Signet of Capture
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Signet. Choose one skill from a nearby dead Boss of your profession. Signet of Capture is permanently replaced by that skill. If that skill was elite, gain 250 XP for every level you have earned.
- Concise description
Signet. Choose one skill from a nearby dead Boss of your profession. Signet of Capture is permanently replaced by that skill. If that skill was elite, gain 250 XP for every level you have earned.
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[edit] Acquisition
- Core
- Skill trainer (The Guild Hall skill trainer will sell this skill to the player only once he completes one of the above quests)
- Prophecies
- Purchased from any skill trainer from Lion's Arch onward (excluding Camp Rankor)
- Factions
- Purchased from any skill trainer on the Canthan mainland
- Nightfall
- Purchased from any skill trainer on the Elonian mainland
[edit] Notes
[edit] Capturing skills
The following steps allow a player to capture a skill using the Signet of Capture.
- Obtain the Signet of Capture
- Add the Signet of Capture to the players skill bar
- Find an appropriate boss (see the elite location list)
- Kill the boss
- In the vicinity of the boss, activate Signet of Capture.
- A panel showing the skills available for any dead bosses in the area will then be shown. Clicking the available skill and capture will cause the Signet of Capture to be replaced with the new skill.
- You can not capture an elite that is from a campaign you do not own. If the appropriate CD Key is not entered and you attempt to capture the skill, the 'capture' button will be 'grayed out' disallowing the action until the CD Key for that campaign is entered.
- You can not capture a skill your character already knows, those skills will have their icons grayed out and marked as known, and the capture button will be grayed out when they are selected.
- You can only capture skills for your current primary and secondary profession and Resurrection Signet. Skills for other professions and monster skills are not displayed and cannot be captured.
- If a skill is learned through Signet of Capture, the copy of Signet of Capture which was used to learn it will be lost.
[edit] Other notes
- The Signet of Capture is a signet used to learn a skill from a boss. Signets of Capture are primarily used to capture elite skills but they can be used to capture any skill the boss is using that is not already known by the player character and is not a monster skill. Only skills for professions that match the character's primary profession or secondary profession may be captured.
- Whenever a character learns a new elite skill using the Signet of Capture the character progresses through the Skill Hunter title track.
- Unlike other skills, it is possible to obtain multiple copies of Signet of Capture.
- Although a player may equip only one elite on their skill bar, using multiple Signets of Capture can allow the character to have multiple elites on their bar temporarily until they zone into another area. The elite skill rightmost on the skill bar will be retained. Note that Signet of Capture is a PvE skill, which limits it to a maximum of three signets per skill bar.
- Signet of Capture cannot be used to capture elite skills from some low-level bosses in Istan.
- Signet of Capture cannot be used in PvP.
- Signet of Capture cannot be used by heroes.
- Signet of Capture cannot be Echoed.
- Signet of Capture counts toward the maximum of 3 PvE-only skills.
- Signet of Capture cannot be learned by using a skill tome.
Anomaly.Signet of Capture's actual range is larger than earshot.
[edit] Trivia
- This skill was once intended to be called "Signet of Attainment".
