At 210 Intellect, all skill advancements are free. That's the goal for my elf male. The plan is to play through the game multiple times in order to get there; every relic turned in is +3, so it will take some doing, but the alternative - gaining enough advance points to get there - would take so much longer.
How much longer?
Well, I currently have over 29 million unspent advance points at level 96 (there really isn't a whole lot of need to spend them), and Intellect is at 153 with four relics still to turn in on this play-through. For those of you keeping count, that will leave me with Intellect 162, which is 48 points - four play-throughs - to go to reach 210 (no +3 for the ring). (I had trained Intellect to 114 on my first play-through, leaving 96 to earn by turning in relics in subsequent play-throughs.)
Something caught my attention when I was playing earlier today, though, that might be telling of just how much longer it would take to earn enough advance points to reach Intellect 210. After freeing Davenmoor, I noticed that I had Honor 209. How much would it take to get to Honor 210?
978,355,776 advance points.
Yeah.
So, anyway, I thought that might be interesting to share.