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I was trying to waste time last night instead of moving on to the next big quest since my oldest daughter likes to see the boss battles. I concocted a method to squeeze out an extra few skill points. Since you only get 1 per level, there's really not enough of them to go around if you're a hoarder like me. You need Detect Hidden to find loot spots, Alchemy to reliably harvest, Mercantile to earn max gold, and so on.

I don't really consider this a "cheat" since it's certainly not free (let's just say you could buy an entire suit of nice armor for what it costs). So here's what you need to do if you're trying to get as many of those precious skill points as you possibly can, here's a way:

Spoiler!

First, you need to make sure that you have AT LEAST 15,000 gold PER POINT you want to get. If you intend to get all 5, you need around 80,000 gold.

Most of you have probably already encountered the "Detect Hidden" trainer in the 1st town of Gorhart. For about 15K gold, he'll give you a point in "Detect Hidden". In addition to him, there's a "Persuasion" trainer in the House of Ballads, a "Blacksmithing" trainer in Shieldring Keep, and both "Stealth" and "Mercantile" trainers in Star Camp.

Now these trainers, on their surface, are very limited.

1. They can only train you if you have 3 points or less in "their" skill. If you have "Detect Hidden" of 4, the trainer can't help you.
2. They only train "their" skill - it's hard to justify spending 15K on Blacksmithing if you're a mage, for example.

There is a way for you to get 5 "free" skill points out that you can assign anywhere - to alchemy for instance.

First, visit a Faterweaver - either the one south of Didenhil or the one in the House of Ballads. Pay them to "reset" your character. You'll now only have points distributed in the skills you started with. Since none of them are above 2, you can now train with all 5 trainers freely.

Go ahead and visit all of the trainers and then GO BACK to the Fateweaver. Reset your skills again. Now the 5 points you got from training go back INTO YOUR POOL, allowing you to assign them wherever you want.