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I keep hearing about this usage exp so I decided to take up artisanship, got to engineer 3 so far and I'm making decent weapons. I've sold about 20 in the bazaar and given away about 20 but I never see the experience bonus. If it is invisible, which skill is going up from usage? engineer? apprenticeship? Any insight would be appreciated.

Zahn

I'm having the same problem...

I've sold several items on the bazaar but my crafting XP has been holding steady for quite some time now. I don't think the UXP should be "invisible". It should show up on the skills screen just like any other XP.

Mine seemed to be working last night. I sold a ton of CDEF weapons and some Bone Armor(and now some Travel Packs). I would see it go up slowly(like about 4 exp every 10 minutes or so). It just seems to take a ton of items being used to make a sizable difference.

It's working, but it's going up rather slowly. I'm a combo marksman/artisan, and using my own equipment has helped drive up my skill...just very slowly.

Yeah, we definitely need *something* - some sort of feedback. As it is, for all we know, we're only receiving 10% of the UXP we're supposed to be getting. Or maybe 200%? We just have no way of knowing or testing it....

Not to be the voice of doom and gloom but the possibility also exists that cutthroat crafters might also be buying and destroying your items to drive up usage XP for themselves, especially if you sold items at very low prices. I'm not saying that this *is* happening, but it's possible. I know that it Beta people would buy up items that undercut them and re-sell them at a higher price in order to sustain high prices on their items. Not much of a leap to imagine it happening similarly for Usage XP.

One thing to keep in mind is that UXP dribbles in slowly. You dont get it all at once the first time someone uses an item. As a result, you may very well not see much earning right away. However.. if you are the sort of person who constantly sells things, you will eventually see a steady stream of "bonus" xp.

Its never going to be fast, though.

I think some feedback would be nice. Perhaps if you got an email every day that summarized your UXP, merchant, and other "invisible" xp earnings it would be a nice way to help players see the value of their actions.

UXP is just general crafting xp by other means, so there wouldnt really be a way to track it seperately and still use it with the same skills with the current skill interface, I think.

Regards,

Artuk