Skill under Martial Master not working properly

[zifferous]

So i am a 95 SMN and working on my summoning skill. Been at it for 12 hours and not a single point of skill even under martial master. I am not capped my current skill is 357 and the cap is 389 for my level. is anyone else experiencing this. Also i have using blood pacts and elemental casts.

[Thanotos]

same i havnt received a single skill up point and still at 357, s onot sure what's up with it.

[Raksha]

How are you skilling up? summon and release?

[zifferous]

Well i am i summon an avatar release, when my bp timer is up it is summon, bp, then release

[Zigfreid]

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I was always under the impression that Martial Master only worked with melee combat skills.

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Martial_Master

[Mirage]

Well that's also retarded. Why should magic skills not be affected? It's not like they level up faster than combat skills normally. In fact, it's usually the opposite.

[Kaisha]

I think the real problem here is how laughably slow it is to skillup SMN magic in the first place compared to almost everything else.

[SE_James]

zifferous,

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[Tagrineth]

Er, keep in mind Martial Master only works at over 100% TP, too.

[Soranika]

Summoning magic has always been difficult to skill up. Just simply summon, blood pact, release, isn't enough, never has been unless you got a skill up bot doing it for days. It's still faster to apply in regular usage against mobs, mainly NMs now.

I dread skilling up summoning magic and it's only went up a total of 0.4 points while i was in the process of going from 91-95 in an exp party.

[Baccanale]

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