Skills/Talents from other classes...

[dhegler]

If I am an archmage, and I save the anorthil on a level, and they use "negative energy" or whatever for their spells... If I choose to learn their talent, do I automatically get another counter for negative energy, if it is not inherent to my class? Same idea with Stamina for saving a fighter/warrior... I haven't tried it because I didn't want to potentially waste a power up from saving one of them...

[greycat]

Yes, you get a Negative resource, or a Stamina resource, or an Equilibrium resource, as appropriate for the talent that you learn.

Getting one of the chants/hymns from an escort quest allows you to use that chant/hymn, so it is most definitely not going to be a waste.

[dhegler]

What are those "resources"? Or, is that spoiler-esque? I have gotten up close to level 20 and through Carn Dum and I don't think I've stumbled across anything other than healing and mana potions...????

[greycat]

"Resources" are any personal energy pools (or whatever you want to call them) that are depicted as colored bars on your left pane. They include Stamina, Mana, Positive, Negative, Equilibrium, Hate, and possibly others, depending on your class and what talents you know.

Just knowing they exist isn't a spoiler. Knowing which talents use which ones, and how those talents interact with the resources, might be a bit of a spoiler.

I don't know whether "Life" (your HP) is also considered a resource, but it works just like the rest. Except for that little dying-when-it-runs-out thing, but eh, details....

[dhegler]

Well, for instance, the arcane fighter has mana, but you need potions to "regenerate" mana. I assume it would be the same for the other "resources". But, if, as a mage, I learn something from a quest that requires equilibrium, for example, do I automatically start a new "equilibrium" resource bar, and would it then "regenerate" like my mana?

[Sirrocco]

Each resource behaves differently. Some regenerate by default. Others decay by default. Various things will cause them to increase or decrease. If you learn something from a quest that requires a given resource bar, you automatically get an appropriate resource bar to play with