Skill leveling

[genom]

Hey, guys

I'm wondering how do you level up a skill? As far as I know you have got to slot it in yur Hotbar, but that's what I am curious about is do you level up faster when you slot more skills from the same class tree line (for exaplme Dragonsknight's "Ardent flame")?  Also do а skill from your hotbar, that you use more frequently, level up faster than a skill used seldomer in the same hotbar? And lastly, do a class tree line develope faster, if I learned more skills from it? For example, if I have 1 active and 3 passive skills from a specific tree line, and 1 active skill from another will be there any difference in leveling speed of both lines?

[Gannicus]

You level up the skill trees faster if you have the skills from a tree on your bar. All the skills on your bar will gain experience as you level up. Even the trees not on your bar will all gain a bit of experience as you level up, though not as much as what is slotted.  

 

There will be no difference if experience gain if you have more passives. However if you have more skills from that tree you are trying to level up that are slotted it will level up a bit faster (pretty sure about this).

 

 If you have more skills from a certain tree not slotted it wont make a difference in exp gain for that tree. You just have to unlock them. 

[dreamerorc]

I agree to all of this from my testings in last beta. In additon, I also tried not touching a specific tree to limit the number of trees as much as possible in a hopeful attempt that they might level up faster (since the "amount of xp to be divided at each skillup" would be divided by less skills) but it didn't quite seem to work like that. Apparently the only thing that really speeds up a tree's xp gain so far for sure is putting more skills of it on your bar.

 

So if I were to run a new char from scratch again, I would spend my first skillpoints to unlock the first active skill of each tree I want to level up, and then fill up my main bar with more active skills from those same trees, depending on which i want to use more or if not really needed depending on which I want to see level up faster to unlock higher skills and passives faster. After the main bar is filled I would start picking passives

 

Finally I continued to test one more thing. I wanted to play with a destruction staff during the killing, but still manage to level up my restoration staff tree for healing purposes later on so i tested another very specific thing: I would do all the parts of a quest by killing and questing with a destruction staff in the hand -thus never using resto staff in fact- and the destruction skill as 5th skill and then right before talking to the final NPC that says: "thx for saving our city, here's your gold and XP" I would swap out the skill for a resto staff skill as well as equipping the weapon and that seemed to work quite effectively so theoretically, if you reconfigure your skill bar right before handing in big Q's you can teer" which tree you want to xp to go to.

 

 

Hope that helps