You fail to adopt what the guildmaster teaches you?

[Tarax the Terrible]

What are the limiting factors in this?

I think with some guilds you are limited in all skills till you build your guild exp.

Other guilds you seem to be able to train guilds specials to guru (maybe a quest 1st) straight away but be limited by guild exp only on the high level adventurer guild skills, sword defence etc.

In adventurer guilds for lowbies it might be your intelligence that determines how far you can train, or your mortal level?

Wondering how /why it varys across guilds.

[Laurel]

I've had an ogre complain to me to be unable to train trading and language at pirates even with quadruple handasse - all other skills were seemingly quite learnable

[gorboth]

Certain stats play a role in each skill you can learn. So ... not enough stat in a given area might mean you have to gain stat in that area first.

This is one of the worst problems with the Ogre build. :p

G.

[Greneth]

Certain stats play a role in each skill you can learn. So ... not enough stat in a given area might mean you have to gain stat in that area first.

This is one of the worst problems with the Ogre build. :p

G.

But easily countered by learning all your skills first hand including your craft/layman then joining the ogres.

[Uther]

Or get items with Imbuements that raises a certain stat ?

[Booger]

Unarmed combat was limited for me in the DO guild. I failed to adopt what the teacher tried to teach me. Or to put it correctly, _the teacher_ failed to teach me.
But in the Merc guild I didn't have the same problem. So obviously the Merc trainer is better at teaching unarmed combat than the DO trainer.
Should I be disappointed by the DO trainer or impressed by the Merc one?

Other than that, I'm afraid I don't have any good knowledge on what limits your training.