Proficiencies + Settling With Kin

[thezoobler]

Alrighty so I had a couple questions. Only been playing Salem a few hours, have put a lot of time into HnH.

First off, only a couple proficiencies so far seem to have a passive benefit (such as Frontier and Wilderness decreasing wear on your Fishing gear).
1) Do all proficiencies have some form of passive benefit, and the tooltips are just not in yet (or on the wiki yet)?
2)Is adding passive benefits to all proficiencies part of the overall plan? Or are the majority of proficiencies just specialized LP pools to unlock skills.

Secondly,
3) are there any stats(humors / proficiencies) that increase your combat damage? Or can you only increase your yellow bile for attack spamming and blood for hp?

Lastly, me and my girlfriend both used up our free Wilderness Guide teleport before we realized that we only get one. We are now on opposite corners of the earth.
4) If I pay 30 silver, will I be able to use her homestead secret to settle near her? Or is that only available for your first free port?
5) Can I teleport to her starter lean-to home with her homestead secret? Or does she need a claim first?
6) Settling in the wilderness as a party: if we form a party, and I pay 30 silver, can we both be ported to a completely random new location?

[MagicManICT]

1. Currently no, they don't, but the devs do have some plans for more in the future. (Guess that answer's 2, too)

3. Yellow Bile increases damage overall, but exact damage is determined by the type of attack.

4. it's random. Only thing you can do is walk or make a new character. The other person has to have a claim (requires settling skill and a writ from the company store) set as their homestead.

6. Party teleport isn't functional yet

[thezoobler]

Thank you!

I miss the old, convenient method of just spawning right at your friend's hearthfire, but oh well. Time to walk.

Once the friends list/party invitations work again.

[ramuller]

If you have only spent a few hours in-game so far, having one of you start over (obviously you, since girlfriend proficiency is harder to raise than any other proficiency in the game) is much less frustrating than that long walk that discovers mountain ranges and huge lakes in the way. When the other has a claim up, use the new free port (entering the secret and hitting ENTER so you don't have to do it all over yet again).