Satyr Trick
The Satyr Trick is similar to the Golem trick (see Method 2 of Melee Training Guide) for warriors and could be considered a cheat, I haven't seen anything from EA that says so and its been around for a while without a patch fixing it; so based on these two points I don't see any harm in explaining it
The Satyr trick makes use of the Satyr's Discordance ability to lower you skills and therefore make skill training easier / cheaper / quicker because you are training at a lower skill level, for example if you are on 90 Alchemy and get discorded by a satyr then your skill level will reduce to around 60 skill; it can be used to train any skill that you can train while mobile but this will become clearer as i go on
Setup
- You need to be able to access Twisted Weald to do this you need to either be on, or have completed, the Lorekeeper Calendor the Keeper of Tradition who is located in elfin city of Heartwood, even young chars can start this quest without any problems
- A pack animal of some kind, I usually tell mine to stay at the entrance so you can pick it up easily once you are discoed; load it up with regs or whatever your skill requires and have it follow you around
Recommendations
- While this is not essential I've found that the Virtue Armor Set is a great set of armor for training new characters in any skill
- The Pixie Swatter is a great weapon to have with you
- Some weapon skill or capability to invis is also useful
The Trick
- Go into Twisted Weald, find a satyr and pull up its gump
- Attack it by double clicking its gump in war mode and it will try discoing you
- Let it follow you around until you are discoed (you will know this because you will see all of your skills drop)
- Then quickly get through the moongate to leave Twisted Weald
- When attacking it I recommend you get to the exit as quickly as possible as it will try and provoke other creatures in the area onto you, and trust me with lowered skills you definitely don't want a CU attacking you, even a pixie can be hard to kill if your young; if they do target you you must either kill them or leave the server and come back
- Once you leave via the moongate the satry will loose interest in attacking you (but you are still discoed) and you can re-enter without fear of it attacking you; this will NOT however stop critters that may have been provoked onto you from attacking you, this is where an invis spell or a pixie swatter and weapon skill comes in handy
- Now as long as you stay close to the satyr you will stay discoed until it respawns, making use of alt-left click to follow the satry around is a good idea
It takes a while to get the hang of it and you may have to do it a few times before you get it down
Skill training
The following skills can be trained using this method:
- Poisoning
- Alchemy
- Bowcraft & Fletching
- Carpentry
- Cartography
- Inscription
- Tailoring
- Tinkering
- Chivalry
- Evaluating Intelligence
- Magery
- Meditation
- Necromancy
- Spellweaving
- Spirit Speak
- Lockpicking
Note: In theory it is possible to combine the Golem Trick and this together to enable you to work on warrior skills however I've found it easier and more fun to work warrior skills the traditional way