Make combat and magic skill gains a little easier.

[Sarick]

What about Healing Magic? As WHM it's up there, but nowhere near cap. And curing is practically all I do. I haven't really bothered trying, since, does higher healing actually DO anything? I guess it boosts cure potency, but my cures seem to be doing okay and the skill is somewhere around 290.

I did recently skill up hand to hand on MNK (capped at 95 in October on Duriumshell crabs in Vunkerl Inlet and recently capped for 99 on mandragoras in Abyssea Miseareaux). Also capped axe for BST. Most of the skilling was done on fortalices until around 270, then went the rest of the way a bit on Abyssea partying but mostly, again, on the mandragoras. Used about 3 stacks of Saltenas for the whole thing.

Way I figure it, the time to cap each of these skills was about the same amount of time it would have taken to get from 70-75 in the olden days. Which I guess isn't too bad.

THESE are the mobs I'm skilling on now with that WHM stuck at 391.

Unfortunately, I think you are overlooking the key element to skilling up.

Dedication.

I skilled up both my magics 2 separate characters in 3 days from 95 caps to 99 caps. I did this without the skillup foods or GoV benefits.

RDM > Enfeebling, Enhancing, divine, elemental, dark and healing.

WHM > Healing, Enhancing, Enfeebling and Divine.


Here's how..

Enhancing spam barspells 20 hours.
Healing spam cure 1 on yourself 20 hours.

The next 3 work best with someone else tanking.
Enfeebling spam dia 5 hours on IT mobs.
Elemental spam stone 5 hours on IT mobs.
Dark Spam bio and bio 2 on IT mobs 5 hours.
Divine, Alternate Flash and Banish or just banish every 15 seconds for 10 hours on IT mobs if the tank loses hate easy.

Add all these times together comes too 65 man hours or 2.7 days. If you dedicate a bit of time to each skill by training instead of casually using skills in parties they will cap easily in a few hours. The times I listed are well beyond the time it took for me to get each skill 95 > 99. I used the hours as a baseline reference your results may very however, if spammed these skills should cap before the hours listed.

Best advice ever "Work smarter not harder"