Hey guys,

I would like to ask the question. Greater than Ultimate question of life, universe and everything... ;)

I am playing Betrayal at Krondor, I am still in first chapter but I was wondering about highlighting skills - I mean, when I am on statitics screen I can highlight pommel (I think that's the proper name for round part with emerald before the grip of the sword :P) and on the first column I can highlight up to 4 stats, and on the right column I can highlight all stats.

Now the ultimate question:

Does it do/ mean something? Like for example, activate this skill or gives some priority to it? :P

I read the manual but I think it didn't mention that, or maybe I missed that part...

I guess, being highlighted provides a slight bonus while progressing.
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Yes, highlighting a skill will increase the rate at which it increases with practice. If you only highlight a few skills, they'll increase faster than if you highlight lots of skills. But it's honestly not that important.... you can play the game without highlighting any skills and still do fine. I tended to highlight a few relevant skills for each character, though.

Min-maxers will highlight only one skill while training. For example, highlighting Barding only and then using the practice lute, or highlighting Lockpick only before trying to pick a lock. But I never bothered with this, I just kept the relevant skills highlighted all the time.

You say on the first column you can highlight up to four skills, but that does not jive with my memory. I thought you could highlight any number of skills. Keep in mind that skills like Magic Accuracy are only available to magicians so you will not be able to highlight that skill on a fighter. But otherwise you should be able to highlight as many as you want.