A couple of questions about the Core Skill Unlock Pack
A couple of questions about the Core Skill Unlock Pack
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Aug 07, 2010, 03:30 PM // 15:30
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Pre-Searing Cadet
Join Date: Aug 2010
Profession: N/E
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A couple of questions about the Core Skill Unlock Pack
I was thinking of purchasing this unlock pack for my Prophecies + Eye of the North campaign. Is purchasing the skills before you've done the quests to earn them considered cheating by most GW players? Or is it looked at as a way to help support NCsoft since there is no subscription fee?
Also, once I get access to these skills, can I obtain them from any skill trainer, or does it have to be from just certain skill trainers? Thanks in advance! SG |
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Aug 07, 2010, 04:03 PM // 16:03
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Furnace Stoker
Join Date: Apr 2005
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I consider buying skills unlocks as being very lame. You don't need them for anything and you can easily unlock them by just playing the game, be it PvE or PvP. You never need all skills at once and if you properely manage your balthazar faction and/or gold you will not feel you actually miss those unlocks.
You also have to remember that the unlocks are just for PvP characters and for heroes in PvE, and enable learning the skills in PvE through tomes or any skill trainer (without having to reach specific skill trainers). But if you play just one character through the game you can learn any skill when needed thanks to the ability to change secondary profession. And in PvP it's really worthwhile to always keep a couple thousand faction in case you want/need a specific skill immediately. Play wise. |
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Aug 07, 2010, 04:25 PM // 16:25
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Ascalonian Squire
Join Date: Jun 2010
Guild: Dark Emperial Legion
Profession: D/Mo
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I don't think its viewed as cheating by many, if any, people. i bought a couple of them myself. It made life a lot easier and allowed me to make builds using any skills in the game immediately rather than waiting to get enough balth faction.
For a person that focuses on making a lot of different unique builds, being able to buy them all for use was a big plus for me. Alsto since you it doesn't give your pve characters any skills theres even less reason to view it as cheating. |
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Aug 07, 2010, 04:29 PM // 16:29
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Pre-Searing Cadet
Join Date: Aug 2010
Profession: N/E
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Aug 07, 2010, 05:29 PM // 17:29
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Jungle Guide
Join Date: Dec 2005
Guild: Mystical Chaos
Profession: E/
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It doesn't give your character the skills. It simply unlocks the skill for your account so you can purchase it from any trainer, rather than having to progress further into the game to get it for the first time. For pve players, the packs aren't really worth it, since you can stumble along in pve without the skills found in later areas.
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Aug 07, 2010, 06:00 PM // 18:00
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Mableton, Georgia
Guild: Guild Ancestors Reunited [?????????]
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Okay... Allow me to explain and/or answer all of your questions to the best of my knowledge:
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Aug 07, 2010, 06:54 PM // 18:54
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Pre-Searing Cadet
Join Date: Aug 2010
Profession: N/E
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Aug 07, 2010, 08:15 PM // 20:15
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Ascalonian Squire
Join Date: Apr 2009
Profession: E/
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Skill unlocks make skills them available to your account, but you still must acquire them from the skill trainers that normally carry them or from a tome/quest/capture. The advantage is NO PVP required to unlock a skill and it is immediately available to your heroes. I'm sorry but ten bucks for not having to PvP 150 hours is an awfully good tradeoff in my economy. I don't know anyone would be worried about how you acquired your skills; tomes and quests and unlock packs are all part of the approved game content.
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Aug 07, 2010, 08:43 PM // 20:43
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Profession: N/
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the skill unlock packs are usually bought by pvp'rs, in which it takes a pretty long time to get everything unlocked.
in pve, you gain access to skills much earlier than you generally unlock them (unlocking involves purchasing through skill trainer or obtaining through a skills quest). the advantage of unlocking skills in pve is for usage on heroes and learning through skill tomes. i highly do not recommend buying the unlock pack just for earlier access via skill trainers. for two reasons: 1) skill trainers are much more expensive than buying skill tomes. 2) a 'complete' skill trainer can be reached quite early on in the game (if your pro, it will take you less than a day; if on first normal playthrough about 2 weeks depending on whether or not you bother with the useless sidequests). your best option, imo, if you have a decent amount of money (or a nice/friendly guild) is just to get a run to select skill trainer locations (first 2 i'd stop by would be droks & la). |
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Aug 07, 2010, 09:28 PM // 21:28
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Furnace Stoker
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Ign: Miniature Julia
Guild: Teh Academy[PhD]
Profession: W/
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and people wount know you purchased skills, so dont care about them.
