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The Achievement system provides a new way for you to improve your character's powers and to customize your arsenal of abilities. We decided to put together a FAQ for those of you who would like to jump in and start earning achievement points quickly.
How do I earn achievement points?
Achievement points are earned after you've accumulated enough achievement experience to gain a point. It takes multiple achievements in order to earn an achievement level and train new abilities.
How do I earn achievement experience?
You can earn your new powers by completing quests, defeating notorious enemies, acquiring rare treasure, exploring dangerous places, and by earning adventure experience once you have reached level 70. These accomplishments earn points that allow you to choose new powers and specialties to set your character apart from the crowd.
You earn Achievement experience by:
* Completing non-repeatable quests suited to your character's level
* Defeating special enemies, such as named bosses, for the first time
* Looting rare treasures
* Exploring dangerous locations
* Completing collection quests
Each exploration, enemy, quest, or piece of treasure will only count as an achievement once and you will have to do many different achievements in order to complete your advancement.
How do I earn Achievement experience at the maximum level?
In addition to the standard methods of obtaining achievement experience, after you reach the maximum level, defeating creatures that would normally give you adventure experience at the level cap will give you achievement experience instead.
How do I start earning achievement experience?
You must own Kingdom of Sky and be level 20 or above to take advantage of the Achievement system.
How many achievement paths are available to me?
There are 5 distinct achievement paths that you may follow; each loosely associated with one of the primary attributes (strength, agility, stamina, wisdom, intelligence). Each path has 5 different abilities that you can train in. So, there are 25 achievement abilities, plus one starter ability for each class making the total 26.
How many achievement points can I get?
50
Can I earn all of the Achievement abilities available for my class?
No. These decisions are important, as no one will be able to learn all of the specialties and must instead choose their own path to power.
How does training work?
As you gain achievement points, you can spend them to get new abilities or to improve the ones you already have trained. All characters of your class will have to spend 1 point on the first achievement ability.
Thereafter, the choice is yours. There are 5 lines with 5 achievement abilities each, meaning there are a total of 25 achievements available to you to choose from (26 when you count the initial ability that you must train).
It costs 1 point to train a single rank in an achievement. In order to train the second ability in an achievement line, you must have rank 4 in the first achievement ability (rank 4, meaning you have put 4 achievement points into the ability). In order to train the third achievement ability in a line, you must have rank 4 in the second. In order to train the fourth achievement ability in a line, you must have rank 4 in the third. The final achievement ability in a line is especially powerful, and requires 8 points to train (and cannot be further improved).
For all achievement abilities except the starter ability (that all must train) and the master level ability in a line, you can specialize them up to rank 8, which means you've dedicated 8 points to that one ability.
How many achievement abilities can I train?
It depends on how diverse or focused you want your character to be. You can choose to focus almost all of your points on one path, or you can choose to make your character more versatile in its powers by spreading the points out. Keep in mind that you can only earn a total of 50 achievement points, so spend them wisely.
In order to reach the master level achievement in a path, you must spend 24 points in addition to the initial 1 point for the starter ability. Therefore, if you wish to get to the master achievement ability in two lines, you will need to spend 49 points (24 on each line plus the 1 starter ability).
You may also choose to focus almost entirely on one path, spending 40 achievement points on a single path (giving you rank 8 of each achievement plus the master ability) plus 1 point for the starter ability. This would leave you with 9 points to distribute on other lines.
Of course, you can also spread out even further by diversifying your selections further. The choice is yours.
Can I respec my achievements?
Indeed you can. You will need to speak with the following NPCs in order to do so:
City: Qeynos
NPC: Wynia Vethe
Location: South Qeynos in the Tower of Three
City: Freeport
NPC: Nexa L'Dur
Location: North Freeport in the Academy of Arcane Science
The cost to respec your achievements is initially fairly low, but increases in price the more times you respec. The cost caps out at 13p after you've respec'd your achievements 6 times.
* First Respec: 1s
* Second Respec: 13s
* Third Respec: 1g 30s
* Fourth Respec: 13g
* Fifth Respec: 1p 30g
* Sixth Respec (and thereafter): 13 p
Note that this respec will completely reset all of your achievement choices rather than untrain a single rank or ability.
How do I view my achievements?
Open up the skills window, which is bound to the "L" key by default.
Will I automatically be granted achievement points for past accomplishments?
No, you will not be grandfathered achievement points. The idea is that you achieve things after the system goes live. That said, you can earn achievement experience by exploring regions you've already been to, defeating boss mobs you've defeated before achievements were live, etc. It will only count the first time you do it after you get Kingdom of Sky and only if the activity is of appropriate challenge for your character.
