Perception skill
The Perception skill is the main defense against both stealthy creatures (and characters) as well as PICKPOCKETING and backstabbing.
Ways to Train
- Juggling
- Searching
- Noticing people or creatures acting stealthy. Creatures that ambush include:
- Sleazy Lout
- Immature Firecat
- Young Firecat
- Footpad
- Thug
- Ruffian
- Cutthroat
- Golden Pard
- Vicious Warcat
- Lanky Grey Lach
- Long-fanged Warcat
- Clouded Arzumos
- Sinuous Elsralael
- Faenrae Stalker
- Supple Firecat
- Sabre-toothed Warcat
- Muscular Firecat
- Lun'Shele Hunter
- Faenrae Assassin
- Lun'Shele Trekhalo
- Armadillo
- Catching someone stealing
- Running Ranger trails
- Foraging
- Disarming traps
- Marking items in a shop (thief only)
- Utilizing the Hunt command
Uses
- Finding hidden creatures and people.
- Hiding and stalking skill do not help you see somebody hide or stalk. Seeing somebody hide is harder than searching them out afterward. (GameMaster Zeyurn) With around 100 ranks in perception, you will start seeing hidden people without even searching for them.
- Finding and disarming traps.
- Locating hidden paths, such as the trail into Forest Geni.
- Foraging (provides a small bonus to foraging skill)
- Nearly 100 Titles require Perception ranks.
Abilities and Spells that boost Perception
- Clear Vision spell
- Eye of Kertigen enchante
- Wolf Scent spell
- Revelation spell
- Khri Sight
- Eagle dance
- Glyph of Light
Miscellaneous
Perception skill is reduced at nighttime unless using a dark-vision ability, such as Khri Sight. This change occurred Summer of 2007.
As confirmed by GameMaster Zeyurn on 3/14/2008, Intelligence and Wisdom are the statistics involved in Perception.
Thanks to the foraging experience changes, foraging is currently faster than juggling in terms of training perception. Foraging vines, for instance, moves the perception skill by one mindstate every 7 forages without using careful or precise at 20 INT, 10 DIS, and 81 perception.
Juggling and Weights
In general, you should juggle something that weighs 1/10 of your Perception ranks, rounded down to the nearest 5. For example, if you had 150 ranks in Perception, you would want to juggle something that weighed 15 stones. If you had 154 ranks in Perception, 15 stones would still be your ideal juggling weight.
Note that if you immediately drop the objects you're juggling, you will not gain any Perception experience. This means that you are trying to juggle something that is too heavy.
Per GM Ssra[1] the juggling code is set up to only support teaching perception with jugglings weights of 70 stones or less.
Weight in Stones | Ranks Teaches To |
---|---|
1 | 150 |
2 | 160 |
3 | 170 |
5 | 200 |
7 | 230 |
10 | 250 |
12 | 270 |
15 | 300 |
20 | 350 |
25 | 400 |
30 | 450 |
35 | 500 |
40 | 550 |
45 | 600 |
50 | 650 |
60 | 750 |
70 | 850 |
Juggling Items
Here's a list of the current juggling items in our wikipedia database. This may or may not be current, as you might expect, and those items that lack a listed weight are excluded due to technical reasons.
Wt Juggling Item Location/Origin 1 colorful beanbags Aesry Puzzle Shop 1 colorful balls Amusement Pier Clown 1 [etched/rough/small/detailed] [pewter/glass/driftwood/oak/cedar/silverwood/ebony/rosewood] [yaks/skulls/eyeballs/stars/spheres/cubes/eggs/rosebuds] Example: some etched pewter yaks Amusement Pier Clown 1 miniature wooden barrel Amusement Pier Clown 1 shrunken kobold heads Corik's Quest end prize 1 multi-hued juggling scarves Trader Fest 1 multi-hued silk diamonds Trader Fest 1 colorful gypsy scarves Wren Fest 1 jade-colored balls Mentor Prize 1 small glass dragons unknown 1 colorful rock troll beanbags Taisidon Safari 1 colorful goblin beanbags 1st Jaal Jeraya Fest 1 colorful madmen beanbags 1st Jaal Jeraya Fest 1 giant juggling taffelberries 1st Jaal Jeraya Fest 1 plush black panthers with green button eyes Shard Outcast Fest & Merelew II (Thief shop)
2 [crimson/lime/tan/mauve/chipped/cracked/dull] [pottery/clay/basalt/deobar/oak/pine] [tiles/squares] Example: some crimson pottery tiles Throne City Museum/Excavation 2 [orange/green/gold/beige] mosaic tiles Throne City Museum/Excavation
3 colorful fabric butterflies Rossman's Landing 3 brightly-scaled cobras with tiny leather hoods Shard Outcast Fest & Merelew II (Thief shop)
5 aether spheres Warrior Mage Aether Cantrip 5 [clay/sandstone] pottery fragments Throne City Museum/Excavation 5 handful of rusted nails Throne City Museum/Excavation 5 fuzzy hamsters Aesry Puzzle Shop 5 small stuffed foxes embroidered with the symbol of the Order of the Black Fox Order Social Night 5 jagged silver shark teeth 2nd Jaal Jeraya Fest 5 beaded toebones Shard Outcast Fest 5 plush brown shrikes with tiny beaks Shard Outcast Fest & Merelew II (Thief shop) 5 tiny silver tarts embedded with round cambrinth stones Merelew II
