Probably silly question, but what are the elite tomes for?
How are they used? I looked in wiki it says nothing about what they are good for just what they are.
Elite tomes what are they really good for?
achiles the mermedon
Dante the Warlord
Elite tomes are great because you can get elite skills without working hard for it. AKA get on buy an elite skill from a balthazar priest, boom you have an elite skill, regardless of where its found
free_fall
Let's say you have a ranger, for example, who has finished the game, capping a lot of skills along the way. Now you create a new ranger. You can use the Elite tomes you give your new lvl 2 ranger Barrage, say, a skill he normally wouldn't be able to get until much later in the game.
You can also use both regular and Elite tomes to get skills from the other campaigns than the one you've started in before you are able to travel to those areas.
You can also use both regular and Elite tomes to get skills from the other campaigns than the one you've started in before you are able to travel to those areas.
TheRaven
Elite tomes are great for making money.
Type: "WTS Elite Monk Tome 10k" in LA for a few minutes and soon you have the cash needed to buy 10 signet of captures.
Type: "WTS Elite Monk Tome 10k" in LA for a few minutes and soon you have the cash needed to buy 10 signet of captures.
Diddy bow
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Originally Posted by TheRaven
Elite tomes are great for making money.
Type: "WTS Elite Monk Tome 10k" in LA for a few minutes and soon you have the cash needed to buy 10 signet of captures. |
Another Felldspar
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Originally Posted by TheRaven
Elite tomes are great for making money.
Type: "WTS Elite Monk Tome 10k" in LA for a few minutes and soon you have the cash needed to buy 10 signet of captures. |
BladeDVD
Unless you like to PVP (because you can use the Balthazar Faction from PVP to unlock elite skills on your account) Elite Tomes are really only useful for players who have multiple characters.
The idea is that if another character on your account has capped an elite (or you have used your Balth. Faction to unlock the elite skill at the Balth. rewards guy), then any other character on your account can then use the elite tome to learn that skill.
For example, in Ayelet Feldspar's example, you either have to use Balthazar Faction to unlock Fevered Dreams first, or another character on your account must have already capped it.
These things would be very useful for me, for example, because I have capped every elite in the game on one character on one of my accounts for the Skill Hunter title. Now any character I create (or already have) can learn any elite in the game through the use of an elite skill tome. This can be useful if you want to try a new build, or if you are creating a new character (as already mentioned.)
The idea is that if another character on your account has capped an elite (or you have used your Balth. Faction to unlock the elite skill at the Balth. rewards guy), then any other character on your account can then use the elite tome to learn that skill.
For example, in Ayelet Feldspar's example, you either have to use Balthazar Faction to unlock Fevered Dreams first, or another character on your account must have already capped it.
These things would be very useful for me, for example, because I have capped every elite in the game on one character on one of my accounts for the Skill Hunter title. Now any character I create (or already have) can learn any elite in the game through the use of an elite skill tome. This can be useful if you want to try a new build, or if you are creating a new character (as already mentioned.)
achiles the mermedon
So are they just for one use or multiple?
Because realistically why would you pay 10k if it is a skill you can just cap for 1k plus a skill point.
Because realistically why would you pay 10k if it is a skill you can just cap for 1k plus a skill point.
Shaz
One use per Tome. Because it save you time, as said earlier, if you haven't reach that part of the game yet to cap it, or some of the more time consuming cap.
Crimson Flame
I think they're pretty useful because, as was said before, sometimes you don't want to wait until later in the game to get one. For example, I just started an assassin, and I wanted to get Moebius Strike, but I didn't want to have to get 10k Kurzick faction, so I spent about an hour on Zaishen Challenge and worked up my faction. It's a lot easier than going through the storyline sometimes.
Cammy
They are good for getting Eviscerate.
CyberMesh0
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Originally Posted by achiles the mermedon
So are they just for one use or multiple?
Because realistically why would you pay 10k if it is a skill you can just cap for 1k plus a skill point. |
Bowstring Badass
I sell them mainly. Why buy something 10x the value of it when you can go cap it and have something to do lol. Only time I really use them is if I find it.
kratimas
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Originally Posted by achiles the mermedon
Because realistically why would you pay 10k if it is a skill you can just cap for 1k plus a skill point.
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Here is an example I can give you to hopefully help explain 1 good use. I created a Rit to do nothing but farm with. I of course need VwK. I leveled the Rit up through the starter island then went to the main land and gained level 20 quickly. I am now ready to farm.
Oh wait I still need VwK.
Look it up on Wiki and find it can be capped in Mourning Veil Falls or Rhea's Crater. This is pretty far into the game and I really don't want to waste all of that time getting to either one of these places.
However my ranger has been to both , so I change my secondary to Rit, grab a cap sig and in less then 15 minutes I have capped VwK on my Ranger. I then buy a Elite Rit Tome for 8k (Yes I was very lucky on that) and my Rit now has VwK as well.
So, to make a short story long I have now made over 250k on my 8k investment of an elite tome.
Hope that helps,
Krat
viens87
elite tomes r for lazy players
Lady Raenef
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Originally Posted by viens87
elite tomes r for lazy players
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杀TanK杀
And you played for how long?
