Know what would be nice?

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    A single button to turn off/turn on adventure/crafting experience so that we could wander into a low level instance for resource gathering and not drain our hard built pool.

    I balk at going into anything 3 skull or below because I would have to fiddle with my K panel for half an hour before and half an hour after to turn everything off and then back on again.

    (also fix targeting but that's a pet peeve of mine, but I know it's a core game mechanic and will probably be ignored...okay that was cynical, but that's what the game industry does to it customers...)
     
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    What is your K panel?
     
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    The K button brings up the skill trees window aka 'K panel" lol

    I suppose a allon/alloff button could be nice.. but I never have more than 2-3 skills turned on at a time, I wouldn't even use it.
     
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    What you're asking for has been asked for many times before... :(
    But thanks for bringing it up again. ;)
    Sooner or later they might pay attention to us in this regard..... o_O
     
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    I have a few more turned on, but whenever I go in, the temptation to check every skill is overwhelming so I end up going through all the skills on both adv and crafting sides, thus the half hour. I s'pose it's a human failing of mine:(
     
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    Just curious...what do you mean? Does adventuring in a lower skull area take away skill points? And if so, what is the reasoning?
     
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    No, it does not. Relax....
     
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    Icecream... icecream would be real nice.
     
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    Fighting low level mobs will net you a negative XP gain - but only if you have pooled XP to burn.
     
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    Yes it does, the more xp in a pool, the more that is transferred to the skill on use. Maintaining a large XP buffer speeds leveling as long as you are earning XP as fast as it is transfered. Moving to a lower skull area will result in more XP spent than earned slowing the leveling process until you rebuild the buffer. Leveling a skill with a 1 million XP buffer is the difference between taking days and months to reach lvl 80, the crafting it can mean tens of thousands more in raw mats and fuel costs.
     
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    And a pony. Pulling a wagon that can hold all my stuff. Yeah.
     
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    Yes...this is the most arcane part of SOTA. It needs to be streamlined, some automation to the turning on/off of skillgain...

    I had an idea many releases ago to allow for "skill groups"...you could put skills into user-defined categories (like "Melee", "This Group", "whatever") and have the ability to turn all skills in a group on and off with one click. Someone even did a mockup of the UI, it was pretty good. Might try and find that...
     
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    i guess being able to choose "profiles" from a pull-down menu could be the most efficient way to do it.
     
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