Skill Points - Guild Wars Forums

gamer87 · Aug 01, 2005, 08:02 PM // 20:02

Hello everyone I have completed the game with three characters and have used the skill points each time around to unlock certain skills in an effort to gradually get them all. This painful process seems as though it could have be avoided. I ask then how is it that you get skill points. Do you have a spot where you can rack up 20k experience really quickly and if so what build do you use.

JoDiamonds · Aug 01, 2005, 09:19 PM // 21:19

Do all the quests for skills if you can. Don't buy skills that you could quest for instead.
Do the missions. You get one skill point for each one.
Go to the Underworld and kill stuff. This is the grindiest answer, but many people have professed it's the best. I haven't tried it much, so that's just heresay.

Lasareth · Aug 01, 2005, 09:27 PM // 21:27

Solo high experience monsters with scrolls of insight. The bosses in perdition rock give 400 xp a kill normally. With a slayer's insight it would be boosted to about 1000xp for that one kill.

Think more about net experience gain over time, and less about sparse experience chunks every hours.

dargon · Aug 01, 2005, 10:26 PM // 22:26

My warrior character is currently sitting at Thunderhead, I think I've bought maybe 3 skills with her. She currently has 40+ skillpoints (not at home, can't remember exact number) simply from doing quests, etc.

gamer87 · Aug 01, 2005, 10:51 PM // 22:51

ah some of these are interesting but what kind of build would i use to solo several bosses at perdition rock? Any suggestions are appreciated

kleps · Aug 01, 2005, 11:05 PM // 23:05

here's a worksheet that i found in the tools forum and slightly modified. it will list what skills you can earn from quests and which are only buyable from trainers. hope this helps.

aB- · Aug 02, 2005, 01:07 AM // 01:07

Considering the UW/FoW quests give 5000-10000 exp, and the monsters are a high level, clearing one of them, or clearing just some of them will net you at least a few skill points.

jasondragon · Aug 02, 2005, 01:11 AM // 01:11

do scrolls double/triple quest experience i.e from UW?

Nikos Battlehammer · Aug 02, 2005, 04:31 AM // 04:31

If I really want XP, I go to the FoW. Just 2 quests there and you get your skill point already.

Lord Malikai · Aug 02, 2005, 05:00 AM // 05:00

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Originally Posted by jasondragon

do scrolls double/triple quest experience i.e from UW?

No. Scrolls are only for XP received from combat. And I just want to point out that having to grind for XP is just like grinding for levels, except you get 1 measly skill instead of an all-around power increase. Give or take a few, I've grinded for every skill for all 6 classes (I have about 15 left to do). So about 100+ levels of grinding, half of them before the 20k cap patch. About 75 of those skill suck and will never be used :P

Morganas · Aug 02, 2005, 07:11 AM // 07:11

UW is barely a grind, you get skill points faster doing UW then at any other point in the game. You'll get all the skill points you could ever need from there, though the drops are really terrible, unless you really care about 15k armor.

Aug 01, 2005, 08:02 PM // 20:02	#1
gamer87 Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Jun 2005 Guild: The Dark Forgotten Profession: Mo/R	Skill Points Hello everyone I have completed the game with three characters and have used the skill points each time around to unlock certain skills in an effort to gradually get them all. This painful process seems as though it could have be avoided. I ask then how is it that you get skill points. Do you have a spot where you can rack up 20k experience really quickly and if so what build do you use.

Aug 01, 2005, 09:19 PM // 21:19	#2
JoDiamonds Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: New England	Do all the quests for skills if you can. Don't buy skills that you could quest for instead. Do the missions. You get one skill point for each one. Go to the Underworld and kill stuff. This is the grindiest answer, but many people have professed it's the best. I haven't tried it much, so that's just heresay.

Aug 01, 2005, 09:27 PM // 21:27	#3
Lasareth Aquarius Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Somewhere between Boardwalk and Park Place	Solo high experience monsters with scrolls of insight. The bosses in perdition rock give 400 xp a kill normally. With a slayer's insight it would be boosted to about 1000xp for that one kill. Think more about net experience gain over time, and less about sparse experience chunks every hours.

Aug 01, 2005, 10:26 PM // 22:26	#4
dargon Furnace Stoker Join Date: May 2005 Guild: The Seraphim Knights [TSK] Profession: R/	My warrior character is currently sitting at Thunderhead, I think I've bought maybe 3 skills with her. She currently has 40+ skillpoints (not at home, can't remember exact number) simply from doing quests, etc.

Aug 01, 2005, 10:51 PM // 22:51	#5
gamer87 Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Jun 2005 Guild: The Dark Forgotten Profession: Mo/R	ah some of these are interesting but what kind of build would i use to solo several bosses at perdition rock? Any suggestions are appreciated

Aug 02, 2005, 01:07 AM // 01:07	#7
aB- Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Jun 2005	Considering the UW/FoW quests give 5000-10000 exp, and the monsters are a high level, clearing one of them, or clearing just some of them will net you at least a few skill points.

Aug 02, 2005, 01:11 AM // 01:11	#8
jasondragon Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Apr 2005 Guild: The Furies Profession: Mo/Me	do scrolls double/triple quest experience i.e from UW?

Aug 02, 2005, 04:31 AM // 04:31	#9
Nikos Battlehammer Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Aug 2005	If I really want XP, I go to the FoW. Just 2 quests there and you get your skill point already.

Aug 02, 2005, 07:11 AM // 07:11	#11
Morganas Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: May 2005	UW is barely a grind, you get skill points faster doing UW then at any other point in the game. You'll get all the skill points you could ever need from there, though the drops are really terrible, unless you really care about 15k armor.