How do
Wisdom, Intelligence and Discipline
help learning?
The answer to this question is probably more sought after by DragonRealms adventurers than any other. Zoha has given detailed yet vague descriptions on the message boards a few times, but we still do not know for sure. One thing we do know for certain is that there is no "best ratio". Have you ever heard that you should have Wisdom 2 higher than Intelligence, which should be 2 higher than Discipline or any such claim? This is complete nonsense. First of all, let me explain how learning works. Each skill has its own "learning pool". Every time you use the skill and gain experience from it, a certain amount of experience goes into your pool. And every 200 seconds, a percentage of that experience is taken from your pool and turned into actual ranks. This is called a "pulse". Each skill's pool can only hold a certain amount of experience. The percentage of the pool that is filled up is given by the labels: clear, learning, thoughtful, pondering, concentrating, muddled, very muddled, perplexing, perplexed, bewildering, bewildered, dazed, mind lock. So how do the mental stats contribute? Intelligence and Discipline both contribute to size of the pool. Other factors that contribute to pool size are whether the skill is a primary, secondary or tertiary skill, and how high the rank in the skill is. Zoha has said that Intelligence and Discipline contribute together, and that having a low amount either will reduce how much the other stat contributes. He also stated that Intelligence contributed roughly twice as much as Discipline (or something to that effect). Another important thing Zoha said about pool size was that at very high ranks, what skillset the skill is in becomes less important than mental stats. Wisdom affects what percent of the experience in your pool you will absorb into ranks during a pulse. The other factor for what percent you absorb is how close to a wall rank you are. For an explanation of wall ranks, Click here . Here is a formula someone figured out for how much experience you will learn for one pulse at mind lock:{SET + (4*R) + [INT*FLOOR(DIS/2)]} / {(R+1)*(R+26)} * {(WRI/9)*[(WIS+70)/200)]}
Where SET equals 800 for a primary skill, 400 for a secondary skill or 200 for a tertiary skill; R equals the current rank of the skill; INT is your Intelligence; DIS is Discipline; WIS is Wisdom; WRI is the Wall Rank Index; and FLOOR means to round down any decimal. The stuff inside the first set of curly brackets is how much experience fits in your pool, the stuff inside the second set if how much experience you need for the next rank, and the third set is what percentage of the pool you absorb in one pulse. I've tested this formula alot, and it is usually wrong, but it is always fairly close. Also, it does reflect the statements that Zoha has given about how pool size works, so it is a valuable formula for understanding that, if nothing else. Ok, so what does all this mean when deciding which stats to train? The bottom line is that the higher you train all three stats, the better you will learn. So which stats you should train the highest probably depends on what race you are and which are the cheapest to train. It can also depend on what skills you want to learn faster. If you want to learn tertiary skills faster, you may want to train Int and Dis to increase your small pool size. If you are able to mind lock your primary skills after wall ranks and want to learn them even faster, you may want to train wisdom to absorb more. If you are having trouble getting a skill to mind lock and want to learn it faster, well, there is no stat you can train to help, sorry. And if you're having trouble on wall ranks, training any of the three should help a little, but not too much, wall ranks are just going to be brutal no matter what you do. And don't forget, Discipline helps with just about everything in the game, not just learning, so if your ever in doubt on which one to train, you can't go wrong with Discipline. *NOTE: Since I wrote this, the GMs went and changed all the experience formulas. Most of the advice here is still true, with the exception of the actual formulas, and the relative importance of mental stats. Discipline's affect has been diminished, and extremely high mental stats will not be nearly as effective as before. Thank you, come again. Back to Mysteries of DragonRealms Explained.