Skill Ups.. Yeah right!

Okay, on Lakshimi server we have the Martial master Kupower.. ive got signet up, spamming a variety of BLU spells to level it up, and im getting 0. nada, ziltch! ... anyone care to explain? I have cast over 150 spells now and NO SKILL UP.. not ever 0.1... My Blue magic skill is at 296 and im getting annoyed now.

What monsters are you casting on? If it is abyssea kupo powers do not work there.

Im using all self-casting spells outside sebina, as its blue magic i can use any spell to get a skill up

Hmm, not sure then I know some of other skill ups for other jobs are hard even with having a ton of skill gear equipped to help raise it the skill ups are far too slow.

I'm not sure self buffs count. I think you have to engage a monster for it to work. I've been through BRD song skill ups and now enhancing with martial master in effect. Neither has been anything but slow. BRD went by 100 times faster as soon as I found a target monster to skill on. I suppose it might work with self buffing, you just can't tell the difference.

Enhancing 320+ is an utter nightmare. I haven't been trying and it got that high on it's own. I started trying the other day and it's like... holy shi...

the sdkillup tweak was for MOBS that check DC to your skill. Look up your next levvel cap in the skill caps chart, then find mobs that spawn at least DC to that level and up, and go spam spells on them. I do this and get lots of .3-.5's that way--even without kupower up. Sky dolls were great for me to get to 300-305 on most all weapons. Glen crabs in Grauberg abby work nicely too sometimes.

Martial Master has no affect whatsoever on magical skillups, as far as I know. Might work for physical BLU spells, but I'm not a very leveled BLU and have no idea. Also, you get skillups much more frequently vs NPCs and monsters than if you're targeting yourself or other players.

I know that some of the Fan shaped Breath spells give mad skill ups^^ Thats how I skilled in Abyssea. It never missed^_-

I want to see a system whereby you can trade merit points for skill up points. This wouldn't go above the cap.

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Originally Posted by Vold

I'm not sure self buffs count. I think you have to engage a monster for it to work. I've been through BRD song skill ups and now enhancing with martial master in effect. Neither has been anything but slow. BRD went by 100 times faster as soon as I found a target monster to skill on. I suppose it might work with self buffing, you just can't tell the difference.

Enhancing 320+ is an utter nightmare. I haven't been trying and it got that high on it's own. I started trying the other day and it's like... holy shi...

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self buffs work
you get skill ups doing enhancing and same thing with blue using healing blu spells and buffs like cocoon , metalic body etc etc . I found it is always slow when you do it on yourself other than a mob ~.*

I suggest skilling up on a mob. Also, if your blu magic skill is above eh 250 like you said, take off all the skill + gear you've got. I find that having all that gear on sort of confuses the skill up process. It has been stated by SE that the higher your skill is the more difficult it is to get skill ups. So when you put 15 or more skill lvls worth of gear on, the game reads your skill as 315 when it is really 300, so you will get skill ups as if your 315 (more slowly) then the 300 you really are. It's just an example, but i find it true with almost every skill i've ever tried to level. Also, as brd i went from 210 singing/wind skill to 259 singing/wind skill on the pink-fish/dolphin things in sea, using threnody, took about 30 mins. Then tried to skill up in port jueno on string skill while i waited for a party, using carols on myself, got .1 or so every 5 to 6 mins (15 or so casts).

For the enhancing magic problem, the best - only - way i have found to lvl it quickly is to get in beseiged and find a general that doesn't already have pro/shell 4-5 and spam pro/shell 1 on them over and over.

Skill ups against appropriately-higher level mobs are Always faster than skill ups on yourself.
Blue magic, I would imagine, would be fastest skilled up while performing blue magic on higher leveled mobs- try doing an abyssea exp party, get some refresh atma, and even with a few MP cheap spells you'll start seeing major skill ups. :)

I do hope that S.E. notices that skill ups don't occur as fast as they've made leveling, what with fields of valor exp, and later with abyssea- and soon to be their new mid-range to high-end leveling with valor-like rewards, players need competent skill as they progress, more often skill ups, please!

btw, as a bard... go /rdm an equip all that great fast cast and -song casting gear you have, spam threnody in your downtime, or if you're too busy pulling... Etudes are the way to go. Spam etudes with the right instrument for an hour or so, and you should see significant skill ups.

My personal struggles are Dark Magic, Enhancing Magic, Healing Magic, and Holy Magic. :(
Dark Magic is used maybe twice on average per mob (if I'm lucky..) Enhancing Magic seems to skill up when I'm Not trying- IE: Teleport skill ups proc more often than me sitting and spamming bar-spells. Holy Magic, I've gotten into the habit of tossing Banish and Flash as often as I can afford to- on the pretense that it provides a short defense down on the mob or knocks its accuracy down to near zilch. :P But still, skilling those up kills me inside...