Mines Malingerer
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skills
Does practicing a skill that you are training make you better at it? i.e. if I am training throwing, is it useful to me to throw rocks at a slow-moving worm?
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Mines Malingerer
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Ziggurat Zagger
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sanka wrote:In general: no, it absolutely does not matter how you kill the monster. In auto mode it is a little blurred tough.
If you press "m", then a skill menu comes up, and you can set which skills you want to train, and whether to use auto or manual skill training.
If you only enable one skill, than that skill will receive all XP, and it does not matter what you do to earn the XP. You can kill the worm with spells and train only throwing for example.
In manual mode it never matters what you do to earn the XP. All XP is divided roughly equally (with focused skills getting double weight) between the enabled skills.
In auto mode if you enable more than one skill, then if you throw a lot you will improve throwing more (provided that throwing is actually enabled). While this is the default if you start the game, it is suboptimal, and I never use this mode, so I cannot tell you exactly how the auto mode decides to divide the XP between the skills. If you want to train throwing, then instead of throwing rocks at worms I suggest to switch off all other skills, and use your optimal killing method.
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Siegurt wrote:In short, auto mode is really only useful if you don't know what skills are important, or what they do, or what you are actually using
Siegurt wrote:If you're just starting out, using auto mode and ignoring the skills screen while you figure out how (and what) to fight, move and run away, what controls do what etc. works well enough (tactics are more important than optimal skilling, so it isn't an unreasonable thing to learn later)
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Magipi wrote:Siegurt wrote:In short, auto mode is really only useful if you don't know what skills are important, or what they do, or what you are actually using
I find it hard to say anything to that. A very likely scenario.Siegurt wrote:If you're just starting out, using auto mode and ignoring the skills screen while you figure out how (and what) to fight, move and run away, what controls do what etc. works well enough (tactics are more important than optimal skilling, so it isn't an unreasonable thing to learn later)
The only problem with that is this: to learn good tactics takes months, maybe years... while learning reasonable skilling takes like 15 minutes.
It is also reasonable to go out barefoot in winter rather than to learn how to tie shoelaces. You'll learn that later, maybe next winter.
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