Minimum skill level difference for reincarnations?

[PenguinPosts: 1]

I wanna get Blue Stars in Hunting, but had to learn that they count differently when trying to get a skill to the top. It took me 2.5 lvls over the 2nd highest to be the top skill after I had one star. Around 5 more lvls after two blue stars, and now I’m on the third with already 10 levels over the 2nd highest skill, but it’s still not the top skill.
Has anyone figured that out?

[xSimrick Lvl 200 USEast2GoblinPosts: 94]

That is not how it works actually. The level of your actual skills means very little. Top skill means that that is the skill you’ve gained most xp in in that reinc. So the blue stars don’t count and every skill lvl has a different amount of xp.
example (not exactly accurate but it should explain the principle):
no blue stars. other skills to lvl 28 and hunting to 29 so hunting is top skill
1 blue star. other skills still to lvl 28 but hunting to 31 because you only get exp from 10-31
2 blue stars. other skills to lvl 28 but hunting to 36 because only xp from 20-36
3 blues. xp from 30-41 (dont forget you have to unlock skill masteries as well)
4 blues. 40-49
5 blues. 50-58

so after a while it becomes easier with reincarnating to get a blue star than the next yellow star for the xp in that specific skill.

I hope that makes it a bit more clear for you.
Gl

[Seryn Lvl 300 USEast2SkeletonPosts: 166]

There does seem to be an additional amount built in as well.

For example 30=32(★1), roughly. But 1-10 is only ~2.2K xp, and 30-32 is closer to ~23K.

I only have some really rough numbers I refer to for reincing but roughly:

33.4(★0): 125,020xp.
35.6(★1): 153,500xp. (not counting 1-10).
38.9(★2): 186,030xp. (not counting 1-20).
??.?(★3): —
50.0(★4): 241,400xp. (not counting 1-40).

40.0(★0): 226,200xp.
42.0(★1): 263,400xp. (not counting 1-10).
45.4(★2): 317,950xp. (not counting 1-20).
49.5(★3): 367,950xp. (not counting 1-30).
??.?(★4): —

Very rough/inexact, but there does seem to be an additional amount of xp that has to be gained to beat each existing star that’s above just the displaced xp.

Based on this you need ~20% more xp per star, although I would need more exact measures to know for sure. I was just ballparking it for my own reference.

[Derick Lvl 148 USWestGoblinPosts: 90]

I’ve also noticed there seems to be an extra amount over the xp required for skills that already have blue stars. I have an xp chart that I know is accurate to within 500 xp for levels between 1 and 30, but I noticed while running the numbers for my 3rd hunting blue (with supports at 28) that I should have enough xp to take top skill by lv 31, even with 2 blues in the skill since there’s less xp between levels 1 and 20 than there is between lvls 28 and 31. But I still had to get something like 34 or 35 hunt before it would take top skill for the reinc.

This suggests to me that either blue stars are worth negative exp in a skill, OR that “top skill” isn’t decided based on xp alone.

[Enzymes Lvl 109 LondonGoblinPosts: 70]

The blue stars counting as negative xp makes a lot of sense. Just from an ease of programming perspective, it eliminates the need for a complex algorithm. I think you nailed it.

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