How does researching work on a character with perks on only one build?

Marronsuisse · March 2022

My character has a crafting build and a combat build (one day I want to combine them but I'm tight on skill points now).

On the crafting build, he has for example 4/4 Lapidary Research, but 0/4 on the combat build. I noticed that if I research something on my crafting build, but then switch to my combat build, I'm no longer benefitting from the Lapidary Research.

Does this mean if I want the Lapidary Research passive to work, I have to remember to switch to my crafting build before logging off every time?

tmbrinks · March 2022

Marronsuisse wrote: »

My character has a crafting build and a combat build (one day I want to combine them but I'm tight on skill points now).

On the crafting build, he has for example 4/4 Lapidary Research, but 0/4 on the combat build. I noticed that if I research something on my crafting build, but then switch to my combat build, I'm no longer benefitting from the Lapidary Research.

Does this mean if I want the Lapidary Research passive to work, I have to remember to switch to my crafting build before logging off every time?

If it still works like it did years ago, the timer will continue to count down from the higher amount, but the research passives allow you to complete it at that time.

So, for example, without passives the last trait takes like 30 days to research with the passives. You start all 3 of those with the passives in. (so you can do 3 at a time). You take them out for your combat build. Wait 30 days. Put the skill points back into the passive and the research will be done.

Note: This is how it was the last time I did research on a character, which was in probably 2018/9 (whenever we got the 16-18th character slots)

Marronsuisse · March 2022

Ahhh okay... so if my timer says 6 days on my crafting build, and 9 days on my combat build, even if I spend the next 6 days only playing my combat build, I should be able to switch to my crafting build on the 6th day and the research will be done?

That's good news if so, because I don't often play on the crafting build. And I can't imagine having to rearrange skills constantly to do research... I feel spoiled by the Armory Station.

Thanks!

Wandering_Immigrant · April 2022

The only thing you have to watch out for having a craft build like this is the hirelings. If you have hirelings on your craft build but not your combat build and you log out on your combat build, then you won't have any hireling mail when you log back in.

You can switch between builds freely without resetting the hireling timer, as long as you always log off on the craft build. It's only if you go a full cycle (day) on the combat build that the hireling timer will reset.

Marronsuisse · April 2022

Thanks for the heads up!

I haven't got the hirelings quite yet but that's very good to know, I was wondering about that too.

FlopsyPrince · April 2022

Just hunt a few more skyshards and the problem should go away. A bit of a grind, but doable. I craft on ALL my alts and it is a huge grind, but I don't have to toggle around that much, even if it takes a while to get everyone up. Getting the points for research alone should be simple enough.

That is only 12 points for wood/cloth/bs and 4 more if you want to speed up rings. You would have to get each to 50 for those, but you seem to already have that and you could remove the points from better mats levels. Then sneak in a few for hirelings over time and you are set.

Seems simpler than swapping back and forth to me at least.