Prestige classes and tradeskills
- Llew Silverhand
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Prestige classes and tradeskills
I was just wondering if anyone can clear this up, I know that once you take a prestige level you can no longer progress beyond craftsman, but I was wondering, if one were to become a master artisan, and then take a prestige class, would we remain a master artisan? or be dropped down to craftsman?
- Llew Silverhand
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32 view and no one knows? Come on, can anyone explain please? I m trying to figure out whether I should wait till level 20 to take shadowdancer given that I woud be a master artisan at level 19, but if will just drop me, then I might as well take it now. So again, does anyone know? Thanks in advance.
Llew hows about being a helpfull beta tester and finding out. Let us know when you get through it.
*edit* I just reread my post and realized I came off like a smart ***, honestly Llew, if you would be kind enough to check on that it would be appreciated.*/edit*
*edit* I just reread my post and realized I came off like a smart ***, honestly Llew, if you would be kind enough to check on that it would be appreciated.*/edit*
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Llew was wondering what happened if you took levels in these AFTER attaining higher crafting levels (ie artisan, master artisan). Very good question, it just takes forever to advance far enough to test
If you have levels in Assassin, Blackguard, Cleric, Divine Champion, Dwarven Defender, Dragon Disciple, Paladin, Palemaster, or Shadowdancer, the maximum craft level you can attain is Craftsman (Level 3) in any Tradeskill (these classes have significant other duties to perform or skills to practice).
Llew was wondering what happened if you took levels in these AFTER attaining higher crafting levels (ie artisan, master artisan). Very good question, it just takes forever to advance far enough to test
an easier test of this would be to have char get artisan, or master artisan in a skill, then have that character multiclass into a class that doesn't allow artisan lvl crafting in that craft. See what happens If you are still an artisan (which I suspect you will still be an artisan due to the coding) then it should be fine with PrC's
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Just posting to confirm this - leveled up to 19 pure wizard, but only took crafting to Artisan. Took 1 level of pale master at 20, another level of wizard at 21, and am unable to progress to Master Artisan (at approx. 17.5k XP towards the skill).
I don't know, it seems like an unnecessary level of complication to me. As long as you have the requisite levels in the appropriate class, I'm not sure I see the harm in allowing progress in the trade skill. You could well make the arguement that monks, bards, druids, arcane archers, weapon masters, and (*shudder*) harper scouts all come with "significant other duties to perform or skills to practice", so it ends up seeming a little arbitrary.
With the hefty XP cost to make the upper level items and the real-time delays, I can't see the problem linking progression only to the primary class levels. Multi-classing early will slow down tradeskills, but am I missing some other possible abuse?
I don't know, it seems like an unnecessary level of complication to me. As long as you have the requisite levels in the appropriate class, I'm not sure I see the harm in allowing progress in the trade skill. You could well make the arguement that monks, bards, druids, arcane archers, weapon masters, and (*shudder*) harper scouts all come with "significant other duties to perform or skills to practice", so it ends up seeming a little arbitrary.
With the hefty XP cost to make the upper level items and the real-time delays, I can't see the problem linking progression only to the primary class levels. Multi-classing early will slow down tradeskills, but am I missing some other possible abuse?
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I think you should be OK with bard levels - was just using them as an example in my post, they aren't on the restricted list.
The Crafting info thread: http://www.nsrealm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=21
The Crafting info thread: http://www.nsrealm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=21