Object identication skill

[mike30542]

I thought object identification happened automatically if someone had that skill. My explorer has that skill at level 8 & is supposed to be able to identify items up to level 10 but so far he has never identified an item. Am I supposed to do something in order to use the skill or is my game bugged?

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[Gosen]

I don't understand what's the point of this skill if you can indetify an item at vendor anyway. Is there any crafting in this game btw? There are items with high level and worth, but with no magic atributes they're useless, yet as for base for craft looking great.

[mike30542]

I agree. It seems I've wasted skill points getting my char to lvl 8 object identification & I still have to use the merchant. Would have been better putting those points in merchanding skill.

Originally posted by Gosen:

I don't understand what's the point of this skill if you can indetify an item at vendor anyway. Is there any crafting in this game btw? There are items with high level and worth, but with no magic atributes they're useless, yet as for base for craft looking great.

[Gosen]

I've wasted over 10 points to this skill and there is no use for it anyway :(

[sickysickybrah]

The skill does work-I never paid to have anything identified and I leveled it every level until I maxed it. I'm pretty sure level 8 ID skill works for level 8 items and below.

[Gosen]

Originally posted by sickysickybrah:

The skill does work-I never paid to have anything identified and I leveled it every level until I maxed it. I'm pretty sure level 8 ID skill works for level 8 items and below.

It works, but wasting points for it is unnecessary, while you can focus on others like knowledge of herb and terrain. While it comes to vendor identification it's rather cheap so why bother.

[sickysickybrah]

If you have a bard it's worth leveling since it is only 1 point per level. Otherwise probly not worth it.

[josephdw106]

identification works like this at level 8 identification anything below level 10 item wise you know what it is always and anything above that has a good chance of being unknown... as for why have it as far as ive seen unknown items seem to cost as much as they are worth to identify so being able to identify has the advantage of selling items without the need to identify and break even on it....it somewhat is useless as many loot sources just dont drop armor/weapons!