Maybe new Skill Point Use?

Arthas90

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2006

Poland

BB

W/R

I have new idea for Skill Points and using them. Many people have hundreds-thousands of this and they cant find use (consumables, skills - I know, but not much to use).


Maybe make chest with keys for skill points (25 or 50 or 75 or 100 SP/each). The chest will drop ONLY tomes (Normal and Elite). For example - 1-5% chance for elite tome , 95-99% for normal tomes. I think this is good way to make next thing useful.

What do you think about this?

English Warrior

English Warrior

LEET HAXXOR!

Join Date: Feb 2007

Random Arena

N/A

/Notsigned It would be a stupid addition there are so many ways to get tomes also it would be just like skill points today except the elite part also skills and consumables are good reasons for skill points or do you not realise how many people use consumables?

mazey vorstagg

mazey vorstagg

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Nodnol

Meeting of Lost Minds

E/Mo

I have too many skill points. I'll never use the 310 I have currently. I gain them faster than I can use them.

I'm not too keen on the original suggestion, but there must be another use for skill points. Either making 10 of them worth a free skill, or turning them in gold or something.

Limu Tolkki

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2006

Hate The [Cape]

E/

25 skill points for a tome? no thx. Something like zaishen chest would be cool tho.

N1ghtstalker

N1ghtstalker

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2007

E/

/notsigned
skill points are for new skills/consumables/turning em into hero skill points
just no way kid, tome prices will drop so deep they'll be about 100g each then and that's something i'd want to avoid
find a good use for skillpoints pls
and therefore not to turn them into money!

Arthas90

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2006

Poland

BB

W/R

But something like zaishen chest with similiar drop can ruin the economy. Many farmers have few thousands or more SP. If this chest drop only tomes it can be ok.

MagmaRed

MagmaRed

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Mar 2007

Our Crabs Know True [LOVE]

R/

25 skill points for a key. The key gives me a Tome, or on RARE occassions, and elite Tome.

Currently, to use a tome, the skill has to be unlocked anyway. If I wanted a skill, and had it unlocked already, I'd just go buy it for 1k at any skill trainer. Although you remove the cost, the 25 skill points needed is a waste.

/unsigned

Its just not needed.

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

Why use 25 skill points to get a tome to learn one skill which could have been learned using 1 skill point?
To save you 500g or to try to sell the tome for profit?
Either way, its silly. Consumes and skills are gold sinks (some of the best in the game in fact) and are neccessary to stabilize the economy.

/notsigned

MirkoTeran

MirkoTeran

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2005

Slovenia

Scars Meadows [SMS]

Mo/

While I agree there could be a few more uses for skill points this is not one of them. Its just plain stupid.

stretchs

stretchs

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

Untimely Demise [Err了] - SOHK

Personally I still prefer the idea of using Skill Points for Z Keys. Make it a decent amt like 25 or more so it isnt something easily obtained, but still something else to do when you dont have a need for the consumables and have already uax'd that char

Div

Div

I like yumy food!

Join Date: Jan 2006

Where I can eat yumy food

Dead Alley [dR]

Mo/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by MirkoTeran
While I agree there could be a few more uses for skill points this is not one of them. Its just plain stupid.
This post delivers.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

There is already the consumable use for them.

But Hero skill points? Ah... that's a different thing. If you bought all skills, you may and up with unused Hero skill points that you will NEVER be able to use at all.

For that, I thinl that, if you have all skills, and only if you have all skills (that is, if no Hero Skill Trainer can teach you anything) they give you normal tomes for your primary or secondary professions instead.

FengShuiDove

FengShuiDove

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2007

Trinity of the Ascended [ToA]

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We can already convert skill points into skills. Should there be a new use for skill points? Probably. Should it be this? Absolutely not.

Eldin

Eldin

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2005

America. How about you, commie?

Fellows of Mythgar [FOM]

R/Mo

/notsigned

It'd break the already broken economy. Though we DO need more uses.

[email protected]

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2006

Order Of The Ghost Dragons [mist]

E/

WTT 100 skill points for an extra storage tab!

Sir Pandra Pierva

Sir Pandra Pierva

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2007

Sardelec yelling at Tenshi

Angels Of Strife

E/

I know lets turn the unused skill points into un used skilll points<_<>_>

though turning them into flames of blath would be kinda fun.

