Butchering

[Wazdakka]

Have a bloody discussion here, why don't you?

[HesH]

Im currently lvling up my butchering i dont have any future career goal aside from being a really good butcher.


I've noticed that at 50 skill the progress has gotten REALLY slow just fyi future butchers, and i mean i was doing a PQ and we were killing wolves and ill cutting wolf after wolf after wolf maybe got 4pts.

Do i need to see like a crafter trainer maybe or does the lvl of the mob to me matter for this... Anyone shed some light?

[Gisli]

Its actually pretty simple. Your butchering skill is roughly 5 times the level of the mobs you butcher. If you are fighting level 20 mobs, your skill can't go much above 100. This might not have been obvious at first because you typically start off butchering mobs in the level 4-6 range, and probably get up to the 8 or 10 range before you realize that your progression has slowed down.

[HesH]

Ah ok so basically with my buthering being pretty high i can kinda slack off a bit and gain more ranks as to open up more of a window of skill i can gain.... based off i'd be killing higher lvl mobs

[Drakhon]

It used to be that at skill 1, you could handle things up to level 5. Above that required 5 skill per level, meaning that the required skill for anything is Target Level x 5 - 25. This still applies to things like Salvaging and Talisman Making.

Butchering (and Scavenging) were changed so that you can use them on an appropriate corpse of any level to make it possible to pick them up later in levels and not have to go farm huge numbers of low level enemies to skill them up. The loot is based on either the corpse's level or the skill equivalent level - (Skill + 25)/5, the reverse of the formula in the previous paragraph - whichever is lower. The chance to get a skill up shouldn't have changed and should still be based on the comparison between those two.