How to gain rare skills?

[A Stranger Is Here]

Like I said, how do you find red/orange skills? And by the way, what is Paragon/Heaven Chosen? Can you gain that? Because all the chracters with Paragon/Heaven Chosen have almost only red skills?

[worstcase11]

You have a chance at receiving at least one orange skillbook early into the game by completing the hidden quest in the starting area - talk with the barkeeper at the tavern after you learn to cultivate qi on the worldmap- whether you get it depends on how you handle the quest. The book will be for your 'best' skill.

Other you can try your luck at the annual auction in the main city of a region to bid for a skillbook of orange or red level. They are very expensive though and you will likely not have the necessary skill developed enough to use them early on.

Last if you join a sect you will be able to trade red skillbooks at their manual tower - hopwever you need to be of high enough rank in the sect and have completed a lot of missions for them to be allowed to purchase one.

Paragon/Heaven Chosen means that the characters have received a Taoist seed from somewhere - you actually start out with one yourself (the 'Nameless') and can gift nameless seeds to other cultivators once it reaches 100% growth. Chose wisely whom you give it to.

The taoist seed/soul will allow cultivators to learn a special skill whenever they break through to a new rank. It also gives you some passive buffs as long as it is undamaged.

Your taoist soul can be damaged by being defeated in battle (not sparring) by another cultivator and being humilated afterwards. So if that happens too often your taoist soul may break (I don't know what happens then but it might be a game over).

[A Stranger Is Here]

Thanks. That's more or less what I expected, it's up to chance or to the spirit stones you have.

[Xplorer30]

I got most of my red(mystic) skill books from world bosses, the ones that spawn and stay there till you kill them(can see them on map). They will give your best skill attack(martial or special) and mind skill(attack or def or vit).

They are also good money at auction once you don't need them anymore. Also, world bosses respawn sometime after death.

[Gay Blade]

In Chaos, red skill book spawns in sect library general bookshelf if your clan has captured ruins and good reputation.

[A Stranger Is Here]

By the way, I have reached a new region and now I can't raise my characters mood anymore. Each time I try to do it, there's a message saying "You're not interested in N item". Is that normal?

And it seems one of the best way to obtain red skills is to be part of a sect. I have found purple items in Ruins, and all of them were Spiritual skills, but that's all.

[nekoman]

Originally posted by A Stranger Is Here:

By the way, I have reached a new region and now I can't raise my characters mood anymore. Each time I try to do it, there's a message saying "You're not interested in N item". Is that normal?

Now you can't use mood improving items from previous region.

[athan_dashiva]

The items your character is interested in level up as he does so when you breakthrough and go to the next area you dump the ones you have and find new ones in that area. Like the ones in the first area have green borders but now you need the blue border ones in the second area.

They don't let you go cheap as everything costs more as you move to new areas.

[Xplorer30]

Forgot to mention, you now have sect wars from region 2 on. That is another source of rare skill books, if your sect win, that is.

If you are on the 2nd realm of that region, you can always try stealing from people after an auction. Be sure you can beat them in a fight though.

[Pavlus]

Another great way is to steal from Heaven Chosen. Those cheaters often have 5-6 orange skill books on hend (all the same type) Be sure not to ofend them, it's pain in the a*s to gain their affection. Because they always refuse your gifts no mather what you try to give them.

[Xplorer30]

I have noticed after a while too. Natural HC npc don't want gifts, even if it's to help them get higher realm so they don't die as much. I will keep trying other ways to get their affinity up to see if they will accept more gifts.

[jazz1541]

Originally posted by Xplorer30:

I have noticed after a while too. Natural HC npc don't want gifts, even if it's to help them get higher realm so they don't die as much. I will keep trying other ways to get their affinity up to see if they will accept more gifts.

Pretty sure heaven chosen don't accept any gifts (except for what they asked as a quest) until you have good relationship with them.

[worstcase11]

Found another way to get some good skills though it was pretty annoying.

I took a new mission from the Sect in the 2nd main area which was to acompany another disciple looting a ruin.

So the job had two options being the one who searches for treasure and being the stationary target for attacks or being the one on lookout and fighting off attacks.

I chose to be the lookout.

As soon as the mission started enemy cultivators started swarming in without end.

The guy who was supposed to do the searching bailed out after 5 seconds and ran away leaving my cultivator to fend off the undending enemies with an unfinished searchbar.

Luckily between waves of enemies there were 2-3 seconds where my cultivator could continue the search bit by bit. The whole battle took forever and if the bloodclaw hadn't stopped working at 20% health it might have gotten pretty nasty for my cultivator. (The enemies themselves barely did any damage at all, just interrupted the searching.)

Btw. I can't recommend picking the bloodclaw fate - it sucks health even when no enemies are present and my costs for vitality pills have skyrocketed thanks to it.
The flying sword skillset is much better as far as I can tell.

[A Stranger Is Here]

I was watching a Korean player streaming the game on Twitch, and the sect his character was in had orange and red books on the the first floor of the manual library.

But I also noticed the sect had 10 000 prestige points, so either he chose a powerful sect, either he grinded enough missions to accumulate that much points. Or both. But I think he grinded though because his character had all his spiritual roots at 50.

[Xplorer30]

I think all sects have red books at top floor, which need the highest position you can be promoted to buy. They are mostly resist books, so not sure how important they are.

[Doesn't Learn From Mistakes]

They are mostly resist books, so not sure how important they are.

Extremely important. Undervalue defense at your own peril, as well as the affixes mres, sres, and crit manuals can have.