Evolving Trophy Question- Can it evolve to Master before 300 in skill?

[Polt11]

I'm having terrible luck leveling some tradeskills. At the rate it's going, it seems that my trophy quite likely would, if it is allowed, hit 100% evolved prior to me hitting 300 in my skill (which is master level). I'm at 293 in JC and 94% evolved in my 5/7 Expert trophy.

Any ideas? I'll happily stop trying to get to 300 if I can just get my trophy to go from 8% modifier to 12% modifier.

Polt, CT

[Aldier]

I'm having terrible luck leveling some tradeskills. At the rate it's going, it seems that my trophy quite likely would, if it is allowed, hit 100% evolved prior to me hitting 300 in my skill (which is master level). I'm at 293 in JC and 94% evolved in my 5/7 Expert trophy.

Any ideas? I'll happily stop trying to get to 300 if I can just get my trophy to go from 8% modifier to 12% modifier.

Polt, CT

Yes.

Your trophy can evolve to the level above you and will stop and wait at 0% for you to catch up.

[Gorse]

Any ideas? I'll happily stop trying to get to 300 if I can just get my trophy to go from 8% modifier to 12% modifier.

Polt, CT

As stated the trophy can evolve to one tier above your current skill.

However , I wanted to address the other part of you comment. There is no way to "turn off" your chance to skill up. In order to evolve the trophy you have to have non-trivial and successful combines (and within 100 points of your raw skill, if your raw skill is below 250). By doing non-trivial combines you will have an innate chance of skilling up.


You can however force the other part (skill up first) by simply removing the trophy. In theory you should be able to turn off evolving items, but a player indicated that it does not work and testing confirmed that in the past, not sure if it has been corrected yet.



Gorse

[Polt11]

Hm, now you have me wondering. Is evolving my trophy in some way hindering my chance of getting skillups in my tradeskill? That would be most unfortunate.

Otherwise, what I was refering to is that doing JC "real" combines if my skill is 297 with a 12 percent trophy is fine with me. I'm willing to give up the remaining 3 + 3x.12 to my skill in favor of not doing 200 more worthless combines trying to get my last 3 skill points in JC.

Polt, CT

[Twistagain]

Hm, now you have me wondering. Is evolving my trophy in some way hindering my chance of getting skillups in my tradeskill? That would be most unfortunate.

Otherwise, what I was refering to is that doing JC "real" combines if my skill is 297 with a 12 percent trophy is fine with me. I'm willing to give up the remaining 3 + 3x.12 to my skill in favor of not doing 200 more worthless combines trying to get my last 3 skill points in JC.

Polt, CT

No, evolving your trophy can only help. The skillups only look at your raw skill to determine if you can skillup. Additionally, you have as good or better (determined by your highest int/wis/secondary stat) chance to skillup on a success than a failure. So, unless your stat is high enough to make failures have the same chance as successes, the trophy will better your chances (slightly.)

[Aldier]

They run independently of each other, skill ups and the trophy evolution.

I would still recommend going ahead and pushing to 300 to finish the skill. It can only help you to have a higher skill.