Welcome to Gaia! ::

Professions:
Wizard
• Fire
• Water
• Wind
• Earth
• Light
Warlock
• Demonology
• Necromancy
• Darkness (Element]
• Summoning
• Curses
Fighter
• Defence
• Tactics
• Stealth
• Archery
• Melee
Crafter
• Blacksmith
• Leatherworker
• Tailor
• Alchemist
• Potions

Profession Ranks:
• Novice – Starting position, 1 in each skill of the selected profession, 5 points overall
• Advanced – 3 in each skill of the profession and 20 points overall, may combine 2 skills
• Expert – 5 in each skill of the profession and 40 points overall, may combine 3 skills
• Master – 7 in each skill of the profession and 65 points overall, may combine 4 skills
• Grandmaster – 10 in each skill of the profession and 100 points overall, may combine 5 skills


Guidelines:
The maximum amount of points in each skill is 10; Experts may get 15, Masters may get 20 and Grandmasters may progress up to 25.
You may learn skills from another one or more profession, however only skills in the same profession count towards profession ranks. For example; only Crafter skills can be used to achieve 20 points for Advanced Crafter.
To raise your skill level you must post in your training thread. Every page you complete will give you one point in the skill you were practicing. Only you can post in your own training thread.
You may invite someone to spar/practice with; that will mean an announcement of the names of all participants at the beginning and the end of the session. You will get skills equal to the pages divided by the amount of participants. Example: You invite Alex to spar in your training thread. You announce: “Me and Alex spar, I practice archery and she practices fire.” At the end of your training you must post “I and Alex are done.” The spar lasted 6 pages, so you get half of the amount of pages in skill points and she gets half.
Another way to get skill points is to participate in RPs specially announced by captain or the guild crew, or participate in a battle/quest where the captain/crew act as a “Dungeon Master” of sorts. PM Lucimorth for farther questions.

Skills:
As you create your character, you must choose a profession, you get 5 points to allocate in to the skills in your chosen profession . You are free to practice any other skills outside of your profession.
When you fight monsters please refer to the creature guide. When fighting other players, please check their skills and ranks. When crafting items, please refer to the items guide. Your total [all skills in all professions] amount of skills determines your overall level.
You qualify for a guild rank upgrade every 15 levels. So, if you get to level 15 you will receive a new rank at the next 2nd of the month. If after that you only get to level 28 [+13 levels] you will not get a rank upgrade until next second of the month, provided you pass level 30. You may only get one rank upgrade every time they are handed out. The last 4 ranks may require more than a month to gain.
Every 2nd of the month those who qualify will get a rank upgrade. Rank upgrade will give a bonus of 10 skill points for your main profession. Those who are simply active to the bare minimum will get a rank upgrade every 3 months.

Gaia name: Lucimorth
Character: Atrel Merther
Age: 23
Gender: male
History:
Atrel was born in to an average family in a village just a few days of walking sought of Leylak. His life was spent exactly the same way as everyone else in his village; two years of school for reading and writing followed by hard labour at the farm and the local blacksmith. His parents were ordinary hardworking villagers, no special income or linage. He always secretly practiced martial arts and various fighting techniques, his parents did not approve but that was his passion.

Several weeks ago Atrel fought a group of low life bandits, his victory pushed him to embark on the journey to Leylak, which was completed last week. In the city, he stayed at one of the barracks and worked as a blacksmith assistant for a few days now.



Profession: (New characters get 5 skill points to distribute in to the 5 skills in the profession they choose)

Fighter - 5 (total)
• Defence - 2
• Tactics - 0
• Stealth - 2
• Archery - 0
• Melee - 1

you got it all right,
you may want to read the guide to making a character, step 5, it explains some more things.


The system seems a little confusing, but it is very forgiving and bendable, so I will answer any questions you have smile

Well, you need to gain a certain amount of skill points to advance in profession ranks, lets say, you get to Master, you can combine four of your skills in one attack, so that means the force of it becomes all the four skill points together.

As a Novice, you can't combine any skills, so basically it is unlocking new abilities razz


Not to mention, some items and other things will require certain skills ^_^

1. Can you elaborate on what you mean? NPC mentors or other people as mentors? Or anything else?

2. Yes, your personal quest (more on that in a few days) will grant you points as well, and sometimes others who participate in it will get points. Also, sometimes I or one of the Crew will RP as a monster you are fighting and you will get points. Another way is I will look around at especially interesting and well thought out posts and will grant points according to that.

3. Yes smile

In a training thread you practice techniques and skills in detail, you develop them and raise your skill through practice. You mainly RP either against a training dummy or magic if you are a mage, or even craft. If you plan to kill a monster, it will first have to be within your power [look at the monster list] and second, if you want, you can ask me or someone else to RP as the NPC critter, that will give you more points [and whoever helps you]

You have to put points in to all skills within your profesison [fighter for you] in order to advance in profession ranks. However, you may put what ever amount of skill you wish in to any other skill in any other profession [general limit on novice level is 10 skill points]

It counts both towards level and skill points. Your level is the summ of all the skill points you have razz

Do we get benefits from battle (ei: skills, etc) even if we lose?