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CrusherJam - Dreamweaver wrote: »

why SHOULDN'T you level all your skills?

You should level every skill. It's just that at one point people spent a lot more time in every level bracket and didn't have enough spirit to keep all their skills up to date. Basically the guides are there to prioritize which skills to learn assuming the reader will actually play the game at each level instead of skipping from 1-40, then 40-50, etc. and then racking up 40mil spirit once they get to 100.

People did this way back in the day and I believe most only did it with Aclarity, every other skill should be maxed, but then again so should Aclarity. It was simple, at level 7 if cancelled Pole or Nub's magic attack as soon as it cooled down you would mash it again and basically was a auto-timed cancelling system for people that couldn't obviously pay enough attention to their skills and the mobs they were attacking.

CrusherJam - Dreamweaver wrote: »

I was reading some barb posts as i some times do and noticed something intresting,

most people say level this skill or that skill to 1-2-3 ( but not max)

on MY barb i basically have leveled everything to max except for firestorm

why SHOULDN'T you level all your skills?

most i decided i liked are now book learned :-)

long live the sage barb :-)

Back in the day of poor barbs, we used to prioritize which skills to level. Over time most skills (if not all of them) get leveled to 10 and eventually 11. (I still have firestorm at lvl6...I think I use it once in a very long while...waste of a spark IMO.)

And yes, I'm a sage-non-claw barb.

I am just wondering... the attack skills are a bit slower than my duel hammers, so, if I reach a point where my non-skill attacks are doin enough damage, (using 2 or 3 star hammers, 2 stones, and refined to a minimum +6) will I actually kill the critters quicker by not using the attack skills? I've only been doin a Barb for a couple months now (love it though) and I am only lvl 76. I got a ways to go and have a lot more to learn.

Is suggested not to lvl up all skills every time u reach the lvl require since u only need some of them as priority... When U reach lvl 100 u can lvl anything u want

AnimeDD - Raging Tide wrote: »

So, I would be better storing up on shards/orbs until I reach 90, and then make my own gear and refine/socket it?

Also, how many times, on average, would you have to make an item until you get a 3* one?

Yes, levelling is waaaaay too fast nowadays so you'll outgrow anything that u refine rather quickly. Id only start refining at 90 and then too to a +5 at the max. svae for the 99 and later gears.

Really after lvl70 theres not much that u need to rely on 3 stars for (maybe jewelry at the most). Theres TT gear and molds flying around.

HadesHound - Raging Tide wrote: »

Thats the thing, I dont know all this stuff about different forges, TT and stuff. I'm that new. Question, I can get my shards back somehow if I get higher level gear? I already know about the needed stuff to transfer refinement. (why let it go to waste lol)

This is the same guy who was askin these questions, finally figured how to change my avatar on this forum... a bit different than the two motorcycle forums I do lol

You can't get your shards back after you use them.

I'd advise looking in the dungeon section of these forums about Twilight Temple. It's basically a dungeon where the bosses drop materials required for gear lvl 60 - 100. There are common materials dropped by the mobs, green materials dropped by bosses and rare gold materials rarely dropped by some bosses. These materials can be made into items in the south west of archosaur. There are several big cooking pots where you can turn molds and twilight temple materials into gear.