Nowhere to train the starting Begging skill from NPC beggars ?
I wanted to train Begging on a character and buy the starting skill from a Beggar NPC, hopefully a GrandMaster Beggar for more starting skill..... well, forget about it....
Just found blue Beggar NPCs which can only hire, not train skill from, and found zero, none, nada Yellow Beggar NPCs in none of the towns and, yes, I also checked out the Gipsy Camps in Ilshenar (only can train from Vagabonds Item ID), both those static in the Desert and that by the Compassion Gate and also the moving ones by the Honor Moongate.... spent like 1 hour, all for nothing.... no Yellow Beggar NPC to train the starting skill from...
Yes, checked New Haven and none there too....
Where is a players supposed to find them ? Grandmasters too, hopefully ?
@Kyronix ?
Just found blue Beggar NPCs which can only hire, not train skill from, and found zero, none, nada Yellow Beggar NPCs in none of the towns and, yes, I also checked out the Gipsy Camps in Ilshenar (only can train from Vagabonds Item ID), both those static in the Desert and that by the Compassion Gate and also the moving ones by the Honor Moongate.... spent like 1 hour, all for nothing.... no Yellow Beggar NPC to train the starting skill from...
Yes, checked New Haven and none there too....
Where is a players supposed to find them ? Grandmasters too, hopefully ?
@Kyronix ?
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Checked all Gypsies, one by one, and only Vagabond Gypsie offer training in 1 skill, too bad, that it is Item Identification.... no Gypsie of no kind offered training in Begging...
So, where and how is one supposed to purchase the starting training in the Begging skill ?
I timed it to 11 seconds which it makes extremely slow to do skill checks and, since not all skill checks give a 0.1 gain, the 11 seconds downtime in between skill uses, makes it quite abysmally slow to gain in begging.... and also using Alacrity scrolls seems to be a waste of gold.... I mean, in the 15 minutes that an Alacrity scroll lasts, with an 11 seconds downtime in between skill uses, a scroll only consents roughly 81 skill checks (900 seconds/11).....
At this pace, getting to 100.0 begging might take way longer then trick or treat will remain active...
Transcendence scrolls ? Way too expensive.... for a few decimals they might be fine, but for serious points like 20 or 30 it costs way more then it might be worth for the rewards that trick or treat might yield... me thinks...
By the way, the Ball of Knowledge has no use when training up the Begging skill ?
I have it turned on but, when begging an NPC, I get no message from the Ball of Knowledge whatsoever...
Pinks and Blues are your friends, begging is as bad as taming to train
With a notable difference, though....
The gameplay which the training in Taming opens up, is way deeper and way more rewarding as the gameplay which training in begging opens up to a player....
There is no comparison in what a player gets for the related investment in time in the training of the skill..., to my viewing....
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The messages intended are (https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/skills/begging/) :
They seem unwilling to give you any money
You are too far away…
Here take this
There is little chance of getting money from that.
Only in the last case, when the NPC has no backpack, I understand it is pointless to keep trying with that NPC but with the message "They seem unwilling to give you any money" I understand one can insist trying with that NPC because, eventually, it can yield gold and, thus, give a succesfull begging skill check....
Problem is, that on some NPCs I insisted like 20+ times on the same NPC before he/she finally gave me gold and, thus, a succesfull skill check....
As I said, without the Ball of Knowledge working with begging, I have no way to tell whether a given NPC is a waste of time, or not....
Not sure why this thread is even open still. He got his answer yet it's still a debate on how something is not fair. It's the same story / different thread with this guy every single day.
FYI @Arnold7 - you can also gain poisoning by using a combat skill and inflicting a poison strike.
just do a complete circle begging from the npc's.
and there is a trash can in there (to throw away the items they will give you)
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I really wish they had left those cheap advance tokens in the game along with mythic.
Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.