Question about Skill-Gain

[Jalen Noel]

When you're trying to learn a skill like smithing or carpentry, does the difficulty of the item you try to create have an impact on the skill-gain? For example, does there come a time where making staff handles will no longer get you skill-gain in carpentry, and you have to move on to something better? I know it applies to fighting and how you have to move up from pigs to learn, so I just wondered if the same theory carried over to crafts.

[Gro'bul]

1When you're trying to learn a skill like smithing or carpentry, does the difficulty of the item you try to create have an impact on the skill-gain? For example, does there come a time where making staff handles will no longer get you skill-gain in carpentry, and you have to move on to something better? I know it applies to fighting and how you have to move up from pigs to learn, so I just wondered if the same theory carried over to crafts.

Yes, it does. Basically though theres a point at which the item no longer will give you skill. Some items do not give you more skill than others I don't think, its a yes or no to whether you can or cannot gain skill from making a certain item.

[NirAntae]

Exactly. You earn the same *amount* of skill regardless of the item, but there comes a point when you can't learn from an item any more. Your best bet is to make the best item of a group you can, because at least in carpentry, success or failure of crafting the item makes no difference in how much you learn.