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Poetry Appreciation

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Poetry Appreciation
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Skill in finding the meaning of poems, especially difficult and tedious ones.
Skill Type:
Other Skill
Max Level:
50
Requirements:
N/A
Skill Trainers:
N/A

Everybody's a critic!

Poetry Appreciation Overview

Poetry Appreciation is the ability to interpret and appreciate poetry.

In-Game Description

Skill in finding the meaning of poems, especially difficult and tedious ones.

Training Poetry Appreciation

Learning Poetry Appreciation can be accomplished through two methods.

  • Read an appraised Poetry Book which requires Level 0 Poetry Appreciation.
  • Stand near a Poetry Podium while another character reads a Poetry Book and provide a rating for the read poem.

Continue leveling Poetry Appreciation through:

  • Reading appraised Poetry Books.
  • Listening to Poetry Books read by others at a Poetry Podium, and providing ratings for the poems read.

Connected Skills

Sub-Skills:
  • None
Secondary Skills:
  • None
Related Skills:
  • Oratory - A skill that can be leveled by reading poetry to others.
  • Art History - A skill required for the identification of looted poetry books.

Poetry Appreciation Mechanics

Unidentified Poetry Books

Poetry Books can be found across Alharth, usually in an unidentified form. Rudimentary knowledge of Art History is required to appraise an unidentified poetry book. After appraisal, the discovered Poetry Book will require a specific level of Poetry Appreciation to read. Poetry Books have a chance of dropping from any creature that drops scrolls, so Undead and Arthropods are usually targeted by prospective Poetry Appreciators. In particular, the Undead Face of Death in Borghild and the stronger Visage of Demise found across Rahu tend to drop many scrolls and recipes, including poetry books.

Unidentified Book Skill to Appraise Potential Results
Art History 20 , , , ,
Art History 25 , , , ,
Art History 30 , , , ,
Art History 35 , , , ,

Previously Identified Poetry

While most poetry is found in the form of unidentified books, a few items can be found that do not require identification.

Poetry Book Bonuses

  • Note that some of the poetry book buffs below may be outdated.
Poetry Name Buff Poetry Level XP Earned
None 0 500
+4% Combat XP 0 50
+25% Psychic Mitigation 5 10
+2% Direct Damage 5 75
+4% Combat XP 5 75
+25% Psychic Mitigation 10 100
+50 Max Armor 0 50
+25% Psychic Mitigation 3 75
+2% Crafting XP 15 200
+100 Max Armor 20 400
+50% Psychic Mitigation 35 750
+4% Direct Damage 10 100
+4% Direct Damage 25 500
+3.5% Crafting XP 30 600
+75% Psychic Mitigation 35 750
+150 Max Armor 45 1000
+2% Direct Damage 0 50
+8% Combat XP 7 200
+5% Crafting XP 23 400
+12% Combat XP 38 500
6% Direct Damage 48 1000

Complete list of Poetry Items

Poetry Podium

Here you can recite poetry. You'll need a poetry book (which is destroyed in the process). When you recite a poem aloud, you only earn 1/3 of the Poetry Appreciation XP that you'd get by reading it privately, but all other nearby players will ALSO earn that much Poetry Appreciation XP. You will also earn Oratory XP based on the number of people listening.

Instead of actually forcing players to read an entire book of poems, you will be prompted to enter a short poem yourself. You can write your own poetry or copy-and-paste poetry from elsewhere. (If you use others' poems, make sure to credit them!)

Nearby players will see your poem and can vote on whether they like it or not. You'll get general feedback about how your poem was received, but that feedback has no game-play effects. (Because everybody's a critic).

— Serbule Poetry Podium

Poetry Podiums are public locations where poetry can be read aloud to others. It has become common for Guilds to work together to host public weekly Poetry Jam events.

Podium Locations
Serbule
The Chortling Beaver (Fainor's Inn).
Red Wing Casino
Public stage.


Poetry Appreciation Level Up Rewards

Level Reward
10 +1 to Vocabulary
15 +1 to Flower Arrangement
20 +1 to Artistry
25 +1 to Flower Arrangement
30 +1 to Vocabulary
35 +1 to Bard
40 +1 to Lore
45 +1 to Flower Arrangement
50 +1 to Vocabulary

Poetry Appreciation Experience Table

Click Expand to view the Experience Table for Poetry Appreciation

Level Experience Total Experience
1 10 10
2 50 60
3 50 110
4 50 160
5 50 210
6 210 420
7 210 630
8 210 840
9 210 1050
10 210 1260
11 420 1680
12 420 2100
13 420 2520
14 420 2940
15 420 3360
16 680 4040
17 680 4720
18 680 5400
19 680 6080
20 680 6760
21 990 7750
22 990 8740
23 990 9730
24 990 10720
25 990 11710
26 1350 13060
27 1350 14410
28 1350 15760
29 1350 17110
30 1350 18460
31 1760 20220
32 1760 21980
33 1760 23740
34 1760 25500
35 1760 27260
36 2500 29760
37 2500 32260
38 2500 34760
39 2500 37260
40 2500 39760
41 3210 42970
42 3210 46180
43 3210 49390
44 3210 52600
45 3210 55810
46 4440 60250
47 4440 64690
48 4440 69130
49 4440 73570
50 4440 78010


Trivia

Poetry Appreciation is probably a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy], given that the Vogons used "Poetry Appreciation Chairs", and the fact that all the Poetry books have descriptions talking about how awful they are.

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