Tips for Skill Maxing?

[VeiledInsanity]

Any tips for this? On my second playthrough and the closest I have to max is mercantile due to the night market. Would love to max some for my next playthrough.

[darkshintos]

Once you Max one of the Skills, you unlock a trait for character creation that gives you +30% EXP for that row.
TLDR: Join Langya Sword Pavillion, max Mining and Craft Weapon Easily. Join Taoist Sect, you will max out Alchemy by following Sect Tasks, Their Store also has all the Herbs you need.
Max out 1 of each row to make it easier to max the rest in a future run

Gathering -

Mining - Go to Langya Sword Pavillion, Their backyard has 10 Mines, with 3 being Legendary. This will give you the most EXP. Langya Sword Pavillion Sect also sells 500 Mining EXP books in their Sect Shop.
Chopping - Do the Nameless Village Blacksmith Quest to get the +100% Chopping EXP Accessory. Soul Destoryer Forest near Chuxiang has Epic and Legendary Trees to chop. Bring Food with you
Harvest - There's a Legendary Herb Patch in Soul Destroyer Forest and 3 Epic Patches
Bug-Catching - In Chuxiang Hotel, Do Jiang Ziyan's Quest and chose the fight together option. This will give a +100% Bug-Catching EXP, and higher chance for higher rarity bugs which gives more exp
Fishing - You can fish in Upper Left Lin'an City, Soul Destroyer Forest, or Hidden area Waterfall in Lower left of Lin'an Region

Crafting -

Craft Weapon - Join Langya Sword Pavillion. They give you a bunch of Weapon Recipes (Sect Quests and Recruit Ou w/ Level 4 Mining). They sell a 500 Craft Weapon EXP book in the sect shop.
Craft Armor - There is only 1 recipe I know of and its only Blue rarity. Its not worth maxing this out.
Cooking - You can get cooking recipes all over the place. Biggest sources of EXP is from Diliang Butcher who teaches 1600 Cooking EXP. Otherwise join Shifa Temple and Do the Cooking Quest before you start the 2nd Shifa Quest and lose the Chef. Cooking Higher Level foods give more EXP.
Alchemy - Join Taoist Sect. They will make you max it as part of their Alchemy Tasks and the Herb shop will have all the Herbs you need to make the pills. Just buy them all everyday.
Craft Tool - Get recipe from recruiting Nameless Village Blacksmith, find higher tier recipes around towns in chests. Craft them at Benches in City Shops that sells tools or Nameless Village's abandoned shed after you attack the debris and clean up he place.

Identify -

Appraise Artwork - Buy from Pawn Shops, learn from Pawn Shops/Stores that sell Vases/Appliances. Join Confucius Temple, and Learn from the Calligraphy Guy
Appraise Book- Buy from Pawn Shops, learn from Pawn Shops/Bookshops. Join Confucius Temple, and Learn from the Poem Guy
Appraise Book- Buy from Pawn Shops, learn from Pawn Shops/Antique Shops. Join Confucius Temple, and Learn from the Fan Guy
Appraise Accessory- No Buy-able Accessories, learn from Pawn Shops/Accessory/Clothes Shops. Join Confucius Temple, and Learn from the Mute Girl.
Appraise Medicine - Learn from Taoist Sect Zhang Lata. Buy Nameless Medicine from Lin'an Market Street Performer.

Life -

Persuade - Learn from Waiters in Wine Shops. Kill them and they will re-spawn after a while. Otherwise do Both Scholar Exams, and do the Confucius Exam, gain Trait for +15% EXP. Join Confucius Temple, Read Book, get around 3000 EXP
Mercantile - Buy a bunch, Learn from Merchants. Join Confucius Temple, Read Book, get around 3000 EXP
Explore - Walk around and pick stuff up. Join Confucius Temple, Read Book, get around 3000 EXP
Pathfinding - Walk around on the World Map, Learn from Tiger Escort Leader. Join Confucius Temple, Read Book, get around 3000 EXP
Beast Taming- Learn from Nameless Village Hunter or Lin'an Market Monkey Trainer. Feed your Pet. Join Confucius Temple, Read Book, get around 3000 EXP

Market/Street

Steal - Join Nest of Swallows to learn. Sect Shop sells 500 EXP Book. Just Steal a lot.
Immobilize - Join Crime Investigation Bureau. Sect Shop sells EXP Book. Just Use it a lot, no shortcuts
Poison - Learn Poison Action from a Manual, Raise Toxicology. Poison people outside of battle. (Not sure if you can max)
Machinery - Learn from Tomb Raider Sect, Confucius Temple Wheelchair guy, Hooded guy in Jiuijiang Water camp, Open Chests with the Machinery Option. Should be just enough Learn EXP and Chests to Max out without the trait.
Ambush - Learn from Woman Owner of Diliang Casino/Zhangyue Casino. Use use it a lot, no other sources of EXP

[VeiledInsanity]

Thank you!

