New skill gain system, but has it changed much?

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Originally Posted by Camate

In regards to the difficulty in earning Guard/Parry skill ups, the dev. team mentioned that they are considering adjustments for those in a Q&A posted in February.

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Actually, that "considering adjustments" part is my concern. I'd rather see "We know it is broken and are considering what we will do to adjust it." Just so we know a future announcement doesn't say "We decided there was no problem."

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Originally Posted by Camate

In regards to the difficulty in earning Guard/Parry skill ups, the dev. team mentioned that they are considering adjustments for those in a Q&A posted in February.

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Have you considered making the rate of activation more dependent on skill? Currently there's no point in capping Parrying skill because it procs 5% of the time against IT monsters whether it's 0 or capped.

it'd be awesome if they made Guard and Parry skill up when you fail to activate them like evasion. Would make everyone's life easier lol

i have honestly have felt no change in skill ups even though the rate is supposedly higher.. my magic skills are all still very gimp parrying never goes any where :x

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Originally Posted by Byrth

Have you considered making the rate of activation more dependent on skill? Currently there's no point in capping Parrying skill because it procs 5% of the time against IT monsters whether it's 0 or capped.

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This is the deeply seated question that is getting completely ignored. People are complaining about skillup rates and they don't even realize why they are trying to get skill ups in the first place.

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Originally Posted by Catsby

This is the deeply seated question that is getting completely ignored. People are complaining about skillup rates and they don't even realize why they are trying to get skill ups in the first place.

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I actually mentioned this in my increase the base guard proc rate thread, but no real response to it.

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Originally Posted by Denabond

I actually mentioned this in my increase the base guard proc rate thread, but no real response to it.

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That's the thing though. There are small(sometimes massive) problems like this in every job that people seem oblivious to.

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Originally Posted by Camate

In regards to the difficulty in earning Guard/Parry skill ups, the dev. team mentioned that they are considering adjustments for those in a Q&A posted in February.

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that is not enough, there is no game "inbalance" for making skill up rates reasonable, the patch for skill up rates on other skills is still not enough and I think people tried stating that in the twitter feeds.

I rather have 2004 exp rate then the skill up rate we have

Please for the love of baby Altana look into Summoning Magic skill up rates while you're at it, they're still atrocious as they have always been.

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Originally Posted by Catsby

This is the deeply seated question that is getting completely ignored. People are complaining about skillup rates and they don't even realize why they are trying to get skill ups in the first place.

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Exactly. What is the point in asking for increased skill-up rate on a worthless skill? Ok ok, you want to have the capped skill just to have it. I can understand that. Some people just have too much time on their hands.
However, instead of begging SE to make it easier for you to get a blue number, why not ask them to actually make that blue number beneficial?

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Please for the love of baby Altana look into Summoning Magic skill up rates while you're at it, they're still atrocious as they have always been.

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Hey. At least your character benefits from leveling summoning magic skill. Monks are leveling Guard skill for absolutely zero benefit.