Tons of Newbie Questions

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that all wisdom did was effect the wait between skill-ups?

If so, wisdom is absolutely negligible for everything unless there's a way to get wisdom over 20 (thus bringing the cooldown to 40 minutes or lower), or you're a magicker.

That's interesting, I had no wisdom was good for more than just mana.

I thought crafting skills were one of the 1 Fail == 1 Up skills tho?

A decade ago, before my first quit, I was explicitly told fails only gave you a chance of a skill gain. it was never a guarantee. I know that was correct. At that time. The code might have been updated. This may no longwer be a fact. But if the skill code's the same as it was in early 2000s it's still a chance gain.

My sources on that bit of information were top notch. At that time. that's all I'll say.

There are hidden npcs all over Red Storm and the rinth, unsure about the rest of the world.

Wisdom also helps various skills. It helps scan, track, and skin for example. With skinning it's mostly irrelevant, unless your skin is from a subguild, but for tracking and scanning it's pretty important. For example, a ranger human with average/below average wisdom will still spot an invisible whiran, but due to skill checks every tick, that ranger will have difficulty shooting that whiran. One tick he sees the whiran, the other tick he doesnt, and if shooting delay lands on the tick he doesnt see the whiran, the shooting is aborted. While a delf ranger with EG wisdom, succeeds his skill checks more steadily and wont have so many problems shooting that arrow.

Odds are, wisdom affects other skills. There is a considerable chance that wisdom affects success for crafting as well. Which may make it actually 'harder' for you to skill up. Since you fail less often. But I guess pays off when you're making some difficult to craft mastercrafts with expensive components. But overall, in general, the differences are so negligible, they're irrelevant. My own favorite stat for merchants is endurance first, wisdom second. Endurance gives you more stun to mindspeak to 4 people at once, which is a common thing to do with successful merchants and some extra hp to survive an extra second and flee if shit gets bad. Wisdom helps learn new languages, haggling skill, and success for crafting skill with low max caps. There are a few crafting skills that cap out very low and their failure chances are still 'noticeable' even when maxed out.

An amusing thing. High wisdom helps you succeed in haggling even if you dont have the skill.

You had it basically right. I've been led there once, so I don't know the way properly. I remember the city gate guards, I coulda sworn we went past a second set of guards and then we jumped down into the crevice. You'll want to bring a parachute (haha, jk) and all the climbing gear you can find. I think all I had was a rope and something else that was sticky. Boots, gloves, those ankle spikes would help too. There were plenty of rocks, but the guide constantly kept looking around. Apparently there is a monster nearby, cause he did warn me that if he said run, not to stop climbing till I got back to the mounts.

It turned out that you CAN load your backpack with more than you can climb out with, and you may want to leave a sack on your mount that you can pour your backpack into for easy transport.

Respectfully, this is incorrect.   Most crafting is impacted by agility.   Lumberjacking seems to be impacted by strength instead.  

Having a very high agility on a merchant can make it annoying to get a few crafts through journeyman, but is a massive advantage on the few master crafts with a high failure rate.

Having a low agi on a merchant will make it noticeably easier to skill, and functionally make your merchanting less proportionally profitable at the high end.

These data points can be glossed over with the low cost of many materials.   Still, if I was to plan a pure crafter for a merchant house, and want to eventually work horror, ankheg, and the like, I'd place agi first on a merchant.

If your goal is to maximize profit on a merchant, high agi will give you a few percentage points.   Again, the reality is that the shop coin pools are almost always so low or depleted that these percentage points can be made up for in spamcraft volume.