Skill analysis

Analysis is Great Sage's Analytical Appraisal turned on your own skills: he breaks a skill down so you master it without having to use it. The price is double and shown up front: the skill is unusable while the analysis runs, and its magicule acquisition cost is taken when it starts. The Sage saves you time and trouble, not energy. And he can be wrong: an analysis can fail.

Starting an analysis

1. Open the Sage menu (G) → Analyzing. Your skills form a constellation: classes on a circle, skills in a grid.
2. Click a class to unfold it, then an analysable skill.
3. The Sage asks: "During the analysis, the target skill cannot be used. Proceed?" — Yes starts, No cancels.

The funnel filters the constellation (Class; State: All · Analysable · Mastered; sort by Name or Class). By voice: "analyse predator" — but the voice refuses as soon as one analysis is already running; start the next ones from the menu.

Progress lives on the server, in the player's data: closing the menu, changing dimension, dying or logging out changes nothing.

When the Sage refuses

Every refusal is spoken aloud and written in the action bar:

Magicule cost

The skill's acquisition cost — what you would pay for the same mastery the normal way, and what the Records show — is taken when the analysis starts, after every check: you never pay for an analysis that does not start.

A skill you have not begun to grasp (negative mastery) can still be analysed, but the Sage starts from nothing instead of finishing your work: +75% magicules (175% of the cost, latentMagiculeExtra = 0.75) and three times the time (latentTimeFactor = 3). He warns you: "You have not begun to grasp this. It will take far longer, and cost more."

Duration

Base duration is analysisTicks = 1,200 ticks (1 minute), times the class factor (analysisClassFactors). Durations at nominal speed (one thread, 100%):

• analysisSkillTimes sets an exact duration for one skill (id=ticks), overriding its class; 0 forbids it. A class factor of 0 forbids the whole class.
• Locked modes: some skills (Sloth, Black Lightning…) keep modes behind their own learning counter. Mastering them does not open those modes; analysing them does. Each locked mode adds +50% time (modeTimeExtra), with no extra magicule cost. A mastered skill whose modes are still closed becomes analysable again for that reason.

Several analyses: threads and budget

The tree opens up to four threads (Second, Third, Fourth thread) and raises the budget from 100% to 150% (Focus I to V, +10% each).

• An analysis's share is an amount: 100 = nominal speed (one second of analysis per second). 150 = 1.5 times faster.
• The budget is the ceiling of what you can hand out. When an analysis starts, ends or is cancelled, the whole budget is split evenly between the running analyses.
• Two analyses at 50 finish exactly when they would have finished one after the other: opening threads does not buy speed, it buys choice (push the urgent one to 90%) and the right not to be blocked. Only Focus buys speed.
• Remember: three threads means three skills you cannot use at the same time.

Example: with Focus V and a single thread, an Ultimate (8 nominal minutes) takes 5 min 20 s.

The Allocation page

Menu → Allocation (kanji 配分; in the console, clicking the small thread rings opens it too).

• At the top: ANALYSIS RESOURCES, the success rate in the middle ("Success N%", red under 67%) and the budget on the right (in gold). A bar cut into segments, one per analysis, in its box's colour; whatever is given to nobody stays dark — the reserve then idles, by choice.
• Four boxes, one per thread: LOCKED until the node is bought, FREE when open and empty, otherwise the skill name, its gauge and a red cross in the corner to drop it.
• The ten-cell gauge: each cell is worth a tenth of the budget. The two hexagonal − and + buttons ("Efficiency" between them) move the share by one cell; you can also drag the gauge with the mouse for fine tuning. The last started cell fills partially (55% = five and a half cells).
• The overflow is taken from the others: push one analysis beyond what is free and the surplus comes off the one that has the most, then the next.
• Under each box a thin line shows progress and time left; a share of 0 shows "Paused".

The end: success or failure

The roll happens at the end, never at the start: otherwise you would know in advance that an analysis is lost and cancel it before paying for the time.

Failure chance

analysisFailChance (common config, 0.25 by default, 0 to 1; 0 disables failures). Each Precision node removes part of what is left of the risk, never all of it:

The whole branch leaves about a fifth of the original risk (× 0.214). In singleplayer, analysisFailChance can be changed on the Settings page; on a server, the server's file decides.

Watching and stopping

Cancelling an analysis does not refund the magicules taken; the freed budget goes straight back to the remaining analyses. A skill that becomes temporary during the analysis (a timer set by another skill) is dropped from it.

World settings

See also Configuration.