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=Advanced Skills=
 
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==Picky Eater==
 
==Picky Eater==
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Picky Eater is rather frequently labeled as "useless" in public chats, but I disagree with that completely. Picky Eater allows to reject selected resources from the drop tables in quests. In other words: you could reject silver ore and that means you'll not get any silver ore in quests anymore. But it is not that simple. The resources are not only rejected, the loot slot of the resource in the quest is eventually rerolled. This means: normally you'd get 10 silver ore in a quest. This is rejected now. For e.g. 3 of the 10 theoretically dropping silver ores, a reroll happens. The loot slot is randomly filled with other items that can possibly drop at this quest time and location.  
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Picky Eater is typically considered to be a useless skill, but I disagree with this. Using Picky Eater lets you select resources to reject. Rejecting a resource means you will not get this resource in quests anymore and any potential drop could be rerolled instead. This means that instead of a rejected resource, you obtain a different resource. By selecting common resources on Picky Eater you get a lot of rerolls that can get you more valuable resources, or even parts and recipes.
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Rejecting the very common silver ore means in fact: for some of the rejected slots, you have a tiny chance to get a recipe or part. Or even more common: you can get more rubies or magic stones.
 
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Skilling Picky Eater higher allows to reject more different types of resources, but it also increases the chance for a reroll.  
 
  
 
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In summary: skilling Picky Eater not only removes a lot of trash resources from your inventory, it also increases the amount of "better loot" (valuable resources or even parts and recipes). My experience with it is, that you get significantly more valuable resources, which you can easily sell to buy back tiny amounts of the suddenly missing rejected resources. But it was always profitable to reject first and then buy back very cheap if needed. The output of Picky Eater quests is worth it!
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Leveling up Picky Eater allows you to reject more different types of resources and also increases the chance to reroll. Using Picky Eater to obtain more expensive loot pays itself back quickly!
  
 
==It's a trap (For Collector/Ranger players)==
 
==It's a trap (For Collector/Ranger players)==

Revision as of 18:04, 12 May 2021

This is a page with several random tricks and tips about playing the collector class.

Advanced Skills

Picky Eater

Picky Eater is typically considered to be a useless skill, but I disagree with this. Using Picky Eater lets you select resources to reject. Rejecting a resource means you will not get this resource in quests anymore and any potential drop could be rerolled instead. This means that instead of a rejected resource, you obtain a different resource. By selecting common resources on Picky Eater you get a lot of rerolls that can get you more valuable resources, or even parts and recipes.

Level Number of rejectable resources Player level unlock
1 2 50
2 2 55
3 3 60
4 3 65
5 4 70
6 4 75

Leveling up Picky Eater allows you to reject more different types of resources and also increases the chance to reroll. Using Picky Eater to obtain more expensive loot pays itself back quickly!

It's a trap (For Collector/Ranger players)

Trapping players with regular traps is not worth the gold investment to buy the traps. But skilling "It's a Trap" higher -- at least to L3 -- gives access to buy other items. And one of them is very interesting:

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Crafted: Observer ward x1

Equipping an Observer Ward in you Off Hand slot, works basically like regular traps. Going to quest with it can set up the Observer Ward. But instead of players from enemy castles triggering it, the Observer Ward will be triggered by a questing player of the same castle. If the Ward is triggered, the player who set it up gets a buff for 30min which increases the chance for encounters after quests. AKA: Go questing with the buff again, finish all encounters and enjoy all the bonus XP you get from it. Investing the gold to buy the Observer Ward in the first place pays off once you gain decently more XP in the following quests. Also: you don_'t need to equip an Observer Ward in every quest. Equip it once, wait for it to trigger, then go questing like you'd normally do. The buff will stay and there is no need to refrest the buff by setting up another ward directly after the first one.