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donate to shrine for shortened time

How many times can you donate to a giant, get an emblem, spend emblem to get shortened time on learning a skill? 
Once per skill? or many per skill?
I'm looking at a 7 day learning curve and would like to shorten that as much as I can
Thanks

Posted 14 months ago by image415 Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Many per skill

    the limit is how much time  you can take off.  The maximum you can shorten any skill is to 50% of its learning time.

    There are, however game-day limits on donations earning favor.  once you've donated your max for that day, you won't earn any more favor through donations until the next game day.
    Posted 14 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It is better to donate to get your favor 1 less than emblem and then spend that to shorten the skill because it will shorten the skill more than spending the emblem because the emblem only gives equivalent to 1,000 points even if you had to spend 1,200 to get it.
    Posted 14 months ago by Hameigh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There's limits per day per giant, and I also think there are limits on favour for all giants.  The other day, lissam was very lovely to gift me EHSP and I went on a donating spree (partly because I had too much in my inventory anyway).  I reached my limit for my primary giant, but was still able to max out donations for the two secondary giants too.  I don't know if I stopped because of reaching the total max favour for all giants or because I just reached the limit for the two secondary giants and didn't feel compelled to do it for the other 8.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lara Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Max is 50% of the total skill time/skill time at the beginning of that day. You cannot surpass this with emblems, or pungent sunrise.
    Posted 14 months ago by Bluigi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • to shorten skill time you have to stop short of the emblem. like at 997. once you get the emblem you can't use that lot of donation to shorten skill time, it's gone. You use the emblem to unlock higher learning.
    Posted 14 months ago by onelittlebird Subscriber! | Permalink
  • onelittlebird, emblems do speed up skill time after you've used the first one to unlock the skill.
    Posted 14 months ago by Effigy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • really?! I didn't know that. Thanks Effigy
    Posted 14 months ago by onelittlebird Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Effigy - What does that mean in terms of speeding up skill time? Should I donate to get my emblem after the first one rather than stopping short and spending the favor? My goal is to reduce the time taken to learn a skill (2 days+ for Gardening V).
    Posted 14 months ago by tyfn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks everyone!
    Posted 14 months ago by image415 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Tyfn, no matter how much favor the emblem cost, it will be worth 1000 points. So in theory you should probably spend the favor instead of the emblems because you'll be spending less than you earn otherwise. However, if you want to stock pile emblems and reduce a skill time as much as possible, you can spend them right when you start.learning that skill once you've maxed favor-earned for the day.
    Posted 14 months ago by Avery♥ Subscriber! | Permalink