Talk:Hero skill trainer locations

Are these skills here listed from Nightfall skill set only? For example: I noticed that Godaj at Lair of the Forgotten offers more monk's skills - just the rest of them are from older chapters. Rafal 12:34, 14 November 2006 (CST)

What about learning skills you already have?
Most of the skills offered I already have. What happens if I accidentally click a skill I already have? Will I loose a hero skill point anyway? Wouldn't it be better for the Hero Skill trader to hide the skills people already have?


 * Hero Skill Trainers DONT offer skills your CURRENT character have. Yes, you can have these skills *unlocked* BUT NOT on your current character. Rafal 05:10, 22 November 2006 (CST)


 * Hopefully they will FIX hero skill trainers so that skills you have unlocked (which are obviously already available to your heroes!) aren't listed. It seems pretty straightforward to me that this is either an oversight or a bug, since it just doesn't fit with the way Anet usually handles skill unlocking. As for whether selecting a skill you already have unlocked will waste the hero skill point, I don't know... perhaps someone with a disposable alt can test this? HarshLanguage 10:29, 30 November 2006 (CST)
 * You do get a free skill, its not a bug to give your character that doesn't have the skill a skill. Hero skill trainers are confusingly named, because they are the equivalent of a Skills Quest. I agree that it should show an icon for which skills you have unlocked however. --Sami 01:22, 1 December 2006 (CST)
 * True, the whole Hero Skill interface is confusing. The trainers say nothing about your character getting the skill as well (or at least not up front, can't recall if they mention it after you "purchase" or in the dialog when you have no hero skill points to spend). And as you say, unlocked skills should certainly be marked very clearly. HarshLanguage 02:31, 1 December 2006 (CST)
 * I just tested one part of this. If you select a skill from the hero skill trainer's list that your character does not have but you have already unlocked on your account, you gain the skill and there is no warning that it's wasted on your heroes. But the trainer does confirm that you can use it. I still have to test what happens when the character has the skill and it's also already unlocked. - 24.163.70.51 07:59, 4 December 2006 (CST)

Just so everyone realizes this, latter Hero Skill Trainers do not offer the same skills the older ones do, if you want a certain skill from one you must go back to the city it is offered in.

Alternate acquisition in Prophecies
I am not sure where to put this information (which I needed), so I will put it here for now. If you have Prophecies you can get these Hero skill trainer skills for free by completing the relevant quest in Tyria: Blessed Signet Animate Bone Fiend Barbed Signet Meteor Death Nova Counter Blow Savage Slash Barbed Trap Precision Shot Balthazar's Aura Healing Seed Animate Bone Fiend Air Attunement Fire Attunement Water Attunement Axe Rake Savage Shot Rebirth Arcane Conundrum Hex Breaker Balanced Stance Shield Bash Bull's Strike Choking Gas Concussion Shot Spirit Shackles Defensive Stance Winnowing Determined Shot Dark Bond Mind Wrack Deep Freeze Obsidian Flame Antidote Signet Smite Hex Zealot's Fire Demonic Flesh Empathy can also be acquired by changing your secondary profession to Mesmer --Heurist 01:53, 2 December 2006 (CST)
 * Nice list. Thanks. Plus, at least Savage Shot can be unlocked in Factions as well (by changing secondary prof to Ranger at Senji).