Stat Gains after maxed skills

[TTG]

Hey, I was wondering if our skill cap is 1200, and the 10 skills we trained are at their caps but still pointing up, if stats will still gain.  I.e. 120 archery, and it's pointing up in the skill gump, if dex will ever raise as I use archery?

If not.... hmmm.. just curious.  I'm so anxious to get started on my new guy but I am only at 114, 108, 147 with all but 2 skills done so I was hoping that if i just started playing my guy, even though a lot are already maxed out, if stats will still raise?

[todd0168]

If you are at the 1200 cap and need to raise stats, just make sure that you have nothing marked down, set camping to up and try to camp.  You will not gain in camping due to being at cap but will raise all 3 stats to max over time.  Hope this helps.

[TTG]

just sounds like a bug

[Admin Acacia]

Something called see-sawing for stat gains has been used since the dawn of time in UO... at least since I've been playing.

Usually we've done it like this:  If you are at skill cap, but can play with 10 skill points, pick a skill that will work on the stat you want, like camping or tailoring, etc for dex, or item id, Eval int for intel gain, or mining for str.   Having that 1- points to play with, lock everything but mining, mine up to 10 points.... turn that down, turn up the 2nd skill, say music, and work that up to 10 points.  Turn it down, work mining up to 10 points, and so on.

Thing to remember, I believe UO has been set so you can only gain a stat point every so often, and in OSI only like 6 stat gains a day.

[Forest Rithik]

It is safe to assume that its viewed as a feature rather then a bug, the Camping method as been used on basically every UO shard (OSI and Free shard) since the early days before Free-Shards to gain stats. The only Free shards I have not seen the mechanics for it (either suppressed or working) is Advanced Sphere shards, but then again most of them have a sort of passive intended coded in version going off in the background to give you your stat gain every 45 minutes or so until you hit your stat caps (they are typically lower on those shards aswell).

It is safe to say 85% of players on this shard use/ have used this method to get the remaining stats for their characters. Staff know about it, chances are most used it on this shard with their PCs and on other shards. It can still take you hours to get to 150/150/150 using this method though, especially when you hit the 1200 cap before you even get above 85/85/85 :-P

On this shard its one stat point in either Str/dex/int every 11.5/ 12 minutes. It is alot less annoying then seesawing unless of course your seesawing skills such as Focus/ Med to help in power leveling other mana intensive levelings.

[TTG]

Ahh Thanks.  I'll use snooping -> music -> arms lore.

I was just hoping I could skip that step since i've put so much work into my character and I haven't even killed a BUNNY yet

[Forest Rithik]

Remember to take off all + Str/Dex/Int items when you are gaining your stats as you might forget your wearing them and think you really have reach 150 in a stat but say had your Pirate Bangle on and reached 150 in dex your actual natural dex would only be 140 (and that extra ten was boon from the bangle). :-P