nsrr wrote:Honestly, I have not inspected each world-altering talent in turn, so I can't really make a blanket statement as to whether or not they are worth the investment.
Here's a list:
Agile Defense
Armour Configuration
Attack
Beyond the Flesh
Bind Demon (Ashes)
Buckler Training
Chemistry
Command Staff
Create Alchemist Gems
Crippling Poison
Cunning Tools
Dark Gifts
Electricity
Empty Hand
Equilibrium Pool
Explosives
Extract Gems
Feedback Pool
Fire a blast of energy
Gem Golem
Grappling Stance
Grisly Constitution
Hate Pool
Heavy Armour Training
High Planetary Orbit
Hunted!
Imbue Item
Insidious Poison
Interact with the Golem
Intricate Tools
Jumpgate Two
Jumpgate Two: Teleport To
Jumpgate: Teleport To
Knowledge of the Past
Knowledge of the Way
Leeching Poison
Lichform
Mana Pool
Master Artificer
Mechanical
Necrotic Aura
Negative Pool
Numbing Poison
Paradox Pool
Positive Pool
Psi Pool
Refit Golem
Reload
Re-assemble
Reshape Weapon/Armour
Rogue's Tools
Runic Golem
Self-destruction (golem)
Self-destruction (husk)
Shoot
Smith
Solipsism
Soul Pool
Spacetime Tuning
Stamina Pool
Steam Pool (Embers)
Stoneshield
Stoning Poison
Striking Stance
Telekinetic Grasp
Teleport to the ground
Teleport: Angolwen
Timeport: Point Zero
Therapeutics
Thought-Form: Bowman
Thought-Form: Defender
Thought-Form: Warrior
Unnatural Body
Vim Pool
Volatile Poison
Vulnerability Poison
Warp Mine Away
Warp Mine Toward
Writ Large
All anomalies
All inscription talents
All traps
Most of these talents are not intended to be directly learned at all. The non-passive ones that can be directly learned are Bind Demon, Extract Gems, Imbue Item, Lichform, Re-assemble, and Writ Large. Of these, Re-assemble and Writ Large are racials and Lichform never appears on NPCs (unless there's a bug) so they're already against Sholtar rules.
So you're just left with Bind Demon, Extract Gems, and Imbue Item for "legitimate" no_unlearn_last active talents.
The passive ones that can be directly learned are Agile Defense, Buckler Training, the tinker talents, the Artifice talents, Dark Gifts, Gem Golem, Grisly Constitution, Heavy Armour Training, Reshape Weapon/Armour, Runic Golem, Solipsism, Stoneshield, and Unnatural Body. You're not going to get Agile Defense, Buckler Training, the tinker talents, Dark Gifts, Gem Golem, Runic Golem, or Stoneshield to appear on NPCs without a lot of contrivance (like winning an AoA character with them and then playing Embers with the same addons enabled so that you fight them in the temporal distortion). Grisly Constitution is a racial so it's out too.
So that leaves Artifice talents, Heavy Armour Training, Reshape Weapon/Armour, Solipsism, and Unnatural Body.
I submit that learning Heavy Armour Training, Extract Gems, or Imbue Item via Sholtar racial is not worth it. But I do admit that learning an Artifice talent could be cool and worthwhile.