Wiki Q&A

An Echo is a stored snapshot of your character's Stats and Skills at a specific time [1]. Players may unlock multiple Echoes, with each subsequent Echo increasing the purchase cost by an additional factor [1]. The intent is to let players who invested heavily in skills such as Crafting, Harvesting, or Taming create variations on their character without building a completely new character from scratch [2].

How it works:

• Creating an Echo immediately stores your character's current Stats and Skills [3].
• Activating an Echo immediately sets your Stats and Skills to match the stored Echo, and your old Stats and Skills are stored where the Echo was, effectively becoming your new Echo [3].
• You can activate an Echo at most once every 12 hours [1][3]; the Jack & Jill and Quick Change Enhancements can reduce this to 6 hours, 1 hour, and 15 minutes [1].
• You cannot activate an Echo if you have been in any form of PvP in the last 5 minutes or any form of combat in the last 2 minutes, and you cannot Create or Activate an Echo while in the Arena [1].
• Activating an Echo locks all of your skills; you must click them up or down if you want them to change going forward [3].
• Murder count and other player-specific attributes are not reverted between Echoes; Echoes only swap Stats and Skills [3].
• The cooldown remaining can be viewed at the bottom of the Echo page, and activation is done via the Activate Echo button on the right side of the page [3].

Example use: a player with 120 Poisoning playing as a Poisoner Mage can create an Echo, retrain the current character into a Poison Dexxer template, then switch between the two builds once per day by clicking the "Activate Echo" button [2].