Changing professions...

[Jeffreyac]

Hi folks,

A little confused on professions... A couple times I've made a mistake and assigned a profession to someone I didn't want to have it - so I thought there'd be no issue, and I could just overwrite a new profession in place of the old, or replace it, or otherwise change. but this doesn't seem to be the case.

Can you change professions? Or once you assign one, are you stuck? (I figure there has to be a way to change - and this would especially help as several times I've seen new mercs but want a different profession on them...)

[Tanaka Khan]

You can change easily, just click on the new profession you want your guy to have.

[Jeffreyac]

...that's what I had thought, but it's not working.

For example, I've just started, have a party of 5, three with professions (thief, tinkerer, blacksmith) and two unassigned.

My tinkerer just built a cooking pot, unlocking the cook profession, so as I test, I save the game, then open up the cooking craft menu by right clicking the cooking pot.

It asks me to select a cook - but the only options that are not redded out are the two characters with no professions, I can't select someone with an existing profession.

So, this tells me I must be going about this the wrong way. Is there another page I can assign professions from that I need to be on? In the past, I've always done it from the crafting page, but clearly there's something else I'm missing...


edit: Ah-HA! Following that logic, I looked around on the character screen and found your can assign professions there, including changing your current profession - that's what I'm looking for!

[Usikava]

Originally posted by Jeffreyac:

...that's what I had thought, but it's not working.

For example, I've just started, have a party of 5, three with professions (thief, tinkerer, blacksmith) and two unassigned.

My tinkerer just built a cooking pot, unlocking the cook profession, so as I test, I save the game, then open up the cooking craft menu by right clicking the cooking pot.

It asks me to select a cook - but the only options that are not redded out are the two characters with no professions, I can't select someone with an existing profession.

So, this tells me I must be going about this the wrong way. Is there another page I can assign professions from that I need to be on? In the past, I've always done it from the crafting page, but clearly there's something else I'm missing...


edit: Ah-HA! Following that logic, I looked around on the character screen and found your can assign professions there, including changing your current profession - that's what I'm looking for!

If you right click unassigned one it will open up selection menu right away.

[Tanaka Khan]

Get out of those menus and just open the character that you want to be the cook. Click the profession button and select the cooking profession.

[Mang Hayme]

Can you change the profession of converted mercenary?

[mrak20105]

Originally posted by Mang Hayme:

Can you change the profession of converted mercenary?

You can also change professions for prisoners. But keep in mind - prisoners can escape, and then progress is lost. When changing a profession, if the experience scale has not reached the limit, then the ENTIRE experience scale is lost. Therefore, it is better to change the profession when the fighter has reached the maximum level.

[zaphod]

Originally posted by mrak20105:

Originally posted by Mang Hayme:

Can you change the profession of converted mercenary?

You can also change professions for prisoners. But keep in mind - prisoners can escape, and then progress is lost. When changing a profession, if the experience scale has not reached the limit, then the ENTIRE experience scale is lost. Therefore, it is better to change the profession when the fighter has reached the maximum level.

if you guard them to the maximum level, they will NEVER escape. therefore, prisoners are absolutely ideal for practicing professions