Pool Skill

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Pool Skill is a mechanic that improves your ability to play pool (duh), either in The Haunted Billiards Room, in the Typical Tavern or in your clan's VIP lounge. It can be viewed (if non-zero) in the Other Accomplishments section of Your Quest Log, or through the Quest Tracker, but only after encountering Welcome To Our ool Table and before defeating the ghost in afore-mentioned adventure.

Known Pool Skill Increasers

Source	Source Type	Pool Skill	Duration	Cost	Notes
Staff of Ed	Weapon (1H)	5	Always		Only available in the Actually Ed the Undying special challenge path. This version doesn't help with practicing pool
Staff of Fats	Weapon (2H)	5	Always		Only available in the Actually Ed the Undying special challenge path.
Staff of Fats	Weapon (2H)	5	Always		A Quest Item
pool cue	Weapon (2H)	3	Always		Moxie +3
Chalked Weapon	Effect	5	10 Adventures	Item Loss	Obtained from cube of billiard chalk Regular attacks can't miss
Influence of Sphere	Effect	5	10 Adventures	Item Loss	Obtained from sugar sphere
Video... Games?	Effect	5	5 Adventures		Obtained from defective Game Grid token Has numerous other enchantments
Chalky Hand	Effect	3	5 Adventures	Item Loss	Obtained from handful of hand chalk Never Fumble Weapon Damage +3
Swimming with Sharks	Effect	3	15 Adventures	Item Loss	Obtained from shark cartilage +20% Meat from Monsters Makes you a better diver
Welcome To Our ool Table	Adventure	1-4 each time	Until Ascension	1 adventure	Chalky Hand and Staff of Fats will increase the amount by one and two, respectively, if "Hustle over to the other table and practice" is chosen. Pool Skill gained from this appears to be either uncapped, or capped above 20000.
Choosing to rack 'em up in A Shark's Chum	Semi-rare	0 - 10	Always		Permanently adds to your Pool Skill. This is capped at a maximum of 10 points (after 25 visits). This does carry across ascensions. The amount added based on a formula.
Drunkenness		variable	Until rollover		Each unit of drunkenness up to and including 10 yields one unit of pool skill. Each unit beyond 10 drunkenness reduces pool skill by 2. Is not displayed.

No Pool Skill Effect

Some noteworthy items that do not increase Pool Skill include:

• the Staff of Ed
  • however, when you're Ed, it does increase Pool Skill
  • if you're not Ed, it can be untinkered into the Staff of Fats, which does increase Pool Skill
    • For Ed, the Staff of Fats increases Pool Skill, but doesn't help with practicing pool

then again, the Staff of Fats doesn't increase Ed's Pool Skill

• a lucky rabbit's foot
• a shark jumper

History

• Shortly after the Spookyraven Manor revamp on 14th May 2014, the effect of your drunkenness on pool skill was shown in the Quest Tracker when trying to get the Spookyraven library key. This was then made hidden sometime the next day.
• On May 30, 2014, Pool Skill was added to the Quest Log.

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