This thread details the impact skills have on profession levels. It is basically a summary of the conclusions drawn from numerous threads in the
EF Skills forum, such as the
chipping thread, the
attributes thread and many others.
A huge number of people have contributed to this study. I consider the 'project' to have begun over a year ago with
D'Angelo's thread, the aim of which was to find out how to calculate your Laser Sniper professional standing from the skills that affect it. Great progress was made in that thread, but we didn't quite get there. Since then,
MA implemented the professions screens which has given us a lot more information to go on. We now have many professions completely solved, and most of the rest solved apart from the contributions from certain unlockable skills.
If you have a reasonable level in a rare-ish unlockable skill and would like to contribute, please post here or PM me. There's a list of skills that are still unresolved on page 7 of this thread. We need your relevant skill levels and profession standings, which are easily obtained using
NRF, or alternatively via screenshots of your skills and professions.
How it works
There is a post for each profession. The skills and attributes that contribute to that profession are listed and their weights given. The profession level is calculated by multiplying each skill by its percentage weight, summing, and dividing the result by 100.
Example 1: There's a Botany chip in auction that will give you 1500 levels of Botany. You wish to work out how much that would increase your Animal Investigator level.
- Since Botany contributes 8% to the profession, chipping 1500 levels of it will gain you 1500*0.08=120 in your profession standing.
- So you will gain 120/100=1.2 profession levels
Example 2: If you have level 30.4 in Animal Investigator and wish to chip out some Zoology without falling below level 30 in the profession you can:
- Chip out an amount of Zoology that contributes 0.4 levels of Animal Investigator.
- 0.4 levels of Animal Investigator corresponds to a profession standing of 0.4*100=40
- Since Zoology contributes 2% to Animal Investigator you can chip out 40/0.02=2000 levels of Zoology.
Example 3: If you have level 28.4 in Animal Investigator and wish to chip Scan Animal in order to get the profession up to level 30 you require:
- An increase of 1.6 levels in Animal Investigator.
- This corresponds to an increase of 1.6*100=160 in your profession standing.
- Since Scan Animal contributes 46% to the profession, you need to chip 160/0.46=348 levels of Scan Animal
Contents
Professions are listed alphabetically.
Page 2 - begins with Brawler (Dmg)
Page 3 - begins with Gauss Sniper (Hit)
Page 4 - begins with Mechanical Engineer
Page 5 - begins with Plasma Sniper (Hit)
Page 6 - begins with Ranged Laser (Dmg)
Page 7 - begins with Teleporter, and also includes Health, issues remaining to be resolved, acknowledgements and other links and facts
Pages 8 - 11 - contain discussion
Page 12 - contains new professions added after this thread was made (Grenades, textures, tiering)
Page 13 - contains continued discussion