Hey everyone! Just started on this shard last night. It looks awesome. The hour or so I got to spend looking around made me super excited to dive deep into the community and server. I plan on buying two New Player Specials. This will give me a total of three 7x skill balls to use. I'm looking for some good opinions on skills to GM using these. I definitely plan on maxing out Taming, Magery and trade skills. I wondered if there are others that are no brainers to max out. Ones that are generally tough to raise organically.

Sorry if this has been previously addressed.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

If you have time and would like, you can take up skill quests where you train your skills up with gold to 40, and train them to 50 to receive a reward. That would save you 50 points per skill on your skillball. Skills worth investing skillball points in are in the images. Most skills can be macroed, but since you have so much points to use.. Definitely try saving points for 100-120 skill leveling.








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This is super helpful! Thank you so much!

Most of the skills you can macro very very very fast.
I can tell you that Evolution is the fastest macro shard I've ever played and is like 15 years I'm playing UO.
So is better to save for sure points from 100 to 120.
The only skills maybe is easier using skill points are taming and the crafting skills in my opinion.

It's not necessary to confirm the fact you must trade until 40 with gold and not trash skill points.

Welcome, in case you need help pm me in game, I'm not playing so much but when I am online I can help you.
My name is Ganjalf.

  I would like to suggest saving skill ball points-- since you will have an abundance -- for an alternate character; which you would use the skill ball points specifically on raising Trade skills up to GM [if not higher]. The reason to do this invovles the fun garnered through Bulk Order Deed completion.

   Every six hours you can get another BoD-- one from each of the Trade Skills (Plus a Taming BoD; if you're into that)-- but the BoD's quality is based on a character skill. Characters with higher Trade skills will net you better quality BoD's. Higher quality BoD's grant you better rewards. Of course, rewards from BoD's have a set RNG scale, so expect to get some of the lower end [best] rewards, here and there, when turning them in.

 I disagree with Morsax, when it comes to using a skill ball on the skill Stealth, Resisting Spells, any skill involving a spell book, or Begging. Keep in mind, this is only my opinion; and I value what staff offers. His wisdom is sound, if you are looking for a really fast start, and do not know UO well.

  If you have time and patience, however, these skills are relatively easy to raise up. That said, I would say that once the skills-- I've mentioned-- are Grand Mastered, using a skill ball to raise them up to [120] Legendary might be the way to go.

  I know that main character's start off with a free 700 point skill ball, and that any character created after the first will not start with a free skill ball. I mention this because I am not sure how the starter packs work when granting additional 700 point skill balls. Thus, I suggest sending those skill balls straight to any alts you plan to use as Trade Skill Mules.

  Lastly, If your character is a human, or an Elf, you are unable to raise your Throwing skill beyond 10 points, naturally, the last time I checked. Also; 'Arms Lore'-- which wasn't mentioned-- can be raised beyond GM but not through natural means... thus, the last 20 points need to be skill balled.


   I hope this helps you round out your options, Giafiordi. In addition, I am only human, and sometimes I make mistakes; especially when I write a post in 15 to 20 minutes. So, if you, or anyone else, sees a mistake... let me know so I can make note of it. Thanks and enjoy.


    --Sturger, of Skara Brea; Editor; UOE-Herald--

You only need 100-120 craft skills on your main character which collects bods every 6 hours. on alt characters you can have 0,1 trade skills, excluding carpentry and fletching that needs 30 skill to make lowest item required for BOD, to collect bods every 1 hour. You then give all those low BODs to you main crafter and finish them. Then turn them in one by one, asking for new BOD in between each turn in. You will trade those low level BODs for high level ones. So it would net you 150 of each good BODs a week if you don't play much.

You can also look here for BOD rewards. http://uoevolution.com/forum/index.php?topic=7853.0

  Seems like a lot of wasted time and materials in this method? How do you maintain materials Morsax?

Speaking of blacksmithing, when I played I easily bought 20-50k iron ingots every day from npc-s for 5gold each. At low skill level you get only iron bods.