Learning Skills:
All characters automatically learn up to their rank. Techniques of higher ranks can be learned by actively posting (2 a day). Missions give 1 autolearn for E, 2 for D, 3 for C, 4 for B, 5 for A, 8 for S, 10 for SS.
Learning Styles:
Stages are pretty simple. The amount of posts it takes to learn a stage of a style is similar to the skills.
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Stage One = 1 post
Stage Two = 3 posts
Stage Three = 5 posts
Stage Four = 7 posts
Stage Five = 10 posts
Here are the basic limitations. There are others depending on your class/bloodline and if you are missing arms... xd
Novices can learn up to C rank and 2 B ranks. An Adept can learn up to B rank, 5 A rank skills, and 1 S rank skill. Experts can learn all the A ranked skills they like, with 5 S rank skills and one SS Rank. Masters can learn up to A with 10 S ranks and 5 SS ranks and 1 SSS Ranked Skill. Sages can learn as much as they want.
Teaching Bonuses and Self-Teaching
Here are the bonuses to teaching and self-teaching.
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Self Teaching (Below Adept)
No area bonuses.
+1 post to everything.
Teacher Bonus
-2 post per rank of teach over student. (Adept teaching Trainee grants -4 posts.)
Area bonuses apply.
Teacher of same class as skill grants -1 extra post. (Gunslinger teaching gunslinger skills.)?
Miscellaneous
+1 post per rank above learner of skill. (Novice learning B rank, +2 posts.)
-1 post per rank below learner of skill. (Adept learning E rank, -2 posts.)
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