[bossmaker]

Play the game, enjoy the story unlock the achievement or used the mod that helps multiply the exp of skills, the skills carry over while using mods but not achievement. Your choice.

[provokastoras]

hm for beast taming give good food ti the pet. highest quality food gives more exp. if you are leveling bug catching and you have the rooster you can get a lot of exp easily by feeding it purple bugs.

[Edgedemon]

there is an item in Nameless village for fishing +100%exp at night talk to the strange goose, he will ask for 5 bass and give you the goose feather

[derpenstein]

With the latest version, the bonus from having 25 intelligence is really strong for skill growth.

[Edgedemon]

there is also a rumor un chuxiang hotel that leads you to the wagon to get a +100%exp beast taming artifact

[CaoLex]

Taming new beasts and c. o. c. k. -fighting gives decent amount of experience for beast taming too.

[HamsterWheel]

Talk to the big goose in the nameless village after you get beast taming, it will give you a quest for 5 fish which then turns into a 100% fishing bonus exp accessory

[Sotanaht]

For all resource skills, just use your Homestead. Level it up to tier 5. Because of the way the cross save system works you can save next to the first tree in the area, chop it, then immediately load the save, chop it again and repeat until you have enough wood for the upgrades. Same for stone for the other buildings. Similarly if you buy an upgrade and then load your game, you keep the coin you spent.

Once you have the back mountain maxed out, it will have all of the highest-tier resource nodes in the game (in fact, it has every tier of resource node), and no enemies to slow you down. You can also immediately teleport there from almost any location in the game. So simply go to the inn in the nameless village, recruit the inkeeper to your party so you can rest for free, and just keep harvesting/sleeping (it takes about 3 days sleeping to refresh the highest tier nodes). Also recruit the blacksmith from the villiage so you can buy tools directly from him in your party.

It really really helps if you have the Wholesome trait on character creation for 300 max stamina, there

[DukeK]

Anyone know how long it takes for waiters to respawn? I've killed them but they don't ever seem to respawn. Also I see a lot of references to mute girl (Yan Qin I think) in Confucius temple who gives skill training, but I'm not seeing that option anywhere.

[HoHoHO]

Originally posted by DukeKL:

Anyone know how long it takes for waiters to respawn? I've killed them but they don't ever seem to respawn. Also I see a lot of references to mute girl (Yan Qin I think) in Confucius temple who gives skill training, but I'm not seeing that option anywhere.

that could be an update change.

there's been a lot of changes since the v1 update. For example, the Confucious wheelchair guy used to give 1800 machinery, but now he gives 1800 immobilize

[DukeK]

Hmmm, looks like you would need provincial top scholar, 25 intelligence, and survival expert then before training persuasion then since I didn't have the bonus 15% from provincial top scholar and I ended up missing 660 exp required to master persuasion. As for appraise accessory, pretty sure you can't max that anymore since mute girl doesn't give exp for it and I don't recall seeing any accessories to appraise other than the one from yeping.

[Elfie]

Originally posted by darkshintos:

Steal - Join Nest of Swallows to learn. Sect Shop sells 500 EXP Book. Just Steal a lot.
Immobilize - Join Crime Investigation Bureau. Sect Shop sells EXP Book. Just Use it a lot, no shortcuts
Machinery - Learn from Tomb Raider Sect, Confucius Temple Wheelchair guy, Hooded guy in Jiuijiang Water camp, Open Chests with the Machinery Option. Should be just enough

Steal you can learn very early in Chuxiang city from Li San, a henchman of the local prince. He likes wine & food you will have that stuff from beginner quests so can learn steal on the first days already from him.

Steal is OP in this game, on similar level like in games like Skyrim. Sadly you are no Kazuma cannot do the "trick" (at least I haven't found a reference yet). but it is basically THAT skill :)

Machinery for starters you can learn from Night Watchmen (NOT Bailiff) , they appear in all cities during night but can be tricky to find (they walk all around cities). They like various books & can teach you Machinery 100 once Intimate.

[Kaiser]

For Orange Tools Recipe, talk to the peddler in nameless village to trigger a conversation to get better goods. After a few days, he will have Orange Tools for sale, buy out each type (I think is 5pcs in total at 2.5k each) and you will learn the recipe of the respective tool. Craft that to easily reach Lv5 from Lv4