* First 5 meditations need to be at least 30 minutes apart
* After your fifth meditation, the wait timer will change from 30 minutes to 3 hours. The message ''You feel that it will take you a while before you are ready to meditate again. You can gain skill from meditating again in <amount of time>.'' indicates the longer wait time.
* Every 24 hours, counting from a server's restart time, the timers reset to the 30 minute wait.
To join a path you need to have at least 15 meditating skill. However, even if you start a path at 15 meditating skill the meditating limitation of one meditation per 30 minutes for skill does not apply until you reach 20 skill.
Once you are on the path, a title will appear next to your name.<!-- , similar to the [[champion player|champion]] title. --> Each step of the path brings a new title. At each step, you must wait for an increasing amount of time before you can advance to the next step on the path. Times between steps are shown in the section on Titles below. You can only follow 1 path.
The message you get to start each path seems to take the following form: "As you meditate upon these things you realize that there is a pattern of thinking that you can try to follow. If this path contains the truth or simply the figment of someone's imagination, you do not know. Nonetheless, it may pose an interesting challenge. Do you wish to embark on the philosophical journey of the path of X? If you answer yes, you will be challenged by the selected path as you visit more places like this one and meditate.". Answering yes will make you an adherent of that particular path, with the title of Uninitiated.
===Enlightenment===
Leaders in paths are able to Enlighten others who are exactly three levels below the leader's current level. For example, a level 9 can advance a level 6 to level 7. A player can be enlightened 7 days after their last path advancement, regardless of path level or regular wait time(Student must have the skill level required for the path advancement). You will not need to move or wait if the attempt fails, but multiple attempts may be necessary. There is a one minute cool-down between attempts, and a difficulty check will affect success chance (see end of this section).
Simple instructions:
*Leader right-clicks the student and looks for the ''Light Path'' option
*Leader repeats this attempt until the student gets the path question dialog window that we're used to seeing for path advances
*May 2013 update - there There is now a one minute cool-down for enlightenmentafter every attempt.
Example of successful enlightenment:<br>
<Player> asks you a very confusing question. You do not understand it and need to contemplate more.
After a successful path enlightenment the leader cannot do it again for 7 days.
After the v1.1 patch a new difficulty check was added:
Rolf: increasing meditation skill will increase chances yes
Rumour suggests that a successful enlightenment requires a meditation skill of approximately 75% === Meditation in PvP === Meditation progress does not carry on to the actual required level to path up yourselfor from PvP servers. EYou can even choose different paths on each game mode.g. around 27 meditating needed to be enlightened Note that PvP servers are restricted to level 79 in a meditation path, with the exception of the Path of Knowledge, which can progress further.
== Path Levels ==
===Holy Sites===
Players can receive a map of a [[Holy site]] from meditating, but only on those actions that could possibly give or skill.
== Messages ==
;You decide to start pursuing the insights of the path of [...] :Appears at the end of a successful meditation and if you choose "yes" in a path dialog (see above).
;You feel that it will take you a while before you are ready to meditate again. You can gain skill from meditating again in <amount of time>. :You have used your 5 meditating skill attemps or some extra attempt after them, and must wait 3 hours <amount of time> for another chance to get skill.
;You gain no inspiration here for your own path. :Appears at the end of a successful meditation. You were meditating on a special tile that is on a path other than the one you have chosen or that you previously used for leveling at your own path.