Old player returning

Originally Posted by Noa Brightington

Why no one mention ranger?

Rangers are great, but not exactly king of the hill in the damage department. Which is what the OP wanted.

If he had said flexiblity or utility, I would have said ranger.

Anyway, I bought trilogy yesterday and after spending literally hours trying out professions I settled for a new elementalist on nightfall.

1. Whats the deal with the skills? Where are they? oO I mean, I'm level 10 and I barely got like 10 skills or less. Are we suppossed to go back to LA and buy everything?

2. Speaking of LA, lets say I want to go back to Ascalon or something. In other words, how to jump/switch in between campaigns?

3. Is there an easy way to transfer items from one account to another? Or I need to have someone to help me "mule" them? :S

Originally Posted by Harby

1. Whats the deal with the skills? Where are they? oO I mean, I'm level 10 and I barely got like 10 skills or less. Are we suppossed to go back to LA and buy everything?

In nightfall you don't get skills as quest rewards. Instead you'll get some "hero skill points" that can be redeemed at a "hero skill trainer". You can also buy skills from the regular skill trainer for gold and skill points.

2. Speaking of LA, lets say I want to go back to Ascalon or something. In other words, how to jump/switch in between campaigns?

Once you get to a certain point in the campaign, there will be quests available in Kamadan to take you to prophecies and factions. You'll be notified of their availability each time you enter Kamadan.

3. Is there an easy way to transfer items from one account to another? Or I need to have someone to help me "mule" them? :S

You need to pay 50 gold to open your xunlai storage account. This can be done in any town. It has to be enabled for each character, but the space is shared for easy account transfers.

Edit: oh, between accounts. Yea, you'll need someone to help you or a second computer.

1. In Nightfall you get your basic skills by completing the Sunspear training courses. Make sure to talk to ALL the elementalist instructors as well as all the instructors of your chosen secondary profession.

You also get "Hero Skill Points" which can be used at "Hero Skill Trainers" - not just to get skills for your heroes but also for yourself.

That is, say you have 2 hero skill points available - you can then go to the Hero Skill trainer in Kamadan and ask for 2 Elementalist skills. This will unlock the skills on your account, (for pvp and for your heroes.) but also give them to you as if you had paid for them at a skill trainer.

Note, each hero skill trainer has a different set of skills for "sale".

The trainers in Kamadan, Sunspear Great Hall and the Command Post also offer the Sunspear PvE skills. (one per profession.)

Note that you can't put the PvE skills on your heroes.

Also, you can buy skills from trainers as per usual. Not just from LA, but in most of the Nightfall outposts. It's cheaper to accumulate hero skill points and get them for free though. Check the list of hero skill trainers here: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/List_...skill_trainers to see the list of skills you can get for free.

You CAN also go Lion's Arch and grab the free skills offered as quest rewards in prophecies - but only from Kryta and onwards. (IMHO, it's not worth the extra effort just to save some gold, but if you're really strapped for cash, go ahead.)

2. You can travel to Kaineng Center and Lion's Arch as you please, when you have unlocked travel to the mainland.- there's a quest for getting both to Prophecies and Factions. I suggest just taking it slowly and completing the Istani storyline before you go though.

However, if you're impatient, you can buy a "run/taxi" to the consulate docks, where you can pick up the travel quests. This may however permanently gimp your character as you could be stuck without meeting the requirement for a secondary profession. (As I recall, you must be a certain sunspear rank for that and well, higher level chars aren't allowed to take sunspear bonuses, so they can't advance in rank.)

So, only do that if you are aware of the risk.

3. You can always ask a trusted friend or guild mate for help, but otherwise, you can try running the game on two pcs or even running two copies of the game on the same machine (you need to use special software for that though and that's not officially approved by or supported by Arena.net. - check the tools section of this forum for more info.)

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I think that they meant transfers of items across accounts, not within the same account @ Drec Sutal - though your advice is good for shared storage on same-account characters.

Thanks a lot guys. Thats I why I like this game, awesome community :)

I was just getting really worried about getting some skills. How about elite ones? Are those still only capturable from boss mobs?

Mostly so yes, but you can also use an [insert profession here] Elite Tome to learn any elite skill of that profession THAT YOU HAVE ALREADY UNLOCKED (on another character or through balth faction). There's also normal tomes that work the same way except for normal skills instead of elite.

Tomes drop in hard mode from chests, normal ones from any mob of the right profession, and elites from bosses of the right profession.

I believe the ship will appear as soon as you take a character across to another campaign

No, the ship appears as soon as you have access to the port town.

However, it at first only allows your character to travel to the Great Temple of Balthazar.