S: Fore Chop, S: Hind Kick not unlocking?

[IamSilent121]

Hey there, I recently got back into BDO and purchased an Tier 8 horse. I had a bunch of extra pearls left over and decided to unlock all of her skills using a coupon I bought on the store. Now all of her skills are at 100%, including the required preceding skills for the S: Fore Chop and S: Hind Kick skills. However, the menu still says that I still need the preceding skill, even though I have them both.

Not sure if I'm missing any other steps here or if my horse just needs to rank up. I mean, shes only 1 XP off of being level 31, yet even with a 20% exp boost scroll, she just wont go past that either. She just needs 1 XP POINT! And she wont go to level 31, I have no idea whats going on here.

[Skeleton]

Well.
Uh.
You can't just "buy" skills.
Your horse learns skills naturally and randomly; by using those skills you level them up. When you get a new skill, it has a percentage attached. That's the chance that the skill succeeds when you activate it..By using that skill more often, the percentage increases until it reaches 100% and never fails - it's fully learnt.

There are two kinds of pearl tickets available.
One lets you exchange a horse skill for a new one it hasn't learned.
The other lets you level a learned skill to 100%.

I don't know which one you used, but it sounds like you didn't learn the basic Fore Chop and basic Hind Kick skills. Next time you're on your horse, press P and check the list of skills it has - and their percentages.

Also, horses are capped at level 30. There is no 31.

[IamSilent121]

Ah okay that makes sense, well, I used the coupon that leveled all the learned skills to 100% then. Still though, not sure why I still got this bright red exclamation point on my S skills. They are there, 100% activation chance, and the same for those S skills. 100% on them too. Do I just need to keep using my 100% skills to eventually unlock the S skills?

New to this game pretty much still, so I don't know how any of this s**t works XD

[Skeleton]

So [S: Fore Chop] and [S: Hind Kick] are separate skills from [Fore Chop] and [Hind Kick].

The way it works is that if you want to use the S: skill, your horse would have to randomly learn the basic skill which matches it. Then, you'd need to have the basic skill mastered to use the improved S: skill version.

So in your case, your horse would need to have these 4 skills:
Hind Kick [100%]
Fore Chop [100%]
S: Hind Kick
S: Fore Chop

If [S: Hind Kick] and [S: Fore Chop] are marked, it suggests that you're either missing regular [Hind Kick] and [Fore Chop], or that you have those basic skills and they're just not trained to 100% yet.

Horse training is... a bit of a gamble.
There's no guarantee that your horse will learn all the things you want it to learn by the time it reaches 30. And once it does reach 30, you don't have any way to teach it new skills other than swapping out ones it already knows with a pearl ticket [which can fail] or resetting your horse's level and skills, and trying again.

This is what you'll see most of on the horse market: T8s that were already levelled, but just weren't lucky enough to get the right skills.

Not sure what you're going for, but here's a suggestion on which skills to look out for:
Sprint - increases your horse's sprint speed. Very important.
Instant Accel. - gives your horse a "dash" by pressing F. There's also an S: Instant Accel.
Drift - normally, Instant Accel. has a brief cooldown. You can skip it by using Drift, basically allowing you to chain boost.
Charge - deals a lot of damage. Can also be used while stationary to start running at full speed.

[🌙 Nocturnium]

Hi ! i would like to say i trained my horse for a lot ! hours doing the neccesary skills like "Hind Kick, Fore Chop and Instant Accel" all are in 100% and also i have S: Hind Kick 100% and S: Fore Chop 100%, but the weirdo thing is still shows me about "Preceding Skills" so i dont understand i do all the requirements things and nothing happened... Is like a Bug or something?

All the skill of my horse now is 100% 15 skills but the S: Skills have that problem, have you know a solution for that?

i will really apreciated !

greetings !