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=HT=Ingram · Aug 16, 2005, 09:11 PM // 21:11

well... back during the beta there were Rings and Pendants. Rings allowed skills to be permanent, Pendants allowed you to use just about any skill temporarily. (24 hrs) Those concepts are not completely lost, but the blank rings and pendants are only in the alpha build right now. The Signet Rings are preassigned rings is all. not customizable.

I think the main reason it was dropped was cause it allowed skills from classes you are not a part of to be mixed on a character build. Imagine a Elementist Necro with Monk skills... Thats what was happening... All anyone had to do was get a monk friend to drap a skill to a pendant or ring and then give it back to the other person. then that skill was essentually Dupped... and given to another player.

I used it with my buddy so he could get a pet with my charm animal skill (he was a warrior / monk)... It worked fine, but I could see abuse posibilities... and understand why they opted to pull it out of release.

MSecorsky · Aug 16, 2005, 10:22 PM // 22:22

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Originally Posted by cat1982

tho evolving would mean less fingers and less toes....little fingers get smaller, little toes get smaller, as we evolve they become unnecessary and thus dropped from the design...so in the next big expansion will we only have 6 skills :O:O

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Not necessarily, natural selection would favor those with more fingers/skills, so the trend would shift in that direction. People with missing fingers would be killed off before they bred.

daedalus256 · Aug 17, 2005, 10:44 AM // 10:44

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Originally Posted by Soul Shaker

I think it goes back to the beta....skills were in rings.

Hmm, this might make for interesting expansions. As I recall, Anet said they might include new races into new chapters. The new races could have a different number of skills on their skill bar.