So skills degrade. What happens you leave the game a few months?

Die_Scream

As in most MMOs, I assume your characters are saved for 3-6 months or more.

However, skills degrade when not used (the rate, I have no idea).

Do skills only degrade while logged in, frozen while offline, or would a returning player find all skills back to zero (or whatever) upon a 3 month (say?) hiatus?

Zodan

No one knows if skills degrade or how they degrade at all, I was in beta and this never happened to anyone.

Die_Scream

I read many times on forumfall it was "common knowledge" that skills degrade.

No one ever talked about maxing them, leaving for a time and coming back effect.

Zodan

Originally posted by Die_Scream


I read many times on forumfall it was "common knowledge" that skills degrade.
No one ever talked about maxing them, leaving for a time and coming back effect.

 

They are just speculating no one has seen a skill degrade or at least I have not seen a post specifically stating "OMG SKILLS DEGRADE I LOST 0.1 FROM RUN" etc.

Die_Scream

Originally posted by Zodan

Originally posted by Die_Scream


I read many times on forumfall it was "common knowledge" that skills degrade.
No one ever talked about maxing them, leaving for a time and coming back effect.

 

They are just speculating no one has seen a skill degrade or at least I have not seen a post specifically stating "OMG SKILLS DEGRADE I LOST 0.1 FROM RUN" etc.

 

From what I have gathered, skills begin to become much harder to train after lvl 75. Also, skills will degrade downwards if not used over time. You don't skill up to a point and remain safe there, if it isn't used, it goes down. This is a good idea I think.

 

Zodan

I think skill leveling is just the correct speed. Skill degrading seems unnecessary, though I know that when you have 100.0 skill you can perform power shots with the skill which takes it down to 99.0 but at the moment details are unknown at least to me, it could be also that there is no real loss of the skill when you have 100 but a temporary one but it was a bit weird to read that in patch notes.

Skill degrading probably starts hitting when you have reached the "soft" skill cap what ever that might be.

downtoearth

skill do not degrade offline

dembar

i am not sure if skill degrade is in But it was stated that skill decade Only happens while you are in game. you could nos loos any skill while ofline..

people seem to forget that this game is not even 2 weeks old. and that movies you see about for example pvp is all newbee pvp. and that lots of thinks are not even open to the people because people did not reach high enough skill. sadly i see people complain about thinks they dont knwo anything about. and make this game look bad, while aventurine is doing that enough to them selfs with pre order and thinks like that.

if skill decay is in

there wont be any skill decay while your ofline

you need to atleast reached the softcap before you start loosing skill points ( NO we dont know what the skill cap nr is)

you only loose skill points in skill you are not (enough) using.

some skills are higher graded as others ( for example having 100 swords, 100 parry, and 100 2h sword, 100 bow and 4/5 magic trees at 100 skill would be nearly imposibel)

while you could easy have more skill at 100 then that in other thinks

 

the skill system is wel thought out. You need to use magery to lvl your magery depending one wich spell you use you skill up in that  school of magic. if you never ever use for example in the first school of magic the heal self spell and only use the magic missile spell your magic missile is doing a lot of damage while your self heal is healing like shit, although you did get higher in the lesser magic school because of using the magic missile so you heal more then a newbee entering dfo and using the heal self spell.

 

this way 2 people having played the game with using 2h sword and used spells in for example in lesser and gresater magic. can still fight tottaly diffirent because they could have used other spells in the given magic schools. or used other abilities that you get while you skill up 2h swords.

 

hope this makes sense

damian7

if skill degradation is like in UO (which it seems this game is heavily based upon); then, if you do not use the skill and you're in-game NOT using the skill for X amount of hours, you will start to lose a tenth of a point here and there.

say you climb the first day and don't climb again.  at X hours, you would take a loss to that skill.  how it would happen after that... if it would be a steady loss of a tenth of a point every Y minutes, or X hours... dunno.

 

BoA*

No one has any proof of skill degrading just yet, and all this talk about skill degrading only when you're online is just speculation. Its their own opinion of how the game works to them, there is no proof just specualtion at the moment.

dembar

there is no proof indeed except statements from the people that make this game that skill decrease would not happen while ofline!

but you will find something on the website that did not made it into the game so you are gonna use that to strengthen your opinion

Paragus1

Originally posted by downtoearth


skill do not degrade offline

 

This.

tazarconan

Well the obvious and common human sense says that skill are degrading regaurding the time u playing ,and not when u r offline ..Simple