Talk:Elite Tome

That's just sooo cool! I wonder what the price is going to be at the traders?! ^^--JP 14:40, 19 April 2007 (CDT)
 * I highly doubt you can get them from traders.--SBR 15:19, 19 April 2007 (CDT)
 * I was thinking from rare scroll traders would probably take them and sell them on. ;o) --JP 16:10, 19 April 2007 (CDT)
 * I wouldn't be surprised if traders don't buy them.BigAstro 16:17, 19 April 2007 (CDT)

Huh drops em ?
What will drop Elite Tome's in hard mode ?
 * Wait and see. BigAstro 14:37, 19 April 2007 (CDT)
 * I wonder if learning the elite will count towards skill hunter? Lord of all tyria 14:39, 19 April 2007 (CDT)
 * I clearly wasted my time for skill hunter :p--Blade [[Image:smallscout.png]] (talk|contribs) 14:41, 19 April 2007 (CDT)
 * It might not, and the cynic in me says it'll be easier to just go cap it anyway. Lord of all tyria 14:43, 19 April 2007 (CDT)
 * We really don't know yet, but just like everything else, I bet they're going to be ridiculous expensive for a few months.. then someone figures out how to farm them and they plummet to a reasonable price. Then it becomes, "Do I want to take my Paragon half-way through factions to get a skill or do I just wanna pay a few plat and buy the skill tome?" BigAstro 14:51, 19 April 2007 (CDT)
 * I think their most important use might be to let a new PVE char learn a good Elite or 2 early on. And yes, Elites learned that way will certainly count towards Skill Hunter. If they wouldn't, just using 2 of these would make it impossible to attain max skill hunter, counting Junundu Siege. --[[Image:Roland_icon.png]]Roland of Gilead (talk) 16:53, 19 April 2007 (CDT)
 * Perhaps they will be semi-common, but cost extra gold (say 3-5k) or multiple skills points per use. Kind of like a skill trainer in your pocket.
 * I think an important thing to realize is that by using one of these, you lose out on the 5,000 xp from an Elite capture. On very easily capped Elites like Word of Healing, Palm Strike, Burning Arrow, etc. using an Elite Tome is silliness.
 * It's not silliness if a new lvl 1 character gets an Elite before even doing the first mission on the beginner's isle. You will be hard pressed to cap an Elite of your choice in the first explorable area, no? --[[Image:Roland_icon.png]]Roland of Gilead (talk) 04:42, 20 April 2007 (CDT)


 * An Elite tome costs you: Some platinum.
 * A Capture costs you: Time, 1k, and a Skillpoint.
 * Unless you are very hard-pressed for Skillpoints (Factions or NF characters...Prophecies not so much), it is therefore usually in your favor to just capture a skill. The big exceptions will be things like the Avatar skills (runners to cap those ALL the time), Feast of Corruption, Shadow Prison, and also very popular Elites like Moebius Strike and Searing Flames...not necessarily a hard or long cap, but just wanted for new characters immediately for Pwnage. So, the Elite Tome does bring some new options to the table, but by and large (unless they are really common drops) I would always take SoC instead. Besides - buying SoC and actually capping gets you out into the world, so you can work on Quests, Explorer title, Survivor title (sometimes), Treasure Hunter...etc, all at the same time. Simply buying and using a Tome won't do that. [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 21:56, 19 April 2007 (CDT)
 * and paragons have no elites in factions :P--71.195.42.77 22:21, 20 April 2007 (CDT)

To stop indenting (:P), I am so using this on my ele for savanna heat, bsurge, and invoke lightning.--Nog64Talk 22:02, 19 April 2007 (CDT)

