Journey to GM Remove Trap

[Snydly]

After a recent talk with Yoda, GM Trap Remover ... I set out to raise my skill to 100.

His advice was he GM'd the skill using Dungeon chests only. I plan to follow his advice with occasional breaks to try for gains on Treasure map chests, and Prison camp chests. I will simply document this journey with regular updates.

I made it up to 80 skill with a single chest, cast magic trap on it and remove trap on it. Using a macro for 3 days got me the max gains to 80 skill.

I started my quest 2 weeks ago at 80.4 Remove Trap skill.
July 15th, my skill is 81.8 using dungeon chests casually to date.
July 16th 4 hours game play - at 83.2 now - averaging about 0.3 an hour - one chest got me 0.2 gains before untrapping
July 17th 4 hours game play - at 84.2 now
July 17th 1 hour game play on Prisoner Camps - NO GAINS at 84.2 skill.
July 19th 5 hours of dungeon chest RT at 86.7 now - gained 0.6 on one chest before it untrapped, another 0.4 and 2 - 0.2
July 28th after a few days off, 3 more hours of game play got me to 88.0 skill
Oct 2 2 hours of play - 0.5 gain total ... at 88.5 now

[Alex]

I started my quest 2 weeks ago at 80.4 Remove Trap skill.
July 15th, my skill is 81.8 using dungeon chests casually to date.

only one solution .... skill ball

[Sick P]

Is remove trap necessary for treasure chests? I thought you could just use telekinesis.

[Snydly]

Sick P .... most of the time I just open the trap and take the damage

[Opopanax]

Or you can take 1 step away from the chest once you have picked it and you take no damage when opening.

Can you stay hidden then if you use remove trap?

[Rankul]

yes remove trap doesnt break your stealth

[Snydly]

Back at it again ... bump

[Yoda]

Takes a while to do but it can be done without a skillball, on my front porch rune library I have 2 runebooks with dungeon locked boxes, that is what I used

[Sailor Jerry]

it would be cool to make remove trap matter... maybe damages the vials or other goodies within.

just saying.

[Nazmir]

What do you think are the top 3 dungeons for raising Remove Trap?

[Yoda]

I really wouldn't say there is a "top dungeon" I just went and marked 2 runebooks of dungeon locked boxes, as they randomly spawn at various quality.. a room that may have had 3 chests that were of the sort able to give a gain the next time through would have none maybe and so on.

regardless on the front porch of my house (walk west of either JDI store teleporter) is a rune library, in the left collection of shelves you will find 2 runebooks of locked dungeon boxes, these are what I used to gm the skill.