Schematics increase your maximum Crafting level and accelerate your training rate for Crafting. Ichor is used in high-level potions. Time Gems can be acquired as a rare drop from Tainted Archon of the Void in the Hall of Ages.
Yes; the others are Avatar (must be a High Elemental, Kell, Heresiarch, or Thaumaturge), Deathlock (must have a Phylactory (requires Crafting 20 and Necromancy (requires Vile to unlock) 8)), Eldritch Knight (must be a Spellblade), Mythic Wizard (must NOT be Vile, requires Lore 35 and Spellcraft 10), Titan (must be a Geomancer or Earthshaker, requires Hammerlore 10 and Geosculpting 10), and Vile Necromancer (requires Phylactory, Spirit Lore 15, and Shadowlore 24).
Salvuk: There are several spells which increase the train rate of certain skills. Some items/resources also do so. Listing them all would take way too many posts, so I recommend checking the wiki for more information.
Oh! Forgot to mention, if you have the Spirit Lore skill, get it to rank 4 and your level to 4 and you'll be able to learn Whisper, which is a 50-second dot spell that gives .001 SP/sec along with some research and arcana. Super useful.
The best way to get skill points once you graduate from your apprenticeship is to Pace. 0.0001 per second (doubles after 120 uses), but no limit and only costs stamina (0.4 per second). Candraedra, are you Vile? Becoming Vile locks the Lumenology skill. PoffZ, if you click the little cogwheel icon in the top-right corner of your resource list, you can choose which resources are displayed. VladimirG5, the wiki is working fine for me...
Philomela, once you have Lore 9 and Crafting 7, you'll unlock the Compile Tome continuing action. Each tome costs 10 codices, 100 research, and 10 mana.
That is one way, yes. You can also make them yourself, if you have three ranks in Enchanting and four in the associated elemental lore skill (5 max mana for Arcane Gem, 5 each Anatomy and Alchemy for Blood Gem). Technically, though, you need 5 ranks, because you need to spend 5 of that mana type to make one... (except blood gems, which are 1 Earth, 1 Water, and 20 HP).
Yeesh, getting enough void gems for Dispersal Dream takes a *long* time... (For those who, like me, have spent frustrating amounts of time trying to figure out how to get them, they're a rare drop from Tainted Archon of the Void in the Hall of Ages.) Also, it would be nice if the Courage enchantment actually displayed as an "of courage" suffix rather than the generic "Enchanted" prefix, and similarly if the various "quick boots" enchantments displayed as "of speed" (but it is fine if all versions of it use the same descriptor). And if stacking multiple of one enchantment (e.g. putting "clarity" on one item twice) didn't use "Enchanted" either. Basically, give every enchantment *type* a unique identifier, or at least save "Enchanted" for enhancements to what an item natively had (damage bonus, to-hit bonus, and/or armor bonus) and give the others unique identifiers. It would be easier to keep track of which of your items have what enchantments that way.
Yeesh, getting enough void gems for Dispersal Dream takes a *long* time... (For those who, like me, have spent frustrating amounts of time trying to figure out how to get them, they're a rare drop from Tainted Archon of the Void in the Hall of Ages.)
Stephen, are you not seeing the button for Ice Mastery at all, or is it appearing but deactivated? Also, you need a *lot* of Fazbit's Knowledge to get all the upgrades; I don't have exact numbers, but it took me days of dedicated grinding to get everything. Went a lot faster after I made a Cincture of Courage, though, so if you don't have a Courage item yet, I highly recommend getting one. Must be a waist-slot equip with at least 5 enchant levels available. Also, for everyone, make sure you have Soothing Breeze and Calming Murmurs memorized if you're idling Fazbit's Workshop?, it helps a lot.
There are a couple of upgrades that count as a potsource; to get them, you'll need a firesource and to be at least Tier 0. The furniture Potions Room also counts as a potsource, but ironically, you need to already have the skill to buy one, and since upgrades are permanent, this is useless.
When I am training multiple skills, sometimes the game randomly stops doing one for no clear reason. I'll have plenty of stamina and it doesn't replace training with some other action, just stops in the middle.
GageOne, you're getting partial Essences each time you loot one; it is just that only full Essences are displayed in the resource tracker. You are still getting the Essence each time, you just only see a result when you accumulate several drops because the left sidebar only displays whole numbers.
Max souls can be increase with a Reliquary, a Graveyard, and the Necromancy skill. Also, a hopefully small request: Please decrease the size of the game window, having to shrink my screen to 2/3 size to see it all is annoying.
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