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Aug 07, 2010, 10:07 PM // 22:07
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Denmark
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For someone just starting out (and willing to spend the money) it's a very good investment since it makes heroes actually useful - without quite a few skills heroes are much worse than henchmen.
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Aug 08, 2010, 12:20 AM // 00:20
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Ascalonian Squire
Join Date: Aug 2009
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go ahead and buy it, no-one will think ur lame or anything.. only big noobs who think they're awesome because they earned their UAX,
and the fact that ur giving anet more money to make gw2 awesome makes me quite happy at all, dont worry no-one will think ur lame  also welcome to the game |
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Aug 08, 2010, 06:08 AM // 06:08
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Ascalonian Squire
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Ebonhawke, Blazeridge Mountains
Guild: The Forsaken Vampiric Vanguard [TFVV]
Profession: E/Mo
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I bought all the Skill packs and I don't play PvP. Since I bought them all my heros have access to all the skills whether I've unlocked the skills or not. And since I don't plan on playing as some professions I wouldn't really unlock them anyway. If you have the money it's a nice thing to have. Many people in my alliance don't have them and whenever they find a new build for a hero or something they always end up spending time going to find a skill trainer to purchase it. If I find a new build for a hero I can just save it, set it, and use it.
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Jan 27, 2012, 03:16 AM // 03:16
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Academy Page
Join Date: Dec 2011
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Current Opinions on Best Skill Unlock Pack
A Search showed that asked the threads on this topic mostly go back to 2009
 So I wanted to ask what people think is the best Skill Pack one might purchase based on current popular hero builds and updated skills?
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Jan 27, 2012, 01:47 PM // 13:47
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Jungle Guide
Join Date: Nov 2007
Profession: R/
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Factions, by a huge margin. It unlocks almost all the Ritualist skills, and most of the commonly used necro skills too (icy veins, discord, spoil victor). Also RoJ, Shockwave and Starburst.
Last edited by enter_the_zone; Jan 27, 2012 at 01:50 PM // 13:50.. |
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Jan 27, 2012, 03:19 PM // 15:19
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Ascalonian Squire
Join Date: Apr 2011
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If you have the money to spend and if you rely on your heroes rather than other people at least some of the time i wholeheartedly recommend buying them. I doubt i'd still be playing GW if i hadn't. If you only want to get one of them factions is a good choice as well as the prophecies unlock pack (imho). |
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Jan 27, 2012, 05:43 PM // 17:43
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Underworld Spelunker
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo
Guild: Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]
Profession: E/
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There's 1319 skills.
If you remove PvE-only skills, there's still 1235. Needless to say, that is A LOT of skills. If you have cash to spare and no skills unlocked, they are a good investment. Heroes will have all those skills available, and so all trainers in their respective regions. What I did was paying a visit to the last trainer and buying all the skills there with my main character, even those of other primary professions. That probably took me over 1000K, about 250K or so per campaign, even after removing skills I got for free while playing. So, to put it simply, the sooner in your game history you get the packs, the more you'll benefit from them. |
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Jan 27, 2012, 07:12 PM // 19:12
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Academy Page
Join Date: Dec 2011
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Thanks everyone! I appreciate the replies.
@Ishmel - It sounds like we are in similar positions, I started GW1 again about that long ago. Only I ended up buying the mercenary hero pack instead of skill packs because I thought that would make the gameplay less frustrating lol But without the right skills my PvP-cloned mercs were only marginally helpful. Thanks for the perspective. I've guess I should have bought the skill packs instead lol @MithranArkanere - Yipes! That certainly gives the effort of getting all those skills a sense of scale. The amount of cash is scary but the time all that must have taken is something I doubt I could manage with my current schedule. Sounds like I'll be visiting the NCSoft store
Last edited by Doctor Overlord; Jan 27, 2012 at 07:14 PM // 19:14.. |
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Jan 27, 2012, 09:46 PM // 21:46
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Jan 2011
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I can't recall but I actually think i bought three of them for my newest account. Needed a secound acc and I wanted it ready to play at once so I just bought them I think. For hero use
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Jan 27, 2012, 11:53 PM // 23:53
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Jungle Guide
Join Date: Nov 2007
Profession: R/
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Yeah, just buy the unlock packs. Before heroes, when you were gimped to running henchway, your own build sucking was kinda ok.... but you really don't want to be gimped to the point where half your party has shitty skill bars. Sure, you could still play with henchies.... an idea so appealing, I've bought all the skill unlock packs on all my accounts.
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