Say your a new 55, you can use this tome to get SoJ, instead of a 4k droks run, a 4k granite run, then an hour run to the boss...
Or you can spend many hours completing the game..
But my monk is only used for 55 and dusnt even have beacons perch
Convenience imo
Say your a new 55, you can use this tome to get SoJ, instead of a 4k droks run, a 4k granite run, then an hour run to the boss...
Or you can spend many hours completing the game..
But my monk is only used for 55 and dusnt even have beacons perch
Convenience imo
Shadow_7
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Originally Posted by CyberMesh0
Never underestimate the power of laziness/convenience.
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jon0592
I only use it for elites late in the game if I'm not that far.
When I started my monk, I did not use an {E} tome for ZB, Glimmer, LoD.
When I started my monk, I did not use an {E} tome for ZB, Glimmer, LoD.
viens87
u can make 55 from elona , taxi to doks , get LA .. run droks , cap 2-3 elite skills buy grim -50 .. and u rdy
but .. the 55 not the fast money earning .. and other chars 2 ..
farming is like skill caping little boring
and i got to my mesmer legendary skill tittle
im not lazy i got 10 tittles for my mesmer
then if any can say mesmers r bad , they fail ..
my mesmer is like a ninja in 90'
but .. the 55 not the fast money earning .. and other chars 2 ..
farming is like skill caping little boring
and i got to my mesmer legendary skill tittle
im not lazy
i got 10 tittles for my mesmer then if any can say mesmers r bad , they fail ..
my mesmer is like a ninja in 90'
viens87
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Originally Posted by 杀TanK杀
And you played for how long?
Say your a new 55, you can use this tome to get SoJ, instead of a 4k droks run, a 4k granite run, then an hour run to the boss... Or you can spend many hours completing the game.. But my monk is only used for 55 and dusnt even have beacons perch Convenience imo |
u can get legendary skill caper in a week .. boring place is to cap prophecies , becaus skills ar randomly ..
only problem for me on these days be the money for signets .. now i dont need it for future only sometimes for other chars
but i dont wana do tittles on my other chars .. i dont need it ..
Hengis
I finally got round to doing doing the Skill Hunter titles over the last week.
In the last week I went from having under 100 skills capped, to Legendary Skill Hunter.
The vast majority of caps are easy but one or two of the Prophecies ones are just downright frustrating.
In getting the title I used two Elite tomes. One for a mesmer boss that failed to spawn several times in a row in Hell's Precipice, I think the skill was Panic?, and I used one for Maw the Mountain Heart.
To me this is what Elite tomes are good for :-)
In the last week I went from having under 100 skills capped, to Legendary Skill Hunter.
The vast majority of caps are easy but one or two of the Prophecies ones are just downright frustrating.
In getting the title I used two Elite tomes. One for a mesmer boss that failed to spawn several times in a row in Hell's Precipice, I think the skill was Panic?, and I used one for Maw the Mountain Heart.
To me this is what Elite tomes are good for :-)
N E D M
>50% of monk elite tomes = [skill]Shield of Judgment[/skill]
>50% of assassin elite tomes = [skill]shadow form[/skill]
Elite tomes are great for late game skills, or those obsure /hard cap skills
>50% of assassin elite tomes = [skill]shadow form[/skill]
Elite tomes are great for late game skills, or those obsure /hard cap skills
Quaker
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Originally Posted by viens87
elite tomes r for lazy players
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Originally Posted by Lady Raenef
I capped over 70 elites in one two day weekend. You can do it if I can!
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I think the OP was simply wondering what the Tomes were good for, not wanting a lecture on laziness.
(Oh, and consider this - the wheel was invented by lazy people.
The energetic people were happy just to carry stuff around.)
EmptySkull
I think they are great. and a reward for some. I have Legendary Skill Hunter on one of my characters. Now if I want a Elite for another and don't want to wait I can use one that I got from drops or buy one. Doesn't mean you're lazy if you use one.
visitor
They are good for the lazy people but what about people like me:
I don´t have enough patience to zaishen 3k faction. Thats just sad
I don´t have enough patience to zaishen 3k faction. Thats just sad
strcpy
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Originally Posted by visitor
They are good for the lazy people but what about people like me:
I don´t have enough patience to zaishen 3k faction. Thats just sad |
viens87
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Originally Posted by N E D M
>50% of monk elite tomes = [skill]Shield of Judgment[/skill]
>50% of assassin elite tomes = [skill]shadow form[/skill] Elite tomes are great for late game skills, or those obsure /hard cap skills |
the shadow for mr wery easy caping skill ..
the SoJ .. yea its boring little .. mineral spring is far away from droks ..
DarkFlame
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Originally Posted by viens87
elite tomes r for lazy players
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Elite tomes are simply convenient for players who have multiple characters at different stages in the game. They allow such players to get the skills they want for whatever new build they want to use, when they want.
viens87
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Originally Posted by DarkFlame
Lazy players do not have 10k to throw around at will.
Elite tomes are simply convenient for players who have multiple characters at different stages in the game. They allow such players to get the skills they want for whatever new build they want to use, when they want. |
u know .. i dont have a money like others, thats first .. second my storage allways r 0
Yanman.be
Moebius Strike is often tomed as well.