I've always wondered something, what exactly does Grant Skill do on an item. For instance, lets say you have Grant Skill: Squall, where would you go to level up Squall if for say you didn't have Storm as a mastery?
You can't. Grant skill items are always level one. Even if you were storm and leveled squall to max when you used the ITEM the effect would be a level one squall. Of course it wouldn't use mana like when you cast.
I haven't found too many good effect items.
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But what if you had say an item that grants a skill and another item that gives bonus levels to all skills or that specific skill per say? Would that be higher level?