A question...
According the the GW web site it states "to learn any elite profession skill already unlocked on your account", my question is this, if you've got one character highly advanced on the Skill Hunter title, won't this effectively "copy" that title across to another character when they use this tome? --Wolfie (talk|contribs) 22:18, 19 April 2007 (CDT)
 * If you have 90 of these, and a cahracter with every profession unlocked, then yes.--Nog64Talk [[Image:Yaaaay.png|19px]] 22:22, 19 April 2007 (CDT)
 * Was more thinking of those that have managed to reach the Expert Skill Hunter rank or above. If that is the case, might inflate the price of these Tomes above what the "average" player could afford. --Wolfie [[Image:Wolfie_sig.jpg|19px]] (talk|contribs) 22:44, 19 April 2007 (CDT)
 * EDIT: - Just read the Games Update page on the GW web site, the tomes are "profession specific", so one tome will NOT "copy" all the available elites. This is a much better approach, and resolves my concerns. --Wolfie [[Image:Wolfie_sig.jpg|19px]] (talk|contribs) 22:56, 19 April 2007 (CDT)
 * Eh, what will happen is that to "copy" a Title like that you need craploads of these, over 150 (I think). Assuming a low cost of 3k, that is still a staggering total cost of three times more what it costs on SoC captures alone. Sure, rich folks out there can afford such extravagence. But really in the end, what it means is that (A) Demand goes through the roof. (B) Hard Mode gains huge popularity for farming these, if possible. (C) Prices necessarily stay high, like with Black Dye and Superior Vigor, because even though there's a healthy supply, they will be hard to get due to randomness...and because like rare mods, players can sell for whatever they want. (D) Eventually prices stabilize because enough will have been used by the very rich, and the novelty wears off. (E) Many players will still use SoC, either because they are first-time aquirers of rare skills like BSurge, or because they are poor. [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 22:49, 19 April 2007 (CDT)

Uses and title track
One dropped in Great Northern Wall for a guildie. He's confirmed that it adds to the title of the campaign of the skill you choose, with core adding 1 point for each title. He's also confirmed the one use. --Destillat 02:26, 20 April 2007 (CDT)


 * Did using it cost him a skill point? --Heurist 05:01, 20 April 2007 (CDT)

Stacking
Has anyone collected enough Tomes to know if they stack? And if so, how? For example, do two Ranger Elite Tomes stack? -- AnticDevices 09:31, 20 April 2007 (CDT)
 * The non-elite tomes stack, so I would assume the elites do too. --Theeth (talk)   11:22, 20 April 2007 (CDT)
 * Cool, thanks! -- AnticDevices 11:38, 20 April 2007 (CDT)

Capturing elites vs Elite tome
The value of tomes might only be that it doesnt cost a skill point, when you consider:

1. The toning down of 'normal mode' will make it easier to cap skills. Simply switch over to normal mode when you want an elite. 2. Its still only possible to get these tones as drops from bosses and chests, therefore it will be rare so acquiring a mass of these will be difficult even if you had enough money.

If you spent a lot of time and effort capping every elite in the game, how can we begrudge you using a few of these to give your other characters some of those elites?

So I think 'copying' a skill hunter title to a lvl 1 char will be extremely difficult and a complete waste of money and xp in my opinion. So fear of this happening is a bit premature. There are always ways to get around hard graft but lets stop worrying about what other are doing and just enjoy the great new features of hard mode. 196.25.255.214 11:19, 20 April 2007 (CDT) ZAM
 * Well, ANet doesn't like it when people instantaneously give their chars stuff, so my guess this is for people who have unlocked a skill on another char or with Balth faction and need it on another char (for an example I already gave, I need Savannah Heat for my ele, and she is not far enough in Nightfall to get it. So, a tome is a very good option).--Nog64Talk [[Image:Yaaaay.png|19px]] 16:47, 20 April 2007 (CDT)

Basically an easy way to obtain elites advanced in campaigns, very useful. Solus  19:33, 20 April 2007 (CDT)
 * It comes down to an easy (but expensive) method and a hard (but cheaper) method. I know I'd certainly rather pay 30-40k instead of getting my monk to droks, run to the granite citadel, find a group, and cap Shield of Judgement. ~Avatarian 86 01:01, 21 April 2007 (CDT)

What if I find like 7 Ritualist Non-elite Tomes and 1 Ritualist Elite Tome? Can I make full Ritualist build even if he is level 2? That would be so cool... - &mdash; Abedeus   03:39, 21 April 2007 (CDT)
 * You don't really need the non-elite tomes. Just buy the skills from the beginner town trainer after you have unlocked them. You only need the elite tome. --[[Image:Roland_icon.png]]Roland of Gilead (talk) 03:46, 21 April 2007 (CDT)
 * Well, I guess they non-elite tomes would also be needed if the skills in question are Nightfall skills. (Also low level chars would lack skillpoints to buy the skills anyway.) -Taala 05:36, 21 April 2007 (CDT)
 * You won't find any tomes when low lvl... You can't kill the monsters in hard mode, and then they won't drop anything! ~ DriXiLB 05:42, 21 April 2007 (CDT)
 * No, but you could buy em off other players, or as Solus says below, get as drops while using other chars in HM. --Wolfie [[Image:Wolfie_sig.jpg|19px]] (talk|contribs) 06:24, 21 April 2007 (CDT)

Get on other accounts... Solus  06:11, 21 April 2007 (CDT)