as either "stop" or "up". A: "You will not be able to train with the NPC"
Q: "How will this system affect murderers with regards to ‘stat-loss’?" A: "Murderers will still take stat and skill loss as normal, regardless of their skill locks."
Q: "Can I set a different configuration for each character?" A: "Yes. Each character on each shard can have different skill management settings."
Q: "How do I gain stats when at the skill cap?" A: "You can only gain stats from skills that are marked as "up". If you are at the skill cap, you will only gain stats from skills if you mark another skill as "down" (provided that you have points to atrophy in that skill) or if the skill is at Grandmaster (in this case, you do not need to mark any skills as "down".
