Allocating Skill Points Guide
Written by gyl on Wednesday, January 02, 2008
What stance to use or what is the best stance for a certain character has been a common question you'll be hearing from new players nowadays. The next one's which skill should I max or can I max all skills? This short guide is designed only for that purpose. And to kick of the new year right, it is best to start of with a quick guide that will benefit not only the new players but the experienced one as well (even just one bit).
To start of, Stances starts at Level 1 and is considered "Max" at level 25. You get the most out of the stance bonus and by then should have gained access to all of the stance's skills. You earn Skill Points following this rate (confirmed by MiaMia~):
Stance Level # : Total Skill Points Gained
Stance Level 2 : 1
Stance Level 3 : 2
Stance Level 4 : 3
Stance Level 5 : 5
Stance Level 6 : 7
Stance Level 7 : 9
Stance Level 8 : 11
Stance Level 9 : 13
Stance Level 10 : 16
Stance Level 11 : 19
Stance Level 12 : 22
Stance Level 13 : 25
Stance Level 14 : 28
Stance Level 15 : 32
Stance Level 16 : 36
Stance Level 17 : 40
Stance Level 18 : 44
Stance Level 19 : 48
Stance Level 20 : 53
Stance Level 21 : 58
Stance Level 22 : 63
Stance Level 23 : 68
Stance Level 24 : 73
Stance Level 25 : 79
Using the above, we can see that we can earn the maximum of 79 skill points at Stance Level 25. Skills can only be improved from level 1 to level 10. Skill Points should be allocated 9 times max to hit the 10th level. The other 2 level to max the skill can be acquired from equipments. Anyway, Most stances either follows a 1, 1, 2, 2, 3 or a 1, 2, 2, 3 or a 1, 2, 3 Skill Point requirement to advance the certain skill to the next level. If we examine them here's what we will get:Stance Level 2 : 1
Stance Level 3 : 2
Stance Level 4 : 3
Stance Level 5 : 5
Stance Level 6 : 7
Stance Level 7 : 9
Stance Level 8 : 11
Stance Level 9 : 13
Stance Level 10 : 16
Stance Level 11 : 19
Stance Level 12 : 22
Stance Level 13 : 25
Stance Level 14 : 28
Stance Level 15 : 32
Stance Level 16 : 36
Stance Level 17 : 40
Stance Level 18 : 44
Stance Level 19 : 48
Stance Level 20 : 53
Stance Level 21 : 58
Stance Level 22 : 63
Stance Level 23 : 68
Stance Level 24 : 73
Stance Level 25 : 79
(Marionette, Esgrima, Standing Shot, etc...) 1, 1, 2, 2, 3 Skill Points format requires 81 Points in Total. Obviously with 79 points you'll be sacrificing one skill to max all the other. Here is when you should have planned on what skill you'll be utilizing the most and prioritize that above all. For Cath's summoneer's Marionette stance for example, since Victor, Sasha and Lloyd Summons are important skills, you're left with either max Walter and Helena. Both are melee yet have very different use, this is when you should think on which skill will you be using more frequently. For Stading Shot, a lot of people tend to put less priority on Blind Flash as it is less useful and so they'd rather max out other skills first.
(Back-Guard, Plow Gaurd, etc...) 1, 2, 2, 3 Skill Points format requires only 72 Points in and the 1, 2, 3 Skill Point format requires only 54 Points allowing you to easily max all skills under these Skill Points format.
Skill Point Allocation is another problem, knowing that you can max all skills shouldn't make you worry of allocating skill points on a useless skill. You refer here for stance information. Just a rule of the thumb, for training purposes it is important to max AoE type of skills for obvious reasons.
Before I end the short guide, it is also important to note that there are skills that crosses over the other skill. Let's say Romina's stances (well you can max both regardless) both got the Guardian skill. Cross over skills are skills that can be found in two different stance yet they function just the same. A skill point attributed to that skill point carries over to the other stance as well. Look out for stances like this as it allows you to max all skills in formats that requires more than 79 skill points. A perfect example is the Heaven and Hell stance and Middle-Guard stance. They both have the skill Grind Cutter and since Heaven and Hell is a 1, 1, 2, 2, 3 format which you can max them all you can use to skip allocating points on its Grind Cutter and max it over Middle Guard instead.
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By Anonymous on January 2, 2008 at 11:47 PM
Agreed. Some people tend to overlook the crossover skills and accidentally misues skill points. I hope this guide gives everyone a good insight of what to do in the future.
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