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.


 * 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)

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)