[MERGED] Get all your skills now!

LOL. If I ever get a drop of a cup of pencils, I'll be sure to donate it to you. Maybe you can make a buck or two standing on the Lion's Arch street corner pawning the pencils off.

I don't like the looks of this :/
I can imagine the Capture Signet will no longer cost skillpoints and you've got to run around praying for a boss that has your normal skill. Oh noes, i'm allready fed up on elite hunting at places like Ring of Fire of Mineral Springs where you sometimes have to restart it like 40 times just because the wrong boss is in that spot -.-

Just a feeling, but a bad one...

More expensive? Skills are already costing my warrior a platinum and a half each. So much for my dream of unlocking everything one character (maybe).

How this change can make skills easier to aquire I don't know...?? And where does that leave my characters who've already completed all the quests and are now forced to learn from trainers..??


I take it they mean easier to aquire if I take another character through the sorely lacking PvE side..??

From normal PvE play I've now got unlocked ( bar elites ):
- Warrior
- Monk
- About 50% of Elementalist
- About 20% of Necro

I'm just glad I made a "super monk" -- the skill points I've earnt with that thing have been essential. Through skill point farming, I've unlocked ( bar elites ):
- Mesmer
- About 50% of Ranger
- Additional 50% of Necro

You can see the rather large task at hand. After hundreds of hours across 3 months -- Ranger still needs to be completed as does Necro and Elementalist -- I'll then have to capture the elites for each class...

I couldn't care less about Ectoplasm from the UW -- although it sounds like I'll need it -- if the price on skills is getting bumped up. I certainly don't care about travelling from A --> B or killing Monster Spawn xxxxx just to learn skills through questing....


Unless the gold drops are seriously bumped up in the unrewarding PvE side -- I can see this change backfiring...

I am wondering though if you will be able to buy elites as in useing your skill points to buy skills in the first place.Maybe they will abondon haveing to capture them from bosses instead buying them from a skill trainer as to the cost.Where is Gaile when you need her?

If bought skills are going to be made more expensive (at least more expensive enough that ANet has actually warned us to take heed ASAP), isn't this going to prohibit secondary profession changes?

Bad news for me, What i'll do ?
i've 3million exp with my primary char , 2 complete profession (skills), half skills of others professions and ~90 unspent skill points...but every skill new cost me a lot more than 1k each and i don't want to spend 200k on skills O_O

I assume that it will. Glad you asked that. Ummm can you buy more than one signet at a time? If so, then I'm outta here....

yes and i just bought 30 signet
considering i can use them for normal skills and , i think, is the smartest thing to do now if you don't have time (you don't lose any, even if the price remain unchanged after the patch)

me too.

Personally, I like what this message implies. I've got no shortage of gold, it's skill points I want. I've already been essentially trading gold for skill points in the form of UW/FoW runs and XP scrolls, so if they can come up with even faster/better ways of doing so I'm all for it.

I felt groin pain after reading your post. I think you might be forced to make something else now, due to the gold cost hike if you want to continue in your secondary swapping. I say this because i doubt that your farming for exp will match the gold influx required to keep going.

Excellent. Cool avatar by the way.

most of my skills i got through quests...i think with my ranger, i bought about 3-4 thus far...my warrior was about the same...it really changes little, i still have over 20-30 skill points on each that i have not used...oh well, i doubt this will really change too much

this is just retarded... i remade a healing monk to cap elites for pvp and now i have to make money to buy signet of captures?

you always had to.

I don't like it. Just encourages farming, which I don't do. I guess I'll be saying hello to Rastigan a bit more often now...

Non elites don't cost 1k.I was on last night checking the price on some skills i don't have yet and thay cost 100g to 200g plus a skill point.I don't think after the update that you will be spending like 2 or 3k for non elite I can see 500 to 600 gold maybe but not a 1 K for an elite yes.This would help if players are useing elites in Ascalon arena as low levels and it not that hard to do.I have 2 chars. in PVE that I am working on and I only have 4 skill points for my Monk.I bought some skills becuase I was taken out of pre to early and did get most of my skills.

Non-elites do cost that much. I just unlocked all my primary/secondary skills (doing ALL the skill quests btw), and its costing me around slightly above 800g for the next skill. If they raise it, I'd hate to think how much I'd have to farm to buy the skills.

Skill prices go up each time you buy a skill. Thats why some people are seeing prices that are more than 100g - 200g for a skill.