Consider your class, what PT do you need to train to be effective in combat? Discover which are your "main" combat skills and your "secondary" combat skills. A warrior's main combat skill, for example, is Melee, Defense, and arguably shield (depending on the style of play), while Ranged and Force are secondary.
What each PT category does
All combat PT effects the accuracy of your attack. For example a player with 37 ranged PT can hit a lvl 50 mob with a lvl 30 weapon quite succesfully while a player with 20 PT will miss almost all of the time on a lvl 50 mob. (Tested and confirmed.)
* Melee: Increased SP and attack damage with melee weapons. Recommended for: Warriors, Rangers, Specialist
* Ranged: Increased SP and attack damage with ranged weapons. An unconfirmed theory is that Ranged also increases evasion. Recommended for: Warriors, Ranger, Specialist, Spiritualist
* Force: Increased FP and attack damage with force spells. Recommended for: All Classes
* Defense: Increased HP as well as resistance to attacks. Recommended for: All Classes.
* Shield: Increased chance to successfully block an attack while equipped with a shield. Recommended for: Warrior, Ranger, Specialist,
* Summon: (Cora Summoners only) Allows you to control higher level summons. Also increases Inanna heals and summons damage (Tested and Confirmed).
Remember: The above recommendations are recommendations only, don't ever let your PTs fall too low or you will be "Gimped"! But if you don't care, you will just be missing out on certain aspects of the game.
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How should I train?
PT is gained by doing damage equal to or greater than a fixed % (unknown to the author at this time) of the health of the monster you are attacking. To maximize the amount of PT you gain, (and minimize the amount of experience you gain, so you can PT longer without leveling), the goal is to do the least amount of damage possible to a monster while still receiving PT.
The wrong way to PT:
* Bust out your strongest weapon and kill a monster in seconds.
The right way to PT:
* Whip out a dinky weapon and bring lots of health potions.
Super PT Hero/Heroine Style
To keep the best PTs around (maximum combat efficiency for your level) your "main" combat skills should be as high as possible, and your secondary combat skills can be a couple levels lower than the maximum. Some argue to "max out" (fill each combat PT) every level: this is a waste of time. An effective strategy is to work on your PTs every few levels, distributing your time evenly between gaining experience levels and honing your PT, since a lot of combat effectiveness is first determined by gear, and then by PT levels.
After level 30, each level will increase your main combat PT maximum by 3-4 levels. Imagine spending all that time every level to fill up your PT bars just to gain the next level of experience and have MORE PT to train all over again! Headache and agony!
After level 30, PTs rise quickly since monsters will be giving you 80, 100, PT per hit.
Average PT Style
Some recommend only training addition combat PT just enough for the next level of equipment, and then go level up some more, only gaining PT as you do missions or while leveling. This is passable, but not the way to be the most powerful player you were meant to be.
Gimped PT
Sooner or later you will hear the term "gimped". This basically means that your combat skill in a certain area is so low that you can no longer gain PT with that skill. For example you are a ranger and you never trained your melee skill and now you're level 30.. and you can't hit a darn thing with a sword or equip cool melee armor. And even if you do damage, you gain no PT. Uh oh.. sounds like bad news right?
How to fix "gimped" PT
Ok not everything is lost. There are a few things you can do:
* Buy an intense weapon that you can use for the category of skill that needs help,
* Buy "advanced ammunition" or "elemental ammunition" from specialists if you are trying to boost Ranged combat PT (this will increase the amount of damage you do, allowing you to receive PT credit)
* Use Adrenaline potions (These increase your attack power by 10%)
Now you must go locate and fight 1-dot monsters, since they are the weakest, will have the lowest health, and the best chance of rewarding you with PT. These are two levels below you generally. Grayed-out monsters will not reward you with PT.
Force Users(Casters)
Force PT: (Required) This is your main PT and the one you excel in. On top of your PT you have force tier pt as well. You can see your force pt by hitting F or ctrl + F. You want to try and level all 4 elemental offensive spells at the same time. so try to level up those darkness buffs of yours + 2 of your offensive spells
Ranged PT: (Recommended) Ranged PT increases stamina. You'll need stamina for your class specific buff and not to mention it helps on those long runs.
TIP: Dark Force PT can be a pain to get to 30. A nice tip is to switch the Sacrifice force
reaver to a level 1 each time the reaver reaches level 3. You also want to use both Dark
Force buffs as much as possibe as soon as possible.
