Experience

Every guild uses skill requirements to determine circle.

There are five skill sets which are learned by varying degrees by every guild. Each guild has chosen one of the five as a specialization skill set or primary skill set. Two of the remaining four have by chosen by each guild as a proficiency and support skill set for the specialization skill; these are known as secondary skills. The remaining two are considered to hold minor relevance and referred to as tertiary skills.

Guild	Armor	Lore	Magic	Survival	Weapon
Barbarian	Secondary	Tertiary	Tertiary	Secondary	Primary
Bard	Tertiary	Primary	Secondary	Tertiary	Secondary
Cleric	Tertiary	Secondary	Primary	Tertiary	Secondary
Empath	Tertiary	Primary	Secondary	Secondary	Tertiary
Moon Mage	Tertiary	Secondary	Primary	Secondary	Tertiary
Paladin	Primary	Secondary	Tertiary	Tertiary	Secondary
Ranger	Secondary	Tertiary	Tertiary	Primary	Secondary
Thief	Tertiary	Secondary	Tertiary	Primary	Secondary
Trader	Secondary	Primary	Tertiary	Secondary	Tertiary
Warrior Mage	Tertiary	Secondary	Primary	Tertiary	Secondary

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Experience Pools and Pulses

Every skill has its own individual pool, which fills with field experience as you obtain it. The current amount of field experience in your pool ranges from empty (clear) to mind lock (full).

Factors that determine maximum pool size (in descending order of importance): whether the skill is in your primary, secondary, or tertiary skillset; the number of ranks you have in the skill; Intelligence; and Discipline.

This field experience is gradually converted into actual ranks. When field experience is converted to ranks, it is called a pulse. The pulse size primarily depends on whether the skill is a primary, secondary, or tertiary skill and the total size of the pool. Wisdom also affects the pulse size.

As of July 10, 2009, there are now 34 experience pool states:

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State	Fraction
clear	0/34
dabbling	1/34
perusing	2/34
learning	3/34
thoughtful	4/34
very thoughtful	5/34
considering	6/34
pondering	7/34
ruminating	8/34
concentrating	9/34
attentive	10/34
deliberative	11/34
interested	12/34
examining	13/34
understanding	14/34
absorbing	15/34
intrigued	16/34
scrutinizing	17/34
analyzing	18/34
studious	19/34
focused	20/34
very focused	21/34
engaged	22/34
very engaged	23/34
cogitating	24/34
fascinated	25/34
captivated	26/34
engrossed	27/34
riveted	28/34
very riveted	29/34
rapt	30/34
very rapt	31/34
enthralled	32/34
nearly locked	33/34
mind lock	34/34

The experience pool states under the old system were:
clear
learning
thoughtful
pondering
concentrating
muddled
very muddled
perplexing
perplexed
bewildering
bewildered
dazed
mind lock

Mind States

Mind state is a very important factor in experience to rank conversion. The worse your mind state is, the slower you learn. Mind states range from clear to very frozen. Every skill you raise to a mind lock state affects your overall mind state. At a Frozen or very frozen state, you no longer learn at all.

However, as long as the Multiple Opponent skill is not Mind Locked, the state of the Evasion skill, the Parry Ability skill, and the Shield Usage skill will not contribute to overall state.

When the new experience system was released, mind states were disabled. It has been stated that it will return, but not in the way it was previously implemented.

The mind states are as follows:
clear
fluid
murky
very murky
thick: penalty begins
very thick
dense
very dense
stagnant
very stagnant
frozen: no longer absorbing experience
very frozen

Stats and Learning

Your character's mental statistics are an important player in your overall learning process. The three mental stats, wisdom, intelligence, and discipline affect learning in different ways, and all of them are based upon a logarithmic return rate, thus eventually reaching a point of diminishing returns.

Wisdom Wisdom affect learning more so than any other skill, and has less functionality than any other skill. Wisdom increases the amount of raw experience converted into rank per pulse. The point of diminishing returns is around 30 points.

Intelligence Intelligence affects the size of your experience pools. It also has a point of diminishing returns around 28 or 30, however it also plays a factor in spell resistance in Spell Vs. Will scenarios.

Discipline Discipline is probably the most useful of all mental skills. In relation to learning, it determines the speed at which your overall mind state changes and increases the size of your experience pools. It also has a point of diminishing returns, but only for learning. It's other uses including resisting fear effects, and modifies several guild specific abilities, such as the barbarian's dance ability.

Wall Ranks

Each skillset is learned at a different rate depending upon if it is primary, secondary or tertiary. The rate at which each skill is learned is controlled by wall ranks. A wall rank is a reduction in the amount of actual rank percentage gained from the experience pool per pulse. The amount gained per rank depends on the ranks distance from the wall, The first rank after a wall is gained at 9/9^ths, or 100%, of the pulse amount for primary skills, 5/9ths for secondary skills (56%, roughly), 3/9ths (33%, roughly) for tertiary skills, and it drops by a ninth for every rank following up to 2/9^ths for the wall rank. For the primary skill set, your wall rank is every eighth rank, and because 0 does count as a rank it begins at rank 7. For secondary skills it is every fourth rank, thusly beginning at 3. and for every tertiary skill it is every other rank, beginning at 1.

However, due to recent changes to the experience system, wall ranks have been slightly modified for all secondary skills below 80 ranks and all tertiary skills below 120 ranks. The change is thus, for ranks 1-20 all skills are learned at 9/9^ths (primary skill rate), for 21-40 at a rate of 8/9^ths, 41-60 -- 7/9^ths, 61-80 -- 6/9^ths, 81-99 -- 5/9^ths (secondary skills will stabilize here), 100-119 -- 4/9^ths, 120+ -- 3/9^ths (standard tertiary rate).

RP Messaging

Ranks in each skill are numerical. However, there is also a role-playing system of nomenclature set up for skills, to make it easier to integrate into gameplay.

Ranks 1-49 / Novice

Within the above range:

• + 0-09 = Lowly
• + 10-19 = Promising
• + 20-29 = Able
• + 30-39 = Trained
• + 40-49 = Full

Ranks 50-99 / Practitioner

Ranks 100-149 / Dilettante

Ranks 150-199 / Aficionado

Within the above ranges:

• + 0-09 = Beginner
• + 10-19 = Competent
• + 20-29 = Proficient
• + 30-39 = Experienced
• + 40-49 = Skilled

Ranks 200-299 / Adept

Ranks 300-399 / Expert

Within the above ranges:

• Rated by degrees 0-99

Ranks 400-499 / Professional

Ranks 500-599 / Authority

Ranks 600-699 / Genius

Within the above ranges:

• + 20-39 = Exceptional
• + 40-59 = Outstanding
• + 60-79 = Renowned
• + 80-99 = True

Ranks 700-799 / Savant

Ranks 800-899 / Master

Ranks 900-999 / Grand Master

Within the above ranges:

• + 20-39 = Distinguished
• + 40-59 = Venerated
• + 60-79 = Exalted
• + 80-99 = Transcendent

Ranks 1000-1249 / Guru

Ranks 1250+ / Legend

Also See

• Experience drain

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