How useful is Survival or Lore?

[Alvin the Elf]

Hello. I've been focusing on Mechanics on my main, with a bit of stealth. I was wondering what other skills I can focus on. Would Survival be a better choice or Lore?

Does Lore come up often in conversation or is it just for scrolls? Then I might focus on Survival after all.

[Haas]

I wouldn't recommend spreading your skills out too much. At max, focus on two skills per character. You're going to be hurting for skill points to get the higher skill levels if you don't.

Both Survival and Lore come up in dialogue, more or less even, can remember a few more lore checks than survival. Lore also allows your character to cast the best druid/priest/wizard spells if it's high enough (consumable, of course). Survival increases consumable duration, but from my experience the duration on them is generally long enough anyway.

[Alvin the Elf]

What is the Lore amount required for highest level scrolls? I honestly don't know how useful it will be for me.

[Haas]

If you go to inventory -> crafting, you can check out a bunch of them, they have the level requirements stated there. Scroll of Confusion requires 8 lore, Scroll of Maelstrom requires 10 lore, etc.

[Alvin the Elf]

Ah, thanks. Not sure how I missed that.

I'm a bit undecided now as to what skills to take. I found a number of posts where people are saying Survival and Athletics are really important. I can understand the Athletics, but I'm not sure why Survival too. Is it just because the duration bonus? Or am I missing something obvious?

[Terra]

Originally posted by Alvin the Elf:

What is the Lore amount required for highest level scrolls? I honestly don't know how useful it will be for me.

I think the highest level of spells available are level 6.

[Alvin the Elf]

Curse me and my inability to make choices. Anyone else with insight in skills? :/

[markiplierfan1995]

I haven't seen Survival used at all in conversation or any of the cutscene-esque challenge things... Lore I have seen in conversation infrequently. I spend all my points in Mechanics for scouting searches and lockpicking, though. It's worth it to get 2-3 in Athletics as well because it reduces combat fatigue drastically and saves you camping supplies.

[Raine]

Does survival skill help find more and rarer plant types?? Sort of how higher mechanics help detect secrets?

[The Tempted Man]

Originally posted by Raine - Joelio:

Does survival skill help find more and rarer plant types?? Sort of how higher mechanics help detect secrets?

No, survival afftects rest bonuses though

[Sloul Des Tucs]

I would say that survival helps a lot during dialogue and adventure, and most of the time, in dialogue, Lore is useless.
Yes, it's there, but for example:
- No I don't know about Sangoku
[Lore 8] - Oh yes, you refer to the hero of Dragon Ball Z, written by Toryiama.

That's it.
I am speaking prior to chapter 3, and have done quite a bunch of things in WM.

Instead Survival will give you more interesting dialogue options (although it come up less than Lore). And might help you in some adventures (but also depending on your stats).

[Wasted_46]

you wanna have one lore guy in your party just like one mechanics guy and the rest is on survival & athletics. Just like pre3.0 was the same but with stealth.

btw this is a one year old topic u just necroed.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Survival since the 3.00 release is highly useful, if you want to choose the resting bonuses, such as Accuracy +10 against creature classes.

[chuftka]

Under Survival, what the heck is "Received Healing Multiplier" ? Can't find an explanation of it anywhere. Seems when I camp I get all my Health and Endurance back, what is the "multiplier" for?

[Corrupted Sanity (Vex)]

Originally posted by chuftka:

Under Survival, what the heck is "Received Healing Multiplier" ? Can't find an explanation of it anywhere. Seems when I camp I get all my Health and Endurance back, what is the "multiplier" for?

There's a couple general abilities that restore health outside of rest that you can get on level up, I imagine that's what it talks about. Field triage (used by that character on any character) and another one that only heals the character that has the skill.

[Wasted_46]

Originally posted by chuftka:

Under Survival, what the heck is "Received Healing Multiplier" ? Can't find an explanation of it anywhere. Seems when I camp I get all my Health and Endurance back, what is the "multiplier" for?

anything that heals your party members. You can set up an extremely durable party with a Kind Wayfayer, a priest, a tanky fighter and some healing multipliers.