Questions about skills.

Mujica · 07-27-2007, 04:19 AM

Wewt? =)

Btw, when you we're talking about the lower and higher level skills activating eachother, i can confirm that. They do share diminishign returns, so you cant spam level 1 then level 2 of something. It's a way of preventing down ranking, like if u upgraded the damage enough on the low rank skill you wouldn't really need the high rank skill to deal pretty much the exact same damage, and then it would cost a significant amount less sp and be alot better to use.

Destrus · 07-27-2007, 04:32 AM

if you empower the lower skill then you buy the next level of that skill how you empowered the lower version of the skill doesn't affect the higher version of it?

Mujica · 07-27-2007, 05:07 AM

Mm.. a bad theory i guess, im sorry, it wasn't completly though through. Yes it should effect every single rank of the skill itself, but, if you wanted to you could do as i stated before and down rank for sp effecieny if possible to upgrade enough to even it out to what the base damage would be of a higher rank. I haven't tryed this yet, so i dont know if it's possible or even beneficial.

**Loveless** · 07-27-2007, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by Mujica

Mm.. a bad theory i guess, im sorry, it wasn't completly though through. Yes it should effect every single rank of the skill itself, but, if you wanted to you could do as i stated before and down rank for sp effecieny if possible to upgrade enough to even it out to what the base damage would be of a higher rank. I haven't tryed this yet, so i dont know if it's possible or even beneficial.

Uhm... so what you're saying is that if I did choose the 'lower SP consumption' option on the lower skill, the higher version of that same skill will have the lowered SP? In other words you wouldn't have to 'level up' the higher skill if you've done so to the lower...?

chinhchinh · 07-27-2007, 08:56 AM

Originally Posted by Loveless

Uhm... so what you're saying is that if I did choose the 'lower SP consumption' option on the lower skill, the higher version of that same skill will have the lowered SP? In other words you wouldn't have to 'level up' the higher skill if you've done so to the lower...?

Yes. They are all the same skill, just different levels of upgrade. Once you add an empowerment to a skill, its attribute would still be there after upgrading it another level.

**Loveless** · 07-27-2007, 08:58 AM

Originally Posted by chinhchinh

Yes. They are all the same skill, just different levels of upgrade. Once you add an empowerment to a skill, its attribute would still be there after upgrading it another level.

Thanks!

KY_Jelly · 07-29-2007, 09:56 PM

so the question is, whats the most effective way to use skill points?

at first, i was just spreading them out evenly to reduce SP consumption and lower cooldown time, but i had the idea to stack them all up on 1 or 2 skills, for this scenario, we will use aimed shot as an example.

what if you just lowered cooldown and sp consumption on aimed shot a ton so you could spam it like a madman? would that be more effective than using 3 or 4 skills with evenly distributed skill empowerment? i'd think you'd be able to spam that 1 skill much more frequently and use less SP if you beefed it up enough.