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Boston skill boost.

HelloAllHelloAll Posts: 701Member Intermediate
General Discussion
I noticed there is now a place in Boston that you can do quests do get + boosts to skills. Seems it’s like oxford but a separate thing.

Are they stackable?

Can I use my 5 oxford skills and these extra Boston skills?

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  • fields1234fields1234 Posts: 165Member Trainee
    Yes you can stack them if you look at the tabs that run across the top of the skill menus.

    HOWEVER there is a catch.

    They are only avtive if in the right job.
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  • HelloAllHelloAll Posts: 701Member Intermediate
    Thanks fields!
  • WesDoobnerWesDoobner Posts: 761Member Intermediate
    any info on name of quests would be super awesome!
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  • WalkerDePlank1WalkerDePlank1 Posts: 215Member Trainee
    Wes, I have done a few, Cartographer and Priest. Gives me a +1 after submission in either job.

    Priest, you do any Theo quests

    Cartographer, you do any geography quests

    For the 1st bldg only takes 10 quests for the 50 points to finish it.

    Once the submissions in that Bldg is full, I imagine you get the opportunity to do it to get +2 in either job.

    Hope that helps


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  • CulvernCulvern Posts: 646Member Intermediate
    I have only seen Fisher and Privateer.
    What do we need to do to see other jobs show up?
  • pekkauwerpekkauwer Posts: 187Member Beginner
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    from upper left to lower right

    cartographer
    priest
    fisher
    trade merchant
    art dealer
    arms dealer
    privateer
    bounty hunter

  • WatchkeeperWatchkeeper Posts: 36Member Beginner
    I have 21 submissions so far and the second building has not shown up.

    Has anyone seen it?
  • HelloAllHelloAll Posts: 701Member Intermediate
    so the melee on is only for privateer and doesn’t offer anything for pirate or filibuster?
    Thanks for posting this info btw
  • purplepiratepurplepirate Posts: 994Member Intermediate
    once you've done the research and have the skill, do you have to be in the right job to use the skill or can you use it with any job?
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  • HelloAllHelloAll Posts: 701Member Intermediate
    You have to be in the job. I did the privateer one which is 10% melee boost. But I can only use it in privateer job, which I would never pirate in anyway so it’s kind of a waste tbh
  • CulvernCulvern Posts: 646Member Intermediate
    Until I can use a skill as a filibuster it's a bit of a waste for me as well.
  • crazyhunter2003crazyhunter2003 Posts: 763Member Intermediate
    i believe 2nd building will open when our point count reaches 10k.

    afaik it is a communal effort,not individual like oxford
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  • BartandelusBartandelus Posts: 5Member Beginner
    crazyhunter is correct, much like Oxford buildings, the entire server must work together to turn in submissions to unlock further buildings. Once we get the 2-star building, most classes will have at least 1 thesis open to them, which should hopefully make the remaining buildings easier to work towards.

    Every class in the game that has an expert skill will end up with 2 possible effects they can get from the Boston Academy, and you can unlock a maximum of 4 slots for Boston skills.

    So it may be dull, but I highly suggest everyone at least does some Fisher thesis turn-ins to both help the count along and open themselves up to the 2-star building once it develops. Catching Tuna counts as a "rare" trade good for that thesis so you can finish it up decently quickly.
  • HelloAllHelloAll Posts: 701Member Intermediate
    Good info, thanks. I tried doing google searches about this and couldn’t find anything. So weird
  • CulvernCulvern Posts: 646Member Intermediate
    I have done the privateer one about 20 times but switched out of the job to better utilize the profiency bonus we have going on.
  • purplepiratepurplepirate Posts: 994Member Intermediate
    i haven't read the details about the skills. So will a skill come out for each job out there as more buildings are opened?

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  • pekkauwerpekkauwer Posts: 187Member Beginner
    sorry to butt in 

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  • OwvinIIOwvinII Posts: 139Member Trainee
    Another suggestion is to repeatedly do the Art Dealer boston thesis and port-hopping between cities/towns whose markets have lots of type-3 trade goods (like arts, crafts, fibers, fabrics) and buying those type-3 trade goods (Genoa, Pisa, Antwerp, & Amsterdam are 4 of the cities/towns that come to mind).
     
  • OwvinIIOwvinII Posts: 139Member Trainee
    Also, more information about Boston theses can be found in http://gvo.gamedb.info/wiki/?cmd=read&page=BostonAcademicSociety&word=Boston especially if you translate that into English.
  • TeulischTeulisch Posts: 0Member Beginner
    personally, i have done two of the thesis for boston. the fisher job (which is very fast if you catch tuna by syracuse- the tuna count as advanced for 50 pages), and the trade merchant job (the skill will allow two trade skills to level up to 17).

    perhaps the easiest way to complete job thesis is as a fisher. use the fisher job, fish at syracuse for tuna, and turn in research to mediators at naples. dont forget to train your storage skill with those fish.
  • LyonesseJosephLyonesseJoseph Posts: 637Member Intermediate
    Arms Dealer and Trade Merchant are also easy to complete thesis since all u need is buying PO1/PO3 trade goods. Nantes/Bordeaux have plenty of PO1 trade goods for Trade Merchant. Just like Arts Dealer, u can do hop between Naples, Pisa, or Genoa for PO3. Amsterdam-Oslo is also good route especially if u're tailor/yarn dealer.

    I don't like one thing about thesis that'd be Maritime because those thesis are good for only NPCs not PVP.
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