Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) General Training bug

Posted this in a separate thread, and haven't seen anybody else mention this, (and search turned up nothing) but it's a fairly serious bug in training, and deserves it's own post.

NOTE: I've only checked in 1.44

Training a skill (or reading a skill book) sets the max amount you can learn that skill to whatever level the trainer/book gives. EVEN IF YOUR MAXIMUM IS ALREADY HIGHER. So if you have the imp train you to level 10 pickpocketing, not only does the BF trainer still give you the option to train to lvl 6 pickpocketing, but if you choose that option, you can then only learn up to lvl 6. Your max gets REDUCED. And as near as I can tell, the same happens with books. The medical officer can give you a book that trains various skills (including individual healing) up to lvl 5. If you have already trained up to lvl 6 at the battlefield trainer, the book REDUCES your skill max to 5.... and since you've already trained to lvl 6 from the battlefield trainer, he no longer give you the option to train up to 6. Until you find a new trainer, you're stuck at 5.

So, before choosing to train a skill from somebody, make sure the training will actually IMPROVE your maximum, and not reduce it. Similarly, before reading a skill book, save, try the skillbook, see what skills it increases and check to see by how much, then load, and make sure using the skill book was an improvement. If it wasn't, then ditch the book somewhere, and never use it.

Hopefully this will be fixed in the next patch. Actually it would be nice if when buying skills any you already knew at or above the offered level were greyed out.

yep - that's a bit annoying. Hopefully it gets fixed in the next patch.
You'll have to take notes until then.

Raze´s suggestion could be very convenient. I have a hard time to choose what skills or which teacher to choose.

Well then apparently, there *is* too much money in the game, if you don't even know what skills you've already learned <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

If you are refering to the amount of money given in the game IMHO it is pretty ok. The skill button is very usefull and we know in which skills we have invented. Please do not forget that unlearning a skill costs (as you go further in the game) outrageous amounts. 50.000 gold pieces for instance. Reducing the money from the game you should reduce the cost of unlearning skills equally.

Cost of unlearning the skills would be better if based on the amount of skill points you had in it and not the level your character is.

Least then you could try out a lot of skills with one point and not have it cost a bomb when or if you don't like it!

too much money? I'm at the beginning of act 2 and I have 300k gold. I would still make money if i would open every skill path I could open.

It is not so much which skills were bought / learned that is hard to keep track of (except for books), but the levels of each individual skill.

IMHO, the amount of money in the game is fine right now. If you really try you can amass a lot of gold, but that gives you the flexibility to try out many options during and after the game.

I have been doing a lot of experimenting in my current game that I would not have been able to do without a lot of gold.

There is NEVER to much money.

Raze : Alwaye you, Always true...expressing exactly what I can not. Thnx Raze.