Post edited by: imoan, at: 2006/03/09 00:20
Dit is een mooie wijze om gebruikers over te halen de uitbreiding te kopen...slimme zet van SOE!
Lijkt ook wel een beetje op de skilltrees in SWG, tot op zeker hoogte...
Hier nog een beknopte versie hoe het werkt.
The Basics:
Just as levels can be used to describe advancement for Adventurers, Artisans, and Guilds, Acheivements are measured by levels. The maximum Achievement Level is 50. For every level of Achievements that you earn, you earn one Achievement Point that can be spent to improve your character.
You must own the Kingdom of Sky expansion to use the Achievements system. You may use the Achievements system from level 20 on. There are no grandfathered points. Everyone starts at 0 Achievements, whether you're level 1 or level 60 already.
You may view your Achievements in the Skill window ("L" by default). If you are using a custom UI, then you will not be able to view Achievements, most likely.
There are 12 Achievement templates, for each basic class. This means that Wardens and Furies share the same Achievements, as do Guardians and Berserkers, and so on.
How to Gain Achievements:
Achievement Points (or AP) are gained by earning enough Achievement experience (Axp).
You gain Axp by:
* discovering some locations
* completing a quest which is appropriate for your level
* completing a collection quest
* killing a named target or encounter for the first time
* looting some status or fabled gear
In addition, all experience you earn after reaching your maximum level (currently 70) will be applied directly to Axp.
Every Achievement level reached gives you one more AP to use.
The Paths:
You will notice that there are 26 abilities you may spend your AP on.
Every class has a starter ability. This ability requires 1 AP, and can only be raised to Level 1. This starter ability opens up the five Achievement "paths".
Each path is related to a base attribute. Therefore all classes have a path dedicated to Strength, Agility, Stamina, Wisdom, and Intelligence.
The first "depth" in each path will increase the associated attribute directly, by 6 points per AP spent, to a maximum of +48.
The next three abilities in each path are related to the general attribute, and will increase in power as more AP are spent on them.
The final depth in each path is the master level achievement. These abilities may only be raised to Level 1, but that one level costs a full 8 AP.
Restrictions:
Virtually all paths are related in some fashion to a particular type of weapon or armor that will be required in some fashion to use some of the Achievements in the paths.
As an example, the Agility path of Paladins and Shadowknights is related to the use of a great spear of some kind. In additional, several Paladin and Shadowknight achievements require the player's character to be mounted. A good illustration of this is the Joust achievement which greatly increases the damage of an attack by a Paladin or Shadowknight, IF the crusader is both mounted AND using a great spear.
The Templar achievement of Turn Undead, from our Wisdom path, requires us to be wielding a symbol.
It is possible to find paths which compliment each other well, or possible to find paths that use weapons you can quickly switch.
Spending Achievement Points:
Everyone starts at 0 Achievements, whether you're level 1 or level 60 already. When you've earned your first AP, you can spend it by opening up your skills window ("L" by default), clicking on the Ahievements tab, and then double clicking your starter achievement. A confirmation window will appear asking if you really wish to spend your point.
After you've done this, you have now opened the five different paths for use. After you earn your second AP, you can purchase a point in the first depth of any of the paths.
However, the later depths are still locked to you. To unlock an achievement, you must first meet the prerequisite, which is typically to spend 4 AP in the previous achievement.
Therefore, if you wish to open the second achievement in your Stamina path, you must first purchase your starter achievement (1 AP) and then spend 4 AP in increasing your Stamina.
The master achievements in each path are slightly different. They cost 8 points for just 1 level, which is both the minimum and maximum level you can purchase master achievements at.
The Bottom Line:
You can only earn a total of 50 points ever.
The bare minimum required to maximize a path completely is 41 AP (1 AP for the starter, then 8 AP per achievement in the path). This will leave you with just 9 AP to spend elsewhere in other paths.
The minimimum required to reach the master achievement in a path is 25 AP for one path, and 49 AP for two (24 AP per path, plus the starter AP). This means the most master achievements a single character may possess at any time is just two. It is mathematically impossible to possess three master achievements at this time.
Obviously, this opens up a great many possibilities, even if you choose to acquire a master ability or two. Be careful and methodical in your selections. Though there is a way to reset achievements at some point, the method becomes costly quickly.
nog een keertje posten:
* First Respec: 1s
* Second Respec: 13s
* Third Respec: 1g 30s
* Fourth Respec: 13g
* Fifth Respec: 1p 30g
* Sixth Respec (and thereafter): 13 p
Ik heb nu 1 punt behaald en moet even goed kijken welke skill ik neem voor ranger.
Post edited by: Imoan, at: 2006/03/20 10:05