It's why I'm a little torn. I've trained my first tamer 0-120 and it took forever. Never did it again. It did need to be a bit easier but I'm concerned it makes scripting it way too easy.Agreed. A bit of a slap in the face of the people who trained it the old school way.
You can also buy SoTs to take you from 0-cap instantly if you don't want to go through the "grind" of clicking your mastery skill.
They just put it on par with all the other skills. Seriously, who cares about training skills nowadays. It's all about how useful they are, not how tough to train.
It uses mana. But 241 mana 33 mana regeneration and 100 focus and meditation makes that really a formality lol
30 MR is cap from equipment & med/focus don't actually add to the stat sheet listed MR(but do allow more MPS)... just in case you wanted to maximize stats
. But yea, this is very true, I did it with just 30mr no focus no med & never had to wait more than 5-10s for mana or meditate(mostly didn't med cuz I'd rather just spam the button). And I'll be 100% honest and say the first I heard of the masteries being used to gain skills, was on a disreputable forum that most likely everyone knows of but I will not mention. I do not script, but I sure as hell keep an eye on what they are doing because it gives me fun tricks like this one .... and I'm friends with a few of the guys on top.
Thats a slog? Really??
May as well just make it part of character creation then ... choose your 700 skill points.
Meh, don't care. This game has been designed around completely developed (skill wise) characters for over a decade. Skill gain as an experience or a power limiter is no longer part of UO. It's just a road block between you and when you can actually start playing.
I think I know where you want to go with that: Create a new char with 6x120 skills, put all of them on a soulstone. Delete that char, rinse & repeat.
Doesn't everyone have a full set of skills stoned away?
Actually you dont. I think its a terrible idea. I was throwing it out in response to your saying "who cares about training skills anyway", With that attitude, why even bother. Just allocate them on creation. Personally I'd make it harder not easier. Pinks, skill jewels, soulstones ... they are all just dumbing the game down and pandering to "I want it all and I want it now" crowd, who want to be able to buy skills like they do equipment and swap them round just as easily.
No I just have a ton of accounts with dozens of characters ..... and I just make dozens of templates to cover all the skills...
You can fit every template on UO into two accounts. One if you're like me and just make characters on random shards you'll never play. Those poor sad Sampires sitting alone in some random inn..and before the wall of text of holding houses accounts ra ra..I know I'm just being silly
Well, I don't think, that everyone has 50+ stones. But yes, there definitely are some, who do. And the rest is putting all their stones to good use as well... (and trying to aquire more stones though
)Harder? What exactly does that mean?
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I honestly don't think this would have any impact on game play. People don't even leave their homes until they are scrolled and maxxed.
No need to close gump. Also hit satyrs. They will make gains speed up again.
I still think Broadsword should add Grandmaster Skill Balls. Like...$3.99
They would probably make a bundle.
I don't think the game has a low population because it isn't fun, but because it was released 20 years ago with no real modernization since. It's an old game. People move on.
Well some of the skills are dumb easy to GM. But there is a market for 120 taming, 100 poisoning, 120 ninja/bush. None of which that are particularly hard to train especially when you're just clicking play. Again though. Would I rather spend $5.99 or spend 3 days macroing? Most time I'd spend the $5.99 tbh.
Yup, which is the whole core of my feelings. People don't play unless they are fully skilled up, and the skill gain process is so boring/tedious they would rather macro or pay for skill than play the game to gain, which says to me the skill gain process has outlived it's place in the game, well, outside of the pink/blue market as I mentioned, which isn't unimportant, imo.
Well honestly it has for people who've played for years and years. I've trained most skills the right way. I just don't have the time or patience anymore to actually train. I work a ton of hours, plus family. So if I had to actually click and drag again..I most likely wouldn't log in anymore. The main reason I play today, is to make the most absurd trolling pvp character I can make. Play for an hour or two, and log. UO has lost its luster recently..but that's a whole different subject.
