Hero skill point

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Like regular skill points, hero skill points allow the player to purchase skills. Hero skill points can be redeemed by a hero skill trainer much in the same fashion as regular skill trainers; however, hero skill trainers allow you to purchase skills from potentially any profession and without any gold or skill point cost.

Once a skill is purchased that way, it becomes unlocked for the account and learned by that character. PvP characters can access it, roleplaying characters can purchase it at skill trainers and of course, since heroes can use any unlocked skill, it effectively "teaches" said skill to all your heroes.

Hero skill points are the only way to purchase and unlock profession-specific PvE Sunspear skills.

[edit] Acquiring hero skill points

There are a few ways for a character to acquire hero skill points:

• Paying 1 and 1 normal skill point to a hero skill trainer. The trainer will only give that option when the character has no remaining hero skill point. (Therefore, this is equivalent to buying the skill at a normal skill trainer. This can give an easy access to the Sunspear PvE skills).
• In Nightfall:
  • Gaining Sunspear ranks:
    • The first two ranks will give one point.
    • Each rank thereafter will give two points.
  • Gaining Lightbringer ranks:
    • The first rank will give one point.
    • Each rank thereafter will give two points.
• In Eye of the North:
  • Gaining ranks in the Norn, Asura, Deldrimor and Ebon Vanguard title tracks. Each rank will give one point.

[edit] Notes

• When a player uses a hero skill point, that skill is unlocked (if it was previously locked) and learned by the player's character. If the player learns a skill not in their primary or current secondary profession, the player will have access to that skill when he or she switches to the corresponding secondary profession.

• You can view how many hero skill points you have acquired when you talk to a hero skill trainer.

• You can obtain a maximum of 36 hero skill points per character if you have Nightfall, 40 if you have Eye of the North, and 76 if you have both.