Gothic/Skills: Difference between revisions

==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, 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 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.

10 SP for level 1, 20 SP for level 2. You will have a rather hard time in the beginning without this, but if you are aiming to be a guard, maybe skip level 2 as two-handed weapons are superior.

30 SP for level 1, 40 SP for level 2. Get it if you're not a magician.

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 a few hundred picklocks in the game, but their supply is finite.

10 SP for level 1, 20 SP for level 2. Completely worthless. Any character who would be worth stealing from "can't be stolen from". (literally the message that appears on screen if you try to pickpocket Gomez) A complete waste that allows you to steal apples from diggers. Actually, even if you master pickpocketing you will '''still''' get caught on a regular basis. And while breaking a picklock just means buying more picklocks, failing to pickpocket has more severe consequences.

==Cutting up animals==

==Removing bloodfly stings==

Trainer: bloodfly book

Buy the bloodfly book for 150 ore. Read it (select in your inventory and use+up) and sell/trade it back for 75 ore. Doesn't cost any SP, the book pays for itself many times over.

==Remove minecrawler mandibles==

Trainer: Gar Na Drak

Doesn't cost anything, so get it.

==Remove minecrawler plates==

Trainer: Wolf

When you're told Wolf wants to see you, go see him. It may feel like it could be a trap, but it's not.

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.