Cadfan17

Actually, you can eventually buy certain skill ranks exactly like you buy spell levels. This includes skill ranks in Spellcraft and Magery. But don't worry, if you pick up and sell EVERYTHING, you can buy almost everything you could want in terms of skill ranks by the end of the game.

1. Skills shouldn't have non functional prerequisites, such as melee weapons as a prerequisite for a spear wielder who wants to get to blademaster. If this is a balance issue, just increase the cost of blademaster directly, or add a semi-functional prerequisite instead of a non functional one. 2. Reduce the amount of foreknowledge necessary for optimization. If the game is ok with me buying 3 ranks of a skill from a trainer, then paying for 3 more ranks with skill points, it should be ok with me doing this in the opposite order. If the concern is for balance, since leveling a skill up prior to paying for ranks would let you pay less for a higher level rank, either account for this in game design, or make training cost you a small amount in skill points equal to the difference between what you would have paid and what you did. I'm not sure if that's clear... let me explain this way. Lets say that NewSkill starts by costing 4. There's a trainer that lets me upgrade it for 500, 550, 600 in gold. In AV5, I'll probably hold off on investing in NewSkill until I meet the trainer. So maybe I'll buy three ranks in it for a total of 1650 gold, and then pay 5 skill points to get a total of 4 ranks in NewSkill. But lets say I've already bought one rank in NewSkill for 4 skill points. When I meet the trainer I upgrade my rank in NewSkill twice, but can't train the third trainable rank. I'll have to spend 5 skill points if I want it, leaving me at 1150 gold and 9 skill points spent. Why not set it up like this instead? Lets say I've already put four skill points in to buy a rank of 1. When I get to the trainer, I want to train 3 times. The cost to me is 500 for the first training, 550 for the second, and 600 gold plus one skill point for the fourth. Now, mathematically, I'm in the same position I'd be in if I had done things AV5 style and waited to meet the trainer before investing at all. Plus I got to play with a cool skill earlier. This can easily extrapolate out further. Suppose I had bought 4 ranks with skill points. Now it would cost me 6 to upgrade again by using skill points. If I go to the trainer, the cost would be 500 gold and 2 skill points 550 gold and 2 skill points 600 gold and 3 skill points Still putting me at exactly the place I'd be in if I had held back from investing in advance. See the advantages? Now I don't need a guide or multiple playthroughs to optimize my character. I can just do what comes naturally, and things work out on their own.

Alright, dumb question. Does the lowered exp for monsters below your level take into account characters who's level is artificially lowered by lots of special abilities and racial penalties?

Oh, whoops. Well, he may just have to stay dead.

I used the "pleaselikeme" edit, and was able to complete the next two quests (mindwarp chitrarch, whirling thrasher). But now I have a new problem. I get the Hraithe Lord quest. I go to Epiron-Bok, and talk to him about the Hraithe Lord. Then I go to the actual Hraithe Lord in the Howling Depths, and kill it. And it doesn't give me any eyes. I go back to Lark, still, no eyes, no dialogue for the eyes. Am I missing something? Is there some other dialogue I need to complete before I am "officially" hunting the Hraithe Lord?

Alright, I have a problem. I forgot to do some of Lark's quests. I'm going back to finish them before I leave the Vahnati lands. Thing is, I kind of stole the Anama Scrolls a while back, and now the Anama town hates me. And I need to talk to the Chitrarch hunter guy to get the tips on how to find the mindwarp chitrarch. Without those tips, I don't think the last wall ever opens for you to actually fight the mindwarp. And I really, really want to fight it, because Lark gives out good rewards. Is there anything I can do here? Anything I can edit in the console (and any advice on how to use the console)?