Training Basics

The first thing ye will need to do to begin training, is to choose a skill, or skills, to train in. You can train in as many of the skills you want at once. The skills, in order, are this: Sweep, Subdue, Stun Maneuvers, Lock Mastery, Cheapshot, and Rogue Gambits. After you have chosen a skill (or skills), to train in it, go see the training administrator (Deluca in Landing) and ask him about "training in (skill)." He will give you a task to do.

Before I explain to you how training works, I want to explain basically what you must do to become better at the guild skills. The goal in your guild training is to gain ranks, and ultimately to gain enough ranks to master that skill (63 ranks and you master. Once you master, you can't train anymore in that skill). The more ranks you gain in a skill, the better you become at that skill, and with some skills you will learn new stuff. When you first start towards gaining a rank, the training administrator will give you a certain amount of training points you must get in order to gain that rank. To get these points, you must complete tasks that he gives you to do.

Once you complete enough tasks to get the points you needed, you must find a guildmaster or master of that skill, and they will promote you to the next rank. This promoting can be done either by players, or by NPC guildmasters such as Dante in Landing. Before running off to Dante to get your promotion, always check to see if there are any other guildmasters or masters of that skill around to promote you. It's courteous of you to do so because they learn a little from doing it.

* Note, in order for you to become a guildmaster, you must have at least 125 ranks, and must be a master of at least one skill.

You may have noticed that I did not give a specific amount of points that you need in order to gain a rank. This is because the amount varies depending on your level and how many ranks you have. Before I explain how the amount of these points is decided, I must first explain something that many refer to as "the wall". "The wall" is what people call the maximum ranks you can have in the guild. Yes, there is a max amount of ranks you can have, depending on your experience. Once you reach this max amount of ranks, you must gain experience in order to get more ranks. Thus you "hit the wall". The first rank of each skill doesn't count toward max ranks (It goes by the amount of ranks it says when you type "gld rank (yourself)".). Once you reach this maximum amount of ranks, you will only be able to gain a rank after earning some more experience. In order to master a skill, you must be at least level 20 (480k exp); in order to master 2 skills, you must be at least level 33 (1250k exp); in order to master 3 skills, you must be at least level 43 (2025k exp); in order to master 4 skills you must be at least level 52 (2800k exp), in order to master 5 skills you must be level 61 (3575k exp), and to master all 6 skills you must be at least level 69 (4350k exp). To become a guildmaster, you must be at least level 33 (1262.5k exp).

Click here to see a chart of max ranks by experience.

The closer you are to hitting "the wall", the more points it takes to gain a rank. So, as an example, say there were two level 50 people, one with 5 ranks, the other with 100. The person with 100 ranks would need more points in order to get a rank because he is closer to "the wall" for that level. (The maximum amount of ranks at level 50 is 229, so the person with 100 ranks is only 129 ranks from hitting the wall, while the person with only 5 ranks is 224 ranks away from the wall. Thus the 100 ranker is closer to "the wall" than the rank 5 person is, therefore the 100 ranked person needs more training points in order to rank.) The amount of points needed can never exceed 150 (75 with Rogue Gambits). If ye join the guild before level 20, you will need 150 points to rank every time (75 with Gambits). It is not till level 20 that your ranks can go below 150 (And even then, they might not, depending on how close you are to the wall.). "Why shouldn't I just wait till I am higher level before I work on the guild skills because it takes less training points?" you might ask. Well, although it takes less points for you to rank than it would a lesser level person with the same amount of ranks, it is still very nice to have the skills as early as possible.

Lastly, there is a verb that you can use to check the ranks a person has (including yourself). Type "gld rank (person's name)". Also, you can just type "gld" to see when you need to pay dues, what tasks you have, how many points you have till your next rank, how many ranks you have in each skill, and how many ranks you can get before you hit the wall.