Originally posted by Horus:
Originally posted by Shurenai: Any skill that grants you recipes typically also confers other benefits aside from the recipes. You could, ostensibly, skip all the skills and just pick up every recipe via looting though. Nothing stopping you from doing so, no arbitrary upper limit to how many recipe books you can read.
RNG is gonna RNG though. You may never find some recipes via looting, Or you might find them immediately.
That is pretty epic,I did not know this. Is there a benift to skill for them though? Like more stuff produced if said skill is active?
For some things, yes, for others, no.
Weapon/armor crafting, for example, is pretty worthless without having the associated skill leveled, as the skill determines the quality of what you craft.
Living off the Land is another that really helps. That it teaches recipes is beneficial, but the real meat of it is that it boosts farming yields and makes farm plots cost less to make.
An example of one I dont think is worth is the lockpicking skill in perception. If you can get the recipe from another source, it's not worth the point in the skill for the other benefits the skill provides.
Read the skill descriptions, really. And decide whether you think the benefits of having the skill are worth it. :)