7 bleached and shrunken baby yak skulls Old Thief Shop
10 vivid silk ladybugs Rossman's Landing 10 set of onyx dragons Amusement Pier Clown 10 grinning dragon beanbags Taisidon Safari 10 bamboo sticks Taisidon Safari 10 stuffed dragons Taisidon Safari 10 set of multi-colored dragons Taisidon Safari 10 a bunch of worthless contracts Old Thief Shop 10 polished ivory fisheads 2nd Jaal Jeraya Fest 10 mammoth anklebones Shard Outcast Fest 10 darkly-scaled adders with pink felt tongues Shard Outcast Fest & Merelew II (Thief shop) 10 wide etched silver rings studded with cambrinth Merelew II 10 rope knots Merelew II 10 painted wooden gemstones Merelew II
12 stuffed crosseyed gerbils Old Thief Shop 12 stuffed baby raccoons unknown
15 satin clowns Aesry Puzzle Shop 15 medium stuffed foxes embroidered with the symbol of the Order of the Black Fox Order Social Night 15 solid bronze acorns 2nd Jaal Jeraya Fest 15 leaded fingerbones Shard Outcast Fest 15 fuzzy brown shrews with long leather tails Shard Outcast Fest & Merelew II (Thief shop) 15 tiny pewter shields emblazoned with the cambrinth-studded crest of the Warrior Mage guild Merelew II
20 dusky blue wooden crabs Rossman's Landing 20 engraved silver globes Amusement Pier Clown 20 set of crystal balls 1st Jaal Jeraya Fest 20 carved ironwood chickens Premium Sea Caves Gift 20 set of leather-wrapped stilettos (weighs 20, but teaches much higher) Blacklark and Fandella's Wedding 20 carved amber pinecones 2nd Jaal Jeraya Fest 20 metal-studded ulnas Shard Outcast Fest 20 some bright blue fuzzy sharks with pointy leather teeth Shard Outcast Fest & Merelew II (Thief shop) 20 shapeless bronze talismans studded evenly with small cambrinth stones Merelew II 20 heavy rope knots Merelew II
25 brightly painted wooden oranges Aesry Puzzle Shop 25 miniature rounded tin helms Warrior Mage Fest 25 silvery silk stars Trader Fest 25 oversized silver kronars Trader Fest 25 oversized gold lirums Trader Fest 25 oversized platinum dokoras Trader Fest 25 fuzzy baby yaks Trader Fest 25 green leather toads Trader Fest 25 miniature roan horse Trader Fest 25 old shoes Trader Fest 25 miniature leather-bound books Trader Fest 25 stuffed white feathered chickens Trader Fest 25 red wooden apples Trader Fest 25 fuzzy turnips Trader Fest/Wren Fest 25 ivory skulls Wren Fest 25 miniature iron juggling tankards Wren Fest 25 miniature oak juggling kegs Wren Fest 25 miniature pirate ships 1st Jaal Jeraya Fest 25 patinated copper clovers 2nd Jaal Jeraya Fest 25 polished conch shells Taisidon Safari 25 green juggling coconuts Taisidon Safari 25 large stuffed foxes embroidered withthe symbol of the Order of the Black Fox Order Social Night 25 carved shoulder blades Shard Outcast Fest 25 lead-wrapped kneecaps Shard Outcast Fest 25 beady-eyed stuffed weasels with furry tails Shard Outcast Fest & Merelew II (Thief shop) 25 crimson-hued fireballs trailing carved cambrinth flames Merelew II
30 carved ebonwood beetles Rossman's Landing 30 large glass peaches Amusement Pier Clown 30 blackened steel twigs 2nd Jaal Jeraya Fest 30 brass-tipped rib bones Shard Outcast Fest 30 plush heron chicks with dangling felt legs Shard Outcast Fest & Merelew II (Thief shop) 30 polished silver lightning bolts tipped with cambrinth Merelew II
35 carved oak rings Aesry Puzzle Shop 35 petrified vertebrae Shard Outcast Fest 35 plush goshawk chicks with long grey feathers Shard Outcast Fest & Merelew II (Thief shop) 35 burnished gold spheres set with flame-shaped cambrinth stones Merelew II
40 bright red wooden lobsters Rossman's Landing 40 shiny golden crowns Amusement Pier Clown 40 tiny polished shields 1st Jaal Jeraya Fest 40 thick femurs fitted with iron banding Shard Outcast Fest 40 scraggly-feathered vultures with long carved beaks Shard Outcast Fest & Merelew II (Thief shop) 40 twisted ironwood wands tipped with pear-shaped cambrinth stones Merelew II 40 iron belaying pins Merelew II
45 miniature hand-axes Aesry Puzzle Shop 45 set of heavy ironwood dragons Taisidon Safari 45 heavy basilisk jawbones Shard Outcast Fest 45 coiled ebonwood vipers with glittering garnet eyes Shard Outcast Fest & Merelew II (Thief shop) 45 sapphire-studded cambrinth swords Merelew II
50 striped juggling pins Aesry Puzzle Shop 50 dark green frogs Amusement Pier Clown 50 rough juggling clubs Warrior Mage Fest 50 steel-capped skulls Shard Outcast Fest 50 bronze-inlaid pelvises Shard Outcast Fest 50 carved bloodwood centaurs with tiny onyx hooves Shard Outcast Fest & Merelew II (Thief shop) 50 gem-encrusted platinum dragons set with sparkling cambrinth teardrops Merelew II 50 small anchors Merelew II 50 oversized lockpicks Merelew II
60 battered rum bottles Ghost Ship end prize 70 pewter-handled hammers 1st Jaal Jeraya Fest 75 set of rusted hand scythes covered in cobwebs Pre-Web Party at Winthoren Manor
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