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Savant is one of the 4 vocations available for WildStar, upon character creation. As Learned you will be the brain of the game, a real nerd with a full brain!
A lot of activities are then available to us. It will be necessary to scan the flora as well as the creatures of Nexus, solve puzzles, collect Eldans data, hack networks, scan, analyze, diagnose, in short ... you will know the planet Nexus from all angles.
You will thus benefit from bonuses against creatures analyzed in order to kill them more quickly, improved reputation gains, an instrument allowing you to teleport to the capital and many others in addition to knowing the history of the game much better than anybody. Why not deploy a mini loftite atmosphere countering the gravity of Nexus? You will jump higher and be able to find this boss who is high up!
All scans are to be carried out using our probes and all the information collected is listed in the collection. We can then reread our work on plants, races, areas that we have explored as soon as we feel like it. You increase your vocation level by performing all the available activities with a Savant symbol in play.
The first elements to be scanned serve as a guide, we select the object then we send our probe thanks to the interface available at the bottom right of the Interface. The progress of the relic search is advancing as well! Thanks to a few small quests we can unlock our first datacron, right here in the center of the room.
As I said above, we find our collection containing our first three discoveries. It's up to us to read, to look at the large and beautiful conceptual images ... or even to have the text read to us thanks to the play button!
We continue our progress as a character by opening our eyes to use our probe whenever we need it. A damaged medicine terminal? It only takes a few small connections to the scientist to make it an operational care terminal that all other players can use! An enemy terminal? A little piracy in order to turn the turrets to our advantage! You know what I mean ? ?
Take for example, in this image below, if you were an explorer you would think: holographic stairs, quickly let's go up and see what's up there! As a scientist you don't think like that, you'd be more like: OH WAOW! Crystals right here, I have to analyze them !.
So let's go to the next area: Northern Wilds.
It's a totally snowy area ... Who says snow says better conservation of DNA, says crystals, says exceptional flora and fauna, let's get there quickly!
There are indeed certain crystals to analyze, small blue creatures to understand, loftite to recover, bones to quantify, machines to recalibrate and turrets to hack. That makes things to satisfy a scientist!
During my test I was also able to find a puzzle, by solving it a panel became accessible and a hidden door then opened! Inside this new room, other things to scan in order to learn more about Eldan technology but also a hologram telling me a particular story and a Datacron containing a lot of interesting information. Vocation quests unlock as we move through the areas. We just have to click on the quest in order to know where to go.
The scientist is decidedly THE vocation to choose if you love the history of the game above all else, that you like technology, science and that computer piracy makes you dream!
I personally found a lot of interest in this vocation which tells us a lot about the technologies used by the peoples we meet, we learn about their way of life, bits of history on the planet Nexus, explorers' journals and other things, each more scientific and interesting than the last.
In addition to our character progression, vocations bring a real plus that breaks the monotony of general quests for all players. Customizing your character on an axis of the game that we love is just great! If you like to kill bad guys and protect peasants you will be Soldier, if you're more of a sandbox MMO, WildStar lets you build whatever you want wherever you want in-game by becoming Colon, if you are a daredevil and exploring every nook and cranny of the area doesn't scare you: become Explorateur and finally, if you love games history and science, this is Learned that you have to choose!
I hope you enjoyed this little Savant beginner walk!
