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If I've played half of the original and half of Factions, do i need to complete all of the content from those in order to pick up any more remaining skills for my classes? Or is it possible to just pick them up if I start Nightfall and eventually Eye of the North from scratch?
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1, prophecies gives skills as a reward for finishing quests
2, Factions and Nightfall DON'T, they offer gold and skill points as reward so you can buy skills from the skill trainer and the skill trainers skill availability is staggered as you progress
3, Eye of the North is an expansion, not a stand alone chapter and you need to complete one of the others to play its content, however, it will move back to the prophecies style of skill rewards for quests
4, if you unlock skills for a chapter, they permanently become available at all skill trainers for the chapter they are for and that includes buying the Pvp unlock packs from the ingame store. I bought all three and if I roll a new character in any chapter, i can now goto the first skill trainer and buy a full skill bar (minus elites of course, you still need to cap them) nearly straight away... Of course, if I want a prophecies skill and I start in Factions, i still need to get to the marketplace and head over to lion's Arch, but thats not exactly hard
1, prophecies gives skills as a reward for finishing quests
2, Factions and Nightfall DON'T, they offer gold and skill points as reward so you can buy skills from the skill trainer and the skill trainers skill availability is staggered as you progress
3, Eye of the North is an expansion, not a stand alone chapter and you need to complete one of the others to play its content, however, it will move back to the prophecies style of skill rewards for quests
4, if you unlock skills for a chapter, they permanently become available at all skill trainers for the chapter they are for and that includes buying the Pvp unlock packs from the ingame store. I bought all three and if I roll a new character in any chapter, i can now goto the first skill trainer and buy a full skill bar (minus elites of course, you still need to cap them) nearly straight away... Of course, if I want a prophecies skill and I start in Factions, i still need to get to the marketplace and head over to lion's Arch, but thats not exactly hard
Actually in Prophecies there are skills only obtainable (i.e. gotta buy them) from skill trainers. The further you got in the storyline the more skills you can get from trainers. That means that until you get to Emberlight Camp in the Ring of Fire.
In the case of Factions, unless I'm mistaken, most if not all skills can be bought in Kaineng Center.
There are Core skills shared by all campaigns, so you can get those anywhere, but I'd say they make up at most 1/4th or 1/3rd of all skills.
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1, prophecies gives skills as a reward for finishing quests
2, Factions and Nightfall DON'T, they offer gold and skill points as reward so you can buy skills from the skill trainer and the skill trainers skill availability is staggered as you progress
3, Eye of the North is an expansion, not a stand alone chapter and you need to complete one of the others to play its content, however, it will move back to the prophecies style of skill rewards for quests
4, if you unlock skills for a chapter, they permanently become available at all skill trainers for the chapter they are for and that includes buying the Pvp unlock packs from the ingame store. I bought all three and if I roll a new character in any chapter, i can now goto the first skill trainer and buy a full skill bar (minus elites of course, you still need to cap them) nearly straight away... Of course, if I want a prophecies skill and I start in Factions, i still need to get to the marketplace and head over to lion's Arch, but thats not exactly hard
Actually in Prophecies there are skills only obtainable (i.e. gotta buy them) from skill trainers. The further you got in the storyline the more skills you can get from trainers. That means that until you get to Emberlight Camp in the Ring of Fire.
In the case of Factions, unless I'm mistaken, most if not all skills can be bought in Kaineng Center.
There are Core skills shared by all campaigns, so you can get those anywhere, but I'd say they make up at most 1/4th or 1/3rd of all skills. There are three skills you have to buy in prophecies, one from the skill trainer in Ice Tooth Cave, and two others I honestly can't remember off the top of my head, i think another is in Maguuma Stade
Edit: the third is from captain Greywind in the Ascalon Settlement
Excellent info thanks very much. So it sounds like if I complete all of the content in Prophecies, I should have most (if not all) of the available skills and ready to take on the Eye of the North content?
I would just PvP and unlock whatever skills you wish for whatever profession you want. After that, just buy them. I like to do Alliance Battle alot and unlock skills. What i like is that the skills i do unlock are useable by my heroes in PvE. ^_^
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Or you could just cheat and get the PvP skill unlock packs... they are a godsend even for Pve players as the first skill trainer you come across in the chapter you have it for will then have all the non-elite skills for your professions straight away for you to buy... Grab an Elite tome and you have a full skill bar straight away... JOY!