papa acex is now Elite, a tonk melee/healer
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	02/12/03 - lots of new data from various sorces
	01/29/03 - added calm vitae data
	01/23/03 - added a lot of data from hiro yamada and consolidated
	i untrained one skill (acumen) and then immediately retrained it and raised it 37 points. it seems to be a simple log curve ... with two major discontinuities at +23 and +33 it definitely is NOT the only skill exp curve anyone good at curve fitting (or a matlab wiz) who wants to take a stab at expressing these curves numerically?

	UPDATE (2/03) as suspected, esprit effects are slightly lower at higher levels.
	UPDATE (01/06) refined the rest zone formula to fit the observed data at higher skill levels. new formula is thought to be:     amt healed = 6.4 * skill + 29
	UPDATE (12/10) i untrained life boon, then retrained it and recorded the results at the lower extreme -- the health return is linear from skill 2 through skill 28 ( amt healed = 11 * skill + 49 ), eliminating one alternate hypothesis of non-linearity and the extremes (at least on the lower bound). furthermore, the vigor cost is constant across that full range (base vigor cost of LB is always 340).
	Quick summary: Casting Cost = base vigor cost + drum vigor cost - esprit reduction ROUGH ROUGH ROUGH WAG to a formula breakdown

spell	base vigor	formula
Esprit		vigor reduction = 5 (L1) — 50 (L50)
Heal	100	amt healed: 5 * skill + 11
Healing Balm	220	amt healed: 22/3 * skill + 97/3
Rest. Zone	400	amt healed: 6.4 * skill + 29
Life Boon	340	amt healed: 11 * skill + 49
Revitalize	160	vigor returned: 8.14 * skill + 192
Harm	26?
Lightning	50
Charged Air	150
Eye of Storm	80
Thunder Clap	110
Rotten Core	400
Tangleweed	460

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