Summary
Outlands has numerous player crafted PvM progression items associated to specific skills which can vastly improve the performance of certain builds.
The following is an overview of these items:
- All codex and progression items are blessed and cannot be stolen
- Codex and progression item experience is tied to the character and not to the item
- Codex and progression items are freely tradeable / sold to other characters (the experience doesn't move with them)
- As long as you meet the minimum 80 printed skill requirements and are carrying the codex or progression item you can:
- use multiple codices or progression items at the same time (i.e. Codex of Fencing + Poison Kit)
- gain full experience to multiple codices or progression items in parallel (See Experience Gain for more information)
- gain the associated bonuses from the codex or progression item - as long as you are meeting any conditional requirements listed (ie. associated weapon, poisoned, barded, stationary etc)
Adventurer's Satchel
- The Adventurer's Satchels is useful to help organize all the Blessed items players can carry
- It is Blessed and can only contain other Blessed items
- Crafted by Tailors for 5 Mastercrafting Diagram and 100 Leather
Bard Codex
- Players need at least 80 printed skill in at least two Barding skills ( Musicianship, Peacemaking, Discordance or Provocation ) to utilize the benefits of Bard Codex
- There are 8 different Bard Codex Upgrades available for players that can be activated in Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3 versions (Tier Levels are depicted by a number of Lutes next to the upgrade)
- If a player earns enough Experience, they'll unlock a Bard Codex Upgrade Point
- You can reach a maximum of 20 Upgrade Points
- Players can Reset Spent Points for a Bard Codex once every 5 minutes
- Crafted by Scribes for 25 Arcane Scrolls and 1 Mastercrafting Diagram
Healer's Codex
- Players need at least 80 printed skill in Healing and Anatomy or 80 Veterinary and 80 Animal Lore to utilize the benefits of Healers Codex
- There are 8 different Healers Codex Upgrades available for players that can be activated in Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3 versions (Tier Levels are depicted by a number of bandages next to the upgrade)
- If a player earns enough Experience, they'll unlock a Healers Codex Upgrade Point
- You can reach a maximum of 20 Upgrade Points
- Players can Reset Spent Points for a Healers Codex once every 5 minutes
- Crafted by Scribes for 25 Arcane Scrolls and 1 Mastercrafting Diagram
Poison Kit
- Players need at least 80 Poisoning and either at least 80 Taste Identification or 80 Alchemy to utilize the benefits of the Poison Kit
- There are 8 different Poison Kit upgrades available for players that can be activated in Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3 versions (Tier Levels are depicted by a number of Poison Potions next to the upgrade)
- If a player earns enough Experience, they'll unlock a Poison Kit Upgrade Point
- If a player has 0 Poison Effects active on creatures in the world, they can double-click the "Reset Spent Points" button to reset all of their selections
- Crafted by Alchemists for 1 Mastercrafting Diagram, 50 Boards and 25 Empty Bottles.
Potion Codex
- Players need at least 80 Alchemy to utilize the benefits of the Potion Codex
- There are 8 different Potion Codex upgrades available for players that can be activated in Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3 versions (Tier Levels are depicted by a number of empty Potions next to the upgrade)
- If a player earns enough Experience, they'll unlock a Potion Codex Kit Upgrade Point
- A player can click the "Reset Spent Points" once every 5 minutes to reset all of their selections
- Crafted by Scribes for 1 Mastercrafting Diagram, 25 Arcane Scrolls
Summoner's Tome
- Players need at least 80 Spirit Speaking and 80 Magery to utilize the benefits of the Summoner's Tome
- You gain experience for killing creatures with your summons
- with gaining experience you accumulate points in the Summoner's Tome for that specific Spell that you can spend to enhance your summon.
- the experience you get depends on the summons that are alive while killing an NPC and are divided depending on the control slots of the summon
- Every summon spell has 10 different Upgrades that players chose from, each having their own Upgrade Point Cost that must be spent to activate them
- Crafted by Scribes for 25 Arcane Scrolls and 1 Mastercrafting Diagram
Taming Bestiary
- The Taming Bestiary is a progressive-bonus system for the Animal Taming skill that rewards characters for playing over time with a variety of different tameable creature types (requires a creature with a Min Taming of 50 or higher). As characters kill monsters while using Tamed Creatures, they will earn Affinity Experience towards the type of tamed creatures they currently control, and with enough experience earned for a creature type, they will receive Affinity Points that will unlock permanent bonuses for the character that will be applied to ANY tamed creature type that character controls.
- In order to utilize the Taming Bestiary, characters must acquire and carry a Taming Bestiary
- Players do not have to "spend" Affinity Points once earned: the system will automatically unlock bonuses for characters as soon as their Affinity Points total reaches the required amount for the bonus
- For each type of tamed creature a character uses to kill monsters (Min Taming of 50 or higher), it will automatically create a Creature Entry Listing for that creature type to track Experience progress on it
- Each different creature type will have a specific Target amount of experience needed to be completed, which is equal to (Creature's Min Taming x 1000)
- Crafted by Scribes for 25 Arcane Scrolls and 1 Mastercrafting Diagram
Thieves Codex
- Players need at least 80 Stealing and 80 of either Snooping, Hiding or Stealth to utilize the benefits of Thieves Codex
- There are 8 different Thieves Codex Upgrades available for players that can be activated in Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3 versions
- Players gain Experience through Pilfering/Mugging creatues
- If a player earns enough Experience, they'll unlock a Thieves Codex Upgrade Point
- Players can Reset Spent Points for a Thieves Codex once every 5 minutes
- Crafted by Scribes for 25 Arcane Scrolls and 1 Mastercrafting Diagram
Trap Kit
- Players need at least 80 Tinkering and 80 Detecting Hidden to utilize the benefits of the Trap Kit
- There are 8 different Trap Kit upgrades available for players that can be activated in Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3 versions.
- If a player earns enough Experience, they'll unlock a Trap Kit Upgrade Point
- Players can Reset their Spent Points for a Trap Kit if they have no Ground Trap currently placed and have no Trap Cooldown in place
- Crafted by Tinkers for 1 Mastercrafting Diagram, 25 Iron and 25 Leather.
Weapon and Parry Codices
- There are 8 different Weapon and Parry Codices, with one that corresponds to each weapon and shield skill (Arcane, Archery, Fencing, Fishing, Macing, Parrying, Swordsmanship, and Wrestling)
- Players need at least 80 skill points in Tactics and the specific Weapon Skill to utilize the benefits of the appropriate codex
- A parry codex requires 80 Parrying and either 80 Tactics or Wrestling
- Each codex has 6 different stances (7 Ranks each) and 2 finishers (5 Ranks).
- For every Stance that reaches rank 5 you gain 1 Rank for the Finisher, which in return raises the chance to trigger it
- As long as you have the Weapon Skill and Tactics you gain Exp for the Codex, if you have mutliple Weapon Skills that can gain Experience, the Experience will be split evenly
- Crafted by Scribes for 25 Arcane Scrolls and 1 Mastercrafting Diagram
Wizard's Grimoire
- Players need at least 80 Magery and either 80 Meditation or 80 Evaluating Intelligence to utilize the benefits of the Wizard's Grimoire
- There are 16 different spells featured in the Wizardry system which can be upgraded by spending Wizardry Points
- Gaining experience adds points in the Wizard's Grimoire that are used to enhance spells
- Use Wizardry Points to upgrade spells
- The maximum amount of points you can get is 40
- You can reset the Grimoire without cost once every 5 minutes
- Crafted by Scribes for 25 Arcane Scrolls and 1 Mastercrafting Diagram