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Celdor Nailo · Oct 19, 2005, 04:31 PM // 16:31

if you change your secondary profession after ascension, how do you acquire all the skills that normally gained during quests? or do you automatically get all the skills of the new profession?

i have no idea what happens when you change professions.

huh · Oct 19, 2005, 04:33 PM // 16:33

You get a few basic skills (around 5-6).
Then you have to do the skill quests up to Yak's Bend and whatever else you don't have, you have to buy them.

Celdor Nailo · Oct 19, 2005, 04:43 PM // 16:43

so i'm given a handful of skills and then i have to teleport from town to town using the map to do several quests to gain the other skills?

seems like a tremendous amount of work.

huh · Oct 19, 2005, 04:48 PM // 16:48

Well if you've got a lot of cash and skill points to blow, just buy them from Ember Light Camp.

There are only a few profession-related quests.
Like I said, from Ascalon up until Yak's Bend.
And its not just in towns, some are outside.
Like Elementalist Aziure (?) outside of Ascalon City.
Just head out and run straight, pressing ALT all the while, you'll see those people soon enough.

The Unknown Enemy · Oct 19, 2005, 04:51 PM // 16:51

Or if you don't want to blow skill points and money, you can just do quests to get skills, like you would on your primary.

Epinephrine · Oct 19, 2005, 05:05 PM // 17:05

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Originally Posted by The Unknown Enemy

Or if you don't want to blow skill points and money, you can just do quests to get skills, like you would on your primary.

Except that most of the quests are closed to you, as you've done them. You may be able to pick up 25% of the skills available through quests on a new secondary. It's a horrible system, and is designed very poorly as a way to actually change professions. One would figure that perhaps they could find a way to allow acquisition of skills cheaper for a PvE character if the skill were already PvP unlocked - like remove the skill point requirement and reduce the cost to a token amount of 100 per skill - that way if you change to another class you don't have to do the painfully slow unlock if you have it unlocked elsewhere.

Caelus The Fallen · Oct 19, 2005, 09:41 PM // 21:41

Or retroactively give you all the skills that came as quest rewards when you change class; if you've already done the quest, you get the skills that you would have got from it with the new secondary.
Well, we can dream cant we....

AncientPC · Oct 19, 2005, 10:27 PM // 22:27

I have another question about this. Say you're a W/Mo and change to a W/Me and pick up a few Mesmer skills. Now when you switch back to W/Mo or to anything else do you lose your Monk / Mesmer skills?

nightrunner · Oct 20, 2005, 12:21 AM // 00:21

No, if you switch back to either professions you regain all the skills that you've already learned on that character, no matter how many times you switch.

Fyre Brand · Oct 20, 2005, 02:28 AM // 02:28

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Originally Posted by Epinephrine

Except that most of the quests are closed to you, as you've done them. You may be able to pick up 25% of the skills available through quests on a new secondary. It's a horrible system, and is designed very poorly as a way to actually change professions. One would figure that perhaps they could find a way to allow acquisition of skills cheaper for a PvE character if the skill were already PvP unlocked - like remove the skill point requirement and reduce the cost to a token amount of 100 per skill - that way if you change to another class you don't have to do the painfully slow unlock if you have it unlocked elsewhere.

I agree it is a horrible system. I wouldn't mind keeping the current skill cost system, if we could have the skill quests for the new profession opened back up to us.

Lets say you don't get the xp reward, but you do get the skills at no cost for completing the quest. XP after level 20 isn't that critical anyways and piles up fairly quick.

It's not so much even the cost of the skills or the points, it's just that it would make it much more interesting to get them. If you didn't want to grind through getting them for free from the quests then you could buy them from Ember Light Camp.

Oct 19, 2005, 04:31 PM // 16:31	#1
Celdor Nailo Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: May 2005 Profession: Mo/E	Changing secondary profession question... if you change your secondary profession after ascension, how do you acquire all the skills that normally gained during quests? or do you automatically get all the skills of the new profession? i have no idea what happens when you change professions.

Oct 19, 2005, 04:33 PM // 16:33	#2
huh Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Aug 2005 Guild: Hou Lan Geng [HLG]	You get a few basic skills (around 5-6). Then you have to do the skill quests up to Yak's Bend and whatever else you don't have, you have to buy them.

Oct 19, 2005, 04:43 PM // 16:43	#3
Celdor Nailo Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: May 2005 Profession: Mo/E	so i'm given a handful of skills and then i have to teleport from town to town using the map to do several quests to gain the other skills? seems like a tremendous amount of work.

Oct 19, 2005, 04:48 PM // 16:48	#4
huh Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Aug 2005 Guild: Hou Lan Geng [HLG]	Well if you've got a lot of cash and skill points to blow, just buy them from Ember Light Camp. There are only a few profession-related quests. Like I said, from Ascalon up until Yak's Bend. And its not just in towns, some are outside. Like Elementalist Aziure (?) outside of Ascalon City. Just head out and run straight, pressing ALT all the while, you'll see those people soon enough.

Oct 19, 2005, 04:51 PM // 16:51	#5
The Unknown Enemy Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Umm..No response (stalkers, gotta hate them) Guild: Synful Desire [SD] Profession: E/Me	Or if you don't want to blow skill points and money, you can just do quests to get skills, like you would on your primary.

Oct 19, 2005, 09:41 PM // 21:41	#7
Caelus The Fallen Krytan Explorer Join Date: May 2005 Location: Glasgow Guild: Voice of the Darkness Profession: E/Mo	Or retroactively give you all the skills that came as quest rewards when you change class; if you've already done the quest, you get the skills that you would have got from it with the new secondary. Well, we can dream cant we....

Oct 19, 2005, 10:27 PM // 22:27	#8
AncientPC Forge Runner Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ascalon 1 Profession: W/R	I have another question about this. Say you're a W/Mo and change to a W/Me and pick up a few Mesmer skills. Now when you switch back to W/Mo or to anything else do you lose your Monk / Mesmer skills?

Oct 20, 2005, 12:21 AM // 00:21	#9
nightrunner Lion's Arch Merchant Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: San Francisco Profession: W/Mo	No, if you switch back to either professions you regain all the skills that you've already learned on that character, no matter how many times you switch.