Why are skill up rates so atrocious?

[SpankWustler]

Seventy-five million years ago, an evil galactic ruler "Xenu" massacres millions of people and is assisted by "Chu", the Executive President of the Galactic Interplanetary Bank, and "Chi", the Galactic Minister of Police. Xenu's psychiatric advisers "Stug" and "Sty" help him gather "unwanted" beings from all of the planets in his control and transport them to Earth. The beings are stacked around the bases of Earth's volcanoes including Loa, Mount Vesuvius, Mount Shasta, Mount Fuji, Mount Etna and others, and exterminated with planted charges of atomic bombs. Great winds raced simultaneously across the face of Earth, spreading tales of destruction...Xenu's massacre of these beings is called "Phase III".

And that's more or less why skill-up rates are so darned low!

[Leonlionheart]

lolololololol

[Soranika]

lol Wait.... what?

[Monchat]

Because skilling up wasn't adjusted to the new way people level... or rather people don't care about skilling up, only leveling. This is why there is skill up food, equipment, and kupo power "Martial Mastery". It's not that hard to cap many skills though, unless it's something like parrying, enhancing magic and summoning magic... the ones that's always been difficult.

Cap skills use to be something only people dedicated to their job(s) that used that particular skill to benefit from... to complain about it when you can get to level 95 in two days and skill levels past 230 and break a latent trial weapon within hours over it...

cambat skills gain are extremely fast with skill up food. Evasion 0~396 took 30 minute on mule THF ( altepa, mandy train). H2H skill took 1 h for 1~200 ( outside, with food, its alomost 100% skill up rate untill 100) and another hour 200->cap. its easy for dualwield jobs, and with all the multi hit atma... Enffebling/flute, took 2h from 200 to 396 with sp food. Not too slow. Things like parry guard enhancing etc still suck, not that I care as they are semi useless. Only fix needed imo is summonning.

[Runespider]

It's to leave the game with a timesink..have to have something to soak up your time outside of actual proper stuff to do, they have added things to help but it's still really slow which shows they intend to try keep it that way.

[Mirage]

cambat skills gain are extremely fast with skill up food. Evasion 0~396 took 30 minute on mule THF ( altepa, mandy train). H2H skill took 1 h for 1~200 ( outside, with food, its alomost 100% skill up rate untill 100) and another hour 200->cap. its easy for dualwield jobs, and with all the multi hit atma... Enffebling/flute, took 2h from 200 to 396 with sp food. Not too slow. Things like parry guard enhancing etc still suck, not that I care as they are semi useless. Only fix needed imo is summonning.

And shield.

[Valonquar]

I usually see SMNs leveling skill in the Paradox just before Shinryu. Unlimited time to exploit the refresh atmas for extra skillups off bloodpact buffs.

For enhancing, level npc fellow to max and spam buffs on them.

For parry... yeah it's a pain.

[Byrth]

Summoning is the biggest pain for me. I got something like 2 levels per hour spamming spirits, or 4 levels per hour spamming BPs on VT mobs. Parrying with Phalanx and a hoard of mandies is quite a bit faster than that.

[Dfoley]

lol what? pup is hard to skill up? get a percolator and done. I litterally hit 95 with almost capped skills thanks to that attachment.

[Soranika]

And this is where most summoners fail. =\ I don't see much point in spamming summons and blood pacts. In most general application, skill up come more noticeably from using the job naturally. Using Gardua's fleet wind to travel. Pre-buffing parties and actively participating in fights. Believe me, if I were on SMN as much as I use to be, my summoning magic would have already been capped. But even then that would have taken maybe 1 week or two compared to combat skills.

Plus, I've had my summoning magic capped at 75 before cap increase via besiege spam, then capped at 90 when I came back through abyssea 95 will mostly be by pure luck and/or through voidwatch. Most smn I know who picked up the job haven't even gotten past the original 75 cap yet and those that have haven't even broke past 300 on the natural level without merits and equipment.