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Combat Skills
THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS!!! I will edit this later with more stats/info as I find time. I'm mostly focused on crafting and other meta skills and have been since the start. Maybe someone else should run this section.
I do have some comments here at “Which Two Combat Skills Should I Use” regarding skills that are good for leveling other skills. Players that are asking themselves the question of “What is the best skill to start with in Gorgon?” should click the above link to see a breakdown of the newbie skills. The short answer is to just choose either Sword/Psych or Unarmed/Mentalism or some combination of these four skills when starting to see how they like the game with them, and then swap out at level 30-40 if the skills aren't interesting to you anymore. It will takes you a few days to go from Level 1-40 in a skill but a month to go from 40-90 in a skill due to the resource costs. That's how difficult the progression gets, so getting a couple skills to 40 to test them all out and see how you like them is actually pretty easy and highly recommended till you find what you like.
It's also worth noting that unless you are hardcore player, the “holy trinity” of tank/healer/dps doesn't entirely work the same in Project Gorgon. You can certainly group up like this, and there's tons of group content in the game, but skills like Priest and Bard are two of the best healing abilities in game, but extremely difficult to level together solo, they also both rely heavily on channeled abilities and generally speaking you only really want one channeled ability. Skills like Pig, Priest, Mentalism, Psych, Warden are good skills when paired with damage dealing skills. You may want to level support skills like these separate from each other when playing solo, however, even if you end up pairing them together when doing group content.
If you are a player that ALWAYS plays in a group with one or more friends, you can very easily go two supports for combat skills, however. There's a slight bonus to XP gain if you primarily group with at least one other player all the time.
Getting your first two skills to level 50 quick
Professor Cat created an excellent video for those of you that want a quick guide towards getting your first two skills to combat level 50 (he recommends Psychology/Fire Magic, likely due to the significant damage these both due early on). He also very conveniently gets exactly the materials needed early on in specific cases (I'm sure some of this was kind of scripted, but it's important to note you can always ask other players for help, especially if you just need a few items to get an NPC's Favor to that next level). Keep in mind he's a veteran player with several characters 90+, so you probably won't go as fast as he does, but I do have to admit that these two skills and the routes he takes in this video is probably the single fastest way to get two skills to 50.
My only recommendation separate from the actions he does here is that if you are a brand new player you should stop after getting Psych/Sword or Psych/Unarmed and definitely enjoy the other quests and things on tutorial island instead of heading straight to Serbule keep or Serbule Hills village if this is your first character. After you get to the “main game” you can definitely go right back to his tutorial, though.
Credits
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgNun1gQYAI (Professor Cat's guide to getting to level 50 in Fire/Psych on a new character quickly)