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Kaiser William · May 24, 2005, 04:02 PM // 16:02

When I reach level 20, How do i change my secondary profession?

myzr · May 24, 2005, 04:12 PM // 16:12

go to either heroes audience or seekers passage or destiny's gorge

Dragon Incarnate · May 24, 2005, 04:45 PM // 16:45

This is what I put together for my guild:

OK, I now have hands-on experience with changing your secondary profession. First of all the character you are playing does not have access to all past skills at once. You have to go back to the NPC and change your profession to get access to the old skills. The NPC's for changing your profession can be found in 3 places, all in the Crystal desert.

* Seeker's Passage - Monk / Ranger
* Hero's Audience - Necromancer / Elementalist
* Destiny's Gorge - Warrior / Mesmer

Each NPC will give you a quests which you must complete to change your profession. Once you choose a new profession you must go to Skill Trainers and purchase the skills for that profession. At level 20 you continue to gain experience, but instead of gaining a new level you gain a skill point.

This is from BETA, but is now implemented into the live game...

In addition to the experimentation that you're allowed in Kingdom of Ascalon, where you can give every secondary profession a "trial run," you can now amend your character after you have reached Ascension(usually level 20). This means that a character into whom you've invested a goodly amount of time will be one that can be changed, rather than started anew. You don't need to recast, you can simply reconfigure by a method that is tied to the upper-level story of Guild Wars. It's like doing a re-spec, but better.

Another nice thing, according to one of our game designers, James Phinney, is that when you do choose a new secondary profession, you will keep all the skills that you have acquired with your other choices. So, if you selected Elementalist as a secondary profession when you first created the character, then changed to a Mesmer secondary, if in the future you decide to revisit the Elementalist again, you'll be stocked with all the skills that the character had on board before moving to that new profession.

The bottom line is that you could have a primary character who has experimented with all five available secondary professions. That character will likely have good stock of skills in each of those lines. In fact, that character could have every skill in each of the five available secondaries. The character then, in ways not yet to be revealed, will be able to shift to a different secondary and take advantage of a long history of roleplaying character development.

SUMMARY
You dont get one chance. You can change your secondary profession AS OFTEN as you want. You have to be level 20 and then do the secondary class quests. I have all secondary classes unlocked on my necro and switch between them all depending on my role in the group - whenever you switch it saves your abilities as well so you can have every ability in the game unlocked on just one character.

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The Dragon Guild

IndyCC · May 24, 2005, 04:50 PM // 16:50

My question regarding this would be that ok you change your secondary and you said that you buy new skills. Does this mean that I can not go back to ascalon and do the quests to get the skills or do all new secondary skills have to be purchased?

NotoriousEvil · May 24, 2005, 04:52 PM // 16:52

They have to be purchased. That would be a lot of skill points to use if you've unlocked every proffession and switch between them.

MasterDinadan · May 24, 2005, 04:56 PM // 16:56

You can earn skills through quests actually. Many quests in the game are available to every profession and offer one skill for each profession (so you get two when you do it). These quests can not be repeated even if you change your secondary profession, so you have to buy those skills. However, many quests are only available for one profession and only give skills for that profession. Warrior NPCs often give quests to warriors that give skills in only the warrior class for example. If you are a E/Me and then change to E/W, you CAN go back and do all the warrior-only quests and unlock the skills, because you havn't done those quests yet. This is the cheapest way to earn new skills when you change your profession, but you still have to buy LOTS if you want to get all of them eventually.

Dragon Incarnate · May 24, 2005, 05:04 PM // 17:04

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Originally Posted by IndyCC

My question regarding this would be that ok you change your secondary and you said that you buy new skills. Does this mean that I can not go back to ascalon and do the quests to get the skills or do all new secondary skills have to be purchased?

If you go to the Skill Trainer in Ascalon he will have a list of available skills. You pick the skill you want and purchase it for the 1 skill point and 150 gold (if I remember the price right). You can go and visit each of the skill trainers in various towns, like Yaks Bend or Lions Arch and find new skills available for your new secondary profession. Specific skills are available from different skill trainers, use the Skill Listing Guide here to help find what you want.

Zodiac · May 24, 2005, 11:02 PM // 23:02

The gold cost of buying a skill is cumulative, it starts out at 10g and I believe adds 10g for each additional one (I haven't bought that many skills, I quest when I can).

