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Message ID: 1621
Date: Fri Dec 17 00:57:58 GMT 1999
Author: Malcolm O'Callaghan
Subject: RE: Skill Cap


BRAVO!!!!

Finally someone backing their statements up with more than just name calling
and bad grammar.

Thank you Brillian! You have rekindled my interest in tinkering.

Haxtonia Firewater, Wayward Gnomish Mage (Mith Marr)

> From: "Brian Nelson" <rock-on@...>
>
> As far as skill cap goes, I'll just let you all know that
> it USED to be
> capped at (level - 15) * 5. But Verant has recently either
> removed the skill
> cap or changed it. How do I know this? Because I have been
> level 30 for
> about a month and a half now, and I have been tinkering a
> whole lot in that
> time. I was stuck for the longest time at 75 skill. I don't
> just think I was
> stuck, I know I was because I made over 150 spyglasses after
> I was already
> at 75 skill and I didn't get a single skill point increase. I
> was selling
> the spyglasses for between 70pp and 100pp and I sold over 150 of them,
> making me become one of the richest level 30 players I know.
> I didn't care
> much about the skill cap or being able to make aqualungs or
> even leveling, I
> was raking in the dough and that was all that I cared about.
> Well last week
> while I was making more spyglasses to sell my skill level
> suddenly increased
> to 76 and I was completely astonished! I then proceeded to spend a few
> thousand platinum on spyglasses and stalking probes and a few
> painstaking
> hours later I was a master tinkerer. My skill is now 103 and I have
> attempted 6 aqualungs. I have made 3 out of those 6 attempts.
> In my experience, I believe it is possible that tinkering MAY now be
> capped at Level * 5 - 13 (maybe not), but it used to be
> capped at (level -
> 15) * 5. I do know though that it is no longer capped at
> (level - 15) * 5.
>
> Brillian
> 30 Wizard
> Solusek Ro