Leveling Skills.

[Tallos]

This is something I've thought about more and more recently (leveled all of my Wiz's skills before the rewind and done basically every Tao skill after the rewind), it's actually part of the reason one of my old friends from Euro isn't interested in playing, because he remembers it was a hassle doing it, when after playing WoW he's used to the idea that once you've put the effort in to level, you're rewarded with being able to use higher level items and being given a higher rank of your spell... Imo, that's how it should be, at the very most, give a small amount to level skills. 3k+ for one level is insane and don't get me started on Purification, lol.

I know on *ahem* 'other' priv servers do it instantly and a lot of people seem to prefer it that way, if you're on the fence as to whether it should be heavily reduced/made instant, could we have a vote for it?

[MrMyagi]

Remove it all together i agree. Once you hit the level for level 2 you should have level 2 of the skill.

[Lone]

i leveled puri from 0 to 3 in about 1 hour 20 minutes.

(i leveled mass poison at the same time Just poison shinny and puri the moment you get level 1 puri you will see it start to work ALOT more affectly level 1 was a griind >.<)

you need to get a skill neckie to help you out a bit (i assume you already know about these but if you dont then its defo worth getting one it will help your mate out massivly)

all the skill neckie does is increase the skill points gained by a factor of 3 so if you were gettin a 1 you could get a 3 if you were getting a 3 you would get a 9.

i know skills can be annoying but for skills like Puri it can completely turn the tide of a sabuk war having one taoist with level 3 puri so its one of the ones i would suggest stays are a reasonly high requirement.

^.^ back in the old days we were doing 18,000s for skills without the necklaces so instead of leaving it online over night it was leaving it online over night for a week so its all alot easier but i can still see why its frustrating if your not able to leave the pc online

[IRCHEATING]

I think im the only one that enjoyed leveling my spells back in the euro days lol. Wheres the fun if things like this are done for you?

[Daz]

People expect it all given tothem on a silver plate..

Daz

[Tallos]

Not sure about you Daz, but I've made too many chars to list and had to level all of their skills and I'm utterly sick of it. Puri

I'd agree on Lone, for the people that put the effort in to level it, it can be a big difference (I got to level 1 before making this post, btw and I've leveled everything on my Tao that a lvl 60 Tao can, same for Warrior, bar WarRev), some things are just silly though... Mirroring on a Wiz for example, it's just time consuming and until level 3 it's pretty crap, same can be said for Curse and PoisonCloud. Btw, our Sabuk is still broken and unless we get lucky and a fix is coming with the reboot tomorrow, then it won't be done for a little while. >_<

[Desire]

purification is THE best tao spell if your interested in group fights, it should take along time to level, if anything its 2 easy to level.... level 3 puri is uber

[Tallos]

Level 0-1 is a complete cock to level, even with a Skill Necky, it took me an hour to do 70 points in it (literally, sometimes my poison ended before I landed a successful Puri >_<), the next levels will be roughly as difficult I expect, as they'll land more frequently but obviously need almost double points for lvl 1-2. Let's take Puri completely out of this, as I fully agree that it SHOULD be leveled manually and it SHOULD take that long to do, because it's a damn sick skill when it comes to fights (if it was just being introduced, I'd of agreed with Desire AND asked for it to be a 'rare' skill, but doing that now would be unfair on those who don't have it yet).

In general I think skills should be very close to instant, like 50 points if anything, as a lot of them really are a pain to level and don't give any significant gain, others are a pain to level and give a good gain, but take you several hours to level... Why should we waste time leveling them when we could be playing the game? Some that keep cropping up are; Tao - AC/AMC Shield, SFB and AdvSFB , UA, Rep, Rev. Wiz - Blizzard, MeteorStrike, Mirroring, Rep, ElectricShock. Warr - WarRev (stupidly high, 9k for level 1? We only bloody use it on bosses, and once in a while, players :s), LR, BA, Entrap, SD.

Some of these are minor annoyances, others are huge, end of the day very few people won't level these afk, those who can't do it afk overnight (as Lone mentioned) it's a pain in the ass - Personally I'd much rather a minor change is put in place to benefit players (and if you want to go all save-the-world, indirectly it does that too, lol) as well as our electric bill, rather than having to leave my pc on for a total of a week or more to do each individual spell. I've done most of them now, but I know others share this frustration and as I mentioned earlier, it was one of the reasons an old friend of mine refused to play here, he played Euro back in the very early days, when we had to spend literally weeks leveling our skills - I'm sure there's a good few people that feel as he does.

[Daz]

I VERY much doubt it's going to get changed as leveling skills is part of mir, I loved leveling skills in the old day, yes you've done 3 chars so what :S? Thats your choice, if you want 3 chars pay the concequences of getting them kitted, skilled up, leveled up etc.

Getting level 2 FS would be - !~ Whoooop level 2 FS :P

Daz

[Tallos]

No Daz, I'm talking about playing games before MR, most of us played Euro and I expect I'm not alone in having had a very high leveled char on another private server (where, yet again I had to do the skill up's bit by bit, the same speed as Euro). You can argue that many things are "part of Mir", but that's, in the nicest way possible, ****ing stupid.

PKing is part of Mir, grief is part of Mir, bugs are part of Mir, drops are part of Mir and so is corruption, but all of those come with their own problems and consequences , if you'd of played Euro for at all long, you'd recognise that list isn't from MirRevenge, it's not from another Private Server, it's from every Mir server online, including the original, lol.

At the least, it should be put to a vote and then our current server-runners can decide what they think is fair (if 100% of our active players said "Please change it to 100 points per skill level", then it'll obviously influence them much more than if 60% said they wanted it changed). This poll should only be for active players and should include 3 options; Yes I'd like to see the skill points per level reduced to roughly 100/200/300 for level 1/2/3 ~ I'm not really bothered either way ~ No, I wouldn't like to see this change put in place. Preferably with people stating their reasoning for their votes, so we can actually see what people think (for some reason a LOT of people are scared of voicing their opinions, not only here, but on most game's forums :s).