Enhancing Magic Skill Gain Rate

[Randwolf]

Please fix it. It is ridiculous that I wear skill-up gear, eat skill-up food, and cast enhancing magic spells non-stop for 30 minutes and get 4 levels. In 6 hours of Aby worms, I cast enhancing spells every chance I could and went up 2 levels. An MMORPG game pretty much sucks when you spend days of sitting alone casting spells in the hope of capping one of your primary magic skills. This isn't like guard which is a nicety to have. But, not a deal buster.

I hear game 'balance' all the time from the developers. How about some balance between tedium and actually being able to play a job and get reasonable skill ups?

[Alhanelem]

Totally agree on that, it's completely needeless, especially with how fast XP is today. While they're at it, they should look at summoning, geomancy, and automaton ranged skill too, because those are awful as well.

[Luvbunny]

Agree, this need fixing VERY BADLY!! It's totally ridiculous the gain rate we have right now. Skilling ups should be faster overall period. The focus is gears and end game now, there is absolutely no reasons why players are tortured with these stupid archaic methods of skilling ups. That era is gone dead and buried - focus on what is current now.

[Kojo]

I have an odd feeling Parrying is re-broken. I thought they made it easier to skill, but it doesn't seem to hardly skill up, even when you parry...ALOT.

[Demon6324236]

I have an odd feeling Parrying is re-broken. I thought they made it easier to skill, but it doesn't seem to hardly skill up, even when you parry...ALOT.

They fixed parry by removing the need to parry in order to skill up, so your parry rate should not effect skilling at all, all you should need to do is grab a ton of mobs and stand there facing them with your weapon out, I advise you use a high delay weapon with low DMG and you have low skill with, if using RUN to skill it I advise you use this...

Due to its bad stats, but on other jobs like SAM and NIN you have the base relic weapons to use, which are even better for it. In either case, the more mobs the better, and you should be ok with skilling. The same thing can be said of Guard and the base relic H2H.

[Kojo]

They fixed parry by removing the need to parry in order to skill up, so your parry rate should not effect skilling at all, all you should need to do is grab a ton of mobs and stand there facing them with your weapon out, I advise you use a high delay weapon with low DMG and you have low skill with, if using RUN to skill it I advise you use this...

Due to its bad stats, but on other jobs like SAM and NIN you have the base relic weapons to use, which are even better for it. In either case, the more mobs the better, and you should be ok with skilling. The same thing can be said of Guard and the base relic H2H.

Tried that, nothing.

[Caketime]

I've been a WHM for years now and my Enhancing is still uncapped. Granted, it's near cap but still, most grueling skill to level by far.

[Kojo]

Mine is 220-something, at BLM and RDM 99. I occasionally skill up on Warps.

[RAIST]

skilled mine to cap by taking advantage of Martial Master. Went outside town, thwacked enough bees to build some TP, then spammed the spells for a while. Granted, I didn't have too far to go because of all the soloing and low-man stuff I would do on WHM and BLM (not just trials, I used to fart around on them a lot just to see what I could pull off) and it was already just past 86 caps naturally....but it only took me basically one weekend to recap it during some down-time in game.

Maybe that is why it seems so harsh for some, idk....perhaps the new race to 99 deprived players the joys/benefits of soloing mage jobs, so skills are still really low at 99.

[NDSI]

Personally I was able to skill up parry quite fast couple days ago after I got RUN to 99 took me couple of hours to get it from 372 to 424, used skill up earring & ring + Maringna.

And as far as other skills go... nobody forces you to stay in abyssea for 69 levels, people who have played the game, the non-abyssea way, they know you would cap your skills before leveling up (well 99% of the time), so yeah fast exp equalls low combat/magic skills.