Is it possible to focus entire on life skills and avoid combat?

[drexciya]

asking for a friend (sincerely)

[Karna5]

Aside from that some life skills are linked to combat (such as hunting which uses a rifle or such as skinning which requires you kill things to skin them), yes.

[drexciya]

Originally posted by Karna5:

Aside from that some life skills are linked to combat (such as hunting which uses a rifle or such as skinning which requires you kill things to skin them), yes.

cool. so my friend can just be a trader and travel around the world without fighting anything?

[Tsel13]

Originally posted by drexciya:

Originally posted by Karna5:

Aside from that some life skills are linked to combat (such as hunting which uses a rifle or such as skinning which requires you kill things to skin them), yes.

cool. so my friend can just be a trader and travel around the world without fighting anything?

Yes, as long as they're playing a normal character and not a seasonal character.
In order to graduate from a season, you must complete the Season Pass.
Part of its requirements will cause you to have to grind.

[-=)V(=-]

Yes but actually no. The problem is that the best life skill items (manos items) cost even more than best mobs items and profit from life skill is practically non-existent and is 10-20 times less than trash from mobs.

[Simple Man]

You probably can't start from zero and just jump into lifeskills, you need to develop your energy and contribution (which among other things would let you rent out farm plots or have a worker network).

Quests might ask you to do combat, season pass will definitly ask for combat and thats something you'd want done, some other activities also involve combat and you'd be advised to do them (like rifts), otherwise after you leveled up and have some starting capital, i sometimes spend more time in the water than i do on land. Surely your friend could do it on their shiny carriage traveling the world doing trades.

[warbaby345]

I think it is necessary to examine why one would be averse to 'killing' things. I am also averse to killing things and only do so when it is necessary but, in the end, there is actually nothing to kill. This is a game, not real life. But also, even for the most bloodthirsty player who disposes of anything and everything in sight, nothing actually dies. Even the player character cannot actually 'die'. Any entity, whether animal, person or monster - all of which are considered 'monsters' if they are not actually player characters - when disposed of through combat, reappear after a minute or so (to be 'killed' over and over again if necessary). So, that is the main thing. Nothing is killed - even if they (animals I mean) are skinned, cut up for meat, cooked, air-dried, or any other way of processing them for food or goods. The animal figure soon returns as though nothing has happened.

Secondly, and perhaps even more importantly, you cannot get beyond the beginning of the game unless you accept the imposition of an indwelling 'black spirit' as a guide and companion for your player character - always on call and not averse to butting in at times to direct and persuade you to do 'bad things' - like killing things. I assume that someone who is sensitive to the concept of 'killing' might even more so think this to be a game stopper.

If neither of those arguments are unacceptable then yes you may be able to play a 'peaceful' role outside of the game's story line (i.e. not following the story - much of which would largely remain hidden to you). But you (or rather your 'friend') would be making progress unnecessarily difficult for yourself (themselves). And I am not sure if such progress as is possible, given those limitations, would stretch very far without soon becoming tiresome.

[Nemesis]

On servers other than olvia and season anyone can kill you outside safe zones so you are going to have to do combat at some point.

[Tensu]

Originally posted by -=)V(=-:

Yes but actually no. The problem is that the best life skill items (manos items) cost even more than best mobs items and profit from life skill is practically non-existent and is 10-20 times less than trash from mobs.

This does not mean you cant do them. I have around 2k hours in the game and I think my highest lvl toon is like 62 and pretty much only do life skills. Yes i dont make billions of silver a day but if your not trying to grind the highest end zones where you need 300+ ap you dont really need to make billions of silver.

Yes you might not be as efficient with your life skills but eh if you enjoy things like fishing, gathering, setting up worker networks and such just wearing random +10-15 gear you buy for a few hundred mill is more then enough.

On that note however I do agree you cant purely only do life skills if we take into account some things. like I would recommend them getting them playing on a season server to get a toon rocketed up into the high 50's and easily get themselves a free set of pen gear that they can wear and use when they do need to go around and say gather blood or meat.

[Tensu]

Originally posted by Nemesis:

On servers other than olvia and season anyone can kill you outside safe zones so you are going to have to do combat at some point.

Is this really a common thing though to happen to a person like he is describing. i know it was a big thing at times in the game but most the time it was people fighting over grind spots something it sounds like their friend has little interest in.

I can count on one hand the amount of times I have been attacked by players in this game at random while just out and about and 99% of those times was years ago when I first tried the game when it moved to steam