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Clean · Mar 29, 2012, 05:52 PM // 17:52

Hello!
So I just switched my secondary to a monk, and I am currently playing through prophecies. What are my options for acquiring more monk skills?!

ogre_jd · Mar 29, 2012, 05:59 PM // 17:59

Since you're Prophecies, the first thing you should do is track down the skill quests in Ascalon and the Northern Shiverpeaks (in Kryta and the Maguuma Jungle, the skill quests aren't profession-specific so you can't go back and do them for your new secondaries). That'll save you a bit of gold at the skill trainers.

Clean · Mar 29, 2012, 06:06 PM // 18:06

So even if I have already completed them the first time around I can go back and redo them for new monk skills?

Frangeo Munda · Mar 29, 2012, 06:43 PM // 18:43

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Originally Posted by Clean

So even if I have already completed them the first time around I can go back and redo them for new monk skills?

Uh, no, unfortunately you can't afaik. However, if there are any you missed, you can do those. See, the way many skill quests in prophecies work is that their reward gives you one skill of your primary profession, and then one skill of whatever your secondary is when you accept the reward. Therefore, if you're say, a N/Me, you do the quest, switch to N/Mo and accept the reward, you'll get a necro skill and a monk skill. You won't, however, get the mesmer skill in that case. You'd have to get that via another quest (if another one has it), or buy/unlock it from a skill trainer. If you're N/Me, the same applies, but you'd get the necro and mesmer skills and have to obtain the monkstuff via other means.

Kendil · Mar 29, 2012, 07:09 PM // 19:09

This could be learned from the wiki

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Originally Posted by http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Skills

A skill can be learned by

Completing certain quests which reward the player with a skill.
Purchasing a skill from a skill trainer (except for PvE-only skills).
Purchasing a skill from a Hero skill trainer (except for non-Sunspear PvE-only skills).
Capturing a skill from a boss.
Switching secondary profession, which adds the set of default basic skills for each profession.

Additionally, a character can use a skill tome or elite skill tome to learn any skill or elite skill unlocked on the account. Skill trainers each have a unique set of skills for sale, but also list all an account's unlocked skills.

Purchasing a skill from a skilltrainer is the most commonly used one, along with tomes (and ofc capping elite skills). It's even easier if you unlock the skill first using balthazar faction as the skill will be available from any skilltrainer/aquired by the use of a tome.

DeanBB · Mar 29, 2012, 10:44 PM // 22:44

What he was saying is now that you've become /monk, there will be some new quests available to you now that are profession-specific, which is why you were not offered them the first time through.

Mar 29, 2012, 05:52 PM // 17:52	#1
Clean Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: CT, USA Guild: DRAC Profession: R/	Skills Help! Hello! So I just switched my secondary to a monk, and I am currently playing through prophecies. What are my options for acquiring more monk skills?!

Mar 29, 2012, 05:59 PM // 17:59	#2
ogre_jd Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canadia Profession: W/	Since you're Prophecies, the first thing you should do is track down the skill quests in Ascalon and the Northern Shiverpeaks (in Kryta and the Maguuma Jungle, the skill quests aren't profession-specific so you can't go back and do them for your new secondaries). That'll save you a bit of gold at the skill trainers.

Mar 29, 2012, 06:06 PM // 18:06	#3
Clean Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: CT, USA Guild: DRAC Profession: R/	So even if I have already completed them the first time around I can go back and redo them for new monk skills?

Mar 29, 2012, 10:44 PM // 22:44	#6
DeanBB Forge Runner Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Arizona Guild: Wizardry Players Guild, http://4guildwars.7.forumer.com	What he was saying is now that you've become /monk, there will be some new quests available to you now that are profession-specific, which is why you were not offered them the first time through.