How do you get blank skill books?

[JonWoo]

The only thing I've been able to find says you combine two blank skill scrolls but I can't find how to make those either.

[skabbo]

Bump. Please, I can't find the answer to this anywhere (or oddly, anybody even asking the question, aside from this thread, despite how integral to the game it is). Any help would be massively appreciated.

[Nomad]

Merchant sell them later in the game, they are chance drops form bookshelves, etc. Youll find them, just look.

[corecomplex]

Traders sometimes sell specific blank skill books. atleast i have found warfare and necro black skill books there!

[Angarvin]

Originally posted by Jonwoo89:

The only thing I've been able to find says you combine two blank skill scrolls but I can't find how to make those either.

that's from DOS1. there are no blank scrolls in this one.
the blank books - you buy or loot, there is no crafting them.

Originally posted by skabbo:

Bump. Please, I can't find the answer to this anywhere (or oddly, anybody even asking the question, aside from this thread, despite how integral to the game it is). Any help would be massively appreciated.

nobody is asking the question because
1. you can buy all the regular skill books from traders
2. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1137514488

[Im on EQOA Sandstorm Toons Below]

I've gotten 2 that i remember from looting containers, they seemed to be random (reloads didn't have one, but I saved before hand just inc ase that happened). Vendors going into act 2, they seemed to have some. at least one of them did, I don't recall which now. But he was on the boat and had one for every skill tree. I stole the frakkers off him obviously. it wa seasys ince ont he boat I could respec everybody to be master thief and share the thievery boosting gear to clean the sombech out. And then spec them back to normal afterward.

after reading the post above mine, i realize i am an idgit and assumed op meant the blank books. Which are what I was tlaking about.

[OneofakindKnight]

Originally posted by Angarvin:

That's from DOS1. there are no blank scrolls in this one.
the blank books - you buy or loot, there is no crafting them.

...nobody is asking the question because...you can buy all the regular skill books from traders

I need to craft it for the Steam Achievement. So I NEEEEED it :)
The Wiki doesn't specify blank, but the un-needed ones in that same tree don't work as replacements.

[Angarvin]

Originally posted by OneofakindKnight:

Originally posted by Angarvin:

That's from DOS1. there are no blank scrolls in this one.
the blank books - you buy or loot, there is no crafting them.

...nobody is asking the question because...you can buy all the regular skill books from traders

I need to craft it for the Steam Achievement. So I NEEEEED it :)
The Wiki doesn't specify blank, but the un-needed ones in that same tree don't work as replacements.

could you rephrase that? i don't quite get what is it you want or what is it you're asking

[Sleepy]

I've been having a ♥♥♥♥ of a time finding non-high tier blank skill books, can't make/find a second Blood Rain for the life of me, been trying since A1. Now that I'm in A4: they never drop/vendor anywhere.

[Angarvin]

Originally posted by Sleepy:

I've been having a ♥♥♥♥ of a time finding non-high tier blank skill books, can't make/find a second Blood Rain for the life of me, been trying since A1. Now that I'm in A4: they never drop/vendor anywhere.

you can make blood rain by mixing necro and hydro books

[Sleepy]

Originally posted by Angarvin:

Originally posted by Sleepy:

I've been having a ♥♥♥♥ of a time finding non-high tier blank skill books, can't make/find a second Blood Rain for the life of me, been trying since A1. Now that I'm in A4: they never drop/vendor anywhere.

you can make blood rain by mixing necro and hydro books

I know, but it doesn't work with High Tier Blank Skill Books, and vendors almost never sell them after a certain level.

[Sleepy]

Nvm. Blank skill books don't craft those combo books. It's just any book from the school.

[Chillearth]

For future playthroughs, I found a skill book for each element on Exter, while on board Lady Vengance. That is as early as I've seen them. After you have landed, he disappears and the traders don't seem to sell them in the town you end up in (after escaping Fort Joy Island), so if you are pre-planning your game, he may be useful.

[andersonm]

There's a "Fire" blank skill book in the Realm of Orobas, next to the dead dwarf, from the gargoyle's maze. Just teleport someone down there.

[Nevitac]

You can make a random blank spell by combining paper and pixie dust. That gives you blank scrolls. Then use an enchanted quill and pen to make a random scroll. Or apparently you can combine the empty scrolls to make a skill book. But I haven't found the way to write in the empty skill books.

[The BlackVision]

For reference: combine a blank book with a scroll of the same skill type to make a skillbook of that spell. The only time you're likely to want/need it is to get skillbooks earlier than the traders offer them - which generally only happens if you're over-levelled for an area, given that you only start getting books in act 2.