Manifested knowledge

Manifested knowledge

Release date	19 December 2016 (Update)
Members	Yes
Quest	Sliske's Endgame
Location	Anywhere
Examine	Forgotten knowledge from the shadow realm has been condensed by your training.

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Manifested knowledge appears as a result of the set effect (Shadow-touched training) that occurs when the player has the Ring of Whispers, Necklace of Shadows, and the Combined Catalyst fragment equipped. These items are all rewards from Sliske's Endgame.

While training a skill, a wisp will appear to the player every 4 minutes, following the previous one's spawn, and lasts for up to 1 minute before disappearing. Clicking it grants experience in the skill that the player was training when it appeared. If the Chronicle Absorption curse is active when the wisp spawns, the wisp will be automatically harvested.

When a wisp appears, a filterable message says:

Your training has caused remnants of knowledge from the shadow realm to coalesce nearby.

and after harvesting the wisp:

You harvest the manifested knowledge and gain [XP] experience in [Skill].

Experience

Harvesting manifested knowledge awards 10% of a small experience lamp's experience. This is not affected by any kind of bonus experience or experience-boosting sets. Therefore, at level 99 in a skill, the player could gain 12,900 additional experience an hour from manifested knowledge.

Standard skill

Table of experience Skill level Experience Skill level Experience Skill level Experience 1 6 34 55 67 226 2 6 35 58 68 237 3 7 36 60 69 247 4 8 37 63 70 259 5 9 38 66 71 269 6 10 39 69 72 280 7 12 40 72 73 294 8 12 41 75 74 308 9 19 42 78 75 321 10 15 43 81 76 333 11 17 44 85 77 349 12 18 45 88 78 364 13 20 46 92 79 379 14 22 47 97 80 398 15 25 48 101 81 416 16 26 49 105 82 434 17 27 50 110 83 452 18 28 51 114 84 476 19 29 52 120 85 491 20 31 53 124 86 503 21 32 54 130 87 537 22 33 55 136 88 559 23 35 56 142 89 592 24 36 57 148 90 612 25 38 58 154 91 645 26 39 59 161 92 661 27 40 60 168 93 692 28 41 61 175 94 723 29 45 62 183 95 753 30 47 63 191 96 806 31 49 64 200 97 834 32 51 65 210 98+ 860 33 53 66 217

Elite skill

Table of experience Level Experience 39 769 43 864 49 884 50 947 51 945 56 924 57 918 58 909 66 883 67 871 68 862 72 73 74 75 76 77 779 78 79 80 81 761 82 744 83 725 84 715 85 86 677 87 661 88 643 89 637 90 649 91 638 92 93 94 582 95 96 564 97 544 98+ 522

Comparison with a Wise off-hand

While training, it is common to use equipment with the Wise Invention perk to increase experience rate. However, most skills have an experience-boosting set occupying the body and legs slots, and several have augmented tools occupying the main-hand slot (with more beneficial perks than Wise). Thus, when the only slot available is the off-hand, there is competition between an augmented item with Wise and the catalyst fragment. (Of course, this is ignoring the other effects of the catalyst fragment. Additionally, if any of the body, legs, or main-hand, are free, a Wise item can be used there instead.)

Manifested knowledge is dependant only on the level of the skill being trained, whereas Wise is dependant on the base experience rate of the action. As such, at each level, there is a borderline value: below the borderline, the catalyst fragment is better, and above it Wise is better.

Borderline values

Level	Wise 1	Wise 2	Wise 3
80	597,000	298,500	199,000
85	736,500	368,250	245,500
90	918,000	459,000	306,000
95	1,129,500	564,750	376,500
98+	1,290,000	645,000	430,000

Additionally, utilising the Mobile perk with the Bladed Dive and Surge abilities is very beneficial for some skills (e.g. Runecrafting via the Abyss) - Bladed Dive in particular requires an off-hand weapon, not the catalyst fragment.