Signet of Capture

Acquisition
Skill Quests: Skill Trainers:
 * Prophecies
 * Malaquire's Test (Lion's Arch)
 * Factions
 * Minister's Test (Kaineng Center)
 * Nightfall
 * Capturing the Signet of Capture (Marga Coast)
 * Any trainer after Beetletun in Prophecies except Camp Rankor.
 * Any trainer on the mainland in Factions except Vasburg Armory.
 * Any trainer on the mainland in Nightfall.
 * Any trainer in Eye of the North.
 * Trainers in guild halls.

Lore
The concept of the Signet of Capture was first created by the Kingdom of Orr, as found through the quest: Capturing the Orrian Tome and the quest Orrian Excavation. Supposedly, the Signet is powered by strong energies found only in bosses. This Signet is then able to permanently transform into a skill of your choice used by the boss affected.

Methods of Skill Capture
While the Signet of Capture has been the only way to acquire an enemy skill, the current procedure differs from the original method required to capture a skill from an enemy. Originally, when Guild Wars Prophecies was released, the Signet of Capture was required to complete activation as the desired skill was being activated. Once the enemy had been slain, the skill could no longer be captured. This proved to be a difficult method of capturing elite skills which had very short activation times (stances in particular were hard to obtain) and some time after Prophecies was released, on June 8, 2005, the method of skill capturing was changed to the current method by a patch.

Related articles

 * For more information on skill capture, see the skill capture article.