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This page describes various skills that can be aquired in Gothic and if you should get them or not. Note: this advice is based on how the game is balanced. If you ''like'' sneaking around the forest with a bow, by all means, aquire those skills! Note: SP = skill points. | This page describes various skills that can be aquired in Gothic and if you should get them or not. Note: this advice is based on how the game is balanced. If you ''like'' sneaking around the forest with a bow, by all means, aquire those skills! Note: SP = skill points. | ||
==Two-handed weapons vs. magic conundrum== | ==Two-handed weapons (guard) vs. magic conundrum== | ||
If you join the old camp, you'll have a choice somewhere during chapter 2 to become a guard ''or'' a fire magician. A guard can learn two-handed weapon skills, a magician can learn how to use runes.<!-- I THINK if you become a guard and learn two-handed weapon skills, you can still become a water magician later on --> | |||
If you're not a magician | If you're not a magician, you can use magic by using spell scrolls. These are one-use only and only a limited supply is available from merchants, chests etc. This means you can't go around killing the majority of enemies using magic. If you're not a guard, you can use two-handed weapons anyway (assuming you have enough strength), but only untrained. This means you can't use the weapon very efficiently. Not being able to strike in quick succession makes it nearly impossible to take down stronger enemies. | ||
Almost everything before the end of the game, even trolls, can essentially be handled with one-handed weapons, provided you obtain one of the stronger one-handed weapons like Lares' axe, Raven's sword or | Almost everything before the end of the game, even trolls, can essentially be handled with one-handed weapons, provided you obtain one of the stronger one-handed weapons like Lares' axe, Raven's sword or Scar's sword. Near the end of the game, you '''will''' be forced to use either a two-handed weapon or a sixth circle rune. Becoming a sixth circle magician may well be impossible at this point if you don't have enough skill points and everything is already dead. It may also be impossible if you're not a fifth circle magician yet and you've upset Saturas, because Xardas will just keep telling you to go back to Saturas to learn the fifth circle. | ||
As a magician, even untrained with two-handed weapons, you ''can'' beat the game with the two-handed weapon. It'll just be harder. | |||
==Strength== | ==Strength== | ||
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Trainers: Fingers (keep talking to Diego or he'll ignore you), Wedge | Trainers: Fingers (keep talking to Diego or he'll ignore you), Wedge | ||
10 SP for level 1, 20 SP for level 2. If you are using any of the [[Gothic/Get-rich- | 10 SP for level 1, 20 SP for level 2. If you are using any of the [[Gothic/Secrets#Get-rich-quick schemes|get-rich-quick schemes]] this is not worth it. You can pick locks without training, you'll just need to buy more picklocks. But mosts chests have sufficient value to make it worth breaking a few picklocks on them. However, if you don't want to use a get-rich-quick scheme (or savescum to open chests), level 1 can be worth it to loot every single chest you find. You can buy [[Gothic/Merchants|a few hundred picklocks]] in the game, but their supply is finite. | ||
==Sneaking== | ==Sneaking== | ||
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Trainers: Corristo and Baal Cador (circles 1-4), Saturas (circles 1-5), Xardas (circle 6) | Trainers: Corristo and Baal Cador (circles 1-4), Saturas (circles 1-5), Xardas (circle 6) | ||
Circles 1-6 cost 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 40 respectively. So circle six will cost 10+15+20+25+30+40=140 skill points total. Generally worth it, but note [[#Two-handed weapons vs. magic conundrum|the caveat]]. Skip bow training and throw fireballs instead in this case. | Circles 1-6 cost 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 40 respectively. So circle six will cost 10+15+20+25+30+40=140 skill points total. Generally worth it, but note [[#Two-handed weapons (guard) vs. magic conundrum|the caveat]]. Skip bow training and throw fireballs instead in this case. | ||
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