May 24, 2005, 04:02 PM // 16:02	#1
Kaiser William Ascalonian Squire Join Date: May 2005 Guild: Drug Users	Level 20 When I reach level 20, How do i change my secondary profession?

May 24, 2005, 04:12 PM // 16:12	#2
myzr Krytan Explorer Join Date: May 2005 Location: Toronto Guild: MEN Profession: W/	go to either heroes audience or seekers passage or destiny's gorge

May 24, 2005, 04:45 PM // 16:45	#3
Dragon Incarnate Academy Page Join Date: May 2005 Guild: The Dragon Guild	This is what I put together for my guild: OK, I now have hands-on experience with changing your secondary profession. First of all the character you are playing does not have access to all past skills at once. You have to go back to the NPC and change your profession to get access to the old skills. The NPC's for changing your profession can be found in 3 places, all in the Crystal desert. * Seeker's Passage - Monk / Ranger * Hero's Audience - Necromancer / Elementalist * Destiny's Gorge - Warrior / Mesmer Each NPC will give you a quests which you must complete to change your profession. Once you choose a new profession you must go to Skill Trainers and purchase the skills for that profession. At level 20 you continue to gain experience, but instead of gaining a new level you gain a skill point. This is from BETA, but is now implemented into the live game... In addition to the experimentation that you're allowed in Kingdom of Ascalon, where you can give every secondary profession a "trial run," you can now amend your character after you have reached Ascension(usually level 20). This means that a character into whom you've invested a goodly amount of time will be one that can be changed, rather than started anew. You don't need to recast, you can simply reconfigure by a method that is tied to the upper-level story of Guild Wars. It's like doing a re-spec, but better. Another nice thing, according to one of our game designers, James Phinney, is that when you do choose a new secondary profession, you will keep all the skills that you have acquired with your other choices. So, if you selected Elementalist as a secondary profession when you first created the character, then changed to a Mesmer secondary, if in the future you decide to revisit the Elementalist again, you'll be stocked with all the skills that the character had on board before moving to that new profession. The bottom line is that you could have a primary character who has experimented with all five available secondary professions. That character will likely have good stock of skills in each of those lines. In fact, that character could have every skill in each of the five available secondaries. The character then, in ways not yet to be revealed, will be able to shift to a different secondary and take advantage of a long history of roleplaying character development. SUMMARY You dont get one chance. You can change your secondary profession AS OFTEN as you want. You have to be level 20 and then do the secondary class quests. I have all secondary classes unlocked on my necro and switch between them all depending on my role in the group - whenever you switch it saves your abilities as well so you can have every ability in the game unlocked on just one character. ------------------------------------------------------------- The Dragon Guild

May 24, 2005, 04:50 PM // 16:50	#4
IndyCC Lion's Arch Merchant Join Date: May 2005 Guild: Standing United (UNIT)	My question regarding this would be that ok you change your secondary and you said that you buy new skills. Does this mean that I can not go back to ascalon and do the quests to get the skills or do all new secondary skills have to be purchased?

May 24, 2005, 04:52 PM // 16:52	#5
NotoriousEvil Academy Page Join Date: Feb 2005	They have to be purchased. That would be a lot of skill points to use if you've unlocked every proffession and switch between them.

May 24, 2005, 04:56 PM // 16:56	#6
MasterDinadan Krytan Explorer Join Date: May 2005 Guild: The Zaishen Force Profession: Me/E	You can earn skills through quests actually. Many quests in the game are available to every profession and offer one skill for each profession (so you get two when you do it). These quests can not be repeated even if you change your secondary profession, so you have to buy those skills. However, many quests are only available for one profession and only give skills for that profession. Warrior NPCs often give quests to warriors that give skills in only the warrior class for example. If you are a E/Me and then change to E/W, you CAN go back and do all the warrior-only quests and unlock the skills, because you havn't done those quests yet. This is the cheapest way to earn new skills when you change your profession, but you still have to buy LOTS if you want to get all of them eventually.

May 24, 2005, 11:02 PM // 23:02	#8
Zodiac Ascalonian Squire Join Date: May 2005 Guild: Amicus Reinassance [AR] Profession: Mo/E	The gold cost of buying a skill is cumulative, it starts out at 10g and I believe adds 10g for each additional one (I haven't bought that many skills, I quest when I can).