10 for 1000 faction?

MagmaRed

MagmaRed

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Mar 2007

Our Crabs Know True [LOVE]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by MithranArkanere
But Hero skill points? Ah... that's a different thing. If you bought all skills, you may and up with unused Hero skill points that you will NEVER be able to use at all.

For that, I thinl that, if you have all skills, and only if you have all skills (that is, if no Hero Skill Trainer can teach you anything) they give you normal tomes for your primary or secondary professions instead.
Hero skill trainers also teach you Sunspear skills. If you used all your Hero Skill Points to get regular skills unlocked, you would need a way to get more Hero Skill Points to get the Sunspear skills.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by MagmaRed
Hero skill trainers also teach you Sunspear skills. If you used all your Hero Skill Points to get regular skills unlocked, you would need a way to get more Hero Skill Points to get the Sunspear skills.
I got all PvE skills already. So it's the opposite case.
All skills they offer learnt, and no use for Hero Skill Points.

You cannot get normal skill points by using Hero Skill Points, only the opposite.

quickmonty

quickmonty

Ancient Windbreaker

Join Date: May 2005

Craft Star of Transference and sell/trade to others.

Jenn

Jenn

Resigned.

Join Date: Sep 2006

x-amount skill points = zkeys? Seriously... I have some sick addiction. Just one... more... chest...

Otherwise, I don't really care. I'm entirely apathetic. But I wouldn't say no to some sorta imba way to farming the z-chest.

Konig Des Todes

Konig Des Todes

Ooo, pretty flower

Join Date: Jan 2008

Citadel of the Decayed

The Archivists' Sanctum [Lore]

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Need a few more uses for skill points? sure

25 skill points for a tome? no

maybe, 10 skill points for 1k faction in any of the 3 types of faction you want? would be nice, and much better then this 25 skill points for a tome.

Artorius.Maximus

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2008

Rising Rebellion

E/

I could definitely use a new way to use up skill points. I bought 71 cap sigs in under 24 hours and didn't even make a dent.

Made a nice dent on skill hunter title though.

DarkFlame

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2005

Ascalon

E/

Given the choice between letting my skill points sit around and do nothing or blowing them all on something pointless and not worthwhile, I'd choose to let them stay there and rot.

/not signed

Phoenix Tears

Phoenix Tears

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2007

I#d be happy, if I could turn in Skill Points in for somethign, that is only huge grind and hasn othign to do with Skill anyway...

stuff like party items, alcohol, sweets, which would be special to these trades, which would be untradeable and unsellable and give also only 1 point/minute


I think its really no huge deal to implement 3 new consumables for this.

Just another sweet thing, like for example: any kind of Fruit like Cherries or Strawberries ...

Just another alcoholic item, lets say "Rum" or "Whiskey" whatever ...

and a new party item, lets say the typical fun item of the "Jester in the Box" which lets you put a box on the ground, and when someone clicks the box then, a jester pops out and screams any random funny stuff or brings a joke of many...


This way skill points would be for a good use to reduce slightly the grind without giving players a new option to make money, when those items can't be sold nor traded... and when the stuff brigns only 1 points, it shoudl be really not a big mess.


PS. I know this would be insane, but imo the coolest trade would be naturally to trade in an unbreakable lockpick for say like 1000 Skill points or so XD.
Than would have players really a good reason to go for massive Skill point Collections lol

Sir Pandra Pierva

Sir Pandra Pierva

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2007

Sardelec yelling at Tenshi

Angels Of Strife

E/

dude HM chest runs with that
ftw

though it would have to be 3000 skill points to get
and it is customized for your account
and it can open the zaishan chest

The Little Viking

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2006

innergalactic gargleblasters

W/Mo

Skill points for a tome? no. that would make then all but worthless. we already have the ones that you CANT sell, lets not make it worse. Now as for azazel the assassins idea for faction, I like that idea. I curently have 500+ skill points on 2 differant charicters, and would really like to have more uses for them then we do now. But if what we have now as uses for them is all we get, thats ok too.

wu is me

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2007

I think it's a great idea, since It's my belief that unlocked skills should be more freely available to other characters on an account, and greater accessibility of skill tomes would achieve this, as well as act as a sink for skill points.

2 birds with 1 stone..

/signed!